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Will you visit the "Wet pub". (I really hate that term)

Infernal Racket · 2020-09-13 09:33:12

So will you? I've been dreaming about visiting the local for months now. Spoke to my friend who owns it and he's really hesitant about opening although he says he will. He described to me the partitions he's put and how it will all work. 1 metre here, 2 metre there all the new buzz words that go along with Covid…

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13-09-2020 10:33am

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So will you? I've been dreaming about visiting the local for months now. Spoke to my friend who owns it and he's really hesitant about opening although he says he will. He described to me the partitions he's put and how it will all work. 1 metre here, 2 metre there all the new buzz words that go along with Covid regulations and I just thought nah, that sounds like stress and lack of an atmosphere to me. Can't go to the bar, can't chat with other tables cos they'll be behind partitions and queue for a slash in a tiny jacks. What's the point in visiting my local albeit unrecognizable "Wet pub"?

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#2 13-09-2020 10:44am
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I will yes. Maybe not immediately but after a while.

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#3 13-09-2020 10:46am
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No interest tbh. Don’t miss my local at all. I did at first but soon came to the realisation it was never about the pub and all about the company. Lockdown gave me a taste for home socialising that I never really took too before. I think we will probably stick with that.

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#4 13-09-2020 10:46am
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Nope. No real inclination. I haven't been a frequent flyer in pubs for the last few years anyway due to kids but am not really arsed anymore. I'm at the stage now that a couple of bottles of wheat beer or a few nice whiskeys in an evening if I fancy a drink does me fine. I can see alot of small rural pubs closing altogether, one of the three in my local village already has on the back of C-19.

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#5 13-09-2020 10:47am
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biko wrote: »

I will yes. Maybe not immediately but after a while.

The same myself, will go after a while, let the idiots in for the first few days so they can get their fill

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#6 13-09-2020 10:48am
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Yes

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#7 13-09-2020 10:49am
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Hadn't been for a few months before lockdown, no idea about the next time I'll be in one.

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#8 13-09-2020 10:51am
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Of course.
Repeatedly.

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#9 13-09-2020 10:52am
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Probably, but I'll be in little rush to do so. Anytime I've been out for a drink with food I haven't enjoyed the environment, which will be much the same minus the food.

“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”- ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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#10 13-09-2020 10:57am
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In 8 days 1 hour 3 minutes

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#11 13-09-2020 11:00am
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TomTomTim wrote: »

Probably, but I'll be in little rush to do so. Anytime I've been out for a drink with food I haven't enjoyed the environment, which will be much the same minus the food.

I'm the same. Was out twice in a pub for food and hated the clock watching and being told I had to vacate my pub table because someone else had it booked after me. No enjoyment in it whatsoever.

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#12 13-09-2020 11:01am
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Yes I would say so maybe on the 25th as I have the day off, as long as they limit numbers and space people out

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#13 13-09-2020 11:02am
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I was in a pub recently for a soccer match (had food with the pints) and tbh I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.
I have quite taken to weekend BBQs with friends, Zoom calls with others etc.

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#14 13-09-2020 11:03am
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Does a cat drink milk ?

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#15 13-09-2020 11:08am
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I have no interest. I'm enjoying eating out and having 2 or 3 drinks. Once a week my friend & I take turns in having a few beers in each others gardens.

I don't believe you can social distance in regular pubs. Once you stay long enough to need the toilet the risk factor massively increases. I'd want a full Hazmat suit before entering the toilets

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#16 13-09-2020 11:13am
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Sleeper12 wrote: »

I have no interest. I'm enjoying eating out and having 2 or 3 drinks. Once a week my friend & I take turns in having a few beers in each others gardens.

I don't believe you can social distance in regular pubs. Once you stay long enough to need the toilet the risk factor massively increases. I'd want a full Hazmat suit before entering the toilets

Regulars won't be too concerned about social distancing

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#17 13-09-2020 11:15am
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Definitely not first week when they'll be bedlam. Maybe after 2-3 weeks before they get shut again.

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#18 13-09-2020 11:16am
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ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Definitely not first week when they'll be bedlam. Maybe after 2-3 weeks before they get shut again.

Will they get shut

I think the lockdown is over. Masks and SD here for a while

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#19 13-09-2020 11:17am
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Zarco wrote: »

Does a cat drink milk ?

But should it?
I think most cats are lactose intolerant lol

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#20 13-09-2020 11:25am
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