Pub etiquette

Dave McCool · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Karma :

Right, so I'm at the pub with my mates watching the Arsenal Spurs match earlier.

It's a fairly relaxed pub, and there's a superb atmosphere, some friendly banter between opposing fans, and everyone is having a laugh.

Then 3 guys and 3 girls turn up, and plonk themselves down on the floor next to my table, and in doing so took up pretty much the entire walkway through the pub to get a good view, but nobody batted an eyelid, because the pub was packed.

However, 5 minutes after their arrival, I wanted to kick every single one of them in the face. One of the guys was clearly gay; not something I have a problem with in particular, but it lead to him having a very very annoying voice, which he proceeded to use, very loudly, for no very good reason, chanting songs which had fuck all to do with football and generally being a twat.

The girls, too, were annoying, moving around so much that our table was constantly being knocked, finding it funny to shout rude words ('penis' was their favourite of the night) and in one case, spilling some other guy's drink as they shifted about, and just saying sorry, then running and hiding behind the boys.

They also spilled one of their own drinks, and all of them, at once, stood up and spent 5 minutes clearing it up (well, one of them, while the other 5 stood watching). Because they were so close to the screen, they blocked about 30 people's views, and despite those people making it clear that this wasn't on, they carried on regardless.

Basically, they had no real interest in the football, and despite being told to "pipe the fuck down" several times, they didn't get the hint that everyone would be happier with them in a non-football showing pub.

Sorry for the rant, but it really does annoy me...
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techierob · Traffic Copper Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Karma :

I usually get a bunch of pasty teens clad in faux-burberry or gooner away-shirts pointing at my table chanting "YIIII-DOOOOOOO" once they've worked out which team I'm backing. It seems to amuse them, so I try and put up with it.

However, what you've described is a very serious breach of etiquette. That sort of behaviour would be intolerable at the best of times, and grounds for a serious kicking if it disrupted a cup game. Interrupting a london derby in that manner is thoroughly inexcusable and can only be resolved by immediately and brutally executing those responsible and decorating the pub with their corpses along with a big sign saying "The Fuckers Had It Coming" as a warning to others.

Sorry to hear your evening got disrupted. I hope you have better luck watching the second leg.

G · The Voice of Reason Joined: 02 Feb 2002 Karma :

Now you know what it feels like for us in traditionally 'non-football' (or other sporgts) pubs after a football game when people spread out to other establishments Smile

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TheShaggyDA · Repost Police Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Karma :

Twas a sad day when TVs started appearing in pubs.
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froggeh · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Karma :

I love watching the football in the pub.
I guess I'm not a 'proper' fan, because I rarely go to the game.
For the £30 it costs to get in I can be in the pub, have 6 pints with mates who support different teams (Half of us are Liverpool, half ManU), and get a takeaway on the way home...and have change.

The situation you describe is unfortunate. But if it was pissing me off I would probably say something.

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Marcg868 · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Karma :

Well they'd have been told to shut up or fuck off by me or the other bar staff in the Pub i work. Even more so if its a Manchester UTD game.

Nobody disturbs the football, if you want to go shout and scream, then sod off to a pub/bar that isnt showing the football. plenty of them about Thumbs Up

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Mcoys Mexican Chili washed down with a Pint of Holts's Touchwood Bitter or Six-X Ale Very Happy

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killa · Won't Shut Up Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Karma :

That sort of thing really annoys me Dave, especially when they are the minority.
If I walk into a bar and hear football cheers and the sound of footy on the TV, I walk out, simple.
Find another pub if you don’t like it. Rolling Eyes

Things I dislike in pubs….

Beer boy(z): easily spotted by their pink stripy tops, invincible hair, T-shirts and scarf’s, crocodile shoes and nasty deodorant. Not forgetting the ever increasing loudness after each sip of Carling piss water.
Usually in groups of 50 or more all playing pool it seems, at the same time, jumping up and down, shouting things like LEGEND!!!......C’MON!!! and some other chants that only their group understand. ‘Belong’ Rolling Eyes

Corporate Cocks: The Debenhams suit, the rosy red cheeks, shoes that outshine a bobby’s and always enough spare change in the back pocket to make a sound.
Doesn’t matter if it’s their place, or your local, they set out to annoy strangers with mobile phones, loud conversations about money….and when it comes to the bar…..they’re are there leaning over you, or trying to push in, £20 note in hand usually protruding between your arm and the next guy, keeping one eye on the scum and one eye on the barmaid.
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Marcg868 · World Chat Champion Joined: 20 Jan 2005 Karma :

I admire the fact you held back from slapping the fucker.

I know i couldnt, or any of my mates could.

Well done Thumbs Up

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Dave McCool · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Karma :

20 of us, 3 of them?

With us throwing the first punch?

That's gang violence that is, and we were sober enough (at that time) to realise that no-one needs that on their record...
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bennett211085 · Crazy Courier Joined: 17 Aug 2006 Karma :

I'd of just told em politely to fuck off.

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Mudskipper · World Chat Champion Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Karma :

Try watching footy in the pub when you're 5 foot-not-much, EVERYONE is in your way.

The only way I could get a half-decent view of the screen would be to bungee myself to the rafters. Rolling Eyes

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SoulRider · World Chat Champion Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Karma :

The women shouting penis, you should have dropped your cock in her mouth and she soon would have shut up Thumbs Up

plus she will be kneeling and wont get in way of tv Very Happy

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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

No need to punch anyone. If someone is behaving like a twat, just give them the bums rush straight out the door and lock it behind them.

We used to do this regularly in our 'local' in Edinburgh, it had a good atmosphere because it was effectively self-policing.

Just get the two biggest guys to take a forearm and shoulder each and gently but firmly frogmarch them out onto the pavement. Don't say anything at all. Shut and bolt the door behind them.

This is the sort of hint that is seldom misunderstood, the trick is to do it very suddenly, briskly and quietly. Before they know what's happening, they are standing outside looking at a locked door.

JonB · Afraid of Mileage Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

Dave how old were these 3 boys and 3 girls in general? I know it would have annoyed me.

I hate it in pubs when you are sat down in mixed sex groups and you always get 2 guys (one with some weird looking face and the other a big guy) who come along and attempt to chat them up, mid-interesting conversation hence us all getting mighty annoyed and telling them where to go.
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pd666 · Crash Test Dummy Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Karma :

It would be suicide to stand in front of a footy game on tv here, specially if it's an oldfirm game. You should have knocked her cider blackcurrant over her Wink

That or pay the barman to tea bag her pint. Thumbs Up

You dont block the view of the footy on tv, if in a pub, that's just rude.