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what a fucking rip off.went for a round of pitch and put at coate today with my son.after the round i fancied a pint so we went to the sun inn.i had a pint of stowfords press and my lad had a packet of crisps and a coke.fucking five pounds thirty!
i think i'll stick to my home and social club drinking.

I'd say a pint for £3, a coke for £1.80 and crisps for 50p isn't out of the ordinary.

Unfortunately I have to agree with you there Si thats pretty much the going rate down here too.

no wonder pubs are going out of business then.the gulf between shop prices and pub prices is growing to ridiculous proportions.

How did the round go Arriba? Did your lad let you win?

was ok.my boy loses his rag but can hit the ball well.his putting lets him down badly.i won but not by alot.

You had Stowfords that's probably the reason, normally expensive anyways..

We should have a TEF pitch and putt tournament.

Stowfords 2.90 in my local in Devizes, the Southgate. If you were shocked by those prices one can only assume you havne't been to a pub for years, or been exclusively to 'spoons.

Pubs are going out of business because of the smoking ban, Have to re-coup the losses. Hence why most pubs do food now.

I'm sure the smoking ban has impacted the traditional 'drinkers pub', but lets face it, most pubs have been doing food for years now.

On the subject of which, I've noticed that there are fewer genuine pubs doing genuine home cooked food, from scratch, as opposed to chucking pre-prepared food in the microwave and still charging you 10 quid + for a main course. I want ingenious, quality, well prepared fresh food when I eat out, however it seems to me its a case of maximise profit over quality.

And by the way, I'd much rather sit and eat in a nice no-smoking pub than have 3 fat geezers smoking cigars next to me while I'm trying to eat (which happened to me earlier this week in Greece).

Go to a restaurant then, not the bloody pub.

Most pubs are restaurants though, or are trying to be......

If I want a meal i'll go to a decent restaurant, thats what they were invented for!!!

A pub is a place to get drunk, have a laugh with the lads and flirt with girls.

i go out a fair bit,but granted mainly to a social club. other pubs i've been in dont seem to charge so much for a coke.
£1.80 is a joke.arkells pubs are a bit pricey overall i've found.always have been

It's like that in most places arriba, tis a rip off, but I suppose so are non-pub places that sell coke.

actually the county aint that dear ,and the coke delivered by can is cheap enough.
the swiss chalet has always been pricey.

I curse myself when I wake up after a night out and work out how much I spent.

Getting on the Vodka and Red Bull is expensive.

I paid £3.30 for a pint last night. I hate London prices.

Has to be said prices are increasing at the moment and to be honest I'm not surprised it cost you that much arriba

it didn't really surprise me.just was a bit steep imo.and boredom meant i started a thread about it.

but as you mention london,when i go to the arsenal i'm paying about £2.60 a pint, and a roughly a quid for a soft drink.
thats in various pubs in north london

I think the same round in the county would have cost around a fiver.

Yeh - hopefully I'll be living somewhere cheaper next year but right now I'm bang in the centre!

dunno about that,its a fucking shit hole imo.i go in the pubs on the holloway road or up by finsbury park.
i'd rather live in the penhill valley than around there

The smoking ban hasn't helped, but wasn't the closing rates for pubs really high before then ban as well?

A pint of lager and a half of lager and lime was £4-70 in the Plum Tree last night (ex Riflemans)!

Was £3.50 a pint at Wembley last night which I was expecting. Was more surprised at the £6.70 for a 12 inch hot dog THAT DIDN'T EVEN COME WITH ONIONS!!!

 :D

The lesson to learn is to always carry around a couple of onions with you.

£1 a pint in hereford

Just one of those things you have to accept unfortunately. it costs just as much as an alcoholic drink to have a soft drink. I went to Jesters last night, £5.10 for a stella and a pint of coke!!

We took our own food on Friday, saved a fortune!!

I had an expensive weekend. Owe my mate £35 for chang and green, and was paying £3.60 for bottles of Bulmers yesterday - what a muggins.

Went to london on Saturday to meet some mates (gazzas fat mate- loon) 2 pints of fpsters and a strongbow, £10.20!

i was in bushey for the first time yesterday bushey.at some school for a dance comp.

