Even Guinness, which in wintertime I would suck down like a baby on the tit, now seems to me a huge quantity of sour liquid, to be defeated rather than enjoyed.
One is often forced to wonder whether it is actually worth carrying on.
I lost count at about 12 pints one one evening last summer.
That said, such an intake used to be a fairly standard weekend evening. Now it's worthy of note. Tempus fugit.
All of them.
We could go on all day with this. Maryam Namazie, ban attempted at Warwick. Now there's a top, top university, Wichard. A somewhat windy CiF piece seems to sympathise with the blocking.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/01/univers ity-of-warwick-maryam-namazie-activist
Generic piece about the culture of banning at universities.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/13/banning-shoutin g-down-speakers-universities-risk
And beyond universities - Calls to ban Trump from the UK for having the wrong ideas ie - he wants to ban people from the US for, erm, having the wrong ideas.
but you could equally put that down to a reaction to obnoxious man is unpopular rather than attack on our freedoms.
And, yes nice article on the whole banning business still not convinced a bunch of up-their-arses students represents society as whole, particularly as even if they do go into proper politics they don't necessarily hold the same loony political views as, a say, 30-year than they do as a student, unless they are Jeremy Corbyn
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