If you know the staff and they know you, good times.

I guess it may be a sign of getting older, but what is worse than being an 18 year old trapped in a 60 year old's creking body?

bit embarrasing right? don't you think? a sign of getting older?

thanks

I go to places miles from home to drink. I choose to call the far away places my local 'cos I will be found there more often than not.

i want to sit down and murmur barely formed sentences to my companions

My local pub is 100 yards from my house.

It is one of the most entertaining places I will ever go to.

Amongst the punters are,
two murder detectives; the bloke who started Orange; there is my mate Ed - the hillbilly; a bloke who walks about 300 miles a month, a bloke we call "Rodger the Rabbit" - he hunts rabbits, tells jokes and does bell ringing; John - the most miserable person I've ever met, "Terry two toilets" goes there (he works for a portaloo company) and the Landlady's ex used to live there before she threw him out (with the help of the Police) - before he worked at the pub he was a DJ, a boxer and a drug dealer.

Going there is usually quite an adventure... you have to be ready to turn around and leave when you walk in the door some nights in case the landlady is drunk.

Where I lived a couple of years ago, the local had one side that was all old men playing dominoes or sitting on their own, and one side that was all orange-skinned teenage girls with miniskirts and gold jewellery from Argos. If anyone from either group crossed onto the wrong side of the room, it would be like that thing in westerns where someone walks in everybody stops talking and stares.

a mad landlady and being full of old men, artists and agreeable odd people to having a mad constantly angry landlady and being full of braying twats. It annoys me greatly when this happens.

I use to go to a pub where I went to uni that was dog friendly and there use to be doggy biscuits on the bar for them and everything. One guy use to always give his dog the bar stool and then stand next to it just chattin n boozin.

there are few things worse than a soulless chain pub but if you're lucky enough to live close to a decent local you're well in. The pub is really the best thing about where I currently live in London - it's right next door to the flat and there's a right motley crew of betting addicts, alkies and geriatrics who go in there. They're surprisingly entertaining.

It's not a sign of getting older, as I've always been like this. It's a rare occasion when I hit a 'club'.

i also sometimes like to go to the pub, for an hour and on my own, order a nice cold pint and sit there without saying anything and in near-complete silence.

i'm also fond of the phrase 'oooh, actually, have you got any pork scratchings?'

and loud noises annoy me, as do people, and dancing, and people dancing.
and flashy lights
and bouncers

pubs win.

with a few exceptions. Pubs all the way.

unless you're really in the right mood for them. Pubs are awesome, although I imagine going to the same 'local' all the time is a bit dull. It's all about varying your pub choice.

and i've always felt like this, it has nothing to do with age as far as i'm concerned.