super strength booze

[Red Lead Ted]

I see on the local news tonight in Portsmouth, the local council has called for all the super strength stuff to be taken off the shelves, interestingly , most of the corner shops have done so, but none of the supermarkets have gone with the system. Brians (kong) son from QA hospital was on, and was backing this system because of the damage caused to these users of super srength booze KT

Keith, This issue has been raised before, And I am in total agreement that these lagers that are in some cases 10% proof are lethal, It is beyond me how the producers of these beers are allowed to get away with it. Another thing that worries me and don't get me wrong no one likes a few drinks more than me. These alcopops or fruit based alcoholic drinks that teenagers start experimenting with, Why has consecutive governments allowed them to be 5% proof ? When you bare in mind the pint that most of us enjoy down the local are 4 and a half % proof. I honestly believe that our youngsters after the age of 13yrs should be taken on a tour of an alcoholics unit. They wont find over 60s crippled with liver damage the colour of pea soup, More and more 20 and 30yr olds are getting admitted. It takes no prisoners Regards Terry.

[Captain Kong]

Last year my son had two 16 year old girls who were terminal because of alcohol abuse. They could not help them as the internal damage was too great. he had to tell the parents that they only had months to live, at 16.
Brian.

[Lou Barron]

Yes John post6 i suppose that Loyang would be a very different place now than it was in the war years there would be no Japs to beat the crap out of you

[happy daze john in oz]

I used to make my own wine and beer and go to wine circles. one of the blokes if he had a wine he didn't like, would pour it into a shallow tray, put it in the freezer, when it was frozen he would throw the ice away, what was left
was pure alcohol, he then poured this in his home made beer.

Drinking enough wine and spirits Alf and anyone can go round in a circle.

[happy daze john in oz]

I think that the old Ticky Hock drink in Cape Town,s Station Bar was a real Super Strength Booze! LOL! Not to mention the stuff one could procure from the back Street Shabeens there at that time when were were all so Young and adventurous ! Cheers

Bring back the Shabeen Queens I say.

[happy daze john in oz]

We have similar problems here in Oz, but most of our strong grog is sold openly in the grog shops, overproof rum is one of the biggest sellers. But as the police will tell you most of the damage is done witha mixture of Vodka and drugs before they go off to the night clubs. Then Early Saturday and Sunady mornings the emergency deprtments of the hospitals are full of them.