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Old 18-10-2007, 15:43   #11 (permalink)

 
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How is Exodus a bad food serving sports bar?
Why do you keep bringing Exodus into this?

EDIT: fuck it...
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Old 18-10-2007, 15:52   #12 (permalink)

 
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cloned into some souless shit hole selling BIG STEAKS to people watching BIG SCREEN SPORT.
Man I love huge steaks and football
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There's no such thing as bad publicity.

Seriously... we get a sales spike after every single flame war. And best of all there's no regional manager to sack me for starting one
Wasn't knocking it mate. I admire the "direct" approach.
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Wasn't knocking it mate. I admire the "direct" approach.
OK...

GIVE US YOUR FUCKING MONEY dude
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Man I love huge steaks and football
Consider moving to Bridge of Don. Every pub there does both those things. I know... I grew up there.
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Consider moving to Bridge of Don. Every pub there does both those things. I know... I grew up there.
Perhaps you should consider getting Sky and doing big steaks in the Moorings. I too love football and big steaks! Or a nice Tikka masala, like in the Tilted wig
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As much as i would love to go to the Moorings to watch the next Aberdeen, Scotland away game that i cant get to, i have to settle for Ma's, Stadia, Frankenstiens etc!! Not because im following my mates (like a sheep) but because it's better than sittin in the hoos!!

But ill still be there on a Sat night and whenever im oot and aboot!!
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This is about voting with your feet not following orders.

Niche markets are not a good source of income. Which is why the chains pursue the far more lucrative mainstream. Grassroots music and live entertainment are a niche market. Chain bars rarely support original music. The chain venues tend to pursue more established acts. The places that provide facilities for smaller original bands are mostly independent.

Some people only 'occasionally' visit an independent place when they play a gig, or when their mate is playing a gig... which is a touch one-sided. As independent venues dissappear those gigs become fewer. This is especially true of the alt.rock community which The Moorings inhabits.

There is always a smattering of short-lived excitement when a new venture opens, usually to fail within a few years. Perhaps it's also worth get excited about that which has been retained.

It makes me sad that so many good places are gone forever, converted into flats, or cloned into some souless shit hole selling BIG STEAKS to people watching BIG SCREEN SPORT.

People like sport, though...

Are you trying to say that people should be going along to gigs at the Moorings for the sake of it, or something? I'm not sure what you're trying to get across.
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Consider moving to Bridge of Don. Every pub there does both those things. I know... I grew up there.
As did I, there's not a decent pub in the whole fucking place. Parkway, Brig Inn, Mains Of Scotstown, Black Dog, Donview, all a load of shit.
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