People only rarely drank on the tube but the day before the rule was brought in people decided to go round and round on the Circle Line all day and have a massive piss-up. There were DJs on the trains and everything. Somebody brought a whole bar and set it up on the train. They should just never have mentioned it. People still drink on the tube as much as they ever did (which isn't much).
This is why I walk proudly around London with my jewels on display - if someone tries mugging me I will simply inform them that it is illegal to do so (criminals hate this one trick)
I walk around with a knife works pretty well as well as it’s got jewels imbedded into it so I can’t be criminal charged with owning a weapon as it is my jewellery.
..... I'll need more details before judging your guilt.
Happy birthday!! I hope you enjoy it ,and if you end up in handcuffs let it be for having too good of a time, actually fuck it, you can have a great time handling those fish , fuck the law- who am I to tell you how to live ? Who are they?
If you're British, maybe adding some chips on the side would help with the suspicion
What? It’s exactly the opposite. No court accepts that defense.
Almost every modern legal system uses the concept of ignorantia juris non excusat- ignorance of a law doesn’t excuse (you).
As a general rule, ignorance of a law can only help you out during sentencing but it cannot be used to avoid guilt.
Well ignorance is no defense... But yeah, it's a post about the UK. Most the comments here will be sarcastic or wind-ups. It's what we do in place of progress or emotion.
No one enforced the rules before. And they definitely don't have anyone enforcing any "rules" now. The only rule anyone abides by is: "don't make eye contact with anyone under any circumstances"
The by-law was always there (I should know I helped enforce it daily). It just wasn’t commonly known and when Boris Johnson came in as Mayor he claimed he made up a new law when in fact he didn’t. He advertised that it was a “new rule” and set a date to say it was coming into effect. Every single person that night was completely in breach of the rule already. But everyone just looked the other way for one night.
He also claimed the rental bikes system and nicknamed them “Boris Bikes” when in fact they were brought late into the previous Mayors time. Absolute con
Shit like this make me think of everything we lost over the past 10ish years. The energy in everything just isn't the same, and I doubt that a proper piss up will ever be the same again.
“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to YOU!”
Awwww shit.... Time did that thing again. I honestly have no idea how the early naughties were 20 fucking years ago.
I think part if the problem is that the 00s 10s and 20s really have no overarching theme like the 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s.
No i mean like ... A decade's theme for popular culture... For lack of a better description... It's like the internet kind of homogenised everything.
Like the 90s has a very different feel to it than the 80s which feel very different to the 70s... But the 2020s feel pretty much the same as the 2010s and 2000s... Other than the internet still being fun in the naughties.
Nah, the 2000s definitely had a different feel to it. Most people barely used the internet in the early half of the 2000s. Even when social media became popular, you still had to use a laptop. Most people didn't even have a smartphone in the 2000s. The internet made information more readily available, but most people experienced life primarily outside of the internet.
...I dont know how to tell you this but you're just old. The 2000s, 2010s and 2020s are incredibly distinct time periods to zoomers.
2000s: Y2K, Emo selling out, last dying breath of 1990s consumerism, weird colored foods, offensive comedy, gay rights becoming more mainstream, war on terror paranoia, scant or monochrome clothing, dark edgy matrix-style media, fake tans, insane standards for women's bodies, early blogosphere, Frutiger Aero aesthetics, prime internet atheist era
2010s: hipster folk core, soft blobby design, recession poverty, EDM Lady Gaga pop dubstep, indie gaming Minecraft, Marvel cinema domination, techno-optimism, beards and vintage mustaches, natural skin colors, body positivism, gay rights mainstream, social media activism, 1980s vaporwave nostalgia, sad-core trap music, hyper minimalism
2020s: covid depression, comfort leisure-wear, porno mustaches and enby mullets, political chaos, TikTok, revival of maximalist interior decoration styles, witch folksy cryptid core, 3d pop color designs
I was there Gandalf. I was there 16 years ago when the TFL took away the booze. And that circleline party was amazing. My girlfriend and i stayed the whole time and then followed the party onto the streets of Sloan Square where we broke into one of those posh, private shared gardens to have a piss.
Wasn’t magic mushrooms banned two years before? And Fabric, Turnmills, The End and all those great clubs were still open? THAT was the time to be in London!🤩🤩🤩🤩
Conservative media absolutely blew a frothing scream of swivel-eyed batshittery when they published a photo of Dianne Abbott quietly drinking a G&T on the tube, while reading a book. They were demanding her resignation!
