Comments on: BBC channels Anti-Saloon League

By: JVIP

JVIP — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:02:34 +0000

I’ve worked in DV for many years. Like addictions to substances, it straddles the class system. I’ve always favoured a marxist perspective of criminology suggesting that rich people tell poor people what to do.

JVIP

By: John B

John B — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:33:53 +0000

Fixed. Lucky you commented – otherwise I’d've almost certainly mistaken it for one of those “fake blog that automatically generates articles and then leaves trackbacks to them” bits we all know and love…

By: Stephen Newton

Stephen Newton — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:26:47 +0000

Sorry that Trackback’s dumped so much crap. It’s automated, as I’m sure you know, and obviously needs looking at.

By: Middle class drinking scare debunked

Middle class drinking scare debunked — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:24:17 +0000

[...] Alcohol related scare stories are unhealthily popular at the moment and today we learn that a new study ‘suggest[s] that alcohol consumption is increasingly a problem among the middle classes’. Except, as John Band points out, it doesn’t. [...]

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:03:40 +0000

Filth indeed. I spent about three years wondering why Sunday was chronic indigestion day before the penny dropped. Ahh, but it was so easy to smuggle those little bottles into the club…

Christ I feel old.

By: John B

John B — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:27:54 +0000

The ’story’ seems to be that people with more disposable income buy and drink more booze than those with less. Next up, dog bites man.

I think there’s -slightly- more of a story than dog bites man – there’s a bit of a stereotype that poor people spend their days spending their benefits (taxpayers’ money, mind you!) on Special Brew and then drunkenly murdering their benefactors; and puncturing that is no bad thing.

20/20? Filth… (both you and the drink, I mean)

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:08:30 +0000

The ’story’ seems to be that people with more disposable income buy and drink more booze than those with less. Next up, dog bites man.

And they’re probably drinking decent wines and beers, which has to be healthier than the diet of gutrot like MD 20/20, Thunderbird and White Lightning I subsisted on back in my less well-off days.