Takeaway and Telly

Sigh.

So much going on, I haven't yet linked to this interesting article from last week's Newsweek, in which we learn that 5 pubs a day are closing in Britain.

It's a bad combination of the credit crunch, a rise in taxes designed to reduce drinking in the UK, more caution about drunk driving (a good thing, that), and a general societal shift where people are more likely to get their entertainment at home rather than meeting at the pub sharing stories and singing songs ... and occasionally beating the s**t out of some wanker.

Oh, those were good old days.

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