toexpress wrote: » 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.
Dravokivich wrote: » Why would they need to resort to crime? According to yer OP they are living the life of Reilly as it is.
toexpress wrote: » I type at about 85 words a minute
Confab wrote: » OP, they could brew their own, how would you solve that one? I've gotten drunk on my own stuff plenty of times. Prohibition or restriction of supply is never the answer to these issues.
dxhound2005 wrote: » Roisin wouldn't start her post "Right so"
toexpress wrote: » I am not saying not to sell it, but lets face it the social welfare classes are not used to Spirits at the best of times. When you add in whatever crap the cheap production of Spirits introduces it's going to have consequences.
toexpress wrote: » I am not saying not to sell it, but lets face it the social welfare classes are not used to Spirits at the best of times.
toexpress wrote: » Personally I think that there should be more done with drunken disorderly conduct. A higher rate of conviction to match the offending behaviour and that a Judge should be able to use a carrot and stick approach. In other words hand down a suspended sentence, the suspension being for 5 years on say a 12 month sentence and if they go to rehab, do well and be of good behaviour for the period that will be it end of story. If they re-offend then it's off to Mountjoy for the 12 months.
monkeypants wrote: » If cheap alcohol is evil, then let's get rid of the subsidised bar in the Dáil. We can look at the rest of the country and the people after that.
toexpress wrote: » Jezz calm down! I was pretty much taking the piss Ross O'Carroll Kelly style with the social welfare classes thing. But the rest of it is pretty dead on
toexpress wrote: » 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)
toexpress wrote: » I am not saying not to sell it, but lets face it the social welfare classes are not used to Spirits at the best of times. When you add in whatever crap the cheap production of Spirits introduces it's going to have consequences. Personally I think that there should be more done with drunken disorderly conduct. A higher rate of conviction to match the offending behaviour and that a Judge should be able to use a carrot and stick approach. In other words hand down a suspended sentence, the suspension being for 5 years on say a 12 month sentence and if they go to rehab, do well and be of good behaviour for the period that will be it end of story. If they re-offend then it's off to Mountjoy for the 12 months.
toexpress wrote: » As I say it's not just my neighbour. Here where I live Wed/Thurs/Fri/Sat you will see a huge number of public order offences. For example a guy recently urinated through the letter box of an elderly lady who lives on the Main Street. He thought it was a great joke at the time, I'm sure the 84 year old lady (and a true lady at that) who lives there wasn't really laughing that much. I have had to call the Gardai over my own neighbours brawling out in front of the house at 3/4 in the morning. In respect of my neighbours the list is endless. They have thrown paint mixed with glue over my car, and that was because I made one of their visitors move their car from in front of my gate so I could drive in, stolen my oil, broken in here and assaulted me (though to be fair the offender in that case came out of it worse for the experience). Now all of that is pretty bad but they have a lovely habit of going to the net, printing off some of the newspaper stories about the death of my partner in 08 and putting it through my letter box or pinning it to the front door. That may seem pretty trivial by comparison to some of the other stuff but to me it's not.
toexpress wrote: » In respect of my neighbours the list is endless. They have thrown paint mixed with glue over my car, and that was because I made one of their visitors move their car from in front of my gate so I could drive in, stolen my oil, broken in here and assaulted me (though to be fair the offender in that case came out of it worse for the experience). Now all of that is pretty bad but they have a lovely habit of going to the net, printing off some of the newspaper stories about the death of my partner in 08 and putting it through my letter box or pinning it to the front door. That may seem pretty trivial by comparison to some of the other stuff but to me it's not.
toexpress wrote: » But the good news is that they will soon enter onto my property to do this again. And when they do I'm a mighty good shot! So that solves my problem but to say that things like that happen to an 84 year old and c'est la vie ... well it says a lot about our society that such an attitude exists. Frankly I think a nice long custodial sentence would be too good for the scum bag that did that
toexpress wrote: » Right to address whole sort of "snob because I don't go to LIDL or Aldi" thing once and for all. I have a food business. Since the death of my partner I live alone. It doesn't take a whole lot to feed myself and the dog, I bring it home from work. I also get my cleaning stuff at work in fact pretty much my entire house is run from my business. Anything additional that I need comes from Super Valu because it is the nearest place to me and driving to Portarlington or Portlaoise wouldn't save me anything. In regards to the behaviour, the socially housed tenants in the property next to mine have been told not to enter onto my property. They have to do so in order to attach these notes to my door or post them through my letter box. This is a crime. The very nature of the notes and the continued arrival of them means that this is harassment. This always happens in the evening usually from Thursday to Sunday. They get the social on Thursdays here where I live. But the good news is that they will soon enter onto my property to do this again. And when they do I'm a mighty good shot! So that solves my problem but to say that things like that happen to an 84 year old and c'est la vie ... well it says a lot about our society that such an attitude exists. Frankly I think a nice long custodial sentence would be too good for the scum bag that did that
Sindri wrote: » 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).
Logical Fallacy wrote: » So basically when you shoot someone there will be a post to show that you were waiting for the opportunity to shoot them. Seems like a dumb move to me.
