Idiots and alcohol

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As for the Holiday Inn..........I'm afraid that I kind of think you might be a bit out on a limb there too. That's what happens at Holiday Inns. That's why old people like me don't go there.

Yes, lesson learned there I think, we'll either find a quiet non-chain hotel via recommendation or a B&B, or take our bloody caravan!!
What's being old got to do with not using Holiday Inn's? Don't tell me the rottne so-and-so's stopped you having zimmer frame-races along the corridors?

 

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to a degree. By which I mean this....

People go to events, whether they be football matches, the opera, films, Michael McIntyre gigs for a variety of reasons. Some go because they want to let off a bit of steam. Others go because they want to be moved or amused. Others go to be with the person or people they're with and enjoy their company. It doesn't matter whether you paid to go and have certain expectations of your night out - they paid as well. So..............there's got to be a kind of consensus.

Point taken, but surely one chooses 'events' better suited if one want to chat to ones mates, or at the very least one has the courtesy to keep schtum until the interval? Please tell me if I'm talking total crap (and I'm sure someone will ) but surely that's just common courtesy, not to mention common sense?
That's what is lacking for me, the courtesy to respect others feelings and their right to enjoy themselves. I hear too often the cry 'we were just 'avin a laugh' on the cops-with-cameras-type TV shows when someone's been nicked for being an idiot and annoying other members of the public. Whilst I readily acknowledge I can be as if not more annoying than the next person I labour under the misapprehension that were the situation reversed I would have had the grace do as I was asked (then chunter about it afterwards ).

 

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p.s. what's everyone got against Michael McIntyre?

 

[dellzeqq]

Point taken, but you choose 'events' better suited if you want to chat to your mates, or you have the courtesy to keep schtum until the interval..

I'm not disagreeing with you and if I had been at the gig I'd have been as fed up as you. I just think big hall comedy is an awkward thing. If these three men had been in a small club they would have become part of the show, and they might not have liked it very much (somebody else said this above).

I'm told that Peter Kay has the entire audience in the palm of his hand. By contrast the Hackney Empire is completely raucous. McIntyre seems to fall between two stools.

As for the other thing - Travelodge. You can take the bike in to your room.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

p.s. what's everyone got against Michael McIntyre?

Nothing personally, but I enjoy it when Stewart Lee as a mild pop at him http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/05/stewart-lee-edinburgh-comedy-prices-mcintyre

 

[dellzeqq]

that wasn't a mild pop - it was a really heartfelt bash at the way the Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been taken over by high priced not-so-funny 'comics'. The whole town was covered in posters for smug items like Paul Merton and Michael McIntyre, backed up by glossy mags that only listed acts at the big five venues. Edinburgh's reputation rests on new stuff, not re-heated television programmes, and Lee's was spot on.

 

[PaulB]

p.s. what's everyone got against Michael McIntyre?

He's about as funny as a fire in an orphanage. His floppy fringe and grating poshness render him an un-comedian.

 

[PaulB]

I think there's a bit of a problem with cannabis being considered common and safer than harder drugs, especially as like you say it seems to be getting stronger and stronger

This is categorically NOT true. For some illumination on this theory put about by vested interests, I suggest you familiarise yourself with the work done on this very subject outlined in Ben Goldacre's excellent book 'Bad Science'. He does not let a 'generally accepted theory' pass into the public domain without scrutinising the evidence and often, as in this particular case, there isn't any to back it up. Generally, he states, cannabis can not be shown to be getting anything more than slightly stronger, never mind the 'six times' being claimed whether this theory has passed into the public domain or not.

 

[davefb]

fwiw,
at the interval I think I'd have complained.... if only to have stopped my gf from getting into a fight with them ( because generally speaking, she'll never let it lie)..

not really got a problem with people being pished, would be *somewhat* hypocritical... But hope to god I'm not as loud as some , ( I know I'm not though..) . If anything, it just seems to me "if you can't take it, don't drink it"..


went to mathew street festival in august, the hotel we were at needed FAR better doors to stop the noise from people, shouting in the corridors at 3am... I mean wtf? you just wish they'd wake up the wrong person..

 

[MissTillyFlop]

I sometimes if this country has their drugs all wrong - totally legal to suck yourself full of cheap booze that makes some folk a **** to all concerned and yet gentle stoner-folk are persecuted as criminals.

I've never known a stoner to start a fight or be aggressive.

I have. Not when high but during the paranoia that followed.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I think to broadly (and perhaps foolishly) summarise perhaps if anyone is going to put anything inside their body that will alter it / them in any way they should arm themselves with the facts and be aware of the dangers. Perhaps the straight edgers have something right, although I'm really not sure.

 

[swee'pea99]

A pithy post from a Guardian thread on reports of a crisis in acute care:

"Alcohol-related ill- health accounts for two-thirds of admissions in the over-65 age group. Alcohol use peaks at weekends and holiday periods when hospitals have fewest staff available. What's most desperately needed are lawfully available safer recreational drugs than the killer booze. End the War on Drugs."

 

[CopperCyclist]

This is categorically NOT true. For some illumination on this theory put about by vested interests, I suggest you familiarise yourself with the work done on this very subject outlined in Ben Goldacre's excellent book 'Bad Science'. He does not let a 'generally accepted theory' pass into the public domain without scrutinising the evidence and often, as in this particular case, there isn't any to back it up. Generally, he states, cannabis can not be shown to be getting anything more than slightly stronger, never mind the 'six times' being claimed whether this theory has passed into the public domain or not.

I have no idea whether it actually makes a difference, but I haven't seen cannabis resin for years now. It used to be the main thing we seized, now it's always the herbal stuff people smoke instead.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

I have no idea whether it actually makes a difference, but I haven't seen cannabis resin for years now. It used to be the main thing we seized, now it's always the herbal stuff people smoke instead.

Been that way here for years too.