How many of you or those you know get mangled on a weekend?

Our local is £2.50 for locally made beer so go quite regularly, we'll go to the Sheffield Brewdog once-twice a month but that's a bit different to getting smashed down your local. Went to a pub on Friday in the village where I used to live and got charged £14.50 for 2 pints of Carling and 1 glass of wine :eek:
 
hurfdurf said:
You disagree that people who drink themselves until they throw up have a better lifestyle than those that simply.... don't? Never mind myself personally.
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Bit of a stupid metric to judge someone's quality of like by but hey, you do you.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Only folk that are middle class or those pretending or want to be middle class go out regularly these days in the city centre.

Tramps go out regularly outside the city centre where they can have a cheap pint in a dive.

A lot of the younger generation prefer to go to the gym to look like their idols from love Island, towie, etc.

Then you have the fact a lot of kids are living with parents and leasing cars for £500 a month. They simply don't have the cash to go out out.
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It's a good job we have you to speak on behalf of all the city centres, the entire younger generation and all the pubs. God knows what we'd do without your unending wisdom.
 
I will say hopefully it is though in my youth I partook in the drinking culture but in those days I could get drunk, have a kebab after and get a taxi home for £10 and that was a lot smaller of a % of my wages than the same evening would be now.
 
Pottsey said:
Is it dead, dead or only appears dead as the time people drink has moved. If you go to my local town at the same time as you would 10 or 20 years ago it would look dead. But its not dead its because the point when people used to come home from drinking 10/20years ago is now the point when people only just start going out. If you go out 3 or 4 hours later then you would have 10 years ago its suddenly packed.
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Used to be out from about 7, to the pub, then around 11 to the club, left when it closed at 1am (weekday) or 3am (fri/sat).

i agree to your point though. Kids these days get battered at home, then go out around 11 straight to the club.

I now drive buses through the town centre so can see it, back when i went out the buses weren't allowed through town at night due to so many accidents with drunks, good old Romford.
 
Diddums said:
Bit of a stupid metric to judge someone's quality of like by but hey, you do you.
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You've got 2 people who are the same. One does something productive, fun and healthy regularly on a Saturday night. The other drinks a drug to excess and throws up blindly intoxicated and then can't drive the next day.

It's not controversial to argue that ones quality of life is going to be better than the others, and it's also indicative that ones mental and physical health is better than the others....
 
Overlag said:
i disagree, late 90s early 00s there was 1000s of people out drinking EVERY NIGHT at my local town centre, now its a ghost town, except on the odd friday. I guess it all depends on the demographics of your area though.
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This. A decade ago we had our works xmas night out in Darlington on the last Saturday before xmas (which was the following Friday from memory). There was 20 of us. Everywhere was dead. Even Weatherspoons we doubled the number of people in there.

When we were young me and my mates would go clubbing Wed, Thu, Fri and Sat. Roll in around 3am and then go to work the next day. Everywhere was busy.

The young today dont seem to do that and recent states show a large proportion are tee total nowadays
 
I miss the clubbing for hard house and trance music - Slinky, Godskitchen, Gatecrasher, Sundissential etc, used to be weekly events. Now all gone. Trancecoda was a good alternative in recent years 2016-2018 but that has dried up too.

Anyone got any current ideas for house/trance but with good production as well like Gods / Trancecoda?

I think what killed off most of the clubs though from 2005 to 2015 was the smoking ban, late pub licensing hours and the late 2000s recession. Plus, everyone have grown up but I haven't :p
 
Psycho Sonny said:
Only folk that are middle class or those pretending or want to be middle class go out regularly these days in the city centre.
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This is so true, it's cause so many issues in London - there has been a knife crime epidemic as a result. Not to mention all the middle class people going out robbing people on their Bromptons. It has become such a problem that the government recently started an anti knife crime campaign on gluten free food packaging and avocado labels. Some of the middle class avocado fans got rather upset that it targeted them and pointed out that those who eat quinoa are much more prone to shanking people.
 
dowie said:
This is so true, it's cause so many issues in London - there has been a knife crime epidemic as a result. Not to mention all the middle class people going out robbing people on their Bromptons. It has become such a problem that the government recently started an anti knife crime campaign on gluten free food packaging and avocado labels. Some of the middle class avocado fans got rather upset that it targeted them and pointed out that those who eat quinoa are much more prone to shanking people.
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To be fair, the Guardian does make an excellent Millwall Brick.
 
The big reasons pubs are closing down is;

1. The breweries keep both up'ing the prices of alcohol for pubs, while selling it cheaper to shops i.e. undercutting pubs.

2. Then on top of that we have the smoking ban, discouraging people.

3. So the pubs had to try and sell food also to make back some money. Also a few tried to build smoking areas to try and encourage their smoking customers to come back.

But even years ago it was known as a mugs game being a landlord/lady of a pub as the money hardly covered costs.
 
hurfdurf said:
You disagree that people who drink themselves until they throw up have a better lifestyle than those that simply.... don't? Never mind myself personally.
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I don't think either have a better lifestyle, if that's how they want to spend their money and they hurt no one let them get on with it.
 
Overlag said:
Used to be out from about 7, to the pub, then around 11 to the club, left when it closed at 1am (weekday) or 3am (fri/sat).

i agree to your point though. Kids these days get battered at home, then go out around 11 straight to the club.

I now drive buses through the town centre so can see it, back when i went out the buses weren't allowed through town at night due to so many accidents with drunks, good old Romford.
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Similar times to here when I go home at around 11/12 is when the bulk of the taxis start turning up to drop everyone off who are just getting started. Then around midnight till I think 4am certain roads are closed for all road traffic.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
I don't think either have a better lifestyle, if that's how they want to spend their money and they hurt no one let them get on with it.
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That's not how I see it they clearly do have a worse lifestyle as they are hurting themselves often without realizing it and its not that uncommon for them to hurt other people in some fashion or another. But at the same time they have a right to live how they want to and I wouldn't lecture them on changing. Most people discover better lifestyles themselves as they grow up and that's how it should be. Forcing people to change lifestyles backfires as often as it works. For the most part people should be allowed to live the lifestyle they want even if its unhealthy. Although there are a few exceptions where people need real help.

Don't the bulk of young people grow out of it or reduce it down to more sensible levels?
 
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