Grays
11:47 Mon Aug 26
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Don’t get the hate for Wetherspoons gaffs at all.
They “save” some nice buildings as well tbf.
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mashed in maryland
10:45 Mon Aug 26
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Wetherspoons are far closer to these "traditional pubs" that everyone's moaning about being closed down than almost every other more modern chain.
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Westham67
10:01 Mon Aug 26
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gph . Yes gone as well. The Jolly fisherman was good for afters
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RM10
9:52 Mon Aug 26
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Wetherspoons sell beer at the price it should be
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White Pony
2:03 Mon Aug 26
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Not a massive fan of Wetherspoons but blaming them for the demise of the boozer is ludicrous.
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gph
1:43 Mon Aug 26
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67: the Britannia was the only reason to go to Barking.
Long gone, I believe.
In general, the slow death is more a suicide. Beer prices are ridiculous.
There was a time when you'd be shocked at the price of beer when in bars in the near continent. Now it's the same here.
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mashed in maryland
11:33 Sun Aug 25
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Still would up north. My local is about £3.30 a pint and is considered expensive. Some "modern" rural pubs do seem to massively take the piss though.
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Any Old Iron
11:28 Sun Aug 25
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Vexed - generic cunt pit. How true that is.
Today I drank in a rural Somersset pub and for a pint of lager, a G & T and a spritzer it was £18. For that I can get a litre of quality spirit from a supermarket and get a couple of quid change.
I think it's tragic that so many old school boozers have gone, but if even places out in the sticks with relatively low overheads continue overcharging like that then they'll be going the same way, and will probably deserve it.
It's not that long ago that £18 would have paid for a round of six pints.
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bruuuno
10:16 Sun Aug 25
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Toe Rag 9:03 Sun Aug 25
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mashed in maryland
9:29 Sun Aug 25
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Some of the pubs in Liverpool literally look derelict from the outside but are actually pretty well maintained in the inside. Asked a few people about this and its supposedly done semi-intentionally to keep students and tourists out. Quite surreal at night when these buildings that literally look ready to fall down in daylight are rocking.
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Manip
9:20 Sun Aug 25
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*not lol
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Manip
9:19 Sun Aug 25
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My local in Welwyn, (The Rose & Crown) is unique now, as it doesn't serve food. Only crisps that are to be sold separately. You get a good stare down if we don't recognize you, someone is always in the cubicle and the garden has the aroma of skunk weed. It is a pub. Where everybody knows your name, and they are always glad you came.
So Solid Crew there in a couple of weeks too.
Guaranteed to go bang tits up.
swt
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Westham67
9:12 Sun Aug 25
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The only surviving pub in the main Barking are the Spotted Dog and The Barking dog and small low maintenance back street pub the Vic
Gone the Jolly Fisherman,Red Lion , White Horse, The Bull , The Barge, The Captain Cook.
When the white working class leave pubs close
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Toe Rag
9:03 Sun Aug 25
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The idea of pubs is good until you adopt a local and get to realise that all the regulars are lonely alcoholic fucking nauses.
Every pub in the land is the same.
There are just SO many cunts about and getting webbed up in their miserable lives just isn’t fun.
It’s a shame because I used to love going down the boozer.
Cheers cunts.
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Mike Oxsaw
8:58 Sun Aug 25
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If your working week consists of sweating your guts out in a factory or foundary five and a half days a week, several pints every night will go some way to getting the fluid back in your body.
These days, where factories or foundries remain and still use mass manual labour, that role is now taken up by drinking water from whale-killing plastic bottles at regular intervals throughout the day; Lard-arses in offices have trouble breaking wind, let alone into a sweat, so they ain't going to have a need to drink at the end of the day.
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mashed in maryland
8:35 Sun Aug 25
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Demographics is probably a big part of this.
Where I live all the boozers are packed out at weekends whether they serve food or not and all summer have been busy most nights.
Every time I go back to east London it seems like more and more have closed but thats probably simply because not as many people living there these days drink.
Things change, pubs and cafes are closing for a reason, dunno why this is being spoken about as some sort of crisis that needs stopping.
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Bishopsfinger
3:16 Fri Aug 23
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Policing is a big thing I agree. They would rather try and contain activity to one area. The major thing is the pub companies not giving publicans a chance with rents and the council the same with rates.
Never could fathom why councils dont reduce rates so at least they get something rather than nothing. No wonder the hight streets are dying also.
Police cant create revenue whilst dealing with pubs and bars. They would rather put them on a road with a speed camera earning.
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the last eastender
2:42 Fri Aug 23
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Ak37
Good old fashioned cafetiere coffee preferably AM.
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WHU(Exeter)
2:10 Fri Aug 23
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Micky Flanegan was spot on with "People used to go down the pub to get away from everything...now everything is in the pub"
Mind you Mark E Smith was saying the same over ten years back.
Loads of places now are more like offices that sell alcohol than pubs.
Thank you Wetherspoons.
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ak37
1:53 Fri Aug 23
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Thelasteastender
I would never drink a frappacino
It would be a skinny, soy chai late
Namaste
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Pickle Rick
1:47 Fri Aug 23
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When a pint is costing over £5 (in London) you can see why on top of the other issues that Landpersons have with suppliers and who they rent from.
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