That's about what you can expect. "It's not legal" makes most people go away, whereas "It's policy not to" makes people argue with you pointlessly. After a dozen pointless arguments, which do you say next time a customer comes in with a baby? It's not clever, but it's pretty understandable.
Pubs are trying to find a niche, this is a country where even a village often has three or more pubs (the one where I grew up still has five I think), each with a unique character. A lot of those niches aren't terribly compatible with screaming infants. Certainly given the choice I'd rather talk with friends in an environment free of crying and screaming. Now, there are at any time a lot of parents with young children, and those people want to go out and meet up with friends too, so there's always going to be somewhere you can go, it's just apparently not a Fuller's pub in a city center.
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Date: 2007-01-07 01:12 am (UTC)Pubs are trying to find a niche, this is a country where even a village often has three or more pubs (the one where I grew up still has five I think), each with a unique character. A lot of those niches aren't terribly compatible with screaming infants. Certainly given the choice I'd rather talk with friends in an environment free of crying and screaming. Now, there are at any time a lot of parents with young children, and those people want to go out and meet up with friends too, so there's always going to be somewhere you can go, it's just apparently not a Fuller's pub in a city center.
DrNick.