Pubs are for drinking beer and conversation? Er, Nope.

My local wetherspoon has installed 3D televisions, and last night I
walked in on a twenty strong crowd watching football.

It was, er, somewhat different.

All were wearing oversized 3D goggles, and were present seated or
standing perfectly still and with their gazes fixed on the 37" screen.
It was strange. Nobody moved. No beer was being bought to the lips. No
birds were tweeting. No one spoke. The only sound was a joint cry when a
ball had crossed a line in a half cage made out of string.

I'd entered a strange vaccum. The kind ye get between a pair of stereo
speakers if ye wire one out of phase. Nothing in the middle, just a hole.

This isn't what pubs are about?

I sunk my Tuborg Guinness cocktail (three pints of the black to one) and
left.

3DTV?

....I have seen more intelligent creatures lying on their backs at the
bottoms of ponds. I have seen better organized creatures running round
farmyards with their heads cut off. Now take your 3DTV and get out. I
never want to see you or any of you goons in me Pub again...

--
Adrian C

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:11:42 +0000, Adrian C
wrote:

No beer was being bought to the lips.

Kind of counter-productive, iwt.

....snip...

Reminds me of going to a nightclub many years ago. The punters were all
staring at the DJ, dancing in their own little space, ignoring each other
and everything that went on around them.

Paul DS.

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:11:42 +0000, Adrian C wrote:

Pubs are for drinking beer and conversation? Er, Nope.

My local wetherspoon has installed 3D televisions, and last night I
walked in on a twenty strong crowd watching football.

It was, er, somewhat different.

All were wearing oversized 3D goggles, and were present seated or
standing perfectly still and with their gazes fixed on the 37" screen.
It was strange. Nobody moved. No beer was being bought to the lips. No
birds were tweeting. No one spoke. The only sound was a joint cry when a
ball had crossed a line in a half cage made out of string.

I'd entered a strange vaccum. The kind ye get between a pair of stereo
speakers if ye wire one out of phase. Nothing in the middle, just a hole.

This isn't what pubs are about?

I sunk my Tuborg Guinness cocktail (three pints of the black to one) and
left.

3DTV?

...I have seen more intelligent creatures lying on their backs at the
bottoms of ponds. I have seen better organized creatures running round
farmyards with their heads cut off. Now take your 3DTV and get out. I
never want to see you or any of you goons in me Pub again...

I hope for the financial health of the pub that the rental of the 3D
goggles compensated for the lost income from drink.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

On Thursday, January 26th, 2012, at 12:11:42h +0000, Adrian C observed:

...I have seen more intelligent creatures lying on their backs at the
bottoms of ponds.

What sort of creatures did you expect to congregate in taverns?

Why is somebody of your intelligence going to such a place anyways
except as part of a sociological study survey?

So what is it like wandering up to a bar while still wearing the glasses?

Brian

--
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"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Thursday, January 26th, 2012, at 12:11:42h +0000, Adrian C observed:

...I have seen more intelligent creatures lying on their backs at the
bottoms of ponds.

What sort of creatures did you expect to congregate in taverns?

Why is somebody of your intelligence going to such a place anyways
except as part of a sociological study survey?

Adrian C wrote:
I sunk my Tuborg Guinness cocktail (three pints of the black to one) and
left.

Careful, there's some in here that will accuse you of having a 'drink problem'.


--
Mark
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www.paras.org.uk

On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:11:42 +0000
Adrian C wrote:

Pubs are for drinking beer and conversation? Er, Nope.

My local wetherspoon has installed 3D televisions, and last night I
walked in on a twenty strong crowd watching football.

It was, er, somewhat different.

All were wearing oversized 3D goggles, and were present seated or
standing perfectly still and with their gazes fixed on the 37"
screen. It was strange. Nobody moved. No beer was being bought to the
lips. No birds were tweeting. No one spoke. The only sound was a
joint cry when a ball had crossed a line in a half cage made out of
string.

I'd entered a strange vaccum. The kind ye get between a pair of
stereo speakers if ye wire one out of phase. Nothing in the middle,
just a hole.

This isn't what pubs are about?

I sunk my Tuborg Guinness cocktail (three pints of the black to one)
and left.

3DTV?

...I have seen more intelligent creatures lying on their backs at the
bottoms of ponds. I have seen better organized creatures running
round farmyards with their heads cut off. Now take your 3DTV and get
out. I never want to see you or any of you goons in me Pub again...


I have two pubs within easy walking distance, one fairly upmarket, and
well-lit, the other more spit 'n sawdust, and dark. The former has no
TV in the bar, the other one has one, but I have never seen it
turned on. It's probably used for big football matches.
Whereas in the States, there seemed to be a competition for who could
cram the most sports-showing TV sets into any new bar.
--
Davey.

On 26/01/2012 17:35, Davey wrote:
I have two pubs within easy walking distance, one fairly upmarket, and
well-lit, the other more spit 'n sawdust, and dark.

Our software business used to be opposite an almost spit-and-sawdust
type pub. The landlord reckoned with the trade we brought in he should
take the pub upmarket. And replaced all the real beer with keg fizz,
and the sausage sandwiches with more expensive rubbish.

We didn't like it. It was however merely Murhpy's law that made us
relocate soon afterwards.

Andy

In message , Adrian C
wrote
Pubs are for drinking beer and conversation? Er, Nope.

My local wetherspoon has installed 3D televisions, and last night I
walked in on a twenty strong crowd watching football.

Most publicans don't realise that having sport on TV in a pubs drives
away more custom than it attracts.
--
Alan
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