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31st May 2008, 9:51pm
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#1 | | Registered User Editor
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| Booze ban on the tube
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7429638.stm Quote: |
Originally Posted by BBC News Liverpool Street station has been shut after it was mobbed by hundreds of revellers commemorating the last night of drinking on the London Underground.
Police said the station was closed "for the time being" due to overcrowding.
Gatherings on various different parts of the Tube network were organised via social networking website Facebook. |
I never lnew you could drink on the tube. Shoulda gotten a subcrawl in down there before this happened… No pubs, just a carry out and train surfing. | 
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31st May 2008, 9:53pm
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#2 | | Lady Of War
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| Re: Booze ban on the tube
The commuters where talking about this on the London-Reading train, they all seem quite sad about it
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31st May 2008, 9:58pm
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#3 | | Registered User Editor
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| Re: Booze ban on the tube
I do recall having some good banter with folk a few times on the just before midnight trains, just had no idea that it was actually permitted.
Just too used to Glasgow, where you can barely drink in your back garden without a licence. | |
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31st May 2008, 9:59pm
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#4 | | Lady Of War
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| Re: Booze ban on the tube
I know, i was aware you could drink on the tube, just not that it was ending till about 1am this morning.
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31st May 2008, 10:01pm
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#5 | | Banned
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31st May 2008, 10:05pm
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#6 | | Meatbag
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| Re: Booze ban on the tube
Waste of money. Cut open a box of wine, remove the bag. Add 10p of plastic tubing from hardware store. Duct tape to belly. Done.
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31st May 2008, 10:08pm
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| Re: Booze ban on the tube
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Originally Posted by GoddamnElectric  Waste of money. Cut open a box of wine, remove the bag. Add 10p of plastic tubing from hardware store. Duct tape to belly. Done. | Sounding like a bit of a pro there... | |
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31st May 2008, 10:09pm
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#8 | | Meatbag
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| Re: Booze ban on the tube
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Originally Posted by triggerhappy Sounding like a bit of a pro there... | Lets just say the Lighthouse gallery has never been so compelling than one chilly, November eve.
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31st May 2008, 10:26pm
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#9 | | raaar!!
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I cant say I've ever really noticed people drinking on the tube before. Pissed people on the last train on a Friday and Saturday night are a pain in the arse though, especially if they've boarded the Northern Line somewhere around the West End and are staying on till the end of the line. | |
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31st May 2008, 10:43pm
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#10 | | Registered User Editor
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| Re: Booze ban on the tube
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Originally Posted by Skybaby I cant say I've ever really noticed people drinking on the tube before. Pissed people on the last train on a Friday and Saturday night are a pain in the arse though, especially if they've boarded the Northern Line somewhere around the West End and are staying on till the end of the line. | Northern Line on a Saturday night is fucking horrendous, but I doubt it'll change much after the ban on booze. | |
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31st May 2008, 11:01pm
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#11 | | Oh Captain My Captain
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| Re: Booze ban on the tube
I have good memories[1] of drinking on the tube. In particular, half the carriage singing along with you to 'doe a deer' while you swig Buckfast straight from the bottle. God I'm classy.
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31st May 2008, 11:31pm
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#12 | | Registered User
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i love the social networking aspect, that is so beautiful it must be a philosopher's dream thinking about how times are rapidly changing and challenging; you can't do this oh but we can do this 
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31st May 2008, 11:49pm
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#13 | | I hate your band SuperMod
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Originally Posted by BBC News David Mudkips, 25, a web programmer from Hackney, described the experience on the train as: "Like rush hour but fun. There were people's sweaty armpits in my face but I didn't care because I was drinking." | That’s David Mudkips. BBC News link
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31st May 2008, 11:57pm
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#14 | | Registered User
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| Re: Booze ban on the tube
where is the play button?
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1st June 2008, 4:24pm
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#15 | | Frankly my dear.....  Editor
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| Re: Booze ban on the tube
I am going to miss being able to drink on the tube. Especially next Saturday.
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