When will we be able to go to the pub again?
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Just went to a local pub which was quite relaxed last summer, but it was QR code to get in with no option of just giving details and ordering drinks by phone app only. My mrs. moaned at me for walking off saying that I couldn't be bothered with all that. 
First thing I saw when I got in was something on Sky News about a 78 year old complaining about age discrimination in a pub which refused to serve him as he didn't have a smart phone. He wrote to the Telegraph, the pub apologised, said they'd made a mistake and offered him a few free drinks.
This nonsense won't last too much longer.
First thing I saw when I got in was something on Sky News about a 78 year old complaining about age discrimination in a pub which refused to serve him as he didn't have a smart phone. He wrote to the Telegraph, the pub apologised, said they'd made a mistake and offered him a few free drinks.
This nonsense won't last too much longer.
I'm giving it a miss until it is more normal. Not booking to go to the pub and be treated like a leper, one way system to the toilet with a mask on etc. Got used to drinking at home now and if the rumours of big price increases are true then I'll only go to see friends. It was already £6-8 for a glass of wine last year in most places which is pricey.
On a related note just been to the recycling centre, outdoor obviously. I was the only customer there out of about 25 without a mask on, outside! This government has a lot to answer for, the stupid people are easily led and they have scared everyone to death.
On a related note just been to the recycling centre, outdoor obviously. I was the only customer there out of about 25 without a mask on, outside! This government has a lot to answer for, the stupid people are easily led and they have scared everyone to death.
cb31 said:
I'm giving it a miss until it is more normal. Not booking to go to the pub and be treated like a leper, one way system to the toilet with a mask on etc. Got used to drinking at home now and if the rumours of big price increases are true then I'll only go to see friends. It was already £6-8 for a glass of wine last year in most places which is pricey.
On a related note just been to the recycling centre, outdoor obviously. I was the only customer there out of about 25 without a mask on, outside! This government has a lot to answer for, the stupid people are easily led and they have scared everyone to death.
The mask mentality had me flummoxed for a while, then I remembered that people are fOn a related note just been to the recycling centre, outdoor obviously. I was the only customer there out of about 25 without a mask on, outside! This government has a lot to answer for, the stupid people are easily led and they have scared everyone to death.
king stupid and they are sheep. I would be astonished if anyone wearing a mask in the fresh air has prevented a single Covid infection, never mind a death.
Having said that, the masks aren't for people's safety, they are a symbol of subservience and a reminder to the idiots at large that Covid is out there and will kill them in an instant.
at Tesco
sherman said:
B'stard Child said:
Norfolk Mountain Rescue Club
Oxymoron? Do you rescue people of really big sandcastles?
Lozw86 said:
How many mountains are there in Norfolk? (Uk?) It’s pretty flat from what I’ve seen
Do you guys really not get it - it's a fking joke 
- it's an excuse to get out of the house and down the pub for a few beers???We do mock rescues on a regular basis (we don't) and we train for events at 25m above sea level (training involves drinking beer and running up a shallow slope) - we all have 4x4's (we don't) and are are ready for any issue (we are not)
B'stard Child said:
Do you guys really not get it - it's a fking joke - it's an excuse to get out of the house and down the pub for a few beers???
We do mock rescues on a regular basis (we don't) and we train for events at 25m above sea level (training involves drinking beer and running up a shallow slope) - we all have 4x4's (we don't) and are are ready for any issue (we are not)
Wow. You cant take a joke king joke - it's an excuse to get out of the house and down the pub for a few beers???We do mock rescues on a regular basis (we don't) and we train for events at 25m above sea level (training involves drinking beer and running up a shallow slope) - we all have 4x4's (we don't) and are are ready for any issue (we are not)
sherman said:
B'stard Child said:
Do you guys really not get it - it's a fking joke - it's an excuse to get out of the house and down the pub for a few beers???
We do mock rescues on a regular basis (we don't) and we train for events at 25m above sea level (training involves drinking beer and running up a shallow slope) - we all have 4x4's (we don't) and are are ready for any issue (we are not)
Wow. You cant take a joke king joke - it's an excuse to get out of the house and down the pub for a few beers???We do mock rescues on a regular basis (we don't) and we train for events at 25m above sea level (training involves drinking beer and running up a shallow slope) - we all have 4x4's (we don't) and are are ready for any issue (we are not)
B'stard Child said:
Do you guys really not get it - it's a fking joke - it's an excuse to get out of the house and down the pub for a few beers???
