Pubs seem to think they're re-opening

[Drygate]

Had a pint or three this afternoon in Tory central, Norfolk. This travesty was in the bogs:

Wow! What sort of pubs do you lot frequent?

[wooders1978]

Popped in to see my friends and my god daughter yesterday at the pub (for it was her birthday) it was bloody mental, loads of people there, people that I *knew* so couldn't just ignore - it was too much of a sensory overload man - I've got ptsd from it, fucked off after a pint

[BlodwynPig]

Popped in to see my friends and my god daughter yesterday at the pub (for it was her birthday) it was bloody mental, loads of people there, people that I *knew* so couldn't just ignore - it was too much of a sensory overload man - I've got ptsd from it, fucked off after a pint

OI OI OI WOOOODERSSS!!!! CAAAAM 'ERRRRE GIS A HUGGGG. WE'RE LARGGGGIN IT TODAY.

[Twit 2]

Wow! What sort of pubs do you lot frequent?

This was a country pub an hour's walk from my house. Rural Norfolk, Tory central, like I said.

[Fambo Number Mive]

"We really want to just hear you sing that National Anthem after having had a really big shit and washing the piss and shit germs off your hands, please SING while behind you other people are pissing and shitting, it's what Boris would have wanted."

I think that card deserves replacing with one with a few Photoshopped alterations.

[Kankurette]

Not been to a pub yet and tbh I don't want to, because going to Costa was bad enough. I had a near meltdown because I had one guy telling me to take a photo of the table for track and trace, and I didn't have the app so I had to download it, and then another woman asking me to do it manually, and I can't process being told to do two things at the same time. Not to mention there was a big queue building up. Luckily the staff were nice about it, but it was humiliating.

[wooders1978]

OI OI OI WOOOODERSSS!!!! CAAAAM 'ERRRRE GIS A HUGGGG. WE'RE LARGGGGIN IT TODAY.

Very accurate re-enactment of the scenes!

[El Unicornio, mang]

Hung out with some friends at one of my local area's nice little pub/eatery hotspots one night two weekends ago. Was nice despite the literally winter weather. Lots of dogs coming and going, a general nice atmosphere although I pity the staff who had to constantly remind people they had to be in groups of 6 or fewer. My first real sense of normal socialising in over a year.

(not my pic)


Got plans to go out this Friday and feeling a bit ambivalent about it, but need to get out of the non-socializing routine I've gotten into.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Still can't sit in here I don't think, not that I really want to. Might have a work leaving do in a couple of weeks round some tables or in a park like tramps if that falls through.

[wooders1978]

That looks like a cracking little spot el unicornio

[Ferris]

That looks like a cracking little spot el unicornio

Yeah I thought the same, looks magic.

[Sebastian Cobb]

And me.

I'm missing The Doublet, but I doubt it'll be great until things calm down to the point that distancing measures aren't required.

[El Unicornio, mang]

Definitely worth checking out if any of yous are in the area, Crusoe's in Tynemouth. The food is excellent too.

[Fr.Bigley]

There are sunny beaches in tynemouth?

[El Unicornio, mang]

Well, they're occasionally sunny

[Cuellar]

It's Occasionally Sunny in Tynemouth

[BlodwynPig]

Well, they're occasionally sunny

So you like Beaches & Cream?


Oh, and you can see seals close up at St Mary's lighthouse if you didnt know

[El Unicornio, mang]

So you like Beaches & Cream?


Oh, and you can see seals close up at St Mary's lighthouse if you didnt know

I've been to Beaches & Cream a couple of times, just to grab a hot chocolate or something and sit out front. Might have to do a full afternoon tea with one of those towers of little sandwiches and cakes one day though.

St. Mary's lighthouse is lovely although I always miss the seals. I almost got stranded there the year before last because I spent too much time taking pics of the island cat. The woman who lives there told me I had to leave as the tide was coming in and I had to walk that long path back to civilization with water up to my knees. Scary stuff, felt like Indiana Jones (if he did an adventure in Whitley Bay).

[BlodwynPig]

My grandmother lost a shoe in similar circumstances

[Blinder Data]

going to the pub this weekend went so well i completely forgot about COVID and shared a cigarette with someone! dead soon etc.

in our wee village there was a CARNIVAL atmosphere - people falling about drunk, stag dos vomiting in the street...

nature is healing

[Fr.Bigley]

Reading the metro this morning was a piece on bar service resuming on the 21st of June. The comments were fucking emblematic of how big of cunts people really are: "I for one want table service to stay, like on holiday, nothing worse than being 9 deep at the bar".

No mate there is something worse, my partner and friends having to run around like blue arsed flies in a 400 seat venue none stop for 12 hours because your fat gammon face has become content being such a lazy bustard.