Bushey Grove or Queens? Did you like it? Im going back to see my mum on Saturday, if it wasnt for the football and my work id move back (If I had the money)  Was it your kids competition

queens i think.two buildings on opposite sides of the road.looks a bit like drove road school from the front.horrendous traffic problems round there i thought.my daughter was dancing in a national comp

Yeah Queens is an old school, got a good reputation, used to play footy there at weekends.  Traffic is shocking but you were on the outskirts of bushey and watford, so not real Bushey.

How did she get on?

entered 7 dances.won 3, 3rd in two,and 5th and a 7th.basically was placed in all of them.so well happy as it was her first comp.it's irish dancing she does.

Fucking hell our local is giving it away buy one get one free at the moment i think!

Fair play Arriba

I think the most I paid for drinks was in a hotel in Birmingham. £12 odd for a pint of Blackthorn and a double vodka & coke for the lady. Apparently the bar on the 1st floor of the hotel was almost half the price. Mugged.

i hope you got a shag for that?

Unfortunately it's rather difficult to get a young lady drunk when you're paying those kind of prices...

...which is why we left and found a Weatherspoons around the corner  :D

£3.40 a pint in my gaff, but you are sat on the beach.


im fucking minted  :D

1.79 for a pint of Carling, just outside Newport (Cymru) last night.  Aceptable stuff for a midweek on a hot night....wouldn't normally bother.

How do you rate Newport, Reg? I know you've said just outside, but you must've been there.

newport is a fucking shit hole. is that dump tjs still going?

Over £8 a pint in Oslo airport on our mates stag do a couple of years ago.  Heroin is cheaper than beer in the Norwegian capital (according to reports).

Ace, I was thinking of moving there, it'll feel just like Swindon.

Honestly, it makes Swindon look like paradise

I've been there and it's no worse than Swindon I don't think.

 I like Newport....its supposed to be the most violent town in Britain, but I like working class places....what I can't stand is places full of jumped up bourgeois toss pots like O*frod.

 Where I was is a vast council estate between Newport and Cwmbran, like Parks and Penhill combined in the middle of nowhere...it has a police station, the like of which I've only ever seen in belfast in the UK.

Just out of interest what do you do for a job Reg, to visit these places?

 Pleasure not work.....work just funds the beer tokens.

Yeah Oxfrod, in Henley, is full of posh tossers! Here Here!

Oxford is distinctly working class aside from the University-related stuff though, tipified by every area other than the city centre.

£9 for a J20 and small bottle of Sol at a quiz night at Chessington world of adventures last week do i win?

When I went to Ibiz in 1998 it was £16 for 2 vodka red bulls in Amnesia  :shock:

In our local it is £3.45 for a pint of Becks Vier. Shit like Magners or Organic Cider in a bottle is nearer to £4 a pop

 How many CIU affiliated clubs are there in O*frod....I've been to teh Headington Labour club, and the Cowley social club which could be affiliates, but I can't think of too many more.

Alpe du ez in France i payed aprox £9.80 for a pint of beer! London prices apparently, dicks!

I paid £6 for a pint of Guinness in Hong Kong. And it was shit.

€30 for two drinks for the little lady and I in St Mark's Square, Venice. I'm not sure how much that is though, £20?

Anyway, it was incredibly hot, and the drink was well and truly slotted.

Harry's Bar just round the corner was quite expensive as well. But that's enough of that.

Just had a meal down the Kembrey Inn.  £2-70 for a pint of Wadworths 6X, didn't think that was too far out!! :beers:

6X...you cant get a better pint.

You can.....

indeed.

Tell me more Pumbaa.

Butcombe.

Guinness.

snigger.

http://www.butcombe.com/home.htm  :beers:

Belated birthday wishes btw......

ta.

Young Brewery,30 years old....will try it although will be carefull how to pronounce it.

hence the snigger.

I'm sure 6x is £2 a pint in the Village Inn, at least it was not too long ago  :)

  But it isn't Guiness.

  6X when well kept is a decent staple ale. but there are plenty of ales , which when in good condition at the right time of year, in the right place,  exceed it.

  Which is the fun of real ale....

I think you'll find Guinness is still better.

Prove me wrong.

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.

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

  That was 10p on decimalisation.

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

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:

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. 8)

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

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

ace.

cant beat a good piss up with the paddys  8)