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That Jekka Gal

That Jekka Gal

That Jekka Gal

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Had a busy evening with some of the gals setting a fundraiser up for our local pony club. So busy, in fact, that we all decided a few white wine spritzers at the Tipsy Toad wouldn't go amiss.

Pulled into the car park of said establishment and it was in total darkness. Fair enough, I thought, so drove to the next.village to find the landlord in the process of bolting the door. Exactly the same to be said for the other 2 watering holes we subsequently tried.

This was at 10pm!

What an earth is going on with pubs these days? Harking back to my youth, the evening would always be rounded off by turning up somehere in time for last orders.

Seems our pub culture is going down the pan. Very sad.
 
It really is sad. Truly. Exactly the same round here. Can't get any food after 9pm anywhere, even takeaway places close up early. Pubs are last orders at 10:30pm in some of them.
We used to be able to stay in our local till about 11.30 even until fairly recently, but then the owner changed and last orders are now about 10:40 and we get told to gtfo by 11.
But yes, often we will turn up somewhere different without thinking and it's just shut.
 
I think a lot of pubs have been doing this for years since the cost of energy started to rocket. They're not going to keep the lights on and the pub heated from 9pm to midnight for the odd punter who might show up.

BUDFORCE said:
Spoons is open till midnight weekdays, 1pm on weekends.
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Blasphemous! Never known a spoons to shut at 1pm on the weekend - there would be a public outcry.
 
People no longer go to pubs (like they used to) so rather than pay staff and electric bills of an evening if the bars empty it does make a lot of sense for the landlord to close early.
 
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"Village" is the key word I see there. You'll unlikely see any late opening pubs in any village or small town these days, there just isn't the business for it.

Large towns and cities, sure.
 
I've never really seen the appeal of pubs tbh. Might be just the 1's around here, they have a musty smell, are frequented by alcys and trouble makers with yes some less troubled folk too. It's the only time I see fighting on the street. They just seem really old fashioned to me and populated by mainly older people. Even when I was young, I'd often to go to nightclubs and the odd bar but never a pub.
 
uber soldat said:
In the good old days you'd be kicked out of a pub for attempting to order a "white wine spritzer"
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Via the window in some of them.

Pubs are dying out, especially in villages. They have been taxed to death by the government and forced to order expensive drink from the corporations which own most of them. So people just started drinking at home.
 
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I always used to go to the pub with my dad every Sunday. He would have 2-3 pints of IPA, chat with everyone then we would go home. I would play pool, darts or on the bandits while he did his thing. Once a month we would go to the con club as well.

It was a great place to network and my dad met all sorts of people.

I think that is all pretty much dead now however and that scene all pretty much extinct.

My sister used to own a pub working in pubs all her life but she sold up and is retired now. Zero money in it. Even Clarkson said he is lucky if he breaks even and look at the pull he must have. I have seen plenty of really good pubs and restaurants close near me recently which must show how bad it is.

When you are looking at £100-150 for an evening for a family of 4 easy then it is no wonder why.
 
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bloodiedathame said:
When it's £7.50 for a pint of Pisswasser, people will stay at home.

Cost of living in the UK if though the roof. There aren't many families who can rely on one income like the good old days. Even with two incomes it's a push. We'll be sending the kids out to work before long.
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Basically this.
When you can save nearly 10 pounds just by not having a drink, a single drink, and what you do at a pub you can do at home...
And all the other cost pressures life has..it's easy to drop "the pub" from your life.
That money is basically food for a day at supermarket.

For me eating and drinking or out is the first thing to cut if I need to.

Cost of food is insane. When I'm questioning the price of MaccyDs it's crossed my personal cost/benefit threshold.
 
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