Connecting seemingly disparate pieces of information also launched a very profitable chain of pubs in the UK, whose entrepreneurial team noticed the following seemingly unconnected pieces of data: first, that when families decided to go out to a pub on Friday night, husbands chose whether to go out, but wives chose where the family went.

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They should do a documentary about the likes of us, and go to our local pub on a Saturday night and see how friendly people are.

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"We were club mates but Gareth wasn't the sort to go to the pub after a race, so he didn't have any close friends in the group, " he said.

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Let's go to the pub for a few pints.

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The children, aged between four and 11, go to the pub three times a week to be cooked lunch by the landlord, with the menu so far including roast dinners, pasta dishes, sausages and puddings.

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You really don't want to go to the internet or a bloke in the pub.

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How many highly paid fund managers go into a cheap furniture enterprise or drop in to drink at the out of town locations of a pub chain?

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