Oh, the bit about the American tourists in the bright clothes is so spot on! I've heard it said that the one way for an Englishman, an Irishman, a Welshman and a Scotsman to suddenly bury their historic rivalries and all be on the same side, is for an American tourist to enter the pub. 😂
In 1965 when I began drinking in Canada, we had 2 areas or rooms in a bar. . The men's only and the Men & Ladies side. Women weren't allowed on the mens side.
My small town has lost 3 pubs in recent years. We've only got 5 left in the town now. I mean how can you have a decent pub crawl with only 5 pubs within walking distance !!!
I don't understand the kids nowadays, since we were around 14-15yrs old getting served in the pub was our Holy grail. You learn so much about life, the do's & dont's, social etiquette but most of all how much bloody fun they were. I've had bad nights too but the vast majority were brilliant and a right of passage of sorts. I still love a good pint in a good local boozer, give yourselves a shake gen z or you're gonna miss out.🍻🍺
I agree, i started at 16 in the pubs, town friday saturday night, Thats why so many 16 years olds, had facial hair in the 80's, to make us look older, there was very little ID checks, we knew the ones that did and stayed clear, for my 18th birthday, i got my workmans club card as my birthday present from my father, which was the norm back then
Boozers are very variable, in terms of who goes there and what kind of atmosphere it has. The only way to know what the different pubs in your area are like is to visit all of them. You have sports pubs, music pubs, kids pubs which are in the middle of a high school catchment area which frequently have a load of underage drinkers show up, you have old man pubs, you have pubs nearby to football grounds which are always full of fans of that team and if you aren't you better not go there, you have police pubs, where you can find off duty coppers if you need one in a hurry, food pubs which do a "carvery" and are full of families at the weekend having a roast dinner with a pint, and chill pubs where anyone can go and just have a nice chat with friends. It just depends, and seedy neighbourhoods have seedier pubs. Pubs that host live music are very important to developing bands, giving them somewhere to gig and hone their skill as performers, as part of Britain being a major exporter of pop music. So much so that music pubs even spawned their own genre at the end of the 1970s and into the early 1980s: Pub Rock, which combined blues, funk, jazz and '50s style rock and roll, in reaction against the hippies and prog rock and the kind of reggae that skinheads wanted to listen to. Highlights include Dr Feelgood, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and The Motors, plus a host of bands you've never heard of who were just solid gigging musicians plugging away without a lot of record sales.
And some of the biggest names started out as pub bands… I saw Fleetwood Mac, and their friendly rivals, Chicken Shack, playing in pubs (Chicken Shack's piano player and occasional vocalist, Christine Perfect, married Mac's John McVie and later joined the rival band). The Stones, Yardbirds (Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page), Thin Lizzy, and many other great names honed their craft in pubs and college gigs.
There are: Family pubs - a play area is set aside for the kiddies and a children's menu. Food pubs - more like restaurants. Sports pubs - pool, dominoes, darts, televised sport etc. 'Young' pubs - near colleges and unis, where they play loud music and sell 'three for one' shots. Town Centre pubs - Let your hair down, drink a lot, meet the opposite sex, then go to a club/curry house. There will be bouncers on the door. Generic pubs - cheap beer, average food, lots of gaming machines. 'Old' pubs - comfy seats, open fires, bar snacks, guest beers, dogs allowed and a pub quiz/bingo once a week. Country pub - like old pub + food + daytime family pub. Then, there are bars... cocktail, micro, craft... You can find the place for you. I have frequented each and every type of pub, in my time. Bless 'em all!
Spoonys is like that uncle you don't talk about, you know your related but don't tell anyone! i once went for one pint at 4pm on a friday straight after work (with the guys), i left at 2pm after drinking numerous "one for the road"
Billy Connolly has a fantastic routine about Pubs. It's about how the poor and working class folk are more in common with the upper class folk. It sounds strange but how Billy explains it really makes sense and it's things I've seen with living in a small country town where we have the country pubs. I do have issues with that. I'd say that the small town country pubs are the traditional pubs. And what they refer to in the video as a traditional pub is more like a pub chain franchise. But Billy has this great story about how the poorest people in the pub and the richest people in the pub always get along and the middle class people come into the pub and order expensive drinks to try and show that they have good taste and a disposable income. While the very rich and the very poor are all drinking the same cheap beer. they're playing darts, they're playing dominoes, they're playing cards together. The middle class folks are drinking Pimms and watching the tennis on the TV. The poor and the rich are together watching the football making fun of the Middle class... Billy explains it a lot better than me, obviously.
I used to absolutely love a good lock in back in the 90s, 00s England. Always ended up in a massive brawl every time and the tunes they played too were the days
Pubs/Taverns/Inns are like churchs, the focal point of gatherings in any community. Was easy to find the pub, just look for the church spire/tower, and it would be nearby. Urban development has made this less easy, but nothing that a quick Google doesn't resolve.
Oh ladies' night... there's always that one friend who cries either when she sees a bloke she fancies, or a song comes on that reminds her of an ex, the ladies traditionally go to the toilets in groups of two or more - usually to share makeup, but they all pile into the same cubical (stall) together and whilst trying to maintain a conversation whilst their friend takes their turn to pee. Eye contact whilst peeing is not a problem!
we have a 'spoons locally near Bletchley Park (Enigma...WW2 code breakers etc) that was The Bletchley Arms but is now called "Captain Ridley's Shooting Party" . The name comes from 1937, when around 150 men and women from MI6 (yes, James Bond MI6) were trying to see how the newly aquired Bletchley Park would be of use in the probably upcoming war effort. To explain away their descent onto the town of Bletchley, their cover story was that they were part of "Captain Ridley's Shooting Party". A bunch of us meet most Wednesdays, often at this 'Spoons as it does food, coffee, drinks, is kinda a bar/restaurant/coffee shop and is an eclectic mix of people. Of our group there a couple I've know almost 35 years, ex-house mates, and new friends. We talk shit, have a laugh, is very nice.
