tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post1130768637187439866..comments2024-02-29T11:54:28.419+00:00Comments on Ed's Beer Site: Damned if you do and damned if you don'tEdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-7922759303788219492010-07-06T21:28:20.056+01:002010-07-06T21:28:20.056+01:00Rosemary Duff is clearly pushing an anti-alcohol a...Rosemary Duff is clearly pushing an anti-alcohol agenda, though I agree the bloke on the radio didn't seem to have the usual zeal. <br /><br />I'm disturbed by the fact that even if you're well behaved when drinking these people will still claim you're causing harm if a child sees you. They really will try anything to give booze a bad name.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-21184429993855986962010-07-05T22:43:11.061+01:002010-07-05T22:43:11.061+01:00@Stringersbeer & IMO also there's a differ...@Stringersbeer & IMO also there's a difference between being tipsy, a bit drunk and completely inebriated & indeed different again in being a completely dysfunctional alcoholic.<br /><br />If a child sees a parent (or both) occasionally drunk, I don't see it as being a major problem, if they're incapable of being a decent parent due to their alcoholism (as the parent in the R4 piece admitted she was) that's a different matter.MicMachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08464263001561643944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-55981820758941304712010-07-05T22:02:32.684+01:002010-07-05T22:02:32.684+01:00The survey results (at least as reported on the Ne...The survey results (at least as reported on the Newsround site - which has <b>so</b> gone downhill since John Craven moved to Countryfile) make it clear that half of children were "not bothered" by <b>seeing adults drinking</b> while grown-up BBC has Childwise research director Rosemary Duff seemingly substituting "drunkeness". Which I don't think is the same thing.StringersBeerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12573068197944669997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-87210698116164573472010-07-05T21:25:02.110+01:002010-07-05T21:25:02.110+01:00I heard this but felt that the Righteous had someh...I heard this but felt that the Righteous had somehow missed an opportunity by being unsure which message they really wanted to plug.<br /><br />But there was a worrying implication that adults shouldn't drink alcohol in front of children <i>at all</i>.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.com