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Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 14 Nov 2022, 5:29pm
by millimole
PedallingSquares wrote:Wetherspoons do rescue old buildings and do a decent enough job doing them up.I've always found them to be souless places.We have one locally and I rarely use it.Abbot Ale is £1.95 and it's £3.80 a mile up the road.I always choose the pub where it's £3.80 as it's a proper pub.
Weatherspoons do create a storm whenever they're discussed.
I've always found them pretty grim places, but, they are convenient and predictable if you want food & drink without fuss or pretensions. They are cheap but rarely cheerful despite the interesting buildings.
I'd love to be able to say I'm boycotting them because of the owner's politics - which are seriously suspect, but I can't honestly say that I am.
Outside the Weatherspoons in Hull City centre was one place I have seen a major police presence in daylight at a pub - says it all really!
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 14 Nov 2022, 6:06pm
by ANTONISH
I've always found Weatherspoons ok.
Never seen lunchtime violence - unlike a rather more genteel local hostelry where someone was stabbed to death a couple of weeks ago.
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 16 Nov 2022, 10:49am
by Dingdong
Weatherspoons I've always found safe and family oriented, is what they pride themselves upon. The food isn't exactly great, but it's always good meat and poultry on the plate.
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 16 Nov 2022, 3:48pm
by Bmblbzzz
How about some music?
https://youtu.be/RvdnMzQGbEQ
https://youtu.be/-1RXjCvgPiU
A junkie walking through the twilight
I'm on my way home
I left three days ago
But no one seems to know I'm gone
Home is where the hatred is
Home is filled with pain
And it might not be such a bad idea if I never
Never went home again
https://genius.com/Esther-phillips-home ... -is-lyrics
and
A drunk is a man
Who is stronger within
Than many a teetotaller would have you believe
A drunk is a man
Who's nostalgically prone
And that, soldier, to me
Is a good way to be
Who needs faith when there's a bottle
And a bottle gives regular blues
Let your mind escape into the bottle
And rattle there till it brews
In your subconscious sleep there is no laughter
And your heat swims like a shark
Upon your beach, nothing but nostalgia
A little puppy that's lost his bark
In the little red bottle
Is all I believe
My soul has dropped within
And the little red bottle
Is responsible for so many blues
But blues to a song are gold
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 19 Nov 2022, 9:01am
by Cugel
Here;'s an interesting article about a gubbins strapped to one's person that detects if there's a possibility of drunkenness. The purpose is to warn the wearer or anyone interacting with them that personalities with a certain bent may have alcohol-lowered inhibitions, allowing their Mr Hyde to emerge to run amok.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-63683754
Perhaps there should be an equivalent for car-loons, connected to a big red light on top of their vehicle and a lock on the accelerator pedal?
Cugel
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 19 Nov 2022, 9:14am
by Jdsk
"Alcohol interlocks" are in the EU roadmap for safety standards. The requirement is for vehicles to be designed and manufactured to allow them to be fitted:
https://etsc.eu/eu-vehicle-safety-propo ... interface/
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-re ... ehicles_en
The map below shows current programmes by country:
https://etsc.eu/issues/drink-driving/al ... barometer/
Jonathan
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 19 Nov 2022, 9:21am
by simonineaston
This EU thing sounds a great idea - is it possible to join?
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 19 Nov 2022, 12:22pm
by PedallingSquares
millimole wrote: ↑14 Nov 2022, 5:29pm
Outside the Weatherspoons in Hull City centre was one place I have seen a major police presence in daylight at a pub - says it all really!
The original Wetherspoons in Sheffield City centre is similar.The Bankers Draft has always been the hang out of dodgy types and there's one particular window booth area that has a certain smell to it on giro day,you know the one that homeless alcoholics seem to have
On a side note did you know there's a Whetherspoons Carpets book?
https://www.wetherspoonscarpets.co.uk/
A co-workers lad bought it for him as a Xmas present a few years ago as he is trying to visit all 'spoons pubs.
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 7 Dec 2022, 11:25am
by Mick F
I’m in The Noah’s Ark pub in Plymouth having a pint .
Got here at 11am.
Just finished a bit of Christmas shopping so thought I’d celebrate with a beer. May have another.
Such fun
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 7 Dec 2022, 2:17pm
by Cugel
Mick F wrote: ↑7 Dec 2022, 11:25am
I’m in The Noah’s Ark pub in Plymouth having a pint .
Got here at 11am.
Just finished a bit of Christmas shopping so thought I’d celebrate with a beer. May have another.
Such fun
Until the cirrhosis flares up or you run out of dosh - because you bought one Christmas gew-gaw too many - whilst craving pint 5.
Merry Christmas!
Cugel, a scrooge grade 2B
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 7 Dec 2022, 2:30pm
by djnotts
Mick F wrote: ↑7 Dec 2022, 11:25am
I’m in The Noah’s Ark pub in Plymouth ....
Such fun
I lived in Plymouth for 8 years and seem to recognise the name, but can't recall where it was/is?
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 7 Dec 2022, 3:55pm
by Mick F
Home now.
Walked down the hill to the Rising Sun and had two pints, then walked home from there.
Noah's Ark is a pub in the city centre that's been there since before the Plymouth Blitz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Blitz
The street is off a modern one, which comes out on the modern Royal Parade, just up from the modern Theatre Royal.
Courtney Street, one of the few streets left.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.37075 ... 384!8i8192
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 7 Dec 2022, 5:50pm
by djnotts
Thanks, not one I knew I think. I was in lodgings the other side of centre for a while - Tavistock Place, one of the nearest residential houses to the City Centre that survived the bombing. Area has changed but street view shows Mrs Twiggs' home surviving!
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 7 Dec 2022, 7:19pm
by Mick F
The "modern" 1950's and 60's "improvements" are looking very much dated.
Meanwhile, some of the 1950's and 60's stuff has been demolished to make way for even more "modernisation".
The 1960's Civic Centre is a Grade 2 listed building even though it was, and still is? an eye-sore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Civic_Centre
I've often said, that we should get the Germans back, so they could put Plymouth back the way it used to be.
Joking, obviously.
Re: Giving up alcohol
Posted: 10 Dec 2022, 9:07pm
by Dingdong
This is my favourite Weatherspoons in Manchester
