When will there be good news?

Now, it seems...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7810263.stm

 

I wouldn't even pay 99p for Greene King IPA.

 

Nonsense. This will attract those for whom price is the over-riding
criterium, and make decent pubs more pleasant for the discerning.

 

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I was in a pub recently that had a bar billiards table. Joy was
unconfined.

I reckon all pubs should have:

1. A dartboard, with a decent supply of 'house darts' if you haven't got
your own.

2. Two or more cribbage boards.

3. A shove ha'penny board.

4. Bar billiards or pool table. A pinball table would also be nice.

 

5. Skittle alley.

 

5. Aunt Sally in the midlands or a skittle alley around here.

 

Whereabouts? Laura is seriously fond of bar billiards.

Local has darts and pool. Laura and I appalled her friends with an
exhibition match of extreme incompetence and duration.

 

As long as the noisy stuff is kept in the public bar, I see no problem.

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5. A separate room for the folks with polio and the consumption.

6. No blacks, dogs or Irish.

7. Union Jack bunting.

8. A party when the Great War ends.

 

A snug.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, The Older

A large sign saying "Keep your fucking brats at home".

 

I had similar experiences when I was living in Leicester in the mid 90s.
It sucks to be in a minority.

 

It's interesting to read these accounts, and recall the vehement denials
that such a thing could exist, when I related how an ex saw a sign in
the window of a shop in Bath along the lines, 'no dogs, French or
blacks' in the 1990s.

D.

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What pubs were like that then?
I've only ever experienced one pub in Leicester that was outrightly
racist, comically called 'The Black Boy' on a side street in the City
Centre.
Of course, there were the horrible pubs in the middle of the large
estates, but no one other than local residents went to them anyway as
they were so rough.
Alan.

 

Well said brother WUN.

 

I fear you may have slightly misunderstood. I was a white student living
in Highfields and Evington. Pubs weren't the problem.

 

You need a third to drink in Dublin if you're paid in sterling.

 

My wife grew up in Evington.

 

Of the two, it's by far the least grim.

 

Is it specifically because of the smoking ban you don't go to pubs or is
it another reason?

TBH, I spend a great deal of time in pubs but I can't remember the last
time I went "there's nothing on the television so let's go up the pub" as
a social thing to do in the evening.

I had to scratch my head for the last time I was in a pub and could
describe it as "not business".

£4 a pint is not too far away.