El Pibe

My memory of pubs in the 80s most certainly didn't involve food, but it did involve an awful lot of random violence, give us roast dinner over that any day of the week.....though probably a sunday thinking about it.

utterly surreal D_C!!!

and of course tied pubs are hugely undercut by the likes of weatherspoons who have buying clout, and that's where your 'loyal customers' of old school boozers end up. So tied pubs HAVE to offer something else to get punters through the door as they literally can't offer a cheap pint. Food is the obvious, comedy, music nights, quizzes, sports (if the sky licence doesn't cripple you first) hopefully a good atmosphere etc, but all have to be incentives to get the buggers to eat ... or drink wine thinking about it; can you keep a couple of places going single handedly Lou?

Not necessarily true Louisa, in tied pubs beer can actually be a loss leader such are the prices the pub cos sell their booze to the landlords at. Lots of info here http://www.fairpint.org.uk/

"A pub is for drinking, not eating." Have you bothered to ask the landlord what it's for given that food is about the only way (s)he can make ends meet. By your definition this is all a pub is good for...

didn't they actually shrink though?

Conjours up Half Life to me

that was my favourite bit too. Just looked at some photos of the empty building, it loks much smaller than it does in my memory, i was about 9 when i went there though

more of a hiberno-spic please!!! Or is that hispano-mick?

Tun

Not to say the word that we're not supposed to say any more, but that's exactly how I made most of my friends in the hood, down the old CPT, int that right keef? Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've never really gone down the pub and socialised > with the regulars. I've always thought that was > something that old geezers do. Or if it's in > Eastenders.

aah, come on alan, we're all mates now http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/duke-of-kent-lays-wreath-honouring-easter-rising-dead-29235980.html But to answer your question briefly, i imagine most chaps who signed up to it were probably eton and oxford educated chaps who'd done a stint in the city, I doubt the little folk (the newly oppressed rather than leprechauns obviously) had a say. ;)

Nothing wrong with some good honest pop!!

perhaps it would have worked better in the main room rather than the cynical old leathery souls that make up the lounge. Though an obvious choice it was done with a simple earnestness and none of the usual tells, so i thought it might stand a chance. It was blown dead in the water in here though!!! :D

use chrome?

still full of hipsters mind ;)

Yeah chap at the Canning does seem to be making a pretty decent fist of it these days. Would agree about all the ex capital pubs places, though i don't mind the florence as much, bar some rubbish staff issues. Quite like the Hermit's Cave is we're giopng further afield, plus it's a very short jaunt to the wonderful A&G

of course, I was poking fun. But intellignece and technological achievement at the very least imply two things, an understanding of cause and effect and picturing goals to achieve. This means that there's some point to crpossing the universe, hanging about above peckham rye for a bit, then going elsewhere. However alien their thinking it seems a bit of a waste of time. I'd get it more if we were detroyed for an intestellar bypass without bothering to tell us....

If we're mourning pubs then RIP Hoopers, took a while to find its feet but always good beer and there were a couple of years there where it was a cracking local boozer.

if we're shifting war, this was interesting http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/15/separatist-fighter-russia-eastern-ukraine-interview originally http://www.svoboda.org/content/article/25452387.html meaning it could be bollocks, but plausibly convincing bollocks

this is like a local godwin isnt it "oh no otta's off on one about the CPT!!" But tis true, was a great pub at the turn of the millennium until about 4 or 5 years ago, nothing to do with me having kids either ;)

Plus my mate invented the whole 020 deal when he was at OFTEL (or so he claimed)

my old numbr was 020 72 74 20 76 which had a nice rhythm and pneumonic about it, and some git would always say sorry 0207 what? at which point I'd totally lose my place. I'm obviosuly evil as i do mobiles 07xxx xx xx xx

fair enough, always go with your gut eh ;)