If the price of booze and fags were to drop to continental prices tomorrow

Kold

What would happen?

useful_contacts

Kold wrote: »

What would happen?

continental prices ? huh>?

Hazys

People would buy more of each i guess

Abi

Id be found in a ditch somewhere.

MIN2511

Prices in the pub or shops? If it's in the pubs i guess we all know where we would be tomorrow evening

deleriumtremens

I'd take up smoking, lung cancer ftw

drunkmonkey

I could afford an extra employee:rolleyes:

Kold

Well Spanish prices, pub and offy. I think it's quite clear that the prices don't discourage binging and if anything encourage it. If pints were cheap I'd quite happily stop into the pub for 2 every other evening, as is, I want to save and get b*llocksed 1-2 nights a week. I know not everyone does but a lot of us spend a sizeable percentage of a paycheque on going out and socialising. Perhaps our cost of living would drop since it's shown that we won't simply not drink.

useful_contacts

will someone please tell me what are the continental prices

last time i was abroad i was 15- too young to buy either:mad:

Kold

useful_contacts wrote: »

will someone please tell me what are the continental prices

last time i was abroad i was 15- too young to buy either:mad:

Varying. To put a number in, let's say the cost of a pint drops to €1.50 and a shot to €2.

marcsignal

I'd fill a 40 foot container and drive over the border to NI and flog the contents

drunkmonkey

marcsignal wrote: »

I'd fill a 40 foot container and drive over the border to NI and flog the contents

+1 it's about time we had our own price war:)

Borneo Fnctn

I'd be seen on Grafton Street smoking 3 cigarettes at once with a bottle of gin in my pocket trying to eat a kebab and making a mess.

SoWatchaWant

I don't know, I'd probably get drunk in a club for once.

phenomenon

Imagine a holiday resort in Lanzarote or some other equally "chav" destination, where yobs spend the length of their stay plastered on cheap booze and begin drinking at breakfast time. On the return journey home their suitcases are packed full of cheap fags.

It's accepted that this is what you're supposed to do on holiday. Often the cheapness of alcohol and fags is the deciding factor of the holiday destination.

Ireland would be like this, all the time.

Ross_Mahon

Ahh ya need cheap guns too, goes well with the other two

Hazys

jackpalance wrote: »

I'd be seen on Grafton Street smoking 3 cigarettes at once with a bottle of gin in my pocket trying to eat a kebab and making a mess.

Isent that what Grafton Street is normally like at 2 in the morning?

Faith

That'd be great...

00112984

We'd see groups of Spanish students buying TWO pints of Guinness per 40 people instead of just the one.

Diabhal Beag

The government would put extra tax on just to kick us all in the crotch

jester77

useful_contacts wrote: »

will someone please tell me what are the continental prices

last time i was abroad i was 15- too young to buy either:mad:

Well, in Germany you can get bottles of beer from €1 in the pubs, a 1L bottle of Jameson costs €14 in the supermarket and I can get a crate of 20 0.5L bottles of decent beer for about €12, maybe €14 for beer like Staropramen or Budjovichy... and then you get money back for the empties!

useful_contacts

Kold wrote: »

Varying. To put a number in, let's say the cost of a pint drops to €1.50 and a shot to €2.

what about off licence stuff? i dont go out much

timmywex

The government would lose millions more in tax, and raise the tax on drink and fags, as would retailers so they keep earning the profit!

phenomenon

timmywex wrote: »

The government would lose millions more in tax, and raise the tax on drink and fags, as would retailers so they keep earning the profit!

Well done Eddie Hobbs.

1. Lose money
2. Raise taxes
3. ???????
4. PROFIT

Gran Hermano

I know there is no chance I'd be happy with Spanish salary levels.

Or is this a case where people are living in fantasy land where they just want Spanish prices on goods but to continue earning Irish levels of remuneration.

Heisenberg.

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el_tiddlero

The Scientist wrote: »

I'd drink a pint of fags.

I'd smoke a box of pints...