Originally Posted by Trollheart

Think of it like this: it's an abbreviation of "Licenced to Sell Alchohol That Can Be Taken Off the Premises."



Boozers, pubs. And we distinguish them from stores because a) stores isn't a word used here and b) they're seen more as a place to gather and shoot the breeze, as Monkey says, rather than a place you go to buy something. In most stores, or shops, you go in, buy what you want and head off. You don't hang around. That's the difference. In a pub, you do. You stay, with your purchases. You in fact have to, as they're not licenced, as I said, to sell alcohol that can be taken off the premises.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.