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#300 Being expected to want to swig a bottle of beer from the bottle.

These days the other half has to stick to 0% stuff. And 90% of the time a bottle is put on the counter in the expectation it...

I think it's horses for courses: my mum, aunt-in-law and 'er indoors all had Pfizer and felt worse after jab 2. I had AZ #2 this afternoon. No effect #1, we'll see what tomorrow brings. But my...

Oh and another annoyance that's found its way from restaurants to pubs: Getting The Bill At The End.

A pleasant couple of hours in an M&B branch this afternoon, the waitresses very keen to keep...

Next week me. When I booked both jabs in late Feb the second was the full 12 weeks away. Lots of people ten years younger, in their early 50s, have already had theirs.

Not that I'm that...

Time to resurrect this. I observed some poor soul trying to negotiate one of these while hampered with a plaster cast and crutches. He could only perch the wrong way round with his back to his...

Some which quite fancy themselves. At a family do a couple of years ago I wondered why the pub concerned was serving "prime grass-fed Australian beef" or some such when there's a class-leading...

#777c The Curse Of The Sunday Roast

That slightly sickening smell of congealing lamb fat and solidifying gravy that pervades many pubs about 3 pm on a Sunday afternoon.

Reminds me of the Kings Head in Syresham . We got locked out in the garden at 4 PM when supposedly it is doesn't open till then. Good job the facilities had been inspected on arrival rather than...

Or horse racing.

Just had a look at one near me. Its licence lets it open 10 -11 (12 weekends) and stipulated "normal hours" are 10-11.30. It's open far less than that.

I once grumbled about a pint of Wifebeater which was about an inch below the top of the (unlined) branded glass. I was told 'I'll top it up but if the rep catches me I'll be for it'

And you'll be...

#720

Pricing things without a pound sign or trailing zeros. So you get a "drinks menu" with tosh like "Doombar 4.8" written in it. And no, they don't mean the strength.

Fancy restaurants...

"Can I get a pint of Old Snotgobbler?"
"Of course you can"
"When I get back from Tescos with it can you give me a glass to drink it from?"
"Of course I can...."

Slightly more seriously, if you...

I guess the idea is that a couple of silly old fools sitting at a normal table will take an hour over three halves and a packet of cheese and onion each and gross the pub a tenner. Six young...

The two I'm thinking of are a GK "Local Pub" and a now externally unbranded M&B Ember Inn.

I see from a couple of recent local refurbishments it's getting worse. We now get banquette seating raised four foot off the ground behind high tables with high chairs on the other side. Why? What...

Must admit I'd forgotten all about it until later on when I was reading the paper and checked in my pocket. Spent them in Tesco this morning, wherein the girl had a till bulging full of old ones.

Being Given Old Pound Coins In Change The Day Before They Expire.

It was, of course, a JDW.

I think the 'beer advisers' thread needs merging in here

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/men-looking-for-pub-toilet-act-like-they-know-where-it-is-2015021995509

The very worst for that are hotel receptionists who are made to do the phones as well. You slowly get madder and madder as the bloody phone keeps going. And once you do get checked in or paid your...

They can do worse than that. Get so distracted they completely forget you and go and serve someone else leaving you in limbo. Then you are at the back of the queue and if it's a Wetherspoons on a...

#891a Chips served in tin mugs. Observed here. Fuller's should know better.

I lived across the road for a few months, must be 35 years ago now. As well as the two ladies there was the old man Aldington himself, who always wore a regimental blazer and a younger guy who I...

Apparently publicans are the most miserable of any profession, so I guess he'd seem perfectly normal at the annual LV dinner dance.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26671221