...today. I remember people used to socialise in a pub.
Ok, it doesn't rhyme like that old Beatles classic, but ffs!
I'm doing a mini tour of raceecourses in the south-west and as there was no racing today I decided to venture our for a few beers.
Sat in a pub in Torquay on my own, with just some woman behind the bar for company, I peered out the window, through the wind and howling rain, to the coffee shop opposite.
It was rammed packed! People sat outside in their coats and hats ffs!
We've all gone soft in this country. From beer to coffee. Unbelievable.
Some of my best life memories have been in the pub, not a fcking coffee shop.
This is a rallying call, use it or lose it. Don't go to the coffee shop, go to the pub! Drink coffee there (if you must). Sit in the warm, not outside in the rain with your hat and coat on!
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Watch out for those guys, they're the Coffee equivalent of Lager Louts.
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I think it's because there's always one person in your group who becomes a complete **** once they've had enough Old Peculiar. I'd rather be anywhere else at that point.
I always liked "the pub", but there were some pubs that I liked going to - there were many more I didn't like.
Now, though, or at least pre-Covid, the pub is somewhere to go for a nice meal, or occasionally for a mid-walk/ride/paddle pint. Making the effort to leave the house and go to the pub is less and less appealing as I get older!
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I like a good coffee shop too. In fact I'll quite happily cycle to the next burrough over to visit my favourite cafe, have a coffee and a natter with the owners, maybe an English breakfast. Can't beat it.
I don't like those trendy wine bars, and I don't particularly like Italian restaurants. Mainly coz of the food. It's usually plain Jane boring.
I don't think I've ever been to a coffee shop as such. Cafes, yes, occasionally.
I'm not very sociable at all really.
Then there are the cheap trendy pubs full of kids and noise, the overpriced beardy hipster pub serving some overpriced ,overhoppy Cardommom and Mango scented shit with a silly name and the cableknit cardigan Camra connoisseur real -ale pubs selling beers called 'Old Badger Fart ' or ' Smelly Nigel's Armpit Ale '.
Of them all ,I would choose the real ale pub but you can't drink very much of the stuff anyway .
They are simply outdated compared to the Cafe Nero in the daytime market .
Maybe just me but there seems to be something unwholesome and alki about going into a pub during the day as opposed to evenings and Sunday lunchtimes
I was in the Cider Press. Not sure what the coffee place is opposite but not a Costa or Starbucks.