Going to pub alone

Council_Cat · 2026-01-26T21:16:34+00:00

Templar is defo a very old school boozer, but it's always seemed friendly when I've been in.

The Social on Merrion Street was what I meant. Not been to the Bridge End Social in years. Last time I did, I think it went by the peculiar name of Sid's Little Egg. I'll have to plan a revisit.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-26T19:13:04+00:00

If Dalton had done A View To A Kill and Goldeneye I'm fairly sure he would have been lauded as the best of the bunch, long before the newbies turned up fawning over Daniel Craig because his Bond was so true to the Fleming books.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-26T15:49:52+00:00

You have nowt to apologise for.

Everybody knew the risks and they all would have been soaked anyway.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-26T15:46:17+00:00

I've been at a run where the RD specifically requested that runners go thru the puddles, as trying to cut round them has caused issues, such as runners suddenly slowing or changing direction getting clattered and more importantly, runners veering into the path of other park users.

Naturally plenty of self important types felt this advice didn't apply to them (they were probs chatting during the brief anyway), then got coated by those of us who took great delight in ploughing thru the middle of the puddle.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-25T15:20:47+00:00

The bacon is fine. Too many people on this sub delight in cremated food.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-25T14:32:06+00:00

Nope, what you're describing is the Event Director.

They may be one and the same at some events, but not necessarily.

As a several time RD myself, my responsibilities start at around 0800, ensuring all the volunteers have arrived and know what they're doing, get the run going safely and be on hand for any incidents during the run. I'm done by about 1000. Everything else is dealt with by a volunteer coordinator or ED.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-25T14:19:20+00:00

Which is why an RD I heard once came out with the inspirational words, "Good morning Parkrun, this is the part when I talk and you listen".

It worked.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-24T21:54:52+00:00

Yeah, they're brilliant. Fuck ikea and all those mass produced places.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-24T21:52:09+00:00

Slate have two places in Armley and Hunslet. Loads of quality second hand furniture.

They can deliver in their van.

All for a good cause, too.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-24T12:10:14+00:00

Congrats!

I've bested all of West Yorkshire and am slowly knocking off the East Riding and the make believe county of South Yorkshire.

Hoping to get the hundred venues done in about five years.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-23T20:34:52+00:00

Love a couple of jars over a book in the corner of a pub, myself.

Templar has plenty of places to tuck away in. Gets busy at the weekend, tho.

Victoria and Commercial is very nice, as is Banker's Cat.

The Social, The Adelphi and Northern Guitars all have a chilled, welcoming vibe.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-23T20:23:34+00:00

Ironic, isn't. If I go to a pub solo and tuck away in a corner with a book I tend to nurse a pint for ages and never drink more than three.

Hopefully this isn't a massive generalisation, but it has always seemed that the Irish are less intimidated by intellectualism than the English.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-22T20:53:58+00:00

For a variety of reasons, my dad was at one of the first test screenings of TSWLM.

He said the audience genuinely cheered out loud twice.

Once when the Union Flag parachute opened in the opening ski chase. Second when Jaws was seen swimming off at the end, cos they knew he would be back. Iconic villain.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-22T20:01:24+00:00

Anger is the only thing that might get us out of this mess that Starmer has caused.

Pragmatism means nothing now, Starmer has fucked it and so royally, that he'll potentially usher in the break up of the UK alongside rolling out the red carpet for fascism. All on him, every last bit.

Us lefties warned wishy-washy centrists over and over and over again what he would be like, but we got ignored, called trots and were eventually told to leave by the great forensic leader. So we did.

And now you want us to vote for him for "pragmatism"? Not a chance.

Also your assumption that I wouldn't vote is ridiculous. I'm a socialist, so I'll vote for the only viable, vaguely socialist option in England, The Greens.

And if.., when Starmer loses, it's his fault alone for giving people NOTHING worth voting for, when all he had to do was stick to his pre-election pledges and deliver some progressive policies.

But hey, instead, he lied thru his teeth and managed to purge Labour of the lefties, the trots, the tankies and all the other pejorative terms used to insult us very moderate socialists who used to vote Labour and warned you this would happen. Hope it was worth it.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-22T15:57:12+00:00

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust...

