Babies and prams in Pubs!

[Rolo Tomasi]

Sue Wrote:

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> Rolo Tomasi Wrote:

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> > Worked in the Foresters too. 96 to 98. Lovely

> > people back then, before the refurb.

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> > Then it all went to hell!

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> xxxxxx

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> The people may have been lovely, but you do have

> to admit the pub was shit!

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> Unless you like squelchy swirly carpets and the

> smell of piss wafting from the toilets whilst

> you're having a pint.

I'm not denying that it was a bit of a dive. But rather there than the Lord Palmerston when me and a group of friends were run over (on the pavement) by one of there punters in 1990.

[Rolo Tomasi]

Otta Wrote:

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> Same here.

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> Towards the end, it got a bit rough, as a

> particular bunch of people were barred from

> everywhere else, but I have some good memories of

> it just being a nice pub with pool and a good juke

> box.

Yep - I probably served you at some point Otta. The Jukebox was good, bit tight to play pool well though!

[Rolo Tomasi]

StraferJack Wrote:

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> I wonder why the forresters felt the need to take

> a tenner deposit just for a game of pool then.

> Must have been all the upstanding punters

No idea about the tenner. Must have been after mine and DF's time.

[DulwichFox]

Rolo Tomasi Wrote:

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> > I wonder why the forresters felt the need to

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> > a tenner deposit just for a game of pool then.

> > Must have been all the upstanding punters

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> No idea about the tenner. Must have been after

> mine and DF's time.

No.. I was there to the bitter end when it became The Bishop..

Fox

[DulwichFox]

Perhaps they should charge a Tenner to park a Buggie in the pub.

'Cat amongst the Pigeons'

Fox

[Otta]

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> Yep - I probably served you at some point Otta.

> The Jukebox was good, bit tight to play pool well though!

I can't play well in the best conditions, so no problem for me!

[tallulah71]

I was at the lord palmerston when a guy brandishing a 5 foot sabre-toothed sword entered and wafted it about the place demanding money etc....it was during the drought in 2003 where only certain places were serving food (Le Chardon - bless 'em) And so we were forced to the other place open and (illegally) serving food with no running water; Stab and Crime (I mean, kebab and wine.

Ahhh those were the days!:-S

[????]

another semi-fan of the Foresters...and I don't remember it being to MILLWALL.....and I'd have noticed

[Devonlass15]

Ok, may be it was just one or two times after a Millwall match against Crystal palace (pretty sure it was that match but my football facts are pretty foggy!) that the fans were in there going a bit crazy.

Any way, I don't mean to insinuate that all Millwall fans are like that, it was just this particular lot...phew, scared about offending any one on this site now!!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Don't worry about offending Quids - his team doesn't count.

[Angusvanfrehley]

East Dulwich was a real blast 10yrs ago.....

[Clio731]

I personally have no problem with parents taking their babies/toddlers/young children into a pub - but what does irritate me is the minority of parents that completely forget their children are with them and let them run wild...!!!

Yes, pubs on LL do cater for for famiiles but at the end of the day a pub is a place for adults NOT children. If you take your children into pubs then you need to be prepared to 1) look after them 2) keep them under some sort of control and 3) be prepared for your children to potentially be hurt (i.e. knocked down) by a drunken so and so who's had too much to drink.

[hellosailor]

Um no, I don't really think you 'need to be prepared for your children to be hurt (i.e knocked down)' by a drunk person when you go to a pub, anymore than you would anticipate being knocked down yourself by someone who was so drunk they couldn't control their own limbs. People don't take children to pubs in the evening, it's at lunch time / afternoon you might go for food as a family, and I think if someone was so drunk they were actually knocking people over in the Actress / Bishop etc by that hour, it would be pretty unusual...;-)

[Jeremy]

Lunch/afternoon, fair game for families/kids.

Evenings should be for adults only.

Doesn't that pretty much sum it up?

[citizenED]

Fine assessment I'd say, apart, of course, if the babysitter fails to show in which case surely it's fine to take the sprogs out with you when you amble out for a few cheeky snifters.

[Chippy Minton]

Jeremy - agreed but when does afternoon end and evening begin?

For example, I'm planning to take the kids to the pub to watch the England game later, which starts at 5:15pm, but won't finish til 7pm.

I'll get there early with the kids to reserve five or six good seats plus space for the buggy, while Mrs Minton goes to Sainsbury's - she'll be in an out pretty quick cos she can still park at the front as longer as we keep the kids' car seats in - so there will be two of us to keep half an eye on the clan during the game.

Come and say hi if you see us (we're easy to spot as our kids will be the ones being forced to wear poppies).

Afterwards we'll probably come back home and finish off the fireworks we have still.

[Otta]

Ha ha >:D

[reds]

While I realise that most of the local pubs encourage families to visit it's important for parents to remember that a pub is an adult environment. I was in The Herne last year when an obnoxious parent reprimanded two men in their fifties who were having a quiet chat for daring to swear (extremely quietly I might add as i was on the table next to them and couldn't hear them). If you don't want your children to hear bad language then don't take them to a pub.

[Otta]

Agree with that. Not really fair to expect regulars to mind their Ps & Qs when they're in the boozer.

[Cassius]

I remember my friend being told off for smoking (when it was legal) in the Rye by a couple of mummys as the smoke upset their little one's lungs - but they didn't consider moving to the non-smoking area at my suggestion.

[StraferJack]

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not a word of that doesn't say more about you than it does about anyone else cassius

"upsetting little one lungs" is such a NICE way of putting things, isn't it? I do wonder why smoking in public spaces was banned

[The Minkey]

But why would an adult with child go sit in a smoking area?

[Otta]

Exactly!

Whether or not smoking should have been banned, it wasn't at that tine. So why the Hell should an adult in a pub feel guilty about it because another adult had chosen to sit their child close to it, rather than in the area set aside for people who didn't want to be close to it?

[StraferJack]

We know very little about the situation Cassius describes. It could be that the no smoking section was full when the mothers arrived, that Cassius and mate arrived and weren't that fussed

But check out the phrase again " upset the little ones lungs". Does that sound like someone who has any time for anyone else?

But it could be that the mums in question were overbearing, self satisfied types. It could be. But the tone of Cassius' post troubled me

[Otta]

Agree that that phrase was wrong, and yeah, we don't know details.

I still feel though that when smoking was legal in pubs, an adult shouldn't really have had to consider whether their smoke might be too close to a kid.