happypig
Staring at the rude boys
Will people drink less, or go out earlier ?
What you reckon ?
What you reckon ?
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[Drinking] 10PM pub closing. what will people do ?
- Thread starter happypig
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The last time I was in a pub a week or two back it bloody closed at 10pm anyway. Fuming, I was.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
When all pubs used to close at 10:30pm then 11pm every night, it just meant more power drinking as the shutters down deadline got closer.
I didn't realise Covid was only transmittable from 22:01.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,310
sunday-thursday, no change. Fri-Sat, binge drinking. not really going to be any different is it.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
As long as my local Tesco Express doesn’t close any earlier that’s all that matters 
I think you've fallen off your bike one to many times
Can’t speak for anyone else, but I shall carry on doing what I’m doing now.
Stay at home until we’re all back to normal
Stay at home until we’re all back to normal
Seasidesage
New member
A complete nonsense of an idea but typical of Boris and his feeble minded chums. If pubs are spreading COVID close them until its safe if not leave them alone. If you had a working testing system you might know the answer to this and many other questions...
I did see something recently that suggested only 5% of COVID cases could be traced back to 'hospitality' industry
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
Gazwag
5 millionth post poster
Quite I don't get all the whining when I was a teenager the pubs closed at 11pm, there was none of this going round a mates to drink wine and gin from 8pm till 1030pm and then off to the pub until 4am
Washie
Well-known member
I think it's to stop the youth going out and spreading it. I still don't see the need for pubs anyway.
GT49er
Well-known member
In those days beer from the off licence or the jug bar was more expensive than buying it in the pub. We'd just go home, maybe listen to a couple of LPs, have a coffee and go to bed.
Nowadays, with a four pack costing about the same as a pint in the pub, we're never going to get back to those innocent times!
Stato
Well-known member
- Dec 21, 2011
- 6,584
Everyone will not only be drinking earlier. They will now all be leaving the pubs at the same time, rather than in staggered waves between 10 & 1. Upon leaving, having hammered it for the last hour, they'll definitely be in the best condition to make good decisions about social distancing and what to do next. They'll all just don masks and walk quietly home in groups of less than six.
If only we had nearly a hundred years evidence of the impact of limiting licensing hours, they could have taken it into account before making another haphazard decision to keep trying to look like they're in control of something that they have had no clue how to deal with at any point during the year.
This whole crisis has been an illustration of the need for evidence based policy formation unhindered by ideology, but we are as far from that as we have ever been.
If only we had nearly a hundred years evidence of the impact of limiting licensing hours, they could have taken it into account before making another haphazard decision to keep trying to look like they're in control of something that they have had no clue how to deal with at any point during the year.
This whole crisis has been an illustration of the need for evidence based policy formation unhindered by ideology, but we are as far from that as we have ever been.
SockMonster
Well-known member
I'd love to know just how much the Eat Out To Help Out scheme or whatever it was called has added to the spread.