Splendid, thank you.
How the fuck were you planning to buy booze from Tesco at 3am then? I know they aren't models of humanity but they don't tend to rape the licencing laws.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:13, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

It worked, we ended up picking up a few cans.
I'm not sure what the licensing laws are for 24 hour supermarkets...
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:16, Reply)

It depends on the licence granted by the local council.
They're all different.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:18, Reply)

I'm pretty sure there isn't a 24 hour off-sales licence
anywhere in the UK, but I'm willing to be proved wrong.

Local licensing laws tend to apply to on-sales.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:34, Reply)

Oh, my bad
it turns out there are. When the fuck did that happen?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:35, Reply)

About four or five years ago.
They're very expensive though, which is why it's so rare to find them.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:39, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1044769
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:42, Reply)

Round our way, they stop selling booze at 11pm.

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:19, Reply)

I know several of the ones around Skem are the same
But there's one that sell booze 24 hours about 10 minutes drive away.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:22, Reply)

Costcutter ftw
24 hour booze supply right across the road
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:23, Reply)

Sweet, ours is about 10 minutes walk
And there's a takeaway en route.

Although I'm fucking pissed off about takeaways today. I paid £5 for a Chicken burger, chips, chicken wings and a drink, all was well until I bit into the burger, and they'd put FUCKING MAYO on it, without asking me. Bastards.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:27, Reply)

they assumed that as a fat bastard
you would want mayo
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:33, Reply)

Wasn't as big as I'd have liked it to be
The chips came in the same size bag as a small fries from McDonalds, and the chicken bits were tiny.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:34, Reply)

London is superb for the round-the-clock alkie.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:35, Reply)

It's disappointing, Monty
in my day in London you had to find the dodgy greek-cypriot supermarkets on green lanes that thought licensing laws applied to other people. It's just too easy for the drunken youth of today.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:41, Reply)

When I moved into my area
you had to go to the kebab shop in Shoreditch, buy some grotty food you didn't want (and threw immediately into the bin upon exit) and get your beer. The good old days.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:46, Reply)

OMG OMG OMG
i used to live on duckett road (one of the "ladders" that runs off green lanes). we spent our lives in those 24 hour drinking dens behind the kebab shops, some of them had pool tables and juke boxes etc. great times. total shithole though.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:51, Reply)

I lived on Warham Road, three up from that.
and Allison Road. Used to drink in the Old Suffolk Punch, but I think that's gone now.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 11:08, Reply)

so did i!
god it's a small small world, the london drinking world
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 11:09, Reply)

as I said when you were suggesting pubs in Clerkenwell
if there's a pub in London, I've probably been slumped on the bar there.

/when were you there?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 11:12, Reply)

1997-1998
it was one of our delightful student digs... you??
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 11:28, Reply)

94-95
and then around 97-99 on and off, although I was living in Bounds Green mostly then.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 11:36, Reply)

Oh and "Aeon FC" was our 24h kebabbery back room card den of choice.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 11:10, Reply)

no 24 hour booze supply round here either
We used to dream of an all-night emergency booze delivery service with outrageous markups after midnight you could phone - perhaps as an adjunct to a taxi service. Now we're all old we bring enough booze in the first place, and when it's finished we go to bed.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:42, Reply)

We used to have one of those in Macc, it seems it's gone.

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:53, Reply)