Prohibition!

[winryweiss]

Today, alcohol prohibition was announced in my country!
I am not kidding.
There is a nasty case of methanol poisoning from adulterate alcohol all around my country (19 deads so far), so every alcoholic beverage above 20% volume is banned.
But still ...
Still ...
A Prohibition!
Even if it is not complete ban of everything alcoholic.
This is ... astonishing beyond believe.

Comments

[kadytheredpanda]

Damn, 19 dead?! I remember hearing a case of about 50+ people dead in India from a similar thing about two years ago.

Is it a temporary ban or is the prohibition intended to be permanent? The US tried to do the latter in the 1920s and all it did was bring rise to gangsters and that stuff.

I personally don't drink very much (well, duh, Kate, you just turned 21 a month or so ago) but I'm sure that for people that like their alcohol strong this really sucks.

[winryweiss]

And the number is not final yet. Some of those who are in coma in hospitals have slight chance to wake up.

I don't think, that prohibition will be permanent. Beer and soft stuffs are still allowed for now, and we are known as beer-loving nation. (Wonder why, that beverage is not tasty at all.) But the hysteria is here, and hysteria is a b*tch.

[kadytheredpanda]

I didn't know that about the Czech Republic.

The few times I've tried beer I haven't really liked it. Either I haven't had "good" beer or I just don't like it.

[winryweiss]

Duh. Me neither.
When I drink something alcoholic, it had to be sweet.

Czech and German (and maybe Austria) are nations of beer-lovers. Yet this fact is somehow strangely omitted in world wide knowledge.

[kadytheredpanda]

(Dang, the one time we talking legitimately about alcohol and I forget to break out my cocktail icon (I normally use it for very casual/what I think happy hour conversation is like or Haddock stuff).)

On my twenty-first birthday I ordered a cosmo because I heard they were supposed to be sweet. All I could taste was the vodka. Ugh.

I've definitely heard about Germany because of Oktoberfest.

[winryweiss]

Yay! Whatta likeable topic icon. ^^

Everyone heard about Oktoberfest. Biggest beer-event in Czech couldn't compare. Not that I ever was there, but my uncle returned from it drunken under picture. And robbed. And with cut hair. (He used to have the same lengt as I have now, below waitline.)

I kinda like fruit flavoured vodka, or tiny bit of vodka in juice. But I hardly drink, yet I couldn't avoid it on family celebrations.

[slashgoddess80]

Is 21 the legal age to drink there? In my country you can drink once you turn 16!

[winryweiss]

Here, you are officially free to drink and smoke (and hence destroy your health) since you turn 18.

[kadytheredpanda]

Yeah, it's 21. In Japan it's 20 (which is also the legal adult age there).

It used to be 18 here until the 1980s. Evidently one too many kids were getting into drunk accidents so that and road tax regulations forced states to raise the age to 21.