I will make sure there is freshly brewed coffee on for you then. Or tea. Don’t want you going thirsty.
Not sure, if it is I'll walk in and walk straight back out for the oh so salubrious Arena Bar, underneath Gilson Hotel. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
It works. A colleague had it on prescription to avert diabetes. But results in muscle wastage also. So you don't look great naked after the weight loss! Whether it should be given to unemployed fat people to help them get back to work is another question though... Paid their benefits for them to get obese and then pay for their prescription for them to lose it... I would rather subsidise them to go to the council gym. Or even better, go for walks for free or use urban gyms. Either way, it would save money on the long term outcome of obesity-related illnesses. Our ancestors fought bears, wolves and sabre toothed tigers, whilst living in caves and mudhuts, to stay alive and procreate. We're at a stage now where many ppl need pharmaceutical help for over-eating and under-exercising. It's messed up, but where we are now, so better to treat it early and cheaper.
Youre right You can tell someone who lost weight with ozempic What a sad state of society Peolple are so fat they need injections to stop eating as much
Sadly true. Last Wednesday in my local Wetherspoons, queues 10 deep at the bar, one person serving, a pint and half of good quality 5.5% stout came in at £2.98. We moved on 500 yards up the road, lovely old fashioned wet trade only pub, no-one in except me and the missus, the same round, £8 plus, I got a pound and a few pence change out of a tenner also three bar staff stood abut twiddling their thumbs.
You're effectively saying that Wetherspoons is driving other pubs out of business. Good reason to boycott them imo. Yes, the beer's decent and it's cheap but I've yet to come out of a Wetherspoons thinking I'd had a good overall experience. I'd much rather go to a pub that I liked and pay whatever it costs.
There’s a new Wetherspoons opening on Fulham Broadway - the very first in Chelsea /Fulham. Wetherspoons have already announced promos will make a pint half the price of its rivals in the area Locals pubs are going to struggle, I expect many will fail….it will try my best to keep them going!!
Wetherspoons may have cheap beer but all too often the teenagers serving it have no idea how to keep and pour a good pint, much more at home serving shots and something in big jugs that looks like lemonade.
Im not a fan of the model, soul less places with zero atmosphere, personally I would rather pay more & get a more classy vibe But I get I’m lucky & many people have to count every penny so I understand why they choose a ‘spoons
If you are Been in a couple of decent ones in Stratford and Warwick. Don’t go in my local one partly because I can’t walk very far and pointless going there using a taxi as that would end up as dear as walking to my local which is just round the corner and partly because I prefer a more traditional pub. ( Having said that I would prefer the sort of bars you get in Holland, Belgium and France to our pubs.) But it serves a need. Passing by in my car I see a lot of older people in early having a coffee and something to eat and socialising. Which is a lot better than them being stuck at home. My mother went in until her late 80s when shopping in town, not for a beer though she loved a drink or three of bitter, but because it was the best value for a coffee and a breakfast.
You've hit the nail firmly on the head in your last sentence. The current economic climate(including my own personal circumstances) dictate where and how often people drink.There are 2 or 3 decent Wetherspoons in Glasgow City Centre and it costs £5-£6 for me and the wife for a drink each,classier joints/fashionable pubs,double it...! I feel for the local pubs,they're losing punters on a regular basis but they're not cheap.The question is though,are they pricing themselves out of the game or are Wetherspoons pricing them out of the game?
Taxes help price them out of the game. And it is a fair bet they won’t be helped in the budget. When we were in the EU 42% of all taxes raised on beer were from the UK, whilst only 8% was from Germany the country which drinks the most beer. VAT is less than 10% on alcohol and food sold in bars and restaurants in Germany, Holland some other countries whilst it is 20% here. Our electricity is the dearest in Europe and won’t get cheaper with Milliband’s net zero lunacy.So many pubs tied to a brewery and run by managers is another problem.
Well, in one way it is. Wetherspoons get beers near the end of their shelf life at knock down prices, something those running brewery tied pubs can’t. Bars in Europe tend to be owner run where they have the freedom to buy from wherever they want. go back to the 1970s and beer in Germany, Belgium, Holland etc were far more expensive than here, that is not the case now.
I will give you the free house vs the tied ones but all other things are pretty much the same for both.
