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The Finnish Alcohol Politics
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Finland is a sad country to live in.
Everything is expensive, living, compus
and especially the thing we all love to
live with: ALCOHOL - The Thing Heaven
Is Made Of (TTHIMO).
It's surprising how much it can cost.
For example in Italy or Spain anyone
can buy for example Rum from any little
shop they visit. How here? You've got
to be 20>, papers with you and it costs
maybe 20 times more than in Spain.
This is all because here in Finland
we have only one place where one can
buy spirits:ALKO - the only official
booze shop here.Finnish Government owns
it...They want to get money - they sell
booze and keep prices sky high.And they
even increase prices even twice a year!
It seems to be similar in Sweden and
maybe in Norway too. The Nordic people
love booze.You in Austria, Switzerland,
Italy, Spain...anyplace any country. If
you see Nordic people come to ski or
such, you know that later that night we
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will be drunk.And that drunkedness goes
on till we leave. One of my friends in
Austria,Softcell/Lazer (64 mostly) told
me once when we were talking about
booze that he had often seen Swedes who
come to ski there. And do they ski? No,
mostly just visit all the local pubs,
enjoy cheap booze and harass people.
This is the normal reaction when
Nordic people come to a country where
drinks are cheap. There is only one way
to straighten this but it will never
happen: making booze cheap in Finland.
Government would lose income and most
Finns wouldn't be able to work, take
exams or anything. All would be having
week-long hangovers.
Let's take an example about TWS. He
spent some time in England last summer.
He was sober on two during his stay-the
day he came and the day he left England
(last day because no more money for
booze). A typical way to behave for a
Finn (I'd do the same the very moment I
had a chance).
Grendel........