skanky pub prices!

[RobertT]

I've paid £13 for a Martini.  In my defence I was a bit drunk and got carried away with the experience while eating at Claridges.  very la dee da.

It seems beer prices are beginning to converge around £3 a pint pretty much everywhere.  There was a time not too long ago it cost that in Hotels and London but about £2 in pubs everywhere else (bar Wetherspoons).  I know if we go back to Reg's yoof it would have been a matter of pence a pint.  It'll only take a few places to begin charging closer to £4 and they'll all follow.

On an earlier point, don't Supermarkets run almost at a loss on alcohol?  It's one of those products that gets people in to buy other stuff.  Wine costs £3 minimum to bottle, ship and stock, even for the cheapest stuff, so they artifically keep prices down, hence the growing pressure on them to remove deals.

[Reg Smeeton]

  I know if we go back to Reg's yoof it would have been a matter of pence a pint.  It'll only take a few places to begin charging closer to £4 and they'll all follow.

 When I first started drinking, it was 1/11 a pint rising to 2 bob for some beer.

  That was 10p on decimalisation.

[RobertT]

Only a few years back you could get a pint for 50p on a Thursday in Kaos, not that it was worth it.

[tans]

I spent £350 quid on two bottles of champagne in the club a few years back.

I think i must have thought I was a gangster rapper or something cos I was smoking a great big cuban cigar in a VIP area at the time  :shock:  :shock:

[Arriba]

paid £2.80 tonight back street twon pubbage.whoooooaaaaa.
might start a taxi rant if an ex school friend taxi driver didn't save me.

[tans]

arriba, you cant be drunk mate surely, you dont type like STFC_Dave!

[Arriba]

just spilt a can of foster over my printer and carpet.ooops fucking lucky i bought kithcen towels today.
got eh mrs irish mob over at the moment.pintage

[tans]

ace.

cant beat a good piss up with the paddys