Pub Crawl

[KalamityKel]

says a lot about this "scribe" dude/tte dont it ::o ;-)

[mockney piers]

"Agree with Sean, "pretentious" is not the right word.

undeniably shit, is probably more appropriate."

:)

Believe me there's worse, you could live in Stevenage for starters.

[Jah Lush]

You're right Sean. Especially on a Friday and Saturday night when it's full of w*nkers. Pub crawls are shite anyway. Find a decent pub and stay there. Bollocks to all that walking.

[Scribe]

True, with C****** C***** being a prime contender for the most pretentious parade in London. Camden Town lead by example for well over two decades, until half of it (thankfully) burned down.

[*Bob*]

Sometimes one simply longs for a simple, honest establishment where one can lean one's bow up against the bar, set-down one's container of organic self-harvested sustainable meat - and enjoy a pretension-free drink.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Amen to this

(although I reserve the right to participate in a crawl if a decent one transpires. Planned crawls however, rarely work)

[Scribe]

If only, *Bob*. If only...

But I'm asuming you'd prefer to make a scene over sipping from a bottle of fairtrade ethicalpop in the ipod Arms, instead of hunching over an honest pint of diesel in the Fallout Inn.

[*Bob*]

Pabs? We aint got no pwoppa pabs raaaand ere no more. Went to that Gowlett. Pizza! Pizza? Doooo meeeee a fayva.

I says to the barman, I says, ..

etc

[Scribe]

Tell me about it, *Bob*! It's a real tragedy. No longer can an honest, taxpaying gent walk into a local drinking house and spend an afternoon watching a group of drunken Irishmen shouting at the horse racing on the tele, pausing momentarily to murmur to one another, then chuck a couple of fivers and some loose change into a crumpled old hat on the floor.

Now it's all gone wi-fi and continental urinal cakes. One can only despair at today's licensed travesties.

[Narnia]

If you miss that so much I'm sure I can arrange something, if you pay for me drink.

[Scribe]

Narnia, even if you could provide me with a herd of excitable drunks from the backwoods of Munster, you'd still be unable to achieve the desired atmosphere that accompanies any crowd of paddies getting pissed indoors - an inpenetrable cloud of cigarette/cigar/pipe/Union Jack smoke.

Thanks for the offer, though.

['bout now]

michelle-b Wrote:

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> I reckon I'd skip the Castle and the CPT.

In my mind the only two "pubs" on the list. You see in those establishments ?5.50 is ?5.50 not 5.5

Tradish me.

[Jah Lush]

Scribe Wrote:

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It's a real tragedy. No longer can an honest, taxpaying gent walk into a local drinking house and spend an afternoon

watching a group of drunken Irishmen shouting at the horse racing on the telly.

You've not been in The Castle then.

[Narnia]

WTF is Union Jack smoke?

[Huguenot]

I'm not sure that any self-respecting pub crawl should entail walking past a pbu that you don't go into.

A few of those routes look like they might do this.

[mockney piers]

I seem to recall one or two that were inadvisably thorough in the past.

Bedford, Echidna, Tup, Moon Under Water, Puzzle, Alan Devonshire, George, Pitcher & Piano, Oxygen (?), Windmill, Frog & Forget-me-not, Rose & Crown, Sun springs to mind.

I seem to also recall that January 2nd was a really really bad day!!!!

[Brendan]

Serves you fucking right for going to Clapham.

[mockney piers]

we were young a naive, what can I say.

These days I need a pipe and slipers version.

What would a pipe and slippers pub crawl involve?

[Jeremy]

What would a pipe and slippers pub crawl involve?

The local

Home

[mockney piers]

:-$ too true.

[Huguenot]

Haha, if you hadn't brought that one up, I'd never have remembered it again. Burnt into the synapses of my long term memory, the experience was simply menacing my other thoughts, without ever truly letting on what it was.

Did you really remember all of them, or did you have to look a few up?

I have two pipes, but I seem to have lost my Church's slippers somewhere.