Drink seven pints on your lunch break: how you can save Britain's ailing pubs

BRITAIN’S pubs are on the brink of collapse. You must do your bit to save them by drinking heavily during the day, and more: 

Have seven pints on your lunch break

The occasional lunchtime pint to take the edge off an afternoon of emails no longer suffices. If you truly believe the pub is core to British identity, you must neck 112 fluid ounces on a daily basis. Skip lunch. Yes, you may lose your job as you stagger back into the office urinating freely, but no war is without sacrifice.

Pay London prices everywhere

London has shouldered the burden of overcharging for too long. You have a duty to help carry the load by handing over a tenner for a half of Tennent’s Light the next time you’re in a Wetherspoons in Mansfield. If you are in a London pub, voluntarily double its already extortionate prices. Or do you want it to become a community centre for the elderly?

Max out your overdraft on snacks

Pubs desperately need a cash injection to help pay Reeves’s evil new business rates. Restricting your diet to bar snacks only is a start. Can man live on chilli crisps, scampi fries and pickled eggs if washed down with enough lager? You’re about to find out.

Order rounds by yourself at the weekend

Just as you saved Britain by eating out during the pandemic, you must change your drinking habits for these desperate times. By returning with four pints, a large white wine, a rum and coke and sambuca shots from every trip to the bar you’re not only supporting pubs, you’re making yourself seem popular. A statue will be erected to you in Trafalgar Square.

Donate your family

The situation is so dire that Britain needs to be on a total pub footing. This means you need to raid your home for any partners and children who could be repurposed to aid your noble cause. Pile them up in the street, and the government will come along and turn them into bar stools, beer taps and vitally-needed fruit machines.

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Our simple yet paradoxical cabin bag rules it is impossible to follow, by EasyJet

THERE has been some deliberately engendered confusion about allowances for cabin bags on our flights. Here are the simple, contradictory rules passengers must follow: 

Cabin bags must be below 45mms long but above 35km wide

Any cabin baggage must have a circumference less than a human finger, yet be longer than the distance to Leicester to Nottingham or the distance from the airport we fly you to the city we claimed we were flying you to. All exceptions will be charged at our cabin price of (Nx4), where N is the cost of your flight.

Any item of clothing with a pocket is a bag

If your clothing has pockets within it to carry items, it is a bag and will be weighed and measured with you in it and charged accordingly. Each item of clothing will be charged separately. You are welcome to remove your clothing and leave it at your departing airport but are not allowed to travel nude.

Your under-seat bag must be no larger than the Stone of Scone

If your bag fits in the Coronation Chair used by King Charles for his anointing, investiture and crowning in 2023, it travels free. All bags must be ascertained to fit in the actual chair no more than 18 hours before flying, with photographic evidence and a signed statement of witness from the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Personal bags must be incorporeal

Handbags and other personal bags are permitted as long as they are intangible. Our bag-checking airport staff, all the rest having been made redundant in 2020, will attempt to pass their hands through them and if they meet even imaginary resistance you will be required to buy all empty seats on the flight. Or if the flight is full the following flight.

The overhead lockers are for gold

The overhead lockers are not for the luggage of grubby, cheap passengers but for gold, precious metals, gems and fine art valued at £500,000 or above. To place so much as a baseball cap within would violate our more exclusive passengers’ trust and incur a fine totalling the cost of the aircraft, fully-fueled.

Money is a potential bag

If you are carrying money, either in physical form or on a debit card, you could exchange that money for a bag mid-air as we make a selection of bags available from the cabin crew. We consequently require all funds held to be transferred into a proprietary Ryanair account for the duration of the flight plus 90 days. No liability is accepted.