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deedub93 said:
I must be responsible for thousands of pubs closing then.
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When I was 18 or 19, a group of young lunatics, led by my cousin, used to pub crawl from The Ship in Croydon to a pub in Purley - probably The Jolly Farmers, a small matter of about 20 pubs. This was in the days of 5.30 - 11.00 opening but to successfully complete the course, you had to have a pint in each.

I managed it once. I took a mouthful in the last pub and then went and heaved my guts up outside the pub. Do young people still do this? It seemed to make some sort of sense to my addled and lunatic brain at the time but I don't see the same kind of behaviour now.
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
When I was 18 or 19, a group of young lunatics, led by my cousin, used to pub crawl from The Ship in Croydon to a pub in Purley - probably The Jolly Farmers, a small matter of about 20 pubs. This was in the days of 5.30 - 11.00 opening but to successfully complete the course, you had to have a pint in each.

I managed it once. I took a mouthful in the last pub and then went and heaved my guts up outside the pub. Do young people still do this? It seemed to make some sort of sense to my addled and lunatic brain at the time but I don't see the same kind of behaviour now.
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I lived in S.Croydon 78-82 - was it YOU who spewed all over my shoes!! :steam:
Feckin’ yob!
 
Spur of the Moment said:
I lived in S.Croydon 78-82 - was it YOU who spewed all over my shoes!! :steam:
Feckin’ yob!
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It's distinctly possible. I spent a lot of time around there at that time, usually in The Swan or The Dukes Head and from there on to The Greyhound. I don't go back much, too many ghosts.........and wannabe gangsters.
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
It's distinctly possible. I spent a lot of time around there at that time, usually in The Swan or The Dukes Head and from there on to The Greyhound. I don't go back much, too many ghosts.........and wannabe gangsters.
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<laugh> Me neither - in fact haven’t been there in a decade - even passing through on the A23! My ghosts are probably scarier than the gangsters- which is, in itself, quite concerning!! <yikes>
 
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
When I was 18 or 19, a group of young lunatics, led by my cousin, used to pub crawl from The Ship in Croydon to a pub in Purley - probably The Jolly Farmers, a small matter of about 20 pubs. This was in the days of 5.30 - 11.00 opening but to successfully complete the course, you had to have a pint in each.

I managed it once. I took a mouthful in the last pub and then went and heaved my guts up outside the pub. Do young people still do this? It seemed to make some sort of sense to my addled and lunatic brain at the time but I don't see the same kind of behaviour now.
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I think you are right. Either youngsters have changed or more likely, there arent enough pubs left. I think the youngsters still do it when they go on holiday.

We used to do Lewes in East Sussex when there was 23 pubs and one night club. We started on pints but 24 pints was impossible so we used to switch to shorts after about a dozen pints. Two or three vomits was not unusual. One time I woke up in the waiting room of the local railway station the next morning cuddling a bottle of Woods 100% rum, god knows where I acquired that.

Were we all nutters or did we need the booze to numb out some of the Spurs results in those days?
 
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deedub93 said:
I think you are right. Either youngsters have changed or more likely, there arent enough pubs left. I think the youngsters still do it when they go on holiday.

We used to do Lewes in East Sussex when there was 23 pubs and one night club. We started on pints but 24 pints was impossible so we used to switch to shorts after about a dozen pints. Two or three vomits was not unusual. One time I woke up in the waiting room of the local railway station the next morning cuddling a bottle of Woods 100% rum, god knows where I acquired that.

Were we all nutters or did we need the booze to numb out some of the Spurs results in those days?
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How would our American friends pronounce that?
 
Blue and White said:
How would our American friends pronounce that?
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I've heard them them pronounce it correctly and wrongly. The intelligent ones have heard of it because Tom Paine, one of their founding fathers lived there for a few years and they pronounce it correctly, lew-ess. Much of the material which went into his 'Rights of Man' was debated by the local debating society in the White Hart Hotel. (Obviously good things come out of anything White Hart). Others incorrectly pronounce it Loos. Donald Trump probably calls it Fake Loos.
The Daily Telegraph crossword crypitically described it as '50 sheep in East Sussex'....L Ewes.
 
Spurf said:
The pub is being consigned to the history books.
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Sadly, and it is the governments fault. Increased tax on alcohol and the ban of smoking in public places has resulted in pub closures. Perhaps the redundant buildings should be converted into nursing homes to cater for all of the elderly people in need of care, who, historically, would have probably died earlier.
 
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deedub93 said:
Perhaps the redundant buildings should be converted into nursing homes to cater for all of the elderly people in need of care, who, historically, would have probably died earlier.
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....thanks to all the cigarettes and alcohol.
 
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I lived opposite this pub for 15 years. The people I met in there enriched my life enormously. When it closed, I decided to move. The community it nourished and brought together will never be the same again. The pub sign is in my office. <wah>

.....and as she was and always will be in my heart........beautiful, with my mate, Dave The Print outside. Oh, the ghosts......

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Citizen Kane said:
....thanks to all the cigarettes and alcohol.
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Exactly

At least lung cancer and cirrhosis of the liver gets it over and done with relatively quickly. You don't sit there praying to die, not remembering your friends or relatives for four or five years like my dear old mum and having to have someone wipe your bum and bandage your bed sores for you. I know which way I would choose.

Successive governments, both Labour and Tories shot this country in the foot by listening to the Health Lobby. I'm approaching 60 and would take 3 score and 10 given the opportunity. I plan to work until then anyway.
 
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