Not going to pub tomorrow

[VivienScott]

I’ve been invited to pub tomorrow and I’ve said no. I don’t generally enjoy rowdy pubs (which this one is) prefer a quiet country pub etc. Tomorrow sounds vaguely hellish and to be honest I’d rather just let everyone get it out of their systems and maybe go during the week. I’ve been called a joy sponge, am I missing something? I just don’t want to go tomorrow because it sounds like it will be awful.

At the pubs round here you have to book a table so they aren't going to be packed.

Same here with most, tables need to be booked even if just going for a drink. Some have no booking but are limiting numbers.

I'm going and cant wait, followed by a curry in my favourite Indian restaurant

We'll probably pop into a local pub garden at lunchtime in a week or two, but not right now.

Though as @Oysterbabe says, the whole point is they can't be packed, but I agree people might get rowdy because... people. I suppose we can be grateful glorious weather is not predicted.

I don't miss 'going to the pub' per se, more like specifics contexts like a walk in the country, or meeting a big group of friends, and the latter can't happen at the moment, but may book one for a country walk sometimes over summer

I agree it will be madness like Primark was first day of opening which i avoided like I will this. Not worth the joy if it ends in catching covid. I'm waiting for all the hype to die down before i visit either

Had to book a table at our local. I've seen the layout on Facebook and plenty of space. Table service as well! Can't wait to have a few drinks with friends.

Local police forces are saying it’s going to be like New Year’s Eve, emergency services are preparing on that basis for the weekend. I don’t normally do New Years either, maybe I am a joy sponge

Not going. That's why God invented wine bottles..
Johnson is fucking pathetic to tell people to be sensible. Like his twatty father and bezzie mate Dominic Cummings.
He's putting any blame on us. Rather than on himself for not even publishing any legislation or even proper guidelines.

I'm not going either. Don't blame people who are: I like pubs and miss them. But don't feel its quite safe enough to feel comfortable and the whole booking system feels like an utter ballache.
Ask me again in a month.

I'm going to our very small local tomorrow as I've missed it, but we had to book and tables of no more than 4, two slots to start with, no food, no walk ins and everything ordered online and brought over. He also prioritised us locals who are always in there and have kept in touch and offered help getting ready the last few weeks (I popped in one afternoon and did the beer garden flowerbeds).
It won't be normal by a long stretch, but it's a slice of semi normality and if we don't use it, we will lose it and it'll end up more bloody shitty flats or a Tesco mini.

I certainly won't be going but I think the bulk of pubs will be responsible.

It's town centre pubs that could be a big problem. You're going to have people descending into towns tomorrow for a pub crawl (because of the idiocy of opening up on a Saturday to a big fanfare) and once they've had a few they won't care for social distancing.

Combine that with pent up aggression and towns centres tomorrow will be a nightmare.

We won't, especially now all the holiday lets and hotels will be open too, here in our National Park. We've had enough trouble already with all the Covidiot daytrippers and illegal campers.

Pubs cannot physically be rammed tomorrow, it'll be limited numbers allowed in!

"Johnson is fucking pathetic to tell people to be sensible. Like his twatty father and bezzie mate Dominic Cummings.
He's putting any blame on us. Rather than on himself for not even publishing any legislation or even proper guidelines."
We don't live in a nanny state. Some of us are grown up an can be sensible. Those that cannot be sensible are twats. He isn't putting the blame on us - if we do not behave sensibly then we are to blame.

He doesn't want to impose legal restrictions on us because he wants us to all behave like a civil society. Only twats would have a problem with being treated like adults.

Trouble is born they said this about shops but my local homebargains was rammed last time i visited and people were just too close. If people choose not to follow social distancing drunk and disorderly how will staff cope and be safe. I personally think the government have caused havoc by telling pubs to open on a weekend rather than a weekday to start.

We’re not going we just don’t want the hassle,

@VivienScott

Local police forces are saying it’s going to be like New Year’s Eve, emergency services are preparing on that basis for the weekend. I don’t normally do New Years either, maybe I am a joy sponge

I think this weekend is going to see a lot of problems. The main one being people cannot stand being told no and are going to royally kick off when they can't use a pub the way they used to. That's going to ruin it for those who are willing to accept the measures in place and still have a bit of enjoyment and normality and likely put them off in future. I give it until Sunday morning before someone's on here winging about how unfair it is they couldn't get in to a pub, or weren't given a table because there were 12 of them or it took 10 minutes to get served a drink to the table or they were asked not to stand where they were....... bonus points if they say the staff were rude too because it's always that, and not the fact they couldn't get their own way.

Just heard on radio that pubs can open at 6 am tomorrow. I mean, why?!!

@Parky04

Had to book a table at our local. I've seen the layout on Facebook and plenty of space. Table service as well! Can't wait to have a few drinks with friends.

Can I please ask how you are planning to ensure social distancing between different households in your group? I would really like to be able to eat out with friends and their teenage children but I am struggling to work out how we can all sit round the same restaurant table and keep 1m between me and all of them. There doesn't seem to be any info online and on a thread I started someone who works in a restaurant understandably said her boss wouldn't want to have empty spaces at tables to allow for 2 households to social distance. If I were in their home I would move my chair away from the table to be far enough away and eat from my lap but I can't see a restaurant allowing that or having room for it.

@VivienScott

Local police forces are saying it’s going to be like New Year’s Eve, emergency services are preparing on that basis for the weekend. I don’t normally do New Years either, maybe I am a joy sponge

That's due to the amount of alcohol people will consume not necessarily the amount of people out drinking. I just wouldn't go but I doubt places will be packed out as that would be an impossible situation as far as social distancing goes.

@RichardMarxisinnocent, in the restaurant in China during the start, people were infected on the outside of the neighbouring tables, so SD is neither here or there. Which is why people are ignoring the need.

"He doesn't want to impose legal restrictions on us because he wants us to all behave like a civil society. Only twats would have a problem with being treated like adults"

He's thrown the Police and A&E etc Staff under the bus. The recent scenes in cities, Liverpool being one has shown that people don't behave civilly. Innocent bystanders were assaulted, stabbed etc. Not all pubs are out of residential areas. This will spill out.

The pubs being open has given a green light to the type of house parties that end in violence. Where I live this can start at anytime of the day.
It's a "I'm alright jack" attitude from people who live in better areas and don't have to get public transport etc.

@NotEverythingIsBlackandWhite , in your not nanny state the legislation was published an hour ago. Including an annex excluding Leicester by postcode areas. Can't even do tbe nanny state properly.