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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #25 on: November 15, 2017, 07:11:56 PM »
If this nonsense becomes law in England - it's been knocked back once already but Nanny never gives up - it'll be a crash course in distilling for me and a good many others I suspect.
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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #26 on: November 15, 2017, 07:16:59 PM »
If this nonsense becomes law in England - it's been knocked back once already but Nanny never gives up - it'll be a crash course in distilling for me and a good many others I suspect.
d'ya fancy going into business , I've got a shed ?

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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #27 on: November 15, 2017, 07:18:27 PM »
So have I.

We could be onto something here Wal.
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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #28 on: November 15, 2017, 07:23:00 PM »
They need to stop your clicker
I've hidden it. She'll never think of looking there !   oooph ,too late , now she wants me to give it a good wipe down.

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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #29 on: November 15, 2017, 07:25:01 PM »
If this nonsense becomes law in England - it's been knocked back once already but Nanny never gives up - it'll be a crash course in distilling for me and a good many others I suspect.
Your love of capitalism is almost moving.
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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #30 on: November 15, 2017, 07:25:47 PM »
So have I.

We could be onto something here Wal.
but do you have somebody who wants to know where you are and what you're doing all the time? it could be a deal breaker  :o

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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #31 on: November 15, 2017, 07:27:41 PM »
Your love of capitalism is alnost moving.
I too am alnost moved  8)

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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #32 on: November 15, 2017, 07:29:12 PM »
I too am alnost moved  8)
Anyway I'n alnost hone.

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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #33 on: November 15, 2017, 07:31:09 PM »
Why?

Problem drinkers are a minority of the set of all drinkers (72% of the population, IIRC) so minimum pricing financially penalises the responsible-drinking majority for the actions of the irresponsible minority. That's probably your definition of a just and fair move; it isn't mine.

What it is is state-sanctioned intrusion into an individual's choice of pleasures.

It doesn't matter how much you charge for alcohol, if you charge more than 0p, you are penalising some responsible drinker who doesn't have the necessary money.
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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #34 on: November 15, 2017, 07:31:21 PM »
Anyway I'n alnost hone.
hick........hick :-X


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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #35 on: November 15, 2017, 07:33:04 PM »
Your love of capitalism is almost moving.
No, it's my love of being a fucking adult and drinking what I damned well please, not capitalism.
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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #36 on: November 15, 2017, 07:33:57 PM »
It doesn't matter how much you charge for alcohol, if you charge more than 0p, you are penalising some responsible drinker who doesn't have the necessary money.
Am I the world's nanny?

No.
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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #37 on: November 15, 2017, 07:34:01 PM »
Those who are addicted to booze will continue to find it, one way or another.

Yeah, this is a fallacy. Some of the more desperate will, but for some others, raising the bar will make a difference.

Furthermore, all the addicts started out as non-addicts for whole getting a drink at any cost was not an issue.
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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #38 on: November 15, 2017, 07:35:41 PM »
No, it's my love of being a fucking adult and drinking what I damned well please, not capitalism.
Keep telling yourself that while you defend a specific capitalist approach.

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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #39 on: November 15, 2017, 07:36:54 PM »
Keep telling yourself that while you defend a specific capitalist approach.
It's you who apparently needs to keep being told as it doesn't seem to be sinking in yet.
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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #40 on: November 15, 2017, 07:37:33 PM »
Am I the world's nanny?

No.

Nobody is asking you to be a nanny.
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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #41 on: November 15, 2017, 07:37:43 PM »
Am I the world's nanny?

No.

Straw, and hypocrisy, if you add some cheese it might be tasty.

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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #42 on: November 15, 2017, 07:38:50 PM »
Nobody is asking you to be a nanny.
So why am I supposed to be interested in the contents of #33?
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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #43 on: November 15, 2017, 07:40:12 PM »
It's you who apparently needs to keep being told as it doesn't seem to be sinking in yet.
What isn't sinking in? Your support for the alcohol manufacturers and their profits?

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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #44 on: November 15, 2017, 07:42:18 PM »
What isn't sinking in? Your support for the alcohol manufacturers and their profits?
I certainly support the manufacturers, and it's my will and pleasure to add my humble contribution to said profits. Problem?
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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #45 on: November 15, 2017, 07:43:12 PM »
Straw, and hypocrisy, if you add some cheese it might be tasty.
when Shakes and I have made our first brew,  YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANY !

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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #46 on: November 15, 2017, 07:43:38 PM »
I certainly support the manufacturers, and it's my will and pleasure to add my humble contribution to said profits. Problem?

By your own words...

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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #47 on: November 15, 2017, 07:45:39 PM »
when Shakes and I have made our first brew,  YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANY !
When we've made the first brew he won't be seeing any.

Although to be fair after the first few glasses probably neither will we.
Pain, or damage, don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back. - Al Swearengen, Deadwood.

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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #48 on: November 15, 2017, 07:47:03 PM »
when Shakes and I have made our first brew,  YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANY !
are you calling it Shakeswalter?

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Re: Alcohol minimum pricing given go ahead in Scotland by Supreme Court
« Reply #49 on: November 15, 2017, 07:47:39 PM »
Shakes will certainly be involved at some stage in the process.
Pain, or damage, don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back. - Al Swearengen, Deadwood.