mashed in maryland 11:07 Sat Jun 6
What's your favourite type of pub?
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With it being Saturday, and with all the boozers closed down (and World's End on telly the other day), lets talk pubs.
Not necessarily your individual favourite establishment, but just the type of pub.
A small local pub on a corner full of old sods during the day and unchanged since 1846?
A country pub with a roaring fire and proper home made grub?
A high street Wetherspoons full of pissheads by day and "out out" crowd at night?
Gastropub serving burgers on bits of wood?
City wine bar type gafs full of office bods?
Rough as fuck flat roof council estate pubs where its £2 a pint of rotten Holsten Pils and you get stabbed in the toilets?
Rock pubs full of smelly cunts with ponytails that do all weird obscure beers/ciders?
Any more types I missed?
For me it depends on the time of year. High street type places in summer (preferably with a garden) and local/country pubs in winter.
Discuss.
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Gaffa
10:17 Tue Jun 9
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It’s obviously very subjective, but for me you can’t beat a village / country pub that serves real ales and good food. A nice beer garden is a bonus, as is a roaring fire in the winter.
Fortunately for me, I’m talking about my local in Lancashire, the pub whose football team I have managed for almost 20 years.
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mashed in maryland
9:56 Tue Jun 9
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A few of the gafs round covent garden could probably be classed as "dive bar" imitations, but not been there in years. Tended to just be filled with tourists.
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mashed in maryland
9:54 Tue Jun 9
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simon.s 9:39 Sun Jun 7
I know what you mean. The only places in the UK that try and imitate to any degree (the aesthetic etc) tend to be student pubs.
Our drinking cultures are a bit different
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joe royal
8:43 Tue Jun 9
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Intrepid fox, that’s a blast from the past, last went in there circa 2001. Long gone now.
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sanfrancis-co-uk
3:33 Tue Jun 9
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simon.s 9:39 Sun Jun 7
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Dive bars work in the states, I remember going to a great one in Chicago, also good jukebox, and no food, although you could get a great hot dog from the place next door, and bring it back in.
I like the fact that you can bring your own food in.I wasn’t that keen when someone would bring a full Chinese in though and stink the place out.Often wondered how an old school American dive bar would fair in England?It’d have to be along the lines of The Intrepid Fox I’d imagine,grimy and punky,but friendly enough.
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zebthecat
11:15 Sun Jun 7
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Actually the Nap in Boscastle has more atmosphere (in a crack your head on the door frame way). Walking up that hill to it is pretty thirsty work.
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simon.s
11:15 Sun Jun 7
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Looking at the pics of it Joe, that wasn’t the one I was in. Looks my sort of bar though.
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zebthecat
11:13 Sun Jun 7
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A proper pubby old country pub with good food, good beer and a fire. The Welly in Boscastle is my favourite.
My local is pretty good, it is a converted water mill.
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Joe C
11:11 Sun Jun 7
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I loved Rossi’s. Was supposed to be out there last month with my old man - have rebooked for October and hope that’s a goer...
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simon.s
11:07 Sun Jun 7
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Joe, possibly.
Spent every night of my trip in there, but never once paid any attention to the name of the place!
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jim@chickenrun
10:52 Sun Jun 7
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One that's open
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Joe C
10:47 Sun Jun 7
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Simon.s - wasn’t called Rossi’s was it?
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simon.s
9:39 Sun Jun 7
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Dive bars work in the states, I remember going to a great one in Chicago, also good jukebox, and no food, although you could get a great hot dog from the place next door, and bring it back in.
Not sure we have the equivalent over here, it would just be rough old boozers, which can also have a certain charm.
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sanfrancis-co-uk
9:32 Sun Jun 7
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Dive bar
Good Jukebox
No food
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geoffpikey
5:01 Sun Jun 7
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I think we should sign Jordan VIBE from AFC Bro'mouth. And Ben CHILLwell.
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Nurse Ratched
4:39 Sun Jun 7
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Arf!
You snivelling cuck.
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VickyPkVillageIdiot
4:37 Sun Jun 7
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The only vibe you want is from your rampant rabbit, you dirty old cow.
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Nurse Ratched
4:34 Sun Jun 7
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I'm disappointed by the vibe in my local sainsbury.
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IsaacHock
3:58 Sun Jun 7
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No CAMRA Types
No CAMRA Ales
Hard Floor around bar, carpet as you move away
Background music from Jukebox only containing songs I have selected (volume capped at 4)
No Kids
No new-age novelty names (The Hedgehog & Carpet Fitter etc)
No drugs talk
All food should have been available on a 1970s menu (Sandwiches yes, Quinoa, no)
Food to be expressed in pounds and pence (No 'Scotch Egg - 7')
No-one significantly richer than me
No-one significantly poorer than me
All opinions to mirror my own
No conversations to be initiated with references to social media
All barmaids to have excellent racks - displayed proudly
Follow on to above - appreciation of innuendo / No Thunberg-esque barmaids
Somewhere remote
But not too remote
Has rooms upstairs for late notice bookings
Dogs that wont annoy me and will be respectful allowed
Complimentary roast potatoes on bar
Warm
No Tottenham
Floor that creaks / door that squeaks
Exposed beams
Fat landlord
90% regulars
Never been described as having a 'Vibe'
Portable telephone usage should mirror my own - minimal
Has a football team that most patrons have been involved with at one time
Cheap
Only permissible charity - Poppies
Is thought of by local community as a 'Treasure' rather than a 'Nuisance'
No wifi
Patron name engraved tankards / glasses behind bar
Regulars entitled to skip queue with nod / wink to / from Landlord
Scampi Fries & peanuts on a card that reveals an enormous set of (natural) norks once sufficient purchases
West Ham trivia barmats with questions chosen by me
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geoffpikey
3:45 Sun Jun 7
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Don't crush my vibe, man.
*Boogaloos out of snug playing She Got That Vibe on my Vibraphone
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mashed in maryland
3:15 Sun Jun 7
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I was gonna ask what Vibe is. I now hope pubs never open again just so geoffpikey can't go in one.
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