Blimey, can't joke about Scotland, but we can abuse monks and religious deities. I'm getting the hang of it.
Bear with me, I'll get there. Thing is with jokes, they are meant to be funny. If you'd changed the Scotland in the 'Neighbours' joke to England, I'd still have found it funny. What you wrote was pretty much just plain nasty. You claiming you didn't know the difference?
Here's a thought, why don't people take more responsibility for themselves, and not blame a drink from a monastery? We are talking about facilitation, and responsibility of both manufacture and supply as much as personable responsibility. The underclass have always drunk to numb influences in their life, but it's a big difference between getting drunk on lager or normal wine compared to supercharged tonic wine which contains a very powerfull drug, namely caffeine. A drug which, were it just being found, would more than likely be available only under licence. I understand that the event which causes the biggest rise in domestic abuse and violence in Glasgow is the playing of Old Firm Derbys. To such an extent that the Police wanted them played at odd times. At the games themselves, they pass with relatively little bother. It's in the council schemes up and down the area where trouble flares. Back to the last point again now, aren't we?
If people did not drink Buckie, they would be necking cheap superstrength cider or Special Brew. Agreed, they would. But then superstrength cider and lagers, well, what on earth is that brewed for apart from the 'problem with alcohol' market? You're not buying for the taste, are you. So, again, we are back at the same argument, it's just another facilitator of misery. Personally, the idea of a tag which could detect drink seems genius to me.
