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Shackewell Arms in fact
CAMRA are saying that " a fifth (18%) of those in relationships had met their partner at the pub " and are therefore sad at the humble boozers demise.
shots, anyone?
Online mate. It's the new Red Lion.
(though we did first meet in The King's Arms)
Yup in the pub but then again I also met a few others than night.
I was well ahead of the curve for once, I met my wife online... in 1995!
Seems a slightly odd message to complain the young people are having less drunken sex and we should be terribly worried about it.
People are ****ing less because of the same reasons people are ****ing less in Japan, not the closure of pubs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men
It has a lot to do with young men earning less than young women and the stresses of living in a world without secure jobs.
Nightclub here, first date was in a bar, but the initial meet was a scummy nightclub. Real ale played no part in the initial courtship, rather sadly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbivore_men
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Maki Fukasawa - is that Japanese for Jordon Peterson?
Met mine at in a club in Shorditch back in 93/4 onstage wiggling her arse to God is a DJ by Faithless.
I can instantly remember the time/day/image, it’s imprinted on my mind like a bright light.
Took us another year to get it together though, which was really nice. We sort of meandered and travelled that year to come back to the group of mates and caught up.
University polo club.
Intensive care, fortunately both working and not punters.
Maki Fukasawa – is that Japanese for Jordon Peterson?
I have no idea about Maki but Jordan Peterson is a bellend.
It's an interesting phenomena though that deserves some attention from sociologists. A lot of comes down to women in Japan, feeling that if they get into a relationship and have children their careers will be compromised - I think that will increasingly become a factor here. So perhaps stronger maternity protection and better funding for childcare would help.
Drunk at Sherwood Center Parcs
Intensive care, fortunately both working and not punters.
"My name's Buck, and I'm here to..."
She phoned a place where I was working and got put through to the wrong extension.
Previously the same thing happened to Magnus Magnussen but all I got out of that was a credit in one of his books
Center Parcs
Crikey. Straight to it, eh?
Same rugby team - I was helping to coach the ladies. Apparently I might have crossed a boundary between coach and player!
The Bear Tavern, Aberystwyth, 1999.
But I used to go the supermarket to get my weekly shop & trudge round shoopshing centres to buy Xmas presents, too.
The times, they are a changin'
Dodgy nightclub, followed by the classic 'bloke getting on a table with guitar and singing' pub
budgens
[i]I was well ahead of the curve for once, I met my wife online… in 1995![/i]
I know a bloke who met his wife online in the early-mid 90s on a Bulletin Board. It's all there was back then.
He moved to America to marry her, still together I believe. It was quite mind-blowing at the time.
budgens
How very middle class!
University polo club.
Best answer. I wonder if there is a correlation between the general decline in polo shirt sales and availability of suitable posh totty? I mean, Harry has had to go very lowbrow.
Cue for the uni bus in my first year.
Took me to the third year to do anything about it.
20+ years later she still puts up with me :O)
(plenty of booze involved but no particular pub)
Randomly
At the gym, but we did used to go to the same pub.
@bikebuoy, wasn't God is a DJ released around 1997? Hazy night was it? 🙂 🙂
I know a bloke who met his wife online in the early-mid 90s on a Bulletin Board. It’s all there was back then.
Wasn't much different for me: we got talking in a MUD ("Multi User Dungeon - a text-based online multiplayer adventure game) because she was a flatmate of a friend. Love blossomed through my eloquent and romantic prose.
Then we met, got drunk in a pub and had sex.
Met mine at in a club in Shorditch back in 93/4 onstage wiggling her arse to God is a DJ by Faithless.
I can instantly remember the time/day/image, it’s imprinted on my mind like a bright light.
God is a DJ was released in August '98.
Anyhoo, met my Mrs when she was working as a barmaid in the Cross Guns, Egerton, Bolton. Been married 30 years now.
On Kangaroo Island SA whilst working in an animal sanctuary. I pulled a coil of barbed wire through her hands when she was still holding it and her first words to me were a volley of Dutch swearing........not much has changed since!
we met, got drunk in a pub and had sex.
Or romance, as I believe it's known. And people make out like this stuff's complicated?
@bikebuoy, wasn’t God is a DJ released around 1997? Hazy night was it? 🙂 🙂
I was just thinking that, maybe he's a time traveller!
God is a DJ was either 97 or 98 and I'm pretty sure Faithless didn't even appear until 95!
Center Parcs
Crikey. Straight to it, eh?
T’was before that became a thing 😂
T’was before that became a thing 😂
I think it's been a 'thing' since Old Testament times at least
In a gay bar, a gay bar
First one: I was her Windsurfing Instructor.
The upgrade: I was her Kitesurfing Instructor.
Both of them into watersports, what's the chances of that?
We met ,in fancy dress,at a new years party while on a skiing holiday in Andorra.
30yrs next year.
Holiday romances eh. 🙂
Met mine at in a club in Shorditch back in 93/4 onstage wiggling her arse to God is a DJ by Faithless.
I can instantly remember the time/day/image, it’s imprinted on my mind like a bright light.
God is a DJ was released in August ’98.
😀
<edit> - that is supposed to be a laughing face emoji... sodding forum software...
You take fancy dress outfits on holiday? That’s dedication.
We improvised 😉
night club. 1982
God is a DJ was released in August ’98.
Hmmm 🤔
I’ll have to ask her when we met, I’m sure Faithless was kicking out tunes at the time.
It was a bit hazy, but not that hazy.
Seeks like a verrrrrry long time ago anyway.
Time for an upgrade 👍🤷♂️😜
Met mine at a pub - set up by mutual friends though.
A lot of online dating often ends up with meeting up in a pub? Not sure it can be blamed for the demise of pubs entirely.
I think the decline of the pub is probably more to do with other stuff as there are more alternatives now such as food and events. Then it's easier to stay in with Netflix and internets.
It's possibly just redistribution.
Craft ale places always seem busy. I just don't think traditional pubs have kept up.
On a mountain bike, on a bridleway in the Dales