Hooray for beer!
Local brewery wins a bunch of international awards. Not my favorite, but Harvey’s is a very good beer and the oldest family-owned business in Sussex – operating since 1790 and there are people of the seventh and eighth generation working there now.
If you read the article, it says the family still has several “tide pubs” – you’d be forgiven for thinking these are pubs that only operate for a few hours a day at low tide. But no, that’s a sign of someone dictating the article, or maybe AI.
What they meant is a “tied house” – a pub that is obliged to buy a certain percentage of their beer and other goods from a specific company. The company owns the pub itself, so it is a cheaper way to become a pub landlord.
The opposite is a Free House, which I suspect most of them are now, since FREE HOUSE is emblazoned on most pub signs. One of the many things I had to have explained to me.
Posted: August 22nd, 2024 under personal.
Comments: 8
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Comment from Uncle Al
Time: August 22, 2024, 8:45 pm
Please settle a bet. I say “Lewes” is pronounced LOO-ess (two syllables). My opponent (let’s just refer to her as “the house”) says it’s LOOOOZ (one syllable). Or are we both wrong?
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: August 22, 2024, 10:22 pm
In California there’s a new law for ‘free’ housing.
Illegals (Bad Yankee! They are Newcomers!) can get a mortgage for a house with no money down.
🙂
And Uncle Al, I’m bettin on the House.
Because “Leicester” is “Lester”
“Cockburn” is Coburn
Gloucester is…not Glou-ces-ter
And “Throatwoobler Mangrove” is Raymond Luxury Yacht.
(Yes, Throatwoobler according to official sources).
Comment from Nazdar
Time: August 22, 2024, 10:47 pm
There once was a lad from Woburn
Spent the night with a lass from High Holburn
But her tawny old port
was so tight and so taut
he woke up with a bad case of Cockburn.
/Spectator, c. 1988
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: August 23, 2024, 12:11 am
NAZDAR +10 points!
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: August 23, 2024, 4:58 am
I’m happy to confirm that you’re right, Uncle Al – it is pronounced as two syllables. Meanwhile, didn’t they try that ‘mortgages for all’ stunt some years ago? And wasn’t it said to be the cause of the last big financial crash?
I think I’ll go back to bed. And stay there.
Comment from Uncle Al
Time: August 23, 2024, 12:24 pm
Thank you, Uncle B. I’m looking forward to a minor gloat session!
Yes, helicopter mortgages were indeed offered and led to the 2008 housing crash. The language and exact targets were a little different, but not by much. Insanity.
I like your “bed” plan. I may well do the same.
Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: August 23, 2024, 7:12 pm
Last time around, it was
No downpayment
No proof of income
No credit rating check
7 days out of bankruptcy
Government Guarantee against any losses to Banks
And now “no proof of citizenship required”
And indeed apparently
“Proof of no citizenship required”
The only thing that tempers my concern is who can afford a house in California?
Not the illegals that you and I generally think of. $25,000 won’t even cover the agent’s fee.
However, say you were – oh I don’t know- Chinese and wanted to invest in California real estate. From what I understand, it wouldn’t be hard to get in on this deal, simply by a little vagueness generated by your helpful real estate agent… that $25K would be nice enticement, no?
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Time: September 11, 2024, 9:03 am
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