20-05-2015 12:21 PM
The Link tells all
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-oldest-pub-ye-olde-572709
I suppose it had to happen not only are pubs closing at an unprecedented rate what's left are coming under attack because of their name. I cannot help thinking that there are a group of anoraks desperately seeking to find something which they claim offends them.
So for some of the following it might be appropriate to call time:
The Blind Beggar
Poosie Nansie's
The Legend of Oily Johnnies
Bull and Bladder
Donkey on Fire
The Bofors Gun and Giblets
The Ramadan Inn
Followthrough's
The Ugly Bstrd
The Gay Gordons
The Bottle of Wee in the car park.
Feel free to add your own to the endangered list.
20-05-2015 12:43 PM
The link is not working for me.
20-05-2015 1:45 PM
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/britains-oldest-pub-ye-olde-5727096
It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.
20-05-2015 1:52 PM
The only pub that offends me is the free bar called westminster house of parliment
20-05-2015 2:37 PM
The idea of changing the name sounds a little bit crazy to me. It's not as if they are condoning the sport, it's just a reflection of the history of the times when the pub was so named. I think animal rights activists would be better employed by sticking to what they're best at, i.e. campaigning against the barbaric methods used in factory farming chickens and other livestock.
20-05-2015 3:13 PM
Bit of deja vu for me,the street i was born on in Byker had a bar at the bottom of the street called The Fighting C***s !
A little while ago it was bought by an architect i think,and was featured on Grand Designs as his office,it had great views over the Tyne bridges,it was the first place around to get a colour telly,all of us kids used to climb onto a stone ridge under the window and peek in to get a look at it,happy days
20-05-2015 3:14 PM
20-05-2015 3:23 PM - edited 20-05-2015 3:25 PM
Here's another outrage highlighted by the Daily Wail. Apparently people can be offended by a local street too.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gay-couple-outraged-over-homophobic-5696737
20-05-2015 5:13 PM
20-05-2015 5:45 PM
I wouldn't fancy a drink in this one:
20-05-2015 7:11 PM
20-05-2015 9:00 PM
Joe, we had a The Fighting C***s here in Bristol at one time.
There is also this one that I pass quite regularly.
It is a bird, but could offend someone
21-05-2015 12:43 AM
@jd.linklater wrote:Here's another outrage highlighted by the Daily Wail. Apparently people can be offended by a local street too.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/gay-couple-outraged-over-homophobic-5696737
That's just silly, would they want every mention of the man's name blacked out wherever it may appear?
There was a pub years ago where the sign showed a nurse scrubbing a black kid in a wash tub, the pub's name was 'The Labour in Vain'.
A local pub called 'The Railway' was shut and the person who later reopened it called it 'Lord Beechings', the family threatened to sue but the name remained.