ok lets stir up some confusion and controversy!! I went out for lunch with my good lady wife last week and we had a meal each and half a pint of urine for her (lager to some) and i had a pint of beautiful thick hoppy 5.2% real ale & i paid... £8.49 altogether so it just goes to show we can all be wrong sometimes!!!!
petrol is a rip off since the wwII policy of rationing. The americans went down the route of not putting extra duty on gasoline where the brits knew a good source of usury when they saw it! Actually I think it was a way of helping to pay for rebuilding the infrastructure that was damaged by the war... then they saw that duty was good so they kept it! I am torn as to whether it's a good thing or a bad thing but if it helps to make people think twice about using our precious natural resources rather than squandering the finite maybe it's not as bad as it first seems. Damned inconvenient when you have to buy fuel though!
We just increased the legal age for smoking to 18! That'll stop kids smoking then lol! Bit tough on the 17 year olds who've been smoking legally for a year? I guess somebody didn't think that one through!
Kids'll always smoke, some will stop some will always smoke and some will die from it but the world will keep turning.
I went to Dublin a while ago, beautiful buildings and scenery and parks but don't you feel it's trying a little too hard to meet expectations of what Dublin should be? Fantastic food but everywhere I went for food and drink it was sanitised pub chain fare rather than "traditional ireland". Not complaining as i had a great time.
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