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Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by HPsquared »

bodge5000 wrote: post #118
iso1631 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weatherspoons charge under £3 for a pint in town. That's 15 minutes at minimum wage. Beer was far more expensive 25 years ago - £1.60 in 2000 in the student pub when I first started buying my own beer, that was about half an hour at minimum wage. On the cost side: Wages are higher, energy costs more, rent is higher (because if the pub can't operate the owner can get planning permission to convert it to a private dwel…

That is spoons though, most pubs are 3-4x that

Maybe spoons is killing all the pubs.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by noir_lord »

skinnymuch wrote: post #128
bodge5000 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are plenty of US sites that make no mention of being US specific, I feel like this is well deserved

The US is the center of the world though. There are privileges to that like assuming the world revolves around you.

For now at least, empires fall, so do superpowers.

There is a reason the prime meridian goes through Greenwich and it isn’t because we asked nicely.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by cellu »

I mean alcohol is the worst drug: it’s highly addictive, toxic to the body, one of the few drugs with potentially fatal withdrawal, and a major driver of violence, accidents, and family breakdown. Unlike most drugs, it seriously harms people beyond the user — and because it’s legal, cheap, and socially normalised, its damage happens on a massive scale.

Sooooo yes happy with pubs closures.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by wumms »

sva_ wrote: post #52
crazygringo wrote: post #49

Would be much more helpful if it indicated literally anywhere on the homepage that this was specific to the UK. Being a .com as opposed to a .co.uk, you can't even tell from the domain.

Like the big red letters in the title that say "IN BRITAIN"?

I see them on the leaderboard, but not on the main page.

https://www.ismypubfucked.com/leaderboard

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by j45 »

It's important to separate the spirit of this from the spirits of it.

Pubs as social gathering places are critical to exist and keep alive.

Drinking neurotoxins that have a lot of destruction and damage, maybe not so much.

In the UK pubs are extremely different as well than the US. This site is for the UK, since it's asking for a postal code, among other signs. The UK also I believe has last call at 11 PM, which helps fuel the binge drinking before 11 PM and the wild public afterwards. In North America, last call for alcohol can be 1-3 AM, and people generally aren't in a rush to fuel up to blast off.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by georgebcrawford »

cellu wrote: post #133

I mean alcohol is the worst drug: it’s highly addictive, toxic to the body, one of the few drugs with potentially fatal withdrawal, and a major driver of violence, accidents, and family breakdown. Unlike most drugs, it seriously harms people beyond the user — and because it’s legal, cheap, and socially normalised, its damage happens on a massive scale. Sooooo yes happy with pubs closures.

I agree until your last sentence. Pubs closing can be devastating.

Pubs are often the centre of a community, especially small ones. Not even small towns. Traditionally they have been centered around drinking, but this is changing. Much like libraries had to adapt to falling reading rates, pubs have had to adapt to falling alcohol consumption.

The hard part of this is that food and wage costs are often covered by alcohol costs, though where I'm from the government has exercised vice taxes to make this less tenable. More customers doesn't necessarily mean that much more profit, for a host of reasons.

I hope pubs find a way forward.

Source for my rambling: worked in and managed pubs for a decade. They're not just for heavy drinkers.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by prmoustache »

badc0ffee wrote: post #115
wat10000 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Come to Virginia, where it's outright illegal for any establishment serving alcohol to not also serve food (and not only must food be served, it must account for at least 45% of revenue).

Do they make you order food with every round of drinks? I remember hearing about places like that from my dad, and it seems it would have worked better in the era of cheap drinks/low built-in alcohol taxes.

They easy way would be to do like in some parts of Spain, for every drink you receive a tapa.

That way it can be considered that the food is part of the price of the drink.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by crazygringo »

ikr678 wrote: post #123
crazygringo wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. It's when the web site doesn't say who it's for at all , that's when everybody struggles. And understandably so.

Except that as a english speaking non american, this happens literally all the time with ecommerce? It's not until I get to checkout I realise they do not ship to my country or want to deal with me.

International shipping is an entirely different subject. You can assume that .com is American unless otherwise indicated, and that you'll need to check shipping policies. Just like as an American, when I go to a .co.uk ecommerce site, I have to check whether they ship to the US.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by crazygringo »

wat10000 wrote: post #99
crazygringo wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. It's when the web site doesn't say who it's for at all , that's when everybody struggles. And understandably so.

People only struggle because of a self-centered view that everything is supposed to be for them, and things that aren't for them are a weird exception. A reasonable person will realize that the fact that they don't understand any of what it's talking about means they're not the target audience, and move on (or poke around out of curiosity).

It's self-centered to want to communicate well?

It's just basic communications skills, and honestly decency, to describe what a thing is and who it's for.

Maybe someone who isn't the target audience still wants to learn about the thing? Which this site provides no way of doing. That's the problem. Why choose to be inaccessible like that, when it's so easy to add a couple of works and links?

> or poke around out of curiosity

You mean like by following links that are supplied? Because that's my complaint: there are no links.

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