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Is SV endorsing Binge Drinking?

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  • 11-07-2008 6:35pm
    #1
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭


    I just saw this sign all over SV, I know the unmentionable is now but is this even legal?

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    Health professionals quantify binge drinking as drinking more than 5 units (2.5 pints of beer or 3 glasses of wine) of alcohol at any one time. However, in a survey of 974 Irish people, most thought binge drinking involved having 10 or more drinks.

    http://www.vhi.ie/news/n090707a.jsp

    Is SV endorsing Binge Drinking?

    Is SV policy encouraging Binge Drinking? 43 votes

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    entropiRobertFosterCool_CMkelleHolstenThE_IVIAcIVIAIVMax_DamagemthdmookishboyAss 10 votes
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    #2
    Thrill
    Registered Users Posts: 5,485 ✭✭✭Thrill


    What is SV?


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    c - 13
    Registered Users Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭c - 13


    Thrill wrote: »
    What is SV?

    I'm going to go with super valu. Looks like their labels.


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    flanum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,107 ✭✭✭flanum


    SV= South Vietnam?


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    #5
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    The name of a very well known and big supermarket, who's name is abbreviated.
    Thrill wrote: »
    What is SV?


    */ Mods: Can I name the store or is that a breach of the rules? */


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    JC 2K3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,794 ✭✭✭JC 2K3


    Maybe....,
    I refuse to accept that 2.5 pints is binge drinking. Even from a purely medical perspective, body weight and tolerance etc. comes into it.

    Also, I would assume this is to prevent people from buying alcohol in a shop and then drinking on the streets.


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    taidghbaby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭taidghbaby


    JC 2K3 wrote: »
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    Also, I would assume this is to prevent people from buying alcohol in a shop and then drinking on the streets.

    i would assume this is to ensure people buy more!!


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    #8
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    I dropped in to buy some food and 2 cans to drink before I head out to the "Impromptu" drinks and lend up buys 6 cans since I could not just 2....
    taidghbaby wrote: »
    i would assume this is to ensure people buy more!!


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    #9
    taidghbaby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭taidghbaby


    BOFH_139 wrote: »
    I dropped in to buy some food and 2 cans to drink before I head out to the "Impromptu" drinks and lend up buys 6 cans since I could not just 2....
    mwahhahha..........my evil plan is working :cool:


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    GirlInterrupted
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,440 ✭✭✭GirlInterrupted


    taidghbaby wrote: »
    mwahhahha..........my evil plan is working :cool:

    What plan? To get the nation drunk? Too late pal, we're already pissed:D.


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    taidghbaby
    Registered Users Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭taidghbaby


    GirlInterrupted wrote: »
    What plan? To get the nation drunk? Too late pal, we're already pissed:D.
    :eek:

    *stalker alert*
    *stalker alert*


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    #12
    Jimbo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭Jimbo


    Maybe....,
    Apparently they don't sell fags singally anymore.
    Looks like they're tring to encourage chain smoking aswell.
    The bastards.


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    Mimikyu
    Registered Users Posts: 18,916 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


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    #14
    RuailleBuaille
    Registered Users Posts: 521 ✭✭✭RuailleBuaille


    Irish logic, you gotta love it.


    :rolleyes:


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    #15
    Kold
    Registered Users Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    They're promoting poor syntax. I'd say that's even worse.


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    #16
    Sherifu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Who buys single bottles?


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    #17
    randylonghorn
    Registered Users Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Not to mention spelling ... "inconvienience"! :rolleyes:

    That's the third time to-day I've seen that spelled incorrectly in signs (I'm not talking about a typo in a post, or something like that).

    Other two times it was "inconvience"!


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    #18
    Davidius
    Registered Users Posts: 4,893 ✭✭✭Davidius


    Reminds me of a sign I saw at the newsagents in Tesco a couple of years ago. "Trollies are not prohibited".


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    #19
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    WTF Zombies?
    Thrill wrote: »
    What is SV?
    Side Valve.


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    #20
    Jimbo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭Jimbo


    Maybe....,
    Sluice Valve btw


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    #21
    KnifeWRENCH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    WTF Zombies?
    Atari Jaguar


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    #22
    Ostrom
    Registered Users Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    I would imagine its to stop 'patches the loveable but rowdy tramp' and such from buying single units. Or not. Fairly short sighted either way. Could just be a local judgement call....


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    jimi_t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭jimi_t


    efla wrote: »
    I would imagine its to stop 'patches the loveable but rowdy tramp' and such from buying single units. Or not. Fairly short sighted either way. Could just be a local judgement call....

    Or they could just tell patches to **** off - they sure as hell 'reserve the right to refuse admission'.


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    #24
    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭MOH


    randylonghorn wrote: »
    Not to mention spelling ... "inconvienience"! :rolleyes:

    That's the third time to-day I've seen that spelled incorrectly in signs (I'm not talking about a typo in a post, or something like that).

    Other two times it was "inconvience"!

    to-day ?


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    #25
    Steve_o
    Registered Users Posts: 3,432 ✭✭✭Steve_o


    WTF Zombies?
    2.5 pints is binge drinking??? Also going into Super Van and buying one bottle of beer is stupid!!


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    #26
    Blisterman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,456 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Actually 5 units, is only 2 pints, or 2 glasses of wine.

    Ridiculously, I tried to order a quadruple vodka red bull once, in a bar, and they said they can't sell more than a double in one glass (These are pussy 25ml english measures btw.)

    They would of course give me it spread between 2 glasses, so all I could pour one into the other.


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    #27
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    It wasn't in the Arms in Camden was it?

    We tried ordering octalruple Vodkfas and was told the same bull, so had to order 4 doubles and an empty pint glass.....
    Blisterman wrote: »
    Actually 5 units, is only 2 pints, or 2 glasses of wine.

    Ridiculously, I tried to order a quadruple vodka red bull once, in a bar, and they said they can't sell more than a double in one glass (These are pussy 25ml english measures btw.)

    They would of course give me it spread between 2 glasses, so all I could pour one into the other.


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    #28
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,222 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Maybe....,
    BOFH_139 wrote: »
    Is SV endorsing Binge Drinking?
    Health professionals quantify binge drinking as drinking more than 5 units (2.5 pints of beer or 3 glasses of wine) of alcohol at any one time. However, in a survey of 974 Irish people, most thought binge drinking involved having 10 or more drinks.

    Just because you have to buy >3 cans does not mean you have to drink >3 cans that night.


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