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Just heard on the radio that the gov has had to clarify pubs will only be allowed to open from 6am tomorrow. Apparently some wanted to open at midnight!!! FFS. This isn't going to end well 😂
People are doing exactly what the government has said it’s OK to do and are told they’re wrong to do so.
It might be ok but so far the whole thrust of the government is trying to lay blame at the public's feet by giving out mixed and confusing messages. They are also ignoring the advice from their advisors which remains as 2m social distancing and wash your hands.
Somehow going to the pub doesn't fit the scientific advice as opposed to the political advice.
It's just a case of passing the buck. "We allowed you to go out for a pint and you took it to excess, it's all your own fault and nothing to do with us".
its a shame the weathers shit this weekend, would have been gresat to sit outside my local for a few. going for a couple of hours saturday night to see how things are looking and show them a bit of support. its a quiet country pub so not expecting it to be that busy.
My regular pub isn’t opening until the 7th, so I’ll be going next Friday. It’s very controlled, I have to text a time in advance when I’ll be turning up, with what I’ll be drinking, taken to a table on arrival and drinks brought to the table. I have no issues with any of these things, it means not having to stand at the bar for ten minutes waiting to be served, and getting table service! What’s not to like?
Yeh hopefully something that will stay will be table service like the continent. Standing at the bar trying to get served is pretty rubbish when you can get table service.
Anyway no pub plans for the moment! Will wait and see how things go. Only tend to go for family meals or the odd work so out so happy to be patient and wait.
~75% of the Leicester population aged 16+, I suspect.
most of the local pubs we supply are opening on monday or tues (hants), gives owners and staff a week to get used to new ways of working . Its going to be carnage in the jdw area of the market . be fine for an hour , then chaos as alcohol fueled idiocy commences.
Making tents:
I think Houns had it right on page 1 for me:
Absolutely no chuffin chance. Pubs will be a nightmare and full of the worst type of people and once people get pished social distancing will go out of the window, tempers will rise and it’ll all kick off.
A mid ride, mid week, mid afternoon pint in a country pub in a few weeks time? Definitely
Trouble for me is that I live in a relatively nice village about 5 miles outside the Leicester Lockdown. When our pubs open tonight I fully expect a lot of Leicester's finest to descend on them via back roads. I also expect a lot of them will be driving back pissed about midnight.
IF the police patrol the roads out of the city they will end up turning a lot of people back in the late afternoon / early evening. They would also be able to fulfill their drink-drive arrest quota for the year between 11pm and 1am.
But they won't. So what's the point?
Plenty of biers on offer down at the bar. 20 miles from Leicester, there's been talk of roadblocks and pitchforks. But there's enough dirty wheezy locals who go down the pub, and that's just the ones I know, so domestic delights only.
A couple of observations whilst out on the bike this morning: no queue outside my local barbers which was a surprise. There’s a note saying Bookings: 02..... i guess it’s bookings only.
All of the country pubs had chalkboards with various versions of “if your names not down you ain’t getting served....” Again it guess discouraging the masses by being a bookings only offering.
Bars in Rawtenstall look busy at 11:30 this morning, it's the same mentality that's sees people drinking well over priced ditch water in the airport 'pub' at six in the morning. I just don't understand.
It still bemuses me that they are restrictions on gatherings between friends indoors (probably sensible), yet randoms are allowed to gather in their masses in sweaty pubs to spend hrs getting smashed..
As for those pics of folks queing to get into a pub at 8.30 in the morning.. what kind of sad loser is so desperate to get back to the pub that they do that??
Some people want to support their favourite drinking holes… especially if they served cooked breakfasts. Try not looking down on them…
Surprisingly there was no queue outside my local wetherspoons and only one person in the smoking area.
Queue outside my spoons, the dodgy cokehead pub is totally rammed with people spilling out into the street drinking and smoking
A mate messaged to say "come to the pub" but as I want to see my 73 year old mother tomorrow, without worrying what I might pass on, I am not going.
Just driven home from work, passed a couple of pubs, people sat outside drinking...Fosters!
You waited all this time & your first drink is Fosters!!
