"Local" Pubs

[TraineeSpark]

It's ok chaps I can answer your question. The best pubs in the world are in Pompey.
And Joe, why do you have a pop at ninebob bout his sexuality? Are you insecure about your own mate? I ain't being funny, just wondered, hope you don't mind me asking.

 

[AdamW]

Joe, I bl**dy love gays, me. I posted a while back about the gay bar I ended up in after a night out in Islington. Excellent place. And you know how occasionally someone will sneak a glimpse at your todger in the toilets? Didn't happen to me at all in the gay bar. Probably because they have seen plenty and their curiosity is satisfied!

Now, I have a pub that is local, but I don't have a local pub. It's not that it's a bad pub, it's not that the people seem bad, it's just I have never gone there frequently enough to be a regular.

I had a great local in London. Went in there 4 or 5 times a week (ah, student days!). Got to that stage where the barstaff know you, have a proper chat. You look around and spot the others who are always in there... but it wasn't a "proper" local. None of the regulars seemed to speak to the other regulars.

Wood, hope you don't mind me asking, but are you a woman or a gay man? Only I've read things you've written that suggest one, then I read something else that suggested the other! All I am sure of is that your partner is a man. Just interested to know!

 

[AdamW]

The best pubs in the world are in Pompey.

I know what you mean.

I went to Pompeii earlier in the year... surprised me how many bars they had!!! If you've been, you'll know what I mean. If you haven't, imagine if you will, a city where you never have to walk more than 100 feet to get a drink! In fact, it was seldom more than 50 feet.

Even Caecilius himself lived pretty much right next door to a wine bar!

Nordic binge drinking? The Romans made the rowdiest of Vikings look like tee-totallers

 

[WoodYouLike]

JWood, hope you don't mind me asking, but are you a woman or a gay man? Only I've read things you've written that suggest one, then I read something else that suggested the other! All I am sure of is that your partner is a man. Just interested to know!

You're forgiven Adam (it's a 'mistake' easy and often made here)
I'm the missess of the shop and order my 'hubby' around And I know a lot of fine gay people but am not one myself. And I like footbal as the best of you (even know all about thge offside-rule )

 

[empip]

Found best locals in the countryside... oops close to home

 

[notb665]

It's ok chaps I can answer your question. The best pubs in the world are in Pompey.
And Joe, why do you have a pop at ninebob bout his sexuality? Are you insecure about your own mate? I ain't being funny, just wondered, hope you don't mind me asking.

Joe WASN'T having a pop about his sexuality. Joe was saying everyone knows anyway (Ninebob has mentioned it before in addition to his name), so why say again?

 

[notb665]

When my housemates and I were students we used to go to a real local down a backstreet (as we weren't typical loud-mouthed know-it-all idiots), which had many lock-ins and always had our proper Northern proper ale from proper panelled glasses hung up above the bar, as we reckoned it tasted better from those glasses. The landlady reckoned it was the dust!

 

[AdamW]

so why say again?

From where I'm sitting, Captain Subtext was saying:

"In areas where you have a notable accumulation of a particular minority on the national scale, whether it be social, ethnic or cultural, those who are not of that minority may harbour ill-feelings towards the minority group as a whole."

The way I interpreted it was:
"Simon lives in Brighton, the gay capital of the UK. With such a gay scene, the heterosexual inhabitants of Brighton might feel that the mainstream pubs should be a haven for those who AREN'T gay, and might feel upset at the ingress of gay patrons to their pub."

If he hadn't mentioned the gay thing, the context would have been lost and it would just be someone saying "I went in a different pub to my normal one, but it was OK."

 

[Thermo]

adam w i think your interpretation is correct, however in brighton the gay pubs tend to be in a small enclave, and there are bloody masses of pubs and clubs to go around whatever your persausion!

 

[TraineeSpark]

Sorry Adam, but I meany Pompey, as in Portsmouth. But I am sure pompeii has loads of good' uns as well. Always wanted to go there.

 

[AdamW]

Thermo, I didn't know that. I've been to Brighton once and to be honest I wasn't in a state to know if I was in a gay bar or not. Was just out in the bars and waaaaaay beyond my sensible alcohol limit!

Never heard Portsmouth called that before, I've learned something today! yay paganism

 

[Thermo]

Pompey, full of matlows and pompey skate! still better than the scummers up the road!

oh and pompeii was an absolute haven of prostitution and drinking. bars on most corners, a quarter forthe lupi (prostitutes named after wolves because they used to howl!) theres even the preserved whore house there with all the porn on the walls!

 

[empip]

Dem ain't Matlows dem is Matelots ... Roole brichtania . gulp, gulp, splatter,splatter ... gertcha !

 

[2scoops0406]

Well, guys, read it and weep. Our pubs are voilence free, friendly, serve good food, stay open all hours, not hassled by the police have always opened as and when they like (not always good) You can still leave your car / house unlocked and in all probability nothing will happen. The main road is blocked off each year for the school procession, Christmas is a BIG christian church event. The memorial is never touched from year to year, and yes, generally people seem happy living around here.

 

[mullin]

The "local"...........about a mile up the road, serves as the local shop (in fact the only shop), sells tyres, does car repairs/servicing, sells diesel if you ask them to turn the pump on (thats pump singular!!) and a good few years ago was the local post office too!! To drive past the place you'd think it was closed down and your impression wouldn't be much changed when you get inside it.

Walk through the shop part to get to the bar, Guinness (of course), Smithwicks, Carlsberg and Bud (for some strange reason) on tap anything else would be coming out of the bottle.

Place doesn't get busy till after 11, before then you'll get the "yunguns" standing in the shop area drinking. Strange kind of place, can go in there on a Saturday night and the place will be dead or a Tuesday night and not be able to move!! Big old fireplace which gets boarded up in March and uncovered second week in November..........without fail!!!

Having said all that, it's a great place to go for a pint and a chat. Get to catch up on all the local news, always going to be people that you know in there.....prety much what you'd want out of a local really I guess.

Went up there at 4 in the afternoon back in the summer to get two tyres for the wifes car - was told to come back at around 9 as the guy who owns the place was "renovating" the sheds out the back and had pulled off a 9" girder from the top of one of them (about 30' high) and it had cut through the 3 phase cable to the garage but it'd be fixed by 9......sure enough turned up at 9, left him the car, went into the shop/pub.....left the place at 3am, obviously didn't drive back!! Walked back up the next day to get the car............great place!!