Also a brilliant movie and you can't beat a spoon's great value and I've never seen any trouble mind you after 7 o'clock 7 days a week my local one is packed solid you can hardly move a great place 😊
On a similar theme, I would recommend 'Over ONE HOUR of Richard Ayoade & Co getting drunk | ALL the Travel Man Drinking Scenes'. The title says it all really
They showed the pub I used to drink at in Brentford and the Brentford fans in the old shirts, having grown up in west London as a Brentford fan that alone is worth a like from me. Up the bees
The smoking ban had a terrible effect on non-smokers like me. I would be sitting with my friends (mainly smokers) when they'd all decide to go outside for a puff. "Look after our coats" they would say, leaving me sitting alone and forlorn at the table while they stood outside having a great time chatting. Sad days. Now i live in Tokyo I have to deal with a complete reversal, where it is illegal to smoke on the street, but legal in bars, and given Japanese bars are tiny you are often enveloped in smoke. I've had to get used to the odour permeating my clothes all over again. Still, at least no-one is asking me to keep an eye on their coats!
Traditional pubs have country pubs have 'locals' not 'Geezers', unless your a wannabe cockney, my local in Liverpool is still going strong and the one in Liverpool city centre I frequent is the 'Ye Hole in Ye Wall' which opened in 1726, now there is a pub to visit when you come to the UK
The bloke in the green top where you stopped the video is Terry Miles, he's a TH-camr with over 460,000 subscribers, he's friends with Brendan Kavanagh, another TH-camr who hit the news headlines in the UK last week, after being told he could not film some Chinese people.
You could walk into a good pub in the morning and still be in there at 2am the next day. Tip: Don't be fake or people will avoid you, just be yourself and the locals will be more likely to accept you there. A good way to start is befriending the Barperson, as locals come in they'll often be the ones to get you talking with them and breaking the ice.
I've been to 12 different states in the US - You dont have anything close to a pub. We also have bars in the UK, including sports bars, they are very different to pubs. Bars: We have sports bars, wine bars, cocktail bars, music bars, lounge bars, airport bars. Pubs: We have local, chain, country, family, gastro (more like a restaurant), town, city, sports, village , micro breweries. As a rule of thumb - Can you bring children and dogs to this place? If, no - It is a Bar
He missed pub gardens, also your pub is an extension of your home. Kids are encouraged, although not allowed to stay late. I've been in pubs for over 20 years, and most will do food and always have. The better pubs are the ones without food. Where you have pool table, darts bored, a juke box, and TV showing the match.
Darts board, unless it bores you. Lol. Personally I like pubs where you can talk with friends, without background music or TV noise making that impossible.
A big change was the democratization of pub spaces. In the past (pre-1980s?) pubs often had two sections, the 'public' bar and the 'Saloon/Lounge' bar. The public bar was usually for the working classes and would often have a darts board and sometimes bar games. The 'Saloon' bar, on the other hand, would typically be for the middle classes. Having said this, it was always self-selecting. Some pubs (including my brother's small town pub) still retain a little of this division.
I have to agree with the comment about local pubs and how "old folk" eye newcomers with deep suspicion. My mum told me a story how just after she and my dad were married, she and my dad took my Granda and Nanna (my mum's father & mother) down to my dad's local. My Grandad took a seat and they were happily chatting for about half an hour when this old bloke comes up to him and taps him on the shoulder. The conversation went sort of this way.... Him: "You're sitting in my seat" Grandad: "Pardon?" Him: "You're sitting in my seat" Grandad: "Is your name on it?" Him: "No, but your sitting in my seat" Grandad: "If your name isn't on it, then that's not my problem Him: "Your sitting in my seat" Grandad: "Tell you what mate, once I have finished having a drinks. You can have my seat when I leave. Apparently the old guy wasn't too happy and walked away in a huff. He spent the rest of the evening sitting at the bar eyeing daggers at my grandad. As soon as my grandad got up to leave, the old guy litterally jumped into the seat. Not sure if that territorial thing is still around.
The "Country pub" one is bs. You can walk/drive miles away and find small villages with pubs and Inn's that will welcome you with open arms and treat you very well. Yes they have people who have frequented there for generations, but they will accept you just as much you would them.
As a Brit, one of my favourite thing about British pubs with th more obscure names such as the Hairy Lemon or the Whippet Inn (slang time for getting laid)
Nothing better than a Country pub where you know someone dating the landlady. Can you say 'lock in?" I'm sure you can. And no; no inuendo meant by that. Just cheap drinking and banter until 4am.
I am afraid this post is not very accurate look at British pubs, generally they are not that noisy I am not saying that they cant be, but vastly different to what is portrayed in the video, they are more relaxed where you go to meet friends and catch up, the traditional pub has a nice atmosphere. Wetherspoons is somewhere to avoid, very clinical atmosphere usually for younger people to go and get a tank full of cheep beer before heading to the night clubs, so not the best example. More like your bars.
Hiya Spencer, my 2 locals are The Globe and Sun Inn in Hensingham in Whitehaven, The Sun Inn just got taken over yesterday, they seem like a nice couple, You 2 would be made more than welcome if you came in to both, the 2 pubs are about 40 yards apart, so its more or less the same people that go in both, when the football match is on The Globe is heaving, there are 3 TV'S downstairs plus a big screen upstairs, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
The history of pub names is an avenue to explore: they can be named after local characters, sporting activities, famous people etc. Wetherspoons have a reputation for changing long established names when they take over that can really upset the locals!
