That's enough of that. Dog and daughter asleep, fed and watered, wife out, all is good.
Plans for the bank holiday? We're going to Fleetwood, a small coastal town on the West coast, it'll be the last family break till the new year at least. Like beach holidays? This will be traditional, sandcastles, chips and that nonsense
(DBT became a fruitarian on, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 15:37, 141 replies, latest was 10 years ago)

Living 2 mins away from the beach is fucking great
I just wander down and its instantly relaxing. Off for a run along there tonight

August bank holiday I'm gonna watch my mates band playing down there too
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 15:40, Reply)

Make sure your braids dont whip into your eyes

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:09, Reply)

INORITE

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:10, Reply)

*plays Henry Mancini*

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:19, Reply)

dunno
Prolly visit the dales or sutin.

I'm going to see Public Enemy on Thursday.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 15:42, Reply)

get high and listen to big beats

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 15:43, Reply)

Last festival of the season for me, so I'll be living out of a tent in Warrington.
Then I fucking recover!
( Muns, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 15:51, Reply)

Fleetwood on the west coast as in....the north west?
You may wish to reconsider.
(berk, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 15:51, Reply)

If it rains, he'll need to wear some sort of water proof overcoat.
A Fleetwood anorak.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 15:54, Reply)

He'll reconsider it on the 22nd August.
His problem is that he doesn't stop thinking about tomorrow.
( Muns, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 15:56, Reply)

Is it shit?

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:11, Reply)

there is the fylde folk festival at some point
the prom is ok, not a great lot there tbh but nice enough for a couple of days
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:25, Reply)

Beach and a bit of walking for a few days, no great expectations.

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:28, Reply)

It will fulfil them
If memory serves Bill Bryson waxes lyrical about the seafront, plus you are within easy driving of the lakes etc,
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:31, Reply)

Yeah, just a few chilled days together, it'll be a bit hectic I think when we get the boozer.

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:35, Reply)

I've got the week off
Probably go to Cornwall or something
( Peej, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 15:55, Reply)

You won't like it there

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:03, Reply)

it's okay to visit but you wouldn't want to live there

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:04, Reply)

It's the locals that are the problem

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:08, Reply)

when's the bank holiday? You mean the end of August one?
Fk all M8
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:11, Reply)

I have just realised next weekend is not a bank holiday. Cunt. The b and b is booked anyway, so we're going.

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:14, Reply)

Good job you don't work in the hospitality industry
Getting that sort of thing work would be a disaster.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:17, Reply)

Yes, I'm a dozy fucker.

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:20, Reply)

Plans for the bank holiday? It's fucking weeks away!!
If there are plans (and I promise nothing) I'll probably take an extra day or two to make a long weekend of it - may razz up to Anglesey and see my cousins.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:12, Reply)

I've got a holiday coming up before we even get close to the bank holiday
Looks like Jockland is being nice and stockpiling all it's heavy rain for our visit. The reason we're going up there is because I'm sick to fucking death of beach holidays. Fucking tacky-grabby-machine-shit-chip-eating-cuntathons.
( Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:17, Reply)

Have you tried not going somewhere shit?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:18, Reply)

:'(((((

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:19, Reply)

As I said a few times
Loads of great castles etc in the North East,
Hadrians Wall Vindalanda
Lake District

so many other places rather than a shit hole beach
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:33, Reply)

Whitby is nice for a visit.

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:36, Reply)

Thinking about it.
I think I'm going to the England v India ODI that day.

So I'm guessing I've paid eighty quid to drink pints of Fosters in the rain.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:24, Reply)

I was never a fan of the beach as a kid.
But then I got to try surfing, and kite stunt stuff and spent whole days just chilling by the sea, and now it's one of my favourite places.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:25, Reply)

Ginger child in 'not liking spending the day exposed to the sun' shocker

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:26, Reply)

Factor 50 and a large hat and I can go anywhere.
For about half an hour.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:27, Reply)

I used to get really frustrated about getting sand in my socks, sandwiches and nadgers.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:36, Reply)

That was my problem as a younger.
Doesn't bother me any more.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:41, Reply)

Same.
The discomfort of sand has fallen below the noise-floor of the general discomfort of being an adult.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:02, Reply)

I think I might quit my job and risk my life and marriage on a job
that I have no experience in, only the dimmest most romanticised idea of and refuse to do any serious research or business projections.

I expect it'll all just sort of work out with everybody ending up happy and wealthy.

