Oh the humanity, my beautiful den of thieves, and local pub, closed it's doors.
My local pub. MY PUB. My wonderful, awful, piss soaked, blood stained den of eniquity.....
the only place in town, where when I walk through the door, I don't even need to ask, my beer is already being poured, where we say fuck you government, and smoke behind the bar, in the bar, and whereve we want, dogs are allowed in, POLICE OFFICER by smiley culture is played at least once a day on the juke box ((It would take too long to explain)) dope is smoked openly in the garden, all the good rats drink in there, the wideboys, the wannabes, the small time gangsters, the hardcore drinkers, alcoholics, and generall dross from my urban village.
fist fights break out on a Friday night, the protaganists halt proceedings, to apologise profusely to the non-combatants if they spill your beer, buy you another one, and carry one, that is why there are no house cues, they've all been twatted around someones head.
if I was short, they'd run a tab for me, let me pay later, I could leave my dog there and my shopping, and my pint, whilst I went to the bookmakers, everyone in there knows me
i've been soooo drunk in there, I've been carried out, I've drunk only diet coke for 4 months when I was on the wagon,
this is no pretentious bar, and forget what you know about British pubs, if you are basing it on the soap operas versions.
THEY ARE TURNING IT INTO A FUCKING WINE BAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well, as good as, one bar, not too, and they are doing food Sad
it closed it's doors for the last time yesterday, and will re-open in six weeks time.
this means I now have to walk to the Three Cups, which is alright, it's a drinkers pub, but..... it's more civilized, you can get drunk as a skunk in there, but you have to keep it low key/.
The White Horse went all up-market, and is okay for food.
The Embankment, is okay for a few beers, but you can't really get drunk in there.
Fox and Hounds, too many students, and too violent.
The Castle - meh
The Ship - too posh, and that lot are taking over my pub
The Devonshire Arms - meh, she's a bit frosty, and awkward opening hours, but does do real ale, and have the cask marque, good session pub, but not open all day in the week
The Cricketers - meh
and those are all the pubs in my area, less you count The Mill, the Fleur De Leys, and the George and Dragon on the way into town. And when I get there I don't really like the town pubs all that much, plenty of them, but, town pubs have no soul.
Three Cups it is then, best mind my p's and q's, now where did I put my darts?
the only place in town, where when I walk through the door, I don't even need to ask, my beer is already being poured, where we say fuck you government, and smoke behind the bar, in the bar, and whereve we want, dogs are allowed in, POLICE OFFICER by smiley culture is played at least once a day on the juke box ((It would take too long to explain)) dope is smoked openly in the garden, all the good rats drink in there, the wideboys, the wannabes, the small time gangsters, the hardcore drinkers, alcoholics, and generall dross from my urban village.
fist fights break out on a Friday night, the protaganists halt proceedings, to apologise profusely to the non-combatants if they spill your beer, buy you another one, and carry one, that is why there are no house cues, they've all been twatted around someones head.
if I was short, they'd run a tab for me, let me pay later, I could leave my dog there and my shopping, and my pint, whilst I went to the bookmakers, everyone in there knows me
i've been soooo drunk in there, I've been carried out, I've drunk only diet coke for 4 months when I was on the wagon,
this is no pretentious bar, and forget what you know about British pubs, if you are basing it on the soap operas versions.
THEY ARE TURNING IT INTO A FUCKING WINE BAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
well, as good as, one bar, not too, and they are doing food Sad
it closed it's doors for the last time yesterday, and will re-open in six weeks time.
this means I now have to walk to the Three Cups, which is alright, it's a drinkers pub, but..... it's more civilized, you can get drunk as a skunk in there, but you have to keep it low key/.
The White Horse went all up-market, and is okay for food.
The Embankment, is okay for a few beers, but you can't really get drunk in there.
Fox and Hounds, too many students, and too violent.
The Castle - meh
The Ship - too posh, and that lot are taking over my pub
The Devonshire Arms - meh, she's a bit frosty, and awkward opening hours, but does do real ale, and have the cask marque, good session pub, but not open all day in the week
The Cricketers - meh
and those are all the pubs in my area, less you count The Mill, the Fleur De Leys, and the George and Dragon on the way into town. And when I get there I don't really like the town pubs all that much, plenty of them, but, town pubs have no soul.
Three Cups it is then, best mind my p's and q's, now where did I put my darts?
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I swore never to set foot in the place again, but I did once before I left England (just to see what I'd been missing :roll:). Man it's crap it was like someone had scalpelled a cheap nasty middle of town type divvy bar out of a magazine and stuck it over the top of reality or something.
Before then though when it was the sportsy fights were, well not commonplace, but could erupt and die down out of nothing. We used to biff coke in the toilets, we even had a razorblade stashed above the toilet doors. We used to have lock-ins, which they'd let us out of so we could go round the chippy get a kebab, then they'd let us back in again.
