Is this the beginning of the end for drinkers?

[Emil Miller]

Some years ago, after a fairly thirsty train journey, I arrived at a friend and long-time drinking partner's house to stay for the weekend.
On arrival I was greeted by my friend who took me into the kitchen, where he threw open the refrigerator door to reveal several bottles of beer and wine. "There you are, you've got your beers and you've got your wines," he said magnanimously.

His wife interjected with, " There's such a thing as tea and coffee you know."

I laughed, said it was no contest and chose a beer not realising that those, as yet unborn, would one day echo her plangent non-alcoholic proposition.
I wonder what they are planning to outlaw next......sex?


BBC News:

Australia is known for its hard-drinking men and women rarely seen without a "tinny" of beer in hand, but something is changing. In some circles, ordering lemonade instead of lager is no longer seen as "soft" - it's fashionable.

[cafolini]

Fashion has little to do with prohibition. Caffeine at the rate of up to 240 mg per day is very healthy. Lemon juice is also very healthy. In general, in fashion, every day is the beginning and end of somethng, and beer and wines, many more kinds than I have ever seen, fill the shelves of stores, together with all the other liquors of great variaty. So who are you trying to kid? Relax or take alternating cups of mental ex-lax and Pepto Bismol in never ending cicles. LOL.

[cacian]

I think it is the beginning of the lies. The quicker any industry wakes up to reality the quicker money comes back to haunt.
Pubs are now open around the clock and europe the biggest drinker in the world is at our doorstep. I guess it is a difficult choice to make.
These bans are impulsive and are getting out of hand. It sounds like the Mr ban the conqustador of europe and beyond, the big bro wants to ban ban ban just because they can. Why does that remind of Putin? yuck. I guess someone must wake up soon and slam a no ban palm as a mark of courtesy towards the consumer. Alcohol is never going to go dated because it is not classified as fashionable or trendy and neither is lemonade. In fact soft drinks are more expensive then alcohol in bars.

[Delta40]

I dumped the lemonade for a pint of carling and soccer. LOL

[stlukesguild]

Emil... somehow I just don't think a lemonade after a day of teaching in the urban schools of America is going to cut it. I suspect Neely will answer the same. But then neither of us are fashionable dudes. Perhaps Alex has already begun his switch to lemonade.

[cacian]

Lemonade is good it's the lemons that one worries about long term.

[Sancho]

Forget school teaching, for a country gent like myself, after loafing around for the entire day, nothing can replace the warm glow of smooth Kentucky Bourbon.

[Emil Miller]

Forget school teaching, for a country gent like myself, after loafing around for the entire day, nothing can replace the warm glow of smooth Kentucky Bourbon.

Now this is a real country gent but I doubt that you would find Kentucky Bourbon among his choice of drinks.

http://youtu.be/v05FCTLVSes

[Sancho]

Ha. No doubt about it, Emil. That dude don't drink Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey. But this fellow by contrast...

http://youtu.be/-6Pbc8SQwV8

I've been reading Gone With The Wind, you see.

[Shaman_Raman]

I couldn't help but see the irony as I saw this post after making myself a screw driver...beginning of the end, haha. If alcohol becomes unfashionable, then I'll join the misunderstood hipsters that do it because it's different from main stream society...although I'll still play my radio.