[Tagging] Tagging for board games themed pubs

Peter Elderson pelderson at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 18:43:23 UTC 2020


Focus?

Mvg Peter Elderson

> Op 11 sep. 2020 om 20:40 heeft Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> 
>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 19:09, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > Themed implies that is the raison d'etre for the pubs existance and you would only go there to play board games, which would attract a very limited clientel.
>> 
>> +1, this is also my interpretation.
> 
> Not my interpretation of "theme."  Most pubs I've been in, themes have
> been about decor.  Like the pub named "Walpurgisnacht" and decorated
> accordingly, but there were no battles against witchcraft there.  Like
> the pub with many shelves of books, which nobody read.  Like
> the pub with a fake tree built into a corner.  Like the pub called The
> Buccaneer, decked out [pun intended] as a sailing ship, but there
> were no acts of piracy.
> 
> "Theme" is the wrong word to use.  A pub with many pool tables
> is not themed around playing pool.  A pub with many dart boards
> for practise by its darts team is not themed around darts.  Right
> now I can't think of a good word for a pub specializing in a
> particular interest (many pool tables rather than just one), but
> "theme" isn't it,
> 
> -- 
> Paul
> 
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