While taking luncheon in one of my favourite pubs, an achingly ‘now’ individual in ‘statement’ optical wear barged by me, thankfully not spilling my astonishing Sharp’s Honey Triple.

He then plugged in his laptop. To the electrical socket paid for by the pub. I’m pretty sure electricity wasn’t on the bar menu. So, the question is, theft or acceptable?

And no, he had not asked the pub for permission. He had only just walked in, said hello to friends and then plugged in.

He’ll be a socialist no doubt

Worse, I’m afraid, uplink. A lager drinker.

Piss in his pint / keyboard…

I’d ask unless it was obviously the ‘done’ thing. But then I’d rather eat shit than go to the pub to play on my laptop, surely you’re there to socialise?

Dunno – it’s a good question. Often see folk walking round airport bars looking at the floor, in search of a power outlet.
Pretty common in coffee shops it seems – sitting down and plugging in a laptop seems standard behaviour.

The local alehouse though, bit different to a global conglomerate.

Fair enough that you’re annoyed by his bumping into you. But really, how much does it cost to run a laptop from the mains?

probably more acceptable than it would have been. many pubs and coffee places advertise free wifi access these days. bit like a pub buying the daily papers.

Is the cost relevant to the principle?

Re the pub buying the papers, good point, but is this not a little like doing the cross word and taking the sports page home with you? 🙂

In a coffee shop, such as Starbucks or Nero, I would imagine it is the accepted norm, but not in a pub. Just seemed a rather rude presumption of entitlement to me.

Your problem is clearly with the individual and his trendy glasses rather than what he did. So why mask your displeasure behind something else?

“Accidental” drinks spillages often occur in boozers 🙂

I wouldn’t think twice about it. Probably the equivalent of finding a penny on the floor and not handing in.

It’s only a laptop, you guys really do find anything to moan about 😆

Sounds like one of Cameron’s smoothies to me, trendy spex ‘n’all.

However it sounds like reasonable behaviour to me, so long as he had a drink and/or snack. It would be less than a penn’orth of power.
As a rep (international business traveller to you, mate) I often use my laptop in pubs when travelling and it’s neveer raised a comment.

Wot allthepies said, if you really want to be a bastard

Alternatively do the equivalent of grassing him up to the mods and tell the landlord that he’s doing it – they may just begrudge him the minuscule loss but I doubt it. You may more likely end up looking like a total arse though

you’re assuming he had no prior permission to do so.
his actions clearly weren’t enough for you to raise the issue with either him or the pub staff, so maybe darcy’s right and your problem is more with his appearance than anything else.

I’d ask unless it was obviously the ‘done’ thing. But then I’d rather eat shit than go to the pub to play on my laptop, surely you’re there to socialise?

Is it so different from taking a book to read?

Like many things, isn’t the element that you haven’t seen more important than what you have seen?
a) A regular who has previously asked and had permission.
b) a member of staff on their day off.
c) ……………………………….

Not that ‘now’ having a laptop, ipad for public smugness. I hate statement glasses(and yes I do wear glasses, which are a pita and cannot wear contacts), unless its Jarvis Cocker.

not as worrying as the peeps that hang around in the toilets at campsites just charging up their phones

Can flashy put a picture up of the statement glasses, or something similar, he was wearing? I just need to get an idea of what they are.

I often charge my phone in a pub when cycle touring – but I always ask first.

was anyone on the premises the victim of a drunken assault during the time that elapsed whilst you were partaking of luncheon..?

Abstracting electricity – this person clearly has a massively inflated sense of permission. Wearing glasses of the sort you describe and being a lager imbiber are aggravating factors , which in themselves set a starting tariff of 15 years. If he was wearing a polo top with the collars turned up and Crocs this may raise to a full on life sentence.

Did he turn up in an Audi?

I take my wet waterproofs in with me in the hope that they will be dry by the end of the evening.
Am I unfairly using the pub’s fire/central heating?

Am I unfairly using the pub’s fire/central heating?

Are you forcing an increase in the bill?

Charliemungus, no it’s not but I wouldn’t do that either. It’s a pub, it’s for looking at clunge and taking the piss / having it taken by your mates surely?

Which pub was it?

Because if both CFH and Mr Silly glasses go in, its obviously one to avoid…

It’s a pub, it’s for looking at clunge

WTF? Squidlady and I stopped off for a pint on the way home this afternoon, I wasn’t sure where to look. Squidette is on the phone upstairs, perhaps I should send her down the local to be looked at?

Yep, it’s the only duty if a woman in the pub
And they bloody shouldn’t be drinking pints either.

Back to the 70’s/80’s we go

Yep, it’s the only duty if a woman in the pub

Makes no sense

And they bloody shouldn’t be drinking pints either.

She thanks you for your concern

Back to the 70’s/80’s we go

Great, why not post a few Bernard Manning jokes to lighten the mood? 🙄

an achingly ‘now’ individual in ‘statement’ optical wear

This, from someone who ‘recommended’ a very spensive wallet to someone with a much lower budget, and ‘recommending’ three very spensive restaurants for someone wanting a simple fry-up…

And the rest.

And you’re sneering at someone else for being pretentious?

😆

What a hypocrite.

First example, “I’d best not comment given your budget”, etc.
Second example, OP asked for the “best”, not just that which satisfies your pathetic chippy attitude.

Do try harder.

an achingly ‘now’ individual in ‘statement’ optical wear

this from someone who fairly regularly posts the virtues of his ‘black iridium’* lenses for totty spotting? 😉

*apologies if these lenses are common to more manufacturers than I realise.

Do try harder.

I din’t actually have to try very hard at all really, did I? 😆

“I’d best not comment given your budget”

So why comment at all then?

(Laughs at the irony of the most pretentious snob on STW commenting on the pretentiousness of others…)

im seriously dumbfounded that on a saturday night you have nothing more interesting to think about than this..you sound like a really nice tollerant guy.. maybe you should write down his audi reg number and contact the landlord to report this terrible crime, or contact crimestoppers..

edit…btw the crimestoppers number is free and after careful consideration i think using an 0800 number paid for with my tax money for anything other than the most serious of crimes would be an abuse of this service and i consider this to be theft of my tax contributions…

Am I unfairly using the pub’s fire/central heating?

Are you forcing an increase in the bill?

Yes. More energy will be consumed to evaporate the water on andrewh’s wet clothes. However this also means cold unhealthy overweight people will “consume” more of the pub’s heating than a fit thin person would, so thin people should obviously get a discount.