The Groom's Toast

Weddings should be a place of celebration and a convivial atmosphere. Yes there can be the occasional fight but most weddings pass off without incident bar a drunken Auntie's showing of her bloomer on the dance floor or a teen guest having his first kiss with a second cousin.

As you'd expect death is not associated with weddings and when it is, it's especially tragic. When it's one of the wedding party, it's doubly tragic. A Taiwanese groom drank too much at his own wedding and died the night of the wedding.

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A Quarter Gel

Hospitals are having to remove cleaning gels from their reception areas to prevent people from drinking it.

The alcohol-rich products, designed to prevent the spread of disease, are being nicked and then quaffed by desperate alkies.

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What is French for "easy done?"

Those who drink are well aware of the hazards. Apart from the long-term health impact there is the more immediate one of what happens while you are under the influence. Most involve a bump or a bruise, or a dropped fish supper.

Two British tourists in France seem to have joined the ranks of those who didn't make it safely home.

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Too Drunk To Board

A goalkeeper was refused boarding onto an aircraft as staff said he was too drunk. Hibs new Polish goalise "could barely stand up and was lurching all over the place."

Makes a change from the pilots, eh, readers.

Source: The Scotsman

A Bridge Too Drunk

A man who took a taxi to the Forth Road Bridge in order to climb its 360 feet towers admitted he had a drink problem. No shit, Sherlock.

It takes some people Dutch courage to drive over it, never mind scale its grey support towers.

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Where's Mitch Buchannon when you need him?

There's many things swally doesn't mix well with: driving, flying, working, etc. Another is swimming.

Some drunken bathers got into trouble off an Indian beach and had to be rescued by lifeguards. One of whom was then punched by the rescued man.

Source: Times of India

A Faller at the First

Alcohol is for humans. That's straightforward. However there is the occasional story of a horse that is barred from a pub or a donkey that keep abreast of the domino games down the boozer.
This week a story appeared of a horse that got steaming and ended up in someone's swimming pool.

Easy done.

The poor equine was called "Fat Boy" and after eating some fermented apples, slipped and fell into a woman's pool.

A wag may quip that they should rename the stables "The Nag's Head". But only a poor wag.

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