What Is Happening To Our Country?

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Bless. The gammon boys getting all excited again. So easy to stir them up

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6 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

 

What does DI Carver think?

[Gloucester Saint]

11 hours ago, whelk said:

What does DI Carver think?

Sad to see that Chris Ellison who played Burnside has aphasia same as Bruce Willis. Saw him in a play late 2010s and didn’t seem quite right. Mark Wingett who played Carver has been helping Ellison and his wife https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ellison_(actor)

Edited yesterday at 05:45 by Gloucester Saint

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12 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Sad to see that Chris Ellison who played Burnside has aphasia same as Bruce Willis. Saw him in a play late 2010s and didn’t seem quite right. Mark Wingett who played Carver has been helping Ellison and his wife https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Ellison_(actor)

That's a shame, but nice to read that Wingett is supportive. Burnside was a cracking character - dodgy, violent, misogynistic, sarcastic, but so bloody likeable! 

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Old fashioned policing the Burnside way. Less paperwork, less delay, and the fella got his hair washed. Kind of. 

 

Edited yesterday at 06:10 by egg

[Tamesaint]

19 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

I know 3 long term landlords jacking in recently as costs are killing them. The turnover of tenants is ridiculous locally, with a combination of Reeves & Brewery’s/ pub cos’s making them uneconomical. The last Government started the rot, but this lot are making it even worse, and that’s before the ginger growler gets her employment act on the statute.
 

The problem is there’s always some sap who thinks he can run a boozer, so nothing will ever change until we run out of mugs and it’s too late…

It all depends on the quality of the pub. There were 16 pubs in my town when we first'moved here  35 years ago. There are now 10  - which still enough for a decent pub crawl. 

The crap ones have gone. Several are now private houses. One is a chip shop. One is a funeral parlour! The survivors are those that give people what they want. Eg  quality beer (ale), good, reasonably priced food or decent entertainment. 

 

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47 minutes ago, Tamesaint said:

It all depends on the quality of the pub. There were 16 pubs in my town when we first'moved here  35 years ago. There are now 10  - which still enough for a decent pub crawl. 

The crap ones have gone. Several are now private houses. One is a chip shop. One is a funeral parlour! The survivors are those that give people what they want. Eg  quality beer (ale), good, reasonably priced food or decent entertainment. 

 

Generally the youths don’t do pubs like the older generations. Town centres at weekends are ok but culturally not somewhere the youngsters expect to go regularly 

[Lord Duckhunter]

4 hours ago, Tamesaint said:

It all depends on the quality of the pub. There were 16 pubs in my town when we first'moved here  35 years ago. There are now 10  - which still enough for a decent pub crawl. 

The crap ones have gone. Several are now private houses. One is a chip shop. One is a funeral parlour! The survivors are those that give people what they want. Eg  quality beer (ale), good, reasonably priced food or decent entertainment. 

 

The crap ones fell by the wayside years ago, it’s biting into the decent ones now. The cost of their energy, the price tenants are paying for their booze, and Government payroll taxes are killing them. When you add in the cultural changes, I don’t know why anyone bothers to run an alehouse out of big cities. The only people not screwing the landlords I know,are the bands & singers who are still performing for what they got pre Covid…

 

There’s hardly any experienced bar staff around anymore, most youngsters don’t have a local & don’t seem to appreciate this great institution. You even see cock wombles queuing up at the bar nowadays FFS. Personally, I’d tax off sales more and boozers less and then radically reform the tied system. Get the Government & the brewing cartels off their backs. 

[Turkish]

8 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

The crap ones fell by the wayside years ago, it’s biting into the decent ones now. The cost of their energy, the price tenants are paying for their booze, and Government payroll taxes are killing them. When you add in the cultural changes, I don’t know why anyone bothers to run an alehouse out of big cities. The only people not screwing the landlords I know,are the bands & singers who are still performing for what they got pre Covid…

 

There’s hardly any experienced bar staff around anymore, most youngsters don’t have a local & don’t seem to appreciate this great institution. You even see cock wombles queuing up at the bar nowadays FFS. Personally, I’d tax off sales more and boozers less and then radically reform the tied system. Get the Government & the brewing cartels off their backs. 

It so expensive to go for a drink now. If we got out with our friends for a drink you’re looking at not much change out of £40 for a couple of pints and two glasses of wine. Out for a pint with mates isn’t as bad but most places a where I live are charging at least £5 a pint, still bloody extortionate but then given the overheads no wonder 

[Lord Duckhunter]

1 minute ago, Turkish said:

It so expensive to go for a drink now. If we got out with our friends for a drink you’re looking at not much change out of £40 for a couple of pints and two glasses of wine.

Wines a piss take. Small, Med or large. You can’t go back with a small or medium as they put it in such a big glass you look a right tight arse taking that back from the bar. 

[Turkish]

5 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Wines a piss take. Small, Med or large. You can’t go back with a small or medium as they put it in such a big glass you look a right tight arse taking that back from the bar. 

Yep you have to get a large one, but looking at £12 minimum for anything half decent 

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13 minutes ago, Turkish said:

It so expensive to go for a drink now. If we got out with our friends for a drink you’re looking at not much change out of £40 for a couple of pints and two glasses of wine. Out for a pint with mates isn’t as bad but most places a where I live are charging at least £5 a pint, still bloody extortionate but then given the overheads no wonder 

£5 is cheap

[skintsaint]

Just now, whelk said:

£5 is cheap

Was going to say, I would be all over that. I bought two pints last weekend at a pub here in Surrey which cost me £17.

[Turkish]

26 minutes ago, whelk said:

£5 is cheap

That’s what I mean at least £5 that’s for a shit beer in a shit pub anything decent is £6.50 upwardS

[Gloucester Saint]

6 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

The crap ones fell by the wayside years ago, it’s biting into the decent ones now. The cost of their energy, the price tenants are paying for their booze, and Government payroll taxes are killing them. When you add in the cultural changes, I don’t know why anyone bothers to run an alehouse out of big cities. The only people not screwing the landlords I know,are the bands & singers who are still performing for what they got pre Covid…

 

There’s hardly any experienced bar staff around anymore, most youngsters don’t have a local & don’t seem to appreciate this great institution. You even see cock wombles queuing up at the bar nowadays FFS. Personally, I’d tax off sales more and boozers less and then radically reform the tied system. Get the Government & the brewing cartels off their backs. 

Supermarkets have killed the ok pubs a bit and should be taxed more on alcohol and pubs less. You need to offer ranges of drinks the supermarkets can’t. Keg Guinness is keg Guinness, 4 cans of that for £6 in the supermarkets. The really good ones are still doing well around here but the tied ones, the Stonegates and Star pubs etc are closing or struggling unless they’ve got a landlord/lady who pushes back vs the reps and area managers by offering choice. 

[Gloucester Saint]

5 hours ago, Turkish said:

That’s what I mean at least £5 that’s for a shit beer in a shit pub anything decent is £6.50 upwardS

£5.40-6 a pint here, and not a cheap area. A bit more in Cheltenham or Gloucester. I don’t mind if it’s really well kept ale or standout choice of wines but takes the piss when it’s common garden and £7+ a pint outside of central London.