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Re: End of an Era ?
Originally Posted by rugbymatt
(Post 7754068)
Guiness £3.80, Scrumpy £3.70 Grolch £3.70, real ale £2.80...
Large glass of house wine... £4.95 (we buy the bottle for £4.10), take your pick, prices are rising in pubs on a weekly basis, and the supermarkets are taking full advantage and all the while we are happy to blame smoking, the supermarkets are laughing all the way to the bank! |
Re: End of an Era ?
Originally Posted by missile
(Post 7754113)
I guess it depends on location? I guess holiday makers will be prepared to pay those prices :blink:
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Re: End of an Era ?
Originally Posted by andyrich666
(Post 7754112)
I think its the costs that need to be reduced more than the competiveness of supernarkets, a bottle of wine in a supermarket is £3-£4 you can go to Yates who are far from the cheapest bars and drink a bottle of red/white/rose wine for £4.85 every day.
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Re: End of an Era ?
Originally Posted by rugbymatt
(Post 7754124)
Same as in Sussex and thats not a holiday destination...
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Re: End of an Era ?
Originally Posted by mikelincs
(Post 7754187)
A bottle of wine in a supermarket here is all of 80 cents, but it certainly doesn't stop people using bars, neither does cans of beer at less than 40 cents.
In fact I would go as far as to say the cost of Alcohol from a supermarket in Spain to that of a bar is a greater difference %age wise than it is in the UK maybe. The price of a pint is a major factor as the 3 last posters have shown |
Re: End of an Era ?
Originally Posted by mikelincs
(Post 7754187)
A bottle of wine in a supermarket here is all of 80 cents, but it certainly doesn't stop people using bars, neither does cans of beer at less than 40 cents.
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Re: End of an Era ?
A couple of years ago some friends were out at a party with a designated driver who hadn´t even had a single drink. They were stopped by the Guardia in the early hours of the morning and the driver wasn´t able to show his licence (although he does have one) so the Guardia made his father who was also in the car get out and drive even though he was absolutely ten sheets to the wind!
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Re: End of an Era ?
Originally Posted by Chiclanagir
(Post 7754403)
A couple of years ago some friends were out at a party with a designated driver who hadn´t even had a single drink. They were stopped by the Guardia in the early hours of the morning and the driver wasn´t able to show his licence (although he does have one) so the Guardia made his father who was also in the car get out and drive even though he was absolutely ten sheets to the wind!
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Re: End of an Era ?
Originally Posted by rugbymatt
(Post 7754245)
You do realise that you live in Spain right?
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Re: End of an Era ?
Originally Posted by mikelincs
(Post 7755138)
Ohh, so that's why all the people I meet insist on speaking Spanish to me, I've always wondered why that was...
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Re: End of an Era ?
Originally Posted by rugbymatt
(Post 7753898)
Given that you can, at the moment, buy 8 pints of magners cider from ASDA for £8 and the average pint of Magners is about £3.50 a pint, do you not think that the supermarkets have more to blame for the death of the pub than a ban on smoking?
It amazes me that people don't see it, why buy two pints and get little change from a tenner yet you can sit at home and for a tenner you can have 8 pints and a bag of pork bits and, if you want to you can even kill yourself with tobacco! Something that I have noticed of late, family don't ask me to bring drink over for them anymore when I go to visit, they say they can get if for cheaper 'or fairly near the same price' in the super now so no point... so I can see the drinking at home or other peoples homes makes sense. |
Re: End of an Era ?
What does it mean if you are opposed to the Law of the land?
Well basically you are selfish. Most laws are introduced for the welfare of us all and for the most part make good sense. Therefore if you flout the law it's because you don't care about any one else but yourself and sadly there are far to many selfish people in the world, selfish is as selfish does. I can't see why zero tolerance would be a problem to any one. The decline in the Pub trade is mainly down to cheaper supermarket booze and folk drinking at home. That and the other factors mentioned before. |
Re: End of an Era ?
Originally Posted by twistedmelon
(Post 7757946)
The decline in the Pub trade is mainly down to cheaper supermarket booze and folk drinking at home. That and the other factors mentioned before.
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Re: End of an Era ?
'What does it mean if you are opposed to the Law of the land?
Well basically you are selfish. Most laws are introduced for the welfare of us all and for the most part make good sense. Therefore if you flout the law it's because you don't care about any one else but yourself and sadly there are far to many selfish people in the world, selfish is as selfish does. I can't see why zero tolerance would be a problem to any one'. No on the contrary, 'selfish' means expecting someone else to adopt your own narrow minded, bigoted viewpoint irrespective of their own personal views on the matter. Breaking the Laws which such people bring in, or adhere to unquestioningly, merely renders you a 'criminal' ! Which presuposes every single law ever brought in made common sense, which in itself is nonsensical. Be VERY careful, when advocating zero tolerance on ANYTHING. The last little chap to try that, ended up putting a bullet through his brain in a Berlin Bunker. Keep your own zero tolerance, by all means. Cheers Fredthered |
Re: End of an Era ?
Originally Posted by Fredthered
(Post 7758420)
'What does it mean if you are opposed to the Law of the land?
Well basically you are selfish. Most laws are introduced for the welfare of us all and for the most part make good sense. Therefore if you flout the law it's because you don't care about any one else but yourself and sadly there are far to many selfish people in the world, selfish is as selfish does. I can't see why zero tolerance would be a problem to any one'. No on the contrary, 'selfish' means expecting someone else to adopt your own narrow minded, bigoted viewpoint irrespective of their own personal views on the matter. Breaking the Laws which such people bring in, or adhere to unquestioningly, merely renders you a 'criminal' ! Which presuposes every single law ever brought in made common sense, which in itself is nonsensical. Be VERY careful, when advocating zero tolerance on ANYTHING. The last little chap to try that, ended up putting a bullet through his brain in a Berlin Bunker. Keep your own zero tolerance, by all means. Cheers Fredthered Zero tolerance is only applied as a last resort to legitimate serious social issues, like drink driving which costs thousands of lives and serious injuries every day. I will ignore the rest of your post as it speaks for itself and I don't much enjoy been classed a narrow minded bigot related to A.H. I sincerely hope you are never a victim of a drink driver. |
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