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oh dear : pubs offer meals for 1 €/£
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Beer 99pence a pint down Wetherspoons. We really are going back to the 70s/80s!!!

Speaking gibberish on internet talkboards since last Michaelmas. Plus here on Twitter -
I'm sure I remember paying 13p for a pint of cider in Dudley back in 1975.
(and when I started smoking, you could buy 20 Players No 10 for around 18p)Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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88 pence was the cheapest I remember about 86/87.
If wetherspoons are doing it for 99 pence then I am benching myself on Monday morning and heading straight down the boozer.Comment
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With quid pints and meals these pubs will be great places for the hordes of benched contractors to wile away those long empty days - and save on heating at the same time
PS: Pick one with wi-fiComment
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£1 pub meals! no wonder you see fewer stray dogs roaming around these daysThe court heard Darren Upton had written a letter to Judge Sally Cahill QC saying he wasn’t “a typical inmate of prison”.
But the judge said: “That simply demonstrates your arrogance continues. You are typical. Inmates of prison are people who are dishonest. You are a thoroughly dishonestly man motivated by your own selfish greed.”Comment
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I remember beer being around £1 when I was 18 in 1989 (of course I never drank in pubs before that age
). So it is just like being 18* again for me.
* I.e. not having any money, being sick to death of where I live, not having any kind of direction in life and looking for an escape. So just like now then.
Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Why "oh dear" - I think this is fantastic, shame I don't live anywhere nearby!This default font is sooooooooooooo boring and so are short usernamesComment
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