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Posted by Grim..., 09:47, 8th October 2003:
 
uk.news.yahoo.com/031007/80/eagam.html
Posted by Grim..., 09:47, 8th October 2003:
 
Pasted for the lazy ones:
German men get own kindergarten

BERLIN (Reuters) - German women fed up with their partners' grumbling on weekend shopping trips can now dump them at a special kindergarten for men offering beer and entertainment.


"The women are issued a receipt for their partners when they hand them in and can pick them up again when they return it to us later," Alexander Stein, manager of the 'Nox Bar' in the northern city of Hamburg told Reuters on Tuesday.


The men are given a name badge on arrival and for 10 euros (7 pounds) they get two beers, a hot meal, televised football and games.


Stein said the idea for the Saturday afternoon men's creche, or "Maennergarten", came from a female customer who thought it would be a good way of getting shot of her husband so she could shop in peace.


"She found it all too stressful and thought this might be the solution. Both were very happy with the way it turned out.


"Last week the men had a remote control car to play with. Next week there's going to be a mini racetrack," said Stein.


They are also offering a drilling workshop.


"It beats sitting around in shoe shops, that's for sure," one man told the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
Posted by Sul, 09:55, 8th October 2003:
 
So basically its a pub but you have to wear a fucking name tag. Its hardly genius now is it?
Posted by ilovebeerme, 10:01, 8th October 2003:
 
Why not just stay at home or go but computer games, DVD's and CD's?
Posted by Victor Menendez, 10:03, 8th October 2003:
 
Or go down the pub.
Posted by Sul, 10:15, 8th October 2003:
 
I suppose its for henpecked men who arent allowed down the pub normally. And get off pretending they're 4 years old.
Posted by friday, 10:17, 8th October 2003:
 
I think this is a really funny idea
Posted by friday, 10:18, 8th October 2003:
 
yes Sul, I agree with you!
Posted by Grim..., 11:37, 8th October 2003:
 
It's a pub in the supermarket. RAWK!
Posted by Sul, 11:38, 8th October 2003:
 
No its a pub in a shopping complex. HOW IMAGINATIVE!
Posted by Grim..., 12:06, 8th October 2003:
 
There are no pubs in the shopping complexes near me =[
Posted by jlittle, 12:08, 8th October 2003:
 
Erm, your complexes must suck then Grim.
Posted by Sul, 12:10, 8th October 2003:
 
Really? I dont think Ive been in one that doesnt.
Posted by Grim..., 12:19, 8th October 2003:
 
I don't even think there is one in The Center: MK, but there's probably one nearby...
Posted by tommorris, 12:46, 8th October 2003:
 
How about just starting an ad-hoc pub in the middle of a shopping centre? Just get a load of your mates together, buy in some cheap beer, a bit of wine and shitloads of vodka and get shitheaded outside Debenhams? Actually, no wait, do it outside Dixons and you can watch the footie in the window.
Posted by Sul, 12:54, 8th October 2003:
 
A friend from work started and ad-hoc bar on brighton beach when that big fatboy slim thing was on a while back. All the shops had sold out of beer so him and his mates were selling it at £5 a can.

Nice :)
Posted by tommorris, 12:56, 8th October 2003:
 
I might start one in the university library.