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Popel Vooje
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Edited Jan 15, 2009, 14:34
Re: Alcohol
Jan 15, 2009, 14:28
IanB wrote:

It's beyond social class, gender and age and the young are the least of our worries. Getting off your head with minimal consequences (at least minimal for the vast majority of revellers) is a privilege of youth so to demonise that when it is merely the most visible symptom of a nationwide issue seems bizarre espcially when self-medicating behind closed doors is something of a national pastime.


Isn't that how the English have always operated at least since the Victorian era, if not earlier? You can have sex all you like, but you can't talk openly about it (especially if it's gay sex). You can smoke opium on a daily basis, as long as you don't do it in front of anybody else. You can get as ratarsed as you wish, but you can't do it in a public place. You can even go insane, as long as you maintain some semblance of social decorum. To paraphrase the title of Erin Pizzey's pioneering tome on domestic violence, scream quietly or the neighbours will hear.

Sweeping problems under the carpet and hoping that they'll go away until they blow up in our faces is something this country has always excelled at.
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