Beer Drinking

[HarryK]

About the only skill I have left.

If you’re in Tampa check out The Pub at the International Plaza. The mall has more high end stores than you can shake a stick at.

Good visual concept. Bartenders know what they are doing. Fish and Chips to die for.

Great mix of English, Scottish, and Irish beers on tap. Great local brews. Nice mix of bottled beers (including my all time fave ‘Dead Guy Ale.)

Can’t wait to get back there on Monday.

[Speaker to Animals]

2001 Space Odyssey is pretty classy too.

[Montegriffo]

Pubs are dying on their arses in England. My town had 44 pubs when I was at school it now has 10.
Micro breweries are doing well though.
People drink at home and buy from supermarkets.
Pubs are more about food these days.
Sad when you see another one turned into a house, some of them have been inns for 500 years.

[HarryK]

Pubs are dying on their arses in England. My town had 44 pubs when I was at school it now has 10.
Micro breweries are doing well though.
People drink at home and buy from supermarkets.
Pubs are more about food these days.
Sad when you see another one turned into a house, some of them have been inns for 500 years.

I blame Darwin for that. Lulz.

[Montegriffo]

Pubs are dying on their arses in England. My town had 44 pubs when I was at school it now has 10.
Micro breweries are doing well though.
People drink at home and buy from supermarkets.
Pubs are more about food these days.
Sad when you see another one turned into a house, some of them have been inns for 500 years.

I blame Darwin for that. Lulz.

As in survival of the fittest?
I blame TV and other forms of home entertainment with the killer blow being the smoking ban.
I guess we've evolved away from the need for public houses but at a cost to ''community'' and a loss of historical buildings.


Maybe a tour of Britains oldest Inns is in order.



http://home.bt.com/lifestyle/travel/uk/ ... 3967877778

[Hastur]

Pubs are dying on their arses in England. My town had 44 pubs when I was at school it now has 10.
Micro breweries are doing well though.
People drink at home and buy from supermarkets.
Pubs are more about food these days.
Sad when you see another one turned into a house, some of them have been inns for 500 years.

I blame Darwin for that. Lulz.

As in survival of the fittest?
I blame TV and other forms of home entertainment with the killer blow being the smoking ban.
I guess we've evolved away from the need for public houses but at a cost to ''community'' and a loss of historical buildings.

Could there be some other reason you are missing?

And you know what happens with the majority of those Muslim kids when they grow up?
They drink lager, smoke pot, support their local football team, speak with regional accents, watch shitty reality TV etc.
I'm other words they become as British as everyone else.
Just like other British born subjects some of them become criminals but the vast majority just get on with earning a living and raising a family.
Sooner or later they will do what most British people have done now and drop their medieval superstitions and stop going for their weekly indoctrination sessions.

Guess not...

[Montegriffo]

What?
Are you trying to link a 70 year long decline in pub usage to the recent immigration of Muslims.
Your yoga regime must be rigorous to allow you to stretch like that.

[Hastur]

What! Brittain only just recently started accepting immigrants? Wow, you got me there.

[Montegriffo]

What! Brittain only just recently started accepting immigrants? Wow, you got me there.

Well exactly, Nation of immigrants going back centuries. Yet the decline in pub numbers only started after the war.
Could it be that immigration has nothing to do with it?
The changes in our culture which have led to the decline have far more to do with technological changes like the mass production of beer and new sources of entertainment in the home than any localised cultural changes brought in by immigrants.
The town I grew up in wasn't flooded with immigrants. I doubt there are more than a handful of Muslims today. Still went from 44 pubs to 10 in the last 40 years.

[Hastur]

That's a 77% decline since you were young. 40 years? Are you sure it's been declining like that since 1945? How many pubs did you start with?