Originally Posted by
Old Goat
Politics doesn't have much to do with this thread, but I can't help thinking that Blair's vision for a European drinking culture has failed miserably. They should never have mucked about with the licencing laws. When pubs shut at 11pm the places were heaving. I know there's more to it than that, supermarket prices and so on, but for me that was when everything changed.
As a young bloke I had some great nights out with my mates, sometimes just doing the locals, sometimes off into town. Out most nights, rain or shine, sometimes catching the last bus back and having last orders in the local, other times walking back to Worsbro and stopping off at chipshop on way home. Now and again we'd go on to a nightclub, but even they shut at 2am.
All that seems to have disappeared now. I feel sorry for these young uns nowadays, I know the world's moved on, but I really think something special's been lost.