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Anyone that likes schooners are wankers.

Look I’ll accept 500ml in Europe as it’s metric and metric and better. (Also sometimes you can get 1l)

But a pint is just right. Fuck everything else. I want a pint and I’m willing to riot about it. Fuck you, you cunts. It’s been pints since time immemorial and as a good fucking Brit I’ll kick off about this. If we give up on pints might as well just sink the whole fucking country, I’m not going to be the generation that fucks up the future for the future generations.

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63 points

slashing the size of pints boost sales in an unexpected way

Oh is it unexpected is it? Unexpected that selling people less quantity per unit would increase sales as people would probably still want the same quantity?

This is weirdly pro business from the mirror

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The unexpected way is that while it decreased sales of beer it increased sales of wine.

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So the people who didn’t like the idea of short pints asked if they were messing with the serving size of wine, and when told no, they went with that. Everyone else just consumed the same amount as they would’ve, more or less.

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5 points

Probably as they were charging the same price as a pint, perhaps an exaggerating, but I suspect two halves wouldn’t be the same price as a pint was last week. Nobody likes to be ripped off.

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36 points

Well that’s illegal, and I can literally point to the letter of the law:

Some goods must be sold in fixed sizes known as ‘specified quantities’.

Draught beer and cider: Third, half, two-thirds of a pint and multiples of half a pint

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10 points

The Code is more what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules.

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They were serving 2/3, so it’s fully legal. Also they’re actually urging the govt to reduce sizes, not the pub owners directly.

Granted, it would be nice if we had had more than a screenshot to go off on

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5 points

Surely a fine publication such as the Mirror wouldn’t publish a misleading headline?

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Oh come on now, next you’re going to tell me Daily Star is not a shining beacon of journalistic integrity!

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4 points

Two thirds of a pint please, so that’s two thirds of the cost of a pint yeah? So cheaper right? Right???

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Imagine the sales if it came in shot glasses. I am very smart.

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