Worst pub in Porty!

Jamesie · Post by **Jamesie** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:24

Following on from the Chinese takeaway thread, I thought I'd follow it up with another poll with regard to public houses!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:25

I think we did that one didn't we?

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:33

There are too many dodgy pubs in Porty. Selecting the worst of them might be more fun.
How about a forum pub crawl starting at The Forresters and ending at The Ormelie although I'd probably fall over at about the Portobello Bar or thereabouts!

sorry!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:36

What about the Bedford? And what's this Tullochs tea-cake bar? I don't remember that one.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:37

ecm, might have known you'd be straight onto this subject.

I remember our first office party!!!

But why stop at the Ormerlie - was at the Seahaven last night and they had a very nice cat!

Jamesie · Post by **Jamesie** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:37

ecm wrote:There are too many dodgy pubs in Porty. Selecting the worst of them might be more fun.

Suggestion taken on board - vote away

Jamesie · Post by **Jamesie** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:38

Problem is the poll won't allow me to post any more options!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:42

I managed to squeeze one more on. Ten seems to be the max. I think we can assume that the Bedford would not have won this particular contest anyway.

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:43

was at the Seahaven last night and they had a very nice cat!

Shouldn't you be putting this in the Chinese takeaway poll?
As for that first Xmas party, I've told you for the last 26 years, I wasn't drunk just very, very tired!

ecm · Post by **ecm** » 01 Aug 2004, 20:57

I haven't been in most of the pubs listed but the Pop Inn with it's hilarious (not) slogan of 'Pop in and Stagger oot' deserves to be tops for that fact alone. I was once in the Assblower as it was for a while when it lost a couple of letters.
The Figgate Whins seems to have a clientele that live for karaoke - bad karaoke at that. I'll have to do some research before I cast my vote.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 01 Aug 2004, 21:26

ecm - hope you don't get too 'tired' doing your 'research'.

See you tomorrow, no doubt- both of us clutching a copy of the Sacred art of Stealing, perhaps, to read at teabreak?!

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 01 Aug 2004, 22:05

The Royal would have got my vote... Ahhh, those heady summer days of karaoke...

bearcub · Post by **bearcub** » 01 Aug 2004, 22:26

Just by the look of the Pop-In as I pass on the bus it gets my vote! Although going by that most of the pubs in Porty get my vote!

Epykat · Post by **Epykat** » 02 Aug 2004, 16:50

Why are we only allowed one choice? Since most of the pubs in Portobello are the pits it seems a shame we can only vote for one of them

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 03 Aug 2004, 17:45

Without wishing to prejudge the matter in any way, it does rather look as though the Pop Inn might win this one hands down, although I'm sure the Royal would have given it a run for its money if it was still around, and there isn't a lot to seperate most of the rest.

Do you think we should give the 'winning' pub a Special Certificate as well? And if so, would someone like to volunteer to present it?

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 03 Aug 2004, 22:47

I'm worried that we're giving Mr Magnolia a most dreadful impression of our humble seaside haven. We should surely be telling him how wonderful our thriving local cultural scene is - wonderful music at the figgate whins

, poetic slogans for the Pop Inn

, its success measured clearly by the number of people who do in fact stagger oot, and then down bath st and onto the prom of a saturday night, the wonderful artwork of the Assblower

...and what can you expect of a clientele who judge the quality of a watering hole by its pets?!

Mr Magnolia, Portobello is a thriving community with a wonderful selection of pubs and bars which offer the finest refreshments and company in edinburgh.

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 03 Aug 2004, 22:53

Bellybabe wrote: Portobello is a thriving community with a wonderful selection of pubs and bars which offer the finest refreshments and company in edinburgh.

May I have a couple of whatever it is you have been drinking?

bellybabe · Post by **bellybabe** » 03 Aug 2004, 22:58

It's damned fine stuff. (Can we say damned?)
Rest assured it's not from a Porty pub!!!

mr magnolia · Post by **mr magnolia** » 03 Aug 2004, 23:04

Bellybabe wrote:

Mr Magnolia, Portobello is a thriving community with a wonderful selection of pubs and bars which offer the finest refreshments and company in edinburgh.

Aye, right: and being landlord of the Pop Inn is a safe occupation.....(or was that somewhere else?)

Porty · Post by **Porty** » 03 Aug 2004, 23:10

I dont think being Landlord of the P Inn was the problem.

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 04 Aug 2004, 23:00

Bellybabe said

...and what can you expect of a clientele who judge the quality of a watering hole by its pets?!

Well, it made a change from dogs who try to steal your beer and crisps in other pubs - it costs nothing to give a cat the reverence and adulation it thinks/knows it deserves!!!!

Can you guess I'm a cat person?

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