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Title: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Grumpmeister on July 02, 2008, 10:47:16 AM
Sounds like someone has been looking on here BM  whistle:

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A Hampshire pub has become the perfect place to get things off your chest, as the home to the UK's first official Grumpy Club.

Instead of happy hour, the 300-year-old Bishop Blaize pub in Romsey hosts "grumpy hour" allowing mostly middle-age men to air their grievances.

Subjects have ranged from the stodginess of trifles and the quality of jokes to the price of beer.

The club's motto is "and another thing" and its members hope it will catch on.

Steve Potten, Grumpy Club president, said: "We are oppressed by namby-pambies who don't want us to talk about anything.

Each member gets a raffle ticket when they buy their first drink and the winner chooses the subject for the following week.

Wayne Jacobs, landlord of the pub in Winchester Road, said: "We don't have happy hour anymore.

"It's about getting things off your chest, moaning, moaning, moaning.

"It's been doing really well."
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Uncle Mort on July 02, 2008, 10:50:54 AM
Do they charge twice as much for drinks during "Grumpy Hour" ?
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Snoopy on July 02, 2008, 10:57:54 AM
Band Waggon is the phrase that springs most readily to mind.
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Nick on July 02, 2008, 11:01:37 AM
I must pop in wehn I am next thereabouts!

What could possibly go wrong?
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Snoopy on July 02, 2008, 11:02:55 AM
Ever been in there?

I have  noooo:
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Nick on July 02, 2008, 11:03:23 AM
Oh, one of those.

 ::)
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Bar Wench on July 02, 2008, 11:04:20 AM
Ever been in there?

I have  noooo:

Needed a gimmick did it?
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Snoopy on July 02, 2008, 11:04:54 AM
It was awful when I used to drink in Romsey ~ but that is some years ago now.
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Nick on July 02, 2008, 11:05:27 AM
I could go there in an Ambassadorial role!

With a feathery hat!
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Barman on July 02, 2008, 11:06:23 AM
I could go there in an Ambassadorial role!

With a feathery hat!
Give out some business cards of the virtual pub!  cloud9:
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Bar Wench on July 02, 2008, 11:11:46 AM
I could go there in an Ambassadorial role!

With a feathery hat!
Give out some business cards of the virtual pub!  cloud9:

And have them think we are like him!?!?  eeek:

Where are my business cards then?
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Barman on July 02, 2008, 11:12:41 AM
I could go there in an Ambassadorial role!

With a feathery hat!
Give out some business cards of the virtual pub!  cloud9:

And have them think we are like him!?!?  eeek:

Where are my business cards then?
Numerous telephone boxes around Kings Cross?  whistle:
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Nick on July 02, 2008, 11:13:41 AM
 scared:
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Bar Wench on July 02, 2008, 11:14:06 AM
I could go there in an Ambassadorial role!

With a feathery hat!
Give out some business cards of the virtual pub!  cloud9:

And have them think we are like him!?!?  eeek:

Where are my business cards then?
Numerous telephone boxes around Kings Cross?  whistle:

 cussing:
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Barman on July 02, 2008, 11:14:42 AM
I could go there in an Ambassadorial role!

With a feathery hat!
Give out some business cards of the virtual pub!  cloud9:

And have them think we are like him!?!?  eeek:

Where are my business cards then?
Numerous telephone boxes around Kings Cross?  whistle:

 cussing:
A big boy made me do it that time...  scared2:
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Nick on July 02, 2008, 11:15:15 AM
We should get that Big Boy to join and get it off his chest!
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Snoopy on July 02, 2008, 11:19:22 AM
I could go there in an Ambassadorial role!

With a feathery hat!

 happy001 happy001 happy001 You clearly don't know Romsey.
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Nick on July 02, 2008, 11:26:53 AM
 eeek:
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Snoopy on July 02, 2008, 11:32:53 AM
Let's just say it can get a bit lively on a Saturday night  whistle:
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Grumpmeister on July 02, 2008, 11:35:23 AM
I could go there in an Ambassadorial role!

With a feathery hat!
Give out some business cards of the virtual pub!  cloud9:

And have them think we are like him!?!?  eeek:

Where are my business cards then?
Numerous telephone boxes around Kings Cross?  whistle:

Wenchy, before you dismember him can you make sure the bar has been unlocked and is now free and the slate has been wiped.  whistle:
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Nick on July 02, 2008, 11:42:06 AM
Dis-member ing sounds scarey  eeek:
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Bar Wench on July 02, 2008, 11:46:51 AM
Messy but fun  eveilgrin:
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Nick on July 02, 2008, 11:51:46 AM
 scared2:

She has form!
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Bar Wench on July 02, 2008, 12:05:35 PM
What woman doesn't?
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Nick on July 02, 2008, 12:06:26 PM
 scared2:

It's a hormone problem  noooo:
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Just One More on July 02, 2008, 05:52:37 PM
It was awful when I used to drink in Romsey ~ but that is some years ago now.

It was no better five years ago.
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Snoopy on July 02, 2008, 06:03:50 PM
Somehow I guessed that.

Any pub that starts suddenly having music nights, strip nights, hen nights or any other silly theme is in dire trouble and when they "leak" it to the press for the free publicity you know they are going down for the third time.
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Nick on July 02, 2008, 07:31:24 PM
Barman beware!  noooo:
Title: Re: The Grumpy Club
Post by: Darwins Selection on July 03, 2008, 09:33:22 AM
Do they charge twice as much for drinks during "Grumpy Hour" ?
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