It’s the cornerstone of interacting with your local community in the UK. You don’t even have to drink, it’s a cozy, generally quiet place to socialise.
It’s the cornerstone of interacting with your local community in the UK.
No it isn’t. My interactions with my local community never take place in a pub. I don’t think I know anyone who would consider the pub to be the “cornerstone of their interacting” with anybody at all, local community or otherwise. Frankly your description seems bizarre.
You don’t even have to drink, it’s a cozy, generally quiet place to socialise.
This doesn’t accord with my experience at all. I’d feel very out of place if I just hung around in a pub for any length of time without buying anything. Pubs aren’t social centres, they’re businesses.
I do most of my social hangouts at pubs, be it to have a nice indoors place to chat (esp when it gets late) or to play Magic. Same with most of my friends.
Even if I go outside of my friend group, pubs are usually full, of young people too, and there’s a reason their name is a shortened version of “public house”. Sure you could argue younger generations are going to the pub less and less, but to say that historically it has not been the social centre of UK towns is false.
Also for your last bit, if at least some at the group buys something it should be fine, obv don’t go to a pub and take up space without giving them any money. It doesn’t even have to be alcoholic drinks either.
Me? I didn’t even make the original comment. On one hand you dismiss the historical status of pubs as community places by isolating me enjoying it as an individually me thing (I guess I’m single handedly keeping all the pubs in the UK in business; also nice job cutting out me saying I’m seeing a lot of younger people at pubs too to make your argument sound better), then you say you are not doing that exact thing? Make it make sense, without the preachy “ah I’ve read you like a book” attitude.
Also, rude. I think we’re done here, not sure what got your ego all hurt but we were just having a discussion here.
It’s the cornerstone of interacting with your local community in the UK. You don’t even have to drink, it’s a cozy, generally quiet place to socialise.
No it isn’t. My interactions with my local community never take place in a pub. I don’t think I know anyone who would consider the pub to be the “cornerstone of their interacting” with anybody at all, local community or otherwise. Frankly your description seems bizarre.
This doesn’t accord with my experience at all. I’d feel very out of place if I just hung around in a pub for any length of time without buying anything. Pubs aren’t social centres, they’re businesses.
I do most of my social hangouts at pubs, be it to have a nice indoors place to chat (esp when it gets late) or to play Magic. Same with most of my friends.
Even if I go outside of my friend group, pubs are usually full, of young people too, and there’s a reason their name is a shortened version of “public house”. Sure you could argue younger generations are going to the pub less and less, but to say that historically it has not been the social centre of UK towns is false.
Also for your last bit, if at least some at the group buys something it should be fine, obv don’t go to a pub and take up space without giving them any money. It doesn’t even have to be alcoholic drinks either.
Ah so the type of place where you hang out is the type of place that “should” be preserved. Now I understand why you think that.
I haven’t said that.
LOL you think you can give me advice
Me? I didn’t even make the original comment. On one hand you dismiss the historical status of pubs as community places by isolating me enjoying it as an individually me thing (I guess I’m single handedly keeping all the pubs in the UK in business; also nice job cutting out me saying I’m seeing a lot of younger people at pubs too to make your argument sound better), then you say you are not doing that exact thing? Make it make sense, without the preachy “ah I’ve read you like a book” attitude.
Also, rude. I think we’re done here, not sure what got your ego all hurt but we were just having a discussion here.