Pub games and social life these days. (1 Viewer)

Without wanting to sound all conspiracy theorist, the establishment don't want people socialising with each other, much easier to have people at home ordering stuff off the internet (including beer) being completely supine to what's happening

There are probably 100 pubs within a 15 minute walk of me and they are mostly busy and a fair few have pool tables, darts etc.

fernandopartridge said:

Without wanting to sound all conspiracy theorist, the establishment don't want people socialising with each other, much easier to have people at home ordering stuff off the internet (including beer) being completely supine to what's happening

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Do agree !

fernandopartridge said:

Without wanting to sound all conspiracy theorist, the establishment don't want people socialising with each other, much easier to have people at home ordering stuff off the internet (including beer) being completely supine to what's happening

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Anyone who can look at the handling of Brexit and still think "the establishment" are competent enough to carry out any kind of wide scale social engineering has far more faith in our politicians than I ever had.

Like Schroedinger's Council: equal parts incompetent and useless and responsible for everything from student numbers to the weather.

It's people's natural want for laziness and to be left alone is all. And politicians natural inability to think through the consequences of "popular" moves like the smoking ban while not moving quick enough to respond to a fast changing world. No need for a conspiracy.

Hanlon's Razor always applies.

Use to like bar billiards - definitely a rarity these days, if not completely extinct. Pretty much all my mates in our teens and early twenties played snooker and pool, joining local leagues etc. There's probably an app for that now. Was in a pub Somerset way a couple of years ago and they had a proper old fashioned skittle alley. Lovely to hear the racket of wooden balls hurled down a wooden alley. The wood smelt of beer after centuries of spillages - that's local history!

My daughter's boyfriend is into CNC routing and when I mentioned that he could churn out perfect shove ha'penny boards using some lovely wood - puzzled he said what's a shove ha'penny board. Seems like another era!

Recently I went in a pub near me and it still had the 'ringing the bull' set up over the bar. Every rural pub used to have these but this is only the second one I've seen in the last thirty years or so.

Still try to support local pubs and local brewers whenever I can. It's a tough job blah de blah......

Liquid Gold said:

There are probably 100 pubs within a 15 minute walk of me and they are mostly busy and a fair few have pool tables, darts etc.

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Same for me as well, my local is only 30 seconds walk away and is pretty busy during the week and rammed at the weekends. Still has a pool table that's hard to get on.

To be fair though, it's 5.50 for a pint of lager, which is a pisstake. Massively agree that duty should be cut in pubs and pints should be around 2.50/3quid. The smoking ban hasn't helped and the sort of people you get in pubs is very diffident to 15 years ago.

Sick Boy said:

The smoking ban hasn't helped and the sort of people you get in pubs is very diffident to 15 years ago.

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15 years ago should shout more about its achievements.