tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post7668294100560032722..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: The Big Society In ActionDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-61462428069928391612013-02-27T23:48:59.845+00:002013-02-27T23:48:59.845+00:00You're from Lankyshur? Wish I could get in on...You're from Lankyshur? Wish I could get in on the act. Be a lot better sitting here on my own every neet.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-77799227385010169672013-02-27T23:46:18.802+00:002013-02-27T23:46:18.802+00:00But would you want to sit there all night, every n...But would you want to sit there all night, every night, dealing with 'friends'? I sure as hell would not.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-71233370433651729192013-02-27T23:43:32.890+00:002013-02-27T23:43:32.890+00:00One needs someone who gently pushes against the ti...One needs someone who gently pushes against the tide and winds folk up a little bit - it stops us all from taking ourselves too seriously.<br /><br /><br />Pint of suspiciously golden-looking piss for me please.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-53485858224907603562013-02-27T23:42:19.938+00:002013-02-27T23:42:19.938+00:00I saw this splendid post on that site at the time....I saw this splendid post on that site at the time. How I wish I had the general knowledge and werewithal to get something like that together myself.<br /><br /><br />The commenter is an absolute legend.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-31194531172557597482013-02-27T23:42:15.780+00:002013-02-27T23:42:15.780+00:00Yep, he had a entire blog doing just that once. :)...Yep, he had a entire blog doing just that once. :)Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-61394042951396389542013-02-27T23:40:19.928+00:002013-02-27T23:40:19.928+00:00It's not the same. You cannot advertise it op...It's not the same. You <i>cannot</i> advertise it openly; money <i>cannot</i> change hands; you probably <i>cannot</i> have music taking place and so on.<br /><br /><br />Personally. it would be something I'd want to keep very low key. If there's anything of this order happening in Preston, though - let me know.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-44237176724375714762013-02-27T23:37:31.054+00:002013-02-27T23:37:31.054+00:00He's mainly having a gentle wind-up I think.He's mainly having a gentle wind-up I think.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-64421102640265860552013-02-27T23:36:28.045+00:002013-02-27T23:36:28.045+00:00They should not exist. It is as simple as that.They should not exist. It is as simple as that.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-77791554810366698432013-02-27T23:35:57.532+00:002013-02-27T23:35:57.532+00:00What are you brewing? You could near sell tickets...What are you brewing? You could near sell tickets for your time and a guide of North East Scotland (with plenty of drinking going on). With your sense of humour and your strength of character, you could probably make it work amongst your 'fans'.Paulnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-51581583477348685842013-02-27T14:43:35.735+00:002013-02-27T14:43:35.735+00:00...or half the "V" sign.......or half the "V" sign....Hughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-43144894845211864432013-02-26T00:26:14.572+00:002013-02-26T00:26:14.572+00:00Can't seem to get Disqus to work tonight.
A...Can't seem to get Disqus to work tonight. <br /><br /><br />Anyway, this is indeed Cameron's 'Big Society' in action - but not the way he imagined it working ;) <br /><br /><br />We've never had the council investigating our Smoky-Drinky evenings but then ours are mobile and sometimes (whisper it) actually take place in a council house! They have settled into a more or less permanent place lately but we have yet to install a pool table and a proper bar. <br /><br /><br /><br />These will come. We'll probably get them cheap from a closed-down pub.Leg-ironnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-69583833324397432892013-02-25T23:53:00.863+00:002013-02-25T23:53:00.863+00:00DP, every comment on the subject that I've rea...DP, every comment on the subject that I've read by him is disparaging of smokers and smoking, and vehemently denies that the smoking ban had anything to do with the 11,000 pub closures since. <br /><br /><br /><br />I am aware he comments with the sole intention of provoking (some call it trolling), but that doesn't alter the fact that the thrust of his comments on the subject are decidedly anti-smoker. Hence my appraisal.nisakimannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-88441323074943382992013-02-25T23:11:26.543+00:002013-02-25T23:11:26.543+00:00No, sorry. I'm not having that. He is a scepti...No, sorry. I'm not having that. He is a sceptic, but don't think he should be termed a smoker-hater IMO. Very unfair comment. <br /><br />He likes to post challenging (or mischievous) comments - nothing wrong with that - and they are never thoughtless. I can see the thinking behind this one quite clearly. <br /><br />Still think he's wrong, mind. ;)Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-44201436323527303852013-02-25T22:45:16.004+00:002013-02-25T22:45:16.004+00:00We follow the same dromos, nisakiman. :)We follow the same dromos, nisakiman. :)Lysistrata Eleftherianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-21470591913363566922013-02-25T21:46:29.436+00:002013-02-25T21:46:29.436+00:00He also goes by the name of "Cooking Lager&qu...He also goes by the name of "Cooking Lager", and is a CAMRA smoker hater who is in denial about the reason pubs have been going out of business since the smoking ban.nisakimannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-19858149532984548392013-02-25T21:05:30.823+00:002013-02-25T21:05:30.823+00:00The whole point of a pub is that it is a public an...The whole point of a pub is that it is a public and sociable community space. The clue is in the name: a public house, not a private house.<br /><br /><br />You don't have to make arrangements with people to meet there, you just call in when you want. The great joy of local pubs used to be seeing who else dropped in that evening, and knowing that you would probably find some company, or just to sit there amiably for a while people-watching.<br /><br />Smokey-drinkey places are becoming similar to pubs: they are neutral friendly community meeting places - although you have to know someone to be invited in the first place. Having a private party or knocking on someone's door and sitting in their private living room is NOT the same!<br /><br /><br />Does Carpe Zytha translate as 'seize the beer', by the way? :)Lysistrata Eleftherianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-75893402297618562942013-02-25T20:49:51.171+00:002013-02-25T20:49:51.171+00:00Why the need for a smoking ban? Was smokefree air ...Why the need for a smoking ban? Was smokefree air in their own living room too horrible for anti-smokers prior to it? ;)Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-79024219493915264622013-02-25T20:47:19.956+00:002013-02-25T20:47:19.956+00:00Government lobbying government.
