My mates local

chewmylegoff

Percy1983 wrote: »

Even cheaper if you stay at home and drink milk.

I will say I see no attraction to going and sitting in the local pub.

i can think of nothing i would like to do more, but then my local is quite a nice place, and i am a frivolous renter and hence required to waste all of my money on drink and iphones*.


* = if i get drunk, there is a higher chance of me breaking my iphone, perhaps by dropping it in a pint.

Eellogofusciouhipoppokunu

Its no bad thing if society is moving away from pub culture. The writing was on the wall for these backstreet dumps when they banned cigs, if the owners/tenants didn't see it coming then more fool them. I bet the neighbours near these pubs are delighted with their undisturbed sleep patterns and lack of empty glasses, bottles, chip papers and comatose drunks in their front gardens.

Percy1983

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i can think of nothing i would like to do more, but then my local is quite a nice place, and i am a frivolous renter and hence required to waste all of my money on drink and iphones*.


* = if i get drunk, there is a higher chance of me breaking my iphone, perhaps by dropping it in a pint.

Thats where I am going wrong I can't go the pub without an iphone I will be a proper outsider.

I really don't know what my local is like... or where it is come to think of it.

FTBFun

People don't really go to pubs just to get !!!!ed do they? It's more of a social event IMO.

I still think decent pubs will survive, despite what CAMRA keep telling me every month.

Wheezy_2

mystic_trev wrote: »

Is it really still that much cheaper? I used to do the booze run on a regular basis, picking up a dozen cases at a time. I haven't done it for five years, as I found decent Supermarket wine wasn't much difference than buying in Calais? Maybe beers and Spirits are cheaper?

It's still noticeably cheaper, now especially with the £ back to €1.25
Even when the rate was around 1.1 it was cheaper, but only worth a booze run if you bought in really large quantities.
€1.5 to the £, those were the days.

Ionkontrol

Eellogofusciouhipoppokunu wrote: »

Its no bad thing if society is moving away from pub culture. The writing was on the wall for these backstreet dumps when they banned cigs, if the owners/tenants didn't see it coming then more fool them. I bet the neighbours near these pubs are delighted with their undisturbed sleep patterns and lack of empty glasses, bottles, chip papers and comatose drunks in their front gardens.

LIve next to a pub do you?
Pub culture is brilliant, but expensive.

wymondham

Most pubs I've been in have a massive sport screen running all the time .... this is why i drink at home...

JonnyBravo

wymondham wrote: »

Most pubs I've been in have a massive sport screen running all the time .... this is why i drink at home...

Oh dear.
You've clearly not been in many good pubs.
Pubs are one of my favourite things in life. The social occasions that happen in them are often fabulous. Saturday night just gone being a perfect example.

:beer:

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i don't think i could fit the mrs in the waste bin so there's not much point looking in there (in case she is reading this, i hasten to add this is because the bin is very small).

So you're still saying she's fat?

PasturesNew

A non-specific, unattractive pub in Plymouth .... £50/week should've covered it!