tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post1223111818449462355..comments2024-03-25T18:49:00.608+00:00Comments on The Pub Curmudgeon: Cart and horsesCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-41516215636325374242012-02-20T13:34:32.369+00:002012-02-20T13:34:32.369+00:00It#s difficult to know what came first, but people...It#s difficult to know what came first, but people are staying in more. The fantastic variety of British bottled beers available in my local Morrisons for around £1.70 a 500ml bottle gives even less reason for going out.Jonathan Bagleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17331501151709216753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-72935522943326411232012-02-20T09:16:45.724+00:002012-02-20T09:16:45.724+00:00I agree with Mr Clarke. Lets have some upbeat stuf...I agree with Mr Clarke. Lets have some upbeat stuff. It's all fags and misery, this. Ask JC to guest blog something a little more uplifting.<br /><br />Maybe a story about a pub not going bust because the locals still drink there having decided to give up the tabs and put the money into a fund to buy incubators to save babies lives.Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-68708459040943827562012-02-19T15:21:26.605+00:002012-02-19T15:21:26.605+00:00@John - I do not speak for CAMRA, but the point I ...@John - I do not speak for CAMRA, but the point I was making was that CAMRA will achieve little by constantly banging on about evil pub companies and rapacious developers, and in the long run the best way to "save pubs" is to address the wider issues, which is exactly what I AM doing.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-68685248843590670412012-02-19T14:55:46.841+00:002012-02-19T14:55:46.841+00:00Tyson said...
Just how many elephants can you get ...Tyson said...<br />Just how many elephants can you get in a room?<br /><br />Loads 'cos there's no customers.Xopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01387364739989208360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-34822435967902855872012-02-19T12:43:35.856+00:002012-02-19T12:43:35.856+00:00Just how many elephants can you get in a room?Just how many elephants can you get in a room?Sat In A Pubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08123038980796000837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-4230396645186696442012-02-19T12:43:04.277+00:002012-02-19T12:43:04.277+00:00"It is always going to be better to celebrate..."It is always going to be better to celebrate good pubs......rather than painting a negative picture of closure and decline"<br /><br />Indeed - so what about it then Mudgie?John Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00132845616834779091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-28691822726373604582012-02-19T12:32:46.112+00:002012-02-19T12:32:46.112+00:00As said before, CAMRA will only wake up when it...<i>As said before, CAMRA will only wake up when it's way too late. "Shit, this means us!"</i><br /><br />Possibly about time we put as much effort into this subject as we do in production of the GBG.<br /><br />Having just finished off a tweak to a description of a GBG nomination, I realised how constrained I felt and worried to even mention they might serve beers other than real ale.<br /><br />So the other elephant in the room is that real ale is the <b>only</b> drink that makes a good pub.Rob Nicholsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14871887147718814739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-60159354023490156242012-02-19T11:14:40.598+00:002012-02-19T11:14:40.598+00:00Another variation on this narrative is the oft-hea...Another variation on this narrative is the oft-heard assertion that a central reason for the overall decline in the pub trade is that "pubs are badly run".Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-21260294645940444932012-02-19T03:47:55.974+00:002012-02-19T03:47:55.974+00:00One could go as far as to say modernity itself is ...One could go as far as to say modernity itself is destroying pubs. Its easy enough to get a beer at innumerable strip malls and the like, and people simply do not go for the experience. One does not go to a pub for the drink, but for the cameradie and the experience itself.farmland investmentshttp://www.greenworldbvi.com/alternative-investments-options/agricultural-farmland/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-14646487985667027812012-02-18T22:53:03.122+00:002012-02-18T22:53:03.122+00:00A second elephant in the room that is often overlo...A second elephant in the room that is often overlooked is Government who cripple so many industries whilst sitting on their collective behinds by imposing taxes on pleasures (justified as sin taxes).<br />It seems the harder you try the more the Government 'earns' by doing nothing and ultimately makes businesses untenable!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-53910324491414574992012-02-18T19:12:03.695+00:002012-02-18T19:12:03.695+00:00My fault, I think. Try this:
http://208.254.74.79...My fault, I think. Try this:<br /><br />http://208.254.74.79/articles/author_gerard_hastings_talks_alcohol_marketing_on_panorama-_monday_february/Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-23272516200310361502012-02-18T18:59:44.462+00:002012-02-18T18:59:44.462+00:00"It's only going to get worse until CAMRA...<i>"It's only going to get worse until CAMRA wake up and get militant against these people"</i><br /><br />Haha, "and now we mourn the closure of the last pub in England". <br /><br />As said before, CAMRA will only wake up when it's way too late. "Shit, this means us!"<br /><br />Your link doesn't work, btw.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-67157137635452672702012-02-18T18:51:51.939+00:002012-02-18T18:51:51.939+00:00Interesting he should mention the term 'social...Interesting he should mention the term 'social glue'.<br /><br />I don't know how to break this but ... you'll be seeing a whole load of anti-alcohol stuff coming out from the BBC on Monday as Panorama of that evening is going to be a hatchet job against alcohol. One of the advance quotes talks about a brewer setting out <a href="sets%20out%20to%20position%20its%20leading%20brand%20of%20beer%20as%20%E2%80%98social%20glue%E2%80%99" rel="nofollow">"to position its leading brand of beer as ‘social glue’."</a> This, remember, from one of the biggest proponents of minimum alcohol pricing.<br /><br />It's only going to get worse until CAMRA wake up and get militant against these people. They've let enough slide meekly past already, and look set to ignore (or pretend didn't happen) even the obvious precedents in front of them.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.com