I remember the days of £1-a-pint at Uni :flutter:. Not even LEGAL any more because of minimum unit pricing. You could go out and get decently merry AND a burger on the way home for under £10.

Last time I went out for a few drinks, it was like £4 minimum per drink and my burger and chips was £14 D:.

When we went out for my wife's 30th (and this is 5 years back) we went to a "more expensive" bar (the sort of place I would normally never bother with). I casually went up to the bar and ordered my double Jack Daniels with coke. ... ... £11.50! £11.50!!. For a ****ing Jack and Coke!

I mean, on my mate's stag night his hubby-to-be called one of the bars we were at and ordered us these crushed ice gin & tonic cocktails that were like £12 each - and they were amazing so I kind of get it. Not something I'd do regularly as it seems like a huge money sink for a drink... but it was a bit "special".

But £11.50 for a couple of shots of cheap whiskey and draft coke...

... that's just taking the absolute piss.


To go back to Uni days again - Double JD+coke in a scratched plastic cup for £2. Magic :joker:.

Yesterday I was at the O2 arena in London for Country 2 Country festival - £8 a pint :skull: we were there 2pm till midnight so that was a very expensive day

Today I was at West Ham and that was £6.75 which felt like a bargain after the O2!

You want to invest in a hipflask, fill it with whisky before you go, just buy half a cokes and drink whiskey and coke instead. Or which ever mixer drink you prefer.

You were never paying £14 for burger and chips? That sounds crazy even for central London standards.

A pint for me at Ibrox in the bar is £4.95 but I get 2 drinks vouchers and programmes as we enter the bar. . So i get 2 free pints and smallest boy LT gets to drink half and then he pours it in mine :hee:

Often we dont bother so we just give the vouchers to some random Bears who are always pleased.

I have been thinking I should get a hip flask although in the case of this weekend it would have been picked up by the scanners in the O2 and at London stadium

That's good value, Scotland seems to be the place to be for a well priced pint

I did get a pint just round the corner from the ground today for a fiver which is good by London standards

In my local spoons its an incredible £2.46 :shocked:

Bleedin' terrorists! They've spoiled everybody's fun.

I took a hip flask into Wembley in 2017.

We did get pat down search. I put the hipflask in the back of my sock. The searcher actually did touch it, thankfully I got a moron that was useless at his job and he didn't even realise, he must have thought it was the back of my shoe he touched.

best place is in your folded programme in your hand