tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515218627607939514.post3435906307272977094..comments2023-11-05T06:54:02.622-06:00Comments on Knights of Creativity Spirit & Ale: Should UK Pubs See The Light?dkWellshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14036130304612683613noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515218627607939514.post-53613718363186324812017-08-11T18:32:26.228-05:002017-08-11T18:32:26.228-05:00YoBit lets you to claim FREE COINS from over 100 u...<b><a href="http://btcx.syntaxlinks.com/r/YoBit" rel="nofollow">YoBit</a></b> lets you to claim <b>FREE COINS</b> from over <b><i>100</i></b> unique crypto-currencies, you complete a captcha once and claim as much as coins you can from the available offers.<br /><br />After you make about 20-30 claims, you complete the captcha and keep claiming.<br /><br /><b>You can press CLAIM as much as 30 times per one captcha.</b><br /><br />The coins will <b>stored</b> in your account, and you can convert them to Bitcoins or USD.Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515218627607939514.post-69372974199445803872009-09-02T07:06:54.101-05:002009-09-02T07:06:54.101-05:0064 and 55 are only numbers that I hope to see in m...64 and 55 are only numbers that I hope to see in my lifetime. As far as the beer......piss off!<br /><br />I agree with Sir D's summary. Pubs are such an English tradition (and who loves tradition more than the English!) that I don't see them vanishing in vast numbers. I think the main problems that Pubs face is similar to the problems Starbucks faced not too long ago, just simply too many in a given area.<br /><br />The laws of supply and demand, competition and customer satisfaction will always reward the best and kill the worst. That's my Darwinian law of Capitalism. (And yes, even though England has "socialist" medicine, they are still Capitalist)<br /><br />Sir Hook Who Would Love to Pull an Old Hooky Today of WarrickdkWellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14036130304612683613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3515218627607939514.post-90297735078749365382009-09-01T17:12:06.144-05:002009-09-01T17:12:06.144-05:00well re the UK pubs closing scenerio... I think we...well re the UK pubs closing scenerio... I think we've had several blogs on this subject before, and just i sit and try and list the many many micro reasons that some are closing down. <br /><br />There are to many reasons to list and it would take an MA in sociology and History of the English populations to even begin to get to the root of this.<br /><br />What i can safely tell my colonial friends is, its not because beer prices are too high...nor indeed because we are in need of Lite Beer.( yetch ) we passed thru that phase in the late 80's and thankfully it shows no sign of coming back. ( its not hot enough in this country for AC or refrigerated Lite Beer and thats a fact.....we eat heavy food and heavy beer because it is cold and we need the calories!!!)<br /><br />I actually don't believe that many are shutting down... but the ones locally that are, have a few things in common...<br /><br /> ie: they were small, or nobody went in them, ( some of them were rubbish with appalling atmospheres. ) merely because the neighbourhood had changed. The paternal drinking family has been replaced by Single Mum's and hardworking Immigrant populations whose religion and culture is not drinking in Pubs. <br /><br />add to that, many of the pubs didn't have a carpark, and housing shortages here being what they are, the temptation for the breweries to cull the non-profit pubs and sell them off to be converted into housing , is too strong.<br /><br />The drink driving laws here are so harsh that most drinkers tend to get better beers in supermarkets and drink with neighbours at home.<br /><br />On saying that.. England has had Hundreds and thousands of pubs.. so losing a few is not that noticeable... and lets face it Bowie... you weren't too short of a few pubs with a couple in nearly every street in the city. lol<br /><br />What would I do if i was the UK Czar of Drink? well i would try and bring back more competition into the pubs, make them Free Houses, where I could bring in more variety on the shelves and on the pumps. I'd bring back Mild ( it is the drink for today ) and i would offer more and sweeter Brown Ales. <br /><br />I love the currant explosion of Ciders both Pear and Apple.<br /><br />and over all I have a very positive feel about the Pubs in England.. and CAMRA would still be moaning if every house in England was like the White Horse in Broad street Oxford. <br /><br />All that talk of Drink is making me thirsty...and is now going to have a cup of English Tea ..our national drink.<br /><br />Sir Dayvd ( who if I had all the money I'd spent on drink,.....I'd spend it on drink ) of OAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com