Yeah banning electronics will surely make humanity suddenly reverse to the times of being more social and not phone dependent.
Those places just come off as pretentious and goofy tbh
Those places just come off as pretentious and goofy tbh
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British pub chain bans mobiles, laptops and tablets from non-smoking areas
- Thread starter Blue Lou
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Funny you should say that. I occasionally walk into a pub and discover very quickly that it's not for me. Very loud music is a big clue. I leave. It's not difficult.
To be clear, I use a phone all the time, usually on ResetERA or Twitter, so I'm probably not going to use one of these venues ever. That's okay, though.
Yeah; each venue will be different but the Angel Inn in Leeds was full of alternative types with cheap booze and down to Earth. The Hull Blue Bell is also friendly, full of old people as well as young and both have cheap drinks and are friendly.
Again, you'll be able to use your phone. I doubt they'd say anything and if so it'd probably be to a group of people ignoring each other on their phones. We swear fairly often in them (banned) and back many moons ago when I smoked illegal substances we did it in the beer garden with no eyes batted.
Basically, all this hand wringing about technophobic old people is an overreaction to benign set of rules being used to try and foster a particular atmosphere and really doesn't warrant too much distress
I agree with you that having a pub or two that are a refuge from the norm is a boon rather than some sort of attack on people and their phones
Blimey. I can tell a lot of people have never been to a Sam Smiths. They're not bars, they're old fashioned boozers. You go there for a social drink and a chat, because they're cheap and you can hear each other because they don't have ridiculous loud music that makes everyone shout.
If you want a bar, go to one, if you want a pub for a chat go to one. Each to their own.
If you want a bar, go to one, if you want a pub for a chat go to one. Each to their own.
I can see you're having difficulty recognizing the substantial gap between my personal views and the broad spectrum of views that a publican may express in formulating policy.
As for "technophobic", what would be your reaction to a fast food vendor that decided to close its existing drive-through windows in favour of concentrating on the restaurant side? Wouldn't that inconvenience a lot of potential customers? What about drivers' rights?
As long as you don't make a nuisance of yourself on their premises, I'm sure we'll all get out of this really bad, terrible situation without anybody suffering unduly.
That's quite a variety of English pubs. What do you expect pubs to look like?
I think that was the joke Edgar Wright tried to make and that every Irish and British pub (and maybe you Scotland) is just generic.
There's a kind of flock wallpaper, horse brasses and sticky carpet stereotype, especially in the larger pubs that used to be coach houses.
The joke was that franchises took over some pubs and made them look the same, not that every one looks the same. It was to highlight how things had changed since they were drinking as kids.
Yes. Find a seat, order food, open laptop, do some work or procrastinate whilst nursing a pint.
Sorry for destroying the fucking atmosphere of alcohol-dependency, binge-drinking and general toxicity residing in Britain's public houses.
it's this board come to life. also a good reason to not go there
This would be pretty cool. I sorta need to stay online most of the time but this is really a good idea, and could work very well with other activities to make it more welcoming to people who just want to talk with others/strangers.
Banning phones and other things helps no one... it gives no incentive, just an option that most will take anyway.
That's just fine. In 1990 I may well have been among the first in the UK to plonk my laptop (at 7Kg so heavy I used to carry it in a rucksack) on the table right next to my pint. I avoid doing that nowadays because I think it's been established empirically that beer and laptops don't play well together on a table. Even before portable computers I was the sort of nightmarish customer who would sit in the corner writing ideas down in a notebook for hours on end.
It's probably just as well that not every customer is like me. The pub would essentially be like a morgue that served alcohol.
The landlord in the one near me shook his head in contempt when I asked to pay contactless, despite having the facility to do so. They are rather a 70s throwback pub, the kind that have been closing down for years. Good luck to them. They do make terrific beers though and I'd rather put my phone away and enjoy an honest pint in there than a Wetherspoons.
Don't think a chain business can stand up to the public scrutiny or oversight at individual locations that a policy like this would entail. I will say though that I have been to a number of small mom and pop restaurants, dive bars, and cafés that ban cell phones, laptops, and taking photos, and while some people will act shitty about it, by and large it's always a pleasant environment. Usually really friendly and the staff at these places are always more engaged with the customers.
I think they're fairly specific in delineating which customer behaviour they believe to be bad for the environment they're trying to cultivate. I don't think that would include quietly waving an electronic device over another, but I haven't visited one of those establishments.
Ironic that these days the younger generation are always moaning about how the older generation are always moaning, yet it's those youngsters that are the ones getting offended by each and every article they read in the news.
We were visiting pubs and socialising without mobile phones as a social crutch long before you were even born. Find something else to whinge about.
We were visiting pubs and socialising without mobile phones as a social crutch long before you were even born. Find something else to whinge about.
The wording is ambiguous, but the memo does seem to be about streaming music and video that might affect the enjoyment of other customers. I suspect you'd still be able to quietly pull up the Wikipedia article on Noise or the Oxford dictionary page on Din without incurring the wrath of the management. But I could be wrong.
Sam Smith pubs are the best. Far better than spoons. Some people don't like them because they are like stereotypical old man pubs, but that's why they're so great.
Folks, we've found ResetERA's oldest member. These damn youngsters and their phones, eh? Brexit means Brexit! etc.
I hope you tear up Terry's copy of the Mail every time you see him so he can't be doing his sudoku when he should be socialising.
I'm of the same vintage and opinion on the thread topic, am a remainer and have detested loud music & people gabbing loudly on mobiles in pubs since I was in my 20s in the 90s, so drop your outrage and drink somewhere that allows you to be an annoying prick.
I have absolutely no idea what you're on about. I haven't read a newspaper, let alone the Daily Fail, in at least a decade. But hey...nice one!
What about Judith reading her copy of Lesley Pearse's latest book? Surely it's disgusting behaviour doing that in a pub when she should be socialising?
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Jesus Christ, do you even read what you post. Your issue is that youths and their mobile phones are anti-social and I'm saying people have been going to pubs to be anti-social way before mobile phones.
Is that an unironic use of SJW?
For someone who doesn't do politics you sure do express opinions with a certain political alignment.
You don't have an issue with mobile phones in pubs? That's good then
I never said otherwise.
If you can find somewhere that I did, then please...knock yourself out.
So your issue isn't with phones is it? It's with people gabbing loudly, which they can do whether it's on the phone or with the inebriated person next to them. Someone quietly using their phone isn't impacting on you in the slightest.
Just where you said "We were visiting pubs and socialising without mobile phones as a social crutch long before you were born" and assumed you thought mobile phones were anti-thetical to socialising