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Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by addandsubtract »

quitit wrote: post #129
wat10000 wrote: post #27

People really struggle when given a link to a web site that isn't for them, huh.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBRtbdVquWF/ Neither American nor from the UK, but I knew what this was about because it's possible to go online and seek out information. Neat. What I didn't do was become some entitled see you next tuesday and complain that a .com should be reserved for the american audience and the site should use a .co.uk – As if american businesses don't utilise foreign TLDs to create cutesy URLs.…

The fuck is that insta video have to do with this topic?!

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by hiimkeks »

dismantlethesun wrote: post #204
jorvi wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

No, the 340 were per month, the 40 hours are per week. I usually do back-of-the-envelope calculations with 4.3 weeks per month, which would leave them below 2 EUR/h.

Edit: But you are of course right about inflation! According to this website[1] it would bump them to 3.2 EUR/h.

[1]: https://www.inflationtool.com/euro-netherlands/2005-to-prese...

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by bodge5000 »

CamouflagedKiwi wrote: post #268
iso1631 wrote: post #256

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most expensive pint I've paid round here was £6, so pubs are about 2x that - about half hour of adult minimum wage, same as spoons charged 25 years ago. So how do spoons make a profit? The main difference that I see is that they buy cheap properties and thus don't have crushing rents. What this page doesn't show is the increase in rent for these buildings.

One thing I've heard is that they have consistent high throughput so they will buy beer that's closer to expiry and hence cheaper, because they know people will drink it before it goes off. Dunno how much of an effect that is, it can only account for so much.

yeh that's what I always hear, but I don't know if its just an urban legend. I guess the fact that they buy in massive bulk also helps

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by bodge5000 »

iso1631 wrote: post #256
bodge5000 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Most expensive pint I've paid round here was £6, so pubs are about 2x that - about half hour of adult minimum wage, same as spoons charged 25 years ago. So how do spoons make a profit? The main difference that I see is that they buy cheap properties and thus don't have crushing rents. What this page doesn't show is the increase in rent for these buildings.

To be fair actually £6 a pint does sound more like it, I think I'm getting confused with rounds (so I most often spend £10-£12, but I'm buying two pints)

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by comprev »

alexfoo wrote: post #160
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 agree with the bit about the having to enter a full postcode on some sites, I often use one nearby or, if they make me select a specific address for no valid reason I make sure I use a random address nearby. Apologies to some of my neighbours who might be bombarded with junk mail for services I’ve once been half interested in. A full postcode is often much less than a single street. Picking something at random stic…

The concept of a postcode was originally due to the sack weight a postie could deliver before returning to the van.

Each postcode would then have an optimum delivery route often devised by the postie's themselves.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by bodge5000 »

CamouflagedKiwi wrote: post #267
bodge5000 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

3-4x £3 a pint? That's £9-£12 which is super expensive - I would say most places are in the £6-£8 region.

Yeh responded to another comment saying the same thing, Im getting confused with rounds. So I am spending £9-£12, but thats buying two pints

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by theBobBob »

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.…

In Ireland we were very late to the postcode game and when we introduced them a few years back they actually uniquely identifies a single address. We also continued our "interesting" habit of renaming everything to make them sound more Irish so they are called Eircodes. In theory you could just put the single 7 character Eircode on a letter and it would be enough although our postal service has said we can't do that.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by ljm »

flir wrote: post #108
kristianc wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Does Britain really need?" has been responsible for the gutting of so much of what used to make Britain a nice place to live over the last 20 years. You can say she same about public libraries, local bus routes, civic architecture, arts funding, youth services, maintenance budgets. The damage has been incalculable.

You won't find any argument from me on all those other things. But pubs are a weird place to draw the line.

Probably because the line keeps getting moved. There's a lot of pressure to build housing with little to no consideration of community, either existing or new.

Just get rid of all the third spaces in an area and turn it into a lifeless residential suburb or something. Once pubs are gone it'll be something else.

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by lblume »

theBobBob wrote: post #287
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.…

In Ireland we were very late to the postcode game and when we introduced them a few years back they actually uniquely identifies a single address. We also continued our "interesting" habit of renaming everything to make them sound more Irish so they are called Eircodes. In theory you could just put the single 7 character Eircode on a letter and it would be enough although our postal service has said we can't do that.

Why not?

Re: Find a pub that needs you

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Post by LAC-Tech »

GJim wrote: post #262
LAC-Tech wrote: post #259

Earlier quoted context omitted.

- A strong leader and a weak bureaucracy, so that your vote means something. - A good constitution that puts hard limits on what they can do, no boiling the frog with freedom of speech restrictions like Canada, Australia, and The UK So basically an elected dictator with a functioning kill switch. Not a parade of faceless, temporary, unimportant prime ministers and elections which don't matter.

> freedom of speech restrictions like Canada, Australia, and The UK Unlike in the USA, where speaking out to, or disagreeing with, the president will get you removed from positions of authority? (If you haven't already gathered, such bogus claims of free speech restrictions in other countries are distracting you from the reality of what is happening in your own country.)

This was an incredibly stupid comment, for the following reasons:

- I never mentioned the US

- I am not from the US

- I wasn't talking about the US

You had some axe to grind and you ground it false pretexts.

Do better.

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