Big up the tube drinkers

[fogbat]

To be quite serious, there are lots of people who have died as a result of someone else's intoxication.

What an excellent argument.

Let's just enforce a national alcohol ban, just to be on the safe side.

 

[El Jefe]

Why do you need a drink on the tube? The journeys are that short?

So now legislation should be based on need?

You appear to have completely missed the point. If a new law is being introduced, the onus is on the body pushing for that law to justify banning something, NOT on the people involved in that something justifying it on a needs basis.

 

[editor]

People might rightly find having a can of beer shoved in their face sick making and just abit rude.

I have never, ever, ever in 30 years of catching the tube had a can of beer "shoved in my face" and clearly you haven't either.

But, over the years, I have had small children grab me, be sick on me, scream throughout the entire journey, sit on me, rattle things, throw things, eat smelly food, and I've also had to put up with their prams causing congestion by the entrance.

Should they be banned too or maybe I could just continue to shrug, smile and show a little tolerance? After all, does the mother really need to make that journey to the park?

 

[El Jefe]

What an excellent argument.

Let's just enforce a national alcohol ban, just to be on the safe side.

And cars. And rolled-up newspapers.

 

[rich!]

After all, does the mother really need to make that journey to the park?

Does the mother really need to have had children? Wouldn't it be better for all of us if breeding was banned? Tubes would be much more pleasant without prams on them. Ladies - think of the comfort of tube travellers before deciding not to flush that sprog!!!

 

[El Jefe]

The pros for this ban really don't have a thing, do they?

 

[Cid]

Why do you need a drink on the tube? The journeys are that short?

Quite apart from what Fogbat said I often used to sink a few cans on the way to gigs etc, saves money.

 

[El Jefe]

Quite apart from what Fogbat said I often used to sink a few cans on the way to gigs etc, saves money.

Yep.

There are dozens of reasons why a perfectly well behaved person might want a can on the way someone on the tube. And not a single SPECIFIC reason for a ban - any arguments being proposed either apply to things as well as drink, OR apply to alcohol in general, or are related to drunkeness. I've yet to see a single concrete argument which applies SOLELY to alcohol SOLELY on public transport.

 

[paolo]

The nonsensical nature of this ban can be fully demonstrated at stations where tubes platform alongside overground. At Stratford, for example, you can step from "good alcohol" to "bad alcohol" in a few metres. Where I was working until recently, my journey was on a "good alcohol" line, 30 minutes from Liverpool St to Brentwood. As of Wednesday, I'll be in a big shiny tower in Canary Wharf. This 45 minute journey is a "bad alcohol" route.

Meanwhile, somewhere up in the skies, a flight attendant is getting thumped after someone has drunk "good alcohol".

 

[El Jefe]

:d

 

[claphamboy]

Meanwhile, somewhere up in the skies, a flight attendant is getting thumped after someone has drunk "good alcohol".

And on another flight a couple of drunk daft bints are trying to open the door for some air.

 

[paolo]

And on another flight a couple of drunk daft bints are trying to open the door for some air.

 

[El Jefe]

Personally, when I'm flying I can't STAND the person next to me shoving their glass of cheap white wine in my face, it's sick-making.

And as for people on the coach with egg sandwiches

fuckers.

 

[editor]

Have you seen those trolley-toting CUNTS that come around on trains trying to shove tea, coffee, beer, wine, refreshments and snacks in your face?
I've seen them on planes too, except they're often pushing hot meals too.

Fuckers.

 

[detective-boy]

There are by laws about drinking on the street, anyhow.

Not in the vast majority of places there aren't ...

 

[FridgeMagnet]

You lot may laugh about bints, but since the ban how many times have you had laughing gangs of tube drinkers spray shaken-up Special Brew all over you, making you smell like a particularly careless alcoholic just before you meet with the head of the Bank of England? None. Therefore the ban is working. QED.

 

[claphamboy]

You lot may laugh about bints, but since the ban how many times have you had laughing gangs of tube drinkers spray shaken-up Special Brew all over you, making you smell like a particularly careless alcoholic just before you meet with the head of the Bank of England? None. Therefore the ban is working. QED.

True.

Fuck I got this all wrong.

 

[editor]

You lot may laugh about bints, but since the ban how many times have you had laughing gangs of tube drinkers spray shaken-up Special Brew all over you, making you smell like a particularly careless alcoholic just before you meet with the head of the Bank of England? None. Therefore the ban is working. QED.

You might laugh, but I was on the way to an important meeting yesterday and sat down in the carriage only to discover that my seat was virtually a Special Brew bath after the entire contents of at least four cans had been carelessly spilt into the fabric by butter-fingered louts. Strangely enough, I couldn't see or smell a thing until I'd sat down into the moist, bubbling cauldron of stale 'Brew.

