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Pre-Tronnocon Meetup: Glasgaecon.
Spinless:
Oof, that's short notice. I don't even have a passport.
clockworkjames:
Clubs are open until 3AM most of the time, and sometimes 4 or 5 for halloween/newyears etc.
Pubs you drink up and are kicked out before midnight but you should be in a club by then.
pickle:
--- Quote from: Oli on 10 Feb 2008, 10:18 ---Not Scotland?
Pubs in Scotland can only legally operate between 12pm and 12am except for rare occasions where they use one of their late licences
--- End quote ---
This is not really correct. Infact, it's completely wrong.
You can get a pint, in a pub, with your breakfast (a roll and sausage) at 08:00 if you know where to go. You are not encouraged to eat the roll and sausage, instead there is a large bin provided for it. Granted, most pubs only serve from 11:00 until midnight but some pubs, such as Blackfriars, have a license to stay open until 01:00. Others, such as Bunker or JT Rochead's, are open until 03:00 on Friday & Saturday nights.
As CWJ has mentioned, clubs are open until 02:00 (West End) or 03:00 (City Centre)
--- Quote ---Shops can only sell alcohol from 12pm till 10pm and drinking alcohol in the street is illegal. England actually has far less strict drinking laws than Scotland.
--- End quote ---
Wrong again, off-license sales can start from 08:00 until 22:00 as standard but there are places such as Peckham's which are allowed to sell alcohol until midnight. On the no-drinking-in-the-streets law, it's something which has been in Glasgow for quite a few years and is becoming more common across at least Scotland. It's designed to stop 'un-sociable' drinking i.e. teenagers with their cheap cider/Buckfast or hobos (jaikies in the local parlance) rather than an outright ban on drinking in streets/parks. Standard police technique is to confiscate the alcohol (which is rarely palatable by those with remaining taste-buds) off the, commonly under-age, neds and pour it down the drain in front of them. It's great fun to watch.
clockworkjames:
Yah more than once I have gone into tesco and bought a forty to set me up for a day at work then drank it in the alleyway between halfords and sports world. Classy.
Didn't want to say anything about offlicences because I didn't really know the rules but now I do (thanks pickle) and it makes sense because alot of people go into corner shops in the morning for a half bottle of vodka or scotch, a few scratchcards, a pack of smokes and a newspaper.
The aforementioned "Jaikies" who ask you for 20p are often among the perpetrators. That and the baby dispensing "women" who spend their husbands disability check on these essentials.
Or something, I dunno and now I am just being a bit mean because it is almost 6AM and I will feel like shit tomorrow at college if I go.
Boro_Bandito:
Okay, this is off-topic in that I am most certainly not going to the UK, but do any of you know whether Fried Hagus is any good? I saw it on No Reservations and if I do end up going someday I want to know what sort of thing to be on the lookout for.
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