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your first clue might have been that it does not say "zip code" in either the field label or the error message, it says "postcode".
by notatoad 9mo ago
your first clue might have been that it does not say "zip code" in either the field label or the error message, it says "postcode".
- MisterTea 9mo agoI doubt most people would bother to think about that detail.
- badc0ffee 9mo agoAustralia and NZ have postcodes, too. If they had made this a .co.uk rather than a .com, there would be no confusion.
- SoftTalker 9mo agoOr the term "pub." In the US it's much more usual to say "bar." Maybe "tavern" but that sounds rather dated to my ear.
- Thews 9mo agoWhen I lived in the PNW people used the word pub more than bar.
- selectodude 9mo agoThat’s because everybody up there thinks that liking soccer makes them English.
- toasterlovin 9mo agoMy sense is that it is an affectation meant to indicate an aspiration to something more than a bar (and its coarse patrons).
- tshaddox 9mo ago"Bar" is certainly the catch-all term in the U.S., but "pub" is also very widely understood to refer to a specific type of bar, especially (but not limited to) bars deliberately styled as Irish or British pubs.
- tracker1 9mo agoAlong a similar note, I hate when a Bar is labelled as a "Pub" and doesn't serve food. IMO, in the US, if it's labelled a "pub" it should serve food.
- wat10000 9mo agoCome to Virginia, where it's outright illegal for any establishment serving alcohol to not also serve food (and not only must food be served, it must account for at least 45% of revenue).
- tracker1 9mo agoI'm nut sure I'd go that far... it's just I expect a "Pub" to include pub food.
- badc0ffee 9mo agoDo they make you order food with every round of drinks? I remember hearing about places like that from my dad, and it seems it would have worked better in the era of cheap drinks/low built-in alcohol taxes.
- dustincoates 9mo agoI went to college in a county that only allowed alcohol sales with food for clubs (think: country clubs). So, of course, the restaurant that I worked for created its own club. You simply filled out your name (and maybe phone number, I don't remember) on a piece of paper when you ordered your drink.
- prmoustache 9mo agoThey easy way would be to do like in some parts of Spain, for every drink you receive a tapa. That way it can be considered that the food is part of the price of the drink.
- wat10000 9mo agoThere just aren't bars as proper bars. There are only bars in restaurants, where they can count on actual diners to buy plenty of food.
- 9rx 9mo ago"Pub" is a fairly common term throughout the world. But "pub that needs you" made it pretty obvious that it was about pubs in England.
- thebruce87m 9mo agoDid it? I put my postcode in and got nothing. It took browsing the map to discover it had no results for Scotland at all.
- 9rx 9mo agoYes. Being on the other side of the world, I've only ever heard of efforts to save English pubs. Thus, without more details, one knows that is what is being referred to. Perhaps Scotland has the same kind of movement happening at the local level, but something on a global website implies global context.
- thebruce87m 9mo agoThe website is for England and Wales.
- 9rx 9mo agoWales comes along with England due to how their legal framework is setup. It is a good technical point you raise, but for all intents and purposes within the context they are the same place.
- fourside 9mo agoThe site has since changed the content from when I made the comment. It used to say zip code in the label and error.
- jtbaker 9mo agoI think of postal code as a generic, international form of the concept, not tied to a location.
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