The Pub with No Beer

[TheCat]

This idea of pubs opening in April/May, but not being able to serve alchohol.....to quote sue....WTF?

Im assuming that they are intending on letting restaurants open, but wanted to avoid a backlash from the pub/bar industry, but saying they can technically open as well

In anycase, while I've been prepared to accept all the curbs on our civil liberties the past year, the government basically saying 'we dont trust the Britsh public to follow the rules we put in place if they've been drinking' seems like a step too far with regard to Big Brother controlling our lives...

Sure, enforce social distancing rules, and there will always be people who break the rules....but surely its incumbent upon people to follow those rules when drinking, just as we follow all other rules when drinking.....i.e. most of us remember after a few pints that we're not supposed to murder people....

with that, I'll let my late countryman, Slim Dusty, sing you this tale of woe....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bIJV8gaBK4

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1/10, been done a million times before a million times better

[Seabag]

I?m actually missing Louisa

Her portfolio is a masterpiece in such matters

😢

[diable rouge]

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again... https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,2154894,2154894#msg-2154894

[TheCat]

Honestly trolley....this is getting seriously tedious now. You don't have to ruin every thread on here....maybe just pick 1 or 2...

In anycase, perhaps you should just leave us middle class tw@ts alone to chatter amongst ourselves, while you go off and do real things, in the real world, with real people...

[KidKruger]

TheCat Wrote:

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> Honestly trolley....this is getting seriously

> tedious now. You don't have to ruin every thread

> on here....maybe just pick 1 or 2...

>

> In anycase, perhaps you should just leave us

> middle class tw@ts alone to chatter amongst

> ourselves, while you go off and do real things, in

> the real world, with real people...

Yeah but the intention is to insult as many people as possible.

So picking just a couple of threads would spoil the intention.

[Seabag]

TheCat Wrote:

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> Honestly trolley....this is getting seriously

> tedious now. You don't have to ruin every thread

> on here....maybe just pick 1 or 2...

>

> In anycase, perhaps you should just leave us

> middle class tw@ts alone to chatter amongst

> ourselves, while you go off and do real things, in

> the real world, with real people...

I?m warming to TheCat ☝️😁

(a bit anyways, until he says anything outside of my echo chamber that is 🤨)

[KidKruger]

?...the government basically saying 'we dont trust the Britsh public to follow the rules we put in place if they've been drinking' ?

To be fair, Cat, the Govt allowed pubs to open didn?t they ? And we had loads more infections. And they closed again. Perhaps the increase in infections was a coincidence, I don?t know.

Either way I never understood why letting the population go to a hub to take a drug that increases their level of risk-taking, lowers their inhibitions and predictably causes more aggression and hospital intake was ever suggested during a pandemic - maybe it?s just me.

[Seabag]

So the pubs will be open for what exactly?

And restaurant?s, are they going to be selling food?

Most bizarre, but I suppose those ?in charge? can say ?Open for business? or something like that, as they hand out colouring books and puzzles.

I?m not down with this civil liberties malarkey, Piers Corby?s given it a bad name.

[Sephiroth]

I agree with the thread sentiments - but isn't this story a few days old and not really backed up by any serious govr proposals? It's all "maybe" this and "perhaps" that

I wouldn't put it past this lot obviously - but I'm not worrying about it just yet

[malumbu]

diable rouge Wrote:

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> If at first you don't succeed, try, try again...

> https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?

> 20,2154894,2154894#msg-2154894

In deed. I was particularly impressed by my postings on this thread. Always good to look back and realise that one is not always being an rrrrsss. Some of the time of course.

[DulwichFox]

Statistics from the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) in 2018 found 18 pubs a week

closed​ between 1 July and 31 December 2017 ? a total of 468 in those 26 weeks

That is Pre- Pandemic.

How many pubs will be forced to close permanently after lockdown. ?

Even if Pubs DO reopen, many people have got used to drinking at home or have cut down.

Based on 3 pints per night, in 2020 I personally saved just under ?4,000 at Pub (EDT) prices

A full year would save me ?5,600 ish

I have gotten out of the habit of going to the Pub every night.

If the 10pm closure is re-introduced and a drink has to be taken with food,

then I will go to a Restaurant to eat and drink.

Pubs as we once all knew them will soon be a thing of the past. Priced out of existence.

Foxy.

[Sephiroth]

I don't want to argue with all of your points there Foxy, but an alternative view is that there is also a pent-up demand and that many people cannot wait to get back out there

[Seabag]

Oh dear, Foxy?s sprung a leak.

Dampness pervades him, his outlook is greyer than ever.

Cheer up, it?ll all be a thing of the past one day.

[Spartacus]

Heck foxy 21 pints a week (based on 3 pints a night) is 42 units of alcohol a week

Would love to be a fly on the wall when you fill in medical forms ...

