Prince C definitely has that look of someone harbouring dark secrets, his head is like a cavernous purple turnip full of murder, thievery + marauding pedophils!
― calzino, Friday, 3 July 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
Downing Street has warned people not to 'overdo it' when the #coronavirus #lockdown is eased this weekend https://t.co/GsU2rllvDr— SkyNews (@SkyNews) July 2, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 3 July 2020 07:51 (three years ago) link
fuck off it's super saturday oy oy
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Friday, 3 July 2020 07:52 (three years ago) link
booze is back baby
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Friday, 3 July 2020 08:11 (three years ago) link
does flying to greece count as overdoing it?
― koogs, Friday, 3 July 2020 08:53 (three years ago) link
This is odd - "indefinitely" just means we don't know the end date, which we don't. They should have said no to extending it "infinitely" https://t.co/okqCscl2I9— Dan Davies (@dsquareddigest) July 3, 2020
This is after thousands have been let go this week.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 3 July 2020 09:32 (three years ago) link
they need to keep their rich donors happy now they are a Tory party again
― calzino, Friday, 3 July 2020 09:43 (three years ago) link
Yesterday there were as many Covid-19 deaths recorded in the UK as in the entire European Union. pic.twitter.com/XjT4LB6pf5— Nicolas Veron (@nicolas_veron) July 2, 2020
― stet, Friday, 3 July 2020 09:55 (three years ago) link
stop being a killjoy I want to get rat-arsed in the pub and get into a jolly old ruck with the rona!
― calzino, Friday, 3 July 2020 09:59 (three years ago) link
did a straw poll with my youngish team and literally nobody is up for the pub this weekend, except a few who will do takeout beers for the park
― stet, Friday, 3 July 2020 10:00 (three years ago) link
The worst-hit EU countries are two weeks ahead of us in the curve so it's not a straight comparison but still highly unflattering to say the least, I don't think anywhere in the EU had a really bad outbreak after we did?
The spikes in the US this week have mostly come in states that didn't have a real spike the first time round (rather than, say, New York) and there's a nagging sense that some countries have still got spikes to come, particularly those opening up in a big way for tourists - thinking Greece, Portugal etc here.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 July 2020 10:01 (three years ago) link
I wonder how many younger people would be hitting the gym this weekend if they were reopening?
Kinda curious if anyone here is planning on going to the pub this weekend - not in a judgmental way I just want to hear what it's like as an experience.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 July 2020 10:03 (three years ago) link
my two regulars aren't opening tomorrow, this is making the decision a bit easier. i dunno, i'm in a sad spell, there's football on, i might still end up having a look round but i'm thinking it's probably going to be shit enough to give me pause. best bet probably to get pished today and hope the hangover is a sufficient deterrent.
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 July 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
My gut feeling is that a lot of people will take one look at the queues and go and get some cans instead. The weather looks bad for tomorrow so it might have the effect of pushing people into in-home gatherings and that's probably worse than a socially-distanced pub would be.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 July 2020 10:42 (three years ago) link
Anecdotally it seems like most places are being smart enough to wait until Monday at least, which kind of highlights how stupid the decision to reopen on Saturday is. Will make the ones that do open tomorrow even worse tho
― Keir’d flex (wins), Friday, 3 July 2020 10:45 (three years ago) link
*I could do with a pint but going to a pub is not an enticing prospect.
(*just as I would writing that Jack Regan said 'I could do with a pint' on the Sweeney)
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Friday, 3 July 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link
who among us
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 July 2020 10:53 (three years ago) link
I'll be queuing at the Spoons at 9am. No I won't, but I would happily sit in an uncrowded beer garden, although I doubt there's much chance of that.
― fetter, Friday, 3 July 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link
Yeah I mean it's a logistical nightmare for staff anyway, there's a lot for them to get used to, so opening on Monday is much more sensible regardless of anything else. Think my local is doing that as well.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 July 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link
speaks to something that the prospect of a pub being any good in the near future relies on a failure to observe the guidance/rules
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 July 2020 10:54 (three years ago) link
that said 2020 is a near-perfect petri dish for drunky nihilism
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 July 2020 10:55 (three years ago) link
I went to the pub a little before lockdown and I remember saying to my friend that I felt uneasy & that it felt like we were all in denial, but I still managed to have a good time. I think if I went now I would just be stressed out. Just enough safety measures to make it a shit ersatz experience, nowhere near enough to make it actually safe
― Keir’d flex (wins), Friday, 3 July 2020 10:59 (three years ago) link
just cutting a straw hole in my facemask, i'm sure it's gonna be brill
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:03 (three years ago) link
Apparently bingo halls across the country are planning to re-open in the near future - which doesn't strike me as particularly sensible for long-term customer retention.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:04 (three years ago) link
one-way systems, reduced capacity, rigid time slots, partition screens, staff in PPE... mmmmmmm pub
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
No pub or (and this is the one that really hurts) cinema (whenever is that they open) for the summer, I think.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 3 July 2020 11:07 (three years ago) link
Last time I was in a pub was March 11th, which in London infection level terms might have been more dangerous than it is now, and I don't remember taking an enormous amount of care. Shit started to get real the following day.
