22-08-2014, 03:05 PM
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Re: Socialising.
Is this as a result of the conversation on the Jeremy Vine show about the Gastro Pubs, Imo, Pubs stopped being Pubs when the "Steak Bar" area was introduced. You ate at home first, to line your stomach, then you went for a few ales, if you wanted a meal you went to a Restaurant, Pub = Beer, Darts, Regulars, Birds, a smoky haze, you would go from Pub to Pub, like migrating Wildebeests across the Serengeti, looking for plentiful supplies of available Females, glad I ain't a youth nowadays, with all the Gastro Joints.Nowadays I'd rather stay at Home.
22-08-2014, 04:10 PM
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Re: Socialising.
We still have an old fashioned 'local' in our village that my hubby pops in to about four times a week. He likes to meet up with his cronies & have a chinwag. Sometimes I go if one of the wives are going but that isn't often.I do however go in the chain pubs a lot for pub meals etc...
22-08-2014, 04:36 PM
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Re: Socialising.
A few years back i decided we had to get out and socialise , we went to a country pubs for a summer evenings drink , as we walked in all eyes turned to us and we sat in a corner drank our drink and it was very much like a Doctors waiting room ,no one spoke .well after a couple of evening like this ,i didn't suggest going again .It was a lot better when we did Dance lessons , this was held at A large Pub a room for all of us to dance and have a drink after , gawd that was such fun,dance my feet off guys just kept coming up asking for a dance .
22-08-2014, 07:42 PM
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Re: Socialising.
I live in a town where there are pubs galore. I'm very choosy about what pubs I go to. There's only one which is ten minutes walk from me. It does great pub grub and has a nice clientelle. My partner lives 30 miles away and when he's through here then he loves going there. It's only every other week though. Most of the time we wine and dine at home. Every Saturday we have a drink in whatever village/town we are in after our Ramblers walk. Usually about 20 of us. It's a social thing. I love it
22-08-2014, 09:50 PM
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Re: Socialising.
Thousands of pubs have closed down over here since the smoking ban and many more will be closing according to the licensed Vintners Association, the pubs will never be the same again, yes the times they are a changing.The local I use is only a short walk from me, it's one of the few places left that resembles a true pub, regulars and irregulars all blend in the friendly atmosphere, the landlord and his wife are two decent skins and there's never any trouble there, me old dog loves there too, don't know where I'm going to go when he sells out like the rest of them, maybe I won't bother going out at all, stay in with the wife and have a few ports, hate those social gatherings for tea and scones in the local parish hall, I believe they have the hall redecorated now and all sorts of stuff going on there like indoor bowls (Yuk), amateur dramatics and dancing, I'd be as stiff as a poker trying to dance in the middle of the day with not a drop on me.
22-08-2014, 09:56 PM
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Re: Socialising.
I blame TESCO & it's competitors for supplying CHEAP booze to the masses and the BAN on smoking in pubs for their demise.Having said that, our behaviour/habits are changing FAST, as a result of the influence of the INTERNET .
I once enjoyed a chat, pie & pint at my local working men's club, sadly all my (older) chums died one after another during my 5 years membership. The club committee must have been relieved when I failed to renew in 2007.
The club died in 2010 & the site, as with many former pubs became replaced by a block of 14 flats. (always 14 to avoid having to include "Social" housing.)
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