Hammer and Pickle
8:40 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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Yeah Johnson
Whatever.
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/final-report-high-level-expert-group-fake-news-and-online-disinformation
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CroHammer
8:34 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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Depends what industry you work in. the London insurance scene is still a hotbed of alcoholism. A lot of deals done over a pint and Friday afternoons are a write off!
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Johnson
8:09 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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Probably why you work from home and drink yourself stupid every day then, you pathetic Nazi alcoholic poncing wretch.
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Hammer and Pickle
7:13 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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'tis the case - drinking at work is considered a chav thing.
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Dwight Van Mann
7:11 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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Hammer and Pickle 7:02 Mon Mar 12
BWAHAHAHAHA fuck off Pickle you alchi
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Hammer and Pickle
7:02 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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Pretty much unheard of round here. Total dry lunch cunt business culture this.
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Gavros
6:42 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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my mates Mrs is one of those well paid nanny types. she must earn a good 60 grand a year and they always get taken abroad by the family and get silly Christmas presents. the people she's currently working for are high flyers in banks - she's in law and he's in sales. every night he comes home totally smashed out of his box with a bag full of cans. she said she's been walking home some nights and sees a tramp shuffling down the street with his face in a bag of chips. yep, it's her boss.
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gph
6:36 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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In the late '90s I visited a company in Normandy for a project meeting.
We were all very impressed by the efficiency and sheer hard work they put into their morning presentations, which started at 8am sharp.
At lunchtime they got completely smashed, and got us smashed too. Four course meal, each course with its own wine, half a bottle per course per person, aperitif and digestif was the minimum their interpretation of the rules of hospitality would let you get away with.
I have no recollection of the afternoon.
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boltkunt
6:28 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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I couldn't go for beers at lunch. I'd end up not going back to work, or home for about 3 days.
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Gavros
6:27 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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I don't drink while the sun's up personally.
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gph
6:25 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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WEBSTER's light mild was their flagship brew, Len.
They were famous for not having a bitter as their top seller.
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Dwight Van Mann
6:23 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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"Sometimes the MD would come in as we were heading back and tell us to stay and buy some rounds. Crazy times."
How did the post room manage a whole afternoon without you?
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Swiss.
6:13 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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Haven't worked in the UK for a while. Last time was in the city around 2011 I didn't see it. Plenty still after work.
I remember working in Holborn around 1990 for ADT and we'd regularly get smashed lunch tiles. Sometimes the MD would come in as we were heading back and tell us to stay and buy some rounds. Crazy times.
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ooooh Morley Morley
6:09 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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I quite like a Monday pint in London to be honest. The pubs on these days are usually full of the high flyers and senior management. You don't get your office pleb in the pub on a Monday.
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Grumpster
6:06 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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How would they know though Len?
I work for a law firm in the city and they couldn't give a shit if I drank every lunchtime so long as I done my work.
Rarely see an empty pub around fenchurch st on any day of the week at lunchtime, people are still bang on it every day, especially the insurance mobs.
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boltkunt
6:04 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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Monday afternoons are ODD. I see a lot of folk having a lunch time pint on a monday.
i mean, SERIOUSLY?
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ooooh Morley Morley
5:57 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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Nowt wrong with it Len, i'll be popping out for lunch tomorrow, throwing back 4 pints of Stella then going back to the office.
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Leonard Hatred
5:47 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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It's not something I would even think of doing now, but it was standard behaviour.
Just seems ODD when you think of it now.
If you worked with someone who left their desk at 1pm, went to the pub, had 4 pints, and came back at 2pm, every day, management would take a dim view of it.
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GreenStreetPlayer
5:46 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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Folk?
OOOOOOAAARRGGHH!
Bloke in old workplace used to have 7 or 8 pints lunchtime, go back to work and you wouldn't know. No slurring nothing.
He had long legs and the bar in this pub was downstairs. The barmen saw his legs coming down the stairs and they had a pint poured for him by the time he got to the bar. Not a lot of people know that.
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Queens Fish Bar
5:38 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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Scum
SnakeBite + black = diesel
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Queens Fish Bar
5:38 Mon Mar 12
Re: Folk that go up the pub and have 2 or 3 pints in their work lunch break
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Scum
SnakeBite + black = diesel
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