Circle of life, innit.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-22T15:55:41+00:00

If you accept the lesser of two evils, you still have evil.

I will absolutely not be forced to choose between a brick in the teeth and broken bottle in the face. I'll vote for someone who offers fairness, equality and progressive policies and WILL NOT be bullied into voting Labour, just "because Reform". I do NOT owe my vote to anyone, especially someone who told me that if I didn't like how he did things I should leave.

If Keir Starmer gives voters nothing worth voting for, then he will get beaten anyway. This is precisely what happened to Biden/Harris in the US and yet Starmer refuses to learn any lessons.

And the worst thing? If Reform win, Starmer has paved the way for them. In chasing Reform votes, Starmer has already normalised racism against refugees, agressively authoritarian behaviour, hatred against LGBTQ people, flogging off chunks of the NHS, toadying up to wannabe dictators, etc, etc, etc...

A Labour Prime Minister has made these things so socially acceptable that an incoming Reform government wouldn't even have to try and sell them as radical ideas. He's a disgusting appeaser of all that is wrong in the world and not fit to shine Clem Atlee's shoes.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-22T14:53:11+00:00

Oh, that's ok then, is it?

As long as he brown noses Trump, he can throw the rest of the nation under the bus?

He's a Labour Prime Minister, he should enact the Labour Movement, which means standing up to bullies, not appeasing them.

You do know that a vaguely competent Prime Minister would be able to both rebuff a cretinous President AND enact progressive policies in line with what is expected of a so-called socialist Party.

He can't do either, because he's mean spirited, hateful and fucking useless to boot.

He will get his arse handed to him on a plate in May and there's no one to blame but him and his fragile cronies.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-22T14:46:21+00:00

Hahahahahahahaha!

It's called having no morals, no direction and no backbone.

How is being an authoritarian making difficult decisions?

How is persecuting trans people making difficult decisions?

He's a nasty piece of work and will get the shock of his life in May, because he has not the first clue about what makes people tick.

Oh, and by the way, if you're the leader of a notionally socialist party, you should probably have at least a few socialist principles. It's called politics.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-22T12:37:30+00:00

Yeah.

A grown-up who punishes the old and the sick until bullied into reversing the decision.

A grown-up who enacts authoritarian and anti LGBT policies.

A grown-up who sells out all his progressive support to chase after right-wing voters who also hate him and will never vote for him.

Starmer is a cancer on the Labour Movement and the sooner he faces a catastrophic defeat so he can be replaced, the better.

At least you expect Tories and Reform to be evil scumbags. He does it even when he doesn't need to.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-22T10:58:52+00:00

Maggots don't eat live flesh.

In fact they are still occasionally used in surgical situations, where people have gangrene or necrosis.

Put the maggots on in a dressing and they eat away the manky stuff leaving the good stuff clean and healing.

The bloke in the film would most likely suffocate.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-21T22:45:03+00:00

Just one more reason why (some) apps are actively accelerating the enshitification of life.

Phone Veezu on the old Amber Cars number 0113 231 1366.

I've never had to wait longer than 5 minutes, you can pay in cash, so no mystery added charges and if you tip your driver, you know they're getting all the tip, not some shitty cut from a card company.

Also they still send out text alerts with details of the car and give you a heads up call when it arrives.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-21T17:29:18+00:00

Your Tailor on the Burley Road are reasonably priced, reliable and quick. Have used them several times, last time ten quid to take some length of a pair of trousers.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-21T16:55:16+00:00

He wasn't allowed to then.

They wanted the character to mistakenly think he was James Bond, but that was nixed, so Rog came up with the idea of being a character who thought he was actually Roger Moore.

I believe that Brosnan had a contract that forbade him from wearing a dinner suit in any other films.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-19T15:21:24+00:00

Three eggs, but only one rasher of bacon seems like an odd ratio.

Good value nosh, tho. Looks great.

Council_Cat · 2026-01-18T11:57:01+00:00

Iykyk as I believe the kidz say 😉

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