• MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    2 years ago

    not just any pub... A Wetherspoons. For you non Brits out there - it's the cheapest pub chain around. A big chain. They're everywhere. In the nicer areas they're quite standard and the price goes up with the area. In the shite areas they're absolute madhouses. Most of the time I've been to my local there's been an event of some sort, quite a few times blood has been spilled and police have been called.

    My most memorable was a giant hulk man refusing to take his hat off and fighting the much smaller security guards, lobbing a pint at the bartender and then lobbing a chair from one side of the room to the other. The chair hit the beer tap and beer started spraying all over the place. As the police arrive and start brawling with him, people had their glasses up collecting the droplets as it rained down. Probably one of the most incredible sights I've seen in my life. And it happened at about 5 o clock on a Thursday.

    I am not at all surprised that submarine plans ended up there. I am more surprised that I've never stumbled upon submarine plans in my local. We call the toilets in my local the 'elephants foot' in reference to Chernobyl, because it's always full of nuclear level threats.

    If you ever accidentally end up Britain, you should also accidentally end up in a Spoons.

    • mkultrawide [any]
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      2 years ago

      Why do you guys even need a monarchy when you can all unite around Weatherspoons?

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        to be fair if the monarchy was abolished there would absolutely be a Wetherspoons built in Buckingham Palace

    • Omegamint [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      2 years ago

      When I visited Dublin and London my friends out there informed me that the reason there wasn't 7% strong ipas and whatnot and generally just stuff 5% and lower was because the high ABV stuff lead to people going crazy. Which I absolutely believe, most of the friends I've met from Europe get blitzed like it's casual.

      Unfortunately we didn't go to a spoons. Also unfortunately cocaine started flowing freely right before we got out there and I spent a lot of my mornings just nursing my friends hangovers which kinda screwed my trip over, lol

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        after a certain number of 99p Becks it is your god given duty to king and country to instigate a glassing

      • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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        2 years ago

        Basically yeah but dingier cos lots of Wetherspoons are converted from old probably like 60's era buildings. Maybe even older in some cases. Depending where you are they vary - I've seen spoons in converted old theatres, police stations, industrial dockland buildings like pump houses - anything that was once full of cobwebs and rats is fair game.