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I've been going to pubs for decades and seen a great change, some of which I like, and some I don't. I engage in conversations on good pubs occasionally on this site, and more often on more relevant sites. Some of this is genuine, some playful, and other times just plain grumpy (modern life is rubbish).


I like the old school boozer but at times understand that this can come with old school problems. I've been to those where it all goes quiet when you come in, those with shytebeer, been chased out of a pub by locals when on a school field trip, offered drugs, and "don't try and make eye contact". Rude landlords, useless bar staff, and plastic food.


But nothing to what I experienced on Friday in a refurbished pub a couple of miles away. I say refurbished but I expect the owners are going through the motions so they can get it changed to residential use. A lovely exterior, but a long featureless interior. My mate was late so I sat down to watch the end of the shyteonthevilla vs Manure match. Some bloke, not much younger and dressed like someone in a sitcom and looking short of a few brain cells comes past me, passes the most enormous belch in my ear before heading to the bogs. I loudly question WTF this was about (not using this language) go to the bar to ask them to intervene, whilst getting some pretty foul abuse from said burper. Bar staff look confused, an old gent who turns out to be the manager gets up to talk to Mr belcher and then tells me to sit down as it is all over. I question what it is all about and get told to sit down.


A rather long winded explanation and you had to be there to experience the bizarre incident. I don't want you to dissect all the above but I'd be interested in what your worst experience was. I will name names on the relevant website.

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steveo Wrote:

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> I've always fancied a pint - but didn't dare - in

> the Hour Glass Hotel in Walworth. It has plenty of

> positive reviews on Trip Advisor but some of the

> negative ones are corkers:

>

> 'Located in a scene from crimewatch'

>

> 'On arrival to the hotel i was asked to leave my

> room for 30mins so they could unblock the sink'

>

> 'this hotel is the worst experience of my entire

> life'

>

> 'What a craphole'

>

> Perhaps this needs its own Shite Hotels thread.


I visited this pub in the early 70's shortly after the rat hole known as the Aylesbury estate was completed, as I lived in a council block a few hundred yards away, and found it ok. I usually went on a Saturday night, it was crowded with locals suited and booted as was the norm back then.

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