Things u used to see in pubs but don't anymore

You can still see them in some pubs Denzil.

OK scratch that one

Barcrest bandits?

i_agree_with_nick • January 5, 2019 10:31 PM GMT
The bloke who "was in the SAS".
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That was me. Major W Mitty, 158th Squadron SAS. First into Basrah I was. Got my arm shot off and replaced with a gorrila's so I'm stronger than any man, but I shave it so you can't tell.

The bloke who "was in The Beggar the night Ronnie Kray shot George Cornell".

Karaoke on a Sunday night

Sorry; that's taxi drivers.

"Wannabe Pool hustlers who aren't very good" How can you be a pool hustler if you aren't very good? Can you please explain that to me?

'Wannabe' have played many games for money against people who initiated it but weren't up to much.

Do they still do pub quizzes? I remember reading they were dying out as too many b*stards were googling the answers!

The 1 gay man who's camp as Christmas

White dogsh1t

Man Utd shirts

Weren't many o them up my way tbh.

token muslim

Proper afros, ie not shaven at the sides.

Like Rory Breaker,none so adventurous in these parts plenty Chelseas back in the day.

In case of confusion Chelseas were skinheads with only a fringe often dyed blonde for some reason

We had them round 'ere but that was just the birds.

Lucky you Bars of soap in the bogs and lock ins

Strippers
Tenants Extra on Draught in a Pint Jug

anyone playing "all fours"

Lambeth, I am not a fan of strippers, but I used to go to the Gaiety in Leeds for lunch served by attractive topless young ladies, which seemed far less tacky at the time

people with more than a tenner in their pockets

attractive topless young ladies, which seemed far less tacky at the time

That's because it isn't tacky, it's just that everyone's a prude in this fuct up PC world.

Great thread.

Looks like the Big D pic hasn't passed the mods.

Will try again tomorrow and hope someone sensible is doing the shift.

pints of newcastle exhibition

poolballs with roman numerals on em....

boxes of swan vestas

old chap with a pipe

People who had their own glass.

black and white tv

betty turpin

Quiz machines, i know a couple who made serious money from them travelling the country.

Saw dust on the floor

Blind Darts - For the younger Chit Chatters, this wasn't a game played blindfold but a charity box with darts that you could use after a donation was placed in the box.

shuv  ha'penny

That silly sign IYAMWTMYMPAPITCB or something like that.
(Penny for the charity box)

No Travellers

My dad.

Football 'cards' to raise money for the pub football team.

Pints with handles.

Jan 6, 2019 -- 9:19AM, Jack Hacksaw wrote:

My dad.Football 'cards' to raise money for the pub football team.Pints with handles.

black bull in morpeth still does pints with handles

Meat raffles

pickled eggs and pickled walnuts ,

flock velvet wallpaper!

gaiety bar in leeds as a boro fan many a stop off on way/home from away games,

Phone on the wall.

Perhaps not generally but in my parents village there's only 1 pub left with no pub games. No skittles, darts, pool etc. Not even a fruit machine/jukebox.

Off licence where you took the bottles back and got a shilling.
Birds in white boots
HALVES OF LAGER BEING DRUNK
pint's of mild
saying to the barmaid,''Have one yourself''..That would out another fiver on the round.
Urinals where you could put one hand on the wall and rest your head on it  whilst pissing

Urinals where you could put one hand on the wall and rest your head on it  whilst pissing





Best feeling in the world on a Friday night.

Pub dog sat by the roaring fire.....

Regulars on a Wednesday night, 'Am I O.K. for a fiver till Friday?'

Chalk for the pool cues.

"What are you having love?" "A large brandy and babycham please Slippy, cheers babs."

Women that want to take me home with them

slippy

A bloke with a large hold all furtively flogging videos & cassettes
Just one brand of gin
A jaded curmudgeonly old landlord - can I have half of lager &lime?sorry lad we don’t serve cocktails in here.

Slippy me and my mate used to run dogs at Portsmouth in the 70s/80s we were only young about 18 i think, and i remember

my mate asking his trainer if he wanted a drink, well the trainer had never been seen in the bar before but you

should have seen my mates face when he looked up and said " thats kind i will have a large port and brandy ". 

One of the pleasures of living in a remote village is that most of the things whose passing is being lamented here still go on.

Jan 6, 2019 -- 1:12PM, 1st time poster wrote:

gaiety bar in leeds as a boro fan many a stop off on way/home from away games,

how are you still alive ? never has a pub been so misnamed.

the bottles of cordials on the bar lime,blackcurrant, etc which used to be free then suddenly had a 5p charge put on them and if yopu helped yourself the cordial police appeared from nowhere with a tap on your shoulder rattling a tin ,


used to work with a bloke 16 yr older than me was  drinking in late 60,early 70,s, when pernod 1st came on the seen, he said buying a bird pernod and a bottle of cherry B was a sure fire winner and was knicknamed knicker dropper, he said when you went to the bar in your  local and asked for a pint and a pernod and cherry B for the lady,the barmaid would say you dirty old get,

morpeth if you didn't fancy getting out of the gaiety bar the alpine lodge on the A1 was another stop off regular or drive into borobridge, or a few in whetherby followed by fish n chips from the happy whaler

real beer

1st time is right and alongside the cordials were lemonade and a soda syphon for 'a splash'.

