sometimes the law is strange

[Testin da Cable]

£5,000 fine for pub that let customers dance

say what? you aren't allowed to dance in a pub? does this have something to do with licence differences? pub / club wise? woo sometimes holland is gooood heh

 

[mank!]

Woo, that's crazy. I guess it's something to do with licenses but other than that I haven't a clue. It's quite ludicrous though

 

[Will]

Under the current law dancing is only allowed if premises have been granted a public entertainment licence. What is unclear however is the definition of dancing.

Sounds like either Westminster council are skint, killjoys, or the pub was holding a ceildh and pretending nothing was happening.

 

[mank!]

What is unclear however is the definition of dancing.

This conjurs up some mad mad ideas.

 

[Will]

Please god, no pictures...I'm feeling rough.

 

[dysfunction]

Some people were found to be even swaying!!

I think they should be hanged for that!

 

[mank!]

Fit inducing dancing...

 

[LTF]

uke:

 

[projectarnold]

I'll see your gh3y dancin man and raise you a dictator

 

[mank!]

I fold.

 

[Summo]

Genius!

 

[Testin da Cable]

that's going on the mailer!

 

[Summo]

It's in my new work email sig.

 

[xane]

What is with the council being portrayed as "killjoys" ? They didn't actually attempt to stop people dancing did they ? I don't think there is any pending council directives to outlaw dancing, unless they've been taken over by the Taliban or something.

Westminster Council said : "Premises providing music and dancing are required as a matter of law to obtain a licence. For this reason our inspectors visit premises.

"The two premises of Pitcher and Piano were advised that they were encouraging music and dancing and that they should apply for a licence, they did not."

Seems to me the pubs got fair warning and did nothing, so they got fined, all the other stuff is just sensationalism. Any charges of "skint" or "killjoy" should be directed at the publicans.

 

[mank!]

If anyone feels like having a fit, set madbloke.gif as your desktop and tile it. It's quite fun!

 

[Will]

http://www.seizurerobots.com/

That'll teach you.

 

[mank!]

madbloke is infinitely more demented

 

[projectarnold]

The robots have got some pretty funky music going on though , reminds me of Goemon.

 

[old.D0LLySh33p]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
[Bwoo sometimes holland is gooood heh [/B]

Are you mad? Of course it's good!

Holland and the rest of Europe probably are better than the UK for pubs and clubs and the whole drinking thing.

It's sad thing that you have to be out of most establishments at 11pm still

 

[Will]

That doesn't apply to Edinburgh Dolly.

 

[old.D0LLySh33p]

/me gets ready to come and visit.

 

[dysfunction]

Re: Re: sometimes the law is strange

Originally posted by old.D0LLySh33p


Are you mad? Of course it's good!

Holland and the rest of Europe probably are better than the UK for pubs and clubs and the whole drinking thing.

It's sad thing that you have to be out of most establishments at 11am still

[Pedantic]

You probably mean 11pm...

[/Pedantic]

 

[old.D0LLySh33p]

Oooooops.

 

[dysfunction]

But the good news is they might be changing the law soon...I think they will have it all finalised as soon as 2006!!!

 

[Will]

I'm organising a night out for my work at the moment. We don't even get to the pub until 9.30, and we can stay there drinking until 3am.

 

[granny]

Originally posted by xane
Seems to me the pubs got fair warning and did nothing, so they got fined, all the other stuff is just sensationalism. Any charges of "skint" or "killjoy" should be directed at the publicans.

I was just about to say something along those lines and quote the exact same bit of the article but I realised you'd already done it Cama (ps. kitten pics pls thx bye).

And how do you get an animated gif to work as your desktop background? When I try I just get a static Hitler :/

 

[Will]

Yeah, I was sort of sitting on the fence when I said the council were killjoys or the pub was organising a ceildh (I read piped music as pipe music). They plead guilty, so I assume the pub was at fault.