Go north for test success
IF this was a film it would be called The Murder of the British Barmaid.
Beer machines will destroy the relationship between the drinker and the woman behind the bar. She’s part of our way of life and only a soulless, profit-hungry bank would try to do away with her.
I don’t want to wave a card at a nozzle. I want to be served by a strong-minded lass with proper British insults when I’m out of order. Or even when I’m not.
Teenage drinkers will just have to wait until I get my pint topped up. They shouldn’t be allowed at the bar if they can’t observe our age-old traditions such as queuing.
Their convenience is our inconvenience. A diminished drinking experience. Let’s campaign to save the Great British Barmaid!
Barclaycard’s new thingummy sounds the deathknell for over-the-bar banter.
You can’t ask a machine what it did last night or when it’s finished for the day.
And it will never sympathise with your troubles at home, genuinely or otherwise.
Contact is what a drinker wants, not contactless. THE four places with the highest pass rates for the practical driving test are all in the north of Scotland.
A test centre in the village of Golspie (population 1,650) in the Highlands came top with 83.9% passing between April and September this year.
Kyle of Lochalsh was next with 75% passing, then Ullapool on 73.7% and Duns at 73.2% against a national average of just 47.4%.
DVLA figures showed the highest pass rate in England was Malton, North Yorks, with a success rate of 70.6%.