no smoking, no live music without an expensive license.
interior decor that looks like an episode of friends.
what happened to the old fashioned British pub?
2007-12-01 05:05:52 · 9 answers · asked by thunor 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/moon-under-water.htm
2007-12-01 05:23:00 · update #1
Good another person has noticed. The government do not want us to meet and exchange ideas that may not agree with theirs. Much easier to keep them at home and moralise via Eastenders, Corrie and of course the greatest fiction of all, The Six O'Clock News. A Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes thought was that once you remove the impossible, what remains must be the truth.
2007-12-01 05:15:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's been a decade since I could smoke in a bar in the US. So I stay out of bars. Us smokers are hated across the world. I'm hoping it's a pendulum and will swing back toward freedom, but I don't think so. What really pisses me off is all the posturing about secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke is about 3% as toxic as the air in an industrialized region and yet you never hear the nonsmokers screaming about smokestacks. My friend's little brother is dying of lung cancer at age 14 because of the air in new jersey and yet people are complaining about the fact that I smoke?!?!? Get a frickin' life, people. Sorry to hear this trend has crossed the pond. My advice: drink at home. It's what yanks do any more.
2007-12-01 05:13:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Check out The Albany Hotel in Cardiff. Very traditional old-time pub. Used to work there myself!!!
http://fancyapint.com/pubs/pub3593.html
Won a CAMRA pub of the Year award a couple of years back . . .
2007-12-01 07:38:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It became old fashioned, ask the young ones, they dont want any of the trapings of an old pub.
A shame but nevertheless a fact. The smoking ban is incidental in terms of it being an attack on pubs.
2007-12-01 05:11:24 · answer #4 · answered by Muzikman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean the type that's full of coughing old men playing dominos, a blue fog of f*g smoke, has carpets where your feet stick to the floor, a darts team with the combined weight of a combine harvester, disgusting smelly toilets, a busty barmaid in leopardskin, big whiskey bottle on the bar collecting change for charity & a pie oven? There's plenty of em about sweety, lol!
2007-12-01 05:13:15 · answer #5 · answered by Mimkat hate the new Yahoo Answers so has retired. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, I think also that property developers want to acquire the sites to turn into housing or shops.
2007-12-01 05:30:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nanny states killed every damn thing we once enjoyed! No wonder the kids go out and get sh*t faced at the weekends!
2007-12-01 05:12:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sadly it was an icon of the 20th century.
2007-12-01 05:11:08 · answer #8 · answered by Barry K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no smoking is probably a good thing....but the rest, sucks.
2007-12-01 05:24:32 · answer #9 · answered by GEISHA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