[Drinking] is it time to retire the pint?

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Tim Over Whelmed

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Jul 24, 2007
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As every day passes I feel completely gratified by the realisation I was born in 1961, and I am now an old man and can take solace in the fact that a lot of this crap isn't really going to impact on me. It's a pint, change it to whatever you wish, I'll find a way around it or make do, crack on!
 




Bodian

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May 3, 2012
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I do drink halves sometimes when out for what would have been a few years ago “a few pints”. But that’s simply age. If we got rid of the pint I suppose there’s also no halves. Half of what?
I find I drink two halves quicker than a pint. I think it's something to do with 'finishing it off' or something psychological like that. So, I would end up drinking more if we went down this route!
 


Tim Over Whelmed

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I find I drink two halves quicker than a pint. I think it's something to do with 'finishing it off' or something psychological like that. So, I would end up drinking more if we went down this route!
It's weird though, isn't it. I go out, normally a couple of times a week, 7.15 ish to 9 (when suppers ready and I daren't be late :ROFLMAO: ) and sometimes I drink a pint and sometimes three or even four, sometimes I'll leave at 8.30 because I've finished my drink and don't want another. I find making my own mind up works for me, and, as you say, changing to smaller glasses may make people drink more ..... but just imagine all those glasses the industry will have to shift .... every home in the country will have hundreds of pint glasses given away by landlords who'll then get loads more branded ones from an industry that'll then charge more because, like decimalisation, we'll all be too lazy to work out what the price should be.
 


Muzzman

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Jul 8, 2003
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You know for a fact the prices wont change though, we'll be paying the same as we would for a pint for less the volume if this should ever happen.
 


zefarelly

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Jul 7, 2003
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It's weird though, isn't it. I go out, normally a couple of times a week, 7.15 ish to 9 (when suppers ready and I daren't be late :ROFLMAO: ) and sometimes I drink a pint and sometimes three or even four, sometimes I'll leave at 8.30 because I've finished my drink and don't want another. I find making my own mind up works for me, and, as you say, changing to smaller glasses may make people drink more ..... but just imagine all those glasses the industry will have to shift .... every home in the country will have hundreds of pint glasses given away by landlords who'll then get loads more branded ones from an industry that'll then charge more because, like decimalisation, we'll all be too lazy to work out what the price should be.
There is an advantage to being a grown up!
 




Beanstalk

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Apr 5, 2017
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Where did you live?
Lived out in New Zealand and travelled around East Asia for a bit after that before heading home.

Wonderful drinking culture in most places but the ability to sit down and just have a drink in a nice setting was difficult almost everywhere compared the UK. The places would either close at ridiculously early times (NZ) or you'd need to order food with your drink (Japan/Korea) as per cultural norms. New Zealand it also seemed to be a choice of pretentious schooner at a craft brewery or the worst bogun pub you can imagine.

Pubs are great in the UK. They are reliable and everywhere - a great place for one or four, whatever the occasion calls for! Pints are a massive cultural part of that experience.
 








RustyKent

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Jun 2, 2014
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Herne Bay
The restaurant I visited today look as though they've retired the pint!
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Questions

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Oct 18, 2006
25,506
Worthing
I had 7 pints yesterday, 3 spliffs and a lovely homemade nacho nosh.
What does that add to this thread you may ask ?
Well carry on asking …… mojo 9.74
 


The Clamp

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Jan 11, 2016
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Sunday night is my Friday night so we went out in Hove. Guiness is my winter drink and I enjoyed three pints of the black stuff this evening. I can’t imagine Guinness in any other measurement except a pint.


Pints IN.
 




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