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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: omegaman2 on 15 October 2007, 18:27:37
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there is a wetherspoons in hanley ,cheap family feed you see but is it any good :question
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hanley's near stoke
really REALLY rough place, even the cars steal other cars wheels!
not really, i wouldn't know, never actually been to hanley!
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Hanley is just off the A500 , which is directly off the M6 Jct 15
You have to come off for the A53 , directions to Festival Park then just follow the signs.
Wetherspoons is to the left of Percy Street in the centre of hanley. The food is good , you go upstairs so its sealed off from the pub and the riffraf doley drinkers.
Matt
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Hanley is just off the A500 , which is directly off the M6 Jct 15
You have to come off for the A53 , directions to Festival Park then just follow the signs.
Wetherspoons is to the left of Percy Street in the centre of hanley. The food is good , you go upstairs so its sealed off from the pub and the riffraf doley drinkers.
Matt
Pubs are for drinkers. Resturants are for eating. Food is ruining all pubs >:(
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True in a way but they are riffraf if all they do is swear, beg off people and spend taxpayers money!
:)
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True in a way but they are riffraf if all they do is swear, beg off people and spend taxpayers money!
:)
Not doubting after my stay there last year ;)
But just a general rant that pubs should be pubs, and food should be sold in resturants.
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Well, i think they should rename pubs that serve food to madhouse (kids and the like) , and pubs should be hardcore pubs , where its just about the beer!
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But just a general rant that pubs should be pubs, and food should be sold in resturants.
I couldn't agree more!
If you are going out for a few drinks why should you have to put up with kids running around and the smell of steak and chips?
If food is served it should be in a totally seperate room from the bar. There are places where this is the case and that's where I take my two boys too if we go out for a meal.
I'll get me coat!
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But just a general rant that pubs should be pubs, and food should be sold in resturants.
I couldn't agree more!
If you are going out for a few drinks why should you have to put up with kids running around and the smell of steak and chips?
If food is served it should be in a totally seperate room from the bar. There are places where this is the case and that's where I take my two boys too if we go out for a meal.
I'll get me coat!
Shouldn't be allowed in the same building! Diners stare at drinkers like they shouldn't be allowed to have a drink at the bar.
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But just a general rant that pubs should be pubs, and food should be sold in resturants.
Hmm. Not sure I agree. All the pubs round here have excellent food, so much so that I'm not sure when I last went to a restaurant In fact, I can't name more than a couple of restaurants that I've been to round here. All restaurants have sh!te beer without exception - a choice of several different brands of recycled, carbonated p33. Yes, I can get a lovely bottle of wine (for 20-30 quid :o) but what use is that when only 1 of you is drinking?
So, I can have good food and no beer :(, or good food and good beer :D
SWMBO's happy because there's no cooking and no washing up, I'm happy because she's so happy she normally offers to drive home [size=9]even though she did drive my Westfield into a ditch on one such occasion :'([/size].
One pub near here has even had the catering side taken over by an Indian restaurant. So you can get bladdered on the real ale (which is very good) and then saunter into the next room for a Madras when the time feels right :y
Kevin
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But just a general rant that pubs should be pubs, and food should be sold in resturants.
Hmm. Not sure I agree. All the pubs round here have excellent food, so much so that I'm not sure when I last went to a restaurant In fact, I can't name more than a couple of restaurants that I've been to round here. All restaurants have sh!te beer without exception - a choice of several different brands of recycled, carbonated p33. Yes, I can get a lovely bottle of wine (for 20-30 quid :o) but what use is that when only 1 of you is drinking?
So, I can have good food and no beer :(, or good food and good beer :D
SWMBO's happy because there's no cooking and no washing up, I'm happy because she's so happy she normally offers to drive home [size=9]even though she did drive my Westfield into a ditch on one such occasion :'([/size].
One pub near here has even had the catering side taken over by an Indian restaurant. So you can get bladdered on the real ale (which is very good) and then saunter into the next room for a Madras when the time feels right :y
Kevin
My problem is when pubs start selling food, and the people going for a social drink and natter are treated as outcasts. For those that know the area, The Green Man near Silverstone on the A43 is a prime example - they keep extending, but the 'drinking area' is a small area that is basically the entrance.
Most modern pubs are similar - 80% of space set over for food and kids play areas, leaving a small area for drinkers. Invariably, the drinkers are made to feel unwelcome with slow service (drinks for food orders seem to take priority etc).
