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Do you like going to the pub ?
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I dont
Apart from the eye candy most pubs are overpriced
I can't stand them on rugby International day
And in the middle of the week the bar seems to be propped up by boring blokes who have just finished work and are having a pint , or three , before going home or in the case of the really interesting types , spending the whole evening boring the pants off everybody with their life stories or jokes or ideas to bring back hanging
I would rather go and see a band
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I don't really go to the pub but don't mind now and again. They're dying on there arse in a lot of areas, particularly in working class parts of the city, the traditional working mans boozer, life has changed for men, child care, responsibility and both parents working, plus the cost. A lot of blokes that i know who have spent plenty of their time in the boozer have paid the price in other ways.
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SLUDGE FACTORY
bar , etc ?
I dont
Apart from the eye candy most pubs are overpriced
I can't stand them on rugby International day
And in the middle of the week the bar seems to be propped up by boring blokes who have just finished work and are having a pint , or three , before going home or in the case of the really interesting types , spending the whole evening boring the pants off everybody with their life stories or jokes or ideas to bring back hanging
I would rather go and see a band
Ah, but what about a band in a pub?:hehe:
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splott parker
Ah, but what about a band in a pub?:hehe:
I remember the Royal Oak used to put bands on in the Annex? connected to the pub. Looks like it hasn't been used for years.
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splott parker
Ah, but what about a band in a pub?:hehe:
Now you are talking
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Tuerto
I don't really go to the pub but don't mind now and again. They're dying on there arse in a lot of areas, particularly in working class parts of the city, the traditional working mans boozer, life has changed for men, child care, responsibility and both parents working, plus the cost. A lot of blokes that i know who have spent plenty of their time in the boozer have paid the price in other ways.
I enjoy the pub pre and post match, it’s great to have a chat about what we’re about to see and then have a moan later about what we’ve seen. Me and the missus did go to a pub last night, well early evening, it was a lovely change after recent times. Sat outside in a nice area, had a really good meal, it was excellent. Couple of pints with it, really enjoyed it, only out from 5pm-8pm, will be back there again soon. I do miss the proper pub atmosphere on a match day, home or away, though.
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Tuerto
I remember the Royal Oak used to put bands on in the Annex? connected to the pub. Looks like it hasn't been used for years.
is that royal oak newport Road?
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Originally Posted by
Tuerto
I don't really go to the pub but don't mind now and again. They're dying on there arse in a lot of areas, particularly in working class parts of the city, the traditional working mans boozer, life has changed for men, child care, responsibility and both parents working, plus the cost. A lot of blokes that i know who have spent plenty of their time in the boozer have paid the price in other ways.
Really stunning woman lives by me , early forties , shes in the pub all the time and she gets pissed up , god knows what state her liver is in
She's a real sort , its such a shame
I may try and convert her
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splott parker
I enjoy the pub pre and post match, it’s great to have a chat about what we’re about to see and then have a moan later about what we’ve seen. Me and the missus did go to a pub last night, well early evening, it was a lovely change after recent times. Sat outside in a nice area, had a really good meal, it was excellent. Couple of pints with it, really enjoyed it, only out from 5pm-8pm, will be back there again soon. I do miss the proper pub atmosphere on a match day, home or away, though.
Sounds great. I recall you saying that you're not a home drinker, i commend your actions, surely having a pint is a social thing, all part of a wider thing? Sitting in the house supping while the ****ing washing machine is singing away sounds bloody awful. I used to pay a lot of football and used to go back to the pub for an hour or so after the game, never really a drinker but enjoyed the piss taking and camaraderie, that seems lost these days.
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SLUDGE FACTORY
is that royal oak newport Road?
That's the one. Used to have a lot of local bands on. Gunman probably went there during his 'New Wave' phase.
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Yes.
If you aren't a miserable bastard those things you mention can be ignored, and you can make your own lovely time of it.
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Love the pub.
Usually only go once a week though.
Just got back from a run to shake off the 8 pints from yesterday.
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Tuerto
I remember the Royal Oak used to put bands on in the Annex? connected to the pub. Looks like it hasn't been used for years.
It hasn’t recently, used to be jumping there years ago, great, earthy atmosphere. This is the type of thing I was referring to in another thread, the social scene was a lot better in the past. Everyone catered for, bands in back rooms of pubs, public bars for the regular boozers, lounge bars for a quieter night out with the wife, then there were the social/working clubs with their concert rooms, a bit of bingo and then a middle of the road turn. If you wanted a meal you’d go to a restaurant or a designated room in a pub, I’m not a fan of eating a meal in the bar of a pub, I prefer a dedicated dining area. Also pubs provided a breeding ground for starting off sports teams, the lads getting together and joining the Cardiff & District or Combination Leagues, sadly diminished now. Progress, I s’pose, but is it? Its all a knock on effect, parks overgrown now, no posts up, very few skittle alleys, community spirit waning. Times have changed, even more so lately, but for the better hmmmmmmmm?