http://dickpuddle...Government lobbying government.<br /><br />http://dickpuddlecote.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/government-lobbying-government.htmlDick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-68374243102910608942013-02-25T18:03:21.883+00:002013-02-25T18:03:21.883+00:00Sorry to butt in (no pun intended) - but I've ...Sorry to butt in (no pun intended) - but I've just come across Smokefree Southwest.<br /><br />Why do we allow tax payers money to be frittered away on these organisations.<br /><br />http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/pound-211million-cost-illegal-tobacco-South-West/story-18246717-detail/story.html#axzz2LMluF7Bwwgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-47687882880407965022013-02-25T15:47:19.623+00:002013-02-25T15:47:19.623+00:00A strange question, Carpe. In the first place, who...A strange question, Carpe. In the first place, who said anything about parties? A smokey-drinkey is in the nature of a pub - you turn up when you wish to. In the second place, and consequent upon the first, the essential point is that 'members' are free to come and go without feeling in any way ill at ease.Junicannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-83855019283967198982013-02-25T14:36:18.194+00:002013-02-25T14:36:18.194+00:00No, it's because a shed / garage can be made i...No, it's because a shed / garage can be made into a better facsimile of a pub, and since pubs threw out 60% of their customers in July 2007, this is how those erstwhile customers have dealt with it. That is why 11,000 pubs have closed since the ban. Serves them right for not standing up for their customers and for being so stupidly naive as to believe the lie that non-smokers would be packing them out after the ban. The bulk of those that still exist have turned into nurseries cum eateries. They aren't pubs anymore. Hence the rise of the "Smokey-Drinkey".nisakimannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-58475793014000846482013-02-25T12:26:20.311+00:002013-02-25T12:26:20.311+00:00So what you're saying is that having parties i...So what you're saying is that having parties in sheds is more popular since smoking was banned in pubs? Why sheds? Why not sit in the living room? Is it because smoking in the living is horrible?Carpe Zythahttp://twitter.com/CarpeZythanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-52341045599017726522013-02-25T00:22:36.671+00:002013-02-25T00:22:36.671+00:00Ah. Earlier this summer I was doing some ISIS surv...Ah. Earlier this summer I was doing some ISIS surveys for Frank Davis. I came across a delightful couple of blokes on holiday in Greece who were from Bamber Bridge in Lancashire. Now, I'm from Lancashire, and can tell you that 'They're not shy in Bamber Bridge'. (That translates as hard as nails.)<br /><br />One of them had an allotment. With a shed. Which he'd turned into an all-smoking all-drinking all-dancing (he played music but I guess not classical) smoky-drinky. Just for his friends, and they all brought their own booze. He'd even installed a chemical toilet for the ladies, because the blokes just used to piss at the edge of the railway line, which wasn't right for the women, he said.<br /><br />How many of these are there? And how many smoking lock-ins are there? There is hope; there are hundreds of thousands of small acts of defiance throughout the uk, but no-one advertises them because they don't want 'them' to find out. Basically, on a larger scale (and with far fewer draconian measures and less active policing) it's exactly what the Greek people have done: circumvent a bad law and carry on smoking.Lysistrata Eleftherianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-20441534960645322442013-02-24T22:33:38.334+00:002013-02-24T22:33:38.334+00:00It's heartening to know there's still peop...It's heartening to know there's still people out there with the spark of defiance in them.<br />Long may they continue to give the V-sign to TPTB!barnacle billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-2330042381758526452013-02-24T22:17:39.701+00:002013-02-24T22:17:39.701+00:00Inspired and heartwarming.Inspired and heartwarming.neilnoreply@blogger.com