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:(No proper pubs around any more. For once i'm glad i'm getting on a bit. I remember when you could smell the pub before you got there. All you need is a bar, jukebox, pool table & dartboard 7 a few regulars.It's all pine, pot plants & ball parks now. You can go for a good Ruby after, & take the kids out somewhere else during the day.
Anyway, sorry to be a grumpy old break but some of you must remember!!! ;D ;D
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My problem is when pubs start selling food, and the people going for a social drink and natter are treated as outcasts. For those that know the area, The Green Man near Silverstone on the A43 is a prime example - they keep extending, but the 'drinking area' is a small area that is basically the entrance.
Most modern pubs are similar - 80% of space set over for food and kids play areas, leaving a small area for drinkers. Invariably, the drinkers are made to feel unwelcome with slow service (drinks for food orders seem to take priority etc).
I do know what you mean. The best balance is to have a bar and a separate dining room as my favourite village pub around here does. Bar is full of locals who are friendly and quite often some live music, quiz, games, banter, etc. People who want to sit and have a quiet meal do so in the dining room.
All you need is a bar, jukebox, pool table & dartboard 7 a few regulars
There's a pub just like that in Alton. Probably hasn't changed much since it was built in 17something and certainly hasn't changed one bit since the 60's apart from in air quality. Good guest ales too [smiley=beer.gif]
It's the manufactured, modern chain pubs I hate. Fortuanately there are still plenty of family run free house type places around here.
Kevin
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Most modern pubs are similar - 80% of space set over for food and kids play areas, leaving a small area for drinkers. Invariably, the drinkers are made to feel unwelcome with slow service (drinks for food orders seem to take priority etc).
WHen the time comes you will appreciate the play areas
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For those that know the area, The Green Man near Silverstone on the A43 is a prime example - they keep extending, but the 'drinking area' is a small area that is basically the entrance.
Knowing where the Green Man is (the middle of nowhere) I suspect if it didn't do the food it would have shut long ago........they need the food to draw the people to make a profit and stay alive.
We are lucky where I am, there are still some real pubs and those that do food have seperate areas for it.
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For those that know the area, The Green Man near Silverstone on the A43 is a prime example - they keep extending, but the 'drinking area' is a small area that is basically the entrance.
Knowing where the Green Man is (the middle of nowhere) I suspect if it didn't do the food it would have shut long ago........they need the food to draw the people to make a profit and stay alive.
We are lucky where I am, there are still some real pubs and those that do food have seperate areas for it.
In the case of The Green Man, I agree. Silverstone singlehandedly keeps that place going, hence building a travelodge behind it as well.
But that was an example.
Fortunately, in my home town, this has not really happened as the pubs are too small to concentrate on food.
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Most modern pubs are similar - 80% of space set over for food and kids play areas, leaving a small area for drinkers. Invariably, the drinkers are made to feel unwelcome with slow service (drinks for food orders seem to take priority etc).
WHen the time comes you will appreciate the play areas
How come I managed to go through childhood without play areas etc? I was able to sit quietly at tables when we went out to eat (though rarely in pubs in those days).
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How come I managed to go through childhood without play areas etc? I was able to sit quietly at tables when we went out to eat (though rarely in pubs in those days).
Because it wasn't politically incorrect for you to get a slap if you misbehaved?
Kevin
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How come I managed to go through childhood without play areas etc? I was able to sit quietly at tables when we went out to eat (though rarely in pubs in those days).
Because it wasn't politically incorrect for you to get a slap if you misbehaved?
Kevin
Mine gets a slap if he miss-behaves (sod the liberal bull).....but then he sits nicely and eats because hes not allowed to miss-behave.
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No 2 kids are the same. Sometimes you cannot stop children misbehaving. I have 2 lads , one is like me , very fiery and independant , and the other is very placid like his mum.
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When we eat out they will sit and eat nicely but a play area is good for burning off some of their energy.
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Yeah , mine eat nicely too but as you say , best to have somewhere to burn off their energy.
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When we eat out they will sit and eat nicely but a play area is good for burning off some of their energy.
Isn't that what we had coal mines for in the good old days?
Send em up a chimney or two, it always quietens em down. :D
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No 2 kids are the same. Sometimes you cannot stop children misbehaving. I have 2 lads , one is like me , very fiery and independant , and the other is very placid like his mum.
My parents managed to, but then, as Kevin Wood states, it was acceptable to discipline unruly kids rather than the current namby pamby 'naughty step' 'dangle berries'.
Please be aware, I obviously do not agree with abuse, but (like many here I suspect) if I badly misbehaved, I knew what the consequences would be, and that it would hurt (physically and pride). 'Reasoning' would have been no deterent for me, as it appears not to be for many kids now.