Thing is, you don't go to a pub out of an altruistic desire to help a struggling business (or a struggling economy). You don't even go for booze alone really, you go because it's fun, for a bit of community, just to feel among people and talk shit. If pubs can't provide that under the new restrictions then they're in real trouble after the initial novelty has worn off.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 July 2020 11:07 (three years ago) link
I suppose 'getting out of the house' is a huge motivation in its own right at this stage.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 July 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
Honest question: how many of you guys have a Local that you'd go to without first arranging with friends to meet up there? This is part of the mystique of the British pub to me but after moving here I've never seen it in action (London probably not the best place for it).
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 3 July 2020 11:09 (three years ago) link
I do
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:10 (three years ago) link
lol me, all the time
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:11 (three years ago) link
if there's football on, me
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:12 (three years ago) link
only going to the pub when you can organise a posse sounds like a mare tbh
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:14 (three years ago) link
Fucks sake
'I hope people will be going out'Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds tells @PaulBrandITV she wants people to hit the pubs this weekend in order to 'support local businesses' pic.twitter.com/GovuSObREk— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) July 3, 2020
― scampos mentis (gyac), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:24 (three years ago) link
I have a couple that I go to if I just want to sit and read with a quiet pint and one or two more where there's a reasonable chance I'll know someone when I go in. None are that attractive a proposition right now tbh.
On the other hand I am absolutely desperate to go a restaurant and even then not before August probably.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 July 2020 11:26 (three years ago) link
oh fuck off Dodds.
my local became the focal point of a clash between some white-van gammon and young crazy hoodlums culminating in one dead gammon (it's not too soon for me to say the guy was an arsehole and won't be missed) via vehicular homicide a few years back. I still used to go in the odd friday if I was killing an hour before the chippy opens, but most frequently drinking alone or playing the bandit or reading a newspaper, there are a few of the regs I'll talk to but mostly I can't stand any of them. There are some quality pubs further out in the sticks though.
― calzino, Friday, 3 July 2020 11:26 (three years ago) link
In summer is the pub that big a loss when there are parks?
I met a friend in a bar maybe 3 weeks ago just after they opened. Outside table, but really it wasn't any different than meeting in the park for a drink. Park was better really
― cherry blossom, Friday, 3 July 2020 11:28 (three years ago) link
can't drink outside in glasgow, cb
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:32 (three years ago) link
Yeah a couple of weekends ago my friends & I went to their local bar which was doing off sales, we got a pint and walked like 3 minutes to an open green space and drank in the sun. They were going on about how they couldn’t wait until they could get a table inside and I was like... why
― Keir’d flex (wins), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:33 (three years ago) link
if you don't like pubs other things are probably better. if you like pubs, not so much.
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:33 (three years ago) link
glad we got this sorted.
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:34 (three years ago) link
Parks in the UK don't currently have open toilets, which is a bit of a problem. That might be changing this weekend.
This would be a really good summer for the UK to discover the joys of the German style biergarten.
Calz I'm guessing your pubs out in the sticks are proper dog walking pubs and I miss that kind of vibe immensely.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 July 2020 11:34 (three years ago) link
I like pubs but this is more like, is a nice pint outside with mates better than “”””pub”””
― Keir’d flex (wins), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:35 (three years ago) link
And it is
Not for me it isn't. I'm from Scotland remember.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:39 (three years ago) link
just desperate stuff reallyhttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/jul/03/uk-coronavirus-live-boris-johnson-warn-public-pubs-reopen-england-saturday?page=with:block-5eff0a668f08ff51fe2ac113#block-5eff0a668f08ff51fe2ac113
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:40 (three years ago) link
yeah i was replying to "In summer is the pub that big a loss when there are parks?" wins really
if pint in a nice outdoor space with mates is an option it's better than the alternatives right now, but it's not an option everywhere for everyone and it's not like default "better"
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:40 (three years ago) link
Temporary outdoor toiletsStewards will regulate use
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
so "best" option at the moment is probably "continue lockdown drinking" altho in moods like this maybe "continue lockdown not drinking" is my best idea, the urge to dive into the abyss no matter how grim, in fact partly just for the grim novelty, is real and occasionally fierce tho
― Committee of Public Scampi (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
making sure you don't do big shites
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Friday, 3 July 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link