tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post8655223956309656126..comments2024-03-25T18:49:00.608+00:00Comments on The Pub Curmudgeon: Forever changesCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-63433879927111913532011-05-19T13:15:48.671+01:002011-05-19T13:15:48.671+01:00Reactionary = someone who doesn't support bann...Reactionary = someone who doesn't support banning everythingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-9561971805811618552011-05-19T13:00:38.552+01:002011-05-19T13:00:38.552+01:00Oh dear, the reactionaries are all out in force to...Oh dear, the reactionaries are all out in force today.Sat In A Pubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08123038980796000837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-59484073358133818992011-05-19T12:33:27.346+01:002011-05-19T12:33:27.346+01:00There's nothing wrong with "change" ...There's nothing wrong with "change" per se, but change for the sake of change? I'm with you Mudgie.<br /><br />I can never understand why people after buying say a victorian house and then proceed to knock out the chimneys, remove internal walls to make open plan, remove all the decorative mouldings, put in suspended ceilings to "modernise".<br /><br />If people want to live in a modern house, buy a new build up the road.<br />There's nothing wrong with a little modernising if it's in keeping with the over all style, but some of the remodelling is akin to stone cladding, pvc gutters, and a raft of sky dishes on the exterior of Buckingham palace.Budvarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01411709142357622721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-81108832055481205292011-05-19T08:19:03.777+01:002011-05-19T08:19:03.777+01:00When something improves, John, I'll let you kn...When something improves, John, I'll let you know...Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-80469505192276897832011-05-19T07:30:47.732+01:002011-05-19T07:30:47.732+01:00Trouble is Mudgie, the nostalgia it too often rath...Trouble is Mudgie, the nostalgia it too often rather well hidden by all the hand wringing doom and gloom.<br /><br />Don't Curmudgeons ever lighen up a bit?John Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00132845616834779091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-3168805259629804232011-05-19T03:10:43.306+01:002011-05-19T03:10:43.306+01:00Change too often involves throwing the baby away w...Change too often involves throwing the baby away with the bath water. I think few of us fear evolution but thoroughly hate those occasions when all that went before is wilfully destroyed for the sake of 'a new order'.<br />Typical of this was the destruction of the Grammar/Secondary Modern education system and more recently the smoking ban. <br />Did pubs serve a social function and did they provide privacy for many adult behaviours? I think it is sad to see activities such as smoking forced out of the privacy of 4 walls into the full view of all. Even controlled social drinking has been driven out of those same 4 walls due to horrific pricing (£3.15 for a pint of Tetleys) and is replaced with soulless, uncontrolled but much cheaper home drinking.Xopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01387364739989208360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5623537812609722663.post-32843455878690066532011-05-19T01:17:25.881+01:002011-05-19T01:17:25.881+01:00Ah yes, l posted on that thread. The thing that am...Ah yes, l posted on that thread. The thing that amazed me was as the owner of said bar in which he said he suffered from the second hand smoke and had to use an inhaler ... refused to change.<br /><br />He easily could've changed his bar to smoke-free and at that time when there was no smoking ban in place he no doubt would've made a fortune as all the non-smokers would've flocked to his bar :)<br /><br />'Change' must be only ok if someome else makes the changes for you. Mustn't make the change by yourself as that obviously fills one with fear ... of change.Smoking Hothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04534745989363293923noreply@blogger.com