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    Quote Originally Posted by Komakino View Post
    I quite liked Quinno's "[...] young and very nervous Iberian barmaid who looked like she’d lost a bet at the student union the previous week" comment in reviewing the same pub
    That poor girl - she looked terrified. It's an earthy pub.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Komakino View Post
    I quite liked Quinno's "[...] young and very nervous Iberian barmaid who looked like she’d lost a bet at the student union the previous week" comment in reviewing the same pub
    I can't imaging anyone else making any effort to review the place as it hardly stands out, or if it does, it does so for the wrong reasons.

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    Rammed on a race day, so couldn’t see much not even the garden room down the side, fortunately I got behind a fat lass so was able to follow her to the counter with her clearing the way.

    The Red Lion (JD Wetherspoon)

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    Tris- "I didn’t clock the ales available" The Watchmakers Arms.
    "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
    -W.C.Fields

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mobyduck View Post
    Tris- "I didn’t clock the ales available" The Watchmakers Arms.
    I may have to pay a revisit, so watch this space.

    Quote Originally Posted by Quinno View Post
    Rammed on a race day, so couldn’t see much not even the garden room down the side, fortunately I got behind a fat lass so was able to follow her to the counter with her clearing the way.

    The Red Lion (JD Wetherspoon)
    Yes. This is a great tactic which also works following the hard nut; it's called 'slipstreaming'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quinno View Post
    Rammed on a race day, so couldn’t see much not even the garden room down the side, fortunately I got behind a fat lass so was able to follow her to the counter with her clearing the way.

    The Red Lion (JD Wetherspoon)
    Yeah but could you see round her to inspect the pump clips?

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    Will's description of the beer he encountered at Badger Badger made me smile.
    "Breakneck speed we drown ten pints of bitter"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Komakino View Post
    Will's description of the beer he encountered at Badger Badger made me smile.
    ...and the description of the venue's colour; could it be more black? And the answer is none. None more black.

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    The most wonderful, succinct and accurate review on this site:

    Food orientated place slow service no good for a drinking man

    Three Lights

    From the long-defunct but briefly prolific Thirsty Chaz

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    Some fabulous gibberish from the cobweb side;

    "the building is to small for what he does and the place is to cluttered with crap (sorry memorobilla)the up side is large seating area outside and he don't care if you walk off with the glasses sorry but even sumtimes the music is very crap i think he mite b going deaf in old age some fing has to be done about it "

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