pubs that show the x factor

[erikaa]

...on lordship lane?

[RosieH]

Think the Victoria on Bellenden do.

[DulwichFox]

Not aware of any on Lordship lane.

The Victoria Inn in nearby Peckham was showing the earlier stages

Please check with them .

The Victoria Inn

72-79 Choumert Road

London, SE15 4AR

Telephone: 020 7639 5052

[Panda]

The Victoria Inn definatley show it. Good atmosphere there and they allow you to reserve tables.

[Jah Lush]

You've got to be joking? I would have thought one of the main reasons for going out on a Saturday night is to avoid the crap on the telly. What a load of shit.

[Keef]

Ha ha, made me laugh Jah. Must admit, I tend to watch it if I'm stuck indoors, but certainly wouldn't want to let it be involved in a beer pass!

[Jah Lush]

Really? I'd rather drink my own piss than watch Strictly X Celebrity Dancing Factor. I can't believe a pub shows that rubbish.

[ratty]

Rubbish pubs.....

[RosieH]

I can't believe that pubs show football. What a load of tedious w@nk.

Horses for courses Jah. It wouldn't be top of my list of Saturday pub treats, but god knows, I've sat through some bloody boring football in the pub in my time. S'why god invented the newspaper, innit?

[Senor Chevalier]

For all you X Factor fans, you can buy T-shirts here:

http://dailymash.shotdeadinthehead.com/product_view.aspx?pid=1036

[Jah Lush]

I've been seriously thinking of getting one of those.

[SeanMacGabhann]

As Rosie is pointing out, some of these posts belong on a ?why I don?t like X factor? thread rather than someone innocently looking for a pub that shows it. (I?ve made the same mistake on the apprentice thread)

So if you don?t like it but want to beeatch about it start your own thread ya bullies (and after what they have done to ?Heroes? I?ll join you)

[Jah Lush]

You calling me a bully? Right Sean. Outside NOW!

[Cassius]

Whatever the merits or demerits of X-Factor I can't see the point of going out to a pub and watching TV, surely going out to the pub is for meeting people, talking, communicating, socialising - not for watching the idiot box.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Watching TV can be a big social event - in other countries it's pretty commonplace (be it chat shows, or Simpsons before that country got the righst to show it) etc

Nothing inherently wrong with the concept

[RosieH]

And as I said, a lot of people go out to watch football.

I suspect more people watch X Factor than will be watching Arsenal / Wigan tonight (in Wigan at least!)

[Jah Lush]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Watching TV can be a big social event - in other

> countries it's pretty commonplace (be it chat

> shows, or Simpsons before that country got the

> righst to show it) etc

>

> Nothing inherently wrong with the concept

Not in this country it ain't.

[SeanMacGabhann]

"and if it ain't done in this country it don't count"

so what if it's not as popular here as other countries - neither was drinking wine with food at one point. Why be so insular?

[Jah Lush]

Because you talking complete and utter bollocks that why Sean.

[RosieH]

Actually Jah, I don't think he is.

We do already have event TV in this country, it's just that it's communal only in the sense that it's tweeted and facebooked and watercoolered about, rather than watched all together.

That doesn't mean that a pub shouldn't encourage the watching together. Broken down, something like X Factor makes good group TV, because you have performances and scores, it encourages conversation, rather than something like Corrie, that it's a bit pointless to talk over.

I like what the Victoria is doing.

[RosieH]

Ooh, ooh, I hope they'll show the Wedding. Everyone'll pile down for that one.

[Jah Lush]

I know a pub can be an extension of your living room but that's taking it too far for me. You can keep the fecking Victoria Inn and it's poxy TV. I shan't be going anywhere near it.

[Cassius]

I hope to be somewhere where they don't even HAVE tv's for the Royal Wedding - desert, jungle, mountain or maybe underwater.

[Keef]

The pub does often show Eurovision, but that is a bit different IMO.

Next people will want Corrie & Stenders on in the pub, and that is just plain fecking wrong. Pubs used to be places where real men went in order to avoid the shite that the missus watched on the box!

Oh, and drinking wine with food is a good thing. I am all for adopting good things. This does not ean that we need to adopt silly things.

[SeanMacGabhann]

The irony here being that the old fashioned, manly boozer that was the Wishing Well had a great big screen showing ITV all the time, Corrie included