I have to say though, as an aside, I like the way this Andy Hamilton writes.

Certainly not the sarcastic humour I would have expected from the Times - nice to see.
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I suppose it could be good for employment - you'd need to hire staff to actually go and serve those sitting down, I mena, we can't have people getting up and going to the bar for their own drink - they may take a naughty sip whilst en-route back to their chair.
Then you need to hire security staff (or more if you already have doormen) to make sure that a) patrons are seated at all time, seat backs in the upright position and tables folded away...

... and b) that nobody else is allowed to entre the premises once all the seats are taken.

Then of course there's the knockon effect - more carpenters would need to be employed to make all the extra chairs that would be being bought.

Shopfitters would need extra help to cope with the sudden influx of work in redesigning pubs to allow for as much seating as possible.

Then there's simple the need for physical expansion as the pubs aren't big anough to accomodate the number of custermers that either want to get in, or are needed to be served simply to pay for all these upgrades and extra staff - so, where are they going to go.

Simply buying up vacant bank properties wouldn't be practical anymore - no seating already in place so it would be too expensive.

I can actually see where this is going.



It'll start a trend of winebars springing up all over the country, making the best use possible of both beautiful architecture and large quanities of unused seating...

... best thing many have got the wine already in stock...

... OK so it's always going to be red, but a decent vintage - advertised and being 2000 years old I believe. :wink:

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. . . that'll be a half litre soon :shock:

:lol:

Good for a sing song though. And would that mean when you've had too much to drink, you're in danger of pewking? :roll: :wink:


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I think you should apologise for THAT immediately !! :D

Quote from the times article "When the mindless nerd next to you knocks the pint out of your hand, it’s much easier to go for him directly than having to get out of a chair to punch his lights out. "

Excellent peice of tabloidary...if there isn't such a word then i shall copyright it :D

Yes but unlike the the Daily Star, it was said tongue in cheek.


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My dad advised me to drink standing up - the reasoning being that you'd sooner know if it was time to stop, if you were sitting then only when it were too late would you perhaps discover the last 'one' was a mistake.

Nowadays I don't want to stand in pubs and generally speaking I don't want to go to the sort of pubs where a majority of people are standing. Of course now I'm all grown up I know when to stop anyway*, but when younger my judgement most likely wasn't as good, leading me to think it was good bit of advice.

*Although on occasion I've been known to ignore this!

Excellent advice — however I could have done with this twenty five years ago :lol: .


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It bl00dy well better not be

there not screwing me out of the extra 68 ml !!

Agreed. I get totally peed off with people taking up bar space when they already have thier drink. :x