There are a lot of young people in country pubs because we have young farmers and young adults who live with their parents. I grew up in the countryside and we used the village pubs a lot. I do agree that outsiders are looked upon as an oddity 😂 because it usually is locals that use the village pubs a lot.
When I was in my 20s, the local pub would be busy every night (despite there being five others within a five minute walk), and at the weekend would be jam-packed with 18-35s. Nowadays, despite four of the other pubs closing, on the rare occasion I go in it's virtually empty, no atmosphere, no lads playing pool and darts, no groups of girls having a few before heading to a club. Mostly due to the cost I assume, the prices have tripled and wages most certainly have not, but I do wonder exactly what people in their 20s actually do on a friday night nowadays....
Well, over here the pubs are more bustling than ever before. In the last 2 years before Covid, you could see them in decline, many closing even. But it appears that lockdown has shown us what life without having a drink at the local pub looks like.
You mentioned snooker... When you are ready to embark on another rabbit hole, take a look at - When Snooker Ruled the World (BBC DOCUMENTARY) - or anything about Alex Hurricane Higgins who was one of snooker's biggest characters
He says that, in a country pub, the locals will look at outsiders with a bit of 'scorn'. There might be an element of that, in some pubs more than others, however I would say that 1 of the big differences between British pubs and American bars is that when you're out in the middle of nowhere, in the UK, 1 of the 1st places you should look for is the local country pub and you will almost certainly find hospitality. In the US, when you're out in the middle of nowhere, I'd probably think twice about wondering into the 1st, isolated, little bar I find, lol
I’m a Barmaid in a small Northern countryside,market town Boozer ,If you wasn’t born here you aren’t from here lol ,You could of lived here 50years ,We will still let you in the pub and make you welcome ,But we stop having loud conversations about local goings on 😂
62 years old and so glad I was born when I was. I got to go to proper pubs without all the new weathershit false crap. Decent pubs where half of the folk around your area would be. All generations used to sit at tables chatting, playing games, getting on and helping each other out. Wanted a bit of advice? Go and sit at their table and you were accepted. Have belly laughs as we laughed at each other before it became a crime, dance if you felt like it with someone and all the time you were safe and with your own.
I think Weatherspoons taking over was what Peg and Frost were pointing-to in "World's End" when they said the pubs were becoming all the same. -- Lull! APPALOOSA!
You need to see Manchester,Liverpool night life 2023 😂 By the way beer is cheaper oop north compared with London prices. Go to places outside cities and nothing wrong with country pubs, not all filled with old people and you will get a decent meal.
If you went back 100 years, the local pub was a warm welcoming place, When the working class city dweller lived in a " 2 up 2 down" terrace house. With a coal fire in one room and an outside toilet. The last time I looked up my local pub, it had turned into a restaurant with a bar attached. Where you are not allowed to sit down at a table if you are not ordering food.
No, we did used to have a lot of sports bars but now normal pubs aren’t anything to do with sports. You just have characters like that in every normal pub. Weatherspoons is ok if you don’t mind microwaved crappy food.
Spence I've got 6 pubs just on the road I live on. The oldest was built in the 1100's. Then in town itself there's too many to count (2 Wetherspoons within walking distance of eachother though😂) and then you can take a short 10 minute drive into the country for the country pub experience in any direction you choose. Pub culture is definitely not in decline down here🤣🤣🤣
wrong it was not the romans , the saxons were here making mead and had halls , they would leave the weapons outside and eat and drink mead and insult each other for fun , so it was not the bloody romans. james cordon is a tssa
Spencer, when you are here, if you decide to jump on the train to Chichester (just a simple train journey south of London) I'll take you to the cafe that I think does the best English Breakfast. I don't know anywhere that does better...
WOO! 1st comment! You've got to react to Al Murray's sitcom 'Time Gentlemen Please' originally shown on Sky back in 2000 - all episodes are on his TH-cam page. The first series is the best.
Could of been longer and put more into that but otherwise, its a pretty accurate video about British pubs so maybe good to keep it shorter and not get bord, usually these type of videos have incorrect information but guy that does these videos is pretty good at what he is doing.
I'm a wetherspoons mystery dinner. The chain of pubs is massive. They generally open from 7am till 11pm or later at weekends. They serve food most of the time from breakfasts to traditional dinner foods like sausage and mash. The meals are cooked from frozen. They do a meal and non alcoholic or alcoholic deal throughout the day. They have unlimited hot drinks from a machine (tea, coffees and hot chocolates) during the day for like $2. This attracts the retired and remote workers (as they have pretty fast free wifi) They have daily specials on food and drinks. At the weekend you often see the 20 somethings sharing a pitcher of some cocktail! Pubs nowadays embrace families and dogs! (Many pubs are dog friendly and have water bowls and maybe dog treats available!). Some pubs even have a pub dog that the landlord owns and can usually be found at this time of year sitting in front of the open fire that some traditional pubs still have! Btw. I met an American associate in London for the first time a few days ago and she confused the bar staff by leaving a couple of pound tip on the bar. Eventually they brought the coins over thinking she had left her money on the bar! I had to explain that tipping bar staff or indeed most staff in the UK is unusual.
@@grahamstubbs4962 not at the moment...just get 2 pints and a main meal plus travel covered but they change the offer depending on what they want me to test.
There's no downside to it. Get your training in then come over the UK or Ireland. Just make sure you've done the work first. If you want to go to Belgium or Germany, you're going to put in a whole lot more training.