Jan 7, 2019 -- 9:24AM, 1st time poster wrote:

morpeth if you didn't fancy getting out of the gaiety bar the alpine lodge on the A1 was another stop off regular or drive into borobridge, or a few in whetherby followed by fish n chips from the happy whaler

alpine lodge, remember that one.

think the gaiety was in chapeltown area of leeds, used to pass it ( short cut ) if going to games in manchester or liverpool.

yeh was on the corner of a t junction as you took a left towards leeds centre

thats the one. wonder if it has had a refurb ?

back in the day using 70,s language had more spades hanging about outside than a garden centre,

It was on the edge of Harehills, where a lot of Leeds hooligans lived. As said above it was a black pub (pool and adulterated hash upstairs) and there were only a handful of black football hooligans in Harehills, so pretty safe. Once crack cocaine hit the streets the young hash dealers were soon users and started forcing people to buy painted plasticine, henna etc under threat of violence. It got demolished.

lemonades

Where you been hiding LW ?

Jan 7, 2019 -- 10:39AM, saddo wrote:

It was on the edge of Harehills, where a lot of Leeds hooligans lived. As said above it was a black pub (pool and adulterated hash upstairs) and there were only a handful of black football hooligans in Harehills, so pretty safe. Once crack cocaine hit the streets the young hash dealers were soon users and started forcing people to buy painted plasticine, henna etc under threat of violence. It got demolished.

so its not a gastropub with craft beers ?

You could see a lovely pair of tlts hovering over your lunch without feeling tawdry.

never went into leeds for a drink after leeds away or any away games ,but always made surrounding area,s on way back from matches at drinky poo time,so always stopped of in ottley,harrogate,knaesbrough,wetherby,borobridge,tadcaster, etc ,might as well as stopped off in leeds cause always ended in someone drinking to much and bother starting anyway

we would either stop in halifax or ripon on way home.
otley was a stop on way to bradford, was a pub in otley, run by the most obnoxious landlord ever encountered. may have been called bowling green ?

PUB LANDLORD OWNERS  so much is chain owned

less than a mile from the Gaiety was the Fforde Grene,never fancied venturing in myself.

charity boxes that are not chained up!

cigarette machines .

Dodgy dvds being sold.

I lived oposite the Fforde Grene when i first moved to Leeds in 1979 ..some scary people in the there ...Gaiety as well

Cleavage

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Table top Space Invaders

^ That was brilliant when they first came out !

Was at the Rising Sun on Cleeve Hill circa 1980

Black Label and Red Barrel on draught.

Cardboard backing which held say 20 packs of nuts and the staff would tear one off.

1/2p or 1/2d coin, that a customer couldn't be bothered with, lying in a film of frothy "beer" on the bar.

A proper slops tray.

back in the 70s i worked in a pub part time they had stainless steel buckets that they would pour the slops from the draught beer trays and anything left in the bottom of glasses  and it would be emptied down the sink at the end of the night , it was a local pub to me and they  used to get a few mates in most nights ,for a laugh when a mate ordered a pint i said ill bring it over to him and scooped up a pint of slops out of the bucket and took it over to him ,what the fook is that he said ,oh its a new beer we are testing out its only 10 p a pint(a pint would have been about 40p in those days ) i said let us know what ya think of it  ,incredably the fooker liked it and ordered a few more pints during the night although he did stat that none of the pints tasted quite the same

Great stuff FOYLES

Foyles
When I was 16 or 17 so around 1968/9 I had a part-time job working in a pub in the evenings. When you pulled a pint you always had to to it on a metal tray. Periodically any overflow from the pint would be poured into a stainless bucket. At the end of the night the buckets would be taken down to the cellar and using a funnel poured back into one of the mild barrels.

Most people drank mild as it was cheaper than bitter.

Go Go Dancers.

Used to ba able to get a daily record/Sunday mail at the weekends in the boozer, paperboy would hit the pubs about the last hour, seen many a punter having another pint waiting on the paperboy to get the 1st edition of next day’s paper. The boys must have made a right few quid in tips!

Pubs with 2 sepraate bars for blacks and whites... loads in south london till the 80.s early 90,s... never see any trouble over it either   these pc c**** dont like people to be happy

i was working with a jamaican builder and drank with him in the black bar .. no probs

Don't know if anyone has said this here , but i remember those little packets containig , a pickled onion , piece of cheese and a cracker . Remember them ?

Don't see many of those pineapple cubes in the urinal trays these days.

PILE OF PENNIES FOR CHARITY
FREE SODA WATER SYPHON
WAITERS

Bar staff that could add up a round of drinks in their head

Bar staff that had some comprehension of who is next to be served.

Bouncers getting a right kickin