Labour's smoking ban killed the British pub

[minestrone]

There you go again implying that fat=bad.

Sure, nobody wants to be overweight but in years gone by people were just that. Overweight. And they didn't have all this guilt heaped on them by the health fascists.

Shut it fatty.

[original PM]

Well this thread went from smoking on page 4 to fat on page 9 - cba with the details but my twopenneth worth

Smoking in pubs
As a smoker I was quite happy they introduced as it was only afterwards that I realsied how fookin vile it was, I am now a pretty much non smoker anyway.

However as other noticed now instead of smelling of smoke, pubs smell of BO and rank farts - so thats lovely then

Also why are many open places 'non smoking' our station was until recently - well the signs have gone anyway.

However in terms of effect on the pubs especially round our way is that most of the youngster do not drink - back when i was erm 18, 19 etc the pub would be chocca every Friday/Saturday night with people that age.

Now I can walk around the town and no pubs are full of the youth - so i think there is a big trend away from social drinking etc in the young - probably because of stoopid prices in pubs.



As for people so fat they bend light as others have said with the very rare genetic condition person the rest have got that way by doing fook all exercise and eating shiite quick and easy food.....

If you took away there fooking fat scooter mobile and made them walk to get their dole they may lose a bit of weight....

[Gittins Gal]

Shut it fatty.

For the record, I'm 9 st 11 lb.

And that's without any faddy Dry January masochistic nonsense!

[Mich the Tester]

For the record, I'm 9 st 11 lb.

And that's without any faddy Dry January masochistic nonsense!

Yes but you're 4 foot tall.

[Platypus]

A lot of people seem to have quite a lot of self delusion over how much they eat and how much they exercise

Quite right! After all, everyone knows that a Mars bar is about 50 calories, but that a nip to the shops to buy one burns off 100 calories

[Sausage Surprise]

Recently in pub / restaurant in Austria I was reminded what life before the smoking ban was like.

Was like, I could not see more than a few meters and my eyes stung.

gas or electric?

[SueEllen]

Yes but you're 4 foot tall.

You aren't allowed to pick on dwarves.

[MyUserName]

You aren't allowed to pick on dwarves.

But you are allowed to pick them up and throw them, it is quite a sport apparently.

[Mich the Tester]

You aren't allowed to pick on dwarves.

But you are allowed to pick them up and throw them, it is quite a sport apparently.

It's the sport of kings; at least it will be if Mike Tindall ever gets near the throne.

[BoredBloke]

However in terms of effect on the pubs especially round our way is that most of the youngster do not drink - back when i was erm 18, 19 etc the pub would be chocca every Friday/Saturday night with people that age.

Now I can walk around the town and no pubs are full of the youth - so i think there is a big trend away from social drinking etc in the young - probably because of stoopid prices in pubs.

Of course they drink - they just do it differently. The thing is that they drink at sombodies house. They can go to the supermarket and get a large quantity of cheap booze and then get pissed before they head out - my daughter and her mates don't actually go out until about 11/12 at night. They skip the locals and go straight to the places that are open until 4/6 am. The point I was trying to make earlier was that it was this packed on Friday/Saturday that meant that the local pub could make a profit. This chunk of their trade has now gone and we are seing what we have now.