Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug possession

Re:Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug pos... by yomly on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:32AM (#20165047)

>I saw a BBC doc yesterday about drinking in the UK. They have stores selling 3-liter bottles of 7.5% cider for four dollars. That is ridiculous. 3-liter bottles of dirt-cheap alcohol, cheaper than coke, are not bought by happy social drinkers. Any store selling those knows what it is doing.

Speak for yourself! The Strongbow 2-litre (sadly now £3-00 but was definitely closer to £2-00 back in 2000's) was the staple of many the happy teenager.

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Re:Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug pos... by sdfsafsafas on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:13AM (#20165423)

You can get 2L Strongbow for 3 pounds in the the UK? Awesome!

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Re:Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug pos... by albertgoeswoof on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @06:37PM (#20170068)

Probably about £4 for 3 litre bottle.

There’s a drinking game called Edward ciderhands where you tape a bottle to each hand and try to drink them both before going to the toilet.

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Re:Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug pos... by tomjakubowski on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @06:59PM (#20170220)

The same game is played in the United States, traditionally with high ABV beer, where it has a different name, "Edward Fortyhands".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt_liquor#Forty-ounce

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Re:Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug pos... by chmielewski on Thursday June 13, 2019 @09:22AM (#20174561)

I’ve always seen 5 to 5.5 used for Edward Fourtyhands, can you give me insight into why you mention “high ABV”?

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Re:Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug pos... by tonyarkles on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:48AM (#20175392)

In Canada at least, the beer you could get in 40oz bottles was generally pretty strong. For example, Colt 45 is 8%.

The hardest part of Edward Fourtyhands is that you’ve got to consume 80oz of strong malt liquor without peeing. Or... figuring out some way to unzip your pants...

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Re:Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug pos... by chmielewski on Thursday June 13, 2019 @06:07PM (#20178996)

Yeah lots of malts are up there, I suppose the game came about before the craft beer movement- many of these new craft beers are 9 to 13 and would never be sold in 40-form I suppose, so those are high ABV for a 32/40 I’m sure.

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Re:Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug pos... by sandworm101 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:49PM (#20167966)

Happy teen yes, but we set drinking ages for a reason. Teenage alcoholism is an evil that we rightly should fight against. When a kid is trying to decide what they want to buy, Strongbow should not be the cheaper option than diet coke.

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Re:Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug pos... by yomly on Thursday June 13, 2019 @10:59AM (#20175514)

Worth noting that France has no legal alcohol consumption age, and Germany has it set to 14 if a guardian is present.

Alcohol is deeply embedded in French and German culture (and surely other nations) - I have seen a 3 year old sipping some beer in Munich in a beer house. Amusingly, neither of the countries really has binge drinking culture as the UK or US has so

>but we set drinking ages for a reason

is not really true...

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Re:Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug pos... by stordoff on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:06PM (#20171510)

FWIW, drinking age in the UK is 18. There will be plenty of teenagers buying those legally.

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Re:Seattle has stopped charging people for personal drug pos... by Fezzik on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @11:28PM (#20171582)

I think it is worth noting that in most non-theocratic countries 18 is the age of legal consumption of alcoholic beverages...

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