No. But it was Hogmanay and my girlfriend took it upon herself to do some 'upskirting' on the two Scottish guys who'd turned up in kilts. She didn't show me, but got hysterics out of her mates!
No. But it was Hogmanay and my girlfriend took it upon herself to do some 'upskirting' on the two Scottish guys who'd turned up in kilts. She didn't show me, but got hysterics out of her mates!
Haha... I've always said that if you're a single guy, who suits a kilt and wears it 'traditionally', it's the best way to pull!
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Prefer my nice gingham frocks personally. (they look wickedly kinky with fishnets).
That's wonderful, shweety. Do you shave first? I always find wearing some studded leather bondage kecks, with a built-in 'peek-a-boo' front panel, does the trick!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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We, my sister and i were taken to restaurants and pubs since we were very young. Those places to us were adult places, we would be on our best behaviour . My mum and dad would tell us off if we got a tiny bit loud etc.
Recently in a pub, not a purpose family pub, just a normal boozer. Three loud young brats running about, ran into me whilst leaving the bar with a couple of pints, sploshed a fair bit of beer on to the floor ( could have been worse), bloody parents said "oi mind the children"...... I had words with them, but of course their kids can do no wrong in their eyes. Thats the problem. its a pub, not their living room, or garden at home.
Pubs where kids can roam and be kids fine, again those places tend to serve food, so can eat have a drink with all the family, but please not a drinking pub...
Difficult in the country side, as may just be the one local pub catering for all, but if thats the case, keep an eye on your kids.
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Location, atmosphere and it depends what you are looking for at any given moment. I might find it great to go to an Aberdeen dockside pub with my uncle Tony for a boozy night soaking up the atmosphere of the dockers and dodging the prostitutes
Other times I want a good country, family friendly pub with a nice garden to catch a bit of sunshine
I'm not a smoker now but I can see that the smoking ban didnt help many pubs. Ive just seen too many pubs with lazy owners who cater mainly for a local estate. They are just not very welcoming and the atmosphere is a bit crap to sit and enjoy a drink with a girlfriend.
I'm at an age now where I prefer a quieter bar without young lads mouthing off at the pool table. I can't enjoy a drink with the local dickheads coming in. A lot of pubs seem tied in with a brewery chain which confuses things.
I will now go out of my way to find a good pub.
I think people are just spending less on going to pubs. I go back to my earlier point that many pubs seem depressing and badly run. I wonder how they are making money and remain open.
Which brings us back to the title of this thread! The remaining clientele would not be enough to keep the pubs open, especially the drinkers who have a self-imposed one and a half pint limit (no offence Marco) Actually that's not entirely true as many of these would move on to soft drinks which are much more profitable.
My born-again non smoking brother was fairly buzzing a few years ago when Preston opened its first non-smoking pub, which was three or four years ahead of the ban. "All pubs should be non-smoking", he said. A few months later I asked him what this pub was like, and whether their no smoking policy looked like a success. "Never been in, you know I don't bother with pubs much". Two years later the place closed down, it's now a Harley Davidson dealers.
One thing I did notice after the ban - the smell of sweaty armpits was much more noticeable. Maybe we should target them next. Then we'll tackle the fatties.
How about this: a complete smoking ban in and around pubs which serve food so the good folks who've turned out for their plate of hoity-toity au-gratin with a glass of prosecco can enjoy their evening without the filthy smokers ruining it for them, and the traditional 'old man' pubs can go back to doing what they've successfully been doing for hundreds of years?
Oh and the kids are only allowed in the food pubs.
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I don't remember ever going to a restaurant with my parents when we were little, apart from on holidays, but in any case we were incredibly well-behaved in public. Of course children weren't allowed in pubs back then, so if my parents went to the pub we were left with a relative, usually my cousin who was a couple of years older than us. A mate who's the same sort of age as me says he and his sister used to be left in the pub car park with a bottle of lemonade and a packet of arrowroot biscuits when his parents went out for a drink. Generally speaking though, it'd be my parents, grandmother and assorted aunts and uncles boozing and talking the hind legs off several donkeys in the dining room whilst us young 'uns would be left to our own devices. If we made too much noise we were told to 'play outside'. The adults weren't interested in what we had to say, and vice-versa.