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Title: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 10, 2009, 02:02:40 PM
The other 8 stags are currently playing golf. Snakey and me are checking out the bars.

Currently in the Walkabout. On the menu, it mentions the "Boomerang card" it costs 3 quid and then entitles you to 25% off EVERYTHING. Our first round cost 6.20. I bought a boomerang card and the second round was 4.65. For two people.

Now imagine that later on we will be back here - upwards of 10 of us - and by merely presenting the Boomerang card we are going to get a quarter off.

It would have been madness not to purchase one!

And it is transferable - so Snakey can use it in Wimbledon. Corking!

Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Nick on July 10, 2009, 02:04:11 PM
Assuming you all survive  whistle:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 10, 2009, 02:06:13 PM
We have only encountered two players of the pink oboe so far.
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Nick on July 10, 2009, 02:10:14 PM
Never mind, you may get lucky later on
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 10, 2009, 02:11:25 PM
I will give them YOUR phone number ;-)
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: grumpyoldsoldier on July 10, 2009, 07:31:32 PM
We have only encountered two players of the pink oboe so far.
Any pork piccolo players?  whistle:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 11, 2009, 10:36:57 AM
Got back from the clubs at 4.45am. Not good.
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Nick on July 11, 2009, 10:38:52 AM
BAD HEAD?
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 11, 2009, 10:45:35 AM
Not too bad. One of the boys spent over ?300 in the strip club...
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Nick on July 11, 2009, 10:46:05 AM
 Popcorn:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 11, 2009, 11:27:39 AM
The groom has a broken hand - caused by punching the best man who had just bitten his ear. One of the party is AWOL and one appears to be coming down with swine flu.
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Nick on July 11, 2009, 11:29:57 AM
Excellent. It's all going splendidly  happy088
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 11, 2009, 11:58:43 AM
And there is a "friendly" match between Bournemouth and Southampton. The pub we are in was "trashed" last year by Southampton fans and there are police everywhere.
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Nick on July 11, 2009, 12:00:20 PM
Jolly good. A nice riot will lend some colour to the weekend  happy088
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 11, 2009, 12:14:24 PM
So we have a load of stag and hen parties, a poofs parade and pissed-up football hooligans looking for a fight. Could be interesting!
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Nick on July 11, 2009, 12:22:42 PM
 Popcorn:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Snoopy on July 12, 2009, 09:32:05 AM
Being a local I have to say it bounds like your average Bournemouth weekend in June, July or August to me. whistle:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Miss Demeanour on July 12, 2009, 09:42:37 AM
And you moved up North why  rubschin:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: tel on July 12, 2009, 09:51:36 AM
Im' not sure if I will go to the pub today and see the remnants that return.
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Nick on July 12, 2009, 10:34:24 AM
I imagine TMR will be safely back in Mrs TMR (2B)'s bosom
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Miss Demeanour on July 12, 2009, 10:37:16 AM
Don't think we should be too worried about TMR ,  strikes me that he can handle himself - as for the groom to be ,  his fate must be of some concern  scared2:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Snoopy on July 12, 2009, 10:42:59 AM
And you moved up North why  rubschin:

Well I did it in stages ~ Step one was to London (werk related), (previously I had commuted but separation and then divorce took me into London via Milton Keynes ~ too long a story) thence into the Northern Home Counties (Hertfordshire) 'cos who the feck can afford North London prices when you start having kids and a two room flat gets a bit cramped. Final move was due to impending enforced "retirement" and arrival of third child making the terraced cottage just to small for practicality. The lack of future income and curtailment of anticipated pension fund made it imperative that we find a cheaper place to buy thus enabling maximisation of existing assets. I had some capital and we first decided to try to extend existing home and invest in a "holiday" let property which would provide an income. One place, among many, that I looked for such a property was North Wales. Unfortunately Mrs S#2 loved the house we now live in (it is big, halfway up a mountain and has views of Snowdonia and the Irish Sea). TBF I too liked the house and location so we forgot our doubts about the natives and bought it. Took a year to sell the cottage because just at the point of putting it on the market our neighbour started to knock out the front of his cottage and extend so it cost me a bit in bridging finance etc although we did manage to let the cottage for a part of the time which we thought might help the finances a bit (two mortgages is never a good plan) but the remedial work after the tenants left made letting it out an uneconomic decision to have made.
Well you did ask and that is the short version!
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 12, 2009, 11:52:31 AM
Guinness. Vodka. Aftershocks. Jaegermeister bombs. Black Sambuca. Absinthe. We slept well last night. Now back, drinking Young's. Mrs TMRBB out shopping.
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Miss Demeanour on July 12, 2009, 12:08:59 PM
MMMMmmmm and what about all the goss - I feel there are some vitals missing from that statement  rubschin:

No 'tour secrecy ' conditions will be accepted  whistle:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Nick on July 12, 2009, 12:18:12 PM
 Popcorn:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 12, 2009, 12:32:08 PM
Nothing too bad Miss D. The groom is still covered in make-up - it was waterproof stuff and we didn't have any make-up remover. There was nearly a fight in the B+B when one of the stags chopped the hair off one of the younger stags (who obviously spends ages perfecting the 'dragged through a bush backwards look') and I was fast asleep by 10pm.
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Miss Demeanour on July 12, 2009, 12:42:14 PM
PM me the real stuff then  lol: lol: lol:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 12, 2009, 01:18:30 PM
Nothing to add really - we are all a bit older and the main discussions were around what restaurant we were going to eat in, rather than how rat-arsed we were going to get and how much fanny we were going to try to infiltrate - like the younger ones do.
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Pastis on July 12, 2009, 04:14:57 PM
I have a vague recollection of Jagermeister shots on a skiing holiday... lots of them, all different  noooo:

Very appropriate for a stag do though, if you know the label
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 14, 2009, 08:04:04 PM
The groom to be has been to the horse pickle today - about his hurting hand.  They put it in plaster. He went home. Then he received a phone-call from a surgeon at his hospital insisting he goes in tomorrow to have the broken bones pinned and then put in plaster. How long does that take to fix up? He's getting married in 2 months!

It should be noted that, at about 1am I suggested he went home  angel1
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Miss Demeanour on July 14, 2009, 08:05:17 PM
I thought you were tucked up in bed by 10pm  rubschin:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 14, 2009, 08:07:12 PM
I thought you were tucked up in bed by 10pm  rubschin:

Typo - 1 and 0 are close to each other.

Get on with the ironing, pedant...
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Miss Demeanour on July 14, 2009, 08:09:26 PM
 lol: lol: lol:

Not a pedant - just attentive to your every word   whistle:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 14, 2009, 08:12:19 PM
lol: lol: lol:

Not a pedant - just attentive to your every word   whistle:

Oh really eyes:  PM details, we can swap brats...
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Miss Demeanour on July 14, 2009, 08:24:39 PM
Not even my worst enemy deserves that  noooo:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: The Moan Ranger on July 14, 2009, 08:28:31 PM
Not even my worst enemy deserves that  noooo:

I guarantee mine is worse.
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons) on July 15, 2009, 03:02:21 AM
Good grief this place is turning into swap shop I would like to swap one child and an ex husband.... No come to think of it I just want rid of. evil:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Miss Demeanour on July 15, 2009, 06:50:48 AM
There could be a whole new market opening up for that sort of service  rubschin:
Title: Re: Dispatches from Bournemouth
Post by: Barman on July 15, 2009, 06:53:45 AM
There could be a whole new market opening up for that sort of service  rubschin:
You haven't swapped my Rubik's Cube have you?  evil: