Originally published at: Britain running out of booze | Boing Boing
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Will this lead to more homebrew, or folks finding creative ways to stock up? 
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Homebrew is fairly easy if one is making fermented fruit drinks so hopefully this will drive some interest in general home brewing. Distilling on the other hand seems pretty dangerous 
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Having a lot of experience of Britons’ affinity for a nice drink, I feel safe in saying this might be the most catastrophic own-goal yet emerging from Brexit.
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It’s when they run out of cigarettes that things are going to get really ugly.
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Brexit is all about looking backwards, no?
If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse’s feet,
Don’t go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street,
Them that ask no questions isn’t told a lie.
Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by.
Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark -
Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk.
Laces for a lady; letters for a spy,
Watch the wall my darling while the Gentlemen go by!
– Rudyard Kipling, A Smuggler’s Song
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Yeah. Smuggling is by design in Brexit though. It’s literally one of the only things they knew it would be good for.
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Once we run out of tea we’re fucked. Until then, meh.
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I stopped drinking years ago, but I feel confident in saying that most of my fellow Brits are incapable of socialising without booze.
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what you need is a event that can truly unify the country as one, so you can ignore the current Economic unpleasantness as one.
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Or you could make award-winning vodka from milk.
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Maybe so, but this would be an event that calls for massive amounds of booze, for one reason or another.
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The french, irish and italians watching the brits turn on each other over being unable to get cheap holiday booze
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truly, the end is nigh
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International smuggling groups take notice.
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As a tee-total Brit waiting for the Brexit shit-show to really start hurting, and looking forward to Johnson’s eventual removal from power in a shower of putrid fruit and veg, I’m getting the popcorn in! 
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The United Kingdom, where more than half of adults drink alcohol at least weekly, is running out of stuff to drink because of driver shortages.
I don’t know why they don’t just hire taller drivers. 
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A few years ago I explained to my 15 year old that Brexit meant that people in the UK had voted to make themselves poorer. Tariffs, import duties, added time/complexity moving things between UK and EU, more expensive to travel, own property, move for work, etc. Pretty accurate so far.
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