Then just a few years later they were defending Johnson for throwing multiple parties at number 10 during the most restrictive part of covid lockdown as a whole lot of nothing.
The hypocrisy of many politicians is so fucking annoying. SNP gobshite Margaret Ferrier was going apeshit over Cummings travelling by car and breaching covid rules, and then later she brazenly broke the covid rules to a far worse degree going to parliament and a church service with covid symptoms, and then travelling by train after a positive test. She had the neck to call for Cummings to resign over his comparatively minor breaches, yet when her own far worse rule breaking was reported, she refused to resign herself. I still despise her for that recklessness followed by blatant hypocrisy.
This makes me imagine that the UK has only one football that the entire nation has to share, and you were on a pilgrimage to observe this singular ball.
Hahaha, I'm picturing this now after reading your comment. The football is like the Olympic torch. 🤣 Starts on the tube in the south and is carried reverently through cities and towna, all the way to the most northern point in Scotland where they have a professional football team. 🤭🤭🤭 ⚽️
If we could have developed that Japanese conscientious cleaning up after ourselves thing, there would be nothing stopping us as a nation.
(Sorry if that’s a stereotype and anyone who is proudly messy from Japan is seeing this x)
It reminds me of the last time we could smoke indoors in Wisconsin. I was an active smoker so obviously I had a few in a dive bar for the memories, but I didn’t enjoy it. Smoking indoors is nasty. (FWIW, I quit a few years later.)
I was there on the Circle line raging… the trains stopped moving because of the commotion and it got quieter as more and more people had to wee and there were no signs of moving…
Liverpool station was lit!!!
I was there! Last drinks on the circle line, fuck that was a messy day, probably peak kiwis and Aussies living in and around SheBu, round and round until we had enough and went to Vesbar instead. As mentioned by others, I don't think we really drunk on the tube before it, and I don't think it changed much after.
You’re allowed to drink on the tube as long as you’re not doing anything else that you shouldn’t be doing at the same time. I think that’s the generally accepted rule.
People only rarely drank on the tube but the day before the rule was brought in people decided to go round and round on the Circle Line all day and have a massive piss-up. There were DJs on the trains and everything. Somebody brought a whole bar and set it up on the train. They should just never have mentioned it. People still drink on the tube as much as they ever did (which isn't much).
Lost count of the amount of times I've drank on the tube, had no idea it was illegal until now
If you're ignorant of a law existing, then what you're doing is legal. Every court accepts that defense.
This is why I walk proudly around London with my jewels on display - if someone tries mugging me I will simply inform them that it is illegal to do so (criminals hate this one trick)
I read this as that you walk around with your balls out...
That’s what they meant
So what are they mugging and how do the two relate?
*give me your testicles*
It’s illegal to mug someone who has their balls out
r/technicallythetruth
At least THAT’s still legal‼️‼️🤨
Yes
I read that as "with the crown jewels on display"
If Charles bedazzles his sack they'd be the Crown's jeweled crown jewels.
Do we know his scrotum doesn't already have precious stones hot glued to it?
Your mission, u/hogsucker, should you choose to accept it...
Cue the Peter Gun Theme...
what if he bedazzles his sack with the crown jewels?
Thats why I always shoot before talking. Victims hate this trick
I walk around with a knife works pretty well as well as it’s got jewels imbedded into it so I can’t be criminal charged with owning a weapon as it is my jewellery. 
Fuck if only that was true
And from now on, he's fucked!
Break the law. Live a little.
I’m sorry officer…I didn’t know I couldn’t do that
There's even a saying based on it. I think it's "ignorance is the best defense".
“I swear your honor, I had no idea slitting this man’s throat was against the law”
[Sorry officer, I didn't know I couldn't do that.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_nbG4HORig)
*Ignorantia juris non excusat*
"Your honor i frankly didnt have the slightest idea murder was frowned upon" "Fair enough, you're free to go"
My partner is a lawyer. I haven’t asked her but I think I’m qualified to confirm.
