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Post by lala on Aug 24, 2009 10:10:52 GMT
The first coffee bars opened in England about 500 years ago, if memory (not first hand) serves me right. Possibly not unnconnected with the general surge in creativity and genius witnessed in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Aug 24, 2009 10:15:42 GMT
London's first coffee house opened in 1652, although it wasn't until the following century that they became so fashionable. Pubs have been around forsoddingever though and ought to be protected by National Heritage.
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Post by lala on Aug 24, 2009 10:27:10 GMT
Bit out, then. Not bad for a half remembered timeline glimsped in A GURPS worldbook.
Those who matter will know what I am talking about.
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Post by mids on Aug 24, 2009 12:16:20 GMT
Coffee is shan.
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Post by wetkingcanute on Aug 24, 2009 12:47:38 GMT
Big shout to:
Justmyopinion
6th. July
"England will win the Ashes"
Ming the completelywrong.
oh dear oh dear.
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Aug 24, 2009 14:40:51 GMT
Ming the completelywrong.
Alright, alright no need to rub it in.
I'm off to look at some chickem entrails.
FTSE will be at 5482 come christmas. You mark my words
Buy, buy ,buy.
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Post by relaxed on Aug 24, 2009 14:55:08 GMT
That doesn't explain the boarded-up pubs that I see near where I live, though, does it? They are not restaurants or coffee shops ... they are closed pubs! Three within four miles of where I live ... |
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Post by peakman on Aug 24, 2009 15:56:05 GMT
London's first coffee house opened in 1652, although it wasn't until the following century that they became so fashionable. Pubs have been around forsoddingever though and ought to be protected by National Heritage. Actually Wellington introduced pubs into England. He issued licenses to anyone wishing to sell their own home brew and consumed upon the householder's property. This to get us out of the, "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for tuppence," gin palaces" What goes round, comes round.  |
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Post by puffin on Aug 24, 2009 16:34:13 GMT
I predict that SS will be making a reappearance very soon now that the EHRC are after her beloved Nick.
(That is if she hasn't already)
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Post by jaggs on Aug 24, 2009 16:48:47 GMT
Liverpool 4 Aston Villa 0
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Post by Marshall on Aug 24, 2009 18:15:35 GMT
I'm going out on a limb here, but I predict that the world will not end on December 21, 2012, contrary to the Aztec calendar.
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Aug 25, 2009 8:47:10 GMT
London's first coffee house opened in 1652, although it wasn't until the following century that they became so fashionable. Pubs have been around forsoddingever though and ought to be protected by National Heritage. Actually Wellington introduced pubs into England. He issued licenses to anyone wishing to sell their own home brew and consumed upon the householder's property. This to get us out of the, "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for tuppence," gin palaces" What goes round, comes round. Before public houses we had alehouses and taverns. It's a very long tradition we're destroying. |
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Aug 25, 2009 8:52:43 GMT
Before public houses we had alehouses and taverns. It's a very long tradition we're destroying
Alehouses became taverns became pubs became gastropubs.
It's a very long tradition we are maintaining.
rust never sleeps.
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Aug 25, 2009 8:56:27 GMT
Gastropubs are to all intents and purposes what I would call "restaurants." We already have those.
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Aug 25, 2009 8:58:03 GMT
On the other hand, if England gets entirely rubbish Sweden will look better in comparison, so please, close all pubs, stop selling booze in supermarkets and double the price of food. Ta.
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Aug 25, 2009 8:59:33 GMT
Look, I'm trying to make a point, but I've entirely forgotten what point I was trying to make or why.
You couldn't remind me could you?
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Aug 25, 2009 9:00:59 GMT
I think your point might be that pubs turning into restaurants should be looked at not as a terrible loss to a rich vein of English heritage, but as a wonderful opportunity to try new restaurants. Unfortunately I'm more a "wet sales" girl so it isn't convincing me at all.
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Post by peakman on Aug 25, 2009 9:02:04 GMT
I'm going out on a limb here, but I predict that the world will not end on December 21, 2012, contrary to the Aztec calendar. Does it predict the end of the world? Or as with every other religion, does it simply predict the "Alfa/Omega point of the ultimate "Great cycle of time", that of the equinox. However opinion is divided as to the date of this Alfa/Omega point, some say the Mayan Calendar has it sussed, while I say it commences next month. Have good one.  |
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Aug 25, 2009 9:09:26 GMT
I can't think that was it.
I'm all for wet sales myself.
I was in a pub the other day and there were a couple of blokes eating together. The table had a reserved thingy on it, so clearly they had booked ahead. I mean frankly thats not on. Its like blokes going shopping together.
I mean how does it work. Do you ring your mate up and say "Do you want to go out for a meal?" Maybe even "shall we go shopping and then get a bite to eat?" Its not on.
"Do you fancy a beer?" is the only question I'll respond to.
It clearly wasn't that.
Ignore me, I'll sit in the corner and talk to myself for a bit.
I predict Gordon will come out and give an honest soul searching opinion on the lockerbie bomber based on his moral compass. Anytime now.
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Aug 25, 2009 9:13:57 GMT
Count yourself lucky you're still alive before England turns totally pansy and becomes like Sweden but without the beauty, space and excellent public services. People here say to me "We must go for coffee soon!" as if it's really actually a thing over which one might get excited. "But the pubs are open," I tend to reply, "so why in the name of satan's festering nads would I consider spening 50 of your Swedish crowns on a caffeine product that I have at home and an apparently obligatory bun?" They just don't get it.
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