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"Rounds" in British pubs
Hi More.coffy. I spotted your comment about the reference desks and thought I'd just say a little about "rounds". This was central to traditional pub culture. When a small group – say three to six – went drinking, each member in turn would offer to go to the bar and buy a "round" of drinks for the whole group whenever the previous round was nearly finished. Of course anyone could refuse a drink in any round, but all in the group were expected to "get a round in" at some stage. The custom still goes on, but is less prevalent now as many pubs that were beer-drinking dens have closed, and others have converted to be more like restaurants with a bar attached, largely attended by families.

Is this for something you're writing for Wikipedia? A fascinating assembly of detail on British pub culture at a time when there was almost a pub on every street corner can be found, if you can get hold of it, in Mass-Observation, The Pub and the People, London, Gollancz, 1943; reprinted Seven Dials Press, 1971. Hope this is of some help Bhunacat10 (talk),  23:59, 24 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your comment, User:Bhunacat10. In particular for the book recommendation: I hope to chase this up some time. I knew that this was how things were, down to perhaps the 1970s, but I wasn't sure of whether or how it had continued. Back in the 1970s, I think it was pretty much expected. (Assuming a peer group, of course. Family groups, boss and deputy, and so on, would surely have been different.) I really have no idea of the 80s and beyond. Surely it wouldn't have just--click!--changed: it would have changed faster in some areas, slower in others; quickly among some circles of people, slowly in others. But I've no idea when or how radically it changed, or what it changed to.


 * You and I, who don't know each other, meet for the first time on a station platform, chatting as we wait for the train. We're told that the next train will come an hour later; we roll our eyes, curse, and together go to a nearby pub to kill time more pleasantly. Each of us thinking that an hour could be too long for a single drink (but then again it might not), we enter the pub, we go to the slightly cheaper bar, and.....what happens next?


 * I have to confess, the question was/is just from idle curiosity. Perhaps it shouldn't have been. I'm ill-equipped to improve the article on pubs, but I'm open to other editing suggestions. More.coffy (talk) 04:48, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for your recent edits on various cyclists.
Your help is appreciated! Jacona (talk) 13:09, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Jacona. You might notice that since you wrote your comment above I've added a few more people to Category:Ultra-distance cyclists. More.coffy (talk) 04:20, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I do plan on stalking your edits, because I love 'em! Jacona (talk) 12:49, 28 January 2019 (UTC)

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