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The Real Maroonblood
33 minutes ago, darrenold said:

It's falling but not like a cliff edge at the moment. It's going down as young people shun it..the old ones may die off

Us old ones will need to up our game.

 

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11 minutes ago, The Real Maroonblood said:

Us old ones will need to up our game.

 

We need more old ones upping it imo.

 

:oohmatron:

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The Real Maroonblood
5 minutes ago, Morgan said:

We need more old ones upping it imo.

 

:oohmatron:

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darrenold
58 minutes ago, il Duce McTarkin said:

We need more cigarette sales imo

Stop trolling 

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il Duce McTarkin
1 hour ago, Morgan said:

We need more old ones upping it imo.

 

:oohmatron:

 

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JudyJudyJudy
3 minutes ago, il Duce McTarkin said:

We need more trolling imo

 

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il Duce McTarkin
2 hours ago, The Real Maroonblood said:

Us old ones will need to up our game.

 

 

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3 hours ago, The Real Maroonblood said:

Us old ones will need to up our game.

 

 

2 hours ago, il Duce McTarkin said:

We need more cigarette sales imo

 

1 hour ago, darrenold said:

Stop trolling 

 

1 hour ago, il Duce McTarkin said:

We need more trolling imo

We need more old folk trolling and smoking imo.

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Finbar Saunders
On 30/09/2024 at 18:21, Radio Ga Ga said:

Punish the majority who like the odd drink 

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Even better for me if I'm over the border, I get a 30% discount on Coop own brand vodka, think it works out at about £13 a litre. 

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Greg Fell, president of the Association of Directors of Public Health, said England needed to follow Scotland and Wales by introducing minimum unit pricing: “The evidence is crystal clear. It saves lives.”

 

Pesky facts

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43 minutes ago, XB52 said:

Greg Fell, president of the Association of Directors of Public Health, said England needed to follow Scotland and Wales by introducing minimum unit pricing: “The evidence is crystal clear. It saves lives.”

 

Pesky facts

These pesky facts

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg5233gn67o

 

 latest figures from National Records of Scotland, (NRS) show 1,277 people died from conditions caused by alcohol in 2023.

This was one death more than the previous year, which was the highest number since 2008

 

 

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Lord Montpelier
1 hour ago, XB52 said:

Greg Fell, president of the Association of Directors of Public Health, said England needed to follow Scotland and Wales by introducing minimum unit pricing: “The evidence is crystal clear. It saves lives.”

 

Pesky facts

An important public health official is hardly going to say "drink more"

 

He'll be one of these puritanical fun police types, like your beloved SNP.

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John Findlay
2 hours ago, XB52 said:

Greg Fell, president of the Association of Directors of Public Health, said England needed to follow Scotland and Wales by introducing minimum unit pricing: “The evidence is crystal clear. It saves lives.”

 

Pesky facts

I'm not sure this was your intended link 

It's from the Guardian 

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i wish jj was my dad
56 minutes ago, Lord Montpelier said:

An important public health official is hardly going to say "drink more"

 

He'll be one of these puritanical fun police types, like your beloved SNP.

Or without the partisan spin, a guy who understands public health but doesn't have anything to do with Scottish politics, thinks Scotland has got this one right. 

I was sceptical when it was first introduced because it will make no difference to my choices or lifestyle but evidence seems to suggest it will make a longer term difference. 

The SNP are generally guilty of chasing short term wins. This is an unusually responsible policy that gains them little short term credit. 

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38 minutes ago, i wish jj was my dad said:

Or without the partisan spin, a guy who understands public health but doesn't have anything to do with Scottish politics, thinks Scotland has got this one right. 

I was sceptical when it was first introduced because it will make no difference to my choices or lifestyle but evidence seems to suggest it will make a longer term difference. 

The SNP are generally guilty of chasing short term wins. This is an unusually responsible policy that gains them little short term credit. 

It's SNP/Scotgov policy so it has to be bad, no matter what. It's a policy introduced to aid public health, despite it being a vote loser.

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The Real Maroonblood
10 minutes ago, XB52 said:

It's SNP/Scotgov policy so it has to be bad, no matter what. It's a policy introduced to aid public health, despite it being a vote loser.

It’ll be good now as England may follow.

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Lord Montpelier
1 hour ago, XB52 said:

It's SNP/Scotgov policy so it has to be bad, no matter what. It's a policy introduced to aid public health, despite it being a vote loser.

You obviously have a want and desire to be told how to stay healthy and what to spend your money on.

 

The majority of us don't and shouldn't be the victims of uncontrolled urges by the minority of problem drinkers. 

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JudyJudyJudy
3 hours ago, Lord Montpelier said:

An important public health official is hardly going to say "drink more"

 

He'll be one of these puritanical fun police types, like your beloved SNP.

😂😂😂 he’s a parody 😂

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Lord Montpelier
2 minutes ago, Victorian said:

But where will the Berwick Bevvy Brigade go to save their hundreds of pence?

 

:muggy:

Getting mine from Cumbria today. Let me know if you want a shipment back.

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JudyJudyJudy
Just now, Lord Montpelier said:

You obviously have a want and desire to be told how to stay healthy and what to spend your money on.

 

The majority of us don't and shouldn't be the victims of uncontrolled urges by the minority of problem drinkers. 

