Thinking about binge-drinking recently, I suddenly connected the rise in Binge-Drinking amongst young people, and the rise in the number of University students over recent years.
Now I'm sure someone could do a study on this, however since it would probably be done at a university by a student - postgraduate, I suspect, but a student nontheless - the results would be somewhat dubious.
What we really need is for someone unrelated to either higher education or the drinks industry to perform this study. Give the job to a miner. Do we have any of those left...?
My suspicions, having spent time binge-drinking myself on the well-known binge-drinking hotspot that is Broad Street in Birmingham as well as at many, many other binge-drinking hotspots, is that many of the people doing the binge-drinking are in fact in higher education. These people are the decision makers and movers and shakers of the future. According to their representatives who pop up irritatingly frequently on TV they are "The Future of Britain".
(Incidentally, I was the future of Britain once, and hopefully - for a considerable time at least - I still am. But that's something to explore in another post).
Well, if you ARE the future of Britain, and if you DO want to be taken seriously by those of us older and considerably wiser than you, then please stop racking up huge debts, spend less money on booze, and get yourself a degree that is relevant, worthwhile and fit for purpose. I say this in the full understanding that it will make the ladies harder to pull for the gents, but that's the price of progress and a necessary sacrifice.
And while you're at it, you are the intellectual cream of Britain, so can you PLEASE stop using 'like' as every second word, innit.
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