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Previously on "Do You Frequent a Local?"

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  • TheFaQQer
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    I quite fancy the look of Cooperinliverp00l has - keep saying that the next time we're over that way we'll call in.

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  • OwlHoot
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    A nice riverside pub near where I'm staying in Cambridge closed a month ago and is now boarded up. Might just be a seasonal thing, but more likely they went bust.

    Obviously a combination of the smoking man and the ridiculous disparity between pub prices and supermarket prices for booze is the killer.

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  • wobbegong
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    Originally posted by pacharan View Post
    I was thinking that the closure of my local would leave a huge hole in my life. What I love about the pub is the fact that it's a great leveller; a place where The Lord of the Manor can talk to his dustman as an equal over a pint.
    Is it this one?

    Just asking, like.

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  • Platypus
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    Originally posted by pacharan View Post
    How many of you are regulars at a pub in which you are there for the sole purpose of drinking and engaging in a bit of badinage with your crew around the bar?
    Me. I'm in the pub everyday for beer and banter.


    QUOTE=pacharan;1418266]a place where The Lord of the Manor can talk to his dustman as an equal over a pint.

    I was talking to a chap who probably earns in a year what I earn in a week. This disparity in our relative material wealth brought to bear no sense of deference from him towards me. We spoke as equals and he listened to my views on everything from Pre Raphaelite art to the art of the backward game in backgammon. The fact that he agreed with every word I said is by the by.[/QUOTE]

    Now, that makes you sound like a c_nt. You're probably not, but it doesn't half come over that way.

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  • xoggoth
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    My nearest closed down 15 years back. Next nearest went this year. Now it's either the bingo/Elvis impersonators type village club or the posh place in the next village. It's a Morlocks or Eloi sort of choice.

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
    I've been using computers since 1979 - You've left it a bit late to start helping
    All you needed to do was ask, my little raptor-friend and I'd have been there like a shot!

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    The green "spot" means he's online!!!

    Churchill - In "helping dense people use computers since 1979" mode!
    I've been using computers since 1979 - You've left it a bit late to start helping

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  • Churchill
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    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
    How the heck does pacharan manage to have a green spot next to his name, when all and sundry must have copped him the red spot?

    Or do people give positive rep for good trolling?
    The green "spot" means he's online!!!

    Churchill - In "helping dense people use computers since 1979" mode!

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  • OwlHoot
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    How the heck does pacharan manage to have a green spot next to his name, when all and sundry must have copped him the red spot?

    Or do people give positive rep for good trolling?

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  • Spacecadet
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    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
    I've done the needful for you

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  • TestMangler
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    Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
    You must spread some Reputation around before negging pacharan again.
    Thankfully, I didn't

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  • Pondlife
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    Originally posted by pacharan View Post
    This post has not received any reputation. You currently have -885 reputation point(s).
    You must spread some Reputation around before negging pacharan again.

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  • pacharan
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    This post has not received any reputation. You currently have -885 reputation point(s).

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  • TheFaQQer
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    Originally posted by Churchill View Post
    I hope he mugs you and kicks your teeth in.
    You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Churchill again.

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  • TestMangler
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    Originally posted by pacharan View Post
    Why would he want to do that?
    We ALL want to do that.......

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