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Tashyboy

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The real question here is why does Tashyboy feel the need to jump straight on Golf Monthly whenever he's in a pub? Company boring him? :LOL:
I think since we have come out of locknown I have only been in 3 pubs ?
Still a novelty.?

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One if the plus points is that they are still, to some extent, drinking pubs. So many pubs have focused on their food offerings to the extent that those who want to just go out for a drink feel excluded. At least in a spoons you can have a few beers and a chat without feeling like you are in the way if diners and not really wanted
 

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No real need to as he publishes his views - on many things - in the 'Spoons magazine.
Oddly enough it was missis T reading the spoons mag and what spoons have done to historic buildings that was my prompt for this thread.
 

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Didn’t Guinness refuse to supply spoons until they realised how many pints they could shift
Not sure about that but they definitely stood up to Heineken a few years ago when they tried to get them to stop selling non brewery supplied beers. Spoons said no, Heiniken said OK we'll stop supplying you, spoons said go ahead. Bit of a stand off for a few days with pubs running short of certain beers, but Heineken quickly caved in when they realised what they stood to lose.
 

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Hang on a minute...
What are the 'unethical business practices' that you mention?
Where they have actually monopolised? If that's their aim/business model, then they've failed, as I know of none that have driven other pubs out of business!
Yea, you don’t know about it. That doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened. And that’s how most people like it. Ignorance to reality.
 

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You would like them if they put their prices up?
Yep, if it meant they also raised what they pay to their local suppliers and staff. I know such crazy socialist views as a fair distribution of wealth probably makes you feel scared but that’s how it should be.
 

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Not sure about that but they definitely stood up to Heineken a few years ago when they tried to get them to stop selling non brewery supplied beers. Spoons said no, Heiniken said OK we'll stop supplying you, spoons said go ahead. Bit of a stand off for a few days with pubs running short of certain beers, but Heineken quickly caved in when they realised what they stood to lose.
Heineken are an absolute pox on the beer industry.
 

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I don’t feel the need to justify my views to someone who wouldn’t change theirs when given the facts. Welcome to the internet. It’s a fabulous place.
I wasn't asking you to justify your views! Simply what 'facts' triggered those views!
You never know...I might actually change mine if presented with compelling facts! But I certainly won't from the above sort of response!
I've asked for facts and you've refused to give any! There's no way I'd change my mind with that sort of response! But, as you say...'welcome to t'internet', where anyone can push pretty much any view with pretty much complete impunity!
 
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Not sure about that but they definitely stood up to Heineken a few years ago when they tried to get them to stop selling non brewery supplied beers. Spoons said no, Heiniken said OK we'll stop supplying you, spoons said go ahead. Bit of a stand off for a few days with pubs running short of certain beers, but Heineken quickly caved in when they realised what they stood to lose.
https://www.ft.com/content/589c913e-94d4-11e4-b32c-00144feabdc0
Last paragraph mentions Guinness dispute.
 

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Yep, if it meant they also raised what they pay to their local suppliers and staff. I know such crazy socialist views as a fair distribution of wealth probably makes you feel scared but that’s how it should be.
You know nothing about me and don't lecture me about distribution of wealth. I have run a company and provided good well paid jobs to people, have you? I gave 20% of company profit as an annual bonus to my staff on top of very competitive salaries, private medical and life insurance, also good pensions and that was a lot of wealth redistributed. To distribute wealth you first have to create it, that's probably an alien concept to you but to be honest I expect nothing else reading your posts.
 
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