Habitual alcohol users....

Prof.Badass

If alcohol was made illegal would you stop drinking because you're funding organised crime?

Or would you continue drinking to send a message to the government that you're not gonna let yourself be bullied so easily?


Personally, I'd see any blood as on the government's hands, not mine. They're the ones opressing the people, I'm only trying to excercise my freedom.

Anyway, what ya think?

funk-you

Ah, I see what you did there....

-Funk

anniehoo

vinylmesh wrote: »

If alcohol was made illegal

:eek: Please dont even JOKE about something like that. Id emigrate no questions.

Oh The Humanity

Keep drinking.

Don't care about organised crime.

Actually I view the Government as organised criminals, or should that be dis-organised.

AnonoBoy

Wait.... alcohol is LEGAL?????

What the hell have I been paying those exorbitant Speak-Easy rates for then? :mad:

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Just been informed that what I thought was an illegal Speak-Easy was actually just a regular pub. 6 euro for a pint of lager? FFS - Vinter's Association are having a fuppin' laugh
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seamus

What about option number 4:

I'd make my own alcohol.

Easier than getting it illegally and doesn't require any particularly specialist knowledge or equipement.

dearg lady

lol, good thread. And many would of course continue to drink, and continue to turn their noses up at people who choose other drugs. cos they've been told their whole lives alcohol=good, illegal drugs=bad, and couldn't possibly research it themselves and form their own opinion.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

it'd be a dangerous option though cos the government would try to charge you with intent to distribute if you had more than a bucket full brewing.

Rebelheart

If the law ever had morality on its side it has been tested unlike ever before in the history of independent Ireland. I find if profoundly immoral that those of us who are least responsible for the current economic disaster are the people paying most disproportionately for this.

That this is all being done legally makes my stomach turn, particularly when it is clear that the bankers, Bertie Aherns, Liam Carrolls and Paddy Kellys of modern Ireland have left/will all leave the scene as wealthy men.

So, I would drink if I felt like it regardless of this hypothetical law and these hypothetical lawmakers. The current government may not technically be organised crime but it is organised immorality and injustice.

Snowie

is this before or after they ban salt and pepper and there are swear machines every where.?

Fink Goddie

It would make drinking even more fun, would be like being underage again.

funk-you

Snow-Monkey wrote: »

is this before or after they ban salt and pepper and there are swear machines every where.?

Bzzt! Snow-Monkey, you have been fined one credit for breach of the morality code.

-Funk

irish_goat

The Irish Goat Brewery and Distillery would immediately be open for business(after I figure out how to make the stuff).

Johnnnybravo

Id make my own...........duh! :rolleyes:

petes

funk-you wrote: »

Bzzt! Snow-Monkey, you have been fined one credit for breach of the morality code.

-Funk

That's all well and good but how do you use the three shells?

Schism

All stereotypes aside, there's no chance it'd ever happen here.

myk

I live in a country where alcohol is illegal. I make my own... and occasionally buy from stashes smuggled in (through colleagues and friends, not criminal networks).

Mimikyu

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angel01

I don't drink anymore so I wouldn't really care.

funk-you

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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It would probably be cheaper. Have you ever seen the ridiculous "Street value" the garda put on drugs. You wouldn't pay duty on it either.

-Funk

Prof.Badass

seamus wrote: »

What about option number 4:

I'd make my own alcohol.

Easier than getting it illegally and doesn't require any particularly specialist knowledge or equipement.

That would go under option 2. You'd still be getting it illegally and if you shared it with 2 or more friends you'd be a "member of a criminal gang".

angel01 wrote: »

I don't drink anymore so I wouldn't really care.

Habitual alcohol users only :P.

Dravokivich

screw you and yer idea's of Pro-hibition!!!

- Drav!

Insurgent wrote: »

That's all well and good but how do you use the three shells?

What appears to be yer Boggle?

RandolphEsq

I long for the day alcohol is made illegal. It will be a while away yet though as look how long it's taking to illegalise cigarettes!
Alcohol is the scourge to a society. It causes nothing but heartbreak. Our obssession with it stems from the capitalist industrial revolution where we needed a release. Nowadays, one could argue we are still trapped in this downward spinning capitalist world. No capitalism = no alcohol and a happier, more fulfilling world

Rented Mule

RandolphEsq wrote: »

No capitalism = no alcohol and a happier, more fulfilling world

Please remove your shoe and beat yourself over the head with it until the voices stop.

seamus

RandolphEsq wrote: »

No capitalism = no alcohol and a happier, more fulfilling world

I'm capitalist, happy, fulfilled, and I drink alcohol. How does that fit into your grand theory?

raptorman

Work is the curse of the drinking class.

ejmaztec

Wouldn't we be swapping organised crime with the dis-organised crime that we have at the moment?

Wertz

I'd treat any such law the same way as I treat any drug law....I'd ignore it, live with my "guilt", suffer the wrath of garda, courts and judges where unavoidable, and get on with my life.

SEPT 23 1989

Drink would taste better if it was illegal

mickydoomsux

RandolphEsq wrote: »

No capitalism = no alcohol and a happier, more fulfilling world

MAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!!!

Anti-capitalist types are such great fun.

ejmaztec

mickydoomsux wrote: »

MAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!!!!!!!

Anti-capitalist types are such great fun.

Yep, that Joe Stalin was a real hoot. His jokes were second to none, and his magic tricks were brill, especially when he made all of those people disappear.:eek:

El Guapo!

Id buy an exotic island, establish it as my own country, invite all AH boardsies to live there and let everyone drink, smoke, and tell bad Michael Jackson jokes as much as they want! :cool:

Fink Goddie

Dean09 wrote: »

Id buy an exotic island, establish it as my own country, invite all AH boardsies to live there and let everyone drink, smoke, and tell bad Michael Jackson jokes as much as they want! :cool:

And no mods? sounds good to me

RandolphEsq

Rented Mule wrote: »

Please remove your shoe and beat yourself over the head with it until the voices stop.

The theory makes sense, however practical problems arise when attempting to implement it. Namely, stubborn folk like yourself

/unzips trousers

You'll bend over if you know what's good for you

Four-Percent

I would stop drinking, but not because i care about organised crime.I don't drink much as it is anyway and i wouldn't be too bothered if it was banned.