Posts by Daniel Wilton
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I'm not a scientist nor a journalist and I don't have time to waste searching for any more evidence than the (so far) 100% observations I have made of the hundreds of children I have come into contact with and seen that they are disgusted by alcohol. If you have some contrary evidence how about you lead the way and supply it to the standards you want to hold me to.
you give kids alcohol? hmmmmm.
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RTD's are drinks that are designed to be binge drunk (terrible grammar I know)
We used to live in a party flat and we would always put on a tub of party punch. We discovered that if we wanted to get people to get drunk faste;r putting a cup of pure glucose would cause it to be drunk like water. This is the same with RTD's they are super sweet to encourage them to be drunk quicker.
On another note when I worked in Belgium the cafeteria at the business park I was working at served super low and non-alcoholic beers. (Stella Artois makes a nice super-low alcohol beer. It is funny that you can't get it here as probably wouldn't sell) Anyway I got talking to the locals and they told me that they sold non-alcoholic beer in schools over there. Maybe they were all kidding themselves that they liked the taste.
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A solution that I recall kind of working was to address some of the issues with a style of policing.
If someone was found intoxicated in the street, or arrested for an offense and were found to be intoxicated. The were asked for the last place that served them. The top 3 on the list for that evening were targeted for the next month by police wandering through the bar every hour asking people for ID or dealing with those who were too intoxicated and if they found people they would take the bar's license for a weekend.
This encouraged the bar to be responsible hosts. Combine this with raising the age of purchase from the off license and knock RTD's on the head and you are step closer to sorting the problem.
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Long time listener first time caller
I think that is a case of focusing on the how they are selling, what they are selling and who they are selling to.
I recall seeing an advertisement from the Mill that was selling a 3L cask of Vodka and Orange for $12.99, you can't honestly say that was the kind of drink designed for one glass with a meal. The whole RTD phenomenon is designed to aid binge drinking.
I occasionally work as a doorman and number of times I have seen people getting out of a taxi too mashed to be in town in ridiculous. They normally spill out with woodstock bourbons and look to start a fight.
I think that they should put the age of purchase of off-licenses up to 20 prosecute the hell out of people selling to under agers and figure out a way of dealing with RTD's..