pub banning the saga continues

ming · Post by **ming** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:46 am

i got barred the other day from a pub because i asked for a 2nd ham baguette, apparently this was a ploy to get the barmaid out the back so i could ''fiddle with the buttons to make it pay'' not because i was hungry and eat alot.
it was an 'alien' though so a bit off topic

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:53 am

I've been asked several times if I go from pub to pub just to play the fruit machine/bandit by the landlord, staff and regulars, I always say no personally, must be different in the quizzing world or does everyone hold there hands up? Sounds like a short cut to a barring to me.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:50 am

Not really. Just Cool not being cool by telling landlords and ladies what he does for a living.

It's like telling Coral and Ladbrokes you are a professional gambler. Then they won't take a bet above a tenner off you. So not very bright at all.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:29 am

so what would be an acceptable fib to tell?
travelling salesman?
ebay seller?
mystery shopper?
soak?
freelance roofer?
druid?

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:45 am

cool wrote:PUB: CRIMEA

As in "Plenty of crime 'ere", one suspects.

If it's any consolation I was 'barred' for only the second time ever recently. It was at a little pub in Windsor where (as is also the case with many of the Enterprise Inns, as mentioned above) the place is clearly on borrowed time anyway - £3.30 for a pint of bitter would have been steep anywhere, never mind a back street local. The landlord had obviously been watching me like a hawk even before I won anything - I'd thought at first he was watching the Sky game on the adjacent TV but when that question "Which of these characters does not work at The Slate Rock and Gravel Company?" came up on The X Factor (correct answer : Homer Simpson) he sidled over to say that I had to stop playing because "The machine was malfunctioning as it was giving out wrong answers". Once I pointed out the word *not* in the question he gave in but after I had won the £20 he came over again and asked me to stop playing.

He was only a little guy and there were no menacing regulars to back him up so I could of course have stood my ground and carried on but I actually felt a little sorry for him - imagine running a pub located in a place as touristy as Windsor yet which is still sailing so close to the wind that £20 taken out of the quizzer (after about a fiver had gone in) is such an issue! I half expect the place to be closed next time I'm down there.

QuizMaster · Post by **QuizMaster** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:41 pm

I went to Caersws last year, don't ask why and found an IND:E in a truly run down establishment. The landlady was ecstatic to see me and my three friends, as we were clearly the first travellers to pass that way for some considerable time. After fussing over us for 20 minutes, providing us with local beers and a 1970's menu from the Berni Inn, we had steaks all round.

She even gave us some sets of darts to play with whilst we digested the grub over a 3rd round of drinks. She couldn't have been happier all lunchtime until I asked the fateful question..........

"Does your fruit machine work luv?"

-That's a quiz machine luvvie. You'll have to turn it on at the wall. I don't ususally bother unless somebody wants a go on it.

"Mind if we have a go?"

-Oh yes darling. Help yourself.

1 power up, 30 minutes and £67 later. I just had to buy another round to try and cheer her up, with tales of we couldn't believe how lucky we had gotten with the questions and wasn't that Caveman game great fun?

And no, I didn't tell her that what I did all week was go round prowling mid-Wales hostelries looking for naive landladies with gagging quiz machines in the Thicko Arms.

jesterman · Post by **jesterman** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:57 pm

Though this is nothing to do with barring, I was watching a pro-quizzer in London a couple of weeks ago with my mate, and he clocked us seeing him play.

I had to laugh when it came to putting his name up for the high score, and seeing him write "Nosey"!

cool · Post by **cool** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 11:02 pm

'It's like telling Coral and Ladbrokes you are a professional gambler. Then they won't take a bet above a tenner off you. So not very bright at all'.

I dont tell! They ask and then I tell.The vast majority who I do tell on prompting are generally interested in what I do and relieved when I operate on a 4 month ish cycle!

Would like to know the pub in Windsor possible that I know it.If you let me know some time in the future(not due to go there for a while) will do a one man show for the publican and then say Mr Nils sent me.O what fun W'ell have.

I have contacted one of the true London masters of the SWP who is going to make a bee-line for the pub next time he escapes the capital.I would find it highly amusing if the dodgy landlords are beset by people from the forum screwing their machine.

