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    Quote Originally Posted by hondo View Post
    "an underwear pouch that turns your crotch into a beer dispenser."
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...beer--fly.html

    http://www.freedomflask.com/

    so that's what Mel Gibson meant when he said "Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM! "
    Just when you think you've seen everything...
    WE ARE THE BREADMEN - UP THE BEES

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    Quote Originally Posted by Strongers View Post
    Just when you think you've seen everything...
    Lets hope he doesn't fill his glass from the wrong spout!
    Last edited by AlanH; 27-03-2012 at 18:21.

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    Originally Posted by ETA
    Breaking the Hobbitt....

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-17350103

    "Hollywood is beign a bit too precioussssssssssssss about this.
    Rather liked this letter in yesterday's 'i' newspaper, responding to the Hobbit farce:"

    "Now that the Hobbit pub has been told by the company that owns the Lord of the Rings merchandising rights to stop using the name, I wonder what will happen to my local, the Star Wars Return of the Jedi & Duck."
    Lee Rowland
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    I've just heard that the Queen is about to take legal action on all pubs called The Crown!
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    http://www.theadvertiserseries.co.uk...rham_club_ban/

    A WORKING men's club is threatening to ban one of its members for his flatulence.

    Dave Marriott has been causing a stink and now he has been warned that if he doesn't stop, he will be barred.

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    Default Tescoization

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012...-pubs-takeover

    "Last orders for your local

    Has your nearest pub become a Tesco Express? Protesters find themselves virtually powerless to stop supermarkets taking over"


    Depressing of course. The most depressing thing is all those people who claim to want to save their local pub, yet only ever go in there on Christmas Eve, then become Tesco's best customers when the pub is gone. Tesco will then say they're simply providing what people want.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickDavies View Post
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012...-pubs-takeover

    "Last orders for your local

    Has your nearest pub become a Tesco Express? Protesters find themselves virtually powerless to stop supermarkets taking over"


    Depressing of course. The most depressing thing is all those people who claim to want to save their local pub, yet only ever go in there on Christmas Eve, then become Tesco's best customers when the pub is gone. Tesco will then say they're simply providing what people want.
    Given that the local Tesco will provide a case of wifebeater for the same cost as three or four pints would have been at the pub that previously stood there, it's easy to see how the above statement plays out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NickDavies View Post
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012...-pubs-takeover


    Has your nearest pub become a Tesco Express? Protesters find themselves virtually powerless to stop supermarkets taking over"
    Mine is currently being converted, opens next month. In this case the protesters shot themselves in the foot, they objected, successfully, against a nearby derelict and empty petrol station becoming a Tesco Express.

    Tesco went away licking their wounds, made an offer to Enterprise Inns that could not be refused, local, viable pub closes to become Tesco express
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    It's not my local, but a JDW pub fairly near me (The Grid Inn) has found itsef in the daft position of Tim Martin actually paying Tesco to take the lease off his hands. It always seemed a viable business to me, although it did have some competition from an inferior (in my opinion) pub next door that seemed to have cornered the market in decorative twigs!

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    Tescos have been closing pubs down for years,i have just found a photo on the Lost Pubs project site showing the Black Swan Vaults in central Nottingham with a Tescos sign
    outside it, this photo was taken in 1960.
    I would provide a link but i hav'nt got the faintest idea how to do it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Al 10000 View Post
    ... just found a photo on the Lost Pubs project site showing the Black Swan Vaults in central Nottingham with a Tescos sign
    outside it, this photo was taken in 1960.
    Just copy the URL (that's the address thingy that begins www at the top of the page) and paste it here:

    http://www.closedpubs.co.uk/nottingh...wanvaults.html
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