{"id":15686,"date":"2014-05-29T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15686"},"modified":"2014-05-29T00:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T23:30:00","slug":"universities-to-clamp-down-on-binge-drinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=15686","title":{"rendered":"Universities To Clamp Down On Binge-Drinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people will have heard the classic version of 11th century King Canute attempting to hold back the waves, and failing. Well, it seems we now have a modern equivalent<\/a>.\"Typical<\/p>\n

The National Union of Students (NUS) is bringing in a new \u201cinitiative\u201d to stem the tide of binge-drinking amongst students (the Home Office is also involved).<\/p>\n

\u2026the aim is to create a “cafe culture that runs into the evening”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not that old \u201ccafe culture\u201d thing again! The British and \u201ccafe culture\u201d are poles apart \u2013 and the gap is even wider where students are involved. One of the prime considerations for people going to university is the night life – the choice of university for many students is based purely on the craic<\/em> available in the host city. \u201cCafe culture\u201d doesn\u2019t even appear on the list.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like tapas bars. They\u2019re great if you go to Spain, but in Britain they\u2019re both expensive (compared to Spain) and pretentious. We have one in West Bridgford, and you should see the kind or people who go in there (actually, West Bridgford is probably the only place one would work in Nottingham). And \u201ccafe culture\u201d is the same \u2013 the British just don\u2019t do \u201ccafe culture\u201d very well at all.<\/p>\n

Driving past any of the numerous student complexes in Nottingham (this is yet another way in which the City Council is screwing up this place – instead of building houses, it builds student flats, and then tears up green belt for the houses) you can see the level of \u201ccafe culture\u201d, as the current residents proudly display their empty vodka and J\u00e4germeister bottles on their windowsills. You can also assess how well the \u201ccafe culture\u201d went the previous evening from the number of smashed bottles and glasses in the roads around student digs when you go to pick up a pupil from one of them.<\/p>\n

The true British ethic is also well illustrated by the boards outside trendy bars (\u201cshots and bombs, \u00a31 all night\u201d), and this is where you should start if you\u2019re going to try and prevent students getting rat-arsed at every opportunity. If they had to pay \u00a34 a pop like the rest of us, they\u2019d soon cut down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most people will have heard the classic version of 11th century King Canute attempting to hold back the waves, and failing. Well, it seems we now have a modern equivalent. The National Union of Students (NUS) is bringing in a new \u201cinitiative\u201d to stem the tide of binge-drinking amongst students (the Home Office is also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}