Grammar
I have started taking genuine offence at the writings of today's supposed 'young adults', and the fact that their writing skills are worse than mine were at the age of 5.

I also spend time reminiscing about how much better pubs used to be in my day (I'm 29 for fucks sake), and blaming the fact that late licenses are now being handed out like sweets.
(bblgoose, Sat 2 May 2009, 9:07, 2 replies)

On this I agree
I can't even send a text without it all being punctutaed correctly. The majority of my staff are under 21, and whenever they text me in txtspk, I get even worse and deliberately use long words.

Late licenses as sweets though? I disagree on this one. It's pretty bloody hard and in fact it's our customers that are coming out later and later that's really changing the way the licensed trade is going...
( Ril3y is a brit abroad.. bring on the Stella / Asahi, Sat 2 May 2009, 9:57, closed)

My argument goes along these lines...
10 years ago, all the pubs were open til 11. At 11, you had a choice of maybe 3 nightclubs to go to. Because *everyone* would try to go to a club, they could afford to be discriminating. They had dress codes, and bars would hold competitions for "VIP tickets for the first girl to get her tits out on stage" and suchlike. They would always be full, and a good night was to be had.

Now, most city centre pubs have a late license. There is one nightclub, but it's really just a big expensive pub with less seats. Because all the pubs are open late, people are coming out later, and less people are bothering to move on to a club.

The result is that the people who do come out are staggering the times they arrive, and are more spread out around more pubs. Because of this, everywhere seems quieter and more crap.

That's my theory anyway
(bblgoose, Sat 2 May 2009, 12:25, closed)