I wonder if he knows what he did.

Jul 4, 2008 at 6:31 PM
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The below article appeared in the newspapers today, which, I imagine, triggered a stampede into Dan Murphy liquor outlets by young and old alike. I'm now sipping on my $1.99/bottle shiraz. So what's it like? Well, it's definitely worth $1.99 a bottle. Read into that statement what you will. I had to buy a dozen bottles. I figured I could always use it for paint stripper if I didn't like it. But this is Friday night, so I think it'll serve the desired purpose in creating the right, er, atmosphere, for more Friday night philosophy. You've been warned...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/04/2295078.htm?section=justin

Cheap booze adverts 'encouraging binge drinking'

Posted 54 minutes ago

A drug and alcohol expert says advertisements for cheap alcohol are encouraging young people to binge drink.

A major Australian alcohol retailer is advertising wine for less than $2 a bottle.

Dr Jake Najman from the University of Queensland's Alcohol and Drug Research Centre says it is irresponsible to sell alcohol so cheaply.

"To the extent that we make alcohol cheaper, we're literally encouraging young people to buy more alcohol," he said.

"The outcome of that is that a number of them will get injured and some of them may even die, so we're talking about really some very, very serious consequences."

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if you can't drink it you can always use it for cooking.......

Snowy replied to Flamingo Dancer’s comment:
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Mrs Snowy has already claimed a bottle for that purpose. I think I'll ask her if that's enough...

I keep telling you.........Tenterfield. I bought two dozen (actually several dozen from various places) 2002 pinot noir from Kurrajong Downs in December 2007 for $65 per dozen. Damn good buying and a really top drop as well.

Aren't teens more civilised than I was young?? When I was a teen it wasn't wine, it was 2 litre bottles of gut-rotting cheap cider. I still can't drink cider to this day thanks to 'White Lightening'.

Too expensive...

Beer was the almost unanimous choice in my young days, although I do recall one forgettable night of drinking rum through a handkerchief from a bottle with a broken neck. And if you ever tell my kids, I'll have to kill you...

LOL! - i didn't drink till uni (illegally at 18 of course) - but, i drank the bigger bottles of horrendous Gennessee Cream Ale $1.85 (well, along with copious shots of Stoli an unheard of number of stiff mudslides by my senior year in uni [after spending a semester in Russia], when i had more money) - i drank wine coolers, but never bought super, super cheap wine...

$1.99 a bottle? We Yanks should be so lucky!

I doubt if teens around here would bother with a bottle of wine. They wouldn't be able to figure out how to open it. ;-)

Besides, we live in beer country, judging at least from the empties thrown around the park and high school parking lot every weekend.