tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post7929097936971268811..comments2024-02-06T07:57:54.467+00:00Comments on underdogs bite upwards: This... is an ex smoker.Leg-ironhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-89536337485038105532010-01-03T00:13:02.289+00:002010-01-03T00:13:02.289+00:00As long as no money changes hands in a Smoky Drink...As long as no money changes hands in a Smoky Drinky place, it's a private gathering and not a business. It can't be run for profit or it would need to be licenced premises. <br /><br />It's strictly BYOB and share it out. Just a few folk sitting around drinking and smoking, just like we used to do in the pub. The mobile aspect of it is useful - any of us can designate our houses as Smoky Drinky places for the evening. Having a fixed space dedicated to the activity risks, as Subrosa mentions, the attention of the Safety Elf.<br /><br />Although we do tend to meet at the same house most times, there's nothing fixed about that. Like those speakeasies where the drinks were replaced with coffee if the police came round, a Smoky Drinky place can vanish in an instant.<br /><br />It's not illegal, not yet, but it's going to annoy the Righteous and they're bound to try to crack down.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-4984899058823612662010-01-02T21:20:08.543+00:002010-01-02T21:20:08.543+00:00Enjoy your tipple LI am finishing off my xmas bott...Enjoy your tipple LI am finishing off my xmas bottle of Southern Comfort tonight then its back to the ordinary Grants blend tomorrow (9.99 from Tesco) can`t afford fancy whisky but I`m happy<br />cheersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-77986935618919838142010-01-02T05:15:49.598+00:002010-01-02T05:15:49.598+00:00From Junican.
I have read and comented on the Vic...From Junican.<br /><br />I have read and comented on the Vicki Woods article. <br /><br />The more that you think about the smoking ban, the more that you realise that there are UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. <br />I feel sure that the people in the USA who were the first to define a public place as any place where any person, regardless of whether or not they have any right to be there, can possibly be, were motivated by their consciences. The mere fact that a burgler can claim to be affected by the tobacco smoke in your home, it becoming a public place when he enters your home, would never enter their minds. But........the law of UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES dictates that bad law will reveal itself through UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.<br /><br />Politicians can stick their heads in the sand if they wish, but the UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES will grow and grow until this prohibition has to stop.Junicannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-65737472062662714112010-01-02T03:59:36.956+00:002010-01-02T03:59:36.956+00:00That sounds a great idea banned, but somehow it wo...That sounds a great idea banned, but somehow it won't work. I'm too tired to think of the umpteen laws which would be brought into action but elfandstupidity are sure to have a few.<br /><br />Glad to hear you've found an accommodating tipple LI. I'm off to do a search for it as I've to restock the press now.subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170981338945747646.post-40998521837628763722010-01-02T03:50:25.552+00:002010-01-02T03:50:25.552+00:00Sadly Vikki is part of the problem, people who &qu...Sadly Vikki is part of the problem, people who "We trotted down at 11 o'clock as usual" do the pub trade few favours and indeed cause landlords problems on special nights such as NYE. My own local had a busy night with many customers passing through on the way to the town centre with about 35 locals still there at midnight. 'Comfortable' is how he described it.<br /><br />Public Houses started off as just that, people inviting 'the public' into their house to pay for alcohol.<br />What is to stop a group of like minded people extending the idea of 'drinky smoky places' by establishing a private space (a garage, outhouse, spare room) to meet, by invitation, for the free exchange and consumption of alcohol and tobacco since it is not a public place and no-one works there?<br /><br />The only thing missing from the old arrangement is the profit motive.bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.com