Tom Bombadil
Well-known member
Easy 10 said:Why is it that every week, in every soap, someone stands up and makes some kind of "public announcement" to everyone in the boozer ? Whether it be the Woolpack, the Vic or the Rovers, hardly a day goes by without some wretched skank lurching up to the bar, calling for a bit of quiet, and starting off with: "now I know what you lot all fink of me, right, but....." blah blah blah.
Now I've been to a lot of pubs. I spend a lot of time and a lot of money in them, and there are several that I attend on a regular basis. And never, NEVER in all my years has ANYONE ever decided to make an announcement to the entire pub. Never happens. Yet in "soapworld" I'm amazed if a day goes by without at least one of them airing all their dirty linen to all and sundry down the local.
Or is it just me.
My local when I was a teenager was run by an ageing husband and wife whom the brewery were forever trying to persuade to move on. One night the landlady got plastered (as was her habit) and proceeded to treat the entire pub to a rant about her problems and how no-one understood how hard her life is.
All very funny until she reached into her top and removed her false tit ( i believe it was her left one) and proceeded to tell everyone about her mastectomy(sp?) before throwing aforementioned prosthetic breast at her astounded husband who was behind the bar.
Sadly she died a few years later when her cancer returned. Still I feel I can safely say I'll never see anything like it again