British pub closing time
14-May-2008
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Its seems incredible to me that in this day and age we British still cling to some crazy law that was introduced during the war to prevent factory workers from drinking too much the night before and then not being fit to work with the munitions in the morning.
Pub licencing hours The unfortunate thing is that these restrictions probably play some part in the tide of antisocial behaviour that sweeps our cities each night around twenty past elven. Drunken yobs that have been on a booze binge fighting, urinating in doorways, messing the place up with discarded takeaway food etc.  As well as not being pleasant to see, this also puts a huge strain on various public services.  I mean who would want to work in the police force or in the casualty department of a hospital on a weekend?  I think that relaxed licencing hours could help ease this problem.

Instead of spending an absolute fortune each year on hospitals and policing each year the government could be raking in millions of pounds in extra tax as well as creating a more continental environment for tourists that visit the country.

What do the French, Italians or even the Americans think about our pubs?

AND ANOTHER THING!!!  Why is the average price of a pint climbing through the roof every where you go these days?   I remember when I were a lad (not really!), you could get a pint in almost any pub for a quid and some loose change,  and that was considered expensive by some of the older people that could remember back when a pint was less than a pound.

At the rate we are going I reckon it will pretty soon be normal to pay £3 or more for a pint of beer and by the year 2010 it is likeley that that will be more than a fiver (or the equivalent in euros if thats what we are using by then!).


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Us locals are campaigning for the closure of the public houses in our area. We do not want them for a number of reasons. There's no real place for public houses in our society anymore and, the scurge of the earth dwell amongst them.

It was a great day when smoking was banned, it will be a great day when pubs are closed down and this is coming.
*Marjorie Hornby, Great Chesterford  23-Oct-2007 16:19

 
Well said Adam. By and large you are right. There are so many better places to go. Let's leave them to it. They, after all, need the pubs and/or the regulars they call friends, to have any sort of social existence. We don't. Anyone who pays to have friends (and let's face it, that's what you're doing by drinking at a pub or joining any sort of club) is probably already the bottom of the barrel. Sad really, but thems is the breaks.
*Frankie  02-Oct-2007 22:46

 
Lou - I refer to my earlier comments! Pay a damn fortune for the beer (at least, in the S.East we do), and they want you out the door just as soon as poss...
inflatable doll - don't think it's just due to inflation. There's been a lot of increases on alcohol over last 10 years or more. Most of it is due to tax - but the large breweries have a knack of just upping the increases a tad more than necessary....ie they cover the tax increase, but there's also a smidgen extra for themselves!
Okay, gonna stop my griping now.
All I will say is that, having spent a bit of time drinking in France & Germany, why is it that we make such a big issue over here of 24hr drinking...It's not about the fact we'll drink for 24hrs, but we'll be able to drink at any point during a 24hr period and therefore be that much more relaxed about the whole thing! We're stuck in the dark ages...
*Crapefart  24-Aug-2007 00:57

 
Curly - not sure when pubs were open all day sunday...are you sure that's not just wishful thinking? worked in pubs a lot during the 80s, but I just can't think when they were open all day on a sunday...
*Crapefart  24-Aug-2007 00:56

 
Town-dweller - pubs not selling food after 2pm has to be one of my major causes of irritation. But again, we come back to our culture. Love 'em ot loathe 'em, the Yanks have a far better grasp of that little factor called 'service'. We, as Brits, do not seem to grasp the concept very well, or possibly the notion that actually we could be making more profit out of longer working/serving hours. However, having said that, please, please, please, do not give up on country pubs - you just have to find the right one! They have the best ales, the best scenery, the best architecture (iglenook fireplaces and the like) and ultimately the best atmosphere!
*Crapefart  24-Aug-2007 00:54

 
Adam - what the do you actually know about pubs? Whilst some of the more grimier shthouses could well be called dosshouses, to label them all in this way just shows extreme ignorance on your part. To label them in this way shows a complete lack of understanding - particularly of English culture & heritage. Also, to use emotive terms such as 'grown up' merely serves to undermine the argument.
*Crapefart  24-Aug-2007 00:54

 
Interesting....
Just spent an evening in my local pub (The Bedford, Horsham, West Sussex), now extremely pished off coz the bar ladies were intent on kicking us out before 11.20 becuse they were dead keen on getting to their other assignations. To add insult to injury, we know the clock in the pub is 5 minutes fast...
One of them very smugly informed us that, thanks to the new changes in the law, they were perfectly within their rights to kick us out by 11.20. That's great, given that, between 3 of us, we've just soent over £50 in the damn place and, no sooner than it gets a few seconds past 11.00pm (10.55pm!!) we're being shouted at to 'drink up'!!!
Was intererested in checking up on the law, hence why I ended up on this website.
Have looked at a couple of the messages on the board, and this is my carefully considered opinion: to be continued...
*Crapefart  24-Aug-2007 00:48

 
By and large Pubs are just dosshouses. If you were a grown up you wouldn't go near them. As far as I'm concerned the quicker they go down the tubes the better life will be for everyone. Pubs are awful places because of the people in them, drunken, stupid morons the lot, wasters, complete wasters!
*Adam  17-Aug-2007 00:09

 
What gets my goat is when you've taken the trouble to drive out into the country to have a nice Sunday pub lunch, but have been stuck in a minor traffic jam, and only get to the pub of your choice by 2:15pm, and then to find that they have closed the kitchen at 2pm.

They can't be bothered.

Well, I won't bother anymore either given the cost of petrol. Country pubs can go to the devil.
*Town-dweller  06-May-2007 07:30

 
what year were pubs allowed to stay open all day on a sunday?
*curly  05-May-2007 22:32

 
Well the pub closing time law has been changed, so does this gripe still stand? I guess drinking up time is still a bit on the short side in some pubs. They quite literally want you out the door as soon as the bell has rung. So much for a nice relaxing drink!
*Lou  09-Mar-2007 11:05

 
Is the change in the price of beer not just due to inflation?
*inflatable doll  23-Feb-2007 17:07


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