I’m not sure when this was done but pub culture in a lot of places is on the rise again. Especially due to people now focusing more on the day session rather than night drinking. This means starting to drink from anytime between 9am and 4pm and usually finishing between 9pm and 1am rather than staying out into the early hours. Wetherspoons opens at 8am in most places meaning on weekends it is the perfect early start for people going to watch football. They do full English breakfasts which a cheap. I’d also say fortunate for some, unfortunate for others depending on views, that the cocaine intake has increased massively and it stops people getting as drunk so they spend longer in the pubs. That wasn’t in the video, probably for good reason but in towns and cities I’d say it’s the main reason men use the cubicles. All in all, the pubs my favourite place. You will enjoy it, especially a day time pub crawl.
Greedy brewery pricing , over taxing beer - drink driving - all these things are leading to demise of pub culture - just glorified restaurants with average fast food……..
That video gives a bit of 'laddish' appraisal of pubs, and in reality the differences are more wide-ranging and nuanced depending on where the pubs are located both geographically and type of neighborhood/locale/region/in town/in the countryside, who owns them (breweries/pub chains/independent), the type of building, their reputation, and the types of people who visit them. Also the same pub can change throughout the day, depending on what's happening - is it a pub quiz in the evening, a live band playing, or people meeting for lunch, or groups kicking back after work, or people congregating to watch sport on the TV, or to participate in a local event/celebration? Timing is everything when you visit - it can be busy and loud, convivial, or quiet depending on when you arrive and how long you stay. FYI Wetherspoons is a pub retail idea, that bought up old large buildings e.g. banks/theatres/halls and converted them into large bright social spaces with cheap beer. They typically cater for the 'budget' end of the market, and purchase beer from breweries late in it's shelf life and unsold stock to clear, so can secure cheap prices. Effectively, Wetherspoons act as 'clearing house' helping out the breweries so beer isn't wasted, and make 'a buck' into the bargain. So you can get lucky, picking up a pint 20%-50% cheaper than the regular price sometimes along with cheap (basic) food. The footage was misleading too - the old girls talking were in an East End London pub, filmed back in the 1960s/70s , while he talked about country pubs. Also I've visited some of those pubs featured - The Sherlock Holmes is in central London, not far from Trafalgar Sq, off Northumberland Avenue used by local workers and tourists. The Pheasant in Buckland is actually just outside London in the countryside (between Reigate and Dorking in Surrey) in the satellite regions of the home counties, which is commuter belt not a remote 'country pub'. It's also mainly a large gastropub serving food, so most people who go are in groups/couples and go to eat. It's heaving on the weekends with families from far and wide meeting up.
Makes me sick looking at my local town and area now . There's only like a quarter of the pubs and bars left than when I was in my late teens and 20s . And my parents say back when they was young they was more than double the pubs they was than when I was going out 😢❤
not sure about that. I went to the one in Guildford and paid £2.79 for a Budweiser. The San Miguel is still pretty low at £3.77 i believe. Then there's the IPA's for barely 2 quid!
After the smoking ban came in the UK causing customer numbers to dwindle, pubs diversified into the Gastro Pub ; mixing traditional pub grub and restaurant food creating more of a family environment.. hence having a Sunday Lunch or weekday meal.
The Celtic v Rangers themed pub is mainly Glasgow only, in terms of Scotland. (And very occasionally here in N Ireland), but the whole sports theme is very much an American thing. Pubs in UK and Ireland are generally un-themed, or just rustic/traditionally themed.
Oh, the bit about the American tourists in the bright clothes is so spot on! I've heard it said that the one way for an Englishman, an Irishman, a Welshman and a Scotsman to suddenly bury their historic rivalries and all be on the same side, is for an American tourist to enter the pub. 😂
In 1965 when I began drinking in Canada, we had 2 areas or rooms in a bar. . The men's only and the Men & Ladies side. Women weren't allowed on the mens side.
4 of us went into a country pub and got glared at by the locals cos we sat in some locals seats.
My small town has lost 3 pubs in recent years. We've only got 5 left in the town now. I mean how can you have a decent pub crawl with only 5 pubs within walking distance !!!
It’s a toilet,khazi,the bog.
It is NOT a bathroom,there’s no bath in there.
I don't understand the kids nowadays, since we were around 14-15yrs old getting served in the pub was our Holy grail. You learn so much about life, the do's & dont's, social etiquette but most of all how much bloody fun they were. I've had bad nights too but the vast majority were brilliant and a right of passage of sorts. I still love a good pint in a good local boozer, give yourselves a shake gen z or you're gonna miss out.🍻🍺
I agree, i started at 16 in the pubs, town friday saturday night, Thats why so many 16 years olds, had facial hair in the 80's, to make us look older, there was very little ID checks, we knew the ones that did and stayed clear, for my 18th birthday, i got my workmans club card as my birthday present from my father, which was the norm back then
He's obviously not been to a country pub
Boozers are very variable, in terms of who goes there and what kind of atmosphere it has. The only way to know what the different pubs in your area are like is to visit all of them. You have sports pubs, music pubs, kids pubs which are in the middle of a high school catchment area which frequently have a load of underage drinkers show up, you have old man pubs, you have pubs nearby to football grounds which are always full of fans of that team and if you aren't you better not go there, you have police pubs, where you can find off duty coppers if you need one in a hurry, food pubs which do a "carvery" and are full of families at the weekend having a roast dinner with a pint, and chill pubs where anyone can go and just have a nice chat with friends. It just depends, and seedy neighbourhoods have seedier pubs.
Pubs that host live music are very important to developing bands, giving them somewhere to gig and hone their skill as performers, as part of Britain being a major exporter of pop music. So much so that music pubs even spawned their own genre at the end of the 1970s and into the early 1980s: Pub Rock, which combined blues, funk, jazz and '50s style rock and roll, in reaction against the hippies and prog rock and the kind of reggae that skinheads wanted to listen to. Highlights include Dr Feelgood, Ian Dury and the Blockheads and The Motors, plus a host of bands you've never heard of who were just solid gigging musicians plugging away without a lot of record sales.
