― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 23:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
You lucky, lucky circle.
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 February 2003 23:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
Unemployed NYCILXCHIXOR! Let's open this!
― rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 04:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 06:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 10:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
[From Television Theme Song]
Making your way in the world todayTakes everything you've gotTaking a break from all your worriesSure would help a lotWouldn't you like to get away
All those night when you've got no lightsThe check is in the mailAnd your little angelHung the cat up by it's tailAnd your third fiance didn't show
Sometimes you want to goWhere everybody knows your nameAnd they're always glad you cameYou want to be where you can seeOur troubles are all the sameYou want to be where everybody knows your name
Roll out of bed, Mr. Coffee's deadThe morning's looking brightAnd your shrink ran off to EuropeAnd didn't even writeAnd your husband wants to be a girl
Be glad there's one place in the worldWhere everybody knows your nameAnd they're always glad you cameYou want to go where people knowPeople are all the sameYou want to go where everybody knows your name
Where everybody knows your nameAnd they're always glad you cameWhere everybody knows your nameAnd they're always glad you came
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 11:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 11:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
The first step? Take a flight at Heathrow and flip through the CD racks at the Air Mall. You'll find funny names, lots of cover versions, and more compilations than you can shake an ambassador at. The most famous comp is Now That's What I Call Music! and England's already up to Now 53 in the series. (That's right, we stole the idea.) If you think it's just kids buying sugary kid stuff, go hit a pub anywhere in England. The social space is the blueprint for the product—pubs themselves are compilations. Unlike those American bars that nurture misanthropy by keeping everyone drunk in near darkness, English pubs are often light and spacious. Some even have gardens out back, and many do plenty of business during daylight hours. Families have dinner, students meet for drinks, kids run around the pool table, and gnarled football nuts plunk down an empty glass, walk over to the jukebox and put on Kylie or Robbie at all times of day and night. Yeah, mate, dance pop. Nice beat, I can sing along, the missus enjoys it. Wot are you looking at?
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 11:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 11:26 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 11:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
Pubs with "family rooms" classic or dud?
― chris (chris), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 11:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
still, good to know that the words to the verses we never hear are so awful
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 11:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
Family room != nursery - as many families seem to think.
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 5 February 2003 12:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
like, early in the night, you want PUB. it should be local, it should have old people in, you should ddrink beer, the carpet should be stained and dirty. there should be geezers. there should be plenty seating room to spread out in.
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 15 December 2005 08:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 08:58 (eighteen years ago) link
There are no old geezers in the Foundry. There never are. This precludes it from being a pub. There's no carpet either, but this isn't a prerequisite.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Guess I ain't been to a pub. Why would you carpet anyplace where the liklihood of spills is so high as to be mathematically inevitable?
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:18 (eighteen years ago) link
a bar is just one main 'bar' room, or a stupid trendy name that toffs use to call any place where people sit and drink ale.
carpets and geezers are not an issue.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 15 December 2005 09:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:12 (eighteen years ago) link
no mention of uncarpeted bars in my post, are you talking to me ?
anyway you misread my post completely if you are. where did i say that no drinking took place in the other section?
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaysus, Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― alext (alext), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
The Foundry has plenty seating room to spread out in?
As I said to Matt last night, no old geezers, no pub.
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link
What I think of as the classic model is:
1. an uncarpeted saloon (or public) bar with few tables, often high standy-uppy ones. This is where the serious drinking is done, and where the Real Men are.
2. a carpeted lounge bar where the ladies can sip their gin and tonics accompanied by the unreal men, where you watch your language and sit down at a table and maybe get a bite to eat.
3. possibly some snugs which in my experience are rarely carpeted, poss due to virtual impossibility of getting a vacuum cleaner in and around them.
I suspect the phenomenon of completely carpeted pubs is a fairly recent thing, likely dating somewhere between the 50s and the 70s, when lots of pubs were trying to move upmarket and effectively re-fitted both bars as lounge bars. This may also correspond to larger-scale industrial production of cheaper and more resilient carpets made of modern materials but I know nothing of the history of carpet making and therefore have made this factor up.
I grew up just down the road from Axminster, I've no excuse.
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Falling down the stairs again (noodle vague), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Falling down the stairs again (noodle vague), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link
rubbish, there are plenty of places that people class as 'bars' around our way with an abundent amount of old geezers hogging the corners of the bars.
obv brown carpet is the way to go.
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link
Well yeah. The whole idea of wall-to-wall carpet dates from the 50's the the 70's, much less in pubs. That don't make it a good idea. From the 50's to the 70's, wall-to-wall carpet was sometimes even seen in bathrooms. People went goddamn carpet crazy.
Pubs smell romantic and sickly. And sick-y. And like being 17. And like home.
I can't argue with something smelling like home. You love what you love. But my home smells a little less like vomit than yours does, I would guess.
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link
r you might like to say, as Matt and Steve like to, that a pub is a traditional drinking establishment with wood and tables and hand pumps and carpet and (in extreme cases) horse brasses, while a bar is something which looks different and modern.
Or you can say that a pub is an establishment which sets out to accommodate a broad range of its local community while a bar tends to be more demographically focussed. Perhaps that would be better said as "a bar knows the word demogrpahic, a pub won't understand why it's relevant".
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 15 December 2005 10:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link
The Rosemary Branch in De Beauvoir Town used to have lots of wacky sculpture and painting and that but that seems to have calmed down a lot since it's been operated by the same people as the Swimmer and The Approach.
The Approach has an real actual contemporary art gallery upstairs where you can see proper contemporary art, some of which is really good.
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link
pub explodes
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 15 December 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link