LONDON (AP) -- Officials will ban drinking contests in bars and force pub owners to offer patrons tap water in a bid to help tackle Britain's boozy culture, the government said Tuesday.I gather that a ban on solid food is not too far in the future for the Great Nanny State.
[1] OK, that was terribly unfair. No self-respecting German soldier would have a rusty Mauser. They'd all be nicely blued with mirror-bright bores.
Churchill's line: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few," was about their bar bill.
ReplyDeleteGiven the state of affairs in Formerly Great Britan, you'd think the last thing they'd want would be a sober populous.
ReplyDeleteBob, you'd think so. The Russians have known for centuries that a drunken population is a more easily controllable population.
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ReplyDeleteNah, if the Germans turned up on our beaches today they would have to fight their way through our defensive lines of used condoms, litter and sewage :)
ReplyDeleteHell, the way some of the Brits I know have complained about the current nanny state, the Germans would probably be welcomed as liberators these days.
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