I have never been in The Harp, but it's in my book of good pubs to go in. The Bree Louise does not belong on a list of excellent London pubs. The Cross Keys on Endell Street is excellent, as are both Red Lion pubs in St James's.

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I've had some very good beer in the Bree Bouise - what's your objection?

That it's a bit of a dive?

My brother and I preferred The Exmoor Arms, just up the road in Starcross St.

A version of this. Think I would use a plastic basket, putting it in a 45 degree angle, and catch the plates with it. Putting some gloves on also.

All you have to do is remember if it doesn't work you didn't open it with enough speed and conviction.

Nothing like the same quality of beer.

I like grotty pubs that care about their beer and nothing else.

Go back in time and tell yourself to stack em better.

I would open it that fast there would be a risk for the shelf windows to break from the acceleration, maybe even killing. Would have to keep the gloved left hand (would put some more clothes on too, and protecting glasses) where the strain probably is the smallest, somewhere in the middle of the door. And then the plastic basket ready in the right hand.

Fixing the shelf glass could easily be the big cost, so protecting it would be a priority by getting it out of the way of the mountain of falling plates.

Thinking about it, the risk of injury would make me open the shelf door fast remotely (about 5 meters away) with a rope, having a table under with a card board box for maybe saving some of the plates, and making the mess on the floor smaller.

The balloons inflated slowly from the side by tiny opening basically (if tightly packed to fill a lot of space) decelerate the falling plates and can avoid breaking because dishes do not break that easily just because they hit each other with some non terrible speed. By then you would have placed your hands to grab the rest and whatever you missed would fall on the pillows around in the floor and other places, counters etc and hopefully not break either if they could decelerate gently due to cushions (unless others following fell on top of the first ones that landed).

Basically place any blankets and pillows you can find in the floor and surrounding hard surfaces and the balloons inside the lower cabinet will break the fall a bit too then act fast to open and quickly move to support the rest up there or let them all fall in your lap (elevate your body to be at that level of course by standing on something soft. It is not that heavy to carry/grab 20 dishes in your hands, its only 6-7 kgr or so. You wont get injured unless glass breaks and cuts you a bit. Wear protecting glasses just in case of course whenever breaking glass is a possibility.


Another idea is to go get the kind of material used in parcels of sensitive items like bubble wrap or packing peanuts (the foamy plastic little things) and from a small opening of the cabinet keep throwing them in until they form a mountain in the bottom shelf (you will need to buy in bulk a lot of this) .


Of course we do all those things only if the plates are worth the hustle and cant be replaced or are part of a collection or old ones etc (or to film it and put it on youtube lol). Otherwise put the blankets and pillows around and open it fast with another person ready to grab what you miss and let most come to your lap and other guys around cover all corners left and right for what you will miss on the opening or bellow the corners depending on how the shelf opens.

You mustn't let them see any fear.

Having pillows and blankets is problematic, because all the inevitable fragments can be difficult to get away with certainty, you'd have to throw them away, could be costly.

Think you have to indentify situations where you can't win, this is one of them. It's a bomb with lots of potential sharp fragments flying around. If the shelf itself can't be moved, it's either a situation with bomb disarming gear, or staying very far away when opening.

Every manipulation you do from beneath could set things in motion and make a potential injury situation. Hell, thinking about it, wouldn't even dare trying to move the shelf on it's back, but previously putting a heavy blanket in front could maybe be an option. Basically would simply not get near that thing, possibly with the exception of clothing heavily before carefully fastening the long rope to the shelf door. Then commanding everybody out of the room, and I would pull the rope from the door opening, only head and hand showing, being out of there before hell breaks loose.

We might be talking at crossed epochs. Last time I was in it was 2007, and I don't recall it being an ale mecca. Perhaps it has changed since then.

Could well be. It's won Camra pub of the year several times since then and boasts on it's website.

"The Bree Louise offers 17 ales, 6 on the pump and 11 on gravity dispense. Our ales and ciders change several times a day so check our blackboards, ask our attentive staff or see "

You'd like Cask, in Pimlico, Chez.

Rescind gravity.

For pubs: you start somewhere and you end somewhere. Gravity included.

Can't spot much love for the shelf itt, so let's talk pubs.

Gently load the cabinet onto helicopter, fly up to 10,000 feet, push the cabinet out, dive after it, while in free fall open the door and collect the dishes.

Excellent suggestion. The dishes should be collected during the acceleration phase of the shelf, rendering the plates almost weightless. Then air resistance will complicate things.

Maybe taking the shelf to the international space station?

I think pushing the plates along is the way to do it. Open it a tiny crack, put a hooked fairly rigid wire inside, and as it moves along, push the plates along to stay level with their spot on the window. Until the opening is wide enough to get an arm in.

Possibly a second wire to give a bit of extra support to hold the plates up as well.

Another thought: A very thin net made up of something like fishing line, rolled into a wire size thickness and put in from above, then released and jiggled until it encircle the plates. Probably a better option.

move to a place with less haphazardly placed dinnerware.

This is a generalization of my strategy when I discover that a mouse or small insect has moved in.

Make sure to video any attempts.

The Harp

harp covent garden

A choice of 10 hand-pumps is music to the ears of any ale aficionado - and in this Covent Garden pub, the sweet sound of pint-pouring is the only tune you’ll hear. The Harp is a blissfully traditional place with no TV, no jukebox - just great beer and good old conversation.
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I shall be elegantly dressed and carry a hand-crafted cane of yew wood, made by my father. July 4, next year. 4pm till closing or the bombs fall. Mark it on your calendar's, limeys.

Chengdu Taste

Arrived at this hole-in-the wall that is conveniently located in a back alley.

Around 50 Chinese people chain smoking outside. As I entered, I saw that the maximum occupancy sign stated "50" and was pleased to note, after a quick head count, that I was breaking a law by entering and not only the only white person there, but the only non-Chinese person there.* This was around 8 PM today, a Wednesday.

I approached the counter and asked if I could place an order to go. The young man behind the counter greeted my with what could almost be described as a smile. Like actually greeted me greeted me. This concerned me greatly.

I ordered the Mung Bean Jelly Noodle with Chili Sauce and the Toothpick Lamb with Cumin to go. The young man asked me if I wanted white or fried rice. I said "white." He asked "how many rice." I said "one million." He managed, with what I can only assume was great effort, to avoid showing any sign that he had enjoyed my little joke and said sternly "how many orders of rice, SIR." "Two," I said confidently.

The food was best described as "yummy."

A few notes on the menu: Under the heading "Volcano Dish" it has a warning that states, "Warning: Hot Stone is not for Consumption." In the middle of the menu it has an additional warning. "Some of our dishes maybe contain nuts will cause anaphylaxis, Please ask your server for help."