I couldn't have said it better myself all very true 😊
And some of the biggest names started out as pub bands… I saw Fleetwood Mac, and their friendly rivals, Chicken Shack, playing in pubs (Chicken Shack's piano player and occasional vocalist, Christine Perfect, married Mac's John McVie and later joined the rival band). The Stones, Yardbirds (Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page), Thin Lizzy, and many other great names honed their craft in pubs and college gigs.
There isn't darts,pool,or quiz nights in a weatherspoons , just fruit machines (slots). They do have cheap beer and food
I still fondly remember my 18th birthday at my local pub.
I'd already being buyind drinks there since I was 15...
There are:
Family pubs - a play area is set aside for the kiddies and a children's menu.
Food pubs - more like restaurants.
Sports pubs - pool, dominoes, darts, televised sport etc.
'Young' pubs - near colleges and unis, where they play loud music and sell 'three for one' shots.
Town Centre pubs - Let your hair down, drink a lot, meet the opposite sex, then go to a club/curry house. There will be bouncers on the door.
Generic pubs - cheap beer, average food, lots of gaming machines.
'Old' pubs - comfy seats, open fires, bar snacks, guest beers, dogs allowed and a pub quiz/bingo once a week.
Country pub - like old pub + food + daytime family pub.
Then, there are bars... cocktail, micro, craft...
You can find the place for you. I have frequented each and every type of pub, in my time. Bless 'em all!
It's Thursday so as soon as I log off this evening I will be sat in the village pub having several pints talking crap & putting the world to rights
The man that said alright blokes keep it down was the Door Man or the Bouncer/ Door Security
Spoonys is like that uncle you don't talk about, you know your related but don't tell anyone! i once went for one pint at 4pm on a friday straight after work (with the guys), i left at 2pm after drinking numerous "one for the road"
9:45 Wow, I didn't know about the bathroom thing. I have had quite few in depth conversations in pub bathrooms.
Billy Connolly has a fantastic routine about Pubs. It's about how the poor and working class folk are more in common with the upper class folk. It sounds strange but how Billy explains it really makes sense and it's things I've seen with living in a small country town where we have the country pubs. I do have issues with that. I'd say that the small town country pubs are the traditional pubs. And what they refer to in the video as a traditional pub is more like a pub chain franchise.
But Billy has this great story about how the poorest people in the pub and the richest people in the pub always get along and the middle class people come into the pub and order expensive drinks to try and show that they have good taste and a disposable income. While the very rich and the very poor are all drinking the same cheap beer. they're playing darts, they're playing dominoes, they're playing cards together. The middle class folks are drinking Pimms and watching the tennis on the TV. The poor and the rich are together watching the football making fun of the Middle class...
Billy explains it a lot better than me, obviously.
I used to absolutely love a good lock in back in the 90s, 00s England. Always ended up in a massive brawl every time and the tunes they played too were the days
Pubs/Taverns/Inns are like churchs, the focal point of gatherings in any community. Was easy to find the pub, just look for the church spire/tower, and it would be nearby.
Urban development has made this less easy, but nothing that a quick Google doesn't resolve.
Oh ladies' night... there's always that one friend who cries either when she sees a bloke she fancies, or a song comes on that reminds her of an ex, the ladies traditionally go to the toilets in groups of two or more - usually to share makeup, but they all pile into the same cubical (stall) together and whilst trying to maintain a conversation whilst their friend takes their turn to pee. Eye contact whilst peeing is not a problem!
That's so true lol 😊.
we have a 'spoons locally near Bletchley Park (Enigma...WW2 code breakers etc) that was The Bletchley Arms but is now called "Captain Ridley's Shooting Party" . The name comes from 1937, when around 150 men and women from MI6 (yes, James Bond MI6) were trying to see how the newly aquired Bletchley Park would be of use in the probably upcoming war effort. To explain away their descent onto the town of Bletchley, their cover story was that they were part of "Captain Ridley's Shooting Party".
A bunch of us meet most Wednesdays, often at this 'Spoons as it does food, coffee, drinks, is kinda a bar/restaurant/coffee shop and is an eclectic mix of people. Of our group there a couple I've know almost 35 years, ex-house mates, and new friends. We talk shit, have a laugh, is very nice.
Also a brilliant movie and you can't beat a spoon's great value and I've never seen any trouble mind you after 7 o'clock 7 days a week my local one is packed solid you can hardly move a great place 😊
On a similar theme, I would recommend 'Over ONE HOUR of Richard Ayoade & Co getting drunk | ALL the Travel Man Drinking Scenes'. The title says it all really
Please don't forget the last episode of Blackadder 3. I've been looking every day for your reaction, but nothing so far. The last part is hilarious!
They showed the pub I used to drink at in Brentford and the Brentford fans in the old shirts, having grown up in west London as a Brentford fan that alone is worth a like from me. Up the bees
The smoking ban had a terrible effect on non-smokers like me. I would be sitting with my friends (mainly smokers) when they'd all decide to go outside for a puff. "Look after our coats" they would say, leaving me sitting alone and forlorn at the table while they stood outside having a great time chatting. Sad days.
Now i live in Tokyo I have to deal with a complete reversal, where it is illegal to smoke on the street, but legal in bars, and given Japanese bars are tiny you are often enveloped in smoke. I've had to get used to the odour permeating my clothes all over again. Still, at least no-one is asking me to keep an eye on their coats!
Here in the UK the toilets are often where you meet people and have a chat or a fight lol one or the other but not the deadly award silence.
The pub at 1:16 is in my hometown. Ye Olde Man & Scythe. Claims to be the 3rd oldest pub in England dating back to 1251.