Exactly . I know that drinking alcohol is wrong on so many levels . Has it stopped me ? No . But I only drink infrequently cause I have discipline and self control . Like most people . 

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Just now, Lord Montpelier said:

Getting mine from Cumbria today. Let me know if you want a shipment back.

 

Thanks,  I don't.   Where's the huge savings to be grabbed if MUP goes UK wide?

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Lord Montpelier
4 minutes ago, Victorian said:

 

Thanks,  I don't.   Where's the huge savings to be grabbed if MUP goes UK wide?

The key word being "if". I don't think the English and Welsh are as subservient to the nanny state SNP Scots so expect significant resistance 

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i wish jj was my dad
6 minutes ago, Victorian said:

 

Thanks,  I don't.   Where's the huge savings to be grabbed if MUP goes UK wide?

It's missing the point - probably deliberately because most people are bright enough to spot it - that it is designed to change the centuries old Scottish culture of binge drinking by deterring young people from getting into bad habits. It's hardly prohibition

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4 minutes ago, Lord Montpelier said:

The key word being "if". I don't think the English and Welsh are as subservient to the nanny state SNP Scots so expect significant resistance 

 

Yeah that's why I said if.   It's already used in Wales btw.

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JudyJudyJudy
13 minutes ago, Lord Montpelier said:

The key word being "if". I don't think the English and Welsh are as subservient to the nanny state SNP Scots so expect significant resistance 

No a surprise that the supporters of this are all snp fanatics , well some hide it better than others . Like you said it’s a nanny state policy , education is better than a blanket policy which affects everyone . 

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JudyJudyJudy
22 minutes ago, Lord Montpelier said:

Getting mine from Cumbria today. Let me know if you want a shipment back.

Can you get me 12 bottles of Bombay sapphire gin please ? I’ll square you up sometime 😂

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JudyJudyJudy
4 hours ago, milky_26 said:

These pesky facts

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg5233gn67o

 

 latest figures from National Records of Scotland, (NRS) show 1,277 people died from conditions caused by alcohol in 2023.

This was one death more than the previous year, which was the highest number since 2008

 

 

Those pesky facts 

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Threedoorsdown

Make people’s lives better and more meaningful and people won’t try and drink their relatively shite lives away.

 

The country is as depressing as I can remember in my lifetime. 

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2 minutes ago, JudyJudyJudy said:

No a surprise that the supporters of this are all snp fanatics , well some hide it better than others . Like you said it’s a nanny state policy , education is better than a blanket policy which affects everyone . 

 

I'm not an "SNP fanatic".  I voted Labour at the election.

 

Assuming the SNP fanatic bogeyman is lurking behind every opinion is quite informative about how much confidence you have in your own opinion.

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JudyJudyJudy
1 minute ago, Victorian said:

fanatic".  I voted Labour at the election

I’d probably keep that to yourself from now on 

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21 minutes ago, Lord Montpelier said:

The key word being "if". I don't think the English and Welsh are as subservient to the nanny state SNP Scots so expect significant resistance 

😀😀😀😀 the Welsh already have MUP.

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Just now, JudyJudyJudy said:

I’d probably keep that to yourself from now on 

 

I think I'll file that in the recycle bin given your own scattergun voting history.  

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JudyJudyJudy
2 minutes ago, Victorian said:

 

I think I'll file that in the recycle bin given your own scattergun voting history.  

👍👎😂

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John Findlay
23 minutes ago, Victorian said:

 

I'm not an "SNP fanatic".  I voted Labour at the election.

 

Assuming the SNP fanatic bogeyman is lurking behind every opinion is quite informative about how much confidence you have in your own opinion.

More to be pitied than scorned😉

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Lord Montpelier
41 minutes ago, XB52 said:

😀😀😀😀 the Welsh already have MUP.

Didn't know that

 

Must have been implemented by your Chief Mammys drippy mate, Drakeford, sounds like the type of nonsense he would have supported. 

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Lord Montpelier
46 minutes ago, Threedoorsdown said:

Make people’s lives better and more meaningful and people won’t try and drink their relatively shite lives away.

 

The country is as depressing as I can remember in my lifetime. 

Spot on. Give people purpose and you don't need this. 

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Lord Montpelier
49 minutes ago, JudyJudyJudy said:

Can you get me 12 bottles of Bombay sapphire gin please ? I’ll square you up sometime 😂

Just 12 lol 

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33 minutes ago, Lord Montpelier said:

Spot on. Give people purpose and you don't need this. 

 

Great, just hand out pints of purpose in pubs, problem solved.

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i wish jj was my dad
7 minutes ago, Ray Gin said:

 

Great, just hand out pints of purpose in pubs, problem solved.

Or we could have years and years of austerity, brexit and shitting all over the general population while filthy rich speculators plunder the national wealth. 

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59 minutes ago, i wish jj was my dad said:

Or we could have years and years of austerity, brexit and shitting all over the general population while filthy rich speculators plunder the national wealth. 

Bloody SNP

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Wonder if it ever comes into play in England if they make the price a wee bit lower than that of Scotland. Something the SNP would be slated for about of course.

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New SPFL deal with Carling to be the official beer sponsor :laugh: 

 

A tinpot 'beer' to go with our tinpot league.

 

Scottish football is full of alcohol sponsorship, which makes the police attitude to fans drinking at odds to what the fans are being brainwashed with.

 

 

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