The man of kent - Nunhead

[david_carnell]

Well this is the Lounge - you're allowed to go off topic here.

Perhaps you should have posted in the main section.

Oh.

[Otta]

Saw my first ever proper pub fight in the MoK in the mid 90s. Pissed Irish blokes and pool cues.

[aquarius moon]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Well this is the Lounge - you're allowed to go off

> topic here.

Really? So how far off topic are you allowed to go before the thread gets locked?

[Jah Lush]

AQM, you seem to have got a bit of bee in your bonnet these past few days.

Anyway, Man Of Kent. Went there once about eight years ago. I had an OK time. Didn't like it much though. Haven't been back.

[aquarius moon]

No JL, I haven't.

I've never been in The Man Of Kent so had no intention of posting on here.

But if I see a post by someone else and get an uncontrollable urge to respond....... I just have to do it!

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Was in JW on Saturday for a couple pints - it is a great pub....after a quick pint in the back beer garden of The Chancery. I like it up there.

Rest of pubs not so good....although the Sat afo, Ibiza beats in the outside bar at La Rasscass was interesting. Retracable roof an everything!

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Yes, that's the place. Woodman not Woodsman -

> sorry. Didn't want to confuse it with the

> Woodhouse - terrible place.

>

> My new favourite pub since I moved to Penge.

> Though it's a bit of a trek still.

[Jah Lush]

JW also good for a game of arras.

[Alan Medic]

Otta Wrote:

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> Saw my first ever proper pub fight in the MoK in

> the mid 90s. Pissed Irish blokes and pool cues.

Just don't tell me the cues won?

[david_carnell]

Schoolboy error picking up a cue. Pick up three or four balls. No one wants to get in the way of those and cues don't work in confined spaces.

I think I read that in a book on pool hustling.

[Jeremy]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Pick up three or four balls.

As a projectile, or "melee" weapon? This could be useful if I find myself in Nunhead again.

[red devil]

Here you go Jeremy, not for the faint hearted...

 

[Louisa]

Nunhead isn't all that bad, and you're more likely to be hit by a flying focaccia if you venture into the Old Nun's Head pub these days. Once a great pub. Now the closest you'll get to a pool cue punch up is a minor gentleman's disagreement over who chooses the best bottle of Chablis on the menu.

Louisa.

[Jeremy]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Nunhead isn't all that bad

I know... I was joking...

[david_carnell]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> david_carnell Wrote:

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> > Pick up three or four balls.

>

> As a projectile, or "melee" weapon? This could be

> useful if I find myself in Nunhead again.

All depends how fast you can get your sock off, Jez. I was thinking projectile though.

[Jeremy]

RD/DC - was assuming the ball-in-sock wouldn't work in a bar fight. Was actually wondering if the advice was to simply pick the ball up in your hand and smack someone with it. I've heard that salt cellars can be used too (although such items are a bit too poncy for proper boozers, I know).

[KidKruger]

One ball in each hand is sufficient, swinging things around like cues and filled socks is in the movies.

You may want to use the cue to break a couple of the windows, that'll get people calling the police - handy if you think you're gonna be requiring rescue from the situation.

[Jeremy]

How about if you're a Filipino stick fighting expert? Half a cue in each hand might be handy.

[*Bob*]

Where's this place again? Do you need to reserve a cue or do you just turn up?

[Otta]

Nah, grab a pool ball and smack someone in the head with it, it will hurt. Throwing just hands them your weapon.

[bob]

No just queue up. Bob S

[Otta]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> RD/DC - was assuming the ball-in-sock wouldn't

> work in a bar fight. Was actually wondering if the

> advice was to simply pick the ball up in your hand

> and smack someone with it. I've heard that salt

> cellars can be used too (although such items are a

> bit too poncy for proper boozers, I know).

Salt cellar could be extra useful as you could pour some salt in to your hand, throw it in their eyes, then smack them repeatedly around the head whilst they're blinded.

[red devil]

How about a scattering of roasted peanuts on the floor for comedic effect?...the assailant ends up flailing his arms in the air as he tries to keep his balance as his falls arse over tit...worked for Jerry against Tom

[david_carnell]

Pub fight odds:

Louisa - 1-3on fav (no one messes when our Lou is around)

KidKruger - evens (boxing fan and knowledge of exotic Burmese martial arts)

Otta - 7-5 (poor eyesight belies his honeybadger tendancies)

*Bob* - 10-1 (high likelihood of getting into a fight though)

bob - 25-1 (no longer in his prime)

Jeremy - 100-1 (for having to ask about the melee or projectile merits of pool balls mid-fight)

[DulwichFox]

Or ....

Sorted..

Foxy

[Jeremy]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> Jeremy - 100-1