http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18544 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 20:20:04 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18544#post-50067 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:11:15 +0000 ramblesnake 50067@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If they haven't got a sheep in the bar at Tan Hill there's usually one near by so you don't have to go hungry for anything. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18544#post-50065 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 16:08:24 +0000 Golgo13 50065@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And maybe a shove ha'penny board for when you're catching your breath between nymphos... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18544#post-50031 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:53:21 +0000 IABP 50031@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I don't drink so I'd have to hope it was a lock in with a load of nymphos. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18544#post-50030 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:42:02 +0000 Scroat 50030@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Something I often fantasise about. Maybe one day... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18544#post-50024 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:02:00 +0000 Doylem 50024@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I've never been snowed in at Tan Hill, but I've been there in snow. It's like the end of the world, but in a good way. I have a couple of beers whenever I pass, 'cos the beer's good, the food sticks to the ribs and there's always a seat by the fire... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18544#post-49987 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:08:29 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 49987@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Isnt't there a danger that you might instead get locked in to an Everest double glazing advert? It would have been bad enough with Ted Moult - but with the new chap - cauchemar! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18544#post-49970 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:26:39 +0000 malgor 49970@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Obviously based on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-11921396"><strong>real event</strong></a>. 'Chilean-miner-lite fantasy' - excellent! Stars for that alone. (They could also amuse themselves with frequent re-enactments of scenes from Scott of the Antarctic.)</p> <p>The Lion Inn is actually one of my 'locals' on the N Yorks Moors and there's a great deal of truth in your piece! Very nice place to get snowed in. Been there, done that. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=18544#post-49966 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:33:32 +0000 Golgo13 49966@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>As cold fronts move in and more snow and sub-zero temperatures are forecast, Britain's elevated pubs and inns brace themselves for another influx - that of hundreds of men hoping to get snowed in for days on end with nothing to do but play dominos and get drunk with each other.</p> <p>Tan Hill Inn landlady, Christianne Palmer, confirmed that when the rambling season ended, it was bonanza time for Yorkshire Dales pubs as the 'extended lock-in hopeful season' started, and droves of men sought to find any excuse to be cut off from the outside world for 'up to a week or more' with nothing but alcohol and the odd game of scrabble to distract them.</p> <p>'This year it started early. Once you get a forecast of snow, you know you'll get a few dozen wannabe 'strandees' shuffling in, hoping to get trapped by a snow drift so that they can live out some Chilean-miner-lite fantasy of having no choice but to hang out in a pub for a week with no mobile signal, no WiFi and perhaps be featured in a page-eight Sun article.</p> <p>In the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge, near Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, ten lucky customers hit the jackpot, having to remain in the pub for nine days when 20ft of snow engulfed the building. </p> <p>After spending a week in the 16th Century pub and bed and breakfast, the group from Surbiton doggedly followed a snow plough for five miles before finally managing to prevent it from opening the road to the pub, lengthening their stay by another two days.</p> <p>With heavy snowfall becoming more commonplace, however, high-altitude pubs and their stranded clients worry that local councils and government will learn to cope with cold weather, making 8-day winter lock-ins a thing of the past. </p> <p>'Clearing the roads is exactly the sort of short-sighted policy we've come to expect from this flip-flop coalition government,' protested escapist misanthrope, Stephen Woodburn. 'This will just drive us all overseas and straight into the arms of Somali pirates.' </p>