How times have changed eh?
Mind you, this was in the days of Watney's Red Barrel, and Double Diamond etc, not the 4.5% real ales of today.
Five pints?
Five pints?
This is a drink driving poster from 1972.
How times have changed eh?
Mind you, this was in the days of Watney's Red Barrel, and Double Diamond etc, not the 4.5% real ales of today.
How times have changed eh?
Mind you, this was in the days of Watney's Red Barrel, and Double Diamond etc, not the 4.5% real ales of today.
Mick F. Cornwall
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Ha ha Red Barrel! I went to Valley Forge in America in the eighties. To make me feel at home the boss of the company I was visiting took me for lunch to 'the pub' in the local shopping mall. They ordered me a Red Barrel. When I sipped it they asked me "was it OK?". I said "yes, but in the UK we drink it warm". At that, they hollered at the waiter "waiter waiter bring this guy a,warm beer!" He collected my pint and returned with it after it had been warmed up in the microwave!
We always used to take Party Sevens to parties in the 60's and drove back after drinking most of it. Wonder so many of us survived! Never more than a single pint if driving these days. Its still killing off pubs wholesale around here.
Al
We always used to take Party Sevens to parties in the 60's and drove back after drinking most of it. Wonder so many of us survived! Never more than a single pint if driving these days. Its still killing off pubs wholesale around here.
Al
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It's "fake news" sadly.
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Is it?
Sorry, it came over FB from the ex-landlord of one of our local pubs.
How do you know it's fake?
Is it "doing the rounds"?
Sorry, it came over FB from the ex-landlord of one of our local pubs.
How do you know it's fake?
Is it "doing the rounds"?
Mick F. Cornwall
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A shortcut has to be a challenge, otherwise it would just be the way. No situation is so dire that panic cannot make it worse.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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Excellent,
Thank you.
Just shows you how stuff can go around, and people believe it.
Thank you.
Just shows you how stuff can go around, and people believe it.
Mick F. Cornwall
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HMG Health Commission? Was there ever such a thing? And would it be responsible for drink-driving posters?
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This story reminds me of a vintage drink-driving advert from way back in the 1960s, which for some reason sticks in my memory. At least that one was genuine. Why I remember it, when so much else from those days is long since forgotten, I don't know.
Anyway, it opens with a group of guys drinking in a pub. One of them gets up, says he's leaving, "got to take the car home". The others protest, tell him "you can't take the car, you've had far too much". He insists, "No no, I really have to take the car". The argument goes on for a while, until he eventually produces a toy car from his coat pocket and says "present for my little lad, I promised him I'd bring it tonight". General laughter. Then the man turns to the camera and says "Seriously folks, if you've had as much to drink as I have, don't go home in anything bigger than this".
A fairly gentle message, don't you think? I'd love to dig that one up on YouTube, but not holding my breath.... Nowadays anti-drink-drive adverts are rather more hard-hitting, I reckon. Blood and gore and shock-effect. With good reason.
Anyway, it opens with a group of guys drinking in a pub. One of them gets up, says he's leaving, "got to take the car home". The others protest, tell him "you can't take the car, you've had far too much". He insists, "No no, I really have to take the car". The argument goes on for a while, until he eventually produces a toy car from his coat pocket and says "present for my little lad, I promised him I'd bring it tonight". General laughter. Then the man turns to the camera and says "Seriously folks, if you've had as much to drink as I have, don't go home in anything bigger than this".
A fairly gentle message, don't you think? I'd love to dig that one up on YouTube, but not holding my breath.... Nowadays anti-drink-drive adverts are rather more hard-hitting, I reckon. Blood and gore and shock-effect. With good reason.
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Re: Five pints?
Did anyone have a 5th gear in 1972? I was still a few years away from my first driving lesson (And pint) it was a good few more years till I drove anything with more than 4 gears.
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You can take a white horse anywhere. And it will take you home if it knows the way. Is being drunk in charge of a horse forbidden?
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kwackers wrote:It's "fake news" sadly.
Fortunately it is fake news
Back then there were four speed gearboxes with overdrive on 4th, how did that work?
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Cyril Haearn wrote:kwackers wrote:It's "fake news" sadly.
Fortunately it is fake news
Back then there were four speed gearboxes with overdrive on 4th, how did that work?
Same way the fifth pint worked presumably.
Either that or a second gear box after the main box - guess they could build it into the main box but the only one I ever stripped was a separate box.
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Cyril Haearn wrote:kwackers wrote:It's "fake news" sadly.
Fortunately it is fake news
Back then there were four speed gearboxes with overdrive on 4th, how did that work?
Alfa Romeo had been fitting five speed boxes to family saloons for quite a while by then as did certain versions of the Fiat 124 which came out in the mid sixties. Even the humble Austin Maxi introduced in 1969 had one.
When a car had an overdrive it was usually just an epicycle gearbox bolted on the back of the main gearbox, usually operated by an electric switch often built into the top of the gear lever.
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Cyril Haearn wrote:You can take a white horse anywhere. And it will take you home if it knows the way. Is being drunk in charge of a horse forbidden?
I believe it is - although you are correct about the horse getting home, following road signs is questionable .
On a moor however, when the fog comes down just drop the reins...
A shortcut has to be a challenge, otherwise it would just be the way. No situation is so dire that panic cannot make it worse.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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Cyril Haearn wrote:... Is being drunk in charge of a horse forbidden?
Yes, but being drunk in public is in itself an offence. Having a horse or indeed a loaded firearm aggravates the offence. (Penalty forty shillings in old money, two quid to you.)
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vic ... blic-order