Thread: Alcohol fuelled violence

it would be interesting to see if there was no drinking in australia for a year to see how society changes
i dont know the stats but i'm lead to believe most domestic violence involves alcohol.

It worked well in USA.
Idiots are idiots no matter what they consume.

Can't help but think that the alcohol was just magnifying their sense of entitlement. We had to move right now because he was so successful in life.

I remember people getting drunk when we were that age but it wasn't like that. Banning alcohol isn't the answer but it does seem like behaving in an unacceptable manner has somehow become permissible / acceptable. I'm not sure how things have ended up this way in just 20 years.

btw, notice i didnt say banning alcohol. i just said stop drinking. magic-like

Hahaha ................ I had a somewhat similar experience a while back in Kalgoorlie, but for slightly different reasons. I had gone to a supermarket across the other side of town and parked the Disco under a shady tree out on the edge of the carpark (I'm not one for parking up close to the doors where there is more "traffic"). When I got out of the car, one of our "first Australians" walked up and told me that I had to move it, as he wanted to sit under the shade of the tree. At the same time, he demanded that I give him cigarettes (a common "request" in Kalgoorlie). He was quite abusive about it all, especially when I told him that I don't smoke, making the point more than once that I was in "Aboriginal Country" and he could do what he liked.

I told him to **** off (didn't abuse him - just told him very bluntly where he could go) - so he walked up and kicked the door of the Disco. Suffice to say that he ended up flat on his back on the pavement, with a sore mouth - and then promptly left the area.

I kept an eye out in case he returned with back-up as his type often does, but never saw him again after that.

EDIT: Well that's a new feature in the swear filter that I haven't seen before. It usually changes some of my language to a series of asterisks ........................ haven't seen it change a word to "fiddlesticks" before.

I didn't realise but apparently one of them was shaping up to punch me in the back of the head when our daughter's boyfriend jumped in.

My conclusion is they had real self esteem problems and other issues as they kept calling me a homo and were so insistent on how manly they were. All I can say is he's lucky I didn't know he was going to hit me from behind or I would probably be in a lot of trouble.

Originally Posted by Eevo

it would be interesting to see if there was no drinking in australia for a year to see how society changes
i dont know the stats but i'm lead to believe most domestic violence involves alcohol.

Maybe decrease the alcohol content in drinks to very low levels, then they can drink as much as the they like, and never get drunk, as they would be too bloated to drink enough to get drunk.

Originally Posted by Eevo

it would be interesting to see if there was no drinking in australia for a year to see how society changes
i dont know the stats but i'm lead to believe most domestic violence involves alcohol.

What I find fascinating is how binge drinking (and alcohol related violence) appears cultural.
We have this problem, as does the UK and from the outside Germany, yet, other western countries don't eg. Italy, where alcohol appears to be more freely available than here ?