BS: UK licensing laws

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: Micca
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 03:46 AM

Cluin, My (soon to be Ex) Father in Law told me that, in Toronto, in the fairly recent past( lats 30 years) you couldnt drink beer in your own HOME if you were visible from the street!! and there were bye-laws that covered this!!!! and that beer wasnt displayed in in the beer store AT ALL you had to select your beer from a catalog...

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: Cluin
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 12:27 AM

Yeah, I remember my Dad talking about those. I doubt it was an actual list, more like the bartenders and liquor store operators knew who couldn't handle their drink and avoided serving them. I don't think that kind of thing goes on much these days, but they will "cut you off" if you get too drunk or rowdy.

Not that it's happened to me... ;)

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 04:30 AM

Cluin - do they still have "Indian Lists" (although they'd probably call them Ethnic Canadian lists now). I gather that at one time people (of any ethnic origin) who had a booze problem would be added to the list to prevent them being sold alcohol.

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: Cluin
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 02:26 AM

Unlike the U.K. and U.S., in Ontario, Canada we can't get beer in the grocery store/supermarket. We have to go to a Brewer's Retail outlet of the brewery itself to buy our beer. Lots of them around, though and the laws about beer and liquor retailing have relaxed here since the war. In my Dad's day, you were limited on how often and how much liquor you could buy at a time. Back then, quart bottles of beer were more common than now, though in fewer choices of brands.

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 06:53 AM

Did anyone (apart from me) noticethat, in the grim old days a few years back, when the supermarkets were openly defying the Sunday Trading laws by selling bibles ad fried fish on the Sabbath, they all stuck rigidly to the alcohol licencing requirements? They can only deal with one set of antiquated and pointless laws at a time, it seems.

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 06:38 AM

I always thought that bears crapped in the woods, but I travel via Surbiton every workday, and I've never noticed any woods - life's a bitch - you'll just have to grin and bear it.

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: Mr Happy
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 06:37 AM

Bears?


Waltzing with bears (Parody) Bob Townshend

My Uncle Walter's not right in the head,
"I want to go waltzing with bears" Walter said,
So he went to the zoo and climbed up on a shed,
Jumped in with the bears and he ended up dead.

Eaten by bears, eaten by bears,
Raggy bears, baggy bears, shaggy bears too,
There's nothing on earth anybody could do
And my Uncle Walter, poor Uncle Walter,
My Uncle Walter got eaten by bears.



He went to the zoo in the middle of the night,
Jumped in the bears' cage and turned on the light.
He started to waltz - they started to bite,
And my Uncle Walter got eaten that night.

We begged and we pleaded "Oh, please won't you stay,"
We managed to keep him alive for a day
But the bears all marched in and they took him away,
Now the bears all demand at least one Walt a day.

My Uncle Walter got eaten by bears,
It's a most unbearable state of affairs,
But he left me a fortune so nobody cares
That poor Uncle Walter got eaten by bears.

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: GUEST,A barrel of bears
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 05:29 AM

Impotint.

evry1 thiz is waht i watn 4 chrmisy precint

Im sendding u a joty past crayl but yull hve 2 pckit up frm

jdhyey hygs hsoij on Tuesday

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: GUEST,Mummy Bear
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 05:24 AM

I know how you feel. I tried to get some instant porridge last week. They wouldn't even let me through those silly round and round doors. So frustrating. Bloody Goldilocks can get her own next time!

And don't ask me for toilet paper! I mean, they are happy for me to advertise the stuff, but will they let me buy it? No. Once those free samples ran out, that was it, back to leaves for this family. It's not so bad in summer when there are lots of dock leaves and things, but now it's all thistles, twigs and dry grass.

Ms. M Bear
Surbiton

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: GUEST,Bear
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 01:01 PM

Tell me about it, I couldn't get any honey today for love nor money...usually order online , but missed the last delivery slot, hence one very unhappy bear here.

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 12:51 PM

Most supermarkets have a discriminatory policy of not serving bears at any time.

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: Jim McLean
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 12:44 PM

The UK is not England, jOhn, as the licensins (sic) laws are different in Scotland. Could I have two of what you just had?

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: smallpiper
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 12:25 PM

I rather think that Johns point is that we are taxed to death in this country and are plagued by outdated laws. Ok nowt wrong with having an opinion and as jOhn himself would say this is NOT a spelling site!

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: Gareth
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 11:15 AM

Hmmm ! If JoHn could not get served his bears, how come he tyoes like that ?

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 11:13 AM

all the letters are there just in the wrong order - the brain cells must have given up - I doubt if "jOhn" would pay taxes whee he is!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 06:42 AM

Once whatever you have been smoking is legalised they will tax that too.

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 06:32 AM

anyway=i heard that the church dont pay tax, wel if its true, then thats a bllody con,
if i paay, then they should pay as well, total bloody rip off.

Subject: RE: BS: UK licensins laws
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 06:19 AM

nother thingis , = if you rich you dont pay tax, you get company, and get acountant, to say different schemes, offshore, ex penses etc, total bloody rip off,
onluy poor people pay tax, its a bloddy big con, feel frre to delete this, its obvious, every body knows it, and its obvoious,
tax is not just tax, it is national insurance, theres anoither nbloody con"!
ok, if i pay into a national insurance scheme, where is my certificate of insurance, or mt policy note, what am i covered for?
or are they just ripping me off, [as usual?

you buy car insurance you get a letter saying what you covered for, ie you coverted for car getting nicked etc=
national insurance= you covered for whst we can be arsed to cover you for, , bloody rip off,
supposed to be for pension as well, waht pension!, you pay all your life, 10 percent of wages, from 16 years old to 65, then they give you 70 quid a week, for a few yeers, fu88cking big con.
this is jusyt my opinion.john

Subject: BS: UK licensins laws
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 06:08 AM

heloo, i went to the [so called supermarket], [not very super, if you ask me!
and put
about an hour ago [9.30am.].
and put some cans in my basjket, and woman says 2 we cant serve bears till 10 on a sunday, 2,, i say why/, its the law, because of chuch day etc!
biggest load of shit i ever heard of!
absolute con., too m many rules, church, goverment, etc etc, ie..
if i like to drink., is it anyones business/
is it your business or not, no, it isent!
stupid law, i will complain
i heard this drinking law is started as a temporary measure in the war time, to stop soldires been drunk, or bomb factorys, etc
there is no war now, change the law!

what about shift workers then, etc, peoiplke work hard, like to drink in there own timne., and all blody tax on it anyway,
blody taxed to death in this country!
work all week, pay wqages to bloody tax , themn they waste it on shit, shit what we dont need, like opera, and modern art, andn other types of sinilar shit, total rip off, and buy stuff with your wages, and pay more bloody tax on it, no escape from the fiddling bastatrds, and waht do we get for out tax money, useless shit thats what, this govemrent pissnme off, you like to sing folk somg in pub, you need a licence1, bunch of crap!
this gfovermenyt is totally shit!
how much they getting in tax then, bllody loads, bastards!
car tax, work tax, petrol tax, council tax, bear tax, chpcolate tax, etc,
what we get, nothing!
them tony blare etc, probably buy a new suit every day.!
everything you earn or pay =tax, total bloody rip off.