Boozing at the local VUE

Pretty soon we may be able to drink beer and wine while watching our favourite movies. The Vue Cinema in Newcastle has applied for a licence to sell alcohol from 9am until 30 minutes before the end of the last showing.
Film fans would be able to buy and drink alcohol in the foyer area as well as inside each of the cinema's eight screens. Although I love to have a drink when watching a film (at home), I wreckon this could be a pretty stupid idea. There's always one idiot at the flicks being a drama queen, over lauging, screaming, talking loudly, and basically spoliling it for everyone else, and this is when their sober!
I think serving alcohol may encourage even more people to be disruptive.

'Dog cried like a child'

What kind of a moron ties a dog, and not just any dog, a rottweiler, to the handlebars of a pedal bike, whilst riding a long? ...Steven Parry! Then when the lead gets tangled up in the wheels, and causes him to fall off, he looses his temper, kicking the animal several times, so hard that it "cried like a child." He obviously has anger issues, and the fact that he will probably get a free solicitor on legal aid and a slap on the wrists of the judge, isn't much of a deterrent to stop this kind of person from taking his frustration out on animals.

The boyfriend of the mother of late Baby-P was also caught abusing animals on numerous occasions but received nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Maybe if he'd done some time in prison, he may have thought twice before going on to abusing and causing the death of this little one.

Violence and abuse is what it is, whether it's towards an animal or a child, neither can defend themselves, and the punishment should be just has harsh as it is for abusing children. Maybe if this becomes the case, abusers who start with animals may be prevented from moving onto children!

Save this pub!

The Coackmakers Arms, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent have handed in a petition signed by thousands of beer fans from around the world to the city council.
More than 7,500 supporters of Hanley’s Coachmakers Arms have backed the fight to save the Victorian pub, which faces demolition to make way for a £256 million shopping centre.
At first I disagreed with this fight as I think the new East-West Shopping Centre is going to be pretty spectacular and although the pub is popular, it would probably be just as popular moved up the road.
However, having watched a video, inlcluding interviews with the locals, I can now see that the petitioners are not trying to stop the regeneration of Hanley, but would like to be included in it, rather then demolished out of it.
The building actually looks quite pleasant, and if the new shopping centre could be built to include it, making a few structural modifications, I think it could end up looking similar to the old style restaurants build in the food quarter of the Trafford Shopping Centre (original).

Winging Wenger

I might have know Arsene Wenger would have spat his dummy our over loosing to Stoke City on Saturday. The players that Wenger played on Saturday were no match for Stoke's players, he can't play young lads, although talented, and expect them to be a match for grown men. As far as I could see there was no dirty play from any of Stoke's players and he needs to get on with things.