The breweries are strange!
Nothing is being done to encourage the public to go back to the pubs, the for let and for sale signs are on two out of every three throughout the country. No takers, who wants to work for nothing?
When did you last see a 'proper bar maid' you know like they used to have in 'The Old Done Cow?'
Her right arm was always three inches thicker than the left, there was a way to pull pints Spendi, and those lasses knew it! Rita at The Wheatsheaf could have you dribbling at the mouth and keen to move in just with one pull and a flashy smile.
It wasn't what they did or what they said, it were the way they did it and said it.
Don't you remember that ad they used to stick on telly in the 70's 'Greenhall Whitley Land?
No. I must have been playing out or something.
Was it good?
Everything was good in those days Spendi.
The rot started to creep in during the early 80's I suppose.
The 60's and 70's you got on with it.
The system accepted progress in a peculiar manner to compare it to today.
You got away with a lot more in effect. They didn't jump on you for carrying three or four ton overweight or having workmen in the back of a pick up truck. You could have a few pints in peace as well. Johnny law wasn't going to spoil your fun, they had some cracking nights as well. The local bobbies, talk about getting on with life. Only the scales were hunted.
Weights and measures got angry with the transport lads for using all that tax free red diesel though. Wow, did they come down hard, that was the turning point I think. Billy ******** used to sail from Fleetwood to France and back, we used to buy our fags and booze off him once a fortnight at Glasson Dock, then he went into Fleetwoodd with a couple of trawl nets of cod, just to make it look good. Painters could get away with one coat and the scales were fiddled in every private retail outlet. We used to get cheap fags off the Yanks at Warrington, but nobody cared for Luckies, Marlborough or Camel. Southern Comfort and Jack Daniels was available cheap though. Some goodies came out of there on the QT, I remember one guy buying half a dozen Willis jeeps, how they got round the paperwork aspect with that little lot, I have no idea. Couldn't be done today.
Today, my hands are smooth...
But when I worked in 'Greenall Whitley land' I have three callouses (sp?) on my right hand from pulling pints. It was hard work in those days, could feel it in my shoulder on Sunday mornings, today, pumps are gas assisted - back then it were proper beer for proper men, none of this bottled rubbish - pint of slap, snake bites and port and lemonade for the ladies (or a scooner of sherry on Sunday afternoon sessions).
Do you remember when the sea-food men used to come in shouting 'anyone want crabs?'
It's what your right arms for!
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Do you think we should have a national pub closing day, and shut every pub in the country, all in one day?
No. I'd rather have a National Stop Up The Gobs of Stupids once a week from midnight Sunday to midnight the next Saturday.
Wouldn't you?
Is that so you could hold court in the pub, with nobody allowed to shout you down?
Are you addressing John McCririck or Edwina Currie, mathos?
They don't count any longer TPI !
Once that bumbling idiot allowed himself to be flogged silly on Big Brother and ugly features Edwina Currie spilled the beans about giving John Major a blow job in the car park before leading him to the boudoir and finding him looking a right plonker in his silly underpants! I wonder if he took his glasses off?
They threw away all credibility, didn't they?
If they had any to start with.
I think tpi may be referring to the Celebrity Wife Swap in which the two abovementioned people had to live together for a week. Good reality TV, things were thrown and swearing was rife.
Do you like reality TV?
Not at all Clary, it's cheap entertainment for idiots.
Like police with choppers and cameras filming loonies driving daft, getting boozed up and fighting, is that what TV is for?
If they want to show a 'wife swap' lets do it properly not playing silly games.
The only TV worth watching is sport and music, the documentaries were good for a while, but now it seems the repeats are running out of repeats.
What would you suggest a really good TV channel should show, and how?
However you seem to have watched John McC on Big Bro...
No sport, no music; sport should be there for people to go to, physically, so they can enjoy the atmosphere and so that lots of large young males don't crowd me out of my own sitting room (I'm against personal TVs in people's bedrooms) and music should be confined to radio. Good drama like the old Play for Today, documentaries that aren't dumbed down and repetitive which they seem to be now, especially the science ones, all tricksy camera work and no probing content; some soaps and ongoing dramas.
Isn't it lucky we don't all think the same way? Like that we get a mix of stuff.
I don't think it's lucky because it's the only way we got here.
What does "probing content" mean?
Not watched at all Clary, I am very anti television. However, in the course of normal talk, or walking into a home were a television may well be accepting the crap that is being broadcast, or reading the dailies one does not have to watch it to know whats on.
Haven't you noticed, if you made a visit at one time, people had the courtesy to switch off the TV nowadays they don't bother, the ignorant sods leave any crap blaring away.
As for probing content Spendi, I'll leave Clary to answer that for you, my interpretation may well cause you to blush!
We wouldn't want that now, would we?
Is that a probing question?
Wouldn't you have to overestimate Mathos's intelligence to think that?
On the contrary, I was on the wrong thread. Does that set the record straight?
Do you think I'm a flipping corkscrew or what?
Have you done anything other than "flip a corkscrew"?
Would you care to repeat that question young lady?
