TVs in pubs

driver_problems · 29-01-2006, 22:01

Just got back from a country pub where I hadn't been for a couple of years. I was looking forward to the pair of us sitting there in front of the big fireplace they have there. When we got there the fireplace was off but central heating was heating the place nicely, but some numpty had taken the unilateral decision to install a big flat screen above the fireplace which was showing football. Now to me, TVs and pubs don't go together and it spoilt the whole thing. Never mind about banning smoking from pubs they should ban the bl**dy TVs

**Stuart** · 29-01-2006, 22:05

They wouldn't. The Government is too frightened of Rupert Murdoch, and Sky makes a small fortune from licencing Pubs to show it's channels.

nffc · 29-01-2006, 22:07

Watching footy in pubs owns, beer, other alcohol and football and most of all it's warm for nights when your team's on sky (about once a year) so you don't have to sit in a freezing football stadium watching rubbish...

driver_problems · 29-01-2006, 22:12

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Watching footy in pubs owns, beer, other alcohol and football and most of all it's warm for nights when your team's on sky (about once a year) so you don't have to sit in a freezing football stadium watching rubbish...

yeah - but this was just clips of stuff - mostly man united. It was interfering with the atmosphere and people (mostly blokes) started to gather round it and gaze at it in a similar manner to the way the apes gazed at the sentinel when it first appeared in Kubricks space oddeysey 2001

Chimaera · 29-01-2006, 22:15

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Originally Posted by driver_problems

yeah - but this was just clips of stuff - mostly man united. It was interfering with the atmosphere and people (mostly blokes) started to gather round it and gaze at it in a similar manner to the way the apes gazed at the sentinel when it first appeared in Kubricks space oddeysey 2001

I can just imagine that!
I don't mind watching football in a pub - as long as I know it's that type of pub! I think I'd be a bit put out to go to an old fashioned country pub and find that you can't even escape from Sky Sports there!

Angua · 29-01-2006, 22:17

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Originally Posted by driver_problems

yeah - but this was just clips of stuff - mostly man united. It was interfering with the atmosphere and people (mostly blokes) started to gather round it and gaze at it in a similar manner to the way the apes gazed at the sentinel when it first appeared in Kubricks space oddeysey 2001

You were lucky to find a "country" pub. Too many of ours are now resturants.

Did the screen have a beer glass DOG in the bottom RH corner?

driver_problems · 29-01-2006, 22:23

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Did the screen have a beer glass DOG in the bottom RH corner?

Yeah it did! What was that all about then?

Hom3r · 29-01-2006, 22:26

I feel the only times that a TV in a pub should be on is major sporting (but consider others) events , and the big news stories (9/11, 7/7, Boxing day Tsunami).

I wouldn't like siting in a pub blasting out Corrie

McGraw · 29-01-2006, 22:32

There are times when telly's in pubs are perfect.

If I'm having a night of chucking arrows in the vault, then having normal Saturday night telly on is great as far as I'm concerned.

Angua · 29-01-2006, 22:32

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Originally Posted by driver_problems

Yeah it did! What was that all about then?

Proves they have paid sky for the rights to broadcast in the pub (shame)

driver_problems · 29-01-2006, 22:34

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Proves they have paid sky for the rights to broadcast in the pub (shame)

I thought it might have been something to do with adverts - eg. you nipped off for a quick sl*sh when it was going empty or something

Halcyon · 29-01-2006, 22:44

I think football on TV's is more suited to to city pubs.
Country pubs should be more relaxed. you dont need media shoved in your face all the time to have a good time with your friends.

29-01-2006, 23:09

I think TVs in Pubs spoil the atmosphere a bit too. I don't like fruit machines either, they kinda spoil the social atmosphere of a pub I think.

danielf · 29-01-2006, 23:17

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Originally Posted by Halcyon

I think football on TV's is more suited to to city pubs.
Country pubs should be more relaxed. you dont need media shoved in your face all the time to have a good time with your friends.

I can see your point, but presumably people in the countryside like to watch the footie as well?

sherer · 30-01-2006, 14:51

it's swings and round abouts.. last week i was working in Birmingham all week so was going to miss the match unless i found a pub showing it.. i did and enjoyed myself.. i knew before i walked in it was a sports pub and what i was going to get

on sat night i went out for a meal with mum and dad and had a drink before hand.. we went in a quite pub and having a TV there would have spoilt the place and raised the volume which we wouldn't have liked.. there was a match on at the time too

i guess what you are saying is you went out to a country pub and wasn't expecting a big screen TV there and as there was no live sport on at the time it could have been turned off

what annoys me as when a pub as spent ÃƒÆ’Ã¢â‚¬Å¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â£1000s on their big widescreen TVs but they are all set wrong so you get a horrible picture.. think that might be down to the pub feed not being 16:9 but sometimes it can make it unwatchable esp when you get a bendy picture at the sides to when the camera pans round it makes you feel sick