garthySILVER Member
old hand
717 posts
Location: Bristol, England


Posted:
This is one of the best things I've read for a while. biggrin

Quite interesting read for UK and non-UK people. Tells you rules you know and take for granted but have never thought about.

"Most anthropologists go off to remote parts of the world to live among exotic tribes, observe their behaviour and ask endless questions in order to understand and explain their strange customs. In 1992, the BLRA asked the experienced social scientists at SIRC to apply the same research techniques in the British pub."

https://www.sirc.org/publik/pub.html

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pricklyleafSILVER Member
with added berries
1,365 posts
Location: Manchester, England (UK)


Posted:
Wow, thanks for that link it's sooo good. Will take me ages to read it all though!

Live like there is no tomorrow,
dance like nobody is watching
and hula hoop like wiggling will save the world.

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Narr(*) (*) .. for the gnor ;)
2,568 posts
Location: sitting on the step


Posted:
ubblol its all so true ubblol

she who sees from up high smiles

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linden rathenGOLD Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,942 posts
Location: London, UK


Posted:
*shivers* i think they've been watching me :P

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Pink...?BRONZE Member
Mistress of Pink...Multicoloured
6,140 posts
Location: Over There, United Kingdom


Posted:
Wow, it is all so true.

I never even thought of half of those!!

Great link Garthy!!

Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...


Bubbles_SILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,384 posts
Location: mancunian, United Kingdom


Posted:
omg that took me ages to read! very funny though hehehe

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ado-pGOLD Member
Pirate Ninja
3,882 posts
Location: Galway/Ireland


Posted:
This website is gold.

smile

Love is the law.


BirgitBRONZE Member
had her carpal tunnel surgery already thanks v much
4,145 posts
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)


Posted:
*yaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwn*

gotta read it tomorrow, but I will smile This looks like it'll be fun, especially for an anthropological foreign observer like myself...

"vices are like genitals - most are ugly to behold, and yet we find that our own are dear to us."
(G.W. Dahlquist)

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flidBRONZE Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,136 posts
Location: Warwickshire, United Kingdom


Posted:
79 pages and no mention of the most important rule of all "don't talk to the random person standing at the urinal next to you". Everynow and then you get someone who'se just really drunk, for which it can be forgiven, but using a urinal is the only time most of us men get our private parts out in public, and it's on the understanding that the guy next to you isn't gonna take a quick peek, then strike up a conversation. It's just wrong!

margitaSILVER Member
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3,777 posts
Location: brizvegas, Australia


Posted:
ubblol haven't read it all yet...will do so next time i am procrastinating!! but i just read a post (not on here obviously!) from a friend who is currently in the uk about to move to the us...and he got kicked out of a pub called california! ubblol something about a fracas with a gorilla?

sounds like you poms have some very odd pubs...

ubbloco

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colemanSILVER Member
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom


Posted:
seen it, but never read the whole lot before - damn funny ubblol

here is a 'right click, save as' type link for those who might want it:

https://www.sirc.org/publik/passport.pdf


cole. x

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood


The Tea FairySILVER Member
old hand
853 posts
Location: Behind you...


Posted:
Wow! Anthropology really does come up with generally interesting stuff sometimes. Much better than the rubbish I have to read about studies of STD clinics and circumcision rituals!

(Seriously, all anthropology studies are interesting if you like looking at human nature, but man, they can be really hard to read and understand.)

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Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind....

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