| Going to the pub 22:06 - Sep 7 with 3195 views | GlasgowBlue |
How often to we actually go to the pub.
Up to 10 years ago I would say I went to the pub most nights for a couple of jars after work. Before I was married (25 years ago) it was every night from about 8pm until kicking out time.
When I worked for my old man at his Estate Agents office in the 1980's it also included every lunchtime.
Now it's a case of having a walk with the Mrs to our local on a Saturday or Sunday night if we aren't out for a a meal with friends.
Is pub culture dead in this country or am I just getting old? |  |
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| Going to the pub on 18:29 - Sep 8 with 601 views | BlueBlueBluex2 |
| Going to the pub on 16:42 - Sep 8 by mutters |
I'd simply say middle age men can do a lot if they want to, this isnt 1957!
The time of slowly descending into old age in a pub is long gone, and there is so much on offer in the world these days. Of course, each to their own and this is just my opinion. We are often driven by our social circles and bond over shared interests. If that is the pub then that's great but there is so much more out there if you put the pint down and go out and have a look. |
I can't help but get a very patronising vibe off of your comments, implying that as I choose to spend some downtime in my village pub that somehow I am social pariah.
I have interests thanks and a multitude of things to fill my time, a portion of which is taken by going to the pub after a stressful day and relaxing and talking nonsense with my friends. |  | | |
| Going to the pub on 18:54 - Sep 8 with 572 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
Three times since restriction eased.
Popped into my new local in Stoke Ash, couple of pints and some food. Dead as a Dodo.
Visited some friends for a weekend in Rushden, Terrace bar was packed with a mix of ages and was phone app ordering only with table service. Pricey too. Went to their local after dinner and was fairly busy and you could get served at the bar. Addams 4 quid a pint so would have been rude not to have a few.
Not had much of an inclination to go regularly tbh though I do miss the pre Covid days of having an impromptu pint or two on a balmy evening. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Going to the pub on 20:35 - Sep 8 with 524 views | Steve_M |
The replies to this tweet make a good adjunct to this thread:
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| Going to the pub on 01:19 - Sep 9 with 459 views | stonojnr |
I know I worked out in the early noughties, Ipswich had lost about 1/3rd of its pubs in about 10 years, which when you think about how many new venues have opened and yet the numbers still showed a decline shows things have changed just locally.
pre covid CAMRAs stats were 14 pubs were closing per week, I dont think we are through the pandemic enough yet to say how much that has changed that, certainly wont have slowed the rate IMO.
but I wouldnt say pub culture is dead, there are plenty of pubs that are still the heart and soul of their communities around the UK, its just there isnt one of those types of pubs on every street corner like maybe there was 50-60 years back, and in some places there arent pubs at all, so if youve got one support it with all effort you can.
yeah some of it is to do with changing habits, for all the angst the media publish about Booze Britain, there is and has been for a while a decline in the amount of alcohol the nation consumes.
I dont get the impression younger generations see the pub as a social thing to do anymore, lots of middle agers maybe do it more infrequently than they used to as too busy with families or other stuff for it to be a consistent arrangement to meet friends kind of thing, which just leaves the older/regulars propping up the places.
I think on the work place socialising for lunchtime drinks or post work, its changed alot as I remember it being like a thing, but even the celebration drinks, promotions,retirements etc etc mostly gone, and just not what people do anymore.Except maybe in big cities, it certainly was still a thing in London, or was pre covid, pubs would be absolutely packed in the city around all the offices at lunchtimes and that 5-7pm post work before catching the train home thing. | | | |
| Going to the pub on 08:07 - Sep 9 with 415 views | Bluespeed225 |
Update, Belstead Arms, 6.15, couple of families eating, but also 10-15 boorish young men thinking it was Saturday afternoon, England shirts on, loud, making it uncomfortable for the diners. Missus asked to leave after the drink. Shipwrights, a few in, but has a Japanese noodle/sushi restaurant attached! Businessman from Essex has bought it, has several little hotels in Clacton, though he’d try his luck here. Anyway, his uncle was in there, 55 years old Indian chap from Coventry, good chap, knew ITFC golden years history, loved me telling him more details about players of the time. He also told me the landlord of the Silver Star said he didn’t want ‘his type’ in there, this when he was with some white friends. Couldn’t believe it! Still can’t as I write this. | | | |
| Going to the pub on 08:53 - Sep 9 with 372 views | ElephantintheRoom |
Hmmm - the tied pub model cant work in today's high cost environment where decent landlords who make a success of their boozer are promptly priced out of the market by the brewer. Which is why so many have closed.
Some pretty ghastly pubs seem to do OK - eg all the wetherpsoons and their clones - but unless its a freehouse a decent pub is usually doomed by corporate greed - and definitely if it is Greene King.
Other than that you'd need a second mortgage to fund regular pub visits nowadays- when we popped out for a couple of pints at lunchtime at the civic college beer was 10p for a pint of brown split - so you could afford to go out in the evenings too if you wanted - and in rural suffolk in the 70s there really wasn't much else to do. | |
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