What do you do when you get aggro in a pub???

[trayhop123]

I find it easier to just walk out the pub when asked, its called manners which some of you council boys are deprived off.

oh my god ,,,,,,,, your witnessing history here folks ,,,,,,, the first time ever , im actually gonna agree with h,r,k .


i know its wrong when we get barred for doin nowt wrong , especially if money in play . but never would i lower myself to that.

ffs lol

[HorseRacingKing]

Sorry guys didn't meant to kick up a fuss,

Where I was brought up you'd goto a pub and everyone in there would respect the landlord whether your local or not, get a few beers in and start socialising tell them were yoru from, what you are doing here etc, be in there for a few hours and off home

but now its not even a drink - its a peak through the window at the machine, get a "coke" if you can call that a drink, dont look or talk to no one but the machine, use your formulas to cheat locals n landlord of their money and off you set with just an empty coke class on side.

Sorry but you are down right degrading indivudals

[trayhop123]

ahhh knew it couldn't last , ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, you were doing fine hrk m8 ,,,,,,, up to the line about cheating the locals.?????


firstly knowledge isn't cheating or illegal .

and second ,,,,, nobody puts a gun to these locals heads and makes em play fruits .



back to hrk the loon.

[FruityPro]

but now its not even a drink - its a peak through the window at the machine, get a "coke" if you can call that a drink, dont look or talk to no one but the machine, use your formulas to cheat locals n landlord of their money and off you set with just an empty coke class on side.

Whilst I certainly don't condone defecating in pubs in protest to being asked to leave the point is that the situation you describe above (buying 1 glass of coke, not talking to anyone) is welcomed with opened arms by landlords/ladies if they think you're doing your brains and leaving the machine in a favourable state of play for other people. Besides there's been many a time when I've done completely the opposite to what you describe above (not just once but over repeated visits) and still been barred, including my local which I spent many weekends and many weeks wages drinking in prior to becoming a full time player. I think it's pretty obvious that these attitudes mainly boil down to ignorance and jealousy.

In my opinion the fact that a lot of pubs have refused to move with the times is a major contributiong factor to the slow death of their trade. The 'locals' that a lot of pubs are hell bent on catering for are slowly dying off and the younger generation of potential customers have become accustomed to drinking in town centre chain pubs like Wetherspoons due to the uneasy atmosphere you often find in more traditional pubs. Anyway as I said that's just my opinion.

For the record I couldn't really give a crap (pun intended) if I get asked to leave an establishment. I just usually just smile and say something like "Oh thank goodness for that, that's one job you've saved me for next week. Anyway see ya later buddy." That generally does a good enough job of getting up their nose/confusing them. Legally there's not much more you can do really.

[Scott]

I usually gives my pocket a shake and say i can't believe its took you this long to bar me, bit childish, but there you go

[mr lugsy]

pocket jangling is defo very annoying and a lot more hygenic than doing a tom tit in the middle of the pub lol.

[sir ratholer]

I just buy a drink get on it, if your getting barred your getting barred - they know what you are there for anyway

tried everything but unfortunately i have to agree...not much you can do.

I've done routes in suits, still got barred.
I've taken books into pubs, still got barred.
I order food, still get barred.

And I've given up with pottering around before you go on a fruit. That's a shortcut to getting machine switched off/casual player going on it for hours or getting a lucky pot out of it whilst you're throwing up in the corner!

[clarkey1984]

cheat locals n landlord of their money and off you set with just an empty coke class on side.

Having a bit of knowledge on a machine is in no way cheating, and the money also does not belong to the landlord or locals either.

People have to accept that if they play a machine and lose in it, then they have no claim to that money anymore, its gone.

Admittidly, a lot of smaller pubs would prefer to see the wins go to a regular, but they have no say on who wins, and a regular has no more of a 'right' to any money in the machine than anyone else does.

Anybody who is a legit player, assuming they are over the age of 18 that is, should be allowed to play a machine in a pub if they so wish, without the threat of violence or the landlord/barstaff switching the machine off, they have to understand that machines have to pay a percentage by law, so when others lose, someone has to win.

Now toolers, they can all dive in a pool of boiling acid for all i care as they are the scum of the earth and deserve everything they get, but its a shame to hear, time and again, that a casual player who drops into a pub and has a little punt is treated with such contempt, and for what, *shock horror!* playing a fruit machine.

If pubs don't want people playing them, then they shouldn't have them.

[jesterman]

This HRK guy seems to have a beef with AWP players, yet makes his money from bookies.

Does he not use his "knowledge" to his advantage when choosing his horses?

My guess is he's no good at that either, so feels the need to berate others for his own inadequacies.

Anyone agree?

[HorseRacingKing]

This HRK guy seems to have a beef with AWP players, yet makes his money from bookies.

Does he not use his "knowledge" to his advantage when choosing his horses?

