The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100283   Message #2008940
Posted By: bubblyrat
27-Mar-07 - 07:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: next month's fools
Subject: RE: BS: next month's fools
I recently spoke with the landlord of a pub in South Oxfordshire. He was complaining about the fact that he had tried to do his village a favour, by having a glass-recycling skip in the pub car-park, wherein he would dispose of the pub"s not inconsiderable amount of glass bottles, whilst providing a useful facility for his bibulous neighbours.BUT----South Oxfordshire District Council were HORRIFIED and promptly BANNED him from doing any such thing !! Why ?? Because, it seems, the official line is ,that the bottles in which you get ( wine,beer,cider,soft drinks ,) from a pub are made from a DIFFERENT KIND OF GLASS to the ones in the supermarket or off-licence !!( even if they come from the same batch, presumably ! ) . ANYWAY---he is having an official-looking sign made to this effect, with the cautionary warning that anyone buying a drink in a bottle, in that pub,in future , will be deemed to have become personally responsible for the removal and disposal of that, and any subsequent,bottle(s). This sign is going to be erected one day very soon ----but only for the day !!( Sadly !! )