Citations:publand

English citations of publand

• 2018 September 1, Steve Kilgallon, “Report suggests lifting New Zealand Racing Board pokie ban”, in Stuff NZ‎^[1]:

  Asked if the board would support the proposal, given their previous ventures into publand, she said: "I can't say that. We literally just got the report and haven't had time to digest its contents."

• 2019 January 1, Rob Hughes, “The Story Behind The Song: Sultans Of Swing by Dire Straits”, in Classic Rock‎^[2]:

  ""Meanwhile, a small group of youths are fooling around in the corner, ‘drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles/They don’t give a damn about any trumpet-playing band/It ain’t what they call rock and roll.’ It’s as damp an evocation of thankless 70s publand as you’re likely to hear."

• 1973, Surveyor: A Weekly Illustrated Journal:

  Short of staff? Then why not do some recruiting in publand. The GLC is looking for ambitious young men and women to train as work study officers and technicians. To find them, it proposes to hold open evenings in two […]

• 2022 May 19, David Kindon, Climbing the Silver Pyramid, novum pro Verlag, →ISBN:

  ... would be in publand necking beer after beer, backing a team emotionally or financially, whilst taking the piss out of each other. For some reason though on Cup Final Day in 2013, I just couldn't get in the mood for it. Even the winning goal as […]