The death of the coffee shops

[Bob Dalek]

I once went in a Wetherspoons in Hammersmith while waiting for someone. I know they are low rent but that had to be the scummiest pub I have ever been in. A middle aged chap was counting his copper on the bar when I got a pint of Kronenberg. "I wish I could afford one of those" says he.
Went to sit down and it was like a scene out of Oliver twist or some etching by Hogarth. Full of all sorts of nefarious characters. The whole lower floor smelt of effluence. Apart from that it was OK.

It's grim down south

Yes. Hammersmith is a bit like that. There's a guy who regularly kneels on Kings Road begging for change, whilst gesticulating wildly at the traffic. Is it you?

[Bagpuss]

Yes. Hammersmith is a bit like that. There's a guy who regularly kneels on Kings Road begging for change, whilst gesticulating wildly at the traffic. Is it you?

Bobby Davro eat your heart out

[Bob Dalek]

Bobby Davro eat your heart out

That's cruel and I demand a retraction.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

It's grim down south

Indeed I went in one last week. As we emerged after one drink, a chav smoking on the doorstep and chatting to someone on her phone said "said hang on I've got to move someone's coming out........oh........I mean some snobs are coming out" I hadn't clapped eyes on this woman up to that point, let alone spoken to her.

I was wearing jeans and a crappy old denim jacket so unless she was using the fact that I don't have a shaved head, black eye or any facial tattoos (or any actually), and I've had a wash and shave within living memory as a guide, I'm not sure where she came up with that, however, it does give me the right to call her a chav and reinforces my feeling that every time I've been to a Wetherspoons pub it's been full of people with "issues"

[shaunbhoy]

when I got a pint of Kronenberg.

Nuff said. Did you ask for a parasol and a lemon too?
Most pubs have the odd dodgy looking pikey or two. The secret is to avoid going there to interact with too many of the clientele. Some of the people belittling these places should try and visit them with one or more mates of their own, assuming of course that they have any/that many. It is all very well being a coffee afficionado, but if you ever want to be taken seriously then you might have to broaden your horizons. After all, we have plenty of pensioners that can keep the coffee chains in business.

[shaunbhoy]

I was wearing jeans and a crappy old denim jacket so unless she was using the fact that I don't have a shaved head, black eye or any facial tattoos (or any actually), and I've had a wash and shave within living memory as a guide, I'm not sure where she came up with that

Maybe it was the rather camp way you left that drew her to such a conclusion? Did you still have froth from your Micho-Mocho-Carpuccino sticking to your b*mfluff tache?

[Bagpuss]

Nuff said. Did you ask for a parasol and a lemon too?
Most pubs have the odd dodgy looking pikey or two. The secret is to avoid going there to interact with too many of the clientele. Some of the people belittling these places should try and visit them with one or more mates of their own, assuming of course that they have any/that many. It is all very well being a coffee afficionado, but if you ever want to be taken seriously then you might have to broaden your horizons. After all, we have plenty of pensioners that can keep the coffee chains in business.

I think you are confusing me with someone else.I have been known to drink in the occasional Wetherspoons as a meeting place they are OK. In the day it's like a George Romero film.

[sasguru]

Nuff said. Did you ask for a parasol and a lemon too?
Most pubs have the odd dodgy looking pikey or two. The secret is to avoid going there to interact with too many of the clientele. Some of the people belittling these places should try and visit them with one or more mates of their own, assuming of course that they have any/that many. It is all very well being a coffee afficionado, but if you ever want to be taken seriously then you might have to broaden your horizons. After all, we have plenty of pensioners that can keep the coffee chains in business.

be a chav pikey just like them.

[shaunbhoy]

be a chav pikey just like them.

I'll take your word for it sg. Does spending more than 20 hours a day surfing the web really qualify you to make any kind of judgment on that though? Not that it stops you gibbering on a whole range of other subjects that you have had little or no exposure to mind you.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Maybe it was the rather camp way you left that drew her to such a conclusion? Did you still have froth from your Micho-Mocho-Carpuccino sticking to your b*mfluff tache?

Oh yeah, that'll have been it.