Are you drinking what we're drinking?
Aside from the obviousness of having a European - or preferably pan-national - system of unitary measurement for alcohol, the undercurrent suggestion that it is safer to drink a pint in Denmark than in England, though only parodic of the government line, is still uncomfortably close to the legislative rationale of this flagging Labour front-bench. Does anyone else wish it were Blair's entire cabinet who were about to resign rather than the PM himself?
2 comments:
You're right: I have frequently found myself floundering in multinational alcohol related conversation. What we need is a huge EU funded conference to decide on the right amount to drink per week, then split it into ten (got to stay metric) and make that the standard international unit. Of course, it might help if we also metricised the standard measure of beer, and perhaps made the week ten days long, so we can
walk into a bar and order ourselves a perfectly measured day's worth of alcohol in a thin glass. Or perhaps we could just all learn to deal with the minor inconvenience.
touche.
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