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splott parker
Ah, but what about a band in a pub?:hehe:
I can't stand bands in pubs. One minute you're enjoying a quiet drink and chatting with friends, the next you've some shitty band blasting bad covers and talking between every song. Later.
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Hilts
Love the pub.
Usually only go once a week though.
Just got back from a run to shake off the 8 pints from yesterday.
That's about 1700 calories, You'd need to run about 14 miles to shift that-Just saying :hehe:
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Tuerto
That's about 1700 calories, You'd need to run about 14 miles to shift that-Just saying :hehe:
No wonder the weight doesn't drop off me :hehe:
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Tuerto
That's about 1700 calories, You'd need to run about 14 miles to shift that-Just saying :hehe:
Pubs are about 14 miles apart nowadays, could merge the two in a pub crawl:hehe:
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splott parker
It hasn’t recently, used to be jumping there years ago, great, earthy atmosphere. This is the type of thing I was referring to in another thread, the social scene was a lot better in the past. Everyone catered for, bands in back rooms of pubs, public bars for the regular boozers, lounge bars for a quieter night out with the wife, then there were the social/working clubs with their concert rooms, a bit of bingo and then a middle of the road turn. If you wanted a meal you’d go to a restaurant or a designated room in a pub, I’m not a fan of eating a meal in the bar of a pub, I prefer a dedicated dining area. Also pubs provided a breeding ground for starting off sports teams, the lads getting together and joining the Cardiff & District or Combination Leagues, sadly diminished now. Progress, I s’pose, but is it? Its all a knock on effect, parks overgrown now, no posts up, very few skittle alleys, community spirit waning. Times have changed, even more so lately, but for the better hmmmmmmmm?
Yup, working class culture has been wiped out for a number of reasons, traditional jobs in industry and manufacturing has had a huge knock on effect. I'd say that making the poor even poorer thus creating an underclass has proved catastrophic for the working class.
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splott parker
Pubs are about 14 miles apart nowadays, could merge the two in a pub crawl:hehe:
The white middle class would be all over that, offset your drinking binge! they'd create an app and everything.
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dembethewarrior
Yes.
If you aren't a miserable bastard those things you mention can be ignored, and you can make your own lovely time of it.
The trouble with pubs is the alcohol and its difficult to avoid in a pub
Alcohol turns interesting people into boring arseholes and drunken arseholes tend to turn up in pubs
I wish they would drink in pubs
I prefer to go to community centres and have conversations with people who are not drunk
Or a book club at the local library
I like the idea of alcohol free pubs
You don't get many fights where alcohol isn't served
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Tuerto
That's the one. Used to have a lot of local bands on. Gunman probably went there during his 'New Wave' phase.
is that the one with all the boxing stuff on the wall and a cardiff city shirt framed ?
I went in there a few times , thought it was a bit edgey
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dembethewarrior
No wonder the weight doesn't drop off me :hehe:
If that's all he had that day then he's quids in-As long as he didn't eat any food, he's under his Daily calorie in take :hehe:
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SLUDGE FACTORY
is that the one with all the boxing stuff on the wall and a cardiff city shirt framed ?
I went in there a few times , thought it was a bit edgey
yup, boxing gym upstairs, a lot of gypsy lads would get in there. I went a few times when i was a teenager until this gypsy kid from Shirenewton beat the shit out of me in a 1 minute sparring round.... :hehe:
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Originally Posted by
splott parker
It hasn’t recently, used to be jumping there years ago, great, earthy atmosphere. This is the type of thing I was referring to in another thread, the social scene was a lot better in the past. Everyone catered for, bands in back rooms of pubs, public bars for the regular boozers, lounge bars for a quieter night out with the wife, then there were the social/working clubs with their concert rooms, a bit of bingo and then a middle of the road turn. If you wanted a meal you’d go to a restaurant or a designated room in a pub, I’m not a fan of eating a meal in the bar of a pub, I prefer a dedicated dining area. Also pubs provided a breeding ground for starting off sports teams, the lads getting together and joining the Cardiff & District or Combination Leagues, sadly diminished now. Progress, I s’pose, but is it? Its all a knock on effect, parks overgrown now, no posts up, very few skittle alleys, community spirit waning. Times have changed, even more so lately, but for the better hmmmmmmmm?
Good post. We've lost many pubs and clubs in Barry that used to run football teams over the last decade or so. The Admiral, Three Bells, Island Marine as well as social clubs like Services Social, Seaview and The Dockers have all gone. In the early 2000's there were nearly 50 local league sides and 4 divisions, last year just over 20 and in 2 divisions.:shrug:
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Tuerto
If that's all he had that day then he's quids in-As long as he didn't eat any food, he's under his Daily calorie in take :hehe:
:hehe:
Probably doubtful though, hard not to eat when you've had a drink in my experience.
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Tuerto
yup, boxing gym upstairs, a lot of gypsy lads would get in there. I went a few times when i was a teenager until this gypsy kid from Shirenewton beat the shit out of me in a 1 minute sparring round.... :hehe:
Shirenewton, where they drive to the pub and have 8 or more pints and drive home. Lovely place.
