General Chat

It so brought back memories of days long gone, when I worked in a pub when I was 18yrs.
I quickly realised that each pub has their own little community and loved to watch the goings on like a real life soap being acted out in front of my very eyes. The pub was a managered house owned by Boddingtons and a real working mans place or the vault was, that was my fav bar to work. Also the stuff I learned added to my long list of life skills. 1 I learned how to play don, 2 I learned that men are bigger gossips than women and if they have not just assumed then they will make it up as they go along and 3 if I missed any soaps they would update me and swear blind they never watch them. The Wales thread reminded me of the names that most of customers had for one and another.

There was Tony Bus ( bus driver)
Mick the brick ( brick layer)
Tommy Gas ( worked for British gas ) he was married to Big nose Joan
John Limp ( walked with a limp)
Niviea Nige ( who was no stranger to the sun bed shop)
Sticks and Socks ( he walked with sticks and she wore socks always with sandles and a skirt)
Joey Capri ( he drove a ford escort mk 2 but worshipped his car)
Ernie " pint of bitter in a pot"
Whineo Win ( Magde who was popular with the very older men, lovely lady but I never once saw her sober, she had a gob that would make a docker blush but when she came to the bar would put on her telephone voice and ask for " a glass of bitter in a laydees glaarss" Always amused me . :-D
and lastly Opinum ( Sp) Den .....Dennis who wasn't allowed to smoke "his" roll ups in the pub :-0

brilliant!!! I suppose we all give names to people at times - I have a neighbour I call Brainless Be>>>>d, and another called bungalow brain [nothing upstairs]

I forgot Phil the pram ( he had 8 children) :-D

You have just reminded me too Hayley, my Dad was a docker for a while and he used to come home and tell me and my sister stories about the names of the dockers, I will have to ask him what they were :-D :-D

Great names particularly like Phil the Pram :-D :-D :-D

Oh! You two!

Hayley, you should not have mentioned Boddies. At one stage you could get draft Boddingtons in West Oz, but it now seems to have disappeared :-(

Coming from Manchester, I loved the beer.

I think you'd be hard pressed to get a decent pint of drought boddies in Manchester now adays Allan I am sure the brewery has gone most of the pubs have, they sold out years ago, and Henry's tables . The pub I am talking about was 200 yrs old and was knock down 2 years ago and now stands in it place is a nursing home. Sign of the times :-(

Boddingtons, RIP :-(

BUT HAYLEY



WHAT DID THEY CALL YOU,

To my face Dizzi Young Hayley, of course ;-)

:-D :-D :-D :-D