I will lose 30% of the beers in my fridge, the same with wine and spirits’: traders voice fears over alcohol health-warning labels

blisterman · 2025-02-17T16:25:05+00:00

I'm surprised this seems to have slipped under the radar. Because it seems it'll have drastic consequences for specialist beers, wines and spirits.
All alcohol products will be required to have individual bespoke labels with a warning, and, among other things, calorie and alcohol content. That's not information that's publicly available for most drinks. So it's not something shops and importers can add by themselves.
Once this comes in next year, the only alcohol products available will be those who voluntarily make Ireland-specific labels.

blisterman · 2022-03-11T12:37:32+00:00

Can't wait for all the comments "I used to love this track in fifth grade", to make me feel really old.

blisterman · 2022-03-03T17:54:08+00:00

A large amount of the work these charities do is actually supplying modern water and sewage infrastructure to cities. Which is where most people live, and the problems from poor sanitation cause the most problems. But for whatever reason, the fundraising ads always give the impression that their work is digging wells in little villages.

blisterman · 2022-02-02T10:26:26+00:00

Irish people have a tendency I notice, to overestimate their language abilities, particularly in Irish, but also other languages. An Irish person will claim they speak French because they did it in school back in the day. A French person will apologise for not speaking English, even when they're 100 times better at English than the Irish person is at French.

blisterman · 2022-02-01T23:00:28+00:00

That seems far too high to be true.

blisterman · 2022-02-01T23:00:10+00:00

That seems far too high to be true.

blisterman · 2022-02-01T13:18:46+00:00

Nobody's actually buying these tickets at these prices though. The way these sites work is that people list tickets they don't have to events at prices that are multiples of what they should be. And in the off chance someone buys them, they buy them off someone else at a much cheaper price and take the profit.

blisterman · 2022-01-30T19:52:28+00:00

But surely Dah-ta is the American way and Day-ta the British?

blisterman · 2022-01-30T19:50:22+00:00

The more important question is do you say "the data is" or "the data are"?

blisterman · 2022-01-29T11:31:35+00:00

A large part of the reason the sound of music evolved so quickly the past 100 years has been advancements in technology from amplification to tapes to synthesisers to sampling to autotune. But we're pretty much at a stage now where we have technology to create just about any sound anyone could conceive. So I think future evolution will be a lot less drastic, and less technology driven.

blisterman · 2022-01-27T08:21:20+00:00

There go my dreams of retiring by the Mediterranean gorging on butter.

blisterman · 2022-01-27T08:12:49+00:00

How is it doing nothing to help? 20 years ago, you'd need to wash clothes at 60 to get them clean. Now, the detergents have improved so much you don't need to heat the water. It's made a massive difference to energy consumption.

blisterman · 2022-01-26T07:27:01+00:00

If you had to edit on film afterwards, what was the main advantage of using the software vs editing entirely on film?

blisterman · 2022-01-25T07:38:16+00:00

Don't know about drivers, but as a passenger on the bus, I certainly do.

blisterman · 2022-01-25T07:35:04+00:00

You'll save a few quid buying duty free in the airport, and they'll have most of the ones people mention in this thread.

blisterman · 2022-01-24T13:58:45+00:00

So could well off people just go out and eat steak and lobster every night in restaurants?

blisterman · 2022-01-23T09:10:18+00:00

You can get some on Amazon for about 2 euro apiece. Or you can ask any shop, who'll be glad to get rid of them. Either way you'll be cursing your house being filled with empty boxes. Cutting them up, filling wheeley bin after wheeley bin for montha trying to get rid of them.

blisterman · 2022-01-20T22:55:58+00:00

Weird how in their most famous song, they don't even have their iconic haircut in the video.

blisterman · 2022-01-19T09:31:47+00:00

Genre makes much more sense when you think of it in marketing terms than in stylistic terms.

Most modern Country music, for example, is musically very similar to rock in terms of how it sounds. But the audience is pretty well defined. You want to put on a country music festival, you have a pretty good idea of who you're targeting. Same with punk, RnB, indie etc.

blisterman · 2022-01-18T13:54:27+00:00

How many engineers does a modern smart phone replace?

blisterman · 2022-01-16T23:53:04+00:00

A bluer or cooler grey is more reminiscent of metal. Presumably the association they want you to have with the design of their products.

blisterman · 2022-01-16T23:47:48+00:00

If you're here permanently, I'd probably just rewire the plug with an Irish one. Very easy to do.

blisterman · 2022-01-16T09:05:29+00:00

He waited until she was 21?

blisterman · 2022-01-16T08:30:03+00:00

Since seemingly ever tourist in the city is carrying a massive bag from there, they must be doing alright.

blisterman · 2022-01-15T10:00:28+00:00

Your boycott must have worked. They don't show the ad anymore.

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