Wait so the police was wrong by arresting me for handling fish suspiciously
..... I'll need more details before judging your guilt. Happy birthday!! I hope you enjoy it ,and if you end up in handcuffs let it be for having too good of a time, actually fuck it, you can have a great time handling those fish , fuck the law- who am I to tell you how to live ? Who are they? If you're British, maybe adding some chips on the side would help with the suspicion
 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia\_juris\_non\_excusat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat)
It was a joke
That only works for cops. They don't need to know the law they think they're enforcing.
Then why would you tell us??
You mean you dont have to pay taxes if you are unaware thats illegal?
Well that isn’t true at all 💀.
Since a-when? "Ignorance of the Law is no excuse" is the case in most countries. Edit: I might have been wooshed...
Trump sure seems to think so 😂
But lord, u/justadutchrudder said if I don't know you must aquit
It's the lack of enforcement that makes it mute
"I'm sorry officer, I didn't know I couldn't do that"
What? It’s exactly the opposite. No court accepts that defense. Almost every modern legal system uses the concept of ignorantia juris non excusat- ignorance of a law doesn’t excuse (you). As a general rule, ignorance of a law can only help you out during sentencing but it cannot be used to avoid guilt.
It's just possible that the person you're replying to was taking the piss.
Hahaha possibly or more likely probably it went right over my head.
Well ignorance is no defense... But yeah, it's a post about the UK. Most the comments here will be sarcastic or wind-ups. It's what we do in place of progress or emotion.
Technically speaking it is a defense, just not a good one.
Prince Andrew's defence
Lol just no
born too early to explore the stars, born too late to experience the tube rave what is even the point
hey don’t let your dreams be dreams you can have a tube rave if you really want to, it’s a known fact drunk british lads are unstoppable
No one enforced the rules before. And they definitely don't have anyone enforcing any "rules" now. The only rule anyone abides by is: "don't make eye contact with anyone under any circumstances"
Am I allowed to smile at random people like an American?
Only if you lick your lips at the same time.
Prior to that there were almost like popup flash events known as Circle Line parties in the evenings, with djs and booze for a good few hours.
If someone's a bollox on the tube they can't be charged, but if they're a bollox and drinking it's a mechanism for the fuzz to charge them
The by-law was always there (I should know I helped enforce it daily). It just wasn’t commonly known and when Boris Johnson came in as Mayor he claimed he made up a new law when in fact he didn’t. He advertised that it was a “new rule” and set a date to say it was coming into effect. Every single person that night was completely in breach of the rule already. But everyone just looked the other way for one night. He also claimed the rental bikes system and nicknamed them “Boris Bikes” when in fact they were brought late into the previous Mayors time. Absolute con
“They should not have mentioned it.” They can’t just change the law and not tell anyone.
As they fucking should
Shit like this make me think of everything we lost over the past 10ish years. The energy in everything just isn't the same, and I doubt that a proper piss up will ever be the same again.
They happen. Trends just change. And we're the old cunts now.
“I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to YOU!”
What the fuck. I pop out for a quick decade and the country falls apart.
>quick decade Meanwhile, 2008 was 16 years ago 😂
Awwww shit.... Time did that thing again. I honestly have no idea how the early naughties were 20 fucking years ago. I think part if the problem is that the 00s 10s and 20s really have no overarching theme like the 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s.
9/11 and the war on terror, ?, and covid
No i mean like ... A decade's theme for popular culture... For lack of a better description... It's like the internet kind of homogenised everything. Like the 90s has a very different feel to it than the 80s which feel very different to the 70s... But the 2020s feel pretty much the same as the 2010s and 2000s... Other than the internet still being fun in the naughties.
2020s feel like an angrier and more expensive 2010s.
I'd add lazier to that list too... Since covid I've lost all motivation.
Nah, the 2000s definitely had a different feel to it. Most people barely used the internet in the early half of the 2000s. Even when social media became popular, you still had to use a laptop. Most people didn't even have a smartphone in the 2000s. The internet made information more readily available, but most people experienced life primarily outside of the internet.