Bolton
@@markwolstenholme3354 yea I know I'm from bolton lol what a craphole town is now 😅
Traditional pubs have country pubs have 'locals' not 'Geezers', unless your a wannabe cockney, my local in Liverpool is still going strong and the one in Liverpool city centre I frequent is the 'Ye Hole in Ye Wall' which opened in 1726, now there is a pub to visit when you come to the UK
The bloke in the green top where you stopped the video is Terry Miles, he's a TH-camr with over 460,000 subscribers, he's friends with Brendan Kavanagh, another TH-camr who hit the news headlines in the UK last week, after being told he could not film some Chinese people.
Snoo-ker not snocker
I can never get over the U.S pronunciation haha. Even my friend said it that way. Makes me think of Snookie.
You could walk into a good pub in the morning and still be in there at 2am the next day. Tip: Don't be fake or people will avoid you, just be yourself and the locals will be more likely to accept you there. A good way to start is befriending the Barperson, as locals come in they'll often be the ones to get you talking with them and breaking the ice.
You were literally in Wetherspoons when you were in UK. You even played the Wetherspoons Game & got free pints 😅😅
Just got back from crawling between three spoons tonight and watched this video with you guys.. one of my favourite recent reactions of yours geezers
I've been to 12 different states in the US - You dont have anything close to a pub. We also have bars in the UK, including sports bars, they are very different to pubs.
Bars: We have sports bars, wine bars, cocktail bars, music bars, lounge bars, airport bars.
Pubs: We have local, chain, country, family, gastro (more like a restaurant), town, city, sports, village , micro breweries.
As a rule of thumb - Can you bring children and dogs to this place? If, no - It is a Bar
He missed pub gardens, also your pub is an extension of your home. Kids are encouraged, although not allowed to stay late. I've been in pubs for over 20 years, and most will do food and always have. The better pubs are the ones without food. Where you have pool table, darts bored, a juke box, and TV showing the match.
Darts board, unless it bores you. Lol. Personally I like pubs where you can talk with friends, without background music or TV noise making that impossible.
@heliotropezzz333 darts doesn't bore me, I'm just not very good at it.
Disagree, I prefer pubs that do foods. That way you don't need to leave. You can spend a whole day at a pub that serves food!
@@mikedavies1827 Me neither.
No music ,food on - no darts hmmmmm sounds like Wetherspoons
A big change was the democratization of pub spaces. In the past (pre-1980s?) pubs often had two sections, the 'public' bar and the 'Saloon/Lounge' bar. The public bar was usually for the working classes and would often have a darts board and sometimes bar games. The 'Saloon' bar, on the other hand, would typically be for the middle classes. Having said this, it was always self-selecting. Some pubs (including my brother's small town pub) still retain a little of this division.
I have to agree with the comment about local pubs and how "old folk" eye newcomers with deep suspicion. My mum told me a story how just after she and my dad were married, she and my dad took my Granda and Nanna (my mum's father & mother) down to my dad's local. My Grandad took a seat and they were happily chatting for about half an hour when this old bloke comes up to him and taps him on the shoulder. The conversation went sort of this way....
Him: "You're sitting in my seat"
Grandad: "Pardon?"
Him: "You're sitting in my seat"
Grandad: "Is your name on it?"
Him: "No, but your sitting in my seat"
Grandad: "If your name isn't on it, then that's not my problem
Him: "Your sitting in my seat"
Grandad: "Tell you what mate, once I have finished having a drinks. You can have my seat when I leave.
Apparently the old guy wasn't too happy and walked away in a huff. He spent the rest of the evening sitting at the bar eyeing daggers at my grandad. As soon as my grandad got up to leave, the old guy litterally jumped into the seat. Not sure if that territorial thing is still around.
You make me laugh, thank you. I have a brain tumor and your posts make me laugh
The "Country pub" one is bs. You can walk/drive miles away and find small villages with pubs and Inn's that will welcome you with open arms and treat you very well. Yes they have people who have frequented there for generations, but they will accept you just as much you would them.
As a Brit, one of my favourite thing about British pubs with th more obscure names such as the Hairy Lemon or the Whippet Inn (slang time for getting laid)
19.33 the smoking in pubs reminds me of the volt where the yellow smoked stained wallpaper, you could stick an empty pint glass to the wall
Nothing better than a Country pub where you know someone dating the landlady.
Can you say 'lock in?" I'm sure you can.
And no; no inuendo meant by that. Just cheap drinking and banter until 4am.
Closest thing to a UK pub I found over in 🇺🇸 was the American Legion. Great times! 🍻🍻
I am afraid this post is not very accurate look at British pubs, generally they are not that noisy I am not saying that they cant be, but vastly different to what is portrayed in the video, they are more relaxed where you go to meet friends and catch up, the traditional pub has a nice atmosphere. Wetherspoons is somewhere to avoid, very clinical atmosphere usually for younger people to go and get a tank full of cheep beer before heading to the night clubs, so not the best example. More like your bars.
Hiya Spencer, my 2 locals are The Globe and Sun Inn in Hensingham in Whitehaven, The Sun Inn just got taken over yesterday, they seem like a nice couple, You 2 would be made more than welcome if you came in to both, the 2 pubs are about 40 yards apart, so its more or less the same people that go in both, when the football match is on The Globe is heaving, there are 3 TV'S downstairs plus a big screen upstairs, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
When the smoking ban came in, pubs smelt of feet, BO and farts instead of smoke.
And the toilets… 😢
Wetherspoons (aka 'spoons) rules.
The history of pub names is an avenue to explore: they can be named after local characters, sporting activities, famous people etc. Wetherspoons have a reputation for changing long established names when they take over that can really upset the locals!
