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Quote: Shandonbelle @ November 1 2013, 1:20 PM GMT

Wetherspoons are boring as hell, not even a bit of music to break the monotony and a TV in every corner, urgh.
I went into what I thought was a lovely country pub the other week but inside it resembled some sort of beauty salon with all modern shitty decor...what's wrong with a bit of spit and sawdust??

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The lack of music is one of the main attractions, it actually enables you to talk to your friends instead of SHOUTING. When music is present, people talk louder then the staff turn the music up so people talk louder still and it escalates until it's impossible to communicate and your brain is being scrambled by the loud din so you can't think either.

I'm afraid my attitude is: if you need muzak in pubs wear your MP3 players.

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The real beer aspect is good, the low prices are good, but there are indeed some aspects of Wetherspoonses which are not quite so good.

Like for instance the atrocious service.

I don't know about every Wetherspoons but the one I pass everyday is an enigma to me.
They do breakfasts - but they also sell beer at brekky time so the only people they attract are the piss-heads.

And the usual suspects are outside waiting for it to open every day. I work and can't afford to drink everyday. How do they do it?

If you wander in Friday teatime for a swift half the scum are congregating around the door trying to bum ale off people.

They often make the mistake of trying to engage me.

Quote: Tursiops @ 1st November 2013, 6:17 PM GMT

Like for instance the atrocious service.

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I would say the service at the Coronet on Holloway road is above average for a pub.

You open a word file or a spreadsheet

Just for a quick look

Then exit it

"Do you want to save the changes ?"

I DIDN'T MAKE FRIGGING CHANGES

Sorry...it really really really gets on my nipples

My sister has never ever been on time when we arrange to meet, and it's always because she times her arrival at the train station/tram/bus stop with literally a minute to spare (so as not to waste any of her precious time) and as a result she always misses the train/tram/bus and has to take a longer more circuitous route that wastes much more of her time. So I am left hanging around East London on a Sunday evening for an hour and I don't even get an apology - she's had a shitty journey which was entirely her fault and so I should feel sorry for her, not be in a bad mood because I had to wait for her. So instead of having a little over an hour to have dinner before the doors open for the show we have 40 minutes to eat before the show starts. And at the end of the evening does she say thanks for taking her to a show? Nope, she says "Ugh, now I have to take the long journey home. This has been such a shit day." Why do I f**king bother?

I don't know.

Perhaps if you didn't bother a couple of times and went to the show without her, she'd get the hint.

I haven't exactly been subtle about how irritating it is, but she is so self-absorbed in this area that she does not see why I should be annoyed about waiting for her (again) when she's the one who has had the difficult journey. I wouldn't mind so much if it was every once in a while, but it's every damn time, and she won't accept any criticism on it.

some people can only learn through experience, conversation is a sorely over rated method of communication.

Actually do you like each other or are you just tolerating each others company

In which case you could be mutually driving each other around the bend

I agree with sooty. Give her 15 minutes over the time, then leave. Do that a few times and she may get the message.

Quote: Harridan @ 3rd November 2013, 10:12 PM GMT

.../ she says "Ugh, now I have to take the long journey home. This has been such a shit day."/...it's every damn time, and she won't accept any criticism on it. /.../ Why do I f**king bother?

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Well, why do you bother? Presumably there are further factors which explain this; but consider the possibility that she really isn't enjoying the evenings, and is only going because she thinks it makes you happy. It might be that she enjoys it all even less than she's letting on, and her overt complaints about the journey are a way of 'safely' letting off steam about her lack of enjoyment of the whole evening...also the fact she repeatedly says it's been shit could be a bit of a clue.

Quote: Harridan @ 3rd November 2013, 10:12 PM GMT

My sister has never ever been on time when we arrange to meet, and it's always because she times her arrival at the train station/tram/bus stop with literally a minute to spare (so as not to waste any of her precious time) and as a result she always misses the train/tram/bus and has to take a longer more circuitous route that wastes much more of her time. So I am left hanging around East London on a Sunday evening for an hour and I don't even get an apology - she's had a shitty journey which was entirely her fault and so I should feel sorry for her, not be in a bad mood because I had to wait for her. So instead of having a little over an hour to have dinner before the doors open for the show we have 40 minutes to eat before the show starts. And at the end of the evening does she say thanks for taking her to a show? Nope, she says "Ugh, now I have to take the long journey home. This has been such a shit day." Why do I f**king bother?

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Give her false (early) arrival times.

Quote: Lazzard @ 4th November 2013, 10:27 AM GMT

Give her false (early) arrival times.

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That would be the one time she arrived on time, wouldn't it?

We do get on very well (usually) and she had asked me to find a show for us to go to, so I don't think it's that she didn't want to come in the first place and was trying to let me know. I think in future I'll wait until I know she's actually on her way before I set out and she can wait for me for a change. What annoyed me most was that she didn't even make an effort to be apologetic or just generally polite about it. Bleh.

Why not use the same techniques you use on the toddlers with her?

I find that banning Peppa Pig is ineffective with those over 20.