scotia wrote:Reading through the above discussions, I didn't see anything about the Scottish Limit. Its 50mg per 100ml of blood - compared to 80mg in England. So think twice before drinking multiple pints in Scotland. In lunch meetings with old lags we each usually had a modest glass of wine - but we stopped when the new regulation was introduced in 2014. I believe this reduced level is common in many European countries.
True but then the whole drinking at lunchtime thing at work has gone, even for those in cities who merely have to stagger back to the office and pretend to work for the afternoon.
As it happens I recently stopped by one of my old work haunts, The Lamb and Flag, WC2. Back in the day (i.e. 40 years ago) it was packed with office workers from noon to 3 p.m., when it closed of course. A three pint liquid lunch was the UK equivalent of the New York three-martini lunch of the day.
Anyway, at 1 p.m. there was hardly anyone there. I was stunned.
Now that evening (I went back to check) it was busy. So the after-work drinking thing is still a thing. But the lunchtime drinking thing is an ex-thing.
Political correctness, eh?