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Post by Pub Visit on Mar 29, 2008 5:47:13 GMT -5
Just a few years back it would have been almaost a sin?
Do you sometimes take your family "down the pub" for a good nosh up?
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Post by Gene on Mar 29, 2008 9:06:36 GMT -5
I've had some good food in pubs - but I prefer pubs for the beer.
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Post by Great fOOD on Mar 29, 2008 10:04:19 GMT -5
Used to be as taboo as not wearing a suit and tie to meeting.
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Post by Nice to see on Mar 29, 2008 10:05:57 GMT -5
Nice to see you popping up here on this side board, Gene.
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Post by Good Grub on Mar 29, 2008 10:21:36 GMT -5
Good grub In the Pub.
We are only here For the beer!
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Post by aileen on Mar 29, 2008 13:25:12 GMT -5
Some pubs have good food, but some have that "boil in the bag" muck. Ones I don't like include: Brewers Fayre Two for One Beefeater TGI Fridays Inkeepers Lodge restaurants
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Post by ex-teenager on Mar 29, 2008 16:32:25 GMT -5
I often would go into a pub!! In one week I visited 11 lol
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Post by aileen on Mar 30, 2008 6:21:44 GMT -5
I visited 11.3 in one week
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Post by Not allowed on Mar 30, 2008 8:16:23 GMT -5
You should not WANT to go into a pub, we were told not that long ago. Professing people would but it would be hidden from the workers if they did.
Two workers spied on a friend and hid outside a pub waiting to catch her coming out.
We are not sure if the greatest sin was spending time in the pub or being with an öutsider"boyfriend!!
Either way, pubs were NOT on the list of eating places for professing friends until when? it's not clear when or even if now things are different.
Does anybody know?
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Post by ex-teenager on Mar 31, 2008 3:28:23 GMT -5
You should not WANT to go into a pub, we were told not that long ago. Professing people would but it would be hidden from the workers if they did. Two workers spied on a friend and hid outside a pub waiting to catch her coming out. We are not sure if the greatest sin was spending time in the pub or being with an öutsider"boyfriend!! Either way, pubs were NOT on the list of eating places for professing friends until when? it's not clear when or even if now things are different. Does anybody know? I didn't neccesarily want to visit them, but I had to!!
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Post by What about on Mar 31, 2008 20:24:01 GMT -5
What about friends not going to pubs? As long ago as the late eighties I popped into a pub at lunch time and spotted a young worker there. I didn't embarrass him because at the time I thought it was a rule for us, another unnecessary, controlling rule.
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Post by Teenager ina Pub on Mar 31, 2008 20:26:38 GMT -5
What made you have to Teenager?
Were you working in one?
Was it after hours?
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Post by ex-teenager on Apr 1, 2008 4:34:13 GMT -5
What made you have to Teenager? Were you working in one? Was it after hours? It did involve work. But not working in for the pub, serving the drinks etc. Think it would be a bit hypocritical to work serving alcohol! I have ate in ones outside of work schedule. Its nothing bad, its just like a resturant now. No smoking, and at this point no-one was drinking!
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Post by aileen on Apr 1, 2008 6:53:04 GMT -5
"I didn't embarrass him because at the time I thought it was a rule for us, ...."
A common problem. People ASSUME rules that don't exist.
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Post by Gospel Meeting on Apr 1, 2008 10:08:32 GMT -5
Some people went to a Gospel Meeting in a pub one time!
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Post by Eat in Pub on Apr 1, 2008 11:31:48 GMT -5
It's Ok to eat in most pubs. Check out the menu and the nature of the pub, especially if taking kids along.
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Post by Dont assume on Apr 1, 2008 11:36:38 GMT -5
"I didn't embarrass him because at the time I thought it was a rule for us, ...." A common problem. People ASSUME rules that don't exist. In defense of people I have to say that they do NOT assume the rules. You may be too young to know, but the older workers who gave their lives for their belief actively and strictly taught and emphasized the rules that we keep hearing nowadays do not exist. They also preached "An unchanging Jesus and an Unchanging WAY. Where is it now?
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Post by aileen on Apr 1, 2008 15:45:53 GMT -5
If the workers of old said there were no rules and workers today say there are no rules, then who imagines these rules?
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Post by no rules on Apr 4, 2008 21:14:29 GMT -5
Why is there a problem with : Divorce and remarriage Fashionable clothes and splits in skirts Wearing Jeans Wearing trousers of any kind for females Wearing jewelry Having short hair for females Meeting on Sudays without a tie for males practising a sport certain careers Owning a TV (believe it or not Aileen most people will have a problem if workers find they have a TV even in 2008) Women's subsevance
(others that I could mention)
and in the past black stockings hats leisure centres novels radio dancing theatre
Just in case you missed it Aileen, there were rules, unwritten rules, punishable in various forms, ie: shunning, banning etc. forbidding emblems, excommunication often constructive dismissal.
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Post by IllinoisGal on Apr 4, 2008 21:21:38 GMT -5
Is a pub anything that serves alcohol and food such as Applebees, Lonestar steakhouse?
I like there food at these 2 places. I have even been in them on numerous occasions with my professing friend.
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Post by Guest 1 on Apr 5, 2008 6:33:52 GMT -5
In my neck of the woods the function of pubs has changed from being only a place where you drank (and maybe grabbed a pie 'n peas) to a place where you can eat and maybe grab a beer or a wine.
Most of the pubs have been remodelled and now more likely resemble restaurants.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2008 10:05:33 GMT -5
There are no rules, but there are clear "expectations." These expectations are often preached from the platform in one form or another.
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Post by alana on Apr 5, 2008 11:29:21 GMT -5
Ran, what is the difference between rules and expectations as applied in 2x2 ?
I see the imposition of certain things clearly as rules.
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Post by Pub pub on Apr 7, 2008 20:26:21 GMT -5
Is a pub anything that serves alcohol and food such as Applebees, Lonestar steakhouse? I like there food at these 2 places. I have even been in them on numerous occasions with my professing friend. A pub, the ones people were banned form going to were drinking places where the majority of people went in order to consume liquor. Food was a side line. The objection, I think was to the outcome of the alchohol and consequences. Pubs have changes as has society. A good pub is now a pleasant place for families to eat, and then there are the serious drinking pubs, I guess where kids might be in danger, perhaps.
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Post by Claire on May 9, 2008 5:24:25 GMT -5
I don't know that pubs in England can be compared with those in (Northern) Ireland. Any I was ever in in England seemed calm, quiet places where people dropped by to meet people and have a beer. Belfast pubs/bars seemed the reverse insofar as it was alcohol first, conversation (optionally) later.
Here the local yokels just drink their beer outside the village shop. wandering inside to buy more as the need arises )
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Post by Do the same on May 10, 2008 2:37:23 GMT -5
There are the same kind of drinking holes only in England. Some of the "better" pubs have upgraded to restaurants. Howeve, a lot of alcohol is also consumed there too. You may not, but some of those around you will at times. Inevitably.
The question . Have the workers changed their stance on pub eating?
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