After reading a few somewhat inspiring blogs written by a friend, combined with a fear that if I keep my thoughts in my head I might pop I am going to try and write from the top of my head straight onto the keys of my hp laptop but im a tad tired so maybe I will start doing that tomorrow for now there’s this:
OK, so Im watching the news(I watch the news three times a day 1.morning 2.when I get in. 3. Before bed. This is time 3), and its about how the government wants to raise the prices of alcohol and basically make it harder to buy so that there’s less people drinking and using up NHS cash.
I know that my opinion will sound like its from some middle class Tory :( but I don’t care, I think this is ridiculous, if the warnings are in place and people still choose to drink until there kidneys cry tears of cider then that’s up to them, I mean I know that its a problem and people should drink less but if alcohol became really cheap tomorrow I wouldn’t go buy 10 bottles of vodka and down it in one, and if I did then that would be my own fault.
They say they are targeting young people, well im a “young person and if I see alcohol for 99p doesn’t mean Im going to buy it because there is a difference between need and want and that difference is self control!(oh dear I sound so Tory)
It just annoys me how the government treats the public like they cant be trusted, like some goldfish that if you put loads of food in it will just eat its self to death,(Although I would do that if it was something like Pringles)blaming cheap drinks for alcoholism is like blaming quiet trainers for the amount of stalkers going up.
And now for my last point on this, and it may sound rather harsh, Those that buy the alcohol because its cheap then get completed drunk repeatedly, after knowing the warnings, and get some kind of alcohol related illness, Its very sad that it has lead to that but really Its no-ones fault but your own.
And the woman on the news just said: Everything in moderation. (That’s a fucking stupid saying isn’t it? EVERYTHING in moderation, what like crack and prostitution? psssh)
Rant over -x-
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