A few years ago, at my old house, I could hear stones being thrown around my car. On investigation, there was some small lad smashing up my (already badly cracking) concrete drive! He said he was collecting big stones (rubble) for his dad. So I frogmarched him to his house, and his mother tried making out I was unreasonable, and it wasn't the lad's fault as he was only 4. Christ, I would have had a proper hiding if I'd dug up someones driveway >:(
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When we eat out they will sit and eat nicely but a play area is good for burning off some of their energy.
Isn't that what we had coal mines for in the good old days?
Send em up a chimney or two, it always quietens em down. :D
My mate Fred Dibnah levelled them all!!! [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]
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When we eat out they will sit and eat nicely but a play area is good for burning off some of their energy.
Isn't that what we had coal mines for in the good old days?
Send em up a chimney or two, it always quietens em down. :D
My mate Fred Dibnah levelled them all!!! [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]
But he was building his own coal mine in the back garden as an alternative.
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For those that know the area, The Green Man near Silverstone on the A43 is a prime example - they keep extending, but the 'drinking area' is a small area that is basically the entrance.
Knowing where the Green Man is (the middle of nowhere) I suspect if it didn't do the food it would have shut long ago........they need the food to draw the people to make a profit and stay alive.
We are lucky where I am, there are still some real pubs and those that do food have seperate areas for it.
Coming out of the Green Man (if you mean the one in Blackshoremore) at night looks like The Slaughtered Lamb in the American Werewolf in London ;D ;D
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No 2 kids are the same. Sometimes you cannot stop children misbehaving. I have 2 lads , one is like me , very fiery and independant , and the other is very placid like his mum.
My parents managed to, but then, as Kevin Wood states, it was acceptable to discipline unruly kids rather than the current namby pamby 'naughty step' 'dangle berries'.
Please be aware, I obviously do not agree with abuse, but (like many here I suspect) if I badly misbehaved, I knew what the consequences would be, and that it would hurt (physically and pride). 'Reasoning' would have been no deterent for me, as it appears not to be for many kids now.
A few years ago, at my old house, I could hear stones being thrown around my car. On investigation, there was some small lad smashing up my (already badly cracking) concrete drive! He said he was collecting big stones (rubble) for his dad. So I frogmarched him to his house, and his mother tried making out I was unreasonable, and it wasn't the lad's fault as he was only 4. Christ, I would have had a proper hiding if I'd dug up someones driveway >:(
Saw you knockin kids over at The Not Wales Meet TB ::);D ;D
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No 2 kids are the same. Sometimes you cannot stop children misbehaving. I have 2 lads , one is like me , very fiery and independant , and the other is very placid like his mum.
My parents managed to, but then, as Kevin Wood states, it was acceptable to discipline unruly kids rather than the current namby pamby 'naughty step' 'dangle berries'.
Please be aware, I obviously do not agree with abuse, but (like many here I suspect) if I badly misbehaved, I knew what the consequences would be, and that it would hurt (physically and pride). 'Reasoning' would have been no deterent for me, as it appears not to be for many kids now.
A few years ago, at my old house, I could hear stones being thrown around my car. On investigation, there was some small lad smashing up my (already badly cracking) concrete drive! He said he was collecting big stones (rubble) for his dad. So I frogmarched him to his house, and his mother tried making out I was unreasonable, and it wasn't the lad's fault as he was only 4. Christ, I would have had a proper hiding if I'd dug up someones driveway >:(
If as a kid i got bollocked/clipped round the ear/caned at school it was only because i deserved it, & the last thing i'd do was tell the old man because he'd give me another one to be going on with!!!
Table manners, respect for peoples parents etc. We might all rip the pee out of eachother at a meet but i'm polite as **** to members wives, parents etc. It's not chauvinistic but how i was brought up & i'm glad of it now.
Sorry, i sound like my Dad!! ;D
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We have to all accept though that its a different world now. I used to get smacked if i was naughty and its done me no harm. The problem is too many rules by the government so people darent chastise their kids in public for fear of prosecution. The only way forward would be to get out of all this human rights crap and let parents parent their kids.
Matt
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We have to all accept though that its a different world now. I used to get smacked if i was naughty and its done me no harm. The problem is too many rules by the government so people darent chastise their kids in public for fear of prosecution. The only way forward would be to get out of all this human rights crap and let parents parent their kids.
Matt
And there lies the problem with society today >:(
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Yeah agree totally. But it will only get worse.
Matt
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Does any one know where jenny hanley is. CORRRRRRRRR. :question