Multiples, cheap booze, source of evil!

toexpress · 12-01-2012 11:16PM #1

Right so I was just thinking about this today. I live in a small village on the border of Kildare/Laois/Offaly ok. There is a huge unemployment problem in the area and there is a sort of blackspot in the village of a council estate that never settled (most of them do at the age of this one it just never worked here)

Anyway the crowd beside me (on the rent allowance scheme never work) are currently well on and drunk partying away like good things and I was just moaning to a friend (she lives the other side of them we were on the phone) about it. But she told me that in Aldi you can buy a bottle of Vodka for less than €10 (to be fair I kind of knew this but I never go into LIDL or Aldi) and we were just saying that if they couldn't get it there they wouldn't pay €24/€28 in Super Valu.

So do we think, if we didn't have LIDL/Aldi/Tesco doing what they are doing (I know the likes of Super Valu sell cheap booze now too but they do it more because they have to in order to compete) that things might be a bit better?

Gee Bag · 12-01-2012 11:18PM

Hi Roisin Shortall, nice to have you on boards.ie

toexpress · 12-01-2012 11:22PM

Gee Bag wrote: »

Hi Roisin Shortall, nice to have you on boards.ie

Close but no cigar FG man more than Labour not into the whole leftie thing

Gee Bag · 12-01-2012 11:24PM

toexpress wrote: »

Close but no cigar FG man more than Labour not into the whole leftie thing

At this stage I'd hardly call the Labour party left wing

BarackPyjama · 12-01-2012 11:27PM

Typical Irish government solution to a problem - increase taxes and make money from people, citing 'social ills', etc. Alcoholics and problem drinkers won't stop drinking if you increase tax on booze. They'll just sacrifice other expenses so they can buy booze. Then of course those of us who are responsible drinkers are also punished. "People who are moderate drinkers won't be affected" - yes we f**king will. We may not spend our life savings on hooch but we're still being fleeced.

tayto lover · 12-01-2012 11:29PM

Buy one or two bottles at 10e and when you drink them you won't notice.

JONJO THE MISER · 12-01-2012 11:29PM

* Craics open another can*

dxhound2005 · 12-01-2012 11:31PM

Gee Bag wrote: »

Hi Roisin Shortall, nice to have you on boards.ie

Roisin wouldn't start her post "Right so"

mackg · 12-01-2012 11:32PM

toexpress wrote: »

Right so I was just thinking about this today. I live in a small village on the border of Kildare/Laois/Offaly ok. There is a huge unemployment problem in the area and there is a sort of blackspot in the village of a council estate that never settled (most of them do at the age of this one it just never worked here)

Anyway the crowd beside me (on the rent allowance scheme never work) are currently well on and drunk partying away like good things and I was just moaning to a friend (she lives the other side of them we were on the phone) about it. But she told me that in Aldi you can buy a bottle of Vodka for less than €10 (to be fair I kind of knew this but I never go into LIDL or Aldi) and we were just saying that if they couldn't get it there they wouldn't pay €24/€28 in Super Valu.

So do we think, if we didn't have LIDL/Aldi/Tesco doing what they are doing (I know the likes of Super Valu sell cheap booze now too but they do it more because they have to in order to compete) that things might be a bit better?

So basically you want to abolish cheap booze because your neighbours are having a party? Why not ask them to be quiet as a first step anyway before calling for legislation.

phoenix833 · 12-01-2012 11:33PM

If Lidl/aldi weren't here the other supermarkets would manage to get in some cheap stuff that they'll drink.

Cans can be bought for a ewe-ro in most places now the whole time. 500ml of vodka for a tenner in a place near me. Can't really do anything about it really....unless you

Blast em with píss.

Ghandee · 12-01-2012 11:34PM

Have you tried talking to them about it?

FearDark · 12-01-2012 11:37PM

Done

to

death

Leo Dowling · 12-01-2012 11:42PM

Do you think your neighbours not being able to afford something would make your own life happier? I'd suggest your personal problems are more than others buying cheap booze.

alphanine · 12-01-2012 11:46PM

toexpress wrote: »

Right so I was just thinking about this today. I live in a small village on the border of Kildare/Laois/Offaly ok. There is a huge unemployment problem in the area and there is a sort of blackspot in the village of a council estate that never settled (most of them do at the age of this one it just never worked here)

Anyway the crowd beside me (on the rent allowance scheme never work) are currently well on and drunk partying away like good things and I was just moaning to a friend (she lives the other side of them we were on the phone) about it. But she told me that in Aldi you can buy a bottle of Vodka for less than €10 (to be fair I kind of knew this but I never go into LIDL or Aldi) and we were just saying that if they couldn't get it there they wouldn't pay €24/€28 in Super Valu.