Failing that, I'll probably go to Kew with the Mrs, or something.
( Kroney, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:54, Reply)

I think he's trolling.
No one could be that short-sighted.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 28 Jul 2014, 16:55, Reply)

It's a crap troll if it is one.
Trolling's suppose to get people in a rage, not shake their heads in impotent pity.
( Kroney, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:01, Reply)

He's the second best troll

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:02, Reply)

On the contrary, we've done business and financial plans andprojections, we both have experience, me as a lowly barman, her as a dep manager for 'spoons and Boddies, we are both doing a cellar management course, and our accountant reckons it's a goer. So

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:00, Reply)

NERRRRRRRRR UP YOUR FRENCH BUMFACE
is I think how that sentence was meant to end.
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:02, Reply)

Merci.

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:02, Reply)

Cellar management courses are Bollocks.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:02, Reply)

'Change stuff when it's empty, put the empty stuff in a different corner'.
'start using the unused parts of the cellar as a skip'.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:04, Reply)

It's just that beer is so unpredictable, and no one I've met who has done a cellar course,
Has the faintest idea how beer can and does act.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:05, Reply)

I found out why my local shut down the other day.
The new landlord apparently cut a deal with Punch so he could get the place rent free on a rolling contract. He then got all his orders from the wholesalers and never placed a beer order with Punch, so they kicked him out.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:08, Reply)

They will do that. Punch are scum.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:15, Reply)

Yeah, I'd heard the previous landlady call them all the cunts under the sun for years.
However I don't think they were at fault this time.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:19, Reply)

Well, depends on the contract he signed.
They usually have a minimum order from them, then whatever you want from elsewhere. Or all keg stock and get your wine and spirits where you want. It's almost certainly his own fault
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:21, Reply)

It was the latter.
Apparently he was an opportunist hoping that punch would go tits up and he could get a deal on the pub.

Whereas, by the look of the way they ramped up the asking price of the building the minute it reopened they just wanted him to keep it warm until they could flog it.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:26, Reply)

We're getting it free, so thought might as well.

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:06, Reply)

I highly doubt it'll help.
They'll teach you how it should work. But because of the way beer is moved, and stored and knocked about and warmed up, and chilled too much, it never does what it should. And also, serve by dates on kegs are Bollocks. Once it's hit the air, get rid of it as soon as possible. If you vent it and leave it a week like they will probably tell you, you'll be selling vinegar. And as a tenant, they'll be very very reluctant to take back any bad stock.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:10, Reply)

Stay away from that gastro pub crap, m8.
That's been proven unsuccessful time and again.
( Kroney, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:02, Reply)

People don't want 'nice food' in a 'nice setting'
Anyone in Cov'll tell you that.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:04, Reply)

I've always preferred shit food in a dive, myself.

( Kroney, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:06, Reply)

I quite liked being able to have 6 pints then nom a biriyani from across the road straight out the foil tray.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:09, Reply)

Every single pub I got involved in, the only way to make it more profitable was to expand and improve on the food offer.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:04, Reply)

We've thought agout your idea re guestchefs, have a few lined up.

(DBT became a fruitarian on, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:07, Reply)

Just get a good deal. Serving food means a significantly higher staff cost as you need to do floor service and run the bar.
I think we figured out to pay a member of staff (at minimum wage) for an 8 hour shift, with the margins we were working at we had to take 200 odd quid in food.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:13, Reply)

Which will be difficult if you're only serving ham, egg and chips.

( Kroney, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:19, Reply)

The reverse of restaurants, then.
Who seem to only survive by raping you on the vino.
( Kroney, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:08, Reply)

Probably because the successful pubs have stolen their trade

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:11, Reply)

Cheap wine near DBT's boozer, then!

( Kroney, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:17, Reply)

It's because of staff costs for a proper chef team,
Vs a few decent cooks in a pub kitchen. And you can mark up wine pretty well when you buy the sort of bulk restaurants do.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:15, Reply)

Generally about 3x cost, in my experience.
(that was about 8 years ago though)
( Slippery Mick ‏, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:20, Reply)

Yeah, depends on the amount of covers, but I'd say 3 to 4 yeah.

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:22, Reply)

There's one by me I eat in occasionally
Thinking about it, it's because I can always get a table, which may not be a solid recommendation.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:15, Reply)

Hey man, look what I found!
imgur.com/N4SvpBR

Now that's a name guaranteed to crack anyone up.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Mon 28 Jul 2014, 17:17, Reply)