Originally Posted by scliffe

Sounds like your friends are stupid mithering moaning English twits that should have never left their mothers apron strings and Canada does not need them
Its an adventure living here and a dream ...........live it

Originally Posted by scliffe

Its an adventure living here and a dream ...........live it

Originally Posted by Alan2005

It doesn't affect me that much either (certainly not enough to make me leave Mr Almost Canadian) - there are enough offies around to make getting beer easy enough etc.

However, you know my views on state interference in peoples lives, and especially when it's due to some activity X which is harmless even tho some people then do activity Y because of it. I say clamp down on the criminals doing Y and not innocent people doing X. I accept however that some people are happy with state control of things like this - but what worries me is the set of X's that aren't allowed just gets bigger and bigger all the time.

Originally Posted by dbd33

This is a staggeringly bad example of the evils of alcohol. Yes there are streets with lots of bars, I'm working in one, but the excesses of even the aggies is short lived rowdiness. The same street by day is littered with prone or semi-prone druggies. I don't know that one can reasonably argue that a country with a puritanical attitude to alcohol but such an open drugs policy that, in at least two provinces, marijuana is the primary cash crop, has any sort of balance sorted.

Originally Posted by dbd33

Not much of a dream then. My dreams have sun and sand and pneumatic lovelies and cocktails. Cheap, unregulated cocktails, right there on the sand.

Originally Posted by dboy

I'd hardly call it puritanical, overly regulated perhaps - but really...... Drugs well that's an entirely different thread - I do find that druggies are generally easier to deal with and don't throw up in the back of your police car. And kids on a bit of dope is way safer than slugging down a half pounder of vodka or god know what else.

Originally Posted by keznjj

By the way anyone got "any regrets"

Originally Posted by el_richo

You're talking end product. The difference between the two is that the supermarkets / alcohol retailers don't commit violence, shoot-outs, stabbings or kill each other (and innocent people) for market share

Originally Posted by Alan2005

(I say this without wishing to start a moral debate about it)

Originally Posted by el_richo

You're talking end product. The difference between the two is that the supermarkets / alcohol retailers don't commit violence, shoot-outs, stabbings or kill each other (and innocent people) for market share

Originally Posted by dbd33

This is a staggeringly bad example of the evils of alcohol. Yes there are streets with lots of bars, I'm working in one, but the excesses of even the aggies is short lived rowdiness. The same street by day is littered with prone or semi-prone druggies. I don't know that one can reasonably argue that a country with a puritanical attitude to alcohol but such an open drugs policy that, in at least two provinces, marijuana is the primary cash crop, has any sort of balance sorted.

Originally Posted by keznjj

Ok, I love this site I really do.

From asking anyone if they have "any regrets" and looking for stumble stories. I get replies from toiltet paper to alcohol on the beach to supermarkets, druggies, police wooooow jeez the list is endless, he he

Its amazing what can be picked up from one liners. I have had a right laugh at some of these posts.

By the way anyone got "any regrets"