It's Saturday night in a recession..

FungusFighter

PasturesNew wrote: »

Well, it's Saturday night, I could go out, but I don't really like the people that asked. Their idea of a good night out doesn't match my expectations, so here I am and you lot have the pleasure of my company for tonight.

It would have been Wetherspoons with a chav family and an alcoholic.

Doll, your tempting me to stay in....;)

Masomnia

I'm back at uni tomorrow, so nice night in with the family. Bit of Ros! and a nice roast dinner, should be grand.

Got way too much work to do anyway

jimmyay

a year or two ago i couldnt conceive of not spending a saturday night or even most of the weekend out on the town with a selection of mates; now i'm just as likely than not to stay at home, cook my own dinner and watch tv, have a couple of cans. not very sociable but if you have an evening out in london with mates you seem to drop £30-£50 just like that. so i tend to stay at home, or if i do go out at the weekend when OH is not around it is for a liquid dinner after work finishes on a friday, with a mate or two, chew the weeks fat at work, stumble in around 11pm ! now in my 30s, i find the phone rings less often at the weekend as friends are with their partners rather than sinking beers in the pub. sometimes it feels like i have turned into a miserable old git but life changes a bit. good for the bank balance anyway, wouldnt say it was credit crunch induced rather than age induced. heck now i feel really boring.

WTF?_2

Pobby wrote: »

Have to admit that our landlord and landlady try really hard to drum up business. Quiz nights, cheese tasting nights, karaoke and so on. A few years ago I didn`t like going there too much. The money grabbing old bag of a landlady would serve anyone in any state. So in consequence the language was foul and the odd fight would break out.

The new people have kicked out the trash and it`s a really nice, if tatty, friendly pub.

Trouble is, at £2.80 a pint, being mse, I find it hard to justify when I can get merry at home on a lot less than a tenner on beer. Lol!

It's over 3 quid a pint of lager at most pubs I go to ... I'm betting that we might actually see some beer price deflation shortly, I know that in Ireland the pub trade magnanimously announced a freeze on prices due to dropping demand.

FungusFighter

!!!!!!? wrote: »

It's over 3 quid a pint of lager at most pubs I go to ... I'm betting that we might actually see some beer price deflation shortly, I know that in Ireland the pub trade magnanimously announced a freeze on prices due to dropping demand.

Same here mate, stupid prices but once youve had a few you don't care!!:beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

mewbie_2

Fungal - have you ever heard the expression "less is more"?

FungusFighter

mewbie wrote: »

Fungal - have you ever heard the expression "less is more"?

More or less :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:

TighterThanTwoCoatsOfPain

PasturesNew wrote: »

I read something (here?) in the last week that said that what killed the pub trade wasn't really the smoking ban, but the fact that the value of the land the pub sat on exceeded any income that could be made from selling Stella.

The land doesnt have that much value... Perhaps a couple of years ago when developers were tripping over themselves to turn it into houses, but that hasnt been the case for a while now... Smoking Ban paid a MASSIVE part in the overall pub trade.. I'm sure anyone in the trade would agree.

Pubs Companies are actually doing writedowns on their pub values at the minute rather than closing them to reap the benefits of the high land value.

Pobby

It was pretty clear that this was going to happen. Ireland went smoke free long before us and news was that they were closing bars at quite a rate. If my local closed I wonder what they would do with the building. It`s a large, old style terrace pub. A few years back it would have been most likely converted into flats. Well we sure have plenty of those to spare right now.

So if the landlord goes broke I can see it sitting for years, empty and rotting. I`m sure it could survive but it belongs to a property company, as does so many these days. We have had another recently close near us. The companies are greedy and charge a rent that is far too high to be viable.

Enfieldian

Saturday update:

On the sofa with Mrs Enfieldian, hardly seen her this week.

Using free (work) broadband to list some more stuff on Ebay, although I have also put two bids in for stuff myself.....