Cowshed Cowboy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:58 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:41 am

Cowshed Cowboy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 9:35 am How can pubs be four times as expensive, that means you would be paying something like £16-£20 for a pint of Guinness for example. That surely can't be the case.

£1 a pint in a can, £4+ a pint in the pub.
£5 bottle of wine, £5 a glass in a pub.

£5 would get you a nice buzz (it got me four cans of Stella and a big pack of salt and vinegar Chipsticks) It buys you one pint in the pub. No crisps though.

Ah okay you were comparing supermarket prices to pub prices. Those differences aren't exactly a new phenomenon if that's the case, was even wider until the govt introduced some minimum pricing legislation on the supermarkets a few years ago.

I agree, the huge price differential has always been there but this is the first time in history that pubs stopped being an option and taking a few cans over the park or on the local green and meeting a few mates became the only social gathering allowed. And people did it in droves and found that it was good fun. Take a fold up chair, take a spliff, take your beers and crisps and only mix with your own friends. The local pub idiot or pain in the ass was not invited. And it cost well under a tenner. Many are still doing it while the sun is out. When the weather turns pubs will either fill up and survive or wither and die. Any serious second spike in infections and they are done for.

One of the UKs problems is it’s fascination with alcohol and getting absolutely shitted; and if it’s not that, it’s some bleating about the bloody (Shit) NHS.

The other national pastime of thuggery & fighting has all but gone now the Empire is gone & there’s nobody else to fight for territorial gain. Pity, because we were pretty good at it.

The country desperately needs its own “Make Britain Great Again” movement - perhaps based on investment in science & technology; real “Space Race” stuff the country could get behind. Especially if some extra-terrestrials need their butts kicked, makeshift hospitals will do & the troops are paid with beer. That could work!

UK, huh, good God, what is it good for?

tightenupvolume1 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 1:02 pm I remember this


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Backing_Britain

Just how old are you???

Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 12:14 pm One of the UKs problems is it’s fascination with alcohol and getting absolutely shitted; and if it’s not that, it’s some bleating about the bloody (Shit) NHS.

The other national pastime of thuggery & fighting has all but gone now the Empire is gone & there’s nobody else to fight for territorial gain. Pity, because we were pretty good at it.

The country desperately needs its own “Make Britain Great Again” movement - perhaps based on investment in science & technology; real “Space Race” stuff the country could get behind. Especially if some extra-terrestrials need their butts kicked, makeshift hospitals will do & the troops are paid with beer. That could work!

UK, huh, good God, what is it good for?

Start a thread, "What is the UK good for?

I'm sure you'll get some very colourful suggestions and you can send them to Boris as a suggestion sheet.