24hr Tapas. Only £15 a plate!KungFooBob wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 10:02 am El Pirata of Mayfair is nice if you want some 'London' tapas
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24hr Tapas. Only £15 a plate!KungFooBob wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 10:02 am El Pirata of Mayfair is nice if you want some 'London' tapas
Probably only happens in small places now, if at all. ie in villages with a couple of competing bars. There was also some story (possibly apocryphal) that the little plates were the right size to sit on top of your glass to keep flies? dust? out of your drink.Yorick wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 10:13 amI've heard about that on the mainland but never seen it here.Count Steer wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 9:22 amDidn't a lot of Spanish bars start off offering free nibbles/tapas (often salty things) to encourage people to use that bar and drink a little more because the money was made on drinks?
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It's a thing in Andalucia for sure.... Every drink you get a plate.... sometimes it's a meat based, sometimes some potatos, etc... usually it's tasty and after 5-6 drinks you're more than stuffed...Yorick wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 10:13 amI've heard about that on the mainland but never seen it here.Count Steer wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 9:22 amDidn't a lot of Spanish bars start off offering free nibbles/tapas (often salty things) to encourage people to use that bar and drink a little more because the money was made on drinks?
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Yeah, I've heard that.Count Steer wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 10:35 amProbably only happens in small places now, if at all. ie in villages with a couple of competing bars. There was also some story (possibly apocryphal) that the little plates were the right size to sit on top of your glass to keep flies? dust? out of your drink.Yorick wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 10:13 amI've heard about that on the mainland but never seen it here.Count Steer wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 9:22 am
Didn't a lot of Spanish bars start off offering free nibbles/tapas (often salty things) to encourage people to use that bar and drink a little more because the money was made on drinks?
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And pissedweeksy wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 10:41 amIt's a thing in Andalucia for sure.... Every drink you get a plate.... sometimes it's a meat based, sometimes some potatos, etc... usually it's tasty and after 5-6 drinks you're more than stuffed...Yorick wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 10:13 amI've heard about that on the mainland but never seen it here.Count Steer wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 9:22 am
Didn't a lot of Spanish bars start off offering free nibbles/tapas (often salty things) to encourage people to use that bar and drink a little more because the money was made on drinks?
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That's the best thing about retirement. We've loads of time to piss off annoying folkgremlin wrote: ↑Thu May 05, 2022 11:19 am When you fill up the bike, which when costing £27.50 boils my piss a bit anyway, then go to pay and there's a woman in front with a basket of shopping, who then hands over some scratch cards to redeem, which she then fannies about deciding which new ones to buy with the winnings, then, after all that piss arsing about, asks for a cappuccino when he's the only one behind the counter.
And this is why I use Pay-at-Pump whenever posible.
Try spending £3,000,000 with them, the service isn't any better.
Personally, I think this kind of financial vetting is a good thing. It saves a lot of people from having their time wasted by dreamers and nosey parkers.Potter wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 10:23 am Being asked to provide bank statements to prove I can afford a house before we're even allowed to view it.
I understand this if you make an offer, but I might view it and it's not at all suitable, and then an estate agent has my personal bank statement for no good reason.
I'd be interested from a GDPR standpoint, it's a poor excuse for estate agents to say they need highly personal information.Taipan wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 11:06 amPersonally, I think this kind of financial vetting is a good thing. It saves a lot of people from having their time wasted by dreamers and nosey parkers.Potter wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 10:23 am Being asked to provide bank statements to prove I can afford a house before we're even allowed to view it.
I understand this if you make an offer, but I might view it and it's not at all suitable, and then an estate agent has my personal bank statement for no good reason.
I get that, but it's laziness, they don't want to meet you and have a chat, they just want to set up an appointment over the phone or online and don't want to do any more work than that. Estate agents charge a fair bit and all they do these days is put an advert on the internet then send out a generic email asking for proof of funds before they can be arsed to do anything.Taipan wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 11:06 amPersonally, I think this kind of financial vetting is a good thing. It saves a lot of people from having their time wasted by dreamers and nosey parkers.Potter wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 10:23 am Being asked to provide bank statements to prove I can afford a house before we're even allowed to view it.
I understand this if you make an offer, but I might view it and it's not at all suitable, and then an estate agent has my personal bank statement for no good reason.
They probably thought that, as a non-uk resident, you'd just got off a dinghy at Folkestone
I would have thought so, but it's a flat no - "show us your money or you can't view the house", it was as clear as that.Mussels wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 11:57 am Estate agents usually want to push as many viewings as possible to make their client think they are doing a good job. I think they will send you through for a viewing no matter how your accounts look and then look for what else they can sell you or who they can sell your details to.
Knock on the door and try to bypass the estate agent.Potter wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 1:38 pmI would have thought so, but it's a flat no - "show us your money or you can't view the house", it was as clear as that.Mussels wrote: ↑Sun May 08, 2022 11:57 am Estate agents usually want to push as many viewings as possible to make their client think they are doing a good job. I think they will send you through for a viewing no matter how your accounts look and then look for what else they can sell you or who they can sell your details to.
We really like one of the properties, so we're going to do a drive-by and if we still really like it then I might capitulate, but I don't want to on general principle.