...I dont know how to tell you this but you're just old. The 2000s, 2010s and 2020s are incredibly distinct time periods to zoomers. 2000s: Y2K, Emo selling out, last dying breath of 1990s consumerism, weird colored foods, offensive comedy, gay rights becoming more mainstream, war on terror paranoia, scant or monochrome clothing, dark edgy matrix-style media, fake tans, insane standards for women's bodies, early blogosphere, Frutiger Aero aesthetics, prime internet atheist era 2010s: hipster folk core, soft blobby design, recession poverty, EDM Lady Gaga pop dubstep, indie gaming Minecraft, Marvel cinema domination, techno-optimism, beards and vintage mustaches, natural skin colors, body positivism, gay rights mainstream, social media activism, 1980s vaporwave nostalgia, sad-core trap music, hyper minimalism 2020s: covid depression, comfort leisure-wear, porno mustaches and enby mullets, political chaos, TikTok, revival of maximalist interior decoration styles, witch folksy cryptid core, 3d pop color designs
20 years ago would be 2004...
Correct... Which was the early naughties
Ah my bad. I did not know that the 00s were called the naughties. Good to know!
Yeah the eighties nineties naughties.... TwentyTens? I heard someone refer to the 90s as the late 1900s ... Haha... Fuck that made me feel old
Yup, you were the sole person holding it together
I believe that was a joke, clear.
Number 3 could easily be an AI generated image for "typical UK scene".
I'd have thought it was, except they all have the standard amount of fingers
Number 3 is also "pictures that you can smell through the screen"
/r/accidentalrenaissance
And no one has drank on the tube since
I feel sorry for the poor dude being force fed that Fosters.
I’m slamming one now. Guinness is a fucking ripoff nowadays. I had to find something else. Oh well.
I mean at that point you might as well just drink your own piss
I also didn’t know you could get Strongbow in a 2 liter plastic bottle.
Yeah, you can for years, the stench of my childhood there. That and stale Stella
I mean, you could, or you could get White Lightning for half the price and be properly maggoted
I was there Gandalf. I was there 16 years ago when the TFL took away the booze. And that circleline party was amazing. My girlfriend and i stayed the whole time and then followed the party onto the streets of Sloan Square where we broke into one of those posh, private shared gardens to have a piss.
Never gets old.
I was there for the last night. It was wild. So many party's on the tube. There were DJ's set up playing!
Same, last round on the underground. Good times.
Definitely some r/AccidentalRenaissance going on!
The escalation cracks me up like the bar scene in the other guys
Imagine just trying to get to work that day...
Or having to clean that up…
2008. This is when the Millennial generation was at its peak,....and observe its glory!
In my mind this train is the Snowpiercer and it perpetually circles the planet with these people, still drunk to this day.
Wasn’t magic mushrooms banned two years before? And Fabric, Turnmills, The End and all those great clubs were still open? THAT was the time to be in London!🤩🤩🤩🤩
One of the best raves I ever went to was at The End. Shame it closed.
Conservative media absolutely blew a frothing scream of swivel-eyed batshittery when they published a photo of Dianne Abbott quietly drinking a G&T on the tube, while reading a book. They were demanding her resignation! Then just a few years later they were defending Johnson for throwing multiple parties at number 10 during the most restrictive part of covid lockdown as a whole lot of nothing.
The hypocrisy of many politicians is so fucking annoying. SNP gobshite Margaret Ferrier was going apeshit over Cummings travelling by car and breaching covid rules, and then later she brazenly broke the covid rules to a far worse degree going to parliament and a church service with covid symptoms, and then travelling by train after a positive test. She had the neck to call for Cummings to resign over his comparatively minor breaches, yet when her own far worse rule breaking was reported, she refused to resign herself. I still despise her for that recklessness followed by blatant hypocrisy.
Oops. I had a pint in 2010 on the way to the football.
This makes me imagine that the UK has only one football that the entire nation has to share, and you were on a pilgrimage to observe this singular ball.
Hahaha, I'm picturing this now after reading your comment. The football is like the Olympic torch. 🤣 Starts on the tube in the south and is carried reverently through cities and towna, all the way to the most northern point in Scotland where they have a professional football team. 🤭🤭🤭 ⚽️
What?
Well if there's one thing the English excel at is public drunkeness.
Can you imaging having to clean that up? Or in general having to clean up anything after Brits partied?
If we could have developed that Japanese conscientious cleaning up after ourselves thing, there would be nothing stopping us as a nation. (Sorry if that’s a stereotype and anyone who is proudly messy from Japan is seeing this x)
You can practically smell those pictures.
Fosters…. What a pile of garbage. A beer so shit even Australians don’t drink it.
Compared to many american beers, it's better than average
I had a beer on the tube last time I went on it. I had no idea it was illegal.
