The characters of your local pub/club

Specialun · 17-04-2015 02:58PM #1

Pub down the road from my home place. A couple own it and they can be a bit crazy/different

A) the woman refuses to clean the mens toilets..if the husband is away or not working for a few days it smells of piss

they have penny sweets..you count them and then lets say you say 30 sweets- she will then count them
C) they still have a tv which is easily 15 yrs..the one with the big back

Does you local pub/club have any characters

Hoop66 · 17-04-2015 03:09PM

Well there's me. I'm tremendous fun.

Banjo String · 17-04-2015 03:10PM

Does you local pub/club have any characters

Mine has a big Homer Simpson figure beside the till that says something about alcohol being the cause and solution to all life's problems.

veryangryman · 17-04-2015 03:12PM

One of the local bars has a crusty looking shifty lad coming in and out selling cheap illegal fags and complaining about how corrupt the country is.

anncoates · 17-04-2015 03:12PM

It's in the Dublin suburbs but more like a country pub frozen around 1983. If you're not native to the area and blew in within the last 30 years, you're treated with the amiable contempt reserved for essentially decent people that have a unfortunate disorder that is beyond their control.

No real characters there except for a pensioner that roars at people that interrupt his sing-songs and who has been observed discreetly scoffing a packet of cheap ham between pints.

I expect them to start selling craft beers around 2056

TwoShedsJackson · 17-04-2015 03:13PM

'Character' in pub speak tends to mean 'irritating alco who you wish would just sod off'.

King George VI · 17-04-2015 03:20PM

In every local pub in Dublin there's always a Macker or a Smasher who has tattoos of a rose on his wrist and scars on his face but "is a top bloke, boss. Top bloke".

Birneybau · 17-04-2015 03:21PM

Johnny Carson wrote: »

In every local pub in Dublin there's always a Macker or a Smasher who has tattoos of a rose on his wrist and scars on his face but "is a top bloke, boss. Top bloke".

Not in any pub I've ever frequented, ever.

anncoates · 17-04-2015 03:21PM

Johnny Carson wrote: »

In every local pub in Dublin there's always a Macker or a Smasher

You never see as many Gits, Whackers and Spuds around these days.

Progress.

Johnny Carson wrote: »

who has tattoos of a rose on his wrist and scars on his face but "is a top bloke, boss. Top bloke".

Do these pubs have wheels?

Areyouwell · 17-04-2015 03:23PM

I've too many pubs to chose from to ever make one my local.

AnonoBoy · 17-04-2015 03:24PM

In our local at home there's this lad who comes in about half an hour after closing and shouts at everyone that they have to go home. If you don't leg it he takes out a notebook and starts writing down your name.

It's hilarious. He's harmless like so they let him away with it for years but you can tell he's a bit touched. He has a special hat that he wears and everything.

Lately though I think the owners are getting a bit sick of him because if they hear he's coming they close the blinds and everyone has to stay quiet so he won't know we're in there.

SEPT 23 1989 · 17-04-2015 03:31PM

anncoates wrote: »

It's in the Dublin suburbs but more like a country pub frozen around 1983. If you're not native to the area and blew in within the last 30 years, you're treated with the amiable contempt reserved for essentially decent people that have a unfortunate disorder that is beyond their control.

No real characters there except for a pensioner that roars at people that interrupt his sing-songs and who has been observed discreetly scoffing a packet of cheap ham between pints.

I expect them to start selling craft beers around 2056

Does its name begin with a J?

anncoates · 17-04-2015 03:31PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

In our local at home there's this lad who comes in about half an hour after closing and shouts at everyone that they have to go home. If you don't leg it he takes out a notebook and starts writing down your name. It's hilarious. He's harmless like so they let him away with it for years but you can tell he's a bit touched. He has a special hat that he wears and everything..

Are you sure he's not a Garda?

AnonoBoy · 17-04-2015 03:34PM

anncoates wrote: »

Are you sure he's not a Garda?

I don't know what you'd call his condition to be honest.

Specialun · 17-04-2015 03:35PM

Banjo String wrote: »

Mine has a big Homer Simpson figure beside the till that says something about alcohol being the cause and solution to all life's problems.

Shocking joke

Hoop66 · 17-04-2015 03:40PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

I don't know what you'd call his condition to be honest.

a "special" constable?

King George VI · 17-04-2015 03:46PM

Birneybau wrote: »

Not in any pub I've ever frequented, ever.

Mustn't go to pubs that often then huh?

