Pandemic vs the British Pub

[Wully]

I know a chap went into a persons house and up to bed, pi--ed as a fart, police had a different view on the matter.

Done that went back to my old house a year after we moved opened the door walked right in sat doon when the new owner came in they seen the funny side gave me a drink and drove me home.

 

[Toffeecat]

The future could be virtual pub! Put those headsets on and wander around the living room talking shite then throw up on the carpet and have a virtual fight after someone knocks over your virtual pint. Its the future. All within the safety of your home. You could even have a virtual chat up programme so as you get more drunk, the virtual women, men, sheep, whatever looks more attractive through clever programming and you could chat up that stunner.

Well its time for my medication.

 

[reiverlad]

This pandemic lockdown has taken a severe toll on the pubs in the village here.
We already had the biggest pub closed for 3 years and up for sale.

The local Port Inn did food, had music nights & was popular with the visiting yacht folk
The owner bought the post office next door 2 years ago & has now decided to permanently close the pub
He is moving the post office into the pub area with a cafe. I reckon his wife just didn't like the pub hours !!

The last pub has been up for sale for the last 2 years although it had been kept open.
The restrictions last summer mean that he was only able to have 16 in the pub at any one time.
He definitely had no chance of that being worthwhile to stay open. I don't expect it to open again.

A local community trust has just been set up with the aim of buying a property to be multifunctional with a drinks licence.
We shall see how that turns out

 

[antiquesam]

Reading some of the things on here I think the pandemic has had a severe affect on the minds of many wildcampers

 

[st3v3]

Reading some of the things on here I think the pandemic has had a severe affect on the minds of many wildcampers

We were all like that long before CV.

 

[Wully]

I’m starting to get wee head twitches like Lenard rossiter then three steps forward stop and kick the leg back.

 

[Tookey]

The photo in the link is of a Temperance bar in a town I work in. Now if owners can keep a Temperance bar open for 130 years in Lancashire it does beg the question about what are many pub owners doing so wrong that they can't make profit from somewhere that sells BEER!

Temperance bar - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Wully]

Temperance bar up here think that’s called a cafe.

 

[mark61]

The photo in the link is of a Temperance bar in a town I work in. Now if owners can keep a Temperance bar open for 130 years in Lancashire it does beg the question about what are many pub owners doing so wrong that they can't make profit from somewhere that sells BEER!

Temperance bar - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

It's a bar, Jim, but not as we know it.

 

[Wully]

It’s probably been kept busy with every town in Britains destination for the annual alcoholics anonymous outing.

 

[Robmac]

Remind me to go there.

Sometime never.

 

[st3v3]

That's got to come under trade descriptions surely? Lol.

Definitely a cafe....

A bit like Stoners Pot Palace on the Simpsons.

Stoner's Pot Palace

“Man, that is flagrant false advertising!” ―Otto Mann[src] Stoner's Pot Palace is a kitchenware store in Springfield. Marge bought a juice bowl from the store, as she is doing this, Otto angrily leaves the store, having been under the impression it was a head shop. In The Simpsons Guide to...

simpsons.fandom.com

 

[trevskoda]

The photo in the link is of a Temperance bar in a town I work in. Now if owners can keep a Temperance bar open for 130 years in Lancashire it does beg the question about what are many pub owners doing so wrong that they can't make profit from somewhere that sells BEER!

Temperance bar - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Thats because it has an Irish community, and they thought it said a ten pence bar.

 

[REC]

Reading some of the things on here I think the pandemic has had a severe affect on the minds of many wildcampers

I think you will find several have become more serious than usual....unfortunately the starting point was very low....

 

[Boris7]

My local won’t be reopening under previous management as the guy who owns the building refused to reduce the rent during both lockdowns, there are 5 pubs between our village and the villages either side of ours and I doubt more than 2 will survive in their pre-covid form.

 

[maingate]

 

[izwozral]

Covid-19: Pub closures 'will waste 87 million pints of beer'

That's enough liquid to fill 20 Olympic swimming pools - or many, many thousands of baths.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Robmac]

Covid-19: Pub closures 'will waste 87 million pints of beer'

That's enough liquid to fill 20 Olympic swimming pools - or many, many thousands of baths.

www.bbc.co.uk

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[Tookey]

The future could be virtual pub! Put those headsets on and wander around the living room talking shite then throw up on the carpet and have a virtual fight after someone knocks over your virtual pint. Its the future. All within the safety of your home. You could even have a virtual chat up programme so as you get more drunk, the virtual women, men, sheep, whatever looks more attractive through clever programming and you could chat up that stunner.

Well its time for my medication.

Obviously your comment is exaggerated for fun but I think you prediction is correct. Today's youth in years to come will visit the pyramids, ski the Alps and will visit famous bars all from their arm chair in a very realistic manner. The virtual tours you can go of galleries etc are already good and the programming is just going to get better and better.

Especially fantastic for those housebound!

 

[Fisherman]

More of a duty than a right

Fairly sure most of the pubs local to me will be reopening, but no doubt plenty won't.
It's the banter and piss taking I miss too.

Your never into piss taking are you Mark, never had you down as that type.

£$%^ I’m morphing into Mark.