So do we think, if we didn't have LIDL/Aldi/Tesco doing what they are doing (I know the likes of Super Valu sell cheap booze now too but they do it more because they have to in order to compete) that things might be a bit better?

It is very difficult to avoid scum, and our government finances this behaviour. They become unemployable after a while.

Butterface · 12-01-2012 11:47PM

Have you thought about moving house? Your neighbours shopping in LIDL and Aldi seems to be really getting to you

Gee Bag · 12-01-2012 11:50PM

alphanine wrote: »

It is very difficult to avoid scum, and our government finances this behaviour. They become unemployable after a while.

Hi Travis Bickle, nice to have you on boards.ie

dsmythy · 12-01-2012 11:52PM

mackg wrote: »

So basically you want to abolish cheap booze because your neighbours are having a party? Why not ask them to be quiet as a first step anyway before calling for legislation.

Yeah see what happens to him then

mikemac1 · 12-01-2012 11:55PM

toexpress wrote: »

I live in a small village on the border of Kildare/Laois/Offaly ok.

If you lived in a county known for GAA success you be posting over in GAA forum or in your regional forum and wouldn't be worrying over your neighbours :cool:

Time to move OP, move south my man

Captain_Generic · 12-01-2012 11:56PM

dsmythy wrote: »

Yeah see what happens to him then

A hand-written apology and a skip in his step

marketty · 12-01-2012 11:57PM

I think you're right Ireland never had a problem with alcohol until lidl and aldi came here and started selling it cheap. Communion wine was all we knew til a few years ago, god be with the days

dxhound2005 · 12-01-2012 11:59PM

mikemac1 wrote: »

If you lived in a county known for GAA success you be posting over in GAA forum or in your regional forum and wouldn't be worrying over your neighbours :cool:

Time to move OP, move south my man

South to ...... Limerick ?

kowloon · 13-01-2012 12:00AM

Wonder how much tax would be needed before people start taking to illegal stills en masse.

Dyr · 13-01-2012 12:11AM

toexpress wrote: »

Close but no cigar FG man more than Labour not into the whole leftie thing

Clue was in the first post

(to be fair I kind of knew this but I never go into LIDL or Aldi)

I think the answer is to up the price of drink and drive these plebs to heroin...don't get many noise problems from your neighbours banging up

El Weirdo · 13-01-2012 12:42AM

toexpress wrote: »

... I never go into LIDL or Aldi...

Well, laa-de-daa.

goose2005 · 13-01-2012 01:18AM

Irish alcohol is already more expensive than elsewhere. You'll need more creative solutions than that.

Chuck Stone · 13-01-2012 01:26AM

toexpress wrote: »

I never go into LIDL or Aldi

Why should I trust anyone who's never been into ALDI or LIDL?

You go in there because you're thinking 'I'll save a few quid - look at me, I'm a thrifty bastard'

One problem though. You get drawn down towards the 'this weeks gadgets and bric-a-brac' isle and end up spending money on LED torches, a digital satellite system for camping and a load of tools you'll never use.

chucken1 · 13-01-2012 04:13AM

dxhound2005 wrote: »

South to ...... Limerick ?

Theres a huge County called Tipperary before you get to Limerick

mikemac1 · 13-01-2012 04:20AM

mikemac1 wrote: »

If you lived in a county known for GAA success

chucken1 wrote: »

Theres a huge County called Tipperary

:cool:

toexpress · 13-01-2012 08:40AM

mackg wrote: »

So basically you want to abolish cheap booze because your neighbours are having a party? Why not ask them to be quiet as a first step anyway before calling for legislation.

No I don't want to abolish it because they are having a "party" they live in a state of constant party anyway. I want to abolish it because I think that is one of the larger contributory factors to the rising crime rate.

toexpress · 13-01-2012 08:41AM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Why should I trust anyone who's never been into ALDI or LIDL?

You go in there because you're thinking 'I'll save a few quid - look at me, I'm a thrifty bastard'

One problem though. You get drawn down towards the 'this weeks gadgets and bric-a-brac' isle and end up spending money on LED torches, a digital satellite system for camping and a load of tools you'll never use.

I don't go there because I have a small food business so most of what I want comes from suppliers there and outside of that I get it locally at my Super Valu because what I save going to Aldi would be spent on Diesel driving there nothing more than that

Sindri · 13-01-2012 08:45AM

Never buy cheap spirits.

It's nearly always fake and it is usually (more) poisonous. People die from drinking due to the fact that it's full of mercury and shit like that. So don't buy a bottle of vodka for a €1 (like I have done).

Multiples, cheap booze, source of evil!

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