"So Mr Foxy, you say you are a light to moderate drinker" says the doctor "hmmmmmmm"

But it will be interesting to see what the fallout on pubs restaurants and hospitality will be following on from this global pandemic as some will close, some will survive, some will transform and with the pent up demand some new players may even emerge.

Until the dust settles I guess nothing's certain.

[Cyclops]

Seabag Wrote:

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> I?m actually missing Louisa

>

> Her portfolio is a masterpiece in such matters

>

> 😢

Yes, Trolley Snatcha is a second rate Louisa.

[Spartacus]

Trolley

If you had followed the adventures of Foxy, now a major film waiting to be made, you would have understood more about the doctor references

But as a person who is best described as a recent incumbent of Scandinavian folklore, including Norse mythology, or an old Norse being,you possibly didn't pick up on the finer points of the conversation 😱

[DulwichFox]

Spartacus Wrote:

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> Heck foxy 21 pints a week (based on 3 pints a

> night) is 42 units of alcohol a week

>

> Would love to be a fly on the wall when you fill

> in medical forms ...

>

> "So Mr Foxy, you say you are a light to moderate

> drinker" says the doctor "hmmmmmmm"

>

> But it will be interesting to see what the fallout

> on pubs restaurants and hospitality will be

> following on from this global pandemic as some

> will close, some will survive, some will transform

> and with the pent up demand some new players may

> even emerge.

>

> Until the dust settles I guess nothing's certain.

You have got it completely wrong..

I have spread sheets going back 8 years or so with every drink I have drunk in the Pub and at home.

By cutting down i have saved on average ?2,000 a year

I do not drink 3 pints every day. I seldom Drink 3 Pints.

With pubs closed I do not drink ANY beer at the pub.

The savings are based on 3 pints,

I do drink other drinks if I go for a Ruby. But restaurants are also closded,

Foxy

[Seabag]

Spread sheets of every drink you?ve ever had?

Omg. So on the 4th of July 2016, what was your tipple Foxy?

Just asking because I can tbf

[Spartacus]

Foxy

You wrote

"Based on 3 pints per night, in 2020 I personally saved just under ?4,000 at Pub (EDT) prices"

If you have saved that much, it implies you were sending it before and a logical conclusion is that you drink 3 pints a night...

Maybe it's your style of writing but it's fairly clear to me that you weren't implying that if you were an average drinker on 3 pints a night ...

🤔

[DulwichFox]

Seabag Wrote:

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> Spread sheets of every drink you?ve ever had?

>

> Omg. So on the 4th of July 2016, what was your

> tipple Foxy?

>

> Just asking because I can tbf

4 July 2016 No Pub Beer 1 Bottle Peroni at Home .. 0 steps

4 July 2017 Pub 2 Carling 25ml Drambuie at Home .. 2,200 Steps

Foxy

[KidKruger]

I saved about ?362,783.28 over the last 12months on alcohol, based on me going into every pub on LL every night and ordering drinks for everyone in there, as a gesture of goodwill.

I don?t actually do that, usually I just have a pint or two over the weekend, but still - the savings as you can see have been huge.

[DulwichFox]

Spartacus Wrote:

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> Foxy

> You wrote

> "Based on 3 pints per night, in 2020 I personally

> saved just under ?4,000 at Pub (EDT) prices"

>

> If you have saved that much, it implies you were

> sending it before and a logical conclusion is that

> you drink 3 pints a night...

>

> Maybe it's your style of writing but it's fairly

> clear to me that you weren't implying that if you

> were an average drinker on 3 pints a night ...

>

> 🤔

Based on what on Average I was drinking at night when I was working pre 2008

I Very rarely drink Lunchtime.. If I have 1 pint on a Sunday Lunch then I do not go back out at night,

People I drink with are there ALL day 8 - 9 pints and Chasers.

I have done Dry Jan a few times. Do not miss the booze. Do not have a problem.

I have had several week long breaks due to Hospital Medication.

I often drink Alc Free beer in the pub but works out more expensive.

Foxy

[Seabag]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Seabag Wrote:

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> -----

> > Spread sheets of every drink you?ve ever had?

> >

> > Omg. So on the 4th of July 2016, what was your

> > tipple Foxy?

> >

> > Just asking because I can tbf

>

> 4 July 2016 No Pub Beer 1 Bottle Peroni at Home

> .. 0 steps

>

> 4 July 2017 Pub 2 Carling 25ml Drambuie at Home

> .. 2,200 Steps

>

> Foxy

Utterly priceless.

Foxy, weird as you are, there?s a lot of wonderful too.

I don?t know anyone who?s got a spreadsheet like this

Keep up the good work