We do mock rescues on a regular basis (we don't) and we train for events at 25m above sea level (training involves drinking beer and running up a shallow slope) - we all have 4x4's (we don't) and are are ready for any issue (we are not)
Sounds great. How do I join please?king joke - it's an excuse to get out of the house and down the pub for a few beers???We do mock rescues on a regular basis (we don't) and we train for events at 25m above sea level (training involves drinking beer and running up a shallow slope) - we all have 4x4's (we don't) and are are ready for any issue (we are not)
g3org3y said:
If you can’t see through that you’re thick as st tbh. I’ll help you - they’re not saying the same about the local butcher are they. okgo said:
g3org3y said:
If you can’t see through that you’re thick as st tbh. I’ll help you - they’re not saying the same about the local butcher are they. okgo said:
g3org3y said:
If you can’t see through that you’re thick as st tbh. I’ll help you - they’re not saying the same about the local butcher are they. It’s pathetic from Tesco and just cringeworthy, not to mention already been done by Burger King etc. They still managed to say they have fantastic deals in that Tesco marketing message. They’ve offered zero to the pub industry over the last 12 months. It’s just grim marketing ste the sort Brewdog have been doing non stop the last year disguised as moral standpoint.
I don’t need to be told what to do by a supermarket at the best of times. Patting themselves on the back, while offering zero.
te the sort Brewdog have been doing non stop the last year disguised as moral standpoint. I don’t need to be told what to do by a supermarket at the best of times. Patting themselves on the back, while offering zero.
I had a strange experience with it all last night. It was my 50th birthday yesterday, I didn't have anything planned as I dont do any of this covid bks at all. A mate rang up and said we should go out for a drink, I said no chance, I'm going no where near a pub or restaurant until its 100% normal again so he suggested going to his house for something to eat instead. I reluctantly agreed, work night and all that.
So anyway I got there, had a couple of cans and lo and behold half a dozen friends turn up for an impromptu party (I really hate this sort of thing). Anyway we all went out in Manchester for something to eat.
From what I could see when out and about - Manchester was absolutely heaving, no-one under 40 clearly gives a flying fk about the virus. One of my mates said the sights concerned him very much, he said "but they must be spreading it" no-one else was concerned in the least. We had to walk a couple of miles to find somewhere that had space which was in the more expensive bit.
I think only me and one other person gave false details when checking in, the concerned mate had the NHS app on his phone and checked in with that so he is a fully blown covidant now. We couldn't get in with a party of 8 so had to go as two groups and pretend we didn't know each other, this was despite a pair of identical twins in our possie with 1 in the first group and the other with us.
I asked to sit with the "strangers" who were in front of us in the queue as they seem nice and the waiter said look I know you are all together but you will have to split up, he said there are people in plain clothes walking past observing us and they might see you talking to other people, they had had one bking already apparently.
I said but if this carries on much longer you will all be out of business and he said "I know" glumly. It really is full on looney tunes and if people can't see the madness that it is must be blind or stupid or even both to be fair.
ks at all. A mate rang up and said we should go out for a drink, I said no chance, I'm going no where near a pub or restaurant until its 100% normal again so he suggested going to his house for something to eat instead. I reluctantly agreed, work night and all that.So anyway I got there, had a couple of cans and lo and behold half a dozen friends turn up for an impromptu party (I really hate this sort of thing). Anyway we all went out in Manchester for something to eat.
From what I could see when out and about - Manchester was absolutely heaving, no-one under 40 clearly gives a flying f
k about the virus. One of my mates said the sights concerned him very much, he said "but they must be spreading it" no-one else was concerned in the least. We had to walk a couple of miles to find somewhere that had space which was in the more expensive bit.I think only me and one other person gave false details when checking in, the concerned mate had the NHS app on his phone and checked in with that so he is a fully blown covidant now. We couldn't get in with a party of 8 so had to go as two groups and pretend we didn't know each other, this was despite a pair of identical twins in our possie with 1 in the first group and the other with us.
I asked to sit with the "strangers" who were in front of us in the queue as they seem nice and the waiter said look I know you are all together but you will have to split up, he said there are people in plain clothes walking past observing us and they might see you talking to other people, they had had one b
king already apparently.I said but if this carries on much longer you will all be out of business and he said "I know" glumly. It really is full on looney tunes and if people can't see the madness that it is must be blind or stupid or even both to be fair.
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