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Passport to the Pub: A Guide to British Pub Etiquette"

From the Social Issues Research Centre, Oxford.

I hope taxpayers money is being spent on this.

Round buying rules, pub ontology, pub gaming, laughing at tourists - it's all there.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

excellent, that's my tube reading sorted out for today

― chris (chris), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:49 (twenty-two years ago)

You will rarely see the word ‘pub’ anywhere on a British pub

This is actually pretty funny given that the Social Issues Research Centre is just round the corner from the one pub I can think of which bucks the trend, a (It's A) Scream pub which is simply called "The Pub Oxford", which prompted discussion when it opened under that name as to whether an indefinite article should really have been used.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

this is so my lunchtime/gym reading sorted.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:53 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a thing called 'The Glasgow Pub Company' opened on Sauchiehall St. This trend must be stopped.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The bar counter in a pub is possibly the only site in the British Isles in which friendly conversation with strangers is considered entirely appropriate and normal behaviour.

no, the bus stop or station platform BUT ONLY WHEN the bus/train is late also count.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

THIS IS NOT AN ACT OF ALTRUISM!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm convinced this was Publogged ages ago but Google is not being my friend. I seem to recall a few glaring clangers but interesting for all that.

I like this:

"When you first enter a pub, don’t just order a drink - start by saying “Good evening” or “Good morning” (both are often shortened to “ ’ning”)"

NING!

In general the stuff about conversation and when you can join in seems imported from a public information film from the 1950s.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the idea of Anglophilic tourists genning up and trying to impress all by walking around saying 'NING!'

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I am going "NING!" at the start of the very next FAP I attend.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

(Tim - I thought it was too up the ILE pub mob's street to have escaped your notice, but I couldn't find it either)

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:01 (twenty-two years ago)

(I've had trouble googling some of my ancient publog posts, but that's as much a blessing as a curse, frankly.)

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember reading this about 18 months ago, and had assumed it had been linked on the publog, but maybe not. Large element of wishful thinking in there, IIRC.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The Opposite Sex chapter makes no sense whatsoever.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

How appropriate.

― Nick Nick (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I OBJECT TO CHAPTER SEVEN and I'm sure I'll do this in GRATE LENGTH at lunchtime

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim is correkt - I reacll this being Publogged quite some while ago.

My own research into pubs reveals that I am terrified of round buying etiquette, as I tend to empty the first pint very quickly & need a second one before the rest of the round buying group has finished, then slow up completely thereafter & hardly want to drink at all.

Joining a group some while after the others have arrived in the pub can also be a nightmare.

Tim: do you conduct bladder/thirst training classes? & if so, can I enrol?

― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I also read this a _long_ time ago. Perhaps it was on NTK back when I read it.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't read the publog - sorry all!

Actually I'm not really sorry - if it hasn't been on ILE then it doesn't really matter.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

The SIRC is the place that that 'Watching The English' Kate Fox works for.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"Don’t ring the bell. Some pubs have a large bell attached to the wall at one end of the bar. This is used by the publican or bar staff to signal ‘last orders’ and ‘time’ (see Chapter 5 for explanation). If you ring the bell, customers may interpret this as the ‘last orders’ signal, and will all rush to the bar to buy their last drinks - making it even more difficult for you to get served, and incurring the wrath of the publican!"

How I would love to see this actually happen IRL.

I think the round-buying page a gross simplification, and a bit hard on Steve who's very good at this kind of thing.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

All future international ILvisitors must ring the bell and go "NING!" before I will deign to speak to them.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think we ever blogged it, and I have done so. I think its rather a fun piece of work, especially keen on the prominence given to Estate Pubs.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the idea of Anglophilic tourists genning up and trying to impress all by walking around saying 'NING!'

This reminds me of an old website from about five years ago aimed at American Christian students studying in London, full of abysmal tips at how to get by in the big city - things like "people on the Tube can be kinda stuffy and unfriendly, remember, its not a sin to smile! Getting rammed into a crowded Tube car is not much fun, especially on a hot day, but try and break the ice by going "gee - bet you wish everyone here used Dial!", people will appreciate it". And also "British people think Americans are gullible, if you're not careful you'll be fed all sorts of stories - if someone is visibly lying to you for the fun of it, just say BALLOCKS!"

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

There was also that pub guide which told people if they wanted to get to Stratford, historic home of William Shakespeare, they could just jump on the new Jubilee Line extension.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

i am so doing no work this afternoon...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 27 May 2004 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

section 5 is disgracefully anti-steveist...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes perhaps 'a bit hard on Steve' was understating the case a touch.

― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Consider this was written while Steve lived in Oxford nary a mile from the publisher of this research makes it all the more urgent that the identity of this Steve is ascertained.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Steve Guttenberg.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

:'''(

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Never buys a fucking round since his film career divebombed. I'm right out of pocket. That Tom Hanks has a lot to answer for.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

NING

― conrad, Thursday, 14 April 2011 08:34 (fifteen years ago)

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