Our boozers...

[ladylola]

I don't really believe that the smoking ban has had a great impact and is responsible for pub closures. The pubs that have closed are the dumps that would have closed anyway.Pubs have had to become broader in their appeal and those that don't do food are the ones that suffer. Price has been a bigger impact in reducing drinking but even that isn't black and white. Figures show that pubs that stock real ales have seen an increase in sales and some near me are quite often a bit more expensive than pubs that sell the beers and lagers from the big brewers. Weatherspoons tend to stock a decent range of ales and sell at a good price too and no smoking either, or for that matter music .

 

[AronSearle]

I don't really believe that the smoking ban has had a great impact and is responsible for pub closures.

Guess which year the smoking ban came into force.

It is only one factor, I suspect it mostly hastened the decline rather than caused it, but that's my opinion.

 

[Harbourwoodwork]

A mate of mine built a bar in his backgarden ,good company and cheap booze

 

[joinerjohn]

A mate of mine built a bar in his backgarden ,good company and cheap booze

How much is he knocking a pint out for ?

 

[calorific]

I take it Harbourwood has been barred from his mates pub

 

[peterperfection]

Dont see many Landladies dripping in gold chains and bracelets these days !!

 

[Harbourwoodwork]

I can't remember

 

[ladylola]

I can't remember

A common side effect of too much time spent in the boozer methinks

 

[Inky Pete]

its nice to pop out for a pint in the sun on a weekend.... but their all shutting...

Hardly a surprise. How do you expect any business to keep going if you only ever patronise it a couple of times a year?

Our chosen local pub is thriving. Because most of its regular customers are there 2 or 3 times a week, year round.

Use it or lose it.

 

[chapeau]

Well I remember going into pubs, being hit by a wall of smoke, and walking off to spend my money elsewhere. Anecdotal but I am sure I'm not alone.

 

[calorific]

Well I remember going into pubs, being hit by a wall of smoke, and walking off to spend my money elsewhere.

Oddly enough, you've just justified why smoking should be allowed in pubs

 

[LastMagicBean]

Well I remember going into pubs, being hit by a wall of smoke, and walking off to spend my money elsewhere. Anecdotal but I am sure I'm not alone.

You sound a barrel of laughs. Pubs are better off without you.

 

[Whitespirit66]

Well I remember going into pubs, being hit by a wall of smoke, and walking off to spend my money elsewhere. Anecdotal but I am sure I'm not alone.

Where you bin the last 5 years? They banned smoking, so what's stopping you now.

Try reading some newspapers and watching the news. Might bring you up to date with events and the fact that we're now in the 21st century.

 

[chapeau]

Eh? Somebody said stopping smoking is putting people off going into pubs. I said smoking put me off going into pubs. If that makes me a boring git then so be it.

I'm getting on, I'm not going to go down the boozer like I did when I was 25. Used to go out back then every night and drink half a dozen pints at least. Get up in the morning at 7.30, feel a bit ropey, and by 9am I was perfectly fine.

Couldn't do that now after five pints as I'd never get up and I've got to go to work.

The yoof of today get ****ed at home first because pubs are too expensive.

Too expensive. Geddit?

And interestingly enough, I got more of a "hangover" back then from smoking 20 fags in an evening than if I drank 10 pints. Funny but true.

 

[Inky Pete]

Well I remember going into pubs, being hit by a wall of smoke, and walking off to spend my money elsewhere. Anecdotal but I am sure I'm not alone.

Funny you should say that. Our local has a smoking shelter out the side, it's not a thoroughfare to or from anywhere so the only people who are ever there are the smokers themselves. It's basically an alleyway about 6' wide between the pub and the next door building, gated at the front end, which the dray men use to roll the barrels round the back.

When the smoking ban came in the landlord installed a corrugated plastic sheet roof over the alley, a couple of electric heaters, and some benches either side. Nothing flash, but it keeps the rain off.

Or used to until some non-smoking busy body reported the shelter as not complying with some regulation or other. A smoking shelter should have 50% of its roofed perimeter left open, and because this was a roofed alleyway obviously it was just open at the narrow ends. The council's resident anti-everything health-nazi came down and made the landlord take the roof off half the width of the alleyway - which means it rains in there now almost whichever way the wind is blowing.

We have a strong suspicion we know who the busy body is - they started drinking in the pub over the road when word got round that whoever the petty minded pr*ck was would be in for hell if the landlord could ever prove who it was. So whenever he's spotted enjoying a drink or a meal in the beer garden there with his family there'll be at least half a dozen guys from our pub occupying every table around him and smoking like chimneys!



Oh the joys of living in a small village!