Interesting thread, but WTF has it to do with "Military Aviation"? OK, rant over, back to the Ovaltine, mmm, grumble, grumble,

'Tis there as well WOO?!

Me too! An unintended consequence of the smoking ban is that one realises that the average pub REALLY smells of p!ss, farts and stale beer.......:yuk:

As has been illuded to, here in France parents bring their kids everywhere with them. The difference is that French parents teach their kids to behave properly and bring them up in a 'cafe society.' Most French kids are a real pleasure to behold. They are part of the group and there is a clear, mutual respect between youngers and elders. It works well.

Yer average Brit kid in a Brit pub is, more often than not, just a pain in the arse. It seems that everyone else is just expected to put up with other people's brats. More, in fact. The British public is expected to make all kinds of extra allowances and bend over backwards to accommodate spods, with no sense of social responsibility whatever from the parents.

Drown them at birth! The UK is over-populated anyway.

Nothing at all, wander 00, I posted it on here by accident - then transferred it to Jet Blast but failed to delete this one until it had several responses. I did suggest a mod might merge them, but that hasn''t happened, and in any case people have introduced their happy hour experiences to bring a little closer to the usual aviation content.

Anyway mea culpa, sorry about that!

I did try to bring it back to a military theme by enquiring how people felt about a "No Servicemen" policy. Sadly no one bit.

I agree with the OP on one point that it would be nice to have a consistent rule. As a parent one never knows whether one is likely to be made welcome, summarily ejected, or allowed to stay but treated like toxic waste. Even coloured people in apartheid South Africa at least knew where they stood.

http://i.imgur.com/EEqZ0ih.jpg

Hope I haven't exceeded the photo posting limit, but this is in Warbird Adventures at Kissimmee in Florida. Always good for some T-6 action!

These days, we suffer from extended adolescence, more adults engage with Dr Who, Minecraft, Game of Thrones etc than they do ISIL because we have so much crass and shallow news coverage delivered in width and not depth - even R4 Today is more suitable for prissy sixth formers. We feel the need to keep around us things which remind us of childhood. We are terrified of adulthood so embracing anything trendy and youthful marks us out as dynamic. Kids want to be adults, we want to be kids and we have smokers reduced to huddling together as social pariahs on rainswept pavements. Such is enlightened, civilised society.

Beam me up.

Tanker trash.
The law on under 14s you refer to in post #1 hasn't changed as far as I know, but refers to the bar area not the whole pub.

OK, sorry, tongue removed from cheek

Have you watched Game Of Thrones? I would say that is purely aimed at adults, It's also superb.
As an ex smoker I am 100% for making them pariahs, I started when I joined up and quit when I left...

Xbox one, xbox 360 owner..

About ten years ago, India Knight, the Sunday Times columnist complained about not being admitted to her local pub with her young children.She wrote a long rant and invited readers who had been similarly refused entry to their locals to write in so she could publish a 'Name and Shame' list.
She was somewhat surprised at the large number of people who wrote in asking for a copy of the list so that they themselves could head off and patronise these child free pubs.

Yup that would be good.

Met up with friends all have littlies like us and all reasonably well behaved. One weekday during holidays think it was half term we all met up for a walk and stuff somewhere and cafe closed at the park so someone suggested a pub close by.

First there and as we walked to pub the Landlord came to door and growled no kids here, asked why not he just said they annoying and as 5 other cars came into car park he just said WTF do I need them when others come here.

Just walked back as people getting out and said no kids, as everybody got into cars I just waved goodbye at the fool, something that was quickly taken up by everyone else. My share of bill in other pub was £60 something so it was a £400 lunch for 25 people.

Personally don't give a stuff about age as I can do zero about it and really not interested in doing it if I could.
There is nothing sadder (or funnier) than seeing someone in their 40's having stuffed themselves into a dress designed for an 18 year old.

Its attitude to life that is more important.

Come on - give us a break - once we've voted UKIP and read The Daily Mail we've got sod all else to do with our time!

;)

Tanker, would that've been near Bawtry or Marham?

racedo wrote: The name of this undoubtedly fine, 'littlies'-free establishment, please?

Strewth...so at what age were you born...twenty one?

The recession took care of them. Last time drove by the metal shutters were still up.

Are you mad, and miss Balamory? :hmm: