The bizarre thing about newcastle is that pubs are not cheap (3 quid and upwards a pint usually) but going out to bars and clubs in the city centre is - you can usually get a triple vodka or other spirit, plus mixer, for about 2.20! 
Ministry of Sound: £4.50 for a bottle of beer!
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London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
A shooting murder outside there this morning I think, about 4.30am.
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Yes, it was just on the Radio 4 news.
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hiraethified
One man in his 20s shot dead, and a 29 year old man in hospital with a gunshot wound.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK..._London,_Close_To_Ministry_Of_Sound_Nightclub
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Thing is I don't, the AH really isn't that trendy a pub at all...
I was in the Sam Smiths pub in Charing Cross last summer, we were only paying about 2.20 a pint...
Mind you, I called the barman a fascist cunt, so i don't think I'll be going there again.
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Cid
Proper break this time
No, it's not... Next to the station though so probably pick up a load of the post Forum market. I mean that's more than you'd pay in most of the gastro pubs in Hampstead.
plasticene
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I was in the Sam Smiths pub in Charing Cross last summer, we were only paying about 2.20 a pint...
Sam Smiths pubs are always cheap - which is great so long as you don't mind having no choice apart from drinking their own beers
They aren't that bad though...
Anyway even in Pub On The Park which is a proper trendy lefty pub I was paying about 3.10 for a pint of Staropramen last time I was there. I didn't think that was that bad.
And think of it another way... Drinking in major cities in China is
expensive. Granted, you can go to a local restaurant and have beer for basically free. But if you want to drink decent beer it's another matter. Even Qingdao will set you back 30 RMB, about 3 quid for a small bottle in pretty much any bar in China. When you consider local wages that's And foreign beers.
You're looking at about 7 quid a pint in most Shanghai bars for Western draft beers...
When you think the average person in China earns about 100 quid a month, that's basically like paying between 30 and 70 quid for a beer, in relative terms.
DRINK?
bummed by karmachameleon
7.50 for a small bottle of tiger...no other beer though you can buy kerrazzy cocktails in a treasure chest etc for 100 quid....full of tw*ts as well...christ I can't believe how I used to lap all that sh*t up....give me a proper boozer with a live band, decent ale and a flirty barmaid, I'm getting old, or growing up...
I agree.
7.50 for a small bottle is fucking outrageous...
7.50 for a small bottle is fucking outrageous...
I've never liked those kinds of places, my mate says it explains why I was always single when I lived in London (because I insisted on going to squat parties, metal nights etc where the prices were cheaper and I preferred the vibe even if there was less pulling scope) but if that's the case, then so be it
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
I thought that only happened on Then Young Ones, never in real life.
Most I payed at a club was in Pacha on Ibiza a few years back. It was close on 10 Euro for a Sam Miguel, available in the supermarket for about 50 cents. After paying 60 to get in too
Most I payed at a club was in Pacha on Ibiza a few years back. It was close on 10 Euro for a Sam Miguel, available in the supermarket for about 50 cents. After paying 60 to get in too
I bet you were wearing that Tommy Hilfinger scent and smoking Narlboro Lights too.
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
there's places in brixton that charge almost as much you know.is this news?
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hiraethified
Where?!
I'd travelled from Newcastle to London, I'd just been to my nan's funeral that afternoon, the pub was empty except the group of big-spending people I was with, I was meeting up with people I hadn't seen for five years cos I'd been in China, and the barman made a fuss about my boy running up and down and said we had to leave that instant.
I think in circumstances like that one is entitled to call someone a fascist.
Most I payed at a club was in Pacha on Ibiza a few years back. It was close on 10 Euro for a Sam Miguel, available in the supermarket for about 50 cents. After paying 60 to get in too
This is why I wouldn't go to Ibitha. What's the fucking point.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
Apparently, that's what they charge punters for a regular bottle of ordinary beer, making it £9 a pint!!!
Yet another reason to avoid the place like the plague.
I've only ever been there once for an awards party thing and that was bad enough - the only highlight was Eme nicking a bottle of champagne from behind the bar.
that and the shooting their on saturday...
plan b - we only lasted long enough for two drinks, we ran out of money!
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hiraethified
It's £4.50 for a bottle of shit beer? At those prices, the place must have caught fire with rage.
To have fun, get laid etc. Pascha is about the most expensive place you can go on the island...
it wasn't long after we went that it went up in flamesIt's £4.50 for a bottle of shit beer? At those prices, the place must have caught fire with rage.
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