Weatherspoons is a Sports Bar, basically
There are a lot of young people in country pubs because we have young farmers and young adults who live with their parents. I grew up in the countryside and we used the village pubs a lot. I do agree that outsiders are looked upon as an oddity 😂 because it usually is locals that use the village pubs a lot.
The older pub in my city it just over 500 years old.
Although the building has been there since the years 1368! 😊
Went to the pub for a game of darts and a Guinness, it’s 20 to 7 and I’m still awake lmao
Spoon's quality beer £2.55 a pint at my local. Went to Leeds train station city centre yesterday and its £3.11 a pint.......
When I was in my 20s, the local pub would be busy every night (despite there being five others within a five minute walk), and at the weekend would be jam-packed with 18-35s.
Nowadays, despite four of the other pubs closing, on the rare occasion I go in it's virtually empty, no atmosphere, no lads playing pool and darts, no groups of girls having a few before heading to a club.
Mostly due to the cost I assume, the prices have tripled and wages most certainly have not, but I do wonder exactly what people in their 20s actually do on a friday night nowadays....
Well, over here the pubs are more bustling than ever before. In the last 2 years before Covid, you could see them in decline, many closing even. But it appears that lockdown has shown us what life without having a drink at the local pub looks like.
You mentioned snooker... When you are ready to embark on another rabbit hole, take a look at - When Snooker Ruled the World (BBC DOCUMENTARY) - or anything about Alex Hurricane Higgins who was one of snooker's biggest characters
There are still boozers out in the sticks with more pub atmosphere than you could shake a stick at.
spoons are just drinking barns wont go anywhere near the place.
Even more shit used to be spoken in pubs than parliament, then came Weatherspoons 🤢
He says that, in a country pub, the locals will look at outsiders with a bit of 'scorn'. There might be an element of that, in some pubs more than others, however I would say that 1 of the big differences between British pubs and American bars is that when you're out in the middle of nowhere, in the UK, 1 of the 1st places you should look for is the local country pub and you will almost certainly find hospitality. In the US, when you're out in the middle of nowhere, I'd probably think twice about wondering into the 1st, isolated, little bar I find, lol
I’m a Barmaid in a small Northern countryside,market town Boozer ,If you wasn’t born here you aren’t from here lol ,You could of lived here 50years ,We will still let you in the pub and make you welcome ,But we stop having loud conversations about local goings on 😂
Completely agree
62 years old and so glad I was born when I was. I got to go to proper pubs without all the new weathershit false crap. Decent pubs where half of the folk around your area would be. All generations used to sit at tables chatting, playing games, getting on and helping each other out. Wanted a bit of advice? Go and sit at their table and you were accepted. Have belly laughs as we laughed at each other before it became a crime, dance if you felt like it with someone and all the time you were safe and with your own.
I think Weatherspoons taking over was what Peg and Frost were pointing-to in "World's End" when they said the pubs were becoming all the same. -- Lull! APPALOOSA!
You need to see Manchester,Liverpool night life 2023 😂
By the way beer is cheaper oop north compared with London prices. Go to places outside cities and nothing wrong with country pubs, not all filled with old people and you will get a decent meal.
Spencer, if you come to the UK, don't go in to a pub. They will tear you apart
If you went back 100 years, the local pub was a warm welcoming place, When the working class city dweller lived in a " 2 up 2 down" terrace house. With a coal fire in one room and an outside toilet. The last time I looked up my local pub, it had turned into a restaurant with a bar attached. Where you are not allowed to sit down at a table if you are not ordering food.
In fairness to them they can’t survive on just the drink anymore the margins are way to small so they need people ordering food really
This is an imprtant thing to remember. Where I am sitting, right now, I can go out and there are several pubs within ten min walk.
just rememeber he is talking about southern english pubs in this, northern pubs are different with different subcultures
No, we did used to have a lot of sports bars but now normal pubs aren’t anything to do with sports. You just have characters like that in every normal pub. Weatherspoons is ok if you don’t mind microwaved crappy food.
James corden is good in 1 thing, gavin and stacy! You guys need to react to it
nice reaction
Wetherspoons is nothing to be proud of.
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Spence I've got 6 pubs just on the road I live on. The oldest was built in the 1100's. Then in town itself there's too many to count (2 Wetherspoons within walking distance of eachother though😂) and then you can take a short 10 minute drive into the country for the country pub experience in any direction you choose. Pub culture is definitely not in decline down here🤣🤣🤣
There are plenty of people who never set foot in a pub. We are also part of British culture. Pub people ignore us and pretend we don't exist.
Sorry, who are you? 😜
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We have bars and clubs as well he just talking about different pubs
wrong it was not the romans , the saxons were here making mead and had halls , they would leave the weapons outside and eat and drink mead and insult each other for fun , so it was not the bloody romans. james cordon is a tssa
Spencer, when you are here, if you decide to jump on the train to Chichester (just a simple train journey south of London) I'll take you to the cafe that I think does the best English Breakfast. I don't know anywhere that does better...
Heck yeah!!!
Sold!
Chichester is a lovely Place to visit
WOO! 1st comment!
You've got to react to Al Murray's sitcom 'Time Gentlemen Please' originally shown on Sky back in 2000 - all episodes are on his TH-cam page. The first series is the best.
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Could of been longer and put more into that but otherwise, its a pretty accurate video about British pubs so maybe good to keep it shorter and not get bord, usually these type of videos have incorrect information but guy that does these videos is pretty good at what he is doing.
shit man i gotta go down the pub now!