Pubs in my hometown (Dunstable) were busy at midday, it'll be messy by dinner time,
Could hear shouting as i drove past
Contact tracing in Texas has shown bars are those likely places to catch it
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1279120957031034884?s=19
I’ve just driven past my local. They’ve set up a bar outside and filled their large car park with tables and gazebos.
There’s not a single person there other than the unimpressed looking landlord
Every time I catch a whiff of cigarette smoke I realise that I am probably breathing in recently exhaled air and wince.
Pubs. No chance. There is no logic to the order in which lockdown has been lifted.
Just had a lovely couple of pints at the local. All very well organised, no issues with space and worked well.
May well repeat later.
Just had lunch at our local. Small village pub.
Such hard work and planning had gone in to their opening and they weren't busy. Hugely grateful for us booking in for lunch. The landlady chatted to us and said she was half glad it wasn't busy as it gave them a chance to test the procedures and rules put in place, but without customers returning, they'll have to close.
Yep, don't know what your worrying about, I'm sitting in the beer garden a couple of beers down, waiting for my cheesy chips 😁
Jealous.
We rode past 6 pubs @ 1pm, 2 not open, 2 very quiet, 2 with a few punters including both 'spoons.
Did a 14 mile ride & got to a favourite country pub @2.30 it was very pleasant, about a dozen drinkers all keeping distance - very civilised.
Just had lunch at our local. Small village pub.
Such hard work and planning had gone in to their opening and they weren’t busy
I suspect, as many on this thread prove, that people need to get comfortable with pubs and restaurants again, that they can be well spaced and well organised, and that this weekend was never going to be the absolute madness that The Daily Mail promised.
At least 50% of the populous aren’t comfortable with going so it’s going to be hard work getting the volume of people through the door. But it’ll happen, it’ll just take time.
I’m debating going back later and I’ll certainly pop back tomorrow, if only you offer some support to a struggling industry.
The Red Lion in Huntley was offering a pint and a bacon roll for £4.50 this morning. If I hadn't been running late I'd have taken them up on that!
Never mind
Had a few pints at my local this afternoon. A small village pub in the Peak District.
All measures are in place and sensible. There was a steady stream of singles, couples and families with a mix of food and drink, split between indoors and out.
All very pleasant and it was nice to both support my local and see that customers were willing to come - and happily abide by the regulations.
Farage is/has, except he was apparently in the US less than two weeks ago and that breaks the quarantine rule...
We have a table booked for dinner tomorrow evening in our well-run local. Lots of measures in place. Booking only (staggered timings), food served outside when possible, table service by app only, you must stay seated at your own table, one in/out on the toilets, don't be a dick.
I'm really looking forward to it.
The local rough arse pubs smoking shelters were shoulder to shoulder rammed earlier when I drove past.
went to the pub post ride today wasn't intending too but to be honest it was absolutely dead. Had to sign in giving our name, phone number and date we were there (track and trace app would make this way easier.) there was about 6 or 7 people inside we sat outside and the 5 of us were the only ones in the garden with about 7 or 8 picnic tables.. i think people are just still too scared / worried to be in a pub with loads of people.
Back to the local this evening. Dead quiet, 15 people there max, got a seat outside so it was like being in the garden but with better beer.
Will be back tomorrow, I've missed it.
stumpyjon
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Bars in Rawtenstall look busy at 11:30 this morning, it’s the same mentality that’s sees people drinking well over priced ditch water in the airport ‘pub’ at six in the morning. I just don’t understand.
Have just walked the dog round Rawtenstall for a piss-n-sniff, Police riot van cruising round, Tigerbar and coke hangout next to the cinema rammed. Gonna be carnage at kicking out time.
So, very different experiences at very different pubs? Who’d have thunk it…?
From the bastion of middle class respectability that is Mansfied...
https://www.chad.co.uk/news/crime/pubs-close-early-mansfield-and-ashfield-amid-reports-major-disorder-2904263
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Quiet rural village. Social club opened today...
So far tonight we've had reports of a fight, clambering over people's cars, mooning, and pissing on peoples' gardens. Hate to think what the situation is in more heavily populated areas...
So no, I'm not planning on a trip to the pub any time soon.
So, very different experiences at very different pubs? Who’d have thunk it…?
Was always going to be the way.