And if that wasn't bad enough, I had drinkers pushing their stinking , obnoxious cans right into my face for the entire duration of the journey and when I got up to leave, I slipped on the many puddles of puke and hit my head on one of the hundreds of empty bottles rolling around.

Thank goodness Boris is going to sort this out.

 

[paolo]

Did they "aggressively swig" first, or just go straight for the "face shove" ?

 

[editor]

They were violently supping and then slurping with malice.

 

[claphamboy]

You might laugh, but I was on the way to an important meeting yesterday and sat down in the carriage only to discover that my seat was virtually a Special Brew bath after the entire contents of at least four cans had been carelessly spilt into the fabric by butter-fingered louts. Strangely enough, I couldn't see or smell a thing until I'd sat down into the moist, bubbling cauldron of stale 'Brew.

And if that wasn't bad enough, I had drinkers pushing their stinking , obnoxious cans right into my face for the entire duration of the journey and when I got up to leave, I slipped on the many puddles of puke and hit my head on one of the hundreds of empty bottles rolling around.

Thank goodness Boris is going to sort this out.

You were lucky.

On the way home tonight - the tube doors opened and the special brew flooded out on to the platform, we had to swim against the tide to get on the train. Several poor sods were washed away, some ended-up under the train instantly electrocuted as the tide of special brew hit the live rail.

We grumbled a bit as we fell about negotiating our way over all the empty cans & bottles towards a seat, but frankly we were happy to get a seat even if it was a bit damp and happy to still be alive in view of the obnoxious fumes.

But, you tell the kids on the internet that and they will not believe you.

 

[editor]

Contents of a single tube carriage on the 08.10 yesterday.

 

[editor]

Looking inside the window of a carriage on the 08.45 Central Line tube train.

 

[Dan U]

this thread is so funny i just burnt my dinner

the pro ban people have yet to make a decent argument imo

 

[Big Vern]

This thread reminded me of a great game we used to play on the tube called "cane that brew" it's based on the "name that tune" game ..you need around 5-6 of you to play..all get 4 cans of special brew per player and state how many tube stops it will take you to drink a can..eg.. first guy may say "I'll cane that brew in 4"..next guy may say they'll do it in one..so then you say "cane that brew"!..if the guy don't manage to drink the can before the next stop he gets a good kicking...great game to start your evening.

 

[paolo]

I can't help thinking you were missing something. After winning, you shove the brew in someone's face, piss in the empty can, and finally throw up?

 

[Dravinian]

this thread is so funny i just burnt my dinner

the pro ban people have yet to make a decent argument imo

I do love this page too, but for other reasons.

All I see is the "I want to do it" argument from the people who are opposed and when given decent arguments as I have, they simply ridicule them, they don't refute them, they can't prove them wrong, they don't explain why their desire to drink alcohol overrides them.

They simply ridicule them.

It is laughable because it is a huge back slapping excercise, oh aren't we all soo clever, if we just keep posting up ridiculous comments and silly pictures maybe we can force any proper arguments off the page without ever having to answer them.

The only answer they have is: It doesn't harm anyone else.

Which is nothing more then their opinion. Can they explain why such a small inconvenience is a problem for them? No, they just insist they want to enjoy a quiet drink on the way home and why should they lose that right. Because it is all about them.

 

[JTG]

I can't help thinking you were missing something. After winning, you shove the brew in someone's face, piss in the empty can, and finally throw up?

Not before you've spilt it on the seat Dravinian's about to occupy though. Many's the laugh I've had with that down the years

 

[claphamboy]

This thread reminded me of a great game we used to play on the tube called "cane that brew" it's based on the "name that tune" game ..you need around 5-6 of you to play..all get 4 cans of special brew per player and state how many tube stops it will take you to drink a can..eg.. first guy may say "I'll cane that brew in 4"..next guy may say they'll do it in one..so then you say "cane that brew"!..if the guy don't manage to drink the can before the next stop he gets a good kicking...great game to start your evening.

It’s behaviour like this ^^^^ that result in the tidal wave of special brew I had to deal with earlier today.

 

[claphamboy]

All I see is the "I want to do it" argument from the people who are opposed and when given decent arguments as I have, they simply ridicule them, they don't refute them, they can't prove them wrong, they don't explain why their desire to drink alcohol overrides them.

FFS – you have NOT given a single decent argument, all your arguments have been refuted and shown to be wrong, but as usual you aren’t listening.

One day you will need to pull your head out of your arse.