Hey FireSpawn. The Dekker Jr thing was inevitable. We'll get over it soon enough. "Frothing at the gash" had me laughing into my milkshake.
Mongoose: It depends on where you are really, although things have taken on an increasingly authoritarian slant over the last few years. Back when I was a teenie out the wilds of Derbyshire, no-one batted an eyelid at us going in and having a few pints, just so long as we behaved respectfully. It was still illegal of course, but common sense seemed to prevail. Townie pubs tended to be a bit more up themselves, but the kind now that are pretentious enough to have an overweight Secret Service wannabe (complete with earpiece) on the door are the worst. Sadly that kind of attitude has noticably spread over the last ten or fifteen years.
****, you even get crap like "Challenge 25" now, meaning if you happen to look younger than SEVEN years past the legal buying age you can get turned away. Makes me glad I'm going grey!