Petrol stations should be banned from selling alcohol, the head of a Garda watchdog said yesterday.
“I don’t think garages should be allowed to sell alcohol, merely on the perception grounds.
“You are permitting people who are attached to garages where cars go for petrol to sell drink to the people who are driving those cars. I think the perception of that must raise queries in any ordinary person’s mind,” he said.
I have no fucking idea where to start on this one. Perception grounds? That's the bit beside the forecourt, is it? And who are these people who are attached to garages? How are they getting home at night? Do they take the garage with them? What if it's a twenty four hour garage? Is there nothing we won't force our new working in petrol station immigant friends to do?
And 'I think the perception of that must raise queries in any ordinary person's mind.'
Am I an ordinary person? Because the queries in my mind are a)The fuck does that even mean? b)Can I buy a fucking sentence? and c)Could you possibly just fuck off?
People drive to off licences too, you stupid, stupid, busybodying, fuck all else to be doing cunt. Christ.
You want to do something about excessive/underage/driving drinking? Put checkpoints outside suburban pubs on a Friday and Saturday night. Ban all drink related advertising. (Including those ones warning against drinking too much. They make me want to get fucking sloshed.) Legalise the smokey jokey.
Woo hoo! It's another one of Gimme's ill thought-out, naive and unworkable solutions to the country's problems. Keep setting them up, Gordon Holmes of the GSCB, and I'll keep knocking them down.
What are they doing in heaven today?
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13 Johns and Janes for the comment whore:
I always thought the smokey jokey was better for people, Gimme. I don't partake but you don't see potheads getting into violent brawls. But then you read studies saying a joint is like smoking 5 cigarettes and that it leads to psychological disorders. Who knows?
What worries me most about petrol stations is the queues of murders late at night.
Twix please.
Sam
Gordon Holmes of the GSCB should come to the US and try to spout that stupidity. The vast quantities of beer and wine available at nearly every gas (oh, sorry, petrol) station in this country attest to the commercial value of having it available. Fer creeps sake, we have gas stations that double as fast-food restaurants! What'll kill you quicker? Drinking and driving, or a bacon double-cheeseburger cooked at a gas station? Hmmm....
Being a pot-head.. ex-pothead, whatever, I completely agree with both you and Medbh. These people must be just inventing rules and bans purely for our entertainment. They do this to rile us up, whereas they SHOULD be legalising things to calm us down.
I like the cut of this guy's jib - "Merely on perception grounds" what a fantastic rationale for criminalising activity...Kids on street corners who wear hoodies or headgear of any kind should be arrested for anti-social behaviour merely on perception grounds. Gobshites with after-market sports exhausts on their Honda Civics should be arrested for speeding merely on perception grounds.
Perfectly reasonable, don't be perceived to have the intent to do the crime.......
I suspect said Garda had (as you infer) been reading Aldous Huxley. perhaps even mixing Huxley inadvisably with RD Laing or Carlos Casteneda.
Actually garage/off licenses should have another kind of pump, one that'll squirt out 40% proof spirit into an empty plastic bottle. It'd be far more practical and could be paid for right at the pump. Tesco should get onto this, pronto.
In the meantime the wacky baccy penalties will be increased because it plays well with terrified middle class voters.
Medbh:
I think you've got your West Coast Cooler smokey jokey, and your tequila type. Large regular doses of hydroponic skunk are gonna fuck you in the head for sure. I gather this is what is predominantly available on the streets of Britain these days.
I believe your everyday West Coast Cooler hash to be safer than alcohol, both personally and societally. Is that word? It is now.
But generally I think inhaling shit apart from oxygen is not the best things to do to your lungs. Now, pass that doochie panny left hand side.
Sam:
Do the mime! Do the mime!
Camron:
Hmmm, indeed. Now I want a bacon double-cheese burger. Deep fried in petrol.
K8:
Don't be coy, stoner. Or ex-stoner. Whatever. There goes my short term memory again.
Gav:
I'm big into draconian laws as long as they don't make it less convenient for me to go about my daily beer attaining, jokey smoking activities.
Gobshites with after-market sports exhausts on their Honda Civics should be arrested for speeding merely on perception grounds. And then shot.
Conan:
Given his sentence construction, I don't think Gordon has been reading much outside of the new Harry Potter.
'Get polluted at the pump'. You're welcome Tesco.
..."the perception grounds"...
How Orwellian. The Gardaí are soon going to be operating under the title of the Ministry Of Logic.
Arse biscuits.
By the by, a blogroll add for you sir. Most enjoyable.
Did I mention that weed is decriminalized here in Canada? When we drove through B.C. it was all over the place. They would legalize it but for the hassles with the U.S.
People drive to off licences too, you stupid, stupid, busybodying, fuck all else to be doing cunt. Christ.
I love a good fucking rant. Well done...
Um, I would like to point out that plenty of states here in the US have drive-thru liqour stores. Yes, you drive up, order and pay for your booze, and off you go.
Plenty of drive-thrus here also sell drugs, but that's not exactly legal.
And, having worked at a fast food drive-thru that did not sell alcohol or drugs, I can tell you that just about every 50th car would have someone with an open bottle of Jack or was rolling a joint when they pulled up to pay.
Politicians should get a real job, like filling potholes.
John Cav:
If they can get it together to spell Ministry. Or logic.
And thank you.
Medbh:
The famous B.C. bud. I was rendered incapable of speech for about six hours by that shit. If it's disorders you want Penticton is your place, I'm telling ya.
Manuel:
Thanks, Manuel. Though I'm just keeping the public transport users of Dublin safe from my uncontrolable outbursts.
Fat Sparrow:
You mean the holes in the pot distribution network? I'm right with you.
"Drive-thru drink and drugs"
....What would John Stuart Mill say?
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