tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post450689691930262631..comments2024-01-31T17:47:35.226+00:00Comments on Around My Kitchen Table: Cafe CultureAround My Kitchen Tablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01840917368903178857noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-82119043205456018602008-03-12T20:29:00.000+00:002008-03-12T20:29:00.000+00:00Great, you are blogging again! Welcome back.Great, you are blogging again! Welcome back.Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-33029620554932478352008-03-09T15:01:00.000+00:002008-03-09T15:01:00.000+00:00Can I come with you on your next trip to Costa Del...Can I come with you on your next trip to Costa Del Vomita? Ah, those good old vomiting into ashtray days (mind you, they must have been bigger where you were, volume was always an issue for me).Omega Mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06510548355469861782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-52996454923545981372008-03-07T09:18:00.000+00:002008-03-07T09:18:00.000+00:00I love 'Costa del vomita'! Great post Kitchen tab...I love 'Costa del vomita'! Great post Kitchen table. I hear now they're thinking of raising the price of alcopops (and wine - how dare they) to put off the dipso youth. They said on the news that kids UNDER 8 (for god's sake!!) were being admitted to hospital for drink related ailments. I thoroughly blame the greedy drink companies for deliberately targetting young drinkers with alcopops that Mid-liferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18259190343085788311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-77423544883194541042008-03-06T07:44:00.000+00:002008-03-06T07:44:00.000+00:00It's so lovely to have you back! I missed my week...It's so lovely to have you back! I missed my weekly (ish!) dose of laughter.Louise Frankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03125313955834963917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-76430204794381320272008-03-05T12:26:00.000+00:002008-03-05T12:26:00.000+00:00Being a reformed drinker, I say ban it all! If tee...Being a reformed drinker, I say ban it all! If teetotalism is good enough for me, it's good enough for the yob on the street. <BR/><BR/>Bring back prohibition! That never did anyone any harm, did it?<BR/><BR/>Oh. Well. Apart from all that crime and black marketeering and gangstery stuff.Rolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02103804480646939038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-52644885113696622902008-03-05T05:25:00.000+00:002008-03-05T05:25:00.000+00:00The cafés here in the Netherlands stay open until ...The cafés here in the Netherlands stay open until 3 am, I think, but we do have those awful drunk young people in some of the bigger cities also. <BR/><BR/>In Belgium the cafés don't close at all, but I don't know what sort of problems with drunken youth they have. <BR/><BR/>It's all in the culture, I suppose, and what we as parents decide is acceptable when our youngsters grow up. <BR/><BR/>HereIrenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05043376053971475659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-91163667057825040252008-03-04T18:13:00.000+00:002008-03-04T18:13:00.000+00:00I'm all for the age of consent being raised back t...I'm all for the age of consent being raised back to 21 for drinking, smoking, voting and of course it would have to include fighting for your country. Speaking of fighting for your country I wouldn't be against reintroducing national service for anyone over the age of 18 who was living on the dole!Akelamaluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11234268568845148285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-69060348550717539312008-03-04T16:20:00.000+00:002008-03-04T16:20:00.000+00:00I laughed when I heard this story on the news this...I laughed when I heard this story on the news this morning. "News" indeed. How was this ever news to anyone? Surely even the most downtrodden sociologist could have told the politicians that Brits will drink in Britain as they already do abroad. It's hardly rocket science, or politics...come to that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12295570576107281092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-66465522795918881382008-03-04T15:08:00.000+00:002008-03-04T15:08:00.000+00:00Made one of my occasional visits to your blog, and...Made one of my occasional visits to your blog, and Hurrah! you're back!<BR/><BR/>Drinking - been there, done that, turned tee-total.<BR/><BR/>I remember DS lessons at school, too - cakes like bits of geology, and a "summer soup" that went straight down the loo! Really learned to cook when I had to produce meals for husband and self.stitchworthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04827825336666824765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-26077351729250077122008-03-04T15:01:00.000+00:002008-03-04T15:01:00.000+00:00The airwaves have been full of discussion about th...The airwaves have been full of discussion about this very topic over the last few days.<BR/>I reckon it's going to take more than just a few years to effect a culture change.<BR/><BR/>I'd bring back the public stocks. <BR/><BR/>Thinking back to my own misspent youth ... I wondered why we never did anything too dreadful and came to the conclusion that not only could we not afford to get puking Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-45693584661029345622008-03-04T12:45:00.000+00:002008-03-04T12:45:00.000+00:00and that is precisely what i love about cafe cultu...and that is precisely what i love about cafe culture!<BR/><BR/>we can only have cafe culture between june and august. before that, or after, you would freeze to your chair.lauriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055442432266567561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-11169551650111890082008-03-04T11:19:00.000+00:002008-03-04T11:19:00.000+00:00These lager louts remind me of the elephant popula...These lager louts remind me of the elephant population in Southern Africa. To cull or not to cull is the question. A sniper on top of every multi-story car park should keep the herd in check.Gorilla Bananashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13044093013423635830noreply@blogger.com