Question

[Keith Oates]

There are so many diffierent types of pub that it's not easy to say not to go to any. I sometimes go where there is music if that is the mood I'm in, at other times I go to places where it's quiet and you can tolk or even have a good snack. I've met and talked with many interesting people in pubs (bars) all over the world and enjoyed the experience. I've also met some 'twits' but that happens everywhere.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I like a drink, and I like pubs. I also like getting drunk occasionally, especially in good company. I like loud music, as long as it's my kind of thing (and not too loud to converse over). Why anyone else should have a problem with me enjoying these things is beyond me.

 

[Abitrary]

Jukeboxes used to sit in a corner and people could listen to it around there.

These days all pubs have bose PAs, loudspeakers whatever, piping music into every corner of the pub.

Then the staff come in and start mucking around with the settings, because they can.

 

[ComedyPilot]

We have a young lad at work that brags about how wrecked he can get. He wobbled up to me at a mate's stag do and waflled on about how he'd paid £9 for his drink, and downed it in one. I asked him how long it took him to earn it, and pointed out how quickly someone else had deprived him of it!

 

[dantheman]

its the people that brag about what a good time they had, because they cant remember what happened and have a hell of a hangover, that get me!

after one of these nights, a mate of mine found himself waking in a police cell, arrested for burgling a primark store, he laughed in the interview (i heard the tape) and said there was no way he would have done this, he's a law abiding citizen, and earns more than enough to never even look at such shops.. however, after seeing the video evidence of him dooing the job, and walking around (more like staggering, it would be good to benny hill music) the whole town centre with about 30 shirts, and then falling asleep after leaving them in a pile, he had no choice but to plead guilty at court..

yeh, sounds like a great reason to get drunk to me..

 

[goo_mason]

...sorry Goo..disagree with that one....can't stand Wetherspoons pubs myself...big busy bars full of people talking (loudly)...no music...cheap drink...they attract more 'nutters' than the average pub...definately not what I would class as a comfortable atmosphere....at least none of the one's I've been in...
...would agree with you guys that there is much more to life than sitting in pubs boozing...I do like to nip into the 'local' for a quick pint or to watch the footy with a couple of mates...but if I feel like getting pissed on occasion well 'there's no place like home' for me....

I didn't say I ever go to a Weatherspoons - I just agree with their no-music policy over those places that try to give you tinnitus. I don't mind music in the background; it's the deafening levels that stop any conversation dead that annoy me !

I suspect it's a way of getting people to drink more - if you're not able to talk to your mates, you'll just spend more time pouring drink down your throat

 

[domtyler]

Don't often get to go to pubs nowadays but certainly in my twenties I was rarely to be found more than a hundred feet from one.

 

[jassy-x]

I didn't say I ever go to a Weatherspoons - I just agree with their no-music policy over those places that try to give you tinnitus. I don't mind music in the background; it's the deafening levels that stop any conversation dead that annoy me !

...actually I kind of thought you might have meant that Goo when I re-read your post after I had commented on Weatherspoons...
...I don't particularly like pubs that don't have music, nor do I like the one's with the deafening music (unless it's a live band I have went to watch, in which case I wouldn't be talking while they were playing anyway)...as you said a bit of background music at a reasonable level would be ideal...

 

[domtyler]

If you want to talk why would you go to somewhere that was blasting out music at top volume?

 

[Rhythm Thief]

its the people that brag about what a good time they had, because they cant remember what happened and have a hell of a hangover, that get me!

after one of these nights, a mate of mine found himself waking in a police cell, arrested for burgling a primark store, he laughed in the interview (i heard the tape) and said there was no way he would have done this, he's a law abiding citizen, and earns more than enough to never even look at such shops.. however, after seeing the video evidence of him dooing the job, and walking around (more like staggering, it would be good to benny hill music) the whole town centre with about 30 shirts, and then falling asleep after leaving them in a pile, he had no choice but to plead guilty at court..

yeh, sounds like a great reason to get drunk to me..

I've been drunk and incapable more times than I can remember, and I've certainly never lost control to that extent. The worst that happens to me is that I can no longer walk.

 

[Mr Pig]

I think the Scottish Government are heading in the right direction.

I don't agree. The problems with alcohol are nothing to do with the legal age etc. The main problem is that you can buy drink anywhere.

Every corner shop in every scheme sells drink. Usually the selection of drinks on display is huge, often a whole wall of the shop! Kids can just hang around the shop until someone older buys drink for them, someone always does.

If teenagers had to travel a few miles into town and deal with a busy supermarket they'd be a lot less likely to bother. I've seen teenagers trying to buy lager in the supermarket, they just gave up as soon as they were asked for i.d. In the local corner shop they'd have no problem.

Take the drinks licences off the corner shops and sell alcohol only from supermarkets and maybe an off licence in the town. That would make a bigger difference than the silliness they're employing now.

 

[Noodley]

I don't agree. The problems with alcohol are nothing to do with the legal age etc. The main problem is that you can buy drink anywhere.

The approach has much more to it than age restrictions.
However, it seems it is only the age restrictions getting any attention in the media.

The drinks industry are involved and keen to work with the government - the supermarkets, the main vendors of cheap alcohol, are not keen. Do not target small shops - as you said yourself the problem is not age it is availability.

 

[goo_mason]

If you want to talk why would you go to somewhere that was blasting out music at top volume?

Because for years they were decent places with quiet background music. Then you'd go and find the music deafening because the place had been taken over by a brewery....

 

[cheadle hulme]

So....if you don't like pubs, don't go in them and find an alternative way to socialise.
If you do like them, find one you like and avoid the ones you don't.


I did used to like Wetherspoons meal+pint = £4.59 deal but the meal quality seems to have unsuprisingly gone downhill lately. The worst Wetherspoons in the UK must be Middleton, Manchester. OAP's start banging the door down if they can't spend their pension at 11 on the dot.

Nothing better than finding a nice quiet pub halfway through a new ride to refresh the muscles and fill the water bottle though.