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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6Blame the government, blame the publicans........blame everyone but the people who drink.
We need to take responsability for our drinking. Noone puts a gun to our head and forces us to drink.
We do it because we want to and because we like to. We need to change the cultural attitude ourselves and take responsability for what we drink and stop placing blame.
think its friday ok-
well i'm just after spending 40 hrs busting my nuts to make sure the profits keep rolling in for my boss, i hate my job, i know i can be creative but it don't pay, my work really pisses me off, but i've got a mortgage, and oh shit a car loan too, and i got to pay the childminder this week, bollix, i got two days off, ah at last the kids are in bed, i'll have a can, ah fuck it i'll go down the local, my mates pissed off too, but he's never tried smirnoff black ice, ah now i'm so relaxed etc. etc.
what i'm trying to say is that the society we 'live' in is at the root of the problem, capitalism, thats the reason for every major problem we have, and now its a cliche, down with capitalism heehee, so we're fucked, ah well i'm going home, probably won't have a drink, but will still have a hangover in the morning, shit man we need a revolution, not more whinging and crying(not having a go at anyone, 'cept perhaps myself), so what does everybody think? ah shur lets leave it til after Xmas, thats a bit of craic, and shur maybe after the next world cup, tell ya what, we'll see, alright?
Yknow Pete, as I read through you're paragraph I was nodding my head in amusement and agreement, until I came to the part where you start blaming it all on capitalism...what a load of bollocks, if you dont like it then fuck off out to the middle east somewhere where democracy is a distant dream and they'll cut your hand off if you dont burp after dinner.
I bet if you sold your crappy car and morgaged house you would be able to buy a nice self sufficient farm up the mountains of Kerry somewhere to live out your non capitalist life. Do it.
Stop blaming your own shortfalls on capitalism. No system is perfect (especially not capitalism) but to blame it for your miserable life is a little sad.
Bloody capitalists stole my milk yesterday morning aswell.
YOU ALL KNOW YOUR LIFE WOULD BE MISERABLE WITHOUT ME, YOUR GOOD FRIEND CAPITAL.
DON'T BOTHER WITH YOUR UTOPIAS BECAUSE THEY CANNOT DEFEAT THE POWER OF GREED. GREED AND DESIRE.
ANYONE FOR A PINT?
The gun put to our head is advertising! I am Irish living in Sweden where drinking is not so heavily promoted and surprise surprise people have discovered other things to do besides drink.
Walk into Dublin airport and start counting the ads for drink till you get to the massive Guinness billboards in town, the economy thrives on the booze we consume, the government provides little else for the young to do or to look forward to doing.
Drink was brought to us by an invading empire, successive Germanic armies drank beer rather than water as ration as it didn't go stagnant and was easier to keep, it soon became the norm, similar to the rise in popularity of smoking after the 2nd world war as cigarettes were soldiers ration and were then brought home after the war ended.
Relate the economic "boom" and the massive drive to promote alcohol and the transformation of the local pub into the drinking factory it is today and you might realise it is more than just a coincidence.
Since I stopped drinking I realised what it is to be Irish an old culture rich and varied that like so many indigenous cultures was broken not in war but in peace with the oldest known chemical weapon, ALCOHOL.
Yeah I think the author was saying that all the frenzy about drink is this country never concludes with the disease Alcoholism, and that the GOV doesn't even try to change that path for 12 year olds, I bet If someone wrote about alien life on Sirus one of ya would blame the capitalists, relax there is more to life that being parnoid about who's pilfering your time and money.