Was watching TV news reports last night and was astonished that none of the reporters asked "so as you are obviously less than 2m apart, what exactly is the nature of your household?" A lot of "wrong messages" being shown
Well I had an ounce of hope that the nation would be a bit more restrained.
Seems that hope was ill judged. #cry
Went for a run last night and ended up at a pub by chance.
Very civilised, and relatively quiet.
I went to collect take away fish and chips.
It looked like a concentration camp. One way systems, all in gloves, masks and shields, separators etc.
No thanks, not for me. Pubs are for socialising.
From the bastion of middle class respectability that is Mansfied…
Drove through Mansfield last night, alot of police around.
Who's have thought some would get carried away there😁
Village local looked quite busy.
Scottish pub beer gardens can open from tomorrow.
Except I have pub-taps with my own beer kegs in my house and a terrace to sit in... Means I get the beer I like and it costs about 50p a pint...
So the predictable headlines with London, Hampshire and Essex seeming to be the hot beds of debauchery. It Was always going to happen though.
As always, we are focusing on the exceptions. The authorities say the majority of people were sensible.
Police Federation talking about the problem being drunk people. It's always been illegal - and a breach of licensing - to serve people who are drunk. A lot of the trouble with the easing of lockdown, and general poor behaviour in normal times in town centres, would go away if that one rule was followed properly.
IS it any different to pre-covid though ? THere were plenty of day to day incidents but other things were reported more as more things going on in the world.
Went out for dinner, restaurant was half full, most of the idiots that I saw earlier in the day had gone home. All in all pretty quiet compared with the lunchtime surge
Yourguitarhero
so its all round to yours then?
Pubs still closed here but went to shop yesterday for some bread and milk...... The block of flats the shop is in had the music thumping and a rabble outside in an enclosed gazebo outside..... As I was leaving the 5-0 were arriving.
Quick look on the local Facebook page shows mass outrage.
Probably would have been less hassle had the pub with large open beer garden across the road been open.
The divisive nature of the lockdown has been confusing for the masses.
Especially with the beeb largely covering the English rules, then there's those choosing to listen to bono because it fits their narrative
No thanks, not for me. Pubs are for socialising.
Unfortunately they still are...which may not be the greatest idea :-(.
The initial opening was always going to be a cracker.
Went out for a meal, was quiet, which was nice. City centre (York) was surprisingly quiet too. I'm sure there'll have been a few idiots taking things too far but that was the case pre-lockdown and sometimes even during lockdown.
It’s always been illegal – and a breach of licensing – to serve people who are drunk. A lot of the trouble with the easing of lockdown, and general poor behaviour in normal times in town centres, would go away if that one rule was followed properly.
That'd be weatherspoons business model stuffed then!
It’s always been illegal – and a breach of licensing – to serve people who are drunk. A lot of the trouble with the easing of lockdown, and general poor behaviour in normal times in town centres, would go away if that one rule was followed properly.
That'd be weatherspoons business model stuffed then!
Pub in my village was quiet, even though we are 5 min away from the city. Best avoid the tabloid pictures cos they will make your blood boil.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-5329668 9"> http://BBC News - Coronavirus: 'Crystal clear' drunk people will not socially distance https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53296689
Genius headline from the BBC
In other news, the sky is blue and dogs have 4 legs
Genius headline from the BBC
To be fair to the BBC, all they had done is quote the chairman of the Police federation John Apter.
He also said about his shift:
dealt with "naked men, happy drunks, angry drunks, fights and more angry drunks" on shift in Southampton.
two days, two different pubs, two very different sets of arrangements.
yesterday has clearly dreamt up their system under full panic conditions, enforced hand sanitiser, crazy queuing (might have worked if it was busy..), plastics........ nice to see some friendly faces even from a distance
todays landlord happy to admit they are having to change/adapt as they go along, sensible(ish) route to order, pay/collect, depart, glasses and designated collection points, all very chilled and great to get a great beer in a real glass without the need to remortgage.....
nobody really thinks they can survive for long like this tho 🙁
TR was that in Culter? Was considering a mosey out there tomorrow.
Well I had an ounce of hope that the nation would be a bit more restrained.
Even after brexit and voting the tories in again.... Surely all hope was gone after that....
Strange, because bars, beer gardens and restaurants have been open a while here in Germany, yet we've seen nothing like the pictures in Soho.
