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    Default Pitfalls to avoid in reviewing

    I thought it might be enjoyable to list some of the classic mangled phrases and plain confused ramblings read on the pub reviews here and elsewhere.

    I'll start:

    • Listening to music on a 'duke box'
    • Misspelling beer as 'bear' - so one can have a pint in the lovely bear garden, for example.
    • Pubs that host an 'open mike' night (poor Mike!)



    over to you...
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    Anyone for a pint of larger?
    WE ARE THE BREADMEN - UP THE BEES

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    Well obviously, after my latest faux pas pointed out by ROBCamra, we should all avoid pubs that have beers on Silage.......
    Work is the curse of the drinking Class - Oscar Wilde

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gann View Post
    ....we should all avoid pubs that have beers on Silage
    ....such as my London 'bete noire' the Duchess of Cambridge, W6.
    'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.

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    Under no circumstances should ANY punctuation be used, especially not full stops or capital letters.

    If you put these pointless little sods in people will struggle to understand what the hell you're on about without reading it 3 times.
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    I read of a pub that had a BJ corner. Imagine my disappointment when on visiting it turned out there was a DJ sitting in the corner! (apologies to Viz).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Strongers View Post
    Anyone for a pint of larger?
    While you're dinning

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    How about the combination of upper case 'shouting' combined with text speak?

    SIZZLERZ IS GR8!!! 2 PTS OF LARGER ONLY 50P. WELL WKD. 'AVING SUMMA THAT.
    'And where he supped the past lived still. And where he sipped the glass brimmed full' John Barleycorn, Carol Ann Duffy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aleandhearty View Post

    SIZZLERZ IS GR8!!! 2 PTS OF LARGER ONLY 50P. WELL WKD. 'AVING SUMMA THAT.
    That statement would be regarded as having gr8 literary merit by most of the afternoon crowd in your average Spoons.

    The evening lot would be too drunk to comprehend it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quinno View Post
    I thought it might be enjoyable to list some of the classic mangled phrases and plain confused ramblings read on the pub reviews here and elsewhere.

    I'll start:

    • Listening to music on a 'duke box'
    • Misspelling beer as 'bear' - so one can have a pint in the lovely bear garden, for example.
    • Pubs that host an 'open mike' night (poor Mike!)



    over to you...
    Just don't review After you've had a couple or ten , leave it till the morning. Saves all that editing.
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