'It is a remarkable fact, that the houses which are most splendid from without, appear most dismal and comfortless from within. ...But nevertheless the “palace” is always crowded with guests, who, standing, staggering, crouching, or lying down, groaning, and cursing, drink and forget'.
Max Schlesinger (Gin Palaces), Saunterings in and about London 1853.
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The Government has finally admitted (The Times) that binge drinking leading to violence is not only out of control in our City centres but in our small towns as well (See Stratford upon Bloodbath). The odds that you will be attacked by a complete stranger (i.e. drunken moron) whilst taking a relaxing Saturday evening stroll through your hometown are up also.
Personally my anger is solidly aimed at the money grabbing, irresponsible, faceless, soul and society destroying, pygmy-brained idiots behind such ‘concepts’ as the Yates’s Wine Bar chain and Chicago Rock assembly line. It’s their (and others like them) two-for-the-price-of-one supermarket-like greed-based philosophy of pile ‘em in, fill ’em up, let ‘em go especially if they’re young and stupid, that's the greatest destroyer of brain cells and thereby young lives this country has ever known. And it’s getting worse. New abattoirs bars are opening all the time. Who needs a war when you’ve got a bunch of corporate arseholes like the deadheads behind ‘Drink yourself to Death inc’. The enemy within, without a shadow of a doubt.
Tie this to the fact that the Police authorities have just taken a hefty rise via your Council Tax yet still appear to be out of action and missing from the streets, and the mind finally boggles. Someone do something please.
…aaaand…relax.
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