Cigarette vending machines banned in England
Scots ban on supermarket alcohol deals comes into force
Carrier bag charge for shoppers in Wales introduced
Controlled explosion is carried out in Belfast alert
Old News and Bones
2 hours ago
Saturday 1 October 2011
A great day's work by the UK bansturbulary
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Tesco has told customers they will still get wine offers online because it will dispatch orders from England.
Which could mean that people drink even more than they do now.
The thing with ordering wine online from Tesco is that it's typically cheaper than in the shops, but requires you to buy 6 bottles.
Still, probably a boost for England, get back some of the spending we send over the border every year.
And every time your mate who drives a van passes Carlisle ASDA he can pop in and get three slabs of Carling for £20.
The vending machine ban is only a token victory for the banstubators, the only time I ever used them was when I was too pissed to care how expensive, stale or wrong brand their contents were and I usually binned the remnants the following day.
Yesterday I mentioned to a publican the idea that "one third of children" sneak into pubs to use their cigarette vending machines unsupervised, unsurprisingly, he thought the idea ludicrous.
It won't harm pubs that much since their profitability was very small, they just discouraged punters from going eleswhere and perhaps not making it back.
JT, C, of course, which will give them the excuse to try something even more draconian.
B, but the b's know all that as well, they just enjoy banning things.
Meanwhile the tax on my Trapist Belgian beer has rocketed up apparently to curb my urge to drink gallons of it, start a fight and then throw up in the street.
Have you read the rules on this carrier bag law? If you buy something like a Big Mac and Fries, they can put the fries in the bag (because it's counted as being a loose item) but not the Big Mac.
I used to support these countries having the right to self-govern, but I've changed my mind because I've seen that they're utter morons and within a few decades they'll be crawling back to the English asking for a bailout.
QP, Trapist or Trappist? Or do you mean the sex attacker from Up North?
JT, I did, I think the rules are fantastic. For a start most places put the chips into a paper bag, so the chips are no longer loose items, what you have is a single bag of chips. It's not like they put a shovelful of chips straight into a plastic carrier bag.
Trapist or Trappist?
Just a bit pist! :-)
Aren't you getting yer bansturbulary muddled with yer constabulary in the Belfast story?
What I want to know is what's the story with plastic bags that aren't "free carrier bags" but are single use, like bin liners. Are they going to be a minimum 5p each, to prevent me buying a pack of them and putting my shopping into them and saving, ooh, 10p?
If you buy plastic carriers in bulk they can be less than 1p each, see here.
Would there be a law against Tesco selling a pack of 10 "value bags" for 15p?
QP, sorry, I went a bit off pist there.
B, you've got me bang to rights there, guv'nor.
C, do you seriously think that they've thought that far ahead?
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