[Drinking] Do you plan to visit a pub this weekend?

[zefarelly]

What's that you say, an idiotic decision by this government, well I never!

They're planning to publish them, one volume a month, Brittanica are doing it, heavy stuff

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

I voted yes, but to be honest, I have a bad feeling it's going to be like England in the World Cup where all of the thick idiots are out in force and causing mayhem for the sake of it.

Is there a maybe button? ha Either way though, I'm very much looking forward to having a pint of draught beer.

 

[Springal]

Ugh! No. The beer will taste like piss as the filters will be dirty. Can't see pubs coming up with the money for completely fresh new stock, which it should be with the inflated prices charged probably.

You drink in the wrong pubs

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

No. Idiotic by the Government to do this on a Saturday. Should have done it on a quiet Monday with none of this crap about “Independence Day/ “ Super Saturday.”

Despite saying I'm possibly going, I agree with this.

 

[BN41Albion]

What's that you say, an idiotic decision by this government, well I never!

Yep. And after the red tops massively big up the 'Independence Day' rhetoric and all that bollocks on Saturday, it'll be the same papers that then outcry on Sunday /Monday when mayhem ensues. You could write the headlines for Saturday and Sunday/Monday now. utterly bonkers decision

 

[BN9 BHA]

Nope, leave this weekend to the amateurs

Pubs will be full of riff raff like that [MENTION=457]sheebo[/MENTION] fellow

 

[Sheebo]

Pubs will be full of riff raff like that [MENTION=457]sheebo[/MENTION] fellow

I’m not a majorly pub kinda guy anymore thank you Peter

I was considering it as Albion then Bmuff on but can’t see it’s worth the aggro. Just gonna go to a mates or host some mates (Man Utd ‘fans’ admittedly) then abuse some people on here in between

 

[AlbionBro]

Could you pop round to my place please - My cleaner hasn't been here since 19th March

Noo.

 

[Pevenseagull]

an intensive care nurse, an epidemiologist and a person with half a brain walk into a bar .....


I'll wait a month and see how the experiment plays out

 

[ManOfSussex]

It'll be dickhead central. What's happening elsewhere in the world in regards to bars and restaurants and transmission of Covid-19 should be warning enough, surely?

If not:

I drink at the ****ing bar.
I hand my empties over.
I don't use apps to buy drinks in a ****ing pub.
I do not show ID.
I get served by someone resembling a member of bar-staff behind a bar, not someone dressed as a ****ing dental nurse, seconded to an ICU unit.

Not for me Clive.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

Yep. And after the red tops massively big up the 'Independence Day' rhetoric and all that bollocks on Saturday, it'll be the same papers that then outcry on Sunday /Monday when mayhem ensues. You could write the headlines for Saturday and Sunday/Monday now. utterly bonkers decision

And then they can blame the public for being stupid.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Very happy I’m one of the few going

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

82.98% of NSC members are over 55. Fact.

Well....inference.

Well, or maybe have only shit pubs nearby.

Or maybe don't like pubs.

Or all of the above.

 

[Baker lite]

I’m not going to the boozer till all the loons have had their fun. About 2-3 weeks time.


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[PILTDOWN MAN]

Ugh! No. The beer will taste like piss as the filters will be dirty. Can't see pubs coming up with the money for completely fresh new stock, which it should be with the inflated prices charged probably.

You are very ignorant of beer dispense and what the industry has done.

What are these filters?

All breweries are replacing new for old unopened stock for free. It’s the breweries disposing of the beer and claiming back duty payments

 

[Arkwright]

My local pub the King and Queen in Caterham isn't opening because with the one metre rule they can only get a maximum of sixteen people in the pub.
I don't drink at home and am gagging for a decent pint but I.I'm happy to wait, haven't had a proper pint since Wolves away.

 

[clapham_gull]

It'll be dickhead central. What's happening elsewhere in the world in regards to bars and restaurants and transmission of Covid-19 should be warning enough, surely?

If not:

I drink at the ****ing bar.
I hand my empties over.
I don't use apps to buy drinks in a ****ing pub.
I do not show ID.
I get served by someone resembling a member of bar-staff behind a bar, not someone dressed as a ****ing dental nurse, seconded to an ICU unit.

Not for me Clive.

I live in Balham now and Tooting is easy walking distance. Great shops and markets down there etc...

So I walk past my local pub (50m away) about 3pm last week and there is group outside drinking on the pavement already merry. Spend 90 mins down in Tooting and arrive back 2 hours later. Same group there completely shitfaced, now joined by many more all drinking on the street. Had to cross over the road just to get home.

This has been slow creep. The pub basically never "closed". From day one it was doing take away meals, cocktails and beers. Over the last few months people have been sitting on a long wall outside, carefully keeping away from each other. All very very civil and quite "European".

The pub is a on a corner and there is low wall that stretches the length of a 5 a side pitch.

Now it's starting to resemble Soho on a hot Friday evening if anyone has experienced it. Everyone drinking on the pavement.

I just can't see how this pub can:

1) Ensure social distancing.

2) Get anybody to do what they are told after a few beers.

3) Stop masses congregating outside.

4) Stop larger numbers turning up without a booking, where one can just get the beers in. Can't imagine the carnage in the toilets downstairs I'd imagine most will just piss in the street.

This pub quite obviously doesn't give a **** and there will be many others like it. There is a bar near the Tube Station that is equally as bad. Just to be clear, these aren't "rough pubs" quite the opposite and the punters are young professionals.

Next door is a posh fish and chop shop that also does beers and has been open for months.

This "you must book" is absolutely ****ing nonsense, it isn't New Years Eve. Pop round to Waitrose (2 mins away), get the beers in and meet your mates "at the pub" albeit on the pavement outside.

 

[OzMike]

I said yes, though ours have open for about a month already.

 

[Klaas]

Yes, it is a country pub with Beer Garden, two doors to the bar so one way in & one out, contactless payment, fresh glass each time (leave old one outside for cleaning). Why exactly do NSC think this is more risky than, for example shopping in Tesco's?

Well, you don't generally go to Tesco's to socialise do you? Then throw alcohol in to the mix. No one's going to be wearing masks while drinking obviously so the microscopic spittle is going to be flying. Pubs tend to be much smaller than your average supermarket too. Loads of clusters around the world are connected to social spaces. I'll be giving it a miss anyway. Although a nice, big beer garden might tempt me.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

You are very ignorant of beer dispense and what the industry has done.

What are these filters?

All breweries are replacing new for old unopened stock for free. It’s the breweries disposing of the beer and claiming back duty payments

Mind you I do remember filter pans, takes me back!