I well remember my first visit to the `Sinbin` and ordering a beer only to be given two small glasses, when i asked about this i was told that is how it is served.

I can also recall, when on an R&R visit to Edmonton with a friend who had relations living there,
Entering a late night `Disco`, opened at 2200hrs and closed at 0500hrs, only to find that no alcoholic drinks were available at all, the strongest drink they served was coffee.
Weird place, 3/4 of the customers were `Ethnic` and kept staring at us all the time, most uncomfortable.
We took the hint in the end and left early.
Never did find out what the place was all about.

Familiar to any one.

http://www.arrse.co.uk/wiki/Sin_Bin

You could also buy a "Pitcher" of beer, which the Bar Staff poured for you!!

That`s one way of getting something nasty dropped in your beer.

Went to a Pub like that in Hull many years ago.

Oh yes....In Ottawa, which is just across the river from Hull (now known as Gatineau..."Hull" was far too English!), and in Ontario, the bars closed at 2am. In Hull, which was in Quebec, the bars closed at 3am so there was always this mass exodus across the Sir John A. MacDonald bridge from Ottawa into Hull/Gatineau.

Ottawa is of course a 'government town' and quite white-collar. Hull/Gatineau,on the other hand, was heavily Francophone and blue-collar. The after hours bars there tended to be a tad on the rough side! Quite the education for fresh young -- and usually drunk -- university types!

Errrm.........Hull, Humberside.



(Probably twinned with the Bars in your Hull, Stephen)!!

Ref Bars & Booze & the like............, The squaddies who were carrying the coffin of a mate at a funeral were refused a drink , a soft drink, in a Coventry bar before the proceedings. Against the bar's dress code, or some such nonsense, it's said. Sad, but that's not the query.......... The article also says that military law bans uniformed members of the Forces from drinking alcoholic beverages in such an establishment, unless it's at a private function. .......
Does it ???

If that's so,..... and maybe I should know so don't jump on me,..... if that's the rule, how come I wasn't hauled inside for tasting the waters in Osnabruck, where Watchdog patrolled the streets in predatory pairs, in the vicinity of Woolwich depot where local Courage ales was passed off as strong drink, or in later years when the OC held O Groups in pubs on the fringes of Salisbury Plain ? Is it the old Kipling thing ".......... we serve no Redcoats 'ere" ?

Mind you, the reporter also recorded that the burial party also had highly polished brass buttons, so maybe his imagination can run amok at times.

Bustard? I have often been chucked out of Pubs whilst wearing uniform but, that was normally after I had quaffed vast amounts of the stuff! Maybe it's a new regulation.