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Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by 9rx »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #193
9rx wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Being on the other side of the world, I've only ever heard of efforts to save English pubs. Thus, without more details, one knows that is what is being referred to. Perhaps Scotland has the same kind of movement happening at the local level, but something on a global website implies global context.

Being on the other side of the world, I had never heard of efforts to save English pubs, so that doesn’t sound like a global context at all.

Maybe not so much active efforts to save them, but the mass lamentation around the collapse of the industry that has been going on for several decades. What efforts there are to save them is merely an extension of that.

Much the same thing has happened here too (the local watering holes struggling and failing, that is), but that isn't even considered newsworthy at the local level, let alone a message that has spread far and wide. English pubs, for whatever reason, are the only ones that have consistently caught grander attention.

But there will always be someone living under a rock, as they say.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by jhbadger »

messe wrote: post #98
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…

> Weatherspoons charge under £3 for a pint in town. That's 15 minutes at minimum wage. Yeah but then you've to drink at spoons.

The thing is, they've purchased so many historic pubs, that if you refuse to drink at one that's a choice. I'm not saying that's a terrible choice, but it's a choice that bars you from an awful lot of pubs.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by jhbadger »

9rx wrote: post #171
thebruce87m wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The website is for England and Wales.

Wales comes along with England due to how their legal framework is setup. It is a good technical point you raise, but for all intents and purposes within the context they are the same place.

And yet it is the one part of the UK that actually has a language that is spoken by a non-trivial percentage of the population (unlike NI or Scotland where a tiny percentage can speak their Celtic tongue)

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by dismantlethesun »

jorvi wrote: post #183
econ wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When young I use to work in construction. (With diplomas) The wages for 18 year olds in the Netherlands at the time were such that I got 340 euro per month for 40 hour weeks. It's a truly shit salary but you could also see it as a wonderful formula to build cheap houses. As my boss billed the customers 28 euro per hour for my work and those houses cost roughly 35000 to buy(!) and it took roughly 80 hours of work each…

You conveniently leave out that you were making minimum(?) youth wage. In 2026, at 18y minimum wage is €7.36 per hour and at 21y it rockets up to €14.71 Not that youth wage past 18y isn't a stupid concept, but your wage being guaranteed to at least double in ~36 months time is rather relevant.

The were making 8.5 per hour which above the 2026 youth wage.

They also are relating a story from their past and since they have had an account since 2015, I am assuming their youthful past was at least 1 decade ago if not nearly 20 years ago.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by pavo-etc »

tracker1 wrote: post #62

While this is cool to see, would be nice to see some indication of the nation specific context for those outside that nation... especially since it's the more generic .com tld instead of say .uk ... Maybe even a Union Jack in the corner as a background image, or something.

I'll do this on my projects when US sites start doing this on theirs

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by fakedang »

GrowingSideways wrote: post #198
fakedang wrote: post #89

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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.

I thought Corbyn started his own party? Surely they have time to figure out a way to look more competent than Starmer of all people

The more Corbyn performs, the more the Labour vote will get divided. The same balkanization happened with the Tories and Reform/UKIP.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by jimnotgym »

One striking feature in the UK is the number of pubs that 'went on fire'.

The business is no longer viable, planning constraints (and often listed building constraints, which is protection for historical buildings, many pubs are very old) won't let them do anything else with the building so they sit empty until they spontaneously combust. Soon after they get demolished and regrow as a supermarket or apartments.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by 9rx »

jhbadger wrote: post #203
9rx wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wales comes along with England due to how their legal framework is setup. It is a good technical point you raise, but for all intents and purposes within the context they are the same place.

And yet it is the one part of the UK that actually has a language that is spoken by a non-trivial percentage of the population (unlike NI or Scotland where a tiny percentage can speak their Celtic tongue)

> And yet it is the one part of the UK that actually has a language that is spoken by a non-trivial percentage of the population

98% of the UK population can speak English, so I'm not sure where you got that idea. Clearly every part (maybe some small, uncelebrated village breaks the rule) of the UK has a language spoken by virtually the entire population of that region.

> (unlike NI or Scotland where a tiny percentage can speak their Celtic tongue)

If you are struggling to say that England is the only country in the UK that sees most of its population still speak the language of its ancestral roots, then I suppose that's true, but when English is the most commonly used natural language across the entire world I'm not sure that is much of a feat.

What does any of this have to do with the discussion at hand?

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by messe »

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.

> The US is the center of the world though

Give it a few months.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by messe »

crazygringo wrote: post #85
alexfoo wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, I'd say that most people in the UK who would be interested in the contents of this site are aware of the context and know what phrases like "rates increases" actually mean. It's been in the news quite a bit over the years since the pandemic. Not every site has to provide an ELI5.

The homepage doesn't even say it's about the UK. For a generic ".com" domain that isn't American, it's generally a good idea to yes, have a kind of minimal hint that tells you at least which country it's about, and at least a single link you can follow to get the broader context. I'm following a link to it on HN. When I get there, I have zero context. Visitors to your site can come from anywhere, so it's generally co…

Or how about the US starts using ".us"?
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