Covid-19 Tier Two will have to leave pub after meal!

[rjfp1962]

Anyone going into Tier Two after lockdown - Can I suggest you drink up before eating up, as you won't be allowed to stay in the pub to finish your drink......!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55109932

[bigandclever]

I predict a glut of £1 desserts being sold with a main meal.

[fido]

I'll eat the chips slowly then cut my sandwich into little pieces - 5 minutes a piece should do it!

[The Mad Monk]

bigandclever said:

I predict a glut of £1 desserts being sold with a main meal.

Which take quite a long time to arrive.

[milkround]

Just stock up the fridge with beer and wine and then invite your mates back to yours. Oh... Umm, you are not meant to do that.

Don't really want to go to the pub at the moment anyway. When I go in I'm pestered to fill in a form (okay). I'm then made to show ID (okayish). Asked when I think I'll leave (not really a chilled out see how it goes chill is it..) Then I can't go to the toilet without putting on a mask (fine). I have to use an app to order (Oh crap my phone is nearly out of battery). I can think of better ways of spending my dosh.

I'll support the pubs when they can offer me a service I enjoy again. Until then it's beers in the fridge for me. I feel desperately sorry for people starting to date. Just imagine going through that on a first date. If you like the girl/boy having to ask them to take their mask off for a snog at the end of the night. Before you have even made love having to ask to join an exclusive bubble so you can stay over... The awkward conversation about 'have you had a covid test before we get within 2m of each other'.

Bring on the vaccine. Bring back the normal world. Until then stay at home, stay sane and protect your self-respect.

[bigandclever]

The Mad Monk said:

bigandclever said:

I predict a glut of £1 desserts being sold with a main meal.

Which take quite a long time to arrive.

The ‘Spoons soufflé is exquisite, please allow a lot of minutes for preparation.

[bobbysmithy]

milkround said:

Just stock up the fridge with beer and wine and then invite your mates back to yours. Oh... Umm, you are not meant to do that.

Don't really want to go to the pub at the moment anyway. When I go in I'm pestered to fill in a form (okay). I'm then made to show ID (okayish). Asked when I think I'll leave (not really a chilled out see how it goes chill is it..) Then I can't go to the toilet without putting on a mask (fine). I have to use an app to order (Oh crap my phone is nearly out of battery). I can think of better ways of spending my dosh.

I'll support the pubs when they can offer me a service I enjoy again. Until then it's beers in the fridge for me. I feel desperately sorry for people starting to date. Just imagine going through that on a first date. If you like the girl/boy having to ask them to take their mask off for a snog at the end of the night. Before you have even made love having to ask to join an exclusive bubble so you can stay over... The awkward conversation about 'have you had a covid test before we get within 2m of each other'.

Bring on the vaccine. Bring back the normal world. Until then stay at home, stay sane and protect your self-respect.

Spelling all that out just reminded me how st it all is compared to normal

[Mojooo]

drinking alcohol really isnt that important

the govt has certainly put the stamp on that point.

[Turn7]

Mojooo said:

drinking alcohol really isnt that important

.

It is if your livelihood depends on it......

[fido]

Mojooo said:

drinking alcohol really isnt that important

the govt has certainly put the stamp on that point.

Agree, it isn't, but it's the social aspect and being able to meet indoors - which at the moment means you have to pretend to be Winston and Julia if you're not from the same household.

[survivalist]

milkround said:

Just stock up the fridge with beer and wine and then invite your mates back to yours. Oh... Umm, you are not meant to do that.

Don't really want to go to the pub at the moment anyway. When I go in I'm pestered to fill in a form (okay). I'm then made to show ID (okayish). Asked when I think I'll leave (not really a chilled out see how it goes chill is it..) Then I can't go to the toilet without putting on a mask (fine). I have to use an app to order (Oh crap my phone is nearly out of battery). I can think of better ways of spending my dosh.

I'll support the pubs when they can offer me a service I enjoy again. Until then it's beers in the fridge for me. I feel desperately sorry for people starting to date. Just imagine going through that on a first date. If you like the girl/boy having to ask them to take their mask off for a snog at the end of the night. Before you have even made love having to ask to join an exclusive bubble so you can stay over... The awkward conversation about 'have you had a covid test before we get within 2m of each other'.

Bring on the vaccine. Bring back the normal world. Until then stay at home, stay sane and protect your self-respect.

None of the places I’ve been to have been like that. Book online yes, but no apps required and normal table service. No need to say how long you’re staying. The only exception to that was on Wednesday before the 2nd ‘lockdown’ but that’s because the place was fully booked from 3pm.

[Biker 1]

Milkround is right about one thing though: as a divorcee, how do I carry out my primary human function/instinct? Is crappy enough being alone every bloody night, but this tier bks severely limits potential mating scenarios! What am I supposed to do? Pass post it notes to the nice looking chick at the next table via the waitress????

[Claptonian]

Biker 1 said:

Milkround is right about one thing though: as a divorcee, how do I carry out my primary human function/instinct? Is crappy enough being alone every bloody night, but this tier bks severely limits potential mating scenarios! What am I supposed to do? Pass post it notes to the nice looking chick at the next table via the waitress????

If it makes you feel any better then I'm fully shacked up but you're probably still getting more than me.

[steveo3002]

anything to stop a pub taking the order for a beer and slow cooked meal , serving the beers then refunding the meal if its taking longer to cook than expected..you know say by closing time

[Deathmole]

I've had this twice up here in Aberdeen, one restaurant would only let a friend and I have one drink each per course and said no to a bottle of wine on the table alongside pints so we didn't stick around particularly long.


Another place I went to let us drink as much as we liked - we got smashed over the course of a couple of enjoyable hours and the place in question didn't mind one iota that our meals were long finished.

Guess which one I'd go back to?

[Deathmole]

Claptonian said:

Biker 1 said:

Milkround is right about one thing though: as a divorcee, how do I carry out my primary human function/instinct? Is crappy enough being alone every bloody night, but this tier bks severely limits potential mating scenarios! What am I supposed to do? Pass post it notes to the nice looking chick at the next table via the waitress????

If it makes you feel any better then I'm fully shacked up but you're probably still getting more than me.

[frisbee]

Might be time to emigrate to somewhere with a less authoritarian government, North Korea, Iran, the Borg homeworld.

[GT03ROB]

Deathmole said:

I've had this twice up here in Aberdeen, one restaurant would only let a friend and I have one drink each per course and said no to a bottle of wine on the table alongside pints so we didn't stick around particularly long.

Another place I went to let us drink as much as we liked - we got smashed over the course of a couple of enjoyable hours and the place in question didn't mind one iota that our meals were long finished.

Guess which one I'd go back to?

We have a village pub, the next village is 2 miles away & has the same. Pub in next village applies everything strictly, our local takes a more chilled approach. Wonder which one did more custom. We still have 75 cases per 100k or about the same as Isle of White & Cornwall, but no must be in Tier 2

The rules are silly & all but unenforceable.

[Vanden Saab]

frisbee said:

Might be time to emigrate to somewhere with a less authoritarian government, North Korea, Iran, the Borg homeworld.

If 7 is there book me in.

[98elise]

Turn7 said:

Mojooo said:

drinking alcohol really isnt that important

.

It is if your livelihood depends on it......

And the more people take the piss, the longer it will go on.