Bar tenders are NOT waiters and card payments mean they aren't even tipped for the extra service, wipe down, scaling orders while collecting empties and constantly babysitting arseholes that flout the rules pulling tables together and throwing off the table number system. Dickheads not realising that trying to split a bill 5 ways when some other cu to are flagging g you down huffing and puffing about waiting 10 mins for a pint of soda and lime.

Hate the lot of em.

[imitationleather]

Table service is great, though. They're not wrong there.

[Pranet]

I don't like it. Seems to make my borderline alcoholism more obvious.

"Yes I am having another one already."

So I for one will be glad when bar service returns.

[Fr.Bigley]

It boils my piss how entitled people have gotten recently, she was telling me over the weekend that a fucking convoy of middle class pram cunts barged in, they were told they were at capacity and had to wait outside only to be told "the kids don't like the cold"...okay, not her problem..a minute went by still stood there like gormless that's saying "we'll wait in the lobby, no masks on any of them"

"Sorry, you can't wait in the lobby its a fire risk and a covid risk"

Lots of tutting and sneering comments then chief mum cunt pipes up with "can't you go check the tables to see if anyone is leaving?"

Yeah alright you fucking gimp, 40 tables on a Saturday afternoon so you can sit with a frappucino and let quentin and his future hedgefund friend destroy the place.


Get. In. The. Fucking. Bin.

[El Unicornio, mang]

Table service is great, though. They're not wrong there.

As someone with terrible bar presence who hates standing waiting, I concur.

[Fr.Bigley]

As someone with terrible bar presence who hates standing waiting, I concur.

Secret is, the thing that all bar staff love, is to stand on the kicker bar shouting "love" waving a 20. You'll be sure to get the respect and admiration of anyone working there.

[Blue Jam]

Secret is, the thing that all bar staff love, is to stand on the kicker bar shouting "love" waving a 20. You'll be sure to get the respect and admiration of anyone working there.

Yes, I used to work in a pub where blokes (always blokes) would do this and one time I heard one of them say "Wave your money about, that gets their attention!". Someone waving a £20 note that I won't get to keep and that will go straight from my hand into the till is really going to motivate me, yes.

As for pram twats, the yummy mummies and all-terrain buggy dads were around even before lockdown. There's an Italian cafe near me which is very nice but also very small, so the owners- a nice Italian family- have a policy that anyone with a buggy needs to fold it up and use the high chairs for their baby, or sit at the outside tables where there is more room. That seems fair enough to me, especially as the owners have actually made provisions for parents, but it's still not enough for some. Most of their TripAdvisor reviews are glowing but there are a few one-star reviews, all from angry parents claiming "THE OWNER CLEARLY HATES CHILDREN" and raging about the buggy policy- well, you'd be hard-pressed to find an Italian family-owned business which doesn't welcome and encourage family dining, I see a lot of other families in there having a nice time, I suspect the owner's attitude isn't the real problem here. Also it just makes sense- I wouldn't want a waiter struggling to get round a pram and spilling hot coffee on my baby.

I've also seen a few of my favourite pubs get negative reviews from people claiming the owner told them they didn't have a licence for children and "they obviously made this up because they just hate children"- do people really not know this is a thing? I occasionally see people walking into pubs with babies or children and getting annoyed when the landlord has looked a bit panicked and told them they can't serve them or they'll get into trouble. I could understand if they were tourists who didn't know about UK licensing laws but it always seems to be local peeps.

I remember the times I was with family and struggling to find a pub that would allow us in with my cousin's young children, and how we expected it and had been prepared to do a lot of walking to find one, and how we always looked at the signs on the door first to see the age limits. Do people just not do this anymore? Do people not look for these details on Google Maps or TripAdvisor?

Got nothing against families in pubs but I wish people would appreciate the things staff do to accommodate them and understand that there are laws they have to follow.

[Blue Jam]

I don't like it. Seems to make my borderline alcoholism more obvious.

"Yes I am having another one already."

So I for one will be glad when bar service returns.

I have been loving table service too. Putting in my card details every time I want a drink seemed a bit of a faff at first but not as much of a faff as waiting at a bar. The only problem I have is looking at my online banking and seeing multiple transactions for small amounts and how that just screams "ALKY" in a way that getting £20 out of a cash machine doesn't.

[Cuellar]

Go contactless

[Blue Jam]

Go contactless

Two pubs near me have the same owner and use a system where you have to scan a QR code and order from a Just Eat-type menu. Both of them do food though so I guess that just makes things easier. I also like that because you can add a note like "NO MAYONNAISE" instead of being served by a waiter who doesn't write anything down and then being nervous about them messing up the order.

My favourite pub is doing contactless payments but they don't serve food.