Archive for December 31st, 2007
Binge binge binge
Well, it’s nice to see the Telegraph heads into the new year continuing its assault on the British public:
Hospitals admit 500 binge drinkers a day
“An epidemic of binge drinking has fuelled a dramatic increase in the number of people being hospitalised after drinking to excess, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. The number of alcohol-related hospital admissions has increased by almost a third in just two years as 24-hour drinking laws and the greater availability of cheap alcohol lead to increased consumption.”
I wonder if the Telegraph will carry on like this when the Torys are back in power?
I particularly liked this line:
“The figures come just two weeks after official statistics showed that nearly 13 million Britons were drinking too much because they did not appreciate the increasing strength of alcoholic drinks or the trend for larger measures.”
HELLO! Just how stupid are you guys? Whether they are able, or not, to read (the strength) or see (the size of the measure), surely they understand that when the room starts spinning it might be time to stop? Wouldn’t the price be a clue to the strength and size of measure? Nah….stop me….I’m being far to bloody sensible! Apparently 500 a day are thick enough to just keep going until they become a statistic instead of just a pain in the arse moron. What can you say?
Back to Blog!
We’re back from our short visit to the UK. These pictures just about sum it up 
(All taken with the G9)
We had a bit of rain and a lot of wind:
The sales were madness!!
But it was nice to notice some other quite British things, like;
The washing line -
The milkman (I especially like the way the marking gurus decided to replace every letter i with a white milk bottle so it just looks like MORNNG MLK DELVERY!) -
The bird feeder -
and best of all, the cafe where we got a most excellent bacon bap/cob/roll/butty (depends where you’re from) -
It’s been a long, hard, struggle but I can safely say that my Polish family are now huge fans of British (Danish probably) bacon. They still hate British sausages though. I think this makes sense. British style bacon, especially back rashers, is a considerably better product than the Polish style “slice of fat with the odd trace of meat”, whereas British sausages are an inferior product to the Polish keilbasa. As such, British sausages are something you love if you grew up with them and have that taste in your genes, otherwise they’re nothing special.