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Tuerto
Yup, working class culture has been wiped out for a number of reasons, traditional jobs in industry and manufacturing has had a huge knock on effect. I'd say that making the poor even poorer thus creating an underclass has proved catastrophic for the working class.
Good analogy that ‘making the poor even poorer’, it may be rose tinted glasses but years ago all blokes seemed to have a couple of bob over for a few pints with mates (whether that was detrimental to the household income, I don’t know? My old man always enjoyed a pint but never to our cost). I’d hate to be judgemental but has an underclass been created now, an underclass that could never afford the spiralling cost of nights out or treating their kids to the attractions available? So they drink cheap booze at home, never having the chance of mixing in the local and forging some community spirit. You mention that it was a bit dodgy growing up years ago but that local pub had a lot to do with calming that. It was a melting pot of age groups and the majority of good diluted the minority of bad, the older generation more or less kept the young tearaways in control because, more often than not, a youngster playing up would have his old man with his mates in the local telling them to ‘knock it off’. None of that now, people hardly know the other folk in their area.
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Tuerto
yup, boxing gym upstairs, a lot of gypsy lads would get in there. I went a few times when i was a teenager until this gypsy kid from Shirenewton beat the shit out of me in a 1 minute sparring round.... :hehe:
landlady when I went in there sounded like an Irish traveller , she looked tasty with her fists
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dembethewarrior
Shirenewton, where they drive to the pub and have 8 or more pints and drive home. Lovely place.
Great, innit! I do some work down there, they're alright, funny as ****, dogs, chickens and all sorts roaming around.
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SLUDGE FACTORY
landlady when I went in there sounded like an Irish traveller , she looked tasty with her fists
Kitty, she went to the Cambrian afterwards, renamed it Kitty Flynn's.
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Tuerto
Great, innit! I do some work down there, they're alright, funny as ****, dogs, chickens and all sorts roaming around.
Haven't been there for years but they're a good bunch of people.
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splott parker
Good analogy that ‘making the poor even poorer’, it may be rose tinted glasses but years ago all blokes seemed to have a couple of bob over for a few pints with mates (whether that was detrimental to the household income, I don’t know? My old man always enjoyed a pint but never to our cost). I’d hate to be judgemental but has an underclass been created now, an underclass that could never afford the spiralling cost of nights out or treating their kids to the attractions available? So they drink cheap booze at home, never having the chance of mixing in the local and forging some community spirit. You mention that it was a bit dodgy growing up years ago but that local pub had a lot to do with calming that. It was a melting pot of age groups and the majority of good diluted the minority of bad, the older generation more or less kept the young tearaways in control because, more often than not, a youngster playing up would have his old man with his mates in the local telling them to ‘knock it off’. None of that now, people hardly know the other folk in their area.
I'd say that there's an under class, generations of the same family who have never worked and all of the social problems that go with it. Years ago there would've been employment for these people, many of whom are poorly educated and have low aspiration-work can prop up a lot of social misgivings in my opinion, it also keeps people busy. Many of the working class have had their traditional routes taken away from them, thus creating an underclass in my opinion. Very difficult, if not impossible to reverse it. The rise in single parenting hasn't helped either, shithouse blokes who don't want to take responsibility for their kids. Plenty of dads when i was growing up were not perfect, but at least they were about and had some positive influence, it also showed an element of solidarity towards each over that only seems to kick in when you get into adulthood.
Plenty has gone wrong for white working class men over the last 30 years, that's a fact. Sad thing is that it's the women and kids who suffer most from it.
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BLUETIT
Kitty, she went to the Cambrian afterwards, renamed it Kitty Flynn's.
If she was in there , she could call it what she likes , i wouldn't be arguing
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dembethewarrior
Haven't been there for years but they're a good bunch of people.
Hysterical at times-All of the women say 'I swear on my johns life' Whoever john is :hehe:
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SLUDGE FACTORY
If she was in there , she could call it what she likes , i wouldn't be arguing
I knew her son, top lad, he was a tiler, killed in a traffic accident.
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Tuerto
Hysterical at times-All of the women say 'I swear on my johns life' Whoever john is :hehe:
her brother who is also her husband
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Tuerto
I knew her son, top lad, he was a tiler, killed in a traffic accident.
well if he was anything like his mother I wouldn't be arguing with him either
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SLUDGE FACTORY
her brother who is also her husband
The women run things down there, the blokes do as they're told-no ****ing about.
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BLUETIT
Kitty, she went to the Cambrian afterwards, renamed it Kitty Flynn's.
Kitty & Mike Flynn retired from the Royal Oak, The Cambrian was named after her for a while but she never ran it. In fact she was only a Flynn for a short time, she ran The Oak as Kitty Burns for the majority of time there only marrying Mike in her latter years as landlady.
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splott parker
Kitty & Mike Flynn retired from the Royal Oak, The Cambrian was named after her for a while but she never ran it. In fact she was only a Flynn for a short time, she ran The Oak as Kitty Burns for the majority of time there only marrying Mike in her latter years as landlady.
I'm certain I saw her behind the bar !!!
Maybe I was at the opening and she was there. :shrug: