Booze messes with your mind. Girls look prettier. Drinks taste better. Stop when your face sticks to the carpet and not before. That's the rule these days.
Time was when a beefy barman would haul you out on your ear long before then with the words: " Go home mate, you've had enough!" There are laws against serving alcohol to someone already drunk, but the rivers of sick in our streets on a Friday night show that bars ignore them. They fill the tills instead.
Now two Irish barmen are facing charges of unlawful killing, after 26-year-old dad Graham Parish died at his birthday bash. He'd been drinking Guinness for three hours before downing ten spirits in a glass, helpfully provided by his so-called mates. The barman checked with his manager before serving, then Graham downed it in one go.
Bad move - he was found dead the next morning with a face covered in vomit. Sad though it is, he really should've known better. Except few of us do, after an afternoon on the lash. That's when the sober voice of the bar staff should be heard. Nobody wants a nanny, but giving a final shove to someone on the edge of a cliff has to be stopped somehow.
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