{"id":854,"date":"2008-02-23T17:42:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T17:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=854"},"modified":"2022-11-01T21:47:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:47:57","slug":"blame-the-booze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=854","title":{"rendered":"Blame the Booze?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been much talk lately of drinking, especially teenage drinking, ruining our society. The Daily Mirror has been [sarcasm]at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/topstories\/2008\/02\/23\/i-had-to-beg-the-courts-to-tag-my-son-next-time-i-hope-they-lock-him-up-89520-20328466\/\">forefront of this excellent campaign<\/a>[\/sarcasm], and BBC Breakfast has chipped in, and Tesco have said they would <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/7256036.stm\">back increasing prices<\/a> in  it&#8217;s role of moral guardian (or would that be so they can profit more, while claiming the moral high ground?) Yay Tesco, saviours of the world.<\/p>\n<p>The reporting all hinges around the low cost of alcohol. BBC Breakfast went on a search of how many units average pocket money buys (who did the research, and are their findings available?), but that&#8217;s not the issue is it? It&#8217;s already illegal for under 18s to buy alcohol, and for an over-18 to buy it for an under-19. It&#8217;s also illegal to be drunk &#038; disorderly. So apply those laws. Much was made of how cheap <a href=\"http:\/\/hywelsbiglog.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/17\/beer-review-tesco-value-lager\/\">Tesco Value Lager<\/a> is, but can you see anyone getting pissed on that? Could you drink it fast enough?<\/p>\n<p>Is British drinking culture, The Brits, cheap alcohol or boredom the cause? Are today&#8217;s teenagers (or at least some of them) just little shits \ud83d\ude09 ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been much talk lately of drinking, especially teenage drinking, ruining our society. The Daily Mirror has been [sarcasm]at the forefront of this excellent campaign[\/sarcasm], and BBC Breakfast has chipped in, and Tesco have said they would back increasing prices in it&#8217;s role of moral guardian (or would that be so they can profit more, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=854\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blame the Booze?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}