Ignoring clickbait headlines and apparently isolated issues, all the police and ambulance service comments I've read today have suggested the vast majority of people were sensible and it was quieter than they feared.
Went out for a curry on Eccy Road in Sheffield about 6pm last night, obviously service was a bit different but a well missed treat. Stopped for a pint or two at the Dev at Baslow on one of the benches out front. Again all very civilised and social distancy but it was all relatively early doors. A lot different than a lot of the stuff I've seen in the media, looks like the government will have the perfect opportunity to blame us all for the herd immunity.
Well I had an ounce of hope that the nation would be a bit more restrained.
This is Britain, we don't do restrained when it comes to alcohol.
nobody really thinks they can survive for long like this tho
This ^^^^^.
We really should have got on top of this thing early and properly. But because we've got a bluff, crass, unbelievably thick and gittish* 'bit of a laugh' in charge we went full "it couldn't happen in good old Blighty".
*With thanks to Blackadder III.
I've just added a fourth part to my 'what is Boris Johnson a hybrid of' theme.
Zippy from Rainbow.
Toad from Wind in the Willows.
Rowley Birkin QC.
The Prince Regent from Blackadder III.
I'm in two minds about what the misbehaviour will do to the infection rate. Either - it will go up, or - the small proportion of the population who have been reckless is the same small proportion who have been reckless all the time (VE day, beaches, etc) so the rate will stay the same. Probably somewhere between the two, as there will be some people who went to the pub intending to play by the rules, but didn't get out fast enough when the crowds arrived.
Went for a walk this afternoon from a nearby village, and the pub was open. They have a one-way system, in the front door, get drinks, etc, then out of the side door. No sitting inside, or food, except for takeaway orders, so I sat outside in the sunshine happily drinking a pint of Timothy Taylor Landlord and eating a packet of Reggae Reggae crisps.
Really not surprised that a bunch of assholes around city centre pubs are behaving like assholes, it’s almost part of the culture.
Out here in the sticks us yokels touch our forelocks to the local squire, and know our place, don’t want to get into trouble... 😉
A lot different than a lot of the stuff I’ve seen in the media
It’s almost like they are trying to make it sound worse than it actually was/is...
2nd pub trip of the weekend to my local on the way back from a run.
It was quiet, as it often is on a Sunday afternoon, well organised, with a few old boys enjoying a beer or 2 as they always have.
It was lovely.
Don’t believe the media hype, the huge majority have been very calm and relaxed.
People seem quick to slam “the media” for reporting what has happened elsewhere, because it doesn’t match their experience locally. Which is a very odd but popular trend at the moment.
Non-pub related, but I was in York today and the wall walk is open again - in one direction only (clockwise).
No surprise that lots of people can't understand such a simple message. Arghhhh....
It’s almost like they are trying to make it sound worse than it actually was/is…
Are they? I was simply relating my experience to what I saw in the media. I don't usually compare Baslow to Soho, in anything but a flippant way.
TJ, you'd be welcome round for a pint!
Currently pouring a very light English style pale ale, an American west coast IPA and some barley wine.
People seem quick to slam “the media” for reporting what has happened elsewhere, because it doesn’t match their experience locally. Which is a very odd but popular trend at the moment.
Quite
Out of all the media events, drunken behaviour will bring back a spike or two. Being on a busy beach or outdoor protests wont as we've seen.
Indoor pubs/nightclubs are seen as the highest spreaders, not because of the room but what's going on in the room.
However let the Londonites/other idiot locations have their party, if it leads to a lockdown for them then maybe they (wont) learn and reign it in.
People seem quick to slam “the media” for reporting what has happened elsewhere, because it doesn’t match their experience locally.
I think it’s more that the media seemed to be looking for the “drunk idiots” story and then found it. It was then reported as the norm when for the vast majority of places it was nothing like that at all.
Even in a city centre it will have been one or two pubs (it was in Birmingham anyway), with the rest either very quiet, very well organised or both.
It’s almost like they are trying to make it sound worse than it actually was/is…
Yet this morning it’s the opposite - congrats all round for the majority restraint and good behaviour throughout the headlines.
TJ, you’d be welcome round for a pint!
Currently pouring a very light English style pale ale, an American west coast IPA and some barley wine.
On my way.....................