I'm a wetherspoons mystery dinner. The chain of pubs is massive. They generally open from 7am till 11pm or later at weekends. They serve food most of the time from breakfasts to traditional dinner foods like sausage and mash. The meals are cooked from frozen. They do a meal and non alcoholic or alcoholic deal throughout the day. They have unlimited hot drinks from a machine (tea, coffees and hot chocolates) during the day for like $2. This attracts the retired and remote workers (as they have pretty fast free wifi) They have daily specials on food and drinks. At the weekend you often see the 20 somethings sharing a pitcher of some cocktail!
Pubs nowadays embrace families and dogs! (Many pubs are dog friendly and have water bowls and maybe dog treats available!). Some pubs even have a pub dog that the landlord owns and can usually be found at this time of year sitting in front of the open fire that some traditional pubs still have!
Btw. I met an American associate in London for the first time a few days ago and she confused the bar staff by leaving a couple of pound tip on the bar. Eventually they brought the coins over thinking she had left her money on the bar! I had to explain that tipping bar staff or indeed most staff in the UK is unusual.
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You're a mystery dinner?
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Oh and they are shite .
@@grahamstubbs4962 not at the moment...just get 2 pints and a main meal plus travel covered but they change the offer depending on what they want me to test.
@@grahamstubbs4962 you get Enigma fries at my local 'spoons, so probably that...
We legally were not allowed to play competitve games in a bar. No gambeling at all
Isn't playing a fruit machine gambling?
I prefer the Irish country pubs. They are always super friendly and welcoming contrary to the English variant.
There's no downside to it.
Get your training in then come over the UK or Ireland.
Just make sure you've done the work first.
If you want to go to Belgium or Germany, you're going to put in a whole lot more training.
I want beer see ya im off to the pub
Daniel will fit right in in a British pub .. Spencer will stick out like a sore thumb lol
James Corden, England's loss is Americas loss also
I’m not sure when this was done but pub culture in a lot of places is on the rise again. Especially due to people now focusing more on the day session rather than night drinking. This means starting to drink from anytime between 9am and 4pm and usually finishing between 9pm and 1am rather than staying out into the early hours. Wetherspoons opens at 8am in most places meaning on weekends it is the perfect early start for people going to watch football. They do full English breakfasts which a cheap. I’d also say fortunate for some, unfortunate for others depending on views, that the cocaine intake has increased massively and it stops people getting as drunk so they spend longer in the pubs. That wasn’t in the video, probably for good reason but in towns and cities I’d say it’s the main reason men use the cubicles. All in all, the pubs my favourite place. You will enjoy it, especially a day time pub crawl.
Greedy brewery pricing , over taxing beer - drink driving - all these things are leading to demise of pub culture - just glorified restaurants with average fast food……..
That video gives a bit of 'laddish' appraisal of pubs, and in reality the differences are more wide-ranging and nuanced depending on where the pubs are located both geographically and type of neighborhood/locale/region/in town/in the countryside, who owns them (breweries/pub chains/independent), the type of building, their reputation, and the types of people who visit them. Also the same pub can change throughout the day, depending on what's happening - is it a pub quiz in the evening, a live band playing, or people meeting for lunch, or groups kicking back after work, or people congregating to watch sport on the TV, or to participate in a local event/celebration? Timing is everything when you visit - it can be busy and loud, convivial, or quiet depending on when you arrive and how long you stay. FYI Wetherspoons is a pub retail idea, that bought up old large buildings e.g. banks/theatres/halls and converted them into large bright social spaces with cheap beer. They typically cater for the 'budget' end of the market, and purchase beer from breweries late in it's shelf life and unsold stock to clear, so can secure cheap prices. Effectively, Wetherspoons act as 'clearing house' helping out the breweries so beer isn't wasted, and make 'a buck' into the bargain. So you can get lucky, picking up a pint 20%-50% cheaper than the regular price sometimes along with cheap (basic) food.
The footage was misleading too - the old girls talking were in an East End London pub, filmed back in the 1960s/70s , while he talked about country pubs. Also I've visited some of those pubs featured - The Sherlock Holmes is in central London, not far from Trafalgar Sq, off Northumberland Avenue used by local workers and tourists. The Pheasant in Buckland is actually just outside London in the countryside (between Reigate and Dorking in Surrey) in the satellite regions of the home counties, which is commuter belt not a remote 'country pub'. It's also mainly a large gastropub serving food, so most people who go are in groups/couples and go to eat. It's heaving on the weekends with families from far and wide meeting up.
Would just like to point out the Romans may have occupied Britain
But they didn't occupy Scotland
Carry on
Dudes…he pretty much got each stereo type in the pub right
Geezer is a southern term for blokes, I'm a Geordie we aren't Geezers..,
Yeah cockneys are the biggest geezers
Without pubs Britain would be a lot less populated
Makes me sick looking at my local town and area now . There's only like a quarter of the pubs and bars left than when I was in my late teens and 20s . And my parents say back when they was young they was more than double the pubs they was than when I was going out 😢❤
Unfortunately,even Wetherspoons is becoming overpriced.
They're still cheap but prices do vary on location
not sure about that. I went to the one in Guildford and paid £2.79 for a Budweiser. The San Miguel is still pretty low at £3.77 i believe. Then there's the IPA's for barely 2 quid!
I HATE a loud bar
Im there to see friends, not listen to music. I can listen to music, drink and watch sports at home for a lot less money.
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After the smoking ban came in the UK causing customer numbers to dwindle, pubs diversified into the Gastro Pub ; mixing traditional pub grub and restaurant food creating more of a family environment.. hence having a Sunday Lunch or weekday meal.
The Celtic v Rangers themed pub is mainly Glasgow only, in terms of Scotland. (And very occasionally here in N Ireland), but the whole sports theme is very much an American thing. Pubs in UK and Ireland are generally un-themed, or just rustic/traditionally themed.