Thursday, 22 July 2010
Thursday, 15 July 2010
The best bar chat up lines... and answers!
Here are some of our favourite chat up lines we have heard in a few food and drink establishments...
10. Line: Are you tired? Because you've been running around my mind all day.
Answer: If I had the choice I wouldn't of been.I don't actually believe that people would use that, I could be wrong though!
9. Line: Is that a ladder in your tights or a stairway to heaven.
Answer: It's a ladder and thanks for pointing it out.Why, why, why?
8. Line: Did it hurt? ["What?"] When you fell from heaven!
Answer: *shakes head and rolls eyes, then walks away*
This is a classic, I think anybody that uses this is just too desperate and trying far to hard. There are lots of variations on this including "Somebody tell God he's missing an angel", "Is it a day off in heaven today" and "What time do you have to be back in heaven". All very poor.
7. Line: So, do you come here often?
Answer: Yes, thanks.I don't actually think this is as bad as some of the others.
I think it's mean to be more of a conversation starter than a chat up line, a bit like "the weather's been nice recently". Despite this I wouldn't even recommend it as a conversation starter, I think it just makes the whole situation awkward.
6. Line: Get your coat love, you've pulled.
Answer: It's a shame you haven't then.
The alternative answer is "I haven't got a coat", but would normally result in a reply of "even better lets go!" Somebody tried to use a variation of this on one of my friends in a club, which was "What's your cloakroom number, you've pulled". As my friend was slightly drunk and didn't have a coat in the cloakroom, she just ended up getting really confused and the line didn't pay off.
5. Line: If I could rearrange the alphabet, I'd put U and I together.
Answer: Maybe it's a good job you can't then.I think this is cheesy, but a kind of sweet cheesy, (only kind of though!), I can't say it would wow me.
4. Line: Do you work at Kentucky Fried Chicken? ["No, why?"] Because you're finger lickin' good!
Answer: * stunned silence*Surely people don't use that anymore.
I remember the boys used to use this one on the girls up at primary school, and we weren't impressed by it then, so the odds are we're not going to be now!
3. Line: Do you believe in love at first sight or do I have to walk by you again?"
Answer: How about you just keep walking.
That's pure mature cheddar. I think if anyone ever said that to me I would just be shocked that people actually use it seriously and it's not just a joke.
2. Line: I lost my phone number. Can I have yours?
Answer: No. How is that going to help find yours?
And how can you loose your own phone number anyway?Another classic. The answer I put is an example of a negative response, but I can imagine this actually sometimes works. Just be aware you might get given the wrong number.
1. Line: Is your name Gillette? ...because you're the best a man can get.
Answer: No it's not, and before you ask it's not my middle name either.
This has actually been used on me, I assume the guy was joking, (well I hope he was because I laughed at him!), and if he wasn't I am very worried. This has got to be the cheesiest line I've heard, but it does make me laugh every time I think of this lad saying it!
Thursday, 8 July 2010
Our food and drink menu
At The Wenhaston Star we take pride in our food and drink selections, trying our very best to source local produce... as close to home as possible.
A range of food items are available from our bars and restaurant area. This includes local meat, eggs and alcohol selections.
Here are ten reasons it is good to eat from local sources:
1. It is good for our economy
2. The food is fresh
3. It is better for air quality than eating organic (less pollution)
4. It tastes better
5. Take longer to ripen
6. Keeps us up to season
7. Protects us from bio-terroism
8. Contains a story
9. More variey
10. Protects local land resources.
So these ten reasons should get your tastebuds going! Come and see us and try our locally sourced pub grub!
Saturday, 3 July 2010
History of the pub
Alcohol has been drunk and served throughout the British Isles in one form or another since the Bronze Age. However, the origins of what we may now recognise as the pub began to appear during the Roman colonisation of Britain, as places where travellers could obtain rest and refreshment sprang up along the new road networks.
These Roman taverns remained even after the withdrawal of the Romans from Britain. During the Middle Ages the pub sign came into existence – the earliest versions being green bushes set upon poles to indicate the sale of beer, stemming from the earlier Roman tradition of vines being displayed to advertise wine. By the fourteenth century, more abstract names were common, as evidenced by Chaucer’s description of the Tabard Inn in Southwark. The ‘Hostellers of London’ were granted guild status in 1446, showing that these medieval inns and hostelries were important in continuing the practice of offering rest and refreshment to travellers.
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these establishments primarily sold beer and ale, until the first half of the eighteenth century when the so-called ‘Gin Craze’ took hold, especially amongst the poorer classes as the production of gin had increased to six times that of beer. The 1751 Gin Act forced gin makers to sell only to licensed premises and put drinking establishments under the control of local magistrates.
During the 19th Century the Wine and Beerhouse Act was introduced to restrict the hours Public Houses could sell alcohol. This was further compounded by the Defence of the Realm Act 1914 which set the 11pm limit on the sale of alcohol throughout the twentieth century. The Licensing Act 2003 repealed the previous licensing laws for England and Wales, taking responsibility away from magistrates and placing it in the hands of local councils.
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