A sign of the times


The mixed crowd is the key really for me.
I was brought up in a pub. We used to get everyone, from local business owners, to binmen and pit yackers in. A real cross section, but in a pub, they are all equal. Local successes, rubbing shoulders with people they wouldn't ordinarily meet in their days, and vice versa.
All had one thing in common though. They were in the pub to have a good time, and meet their marras. We are losing that.
It used to be, along with the church, the centre of the community.
With the odd exception, that is gone now. And the local communities are all the worse for it. Sad really.
Some of those people you mention now get looked down upon. Just read this thread.
Where is the Black Bull? Do you mean Vesta Tilly?
Yeah it is the vesta tilly. It was a Canadian pub for a while but I don't keep up with the name changes.
You don't sound as if you're a regular as you didn't know The Terrace which has been there for at least 8 or so years. How often do you go out? Perhaps you'll answer this question.
Not that often. I've got mates who drink in the town every Friday. I recently started going out with them on the odd Friday but I wouldn't do it every week. I've been going to more local to me pubs like the board Inn and the stables for a very long time now. But it stopped because of COVID and never started again.
Not that any of this is relevant to whether four quid for a pint is a rip off or not.
 
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I'm not sure what your point is now. You brought up ugly people supping all day the kind of people you look down on. I'm just saying it works, it pays.
If I ran a boozer I wouldn't worry about how handsome my punters were, or what they did for a living. As long as they were in drinking my crap beer then it's happy days.
I had a Friday night down the town a few weeks back and the cooper rose was pretty crowded. We went to another nearby pub, the terrace I think it was called and there was nobody in. The black bull was quietish and the greens very crowded but it's small so will look busy. It was an ok night but I wouldn't do it very often. It all lacked atmosphere, you need a good mixed crowd in a pub. That's for me anyway.

Ugly people? You were on about cheap places being full during the day to prove your point. What I'm saying is most employed people aren't filling pubs because they're at work rather than because it's too expensive. Most who can sup all day during the day throughout the week won't have that issue. And if they aren't working then of course they will fill the cheap places.

If you go to the likes of Isis, Duncow and Ivy on a Friday you'll find they are usually busy. And they charge a decent whack for their beers (which tbf are better offerings than most places in town).
Doubt he's been out since 1979.

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I'd like to know how landlords are supposed to keep pubs open when making a loss on a 2quid pint
I said that's all it's worth. I know they can't charge that. It would be nice to have a discussion on here without the usual straw man arguments and bullshit. It'll never happen though.
 
Why do people post that they paid £24 for three glasses of wine? Also for attention?
We were talking about the decline of pubs.

I offered the opinion that the price of drinks was a contributory factor in that decline. Because half the people on here would doubt Jesus I thought from experience I had better give some detail to my post.

Happy?
 
But you said it was TBMs pretending it was worth more.
No I said it was tbms pretending they're happy to pay the price today. To create an image of themselves on here. Try and not misquote me so many times in a thread please. Cheers.
 
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walked into a bar in Durham, been here about an hour, 5 people playing cards on a table, probably a pint between them, if that.

Alongside the obvious increases, One of the reasons pubs are finished.

That's what we used to do at 15-16 tbf when only one person looked old enough to get served.
 
No I said it was tbms pretending they're happy to pay the price today. To create an image of themselves on here. Try and not misquote me so many times in a thread please. Cheers.

So I am correct. You are saying they are pretending its worth it when you just agreed some will think it is worth it, and thus they not pretending. Try not to make out I am misquoting you so many times in a thread please. Cheers.
 

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