Find a pub that needs you

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Post by thinkingemote » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 3:44 PM UTC

Find a pub that needs you
ismypubfucked.com

Re: Find a pub that needs you

#2

Post by fourside » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:16 PM UTC

For anyone else who entered a US zip code and was confused by the ‘invalid zip code’ error: this is UK only.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by jihadjihad » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:23 PM UTC

I like how the status values could be used as labels of economic wellbeing for people, too:

  Somehow Fine
  Feeling It
  Struggling
  Fucked
  Absolutely Fucked

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by imzadi » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:24 PM UTC

fourside wrote: post #2

For anyone else who entered a US zip code and was confused by the ‘invalid zip code’ error: this is UK only.

Yeah, they could reduce confusion by changing "the government" to "the UK government."

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by rconti » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

Interest in context on "government pub rates". New tax scheme?

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by Tom1380 » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:36 PM UTC

imzadi wrote: post #4

fourside wrote: post #2

For anyone else who entered a US zip code and was confused by the ‘invalid zip code’ error: this is UK only.

Yeah, they could reduce confusion by changing "the government" to "the UK government."

If Americans did the same it would be great

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by notatoad » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC

fourside wrote: post #2

For anyone else who entered a US zip code and was confused by the ‘invalid zip code’ error: this is UK only.

your first clue might have been that it does not say "zip code" in either the field label or the error message, it says "postcode".

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by cjs_ac » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:41 PM UTC

rconti wrote: post #5

Interest in context on "government pub rates". New tax scheme?

Changes to property taxes on business premises.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by RIMR » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:42 PM UTC

Tom1380 wrote: post #6

imzadi wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, they could reduce confusion by changing "the government" to "the UK government."

If Americans did the same it would be great

Good luck. Americans won't even differentiate Washington State and Washington D.C. Even the AP guidelines say that "Washington" is ubiquitous shorthand for "Washington D.C." and recommends against shortening it to "D.C."

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by amiga386 » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

rconti wrote: post #5

Interest in context on "government pub rates". New tax scheme?

Existing tax. Proposed new calculation for the "value" of business property, disproportionately affecting pubs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e57dexly1o

> In her November Budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves scaled back business rate discounts that have been in force since the pandemic from 75% to 40% - and announced that there would be no discount at all from April. That, combined with big upward adjustments to rateable values of pub premises, left landlords with the prospect of much higher rates bills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_rates_in_England

> Properties are assessed in a rating list with a rateable value, a valuation of their annual rental value on a fixed valuation date using assumptions fixed by statute. Rating lists are created and maintained by the Valuation Office Agency, a UK government executive agency.