Yet more complete madness...
 

What, no more standing at the bar, supping a well-earned pint? :shock:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...295384,00.html

Just how mad are these people? I mean it's only a tradition that goes back hundreds of years, which if there was a problem, you would have thought it would have been noticed by now. :roll:


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:roll: EEjits.

I prefer sitting down anyway but that's ridiculous.

what a load of CR@P

completely impractical

ridiculous

there's been a lot of discussion on this in the City. It's not standing in the bar, its removing most of the seats so people have to stand up everywhere and can't put their drink down - so as its in their hand they are more likely to drink faster and therefore spend more cash and get more drunk. Also you can fit more people in.

We are thinking of removing chair in meeting rooms for a similar reason (not drinking) as it makes people get on with business (and therefore shortens the meeting). No chit chat just straight to it.

Absolutely - you can fit more beer inside standing up, which lessens the need to visit the bog.

This will lead to queues in the blokes khazies just like the have in the girlies ones.

Then we'll start going in pairs for someone to chat with whilst were queuing........


Thin end of the wedge.

I wonder if the genius that thought up this idea has ever been to a busy bar, where the queue is about 15 people deep?

Does this also mean that I'm not allowed to go to the bar, order a drink, then go stand in the beer garden, because obviously the sun makes me more violent as well, by the same "logic".

Impractical? Yes. Unenforceable? Yes.

However, in principal I would be glad if it were a "dont stand at the bar" rule. Then short people like me could actually get through and get a drink :oops: . People drinking at the bar in a crowded pub annoy me particularly when they act suprised that they are blocking you getting a drink. :roll:

It'll be even worse when they put chairs there.

Or have I misunderstood the point :wink:

oh come on this is Preston we are talking about, the birthplace of the temperance movement. Even the poly here had a dry bar to commemorate the fact.

Totally unenforceable, most Preston pubs would have to reduce their capacity by 80% to enable all drinkers to sit instead of stand.


Just a stupid publicity gimmick if you ask me.


Interesting down the road the Yates in Chorley had a barrier system to the bar, you had to walk down the line, couldn't queue jump and no space for someone to hog the bar.

My own local, sitting at the bar is a nuisance. many do it and stop others getting served, moan when you spill beer lifting your pint over them, and next day they are back again

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:

Re: Yet more complete madness...
 

. . . 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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Re: Yet more complete madness...
 

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