BetterThanThou · 17-04-2015 03:48PM

Wouldn't call it my local, since it's about 10km from my house, but it's the place I spend practically every night in. There's this American guy who comes over every few months or so for about a week on work. He cannot handle his drink, I made the (hilarious) mistake of introducing him to Buckfast one night. In the same night, he attempted to make a guy buy him a drink by showing him his concealed handgun license and insisting he had a gun, went behind the counter in Subway and attempted to make his own sandwich, ran down O'Connell Street half naked and attempted to move The Spire to show how much he can deadlift. Hilarious chap, he's in his 50s too.

pauliebdub · 17-04-2015 04:54PM

A lot of off duty taxi drivers drink in my local and prop up the bar, late 40s 50s, pot bellied and as bitter as they come. Few real characters to speak of.

Banjo String · 17-04-2015 05:17PM

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Does its name begin with a J?

I drink in there occasionally too. :eek:

Talib Fiasco · 17-04-2015 05:21PM

That auld lad who's always dressed and groomed immaculately who always tends to start a sing song and everyone just gravitates around him to listen to his singing as well as his life stories. He's the man any tourists will cherish and remember most.

Nucular Arms · 17-04-2015 05:24PM

Haven't had a local pub since I was 17.

Birneybau · 17-04-2015 05:41PM

Johnny Carson wrote: »

Mustn't go to pubs that often then huh?

A few times a week for the last 20 years so...

You?

padd b1975 · 17-04-2015 05:43PM

BetterThanThou wrote: »

Wouldn't call it my local, since it's about 10km from my house, but it's the place I spend practically every night in. There's this American guy who comes over every few months or so for about a week on work. He cannot handle his drink, I made the (hilarious) mistake of introducing him to Buckfast one night. In the same night, he attempted to make a guy buy him a drink by showing him his concealed handgun license and insisting he had a gun, went behind the counter in Subway and attempted to make his own sandwich, ran down O'Connell Street half naked and attempted to move The Spire to show how much he can deadlift. Hilarious chap, he's in his 50s too.

:eek:

What did he do after his second pint??

The Backwards Man · 17-04-2015 05:45PM

I love my local.

There's John at the bar, he's friend of mine, but there's somewhere he'd rather be. Paul fancies himself as a bit of a writer, never married. Davy's a lifetime Navy man, interesting character too.

893bet · 17-04-2015 06:19PM

The racist political expert. Every pub has one.

Cody montana · 17-04-2015 06:47PM

They are all backwards so I haven't been in many years.

Hans Bricks · 17-04-2015 06:57PM

anncoates wrote: »

It's in the Dublin suburbs but more like a country pub frozen around 1983. If you're not native to the area and blew in within the last 30 years, you're treated with the amiable contempt reserved for essentially decent people that have a unfortunate disorder that is beyond their control.

No real characters there except for a pensioner that roars at people that interrupt his sing-songs and who has been observed discreetly scoffing a packet of cheap ham between pints.

I expect them to start selling craft beers around 2056

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Does its name begin with a J?

Jacob's Lounge in Saggart ? Has to be. Looks like something you'd find in Emmerdale. C'mon no one will find out your identity lads.

Junkyard Tom · 17-04-2015 06:59PM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I love my local.

When I imagine tBM's shebeen I picture it on the side of a heather-clad windswept Donegal mountain. It can only be reached by foot or by a tractor-pulled-trailer that goes up and down about every two hours depending on weather. On sale behind the bar is distilled-out-the-back Poitín, a couple of home brewed ales, with the only 'big-shmoke' drink being Guinness.

The Backwards Man · 17-04-2015 07:09PM

Junkyard Cat wrote: »

When I imagine tBM's shebeen I picture it on the side of a heather-clad windswept Donegal mountain. It can only be reached by foot or by a tractor-pulled-trailer that goes up and down about every two hours depending on weather. On sale behind the bar is distilled-out-the-back Poitín, a couple of home brewed ales, with the only 'big-shmoke' drink being Guinness.

Guinness, Smithwicks, Bulmers, Carlsberg, Tennennt's and Carling on draft, Tennent's far and away the biggest seller. Top shelf sellers are Jameson, Grouse and Malibu. Tasteful decor, turf fire and central heating from a furnace, large outdoor patio area, comfortable seating, professional pool table, three dartboards, a sprung floor for dancing and a full service kitchen.

OldMrBrennan83 · 17-04-2015 07:13PM

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The characters of your local pub/club

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