I was looking around for answers to almightyis’s thread about the Guinness rats when I thought i’d check out their offical site. So off I went to www.guinness.com only to be confronted with a screen demanding that I say what country I am in and my age.
So I answered ‘France’ and ‘29’ only to be told…
Can anyone tell me what French law restricts adults from visiting the website of a brewery?
Legal drinking age is France is 30.
Actually, I have no idea, I suspect it may be a glitch, I’m about to do some more testing.
Ok, if it’s for real it’s nothing to do with age. I told it I was 104 and they still wouldn’t let me in.
Maybe France have restrictive laws about alcohol advertising. It’s now time to look up french beer sites.
Hmmm, plenty of beer websites with a .fr domain so I guess it’s not to do with advertising laws.
I give up. Whats the answer?
No idea actually.
Drinking age is 18 over here and advertising is found everywhere (not on TV very much though I don’t think…)
Time for an e-mail to Guinness…
(does it show that I have nothing to do at work today?)
I just tried it - the whole website seems to be knackered.
You probably jsut logged onto it as it was in the process of dying…
That’s all I can guess.
Try again in a few hours.
Probably has something to do with the strict French alcohol advertising laws.
There is a European rugby competition that’s called the Heinekin Cup but in France it is referred to on TV as the H-Cup.
It’s working fine for me as long as I don’t claim to be in France.
France is alcohol-advert city ! The’re not restrictive at all…
Well, that’s strange, the same thing happens to me if I say I’m from France. One thing I noticed (which is even weirder), is if you say you are from Germany, you are redirected to
www.guinness.de, where you again have to enter your Country, your birthdate, and whether you want the computer to remember these entries. If you enter that you are French here, it works, and redirects you right back to http://www.guinness.com/guinness/en_US/home/0,6657,12687267_125584,00.html !?!?! Maybe this is some kind of strange Irish - French conflict we are not even aware of yet?
You’re not aware that Strongbow can suck my cock ??
This 105 year old from Afghanistan was denied entrance- just another data point.
I don’t quite get this. Are you referring to Strongbow Cider, which is made by the English company Bulmer? Then I don’t know what this has to do with possible hostilities between the Irish and French. 
Or does this have to do with Richard “Strongbow” De Clare, who “conquered” Norse-Irish Dublin in the 12[sup]th[/sup] century? I guess he could technically be considered French, since he was Anglo-Norman, and his family came across the Canal with William the Conqueror. But then again, he could just as well be considered Norse, since the original invaders of Normandy were Danish Vikings. I guess this means his taking Dublin, was just one Viking taking something away from another Viking. To be more exact, it could even be considered one Dane taking something away from another Dane, since the Normans were descendants of the Dane Hrolf and his army, and the “Danes of Dublin” still controlled that city when “Strongbow” arrived.
Maybe you should really blame the English after all, since it was London born Pope Hadrian IV (the only English pope ever, by the way), who wrote the papal bull saying that Ireland belonged to the English king Henry II. So you see, if it’s the cider or the man, either way the English are to blame, and not the French.
Now how is that for a strange hijack of a thread.
Achilles, your joke is out of line for GQ. Please watch your language.
-xash
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