Is it just me????
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Is it just me????
Is it just me, or are the quizzers disappearing from your towns too???? Used to have one in every pub, but since the latest release of pointless which does seem fairly easy to get the pot on, most of mine are either "switched off due to a fault" or they have been taken away alltogether.
Your thoughts and observations please........
Your thoughts and observations please........
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Yes, have seen the previous threads, but didn't really notice until the last few weeks. As I said, I'm not sure Pointless is the cause lately, but seems a coincidence if it isn't. We only play them really with a few pints in the evening, but it is getting very rare you see a Pointless jackpot over around £3 here now.
The most depressing recent development for me has been the sudden disappearance of SWPs from so many of the Wetherspoon's pubs. It must be at least 60% of those I've visited in the last few months don't have one now, and in plenty of those the removal has happened since my last visit. It's too widespread to be anything other than a deliberate policy. Their long opening hours, lack of any hassle and the fact that virtually every town of any size has at least one pub made them a compulsory inclusion on any trip somewhere but they'll soon be gone from the SWP landscape for good if this continues.
I had a question to the business programme on radio 5 when Tim Martin was guest.
Following the bookies being labelled as the crack cocaine of gambling owing to their propensity to have high stake random jackpot machines , why then is Tim seemingly doing the same with the Wetherspoon chain with up to six fruities being
sited within his pubs?
I was totally ignored for docile questions as Ido like your carrot cake Tim can you publish the recipe.
Following the bookies being labelled as the crack cocaine of gambling owing to their propensity to have high stake random jackpot machines , why then is Tim seemingly doing the same with the Wetherspoon chain with up to six fruities being
sited within his pubs?
I was totally ignored for docile questions as Ido like your carrot cake Tim can you publish the recipe.
That would have been a great question,cool! I completely agree with you,the smaller Wethersppons can have the look of an amusement arcade.I agree with you too,Nil,that it must be a deliberate policy - I can't remember the last time a new one opened with a machine in but it must over a year ago,and lots have taken their machine out.I was thinking of suggesting this a while ago,but if we each get five people we know to write to their magazine and complain that there's no quizzy in our otherwise lovely Wetherspoon,do you think it'll make any difference? Probably not,I suppose is the answer but it might be worth a try.