The guys who ended up pretty much running the place before it closed lived 2 doors up from me, and they were a bunch of stoner student types. So we'd leave the bar after a lock in and then go next door to my house and smoke their stash. Cool thing was they were told they were allowed to write 6 pints a night per customer off as spillage, so as you can imagine there was a lot of beer spilled (6 of them used to get spilled into my glass every night :lol:). It was a crap bar clinging on for life for it's last few years, and I used to complain about how crap it was and I only went there cos' the beer was cheap. But I pretty much loved the place deep down, and when it was taken over it was like a piece of my life was removed or something, there was actually a weird emptiness I can't describe when that place closed?
Yup I miss the nights of me and my friends running round the bar shooting each other with the fire extinguishers, of trying to throw a shotglass through the TV because somebody put snooker on when I was watching something. Nights of 4 people holding you down because you tried to launch a stool behind the bar, because the barman squirted you with soda water
Anyway just some thoughts and remniscence, and I'm not even drunk yet :D
You say good pubs but people smoking dope openly, fights all the time, gangstas in there, piss stained carpets etc ?
Believe me it sounds my sort of pub but in this day and age it sounds like it just cant stay open due to money and competition from other pubs.
We had a 'similar-ish' local where it was mostly lads, decent music but at the end of the day it was pretty empty compared to a family type pub with great food and always busy as you could hardly get a table. No families from the neighbourhood would go there as they knew what it was like, you could just tell the revenue was getting smaller and smaller every week which was a shame.
Sad to see so many pubs closing down (our local is about to close) but it seems like you have to have a great menu in order to attract families nowadays. Without families constantly coming it seems its difficult to stay open what with just the hardcore locals.
The local in my old hometown was taken over, even though they gave it wooden floors, fancy pictures and nice food/menus, in the day it was great for families for food etc but in the evening it was exactly the same with all of us and our mates still going there.
Obviously helped they didnt do evening food but i must admit the food in the day was much much better.
Still miss them getting rid of the jukebox though. When we were younger as tight gits we knew songs such as the longplay version of Stone Roses - I am the resurrection was well worth 20p as it went on for about 9 minutes
i prefer night clubs. or discos to you. i'm still young enough to not look quite sad in them. ;)
The only clubs i've ever gone to the last 10 years (dont really go to them now) are indie clubs or my old favourite, a great 80's club in Reading, people there are the same age group, everyones friendly, great music, not tons of lights so its pretty dark, great place.
Had a coach load of mates go there for my 30th, was a superb time
Hate clubs with any dance music, cant stand em !
you know what they say, if it's too loud your too old.
Did you warm up at "The Moderation" :p
....took me 6 months to notice.
Maybe this was exactly what happened in the later years :D
surely your more likely to get drunk in a wine bar than a pub?...shots and wine vs piss water beer?
What was your local? What are they turning into a poncey wine bar?
;)
Then I've been too old since I was about 6 years old.
Even worse is when people take a fucking great live rock venue and do it to that. Anyone remember what happened to The Marquee club when it was on Charing Cross Road? That got shut down and became "The Moon Underwater". Exactly what the west end of London needed, another wine bar.
On a side note, severl years ago haere in Scarborough, we had a fantastic venue called The Kazbah. It played host to loads of great bands (Spear Of Destany, 3 Colours Red, Ginger Wildheat did an acoustic set, The Senses The Cribbs and The Zutons all played the same gig, Snow Patrol played the week before Run came out etc). There was never any trouble, it had a very cheep bar that also had real ales (?1.50 a pint, got wankered on that stuff many times :D ) But, the owners sold it to a local "venue rival", who then turned it into a dance club :evil: It's now full of Chavs and townies and is a no go place for normal people as it's drug filled and a very violent place. Shame :(
Gordon Arms
dude, lets meet up for a pint or two!
Yeah, but surely wine is more pricey than beer, and I doubt the lads who worked there were raking in the moolah.
Could indeed be they had a wee bit too much wine around May 1989 ... :wink:
they did that to a pub i used to frequent back in the late 80s, early 90s, we used to go in every afternoon on a saturday (punks, rockers) and wait for the main rock pub to open at 7 (ish) then go onto the rock club till 2am
they used to sell the strongest beer in the world (in the record books at that time)
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you were only allowed it in 3rds of a pint and only 3 per person...see certificates above, you got one everytime you had a 3rd :)
my mate once threw upp in there after a particularly heavy session, the barmaid thrust a mop and bucket in his hands and told him to mop it up...pissed as hell :P
anyway they turned that into a wine bar...killed its soul :(
that knocks Bazzes Bonce Blower into a cocked hat!
Sounds like a plan. What you up to Saturday night?
not a lot :)
It's the "everything" that bothers me most... :)
Okay, sounds like the ideal opportunity if you fancy a few jars. Where and when?
you gotta take some pics so we can see a proper wosfcc mash up.
of course if you think taking pics of another man is a bit fruity, ask another patron to take a pic of you together. :)