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[TheBoy]

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.

[TheBoy]

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).

[Kevin Wood]

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

[Marks DTM Calib]

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.

[omegalord]

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.

[Martin_1962]

When we eat out they will sit and eat nicely but a play area is good for burning off some of their energy.

[omegalord]

Yeah , mine eat nicely too but as you say , best to have somewhere to burn off their energy.

[CaptainZok]

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.

[TheBoy]

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  

[amigov6]

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.

My mate Fred Dibnah levelled them all!!! [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

[CaptainZok]

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.

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.

[Darth Loo-knee]

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

[Darth Loo-knee]

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

[amigov6]

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!!

[omegalord]

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