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The worst pub in the world

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by LordLuciusBanter

I find it hard to look past The Litten Tree on Old Street

LordLuciusBanter | 17 Jul '08, 15:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

[shudder]

Which is the one on the platform at Kings Cross?


i dunno

my brother always arranges to meet people visiting him in london in the flying scotsman, tells them just to go in when they get off the train and he'll be waiting for them, quite a good joke, huh


I have had

enjoyable fun time actions in both the Worlds End and The Dolphin.

There's one on Bethnal Green road that I suspect may be horrendous, but I've never been in proper because I'm too pussy. It has pictures of dice on the frosted glass windows.

I despise the massive Lloyds Bar in Cardiff. I'm only including it because it has this weird decked-out-like-a-pub thing happening.

What's so terrible about the Litten Tree? Which one is it?


how so?

trees= great, and Lit were pretty great for a while too.


actually, you're right

There's one in Epsom, which is near where I live. I went there once, and sort of cowered in the middle of the room whilst people smashed glasses and screamed at each other all around me.


The Ship on Mare Street

Poncy dive. Infact, The Dolphin just down the road might be worse


Oh dear.

I'm sure my mate said she was taking me to the dolphin on saturday. could be a different dolphin of course.


Can't think if any other Dolphin in Hackney

So if thats where you are headed, be afraid.


Dolphin can be good lulz

In MYYYyyy opinion


i don't know london...

...but google maps says this is near bethnal green. so it probably is this dolphin. what do i have to fear? i might need to mentally prepare myself!


It must be the one then

I just think its an absolute dive and really quite depressing. Suppose you might like it though.


Can't wait.

Woop.


it's awful

but can be good fun when you're feeling drunk and sleazy


I like the Dolphin, it's all right

it has nice tiles


hmm

the friend taking me is likely to be drunk and sleazy. this may explain the choice...

i am fond of nice tiles though!


oh, and smack


pondering

whether london-based friends have developed smack habit...


it's a bit passe

all about OxyContin


do women ever go in there?

cause there are pubs in casablanca where there are NEVER any women, just failed male muzzas


I actually really really dislike

the Good Mixer.

everything about it makes me shudder.


The Town House in Ealing

is a shithole. It stinks of vomit through the day before being besieged by chavs and gangstas once the sun goes down. Dump.


The Cottage, Church Gresley.

The most local pub in all the land. Horrific.


this will now happen every time:

Oh Church have GREZLEY GREZLEY GREZLEY Di man dem in a di party, party, party Di ole a dem sexy, sexy, sexy Watch dem just a follow me, follow me, follow me


In no particular order, my top 5...

Kirkby's, Liverpool.

The Kings Head, Oldham Street, Manchester (pre 2007)

Nice 'N' Sleazy's, Glasgow.

The Alma, Bolton.

The White Horse, High Wycombe


what's

wrong with the flying scotter?


its a really dingy strip pub

of the old-style london variety not many have survived, fair enough if thats your thing though...


i've

been there a few times!


The Crown

Hanslope, Milton Keynes. Possibly the weirdest pub experience in the land. Looks like a quiet village pub, you get in and it's chock full of underage drinkers, bad fairy lights, rotten wallpaper and bar staff eating fish and chips as they serve you.

and the fattest kid in our year was in there. never liked him.


The Bulldog in Swindon is pretty terrible

that Litten tree on Old Steet is a bad one. My friends always watch football in there as it's so close to where they live


Any one in Bracknell

should just about cover it


the wetherspoons, city road, cardiff

opposite the job centre. a place that occupies the exact middle ground between being dead and being alive.


World's End, Camden

what do i win?


I half agree

It's bloody terrible but I did love it when I was about 17/18 so for that it gets a smidgen of my respect.


this place

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=74876&id=505912861

in sheffield, we stepped in an it was like cantina from star wars


Oooh, a login page.

If I stepped into a login page I would be vexed, I'll give you that.


The Doric Arch in Euston's pretty bad, next to the bus stops

Also the Tottenham, opposite Centrepoint.


The Dog And Partridge

Parliament Street, Nottingham.


Is

That the one on the square? near the corner of Friar Lane?


jesus

seconded completely, atrocious. Wetherspoons in stations are bad enough but this one takes the biscuit!


The One Tun in Farringdon

Up Saffron Hill. I felt like I was going to get mugged on the way to the toilets in there and I hardly dared eat the chips I had ordered 'cos I was convinced I was going to caught something off the sticky bottle of ketchup. Still, I am sure the vinegar in the ketchup killed whatever it might have been :-)


The Neptune in Derby,

for being incredibly "local" and a haunt of the BNP.

The Globe in Swansea - ditto

The Bryn Y Mor - Full of stupid rugby playing student types and their thick as pig shit, sparkly topped girlfriends.

The Commercial, Killay, Swansea - Not so much bad as so overwhelmingly bland inside that it's actually offensive, that and the regulars are the most boorish bunch of people ever.


I wouldnt say

The Neptune is full on BNP, but it is not a pub I'd like to go into. I think it's open at 7am nowdays as well.


The Green Man

in Royal Oak.

:(!


For us Glasgow folk:

Any pub that bawsac stefan king owns!


The Litten Tree in Bath is horrendous

So is the Wetherspoon's King Of The West

I reckon the honour goes to the Wetherspoon's on Romford High Street though. Deeply depressing.


i hate the florist

in bethnal green, the place is a hole, i don't know why people like it so much.
the dolphin is equally as bad.


It's not like my favourite pub in the world

but what's wrong with it?


I've been to The Florist!

I thought it was quite nice.


see?!

its too small and the last time i went there some pub quiz was going on and i felt really suicidal. i could give it another chance but i don't want to.


Yeah but I hate pubs which are too big

What's wrong with pub quiz? Does the thought of general trivia make you want to slit your wrists in a warm bath? Some sort of pub quiz related trauma as a child?


haha! no it was just the guy running it

he was really irritating and made me have a shit time.


a pub quiz? In a pub?

pass me my noose, nurse


I forgot to add,

The Wetherspoons in Swadlincote, I think it's called The Sir Nigel Gresley. Either way it's pretty grim.


Haha

Too right. However, the pub it was before ('The Granville') was even worse.


Really?

It'd take a lot to be worse than that place.


Beaconsfield Tavern pre - Zonino 3.5

It literally smelt like shit.

olegrich, rapscalion-jones, tom_from_sparks, stealthy and keiths_tele will all back me up.


The Old Angel, Alfreton

http://tinyurl.com/6lllxd

It used to be the best pub in the world but then it became a Wetherspoons, got bright new furniture and changed its customer base to scumbags :(


Wagon??? I mean Waggon

I always fail in pairs.





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