i dont know if im directing this more to you or your dad, but.. there is a pub down the road from me that is a dump and the new management is working their ass off at making it somewhere people want to go. 'Thirsty Thursdays' something they recently added which includes: - $2 schooners (from 4pm-10pm) - $8 parmigiana & schooner (dunno times, wouldn't eat there) - free pool (8 ball) - Themed cover band night eg (Cover 'this band' night) - beer pong with prizes - meat raffles etc. anyway, im not sure if that helps but that place went from pretty much a pokie dump out for grannies to a Thursday tradition recently.