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Old 09-10-2008, 11:15 PM   #11 (permalink)
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You dont go to pubs do you.
I do actually. I just make sure they don't rip me off.
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I have little sympathy for pubs - this is an industry which robs the consumer of some £235 million just by giving you a head on your beer (you ask for a pint of liquid, not froth). That's without mentioning all the publicans who rip people off by serving insufficient measures or watering down spirits etc.
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Drinking watered down beer in smoke filled pubs is how I spent my youth. Wouldn't change it for the world.
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Old 09-10-2008, 11:23 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Drinking watered down beer in smoke filled pubs is how I spent my youth. Wouldn't change it for the world.
Well given the way things are going, when I pay £2.60 for a pint I expect exactly that - a pint, not some short measure.
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I do actually. I just make sure they don't rip me off.
So you get your pint filled to the top with no head?
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So you get your pint filled to the top with no head?
Yes I do, and I make sure I get the full 25ml of spirits too.
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Well given the way things are going, when I pay £2.60 for a pint I expect exactly that - a pint, not some short measure.
I was paying £7.40 a pint in Norway last summer.
After two weeks of that every day my bank account was £2000 lighter.
Now thats a shock when you get home.
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Yes I do, and I make sure I get the full 25ml of spirits too.
You could drink cider like me u wont get much of a head.
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I was paying £7.40 a pint in Norway last summer.
After two weeks of that every day my bank account was £2000 lighter.
Now thats a shock when you get home.
I hope to god that tax in the UK never becomes that excessive.
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You could drink cider like me u wont get much of a head.
I often do - proper stuff from Somerset. I also enjoy the odd beer now and again though.
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Well given the way things are going, when I pay £2.60 for a pint I expect exactly that - a pint, not some short measure.
If you so like the European form of measurements, shouldn't that be "When I pay £2.60 for 0.56826 litres..." ????
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