Lower the
drinking age to 16, but only for 'soft' lagers - like Fosters and Orangiboom etc...

15 if with a parent.

When 18 they can go 'top shelf'.

Lower the tax on 'pub beer' to that of Supermarkets.

That way you'd attract the 'kids' who are fucking about in bus-stops and smashing them up into a place where they are supervised by adults and a landlord.

Which of these kids would want to sit in a cold, piss-stinking bus-stop smashing it up when they can go in a warm pub, drink reasonably priced (albeit weak) beer and play pool etc...?

If any got out of hand, then there's already an authoritive person (the landlord) on hand to throw them out.

If the threat of being barred and having to return to the bus-stop when your mates are in a nice warm pub doesn't have an effect, then I'm pretty sure nothing will.
(dchurch bah, Tue 17 Mar 2009, 10:46, Reply)