Hangover

How much is the fine for p1ssing in the street? I had to do it on Sunday morning (after a great gig that my mate headlined at - quality mixing and some seriously full-on sounds!). I always feel guilty if I have to do this, but if there are no bushes or toilets...

Reading has a good idea - Uri-lifts that come up out of the floor at night - basically mens' urinals on a pillar - good idea!

BTW - my best hangover cure is downing a (cold) can of normal Pepsi. It's always worked so far...

 

Well... the copper said between £50 and £100, and to expect a summons. Clearly, my humble apology had no effect... I've not received anything yet, and I am hoping I wont, but I am never that lucky....

 

Did you give him your real name? £50-100 would be the kind of cost to keep an attendant at a public bog overnight, so people DIDN'T have to pee in the street. Grrrr....

 

Yeah I gave my real name... I dont really think I'd be very good at lying when I'm totally sloshed.

 

Whats the point in taking this to court? Its pathetic, you did wrong (you had no choice but I suppose the law will say you shouldn't have got that drunk in the first place) however you have admitted it and agreed to pay the fine, that should be the end of it.

Its a total waste of money if this goes to court, if it does I assume you would have to be the fees as well which would probably be at least £200.

Maybe you should take the local council to court for not providing safe facilities. The councils are happy to recieve licence money and tax for all these bars but they are not happy to deal with the problems it brings.

 

Drinking water gets my vote too. Got to own up and say Im not much of a drinker these days but when I am I usually stop the alchohol and proceed with coke and water (not together) after about 1ish. When I leave a club at around 3am Im just tired and usually fine the next day. Orange is also good in the morning if youve lured someone back, the orange juice helps with bar breath in the morning!

 

You should go to blackpool, theres loads having a slash in the streets and most arent men (Im not joking). Actually, I wonder if that why its called the golden mile??

 

AT, my mates been done for this as well, and he said they wrote to him, either giving him the option of paying the fine, or going to court, and he obviously took the fine, which is what I will do. I dont know if I will end up in court over it, but if I do, and its more than £100, then I'll be asking to pay it back in very small installments, if poss. If that means saying I am extremely poor, then so be it.

 

Hippy's right - the only cure is more beer!
Reason is because alcohol is an addictive drug.
That means that after a good old imbibe your body goes into withdrawal from the drug (i.e. you feel shite). So more alcohol removes the withdrawal.
Sometimes, however, if you've really overdone it it'll just make you throw up again..

And by the way, the secret with red wine is to drink the same amount of water as you do wine, though preferably not just before bed as you'll be up all night weeing, or dreaming that your bed's become a swimming pool..

And to minimise any hangover without more booze, 2 sausage, egg chips beans 2 toast, cups of tea, orange juice then papers then Star Trek on the telly.

 

I really do not believe that a hangover is a withdrawl sympton. Its caused by dehydration, lack of sleep and an excess of alcohol-as-poisson. Drinking to rid yourself of the effect of drinking is the road to rack and ruin ...

 

easiest way to burn the booze from your body.

 

It's a mild withdrawal symptom in that the body is cured of the hangover by taking in more of the drug, alcohol being a sedative hypnotic that depresses the central nervous system.
It's also highly addictive - though this is socially acceptable unless it becomes "a problem" - though extreme withdrawal can result in "a period of rebound hyper-excitability that may lead to convulsions and even death", as the 3rd edition of "A Primer of Drug Action" (a most objective and excellent book...) puts it.
I felt a bit like that on Sunday morning...