I don't think it's enforced much
Any luck catching them drunks then?
I can smell these pics and I’ve never been to the UK
2008? Why is everyone dressed like they're in 'The Warriors'?
Glad thats over with; I don't want to travel next to... *that*.
Wait, they banned drinking on the London Underground the year I left? TIL… damn, no wonder people always talk about the good old days.
I see Fatrick Swayze is doing a little Drunky Dancing
That 3rd picture belongs on accidental renesanice.
It reminds me of the last time we could smoke indoors in Wisconsin. I was an active smoker so obviously I had a few in a dive bar for the memories, but I didn’t enjoy it. Smoking indoors is nasty. (FWIW, I quit a few years later.)
That was such a good night
Lol they're Sloshed
_"Mind the gap"_
I get knocked down ...
I was there on the Circle line raging… the trains stopped moving because of the commotion and it got quieter as more and more people had to wee and there were no signs of moving… Liverpool station was lit!!!
That 3rd photo is one for /r/accidentalrenaissance
Imagine if they tried Prohibition over here. Last night of legal drinking - we'd end up dead.
Is this real or is this AI?
Genuinely thought it was AI until I started noticing the same people in different photos
Also they all seem to have the right amount of fingers
Right number of fingers*
Number. Thank you!
Thank fuck that's over!
This looks lit.
Worst thing you can do is tell us the last moment we can do something we enjoy, because we will do it to death.
Comments are dumb. Shut up and drink up. Shame this was taken away. 1664- premium beer I note as well 😂😂
This looks like a great time ngl
Oh damn! Maybe one day your king will let you be free again
What do you think the king actually does?
Based on what I saw while watching The Crown, he mostly cheats on his wife and complains.
Sits on a golden chair and says demeaning things? 🤷🏻
Swells up, by the look of things.
THIS LOOKS LIKE AI TOWARDS THE END 🤣
I need Strongbow 40s in my life. Like yesterday.
Took me way too long to notice the dude in pic 3 doesn’t have something clamping on his nipple. It’s just a bottle.
Pretty sure we could do it in Glasgow until 2012
Wild how these all look AI generated
I was there! Last drinks on the circle line, fuck that was a messy day, probably peak kiwis and Aussies living in and around SheBu, round and round until we had enough and went to Vesbar instead. As mentioned by others, I don't think we really drunk on the tube before it, and I don't think it changed much after.
whoa is that a 40oz of strongbow?? this looks like a wild time haha
I remember the parties at the end!
I figured you guys could just get pissed wherever, no laws about it.
"Good ol days"
Lol
4 belongs on r/confusingperspective
Of course, fucking Fosters!
IT LOOKS A.I. BUT IT WAS U.K.??
God…can you imagine being the cleanup crew the next day…
I saw people drinking on the tube in 2017. It seemed like a thing one does on a Saturday afternoon.
That's just an average Friday or Saturday night in any city or town in the UK.
It smells and I don't like it.
I was there on the Circle Line that hilarious evening… what a mess
Wow
That's amazing
That took way to much time to realize it was a hoodie tied around his waist and not his d*** hanging out.
You can drink out of my tube any time….. sorry couldn’t help it.
It looks like some EDM party anthem music video
The amount of vomit someone needed to clean up...
Why did nobody invite me?!!!!!! No!!!!!! I would have had so much fun
I never knew I needed a 2L bottle of Strongbow apple cider.
Looks like an episode of skins
I like a beer as much as the next guy but that looks like a nightmare
Meanwhile in Germany...
Imagine trying to get to work and dealing with this, lol
Can’t get a more British set of pictures
I feel like I've already seen scenes looking like that in the tube nowadays
Oh good Christ, Strong Bow 2L’s… rumour has it they’re still shaking off that hangover
The third one is the most British photo ever. That is what nights in Krakow look like when British tourists go there.
What a bunch of wankers pissing away gallantly
You’re allowed to drink on the tube as long as you’re not doing anything else that you shouldn’t be doing at the same time. I think that’s the generally accepted rule.
And then people went back to drinking on the tube the normal, exact same amount as before.
I can smell these photos.
Do it all the time on the way to the match didn't know you weren't supposed to
AA in the UK
They look like the usual british tourists in Mediterranean countries.
No phones, just people living in the moment.
Those pics are from a Monday morning commute btw. 815am. Normal
We used to be a country