Quizmasters anecdote class.

Nil Satis · Post by **Nil Satis** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 3:13 pm

I have PM'ed cool with the name of the pub. No matter how snotty the landlord was with me, I'm not sure he deserves the full might of the quiz world descending on his little boozer...

cool · Post by **cool** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 10:30 pm

Id like to put myself forward as anybody except Mr Pink,who from the forum can fill the other places!

Have recruited another pro as a member of the SWAT team SWpers Against Twats who will do a raid on the Crimea.Overtures through a 3rd party will be shortly made to Suri to disable the Caveman Capers on the machine.
Give us your bannings and we will make their day!

cool · Post by **cool** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 7:42 am

Dodgy Enterprise publicans should be relieved of their responsibilities and given a Punch Inn.

sir ratholer · Post by **sir ratholer** » Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:02 am

cool wrote:In the wake of Quizmasters Litten Tree allegations I must report another banning!

PUB: CRIMEA
ADDRESS : CRIMEA RD ALDERSHOT
OWNER: ENTERPRISE INNS
DATE : 31/05/2010 6PM
MACHINE : INDE IN NEXUS BODY
PROVIDER: CAPITAL COIN COMPANY?
VERBALLY ABUSIVE LANDLORD:NO
PHYSICALLY ABUSIVE LANDLORD:NO

played machine for ages getting stuck on it.Bursting for the loo.
Finished playing.Asked if I was one of those people who go from pub to pub.Replied in the affirmative.Landlady bright red and angry!
said I was ruining it for locals (meaning ruining her profits) then said I was a cheat as I had the temerity to learn the questions.Presumably she would have a problem with any academic achievement and prefer us all to be peasants working small holdings.She should be transported over to Cambodia in the time of Pol Pot where she would fit in very well.Said no matter what I said or did I could not convince her I was honest.Parallel of Bush V Hussein.
Despite one local doing his best to support me given the order of the boot.
If anybody knows a lawyer who is willing to represent me in a case of slander no win no fee for being called a cheat in front of customers by an ignorant publican please let me know!
And whoever replies get over it probably isnt or is ever going to be good enough to be get called one!

I know the pub and as with most pubs in Aldershot it's a bit of a dump!

I for one would love to see someone take people on through the courts and I await news of your success with baited breath.

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:58 pm

jesterman wrote:Though this is nothing to do with barring, I was watching a pro-quizzer in London a couple of weeks ago with my mate, and he clocked us seeing him play.

I had to laugh when it came to putting his name up for the high score, and seeing him write "Nosey"!

jesterman was this in the railway on Liverpool street by any chance?

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 11:58 pm

jesterman wrote:Though this is nothing to do with barring, I was watching a pro-quizzer in London a couple of weeks ago with my mate, and he clocked us seeing him play.

I had to laugh when it came to putting his name up for the high score, and seeing him write "Nosey"!

jesterman was this in the railway on Liverpool street by any chance?

cool · Post by **cool** » Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:29 pm

re Nils Satis post 01/June

OPERATION CRITERION
1pm : Took up observational duties in the Crosses Corner opposite as well as playing games warehouse.
1-2.15 : Walked around Windsor playing few machines in case the scumbag phoned up others to spread untrue tales.
2.15 breached defences going into pub and ordering diet coke, onto Open machine without landlord in sight.Noticed person sitting nxt to machine on mobile in the process of transferring over his car insurance to another insurer.
2.20 when answered question where did you live he answered 'in the flat above pub as I am the landlord' . Cue jaws type music.Made a decision to extract as much as I could in minimum time .
2.45 Landlord still on phone.Pressed collect and the noise of the coins sounded like a jet taking off.The person on the other end must have asked him what the hell the noise was.He replied 'I dont believe it somebody has just scammed MY machine! Amazing how he knew this as he had his back to me throughout the time I played.
2.50 waited for him to get off the phone so that I could tell him that I did it for my pal Nil Satis and that he should expect further visits from a baying horde of fruit machine chatters,but he wouldnt get off the phone.
The moral of the story is changing your insurance company doesnt always save you money!

FRUIT MACHINE CHAT 1 UNSCRUPULOUS LANDLORD 0