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04-20-2015, 06:48 PM | #46 | |
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04-20-2015, 07:10 PM | #47 |
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Maybe you did,but you are doing allright now mate, 1 cod and chip's will set you back about $12 US here now,and that's wrapped in paper to go,if you want ketchup or tartar sauce that's an extra 25c for a tiny sachet, a pub will charge about $25 for a sit down.
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04-20-2015, 07:30 PM | #48 | |
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I don't plan on keeping mine that long, but it's nice to know stuff is available.
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04-20-2015, 07:32 PM | #49 | |
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04-21-2015, 02:54 AM | #51 |
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There are virtually none of the old family owned breweries or pub's left now,they have all been swallowed up by the big conglomerate's,who lease out the pub's at extortionate rent's and dictate what beer they sell,( their own )and at what price, so that the pub's cant provide a living anymore,they have been turned into child friendly,non smoking restaurant's, with none of the old character's left in them.Add the stupidly high tax on top of everything and you got a recipe for disaster, they reckon 12 pub's a day are closing across the country, the big supermarket chain's are buying them up and turning them into convenience store's, undercutting and forcing the closure of all the family owned store's.Big business win's everytime eh !
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04-21-2015, 10:58 AM | #52 | |
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Before i set off on a 70 mile trip this morning, i took the speedo apart and cleaned the 2 pole's that go into the grommit's and lashed them and the grommit's with WD40. Thinking that i finally fixed it, 10 mile's up the road it started again,it was driving me nut's,so i pulled over on the side of the road,and took it apart again. All i had with me for a lubricant was some Duckswax,so it got a propper dose of that,and i tell you what nipper,that's the stuff ! not a squeak out off it all day http://www.duckswax.co.uk/
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04-21-2015, 03:45 PM | #53 | |
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I did it for free
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***eventually, there is a cost when you get pulled over by the local police for speeding. "But, it's broken, see?" doesn't have a lot of currency.
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04-21-2015, 06:32 PM | #54 | |
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Ireland is split in two halves,the north is British governed,the south is/was independent,now it's a member of the European Union. They took billion's of euro's as a bribe to join,good time's followed,building's went up everywhere some people got very rich,then the recession came and they could'nt make payment's on the euro loan's,and the euro bank show's no mercy (see what they are doing to Greece) and the Irish economy all but collapsed.Propped up by the euro bank,they are no longer governing their own country,but dancing to the bank's tune, and the wishes of the unelected cabal of thieves who run the EU. So to answer your question, yes Ireland has lost many of it's independent pub's and other businesses,but in the country they still have plenty of typical old bar's full of the type of character's that you wont find anywhere else.
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I was on holiday in the U.K last year. I am originally from there.
I walked to my local pub to find it all shuttered up and closed forever. I stood there in total disbelief. It had been there for almost a 100 years. My grandfather went there, my dad went there, I went there. There are many pubs close to my mums place in the U.K that have closed. A pub closing was unheard of 30 years ago. Hardly anyone had beers at home, everyone met in the pub to socialize. Most of the pubs that relied on just beer sales have gone and only the pubs selling beer and good food have survived. |
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http://www.theoldmillinn.org/ I drank in the Bridge Tavern for 40yrs when i was not travelling,i watched, and took part, as 3 whole generation's got raised into adult's and taught manner's and respect in that pub. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/dist...lost_forever_/ http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/1029...otest/?ref=rss
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I think we have some of this here in the States, but the focus is inverted; it's 1st about drinking, 2nd about socializing (never mind American football season).
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In my state, most small towns have a bar and church on every corner, and it's hard to tell which one hear's more confessions.
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