The Banter police, aka the Stasi

a reply to: AdultMaleHumanUK

We don't have a pub within walking distance So driving is not an option and taxis are too pricey.

Used to live in Kent village with great pub almost next door.

Those were the days.

"Fancy a Swift half"? "Oh go on then".

Six pints later.....

Now we have a village hall and once a month we all meet up and bring our own. Booze, not coke.

Although on one occasion a very naughty lady actually was having a sly snort....or three.

Coffee shop? Full of beardy skinny trousered hipster SUV driving tw@ts.

And I don't speak "Starbucks".

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

Coffee shop? Full of beardy skinny trousered hipster SUV driving tw@ts.

Lol!
I enjoyed The Banter Cafe at ATS,
www.abovetopsecret.com...
But it got shut down in 2019 for being problematic and dangerous, I assume!!!

a reply to: AdultMaleHumanUK

Me too. Banter Police?

I miss it.

Perhaps we need an ATS pub?

You could be landlord?

In manner of Al Murray?

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

Why would you live somewhere without a pub in walking distance?

I can't imagine life without a pub. Its not just the beer and drinking - but it does help - its also the craic, the laughs...the social interaction. Every now and then whack the jukebox up and have a bit of an old fashioned sing-song.
There's all the friendships and connections one makes and need to maintain etc.

I really would be lost without a pub.

Sure, lots of pubs have shut down - largely as a result of a succession of various governments legislations and punitive taxation - but there's still a few decent, traditional British local, boozer type pubs where I live. Far too many hipster, jam jar glass, twatty pubs for my liking but each to their own.

a reply to: Freeborn

Cos it is a lovely village.

We have plenty of social interaction.

And some real characters. Even a minor rock star.

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

Sounds great mate.

My brother lives in what sounds like a similar type of village a few miles east of Bath - but it does have a village pub.
He loves it as well.

I just know that I personally would need at least one traditional pub within falling distance from where I lived.

ETA.
Oh....and give us a clue then.

a reply to: Freeborn

There's a pub but it's a hard walk across a muddy field. And it's 5.99 for a glass of red. Beers not great.

Clue about what?

Minor rock star?

You won't have heard of him.

He has a band and hires some pretty good session musos, well known ones for his band

a reply to: Freeborn

PM for you.

a reply to: Oldcarpy2



Replied mate.

originally posted by: Oldcarpy2
a reply to: crayzeed

That pub won't last long!

I haven't been in but at £6 a pint I never will.

a reply to: crayzeed

Six #ing quid a pint!

Only places charging more than a fiver a pint near me are some of the late night establishments. (Fortunately for me I know some of the owners so I get 'discount' on the rare occasions I go nowadays.)
Quite a few country pubs/eateries and pubs aimed at the younger and hipster crowds charge four or four pounds fiftyish for a pint.

I pay £3.20 for a pint of bitter in my local which is a traditional, locals boozer. Lager, Cider and Guinness are dearer.
There are quite a few pubs in the town where I can get the same bitter for £2.50 - £2.70, one even sells it at £1.85 a pint. But they are a bus or taxi drive away.

Go to Newcastle or Boro and there are still quite a few good pubs that charge round about the same - plenty that charge more as well.

I remember saying I wouldn't pay more than a pound a pint back in the day!

a reply to: crayzeed

Me neither! I remember drinking Light and Bitter.

My fave beer is Timothy Taylors Landlord. 🍺

a reply to: Athetos

well they didnt shut doon every pub in Glasgow when the hate speech laws were in
because I can tell you the sectarian values come fleein oot after a few bevvies
the prisons and courts would be full every night with the language and insults that get thrown around in pubs
in Scotland. Then there is the normal non sectarian banter where again lots of foul language and insults and dark humour.

this is another one of those stupid attempts to silence the working class people
an attempt to police language an and make our lives even more miserable
but it wont work there is zero chance of making it work and its a complete waste of tax payers money to even attempt this lunacy

People will just end up opening private clubs and the like or just kick the absolute # oot the "banter polis"
its like the equivalent of having a hall monitor in the school.
absolute worst #s will flock to this job though

its so dumb only eejits would come up with this plan.

a reply to: sapien1982

"absolute worst #s will flock to this job though".

Yes. And they wonder where the Nazis got the camp guards from...

a reply to: Freeborn

aye man only robbing bastards charge more than a sky diver for a pint
in the toon in Glesga its unfortunately the majority of drinking establishments doing this.

Although you can still get a pint of belhaven best for £2.70 in most bars and its pretty decent
better with a few cans with the mates in the house now or doon the park on a sunny day.

I rarely goto the pub now , kind of miss it every friday sat sun when I was younger and lived in Grangemouth

a reply to: sapien1982

I used to be a prefect in the sixth form. Ist day some of us went to a pub at lunchtime, to check if there were any 5th years were in there. Sort of. Sat with pints when the Headmaster came in, who was very Welsh.

"All right boys, I'll buy you a pint but see me in my study at 4".

So went in. "I'm very disappointed in you, boys. How stupid of you. Didn't you know that's where teachers drink? You should go to the Black Horse, next time".

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

reminds me of the pitleoch arms aka the pit , and we'd go in there after school the bus would drop us off right outside the pub and we;d walk in with our school uniforms (or resembling a uniform) on and they'd serve us a pint and we'd play pool for a bit then go home i think its because we knew everyone in there and they all knew our parents too.

gid times back in the day having shot drinking competitions with trish and margaret like it was a scene from indiana jones with everyone betting on the outcome
16 yr old males vs 65 yr auld wifeys so funny , so much spew

What is wrong with pubs today...inadvertently highlighted by Adrian Chiles.


I love my local pub in west London. It’s very Irish, which is how I like my pubs.


I mean, seriously?
This was in the Graun too, I thought they had a razor sharp ability to spot cultural appropriation?

a reply to: Freeborn
Ah, but it's a real ale pub now with "nun,s pi##" and "abbots spun##" and procecco for the ladies.

a reply to: SprocketUK

a guinness #in shandy WHIT

thats the equivalent of asking for coca cola in yer whisky in Campbelltown

luckily there are plenty auld mans boozers left in Glasgow
however there is a load of what ye might call hipsters who now enjoy going to auld mans boozers
to get that working class vibe they sorely miss in their more upmarket establishments
see they dont go into the weatherspoons as its mostly full of tourists and bams
auld mans boozers just aww the auld school workers who are now retired and spending their hard earned money gettin pished on weekday

its like theyd never walk in these places unless someone else told them it was cool to do so
anyway most places are #in #e now with loads of people just bangin gear in the toilets and
they all look the same too , like clones and they all play #e music and none of them #ing mix
but claim to be DJ's . Who wants to sit in a pub full of coke heids wae pish poor patter