Shops selling alcohol after hours

All around my Harriet?

Swing low, sweet Harriet...



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Thank you all - I feel thoroughly name-checked...

...tho' no-one mentioned "Harriet's got a song" by indy-folk god Ben Kweller

I could never get into Ben Kweller - although I quite like Simple Kid, and I imagine them to be similar for some reason...

If you like Indie folk (and if you don't mind it with a dash of punk), go see Hamell on Trial at the Borderline on Monday. He's a man with an acoustic guitar, and he makes as much noise as a whole band put together...

Don't you think that the only pleasure these poor chaps get from life comes in a can of Tennants? (Maybe they're tenants of a can?) It may be sad that that's the case, but it probably is, probably has been the case for years, and probably will never change. So what can we do. Deny them alcohol and deny them the (rather unpleasant, IMHO - no I'm not TT) only pleasure in their lives? Or what? If they were a bit more organised, they'd buy their Tennants up front and hide it at home/behind the Druid St bins, and then you couldn't look askance at them in the shop.

I think I'm in favour of liberalisation of licensing laws. They were only brought in to defeat the Hun during the Great War, and were never repealed. Then we could get our booze at any hour of the day or night!

Deny them their booze and they'll live longer, but it will feel like it.

I've seen shops selling food to fat people, this can't be right.

My initial post was not a spoof. Everyone may disagree with me; but I was posing an honest question. And pointing out that selling booze to cool clubbers on their way home would not have an emotional impact on me.

I know it's not the same as giving heroin to a child, but I still think it's a pretty manky way to turn a profit.

And if 24 hr shop sells lcohol round the clock to alcoholics, they may bump up the profits by selling single fags to kids.

Profit is all.

Kevin

*slumps forward, begins drumming head against monitor*

So you've no problem with 'cool clubbers' -buying a bottle of wine at 11pm- but if they look scruffy and possibly alcoholic, you want the poor beleagured 24-hour till worker to refuse them? How's that going to work?

Wino: Can of Shhhhuperlager please.

Shop-owner: Sorry sir, it's 11pm *points at clock*

Wino: 'Ehhhhh...bah, you've just served vodka to Mr. C from the Shamen and Clive the dancer from the Hit Man and Her? What's that all about?

Shopkeeper: Aha, but they were cool clubbers, they looked like they had stable jobs and a upwardly mobile social circle. You my unwashed friend are an alcoholic. Now, this is for your own good- now please move away from the alcopos, I have to carry on splitting packs of Embassy Number One's to sell outside Captain Biffo's Creche on Duke Street.

* irretrievable chaos ensues- wino last seen fighting with himself in back of police car *

Come on Kevin- you don't want this do you?

ps please don't take offence- I'm just messing about :) I'm in my office working at the weekend, damnit, I have to make my own fun...

Georgia, I pointed out the incongruity of my position about 30 posts ago...the initial one.

I don't like the idea of a shop so explicitly profiting from the alcoholics here.
Not so fussed if they make extra from breaking the law in general.

BTW, Last week on the Northern Line I stood, walked 2 paces & and offered my seat to a heavily pregnant woman. In 10 seconds, another (fit -looking) woman took my seat. A number of passengers were embarrassed, but not the second woman.

To my mind that too is a manky way to act...but perhaps others would say it showed initiative.

Oh well...this is life in the big city, I suppose.

Kevin

I have cancelled plans for a regular post - Kevin's "dilemma of the week"

keep the dilemmas coming Kevin. A weekly topic is just what we need to keep the forum lively. it's good to see what everyone thinks, and that's one of the strengths of this sort of forum for me.

[but, of course, you're sadly misguided :0)]