Roughest pub you have ever been in?

[Nibble]

obviously being a failed actor does eat away at you:yahoo:

I will only consider myself a failure if I give up on life and slink off to a conservative stronghold full of toffs, somewhere like Haywards Heath for example. Now, really, you should leave it. There will be tears before bed time.

 

[blue'n'white]

a couple come to mind

walking into a pub in Brixton and becoming aware as I wallked to the bar that it had gone completely silent. I looked around and realised I was the only white person in the pub. . . . . . . . . bought a bottle to take out.


Yeah - I've done that ONCE !! Had the quickest half ever and legged it.
The roughest pub I remember was The Propellor just down from Croydon Aerodrome on the Purley Way. Went in there after playing cricket one day and it seemed OK - bit rough and ready but not too bad. Then someone put on "Lady in Red" on the juke box and this pisshead starting dancing with a woman. Fair enough - not too normal but still Ok. Then her husband came in . . .
We left just before the police got there - there was blood everywhere and there weren't too many windows left as the pisshead got thrown through one and a couple of chairs through another.
Lovely place - haven't been back !!

 

[Gwylan]

I have driven past the Hikers Rest many times but have never ventured in.

What is it about the place? Does everyone stop talking and look at the "Stranger" as they come in? or is it just the general atmosphere?

A couple of posters have said it's fine. Is that because you are known as locals?

Just curious.

The first few times that I went to the Hikers I wasn't a local and I certainly didn't feel threatened.

The HR is a normal local boozer. I'm absolutely staggered that anyone could describe it as rough - I've known any trouble there. Put it this way, the mothers from the local toddlers' group hold their regular management meetings there - I don't think that a pub that holds such meetings could really be described as rough.

One place I did forget to mention was a pub in Hammersmith. It's long vanished but I think it was called the Brittania. I remember seeing a bloke being knocked out cold there and as we made our departure saw someone who'd been stabbed on the ground outside.

 

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I will only consider myself a failure if I give up on life and slink off to a conservative stronghold full of toffs, somewhere like Haywards Heath for example. Now, really, you should leave it. There will be tears before bed time.

hit a nerve then have i ??

 

[User removed 4]

thing is nibble , i actually come from a rough place and love living in a nice civilised place like haywards heath where you can walk home after dark with relative certainty that you will arrive safely, i cant know for sure but i bet you were brought up in a place like haywards heath and feel the need to question my suitability to comment on the "roughness "of certain boozers to disguise your own relative comforable suburban upbringing

 

[rusty redeyes]

Oh I see. Trot off back to your little duck pond pub in Haywards Heath and stop bothering me.

Isn't the pond in Lindfield, just down the road from a certain Mr Ryan's pub?

 

[Nibble]

hit a nerve then have i ??

If I was a failed actor then yes, I probably would be upset by your ill-informed comments however the recent role in a Ch4 drama, a series on Sky, Music video being aired on MTV and the two films I took lead in that have just been shot back to back seem to be keeping me fairly busy at the moment. Ta Ta

 

[Nibble]

thing is nibble , i actually come from a rough place and love living in a nice civilised place like haywards heath where you can walk home after dark with relative certainty that you will arrive safely, i cant know for sure but i bet you were brought up in a place like haywards heath and feel the need to question my suitability to comment on the "roughness "of certain boozers to disguise your own relative comforable suburban upbringing

Actually I was brought up sharing time between Sutton, Belfast and a Military boarding school.

 

[User removed 4]

You, my boy are an obtuse, rotund, ridiculous little man who would not look out of place on the side of a cereal packet.

If I was a failed actor then yes, I probably would be upset by your ill-informed comments however the recent role in a Ch4 drama, a series on Sky, Music video being aired on MTV and the two films I took lead in that have just been shot back to back seem to be keeping me fairly busy at the moment. Ta Ta

definitely hit a nerve

 

[Nibble]

definitely hit a nerve

How? You put forward the theory that I was a failed actor yet I have just dis-proved that.

I feel the nerve being hit here is that you would have liked to be brought up in a rough area but South London for you probably means Croydon or Sutton. It is people like you that associate being bought up in a rough area with having some sort of kudos when in fact all it means is that your parents didn't work hard enough. Now piss off.

 

[User removed 4]

If I was a failed actor then yes, I probably would be upset by your ill-informed comments however the recent role in a Ch4 drama, a series on Sky, Music video being aired on MTV and the two films I took lead in that have just been shot back to back seem to be keeping me fairly busy at the moment. Ta Ta

nibble, films where your taken roughly by beefy men with moustaches wearing leather chaps hardly count as successes mate

 

[Nibble]

nibble, films where your taken roughly by beefy men with moustaches wearing leather chaps hardly count as successes mate

Oh, hilarious. The old porn gag. What I find amazing is that you come from Haywards Heath yet you are so thick.


So which one was it? Cheam, Sutton, Epsom, Croydon? Coulsdon? South London my ringer!

 

[User removed 4]

QUOTE=Nibble;2468155]How? You put forward the theory that I was a failed actor yet I have just dis-proved that.

I feel the nerve being hit here is that you would have liked to be brought up in a rough area but South London for you probably means Croydon or Sutton. It is people like you that associate being bought up in a rough area with having some sort of kudos when in fact all it means is that your parents didn't work hard enough. Now piss off.[/QUOTE]not at all mate:, it wasnt croydon or sutton i was brought up in , but i will tell you one thing mate , take it from one who knows, croydon is rough.and as for my parents not working hard enough at least they thought enough of me to let me live with them , yours obviously disliked you enough to send you away to school

 

[Jahooli]

Have you two tried The Spread Eagle yet?
I think has a quiet room there.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Three spring to mind but cant remember their names.

One in Glasgow in the Gallowgate.

One in Burnley centre

One just a very short walk from the old den when it was still there.

 

[User removed 4]

Oh, hilarious. The old porn gag. What I find amazing is that you come from Haywards Heath yet you are so thick.


So which one was it? Cheam, Sutton, Epsom, Croydon? Coulsdon? South London my ringer!

where do you get the impression im thick ?? it was tooting actually.

 

[Nibble]

not at all mate:, it wasnt croydon or sutton i was brought up in , but i will tell you one thing mate , take it from one who knows, croydon is rough.and as for my parents not working hard enough at least they thought enough of me to let me live with them , yours obviously disliked you enough to send you away to school

Yes they did dis-like me. If you think Croydon is rough you are a f***ing joker mate. I've worked there and while the folks like to give the impression they are hard they are soft as shite. The place is a shitehole though.

 

[Nibble]

where do you get the impression im thick ?? it was tooting actually.

Just your level of humour.

 

[User removed 4]

Yes they did dis-like me. If you think Croydon is rough you are a f***ing joker mate. I've worked there and while the folks like to give the impression they are hard they are soft as shite. The place is a shitehole though.

cant think what made them dislike you :yahoo:

 

[CHAPPERS]

Get a room.