Our boozers...

[Sombrero]

Whats appenig to them.... we've lost three in the last month round here... there will be none left soon...

will the super markats take over everything eventualy?

 

[joinerjohn]

Dunno Sombrero, but I think if you took an ESOL course, we may just be able to understand you a bit better.
Anyrode Tesco's will soon own all spare land throughout the country and build more Tesco Expresses, so you could be right,, The supermarkets will take over.
I can just see the drunken youths urinating in Tesco's doorways at chucking out time.

 

[Sombrero]

ESOL?

its nice to pop out for a pint in the sun on a weekend.... but their all shutting... to much cheap beer deliverd to you door by tesco!!!!

 

[Diane2]

8) plenty of pubs in Blackpool fill yer boots.....

 

[joinerjohn]

Well Sombrero, me lad, when our local off licence can sell 8 pints of Carling in cans for £8.50p and the local pub sells one pint of the same stuff in a glass for £3.20p, it's no wonder the pubs are closing.

 

[AronSearle]

Cough, yes it's the supermarkets, cough cough splutter, couldn't be anything else, cough splutter, that help do pubs in.

Also you don't get hordes of workers "clocking off" and going to the pub after-work any more, This isn't the 1950s where the man sod's of to the pub, and the wife does all the house work. Society has changed.

And what with home entertainment being massively more, well, entertaining than even 15 years ago (computers, net, sky, face-book), people WANT to stay at home, or if they drink, do so at home with friends. Would I rather sit in a pub with a TV on mute, and if I am lucky a pool table, or see people at home with consoles, net, millions of channels on the televitz.....

Please pee off with your "supermarkets killing the pub" crap, I don't want to have to pay more for my moderate drinking, because some **** decrees I have to do so in a bar.

 

[alumni]

to much cheap beer deliverd to you door

Impossible

 

[Sombrero]

Cough, yes it's the supermarkets, cough cough splutter, couldn't be anything else, cough splutter, that help do pubs in.

Also you don't get hordes of workers "clocking off" and going to the pub after-work any more, This isn't the 1950s where the man s**'s of to the pub, and the wife does all the house work. Society has changed.

And what with home entertainment being massively more, well, entertaining than even 15 years ago (computers, net, sky, face-book), people WANT to stay at home, or if they drink, do so at home with friends. Would I rather sit in a pub with a TV on mute, and if I am lucky a pool table, or see people at home with consoles, net, millions of channels on the televitz.....

Please pee off with your "supermarkets killing the pub" crap, I don't want to have to pay more for my moderate drinking, because some **** decrees I have to do so in a bar.

no, i agree with ou..... i just wonder whats going to hapen to the 'local'?

i also want to pay as little as posible for my pint... but a world without pubs is wrong..

 

[conny]

Build a bar in your cellar/front room.
Stock it with cheap booze from tesco.
Set up a couple of games consoles and a 50" TV showing live sport and invite a few mates round.
Problem solved.
Assuming of course your wife is willing to clean up after everyone.
(Including the messy toilet, fag ends in your flower containers on the patio, vomit on the path and complaints from neighbours about car doors slamming at all hours).

 

[joinerjohn]

Aaron, the biggest problem with pubs these days is the fact that successive governments, have raised duty on alcohol. Compounded by the fact that the breweries and pubco's put up the prices as well. Have you noticed on Budget day, the chancellor raises duty and tells us, "This will mean 2p on the price of a pint of beer." The week after we go to the local to find it's actually gone up by 10 or 20p, due to the brewery putting up prices as well.
They are killing the goose that laid the golden egg for them.
The large breweries too , would rather fill cans and sell them to supermarkets, than, fill kegs and sell them to pubs.

 

[joe-90]

Most drinkers smoke - that's what has killed it. Sad addicts to tobacco.

 

[chapeau]

Good pubs will stay open, rubbish pubs will close. You only have to look at the price of beer at wetherspoons to realise the guvmint isn't to blame for the £4 pint. Also a lot of pubs borrowed heavily during the good times to do themselves up so a lot of the £4 pint is going to the banks.

 

[AronSearle]

Aaron, the biggest problem with pubs these days is the fact that successive governments, have raised duty on alcohol. Compounded by the fact that the breweries and pubco's put up the prices as well.

I am sure price is a factor, bar workers want more money, people expect higher standards of furniture and equipment, it all costs.


But the bloke going into the pub for a few after work used to be common.

How many people here have even had the time to go to the pub a few times a months for that.

Sexual equality means we don't just shove the kids of to the wife any-more, plus many more of us want to get home to watch the footy/eastenders/sky, maybe play the console, get on facebook.

We can afford all those things, but not drink?

No, times are just changing, when most people do go out, they are making it a big thing, their once a week (or once a month) jolly.

Going down to the pub for a few pints isnt really what they want to do when they can make the effort to go out, hence inner town drinking.


Nobody wants to sit in a small pub with possibly a pool table, or maybe some karaoke.



Then their is drinking itself, everyone is drinking less, even though it is as cheap as it has ever been in supermarkets (don't confuse more prominent binge drinking, with overall drinking actually going down).

 

[Whitespirit66]

What I want to know, is what happened to all the spritzer drinkers who said that they would be filling the pubs when the smoking ban came in? These metrosexual, two-pot-screamers never materialized. If they did, they soon got bored and moved onto something else.

So now, the pubs are smoke free (although, as someone else pointed out on the smoking thread, many pubs now smell of BO and beer-farts), and they are also customer free.

Mates who smoke ask why they should pay £3 a pint, and stand out in the cold and wet. They now drink at home. I would still rather get out from these 4 walls, have a pint, converse with others, and nip out to the smoking deck for the occasional Benson.

So, another British institution is allowed to die.

 

[joinerjohn]

Most drinkers smoke - that's what has killed it. Sad addicts to tobacco.

Perhaps safer to say Most smokers drink.
although sadly not in the locals these days. More likely to be found drinking at home (like the vast majority of non smokers, who didn't flood into the pubs when the smoking ban was introduced)