I've spoken to a load of friends who've said things like "not yet, give it a couple of weeks". What tangible difference will there be in another 2 weeks that will make going to the pub better? If anything, the R's going to be worse.
Just pick one you know has a good chance of not being full of cunts and you should be fine.
Because all the mongs will have got it out of their system in a couple of weeks.
And in two weeks the pubs will be better equipped to manage foot traffic. Although the constant McDonald pile-ups at the drive-thru's probably shoot that theory in the arse.
Pubs up here started doing take-away pints a couple of weeks ago, and most people seemed to be buying them and then drinking them outside the pub or in the park. Drinking in public places is banned in Glasgow but there seemed to be a bit of a blind eye being turned.
There was a slight uptick to the usual amount of 18 year olds trashing the place and pissing everywhere so in the most pointless measure ever they're banning the sale of alcohol for consumption off premises from Monday.
Which is the same day that beer gardens open. Glasgow's beer garden capacity is paltry at the best of times so I'm really not sure they've thought this one through.
Dublin went mental last night as expected. Everyone was just knacker drinking in the streets because they could only stay in the pub for the 105 mins.
That's the one advantage from the IPA pubs in town. They're never full and the people in there are in it for the beer wankery, rather than the standard wankery. And you're only in for two because everything is overpriced and 14%.
Make every pub that and see what it does to A&E admissions.
Did end up having a few in a pub but not my local and took the sesh to a house at about 6 so hard to judge the corona state of play. Bless 'em they did try with their arrows and contact forms but let's just say compliance was lacking It's all well and good hoping a second wave won't come if we social distance but I now see why they fret about nightlife, it all goes out the window. The wave will come and they'll shut them down again.
Pubs should have been left closed until the vaccine came (IF EVER!!*)
*obligatory.
Let’s needlessly go to B&Q and lick each other’s faces down the pub on super Saturday, but so long as we clap at 5 o’clock it’s grand. That fucking shit should have been killed off weeks ago once it was shown nobody really gives a fuck.
The vast majority of that will go to people who don't need it. My friend in America bought another guitar with his stimulus cheque.
Depressions kill in huge numbers. Killing businesses, making unemployment even worse and depriving people of their liberty may well reduce Covid cases, but what's the point if every tall building is raining people and the hospitals are fucked because no cunt has paid tax in 2 years?
Depression my hole. 99% of claimed cases are just lazy cunts and only making little of the ones that are really depressed. It’s only a fashion these days.
I'm married. Sorry.
My current thing to get wound up by on Twitter is blue ticks (almost always nicely off, with secure jobs in nice houses with family around them) self-righteously declaring that THEY won't be off to the pubs until it's SAFE.
Try living in a shitbox flat on an estate, or having to go work in a shit job every day, or having lost your job, or being on your own, or being in a strained relationship at home etc etc and being lectured by these Lib Dem voting cunts.
Oh no I have to sit home and watch netflix and eat and drink. Basically 3 months of Christmas.
God fucking love all these saps if there’s a proper war any time soon.
How controversial you are Giggles!
The Group are cheering him on with those exact words.
Haven't quite a few of the scientific advisors said they think it's too soon for everything to be opening up the way it is?
Scientific advisors are always going to say that. At some point you need to just go ahead when the balance of risk is right (not when there's no risk, or it's see you in 2050).
Lovely to see Jim and Yev leave team panic.
I've seen 1 doing that. My wife's cousin has been babied well into her 20's and moved out in February. She's been using her anxiety as an excuse to break the lockdown rules since its inception.
On the other hand, I deal with a lot of people with Mental Health issues in my line of work. Some I suspect made up, some genuine. All of them that I've spoken to are staying at home, refusing to let their kids go back to school, etc.
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