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Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by wat10000 »

crazygringo wrote: post #140
wat10000 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It's not for you.

It's self-centered to want others to communicate well to you when they aren't attempting to communicate with you in the first place.

You want to learn about the thing? You have the entire internet at your fingertips. Click search bar, type "pub rates," boom, thousands of news stories.

If you want to know what's going on, put in the bare minimum effort to find out. If you don't care then ignore it and move on.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by alexfoo »

alexpotato wrote: post #144
philo23 wrote: post #125

Kinda meta, but this is the first time in a long time where I've put only the first half of my postcode in expecting it not to work and been surprised. Most of these "find your nearest XYZ" site require the full postcode which is just unnecessary unless you're looking for a fairly precise location. A full postcode can narrow your location down to an individual street, so its nice not to give too much away if you can.…

I lived in SW1 many years ago and was surprised to learn, from this website, that SW goes all the way out to SW19!

And a bit further to SW20 in Raynes Park (a.k.a. “West Wimbledon” in Estate Agent vernacular).

I’ve lived somewhere in SW18/SW15/SW19 for the last 30 years. Having not grown up in London I can’t imagine living anywhere else. Apparently many other bits of London (North, East, central, etc) are good too but I’m not ready for change.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by ehnto »

sefrost wrote: post #149
tialaramex wrote: post #114

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> seeing its rateable value go up 480%! Rateable value is based on what the market prices would be to rent that space. So, somebody is doing nicely apparently.

But if the landlord owns the pub (rare in the UK I know), but I believe it’s the case in this instance, then what are they getting from unrealised property price gains?

What does anyone gain from it really, except money in the bank for a handful of individuals, outsized property prices seem to be a hurdle for functional societies in basically every way.

It doesn't benefit a town if rent is so expensive that their businesses shut down.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by prmoustache »

crazygringo wrote: post #152
prmoustache wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 What is the main country where dying pubs is such a big subject? For f**ks sake I am not from UK yet it is easy to understand what it is all about from context and language. And I wasn't even aware of that tax change. Pure US arrogance.

> What is the main country where dying pubs is such a big subject? How should I know? That's the point. It might as easily be Ireland for all I know. Or maybe pubs are dying in Boston or something? > For f*ks sake I am not from UK yet it is easy to understand what it is all about from context and language. I'm happy you're so smart. Not all of us are so lucky, I guess. > Pure US arrogance. Who said anything about the…

> Who said anything about the US?

I just read your account name.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by prmoustache »

crazygringo wrote: post #150
prmoustache wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You can assume that .com is American unless otherwise Why?

Because the internet was invented in America so it's the only country where a country suffix was never used from the start of its popularity. I'm not saying this is good or bad or justified or not, just saying what the conventions are.

But there have never been a convention that .com was reserved to the US market.

co.uk, com.au, com.mx, com.my and co.jp exist for example, but I have never heard of a co.fr, com.it or co.de or org.dk

Bottom line: there is no real convention

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by alexfoo »

antonymoose wrote: post #141
j45 wrote: post #135

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 help…

Funny enough I worked with an old timer back in Charleston, SC which historically had no regulated last call. During his drinking years they passed a law requiring an 0200 closing time which, as he put it, was a terrible idea because it put all the drunks out on the street at the same time causing joint chaos. In his view having no official close meant folks naturally filtered out over time as they were sated. Seems…

Sometimes you have to try stuff to find out the unintended consequences. Not everything can be analysed/foreseen/predicted.

Hopefully they were able to see the negative effect, realise the mistake and reverse the decision.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by SecondHandTofu »

crazygringo wrote: post #142
bodge5000 wrote: post #117

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

Due to the history of the internet, anything ".com" should be assumed to be US-specific if not obviously global, just like anything ".co.uk" should be assumed to be UK-specific if not obviously global. If you use a .com for something that is specific to a country/region that is not the US, the onus is on you to clarify. That's the problem here. If you're not going to make it ".uk", then you should be making that obvi…

Due to the history of the internet, anything ".com" should be assumed to be a commercial entity.

If you are from the US, the only nation who doesn't frequently use a national TLD, the onus is on you to judge if a site is commercial, US-specific, global, or something else entirely.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by alexfoo »

fakedang wrote: post #89
moop_moop wrote: post #61

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The services have certainly not got better in the last 5 years. This Government is fiscally illiterate and has hit the top of the Laffer curve and is now trying to go down the other side.

Unfortunately, if an election were to be held today, the morons at Reform would have the greatest chance of winning, thanks to Starmer's ostrich syndrome, Corbyn dividing the Labour vote and the Tories being absolutely irrelevant after 15 years of continuous rule.

Don’t. Just don’t.

There’s time for some party to sort themselves out before the next election is due (Aug 2029).

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by eichin »

amiga386 wrote: post #119
rconti wrote: post #105

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Ah, interesting. So it sounds like the tax roughly scales with property value (or size). And pubs are probably a "poor use of land" because the revenue per square foot is not particularly high?

Yes. It scales with a government agency's estimate of the property's annual rent (even if you own it), based on market rates in the area over the past two years, which they then scale up/down based on floorspace and how dilapidated the building is. You pay a percentage of the hypothetical rent as tax. There is a lower rate if you're a small business, and there are also tax reliefs for various reasons (charity, partia…

... was that a real guardian article, or just an elaborate prank built around the phrase "shell company"?

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by rcxdude »

j45 wrote: post #135

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 help…

11PM is pretty standard but it varies quite a lot. Some places can be open much later, it depends on what the local council will license.
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