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AIBU?

to think it's a good idea to sell gin in cafes?

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purplepinkstars · 07/09/2013 13:41

Because after shopping with a one and a three year old I need gin, and I don't even like gin, but I need it. And hot chocolate doesn't do enough, even with cream and marshmallows, the biscuit would help but ds1 takes that, even when they give me two. So aibu?

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meditrina · 07/09/2013 13:44

Quite a lot of independent cafes are licensed. Happy hunting!

Or buy a can of premixed and keep it in your bag for emergencies?

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mineofuselessinformation · 07/09/2013 13:45

YANBU. I had a rather harassed shopping outing with my dcs a while ago and in the middle of M&S declared rather too loudly 'I've got half a mind to buy one of those little bottles of wine and sip it in the car on the way home'...... The look of absolute shock on the face of the man standing near me was hilarious! Grin

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HugoDarling · 07/09/2013 13:59

YANBU.

Hip flask in the meantime?

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tunnocksteacake · 07/09/2013 14:03

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scaevola · 07/09/2013 14:05

YANBU - and it does seem like an excellent reason to take your custom to independent cafés, not (teetotal) chains.

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sue52 · 07/09/2013 14:10

Lovely idea. Gin and cake, how yummy. Those tins of premixed gin and tonic are quite vile.

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Tweenangst · 07/09/2013 14:41

I always take a can of g&t to friends when visiting in hospital after they have had babies. I have been reliably informed on more than one occasion it's the best new baby present ever. Perhaps I should bring a cake also!

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stubbornstains · 07/09/2013 14:46

It's an ideal accompaniment to chess, in shabby cafes. Especially if you've just been released from Room 101 and are waiting for the longed-for bullet to enter your brain.

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WaitMonkey · 07/09/2013 14:53

Gin is always a good idea.

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weirdthing · 07/09/2013 14:58

Somehow it makes me think of a broken Winston Smith...

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weirdthing · 07/09/2013 14:59

Ah, stubbornstains has got there before me :)

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MadBusLady · 07/09/2013 15:01

M&S do a ready-mixed G&T in a little tin.

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MadBusLady · 07/09/2013 15:02

Ah, I RTFT and I see you all already know about them. They do taste a bit weird yes, I think it's the sweetener? Why you'd have a sweetener in G&T I don't know. But any port in a storm!

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Lovecat · 07/09/2013 15:05

((tunnocks)) hope you get good news soon.

Have recently come back from a trip to Paris and was most impressed by the fact that even the most teashoppiest salon de the will sell you wine. Gin would have been even better... I love Gin in a Tin, it's saved my sanity on more than one camping trip!

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stubbornstains · 07/09/2013 15:07

weirdthing The end of 1984 always makes me cry. Poor, poor Winston Sad.

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purplepinkstars · 07/09/2013 16:20

Also hoping you get good news tunnocks

Hip flask and gin in a tin - great ideas Smile usually I just eat loads of chocolate and pretend it helps, after three bars on Thursday I felt a bit sick though, hence the longing for gin...

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ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 07/09/2013 16:29

Hope you hear some positive news (((Tunnocks)))

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weirdthing · 07/09/2013 17:00

1984 is a fabulous book and John Hurt is brilliant in the film too.

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StuntGirl · 07/09/2013 17:08

My brother keeps a hipflask of jager on his person at all times.

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HoopersGinger · 07/09/2013 17:14

I am a lone parent with 4 children. Pleas can someone official please inform me of my personal gin allowance?

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HoopersGinger · 07/09/2013 17:15

Please *

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ginmakesitallok · 07/09/2013 17:16

Yanbu

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PoppyWearer · 07/09/2013 17:17

YANBU.

Theme parks should also sell gin, IMHO. Would make the whole awful experience just that little bit more bearable.

In the meantime, I must find DH's hip flask...

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PoppyWearer · 07/09/2013 17:18

Hoopers I've consulted the gin-allowance handbook* and the allowance for you is technically known as "a shitload".

5+ DCs and you qualify for "a fuckload".

*not really.

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PoppyWearer · 07/09/2013 17:20

Oh and I am not official.

(Where is OliviaMumsnet when we need her, she is off-the-gin but very much the Official Voice on all things gin-related).

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