My guess is he's no good at that either, so feels the need to berate others for his own inadequacies.

Anyone agree?

Couldn't agree more, I would give my life and soul to be going round pubs all day looking at a fruit machine.

[jesterman]

Or to sit in the bookies all day looking at the form guide?!

[JG]

"If pubs don't want people playing them, then they shouldn't have them."

Exactly.


HRK, you are being rather silly again. You were doing very well, behaving yourself and being quite amiable, however this has been a bad quarter for you. I've had to send you one OFFICIAL MODERATOR WARNING and you're rather overstepping the mark at the moment. I'm all for the odd jib or jab at fruit machine player's expense, we can take a joke. We all know it's a bizarre thing that we do. However this continual tirade backed by weak, flawed sarcasm is rather silly. I gather you have a genuine passion for horse racing and as such I suggest you focus your attention on the bookmakers section of this site. If you're just going to post silly sarcastic nonsense on the AWP side, I'd rather you didn't, as it's just a blatant attempt to get people to bite and it's a bit tedious now.
True, there are some pubs where it's all about snuggling around an open fire, roasting chestnuts, drinking brandy and telling your life story to similarly inebriated strangers. If there was a p1 dial winking away under old Percy's coat, I'd not bother to go in and empty it.

However most pubs are just souless holes to fill the desolate voids in the heads of the skloids. A gawky manager jabs the buttons on his EPOS system as the price of a J20 flashes up at two pounds and sixty pee on the green LED embossed in brass and mounted on a raised wooden platter that's supposed to belch class. No matter, you can have chips with chips and listen to a crackhead talk about smack.
You can sniff the whiff of a tipsy tramp or talk the pork with a working girl with an exotic collection of virii, tucking into your reheated Pukka Pie. Sigh. So take your loot from out the fruit. It's on seventy two percentage to send you demented the value is not there for average Jo, so hey come on have a go, rip the pot, scoff the lot and down yer tot onto the next lot in the souless pub, no heart no cheer, but the punters still want to drink the beer. Some have the discipline the guts and the slog to work the whole hog, ignore the tuts the looks, those who seem to spout from books. You'll never win on them things give up now, but don't take a bow, just hit the big win, they'll say it's a sin that you're cheating, they can't even pay for heating it's the holiday fund you've robbed, to the police you'll be dobbed, chavs in your face, quick spray of the mace, quicken your pace, chavs in at nine, £1 a pint just fine, lairy in time for Kyle, you heap up the pile, scoot with the loot and cruise down the Nile. Quick empty that dial. Don't cramp my style. Cup of tea, one spoon of Tate and Lyle. Tastes vile? That could be HRK's bile. See?

[clarkey1984]

An excellent post

I have made that into a poem!

Most pubs, are just souless holes to fill the desolate voids in the heads of the skloids.

A gawky manager jabs the buttons on his EPOS system as the price of a J20 flashes up at two pounds and sixty pee on the green LED embossed in brass and mounted on a raised wooden platter that's supposed to belch class. No matter, you can have chips with chips and listen to a crackhead talk about smack.

You can sniff the whiff of a tipsy tramp or talk the pork with a working girl with an exotic collection of virii, tucking into your reheated Pukka Pie. Sigh. So take your loot from out the fruit.

It's on seventy two percentage to send you demented the value is not there for average Jo, so hey come on have a go, rip the pot, scoff the lot and down yer tot onto the next lot in the souless pub, no heart no cheer, but the punters still want to drink the beer.

Some have the discipline the guts and the slog to work the whole hog, ignore the tuts the looks, those who seem to spout from books. You'll never win on them things give up now, but don't take a bow, just hit the big win, they'll say it's a sin that you're cheating, they can't even pay for heating it's the holiday fund you've robbed, to the police you'll be dobbed.

Chavs in your face, quick spray of the mace, quicken your pace, chavs in at nine, £1 a pint just fine, lairy in time for Kyle, you heap up the pile, scoot with the loot and cruise down the Nile. Quick empty that dial. Don't cramp my style.

Cup of tea, one spoon of Tate and Lyle. Tastes vile? That could be HRK's bile.

[pickareel]

all depends what mood im in really,plus depends how the landlord/landlady address themselves,if they come over and say something like 'come on lads i know your doing nothing illegal but my regulars are getting stiffed on the machine after u play it so i cant allow u to play it anymore' thats fair enough,however when the 'magnet' and 'hes got a key' come into play certain measurements have to be taken,other day i was playing pool in a country pub waiting for someone to finish up on the machine,he finally left it,i ask him if hes finished he replied'yea mate i had 140 out of it i wouldnt bother' to which i reply 'ill take my chances u never know' anyway 1 pound in clunk and i have a rye smile to myself anyway i ended up making 180ish on it and the landlord was happy for me.

if carlsberg made pubs.........

[CrosbyRules]

kesh must be bored...huge posts