Last night I went for a meal with my boyfriend and some friends at our local Wetherspoons. After the food I thought 'a double southern comfort would finish that off nicely' so I went to the bar, only to be told they no longer sell it! I asked if the had any other bourbon and was offered 'Wild Turkey' (which I know is vile) or this stuff called 'Knob Creek.' I went with the latter - what a mistake-a to make-a. It smelt vile and looked like piss. I couldn't drink it.
So, what are Wetherspoons playing at? No Southern Comfort indeed!

They dont do JD either. Jim beam indeed.....

I'm not happy with Wetherspoons either. They are the McDonalds of the pub world. Its good points are cheap cider and you can talk without being drowned out by music but the staff are complete wonkers. Our party had been drinking all night ( spending a considerable amout ) At two minutes past eleven I ordered a round of christmas vodkas and the twat goes I can't serve you now because the tills are shut and there's a clock on them. I tried bribing him with £10 to bypass the till and he still wouldn't have it. So I sat down and started to guzzle the remains of my strongbow - about three quarters of a pint - and the twat appears and orders us to finish up now. My stomach was full and he wouldn't go away he just hovered there looking at his watch. Fuck everyone else in the place just stay on our table moaning like a sour twat. I finished my pint and said it was off and asked for a replacement and he wouldn't have it either. The worst service I have ever experienced. You cant even bang the twats because its on cctv.

I dont like them, I will only go in them to get drunk cheaply.I just hate pubs with no music

yeah wetherspoons are fucking twats.

I completely sympathise with what you said about having a fucking moron hanging around looking at his/her watch.... pisses me right off. Usually I'll go to a Wetherspoons and have a few cheap doubles - then off to somewhere decent to enjoy the night.

An ex. bird of mine works in the local one and I was talking to a girl I know on NYE and this ex walks past and says "don't talk to him he's a twat!" hehehe.... she made herself look like a fucking idiot as I wasnt even chatting this bird up. The calibre of staff just goes downhill by the week....

As far as the bouron issue is concerned - I can't STAND Southern Comfort (is it actually a bourbon anyway?!) but I understand you being upset at your fave choice being dropped - I have to say though that theres virtually no difference between Jim Beam and Jack Daniels though....

stop whinging and don't go in britains pikiest boozer if you want to drink girly liqueur(sp?) type booze like southern comfort. Jack Daniels is piss too, just well-marketed

Maybe it's location... ours have the shorts, lots of very nice guest ales, good staff, excellent urinals (full-height walls either side - woohoo!), cheap (currently £1/pint for Spitfire), nice food (their burger reallly takes McDs for a ride, and some of the curries are great).... to mention a few plusses.

Just wish it was a little closer.

I dunno I'm not a connaseour of chasers. I'm going to boycott the stinking places. I won't miss spending the night waiting at the bar watching countless young crumpet getting served. I shouldn't have to start banging my glass and swearing either . Should be renamed Wherethetwatsworks.

But what about their curry nights ?

It's thursday at my local, £4.95 for a curry of your choice and that includes popadoms, chippatis, mango chutney and a pint of Fosters.

Don't get the chicken phall though................it's a real arsehole stinger !

Dogsick spouted:
I won't miss spending the night waiting at the bar watching countless young crumpet getting served. I shouldn't have to start banging my glass and swearing either . Should be renamed Wherethetwatsworks.

Jesus, I fucking HATE that! Why is it that some pikey flange with her tits falling out of a tight top always gets served before me, even if I have been standing there for absolutely fucking ages? :bombguy:

Oh. Yes. I see now. Hmm, quite.

And I thought I had powers of invisibility. Damn.

If you want cheap piss served by apathetic, minimum-wage retards in sticky surroundings and bargain-basement food, you go to Wetherspoon's and pay 1.80 a pint.

If you want friendly, experienced bar staff with stunning arses, a wide choice of quality beers, wines and spirits, a fantastic ambience and excellent food, you go somewhere like The Porterhouse in Covent Garden and pay £3.20 a pint.

What was that about getting what you pay for?

Dazzla spouted:


If you want friendly, experienced bar staff with stunning arses, a wide choice of quality beers, wines and spirits, a fantastic ambience and excellent food, you go somewhere like The Porterhouse in Covent Garden and pay £3.20 a pint.



ooo the porter house. Now there's a nice boozer. plenty of seats and beer from around the world. Good for an all dayer.

good work

My local whetherspoons is pretty nice actually. Been drinking there for years. Never really had complaints about it. You get the odd assclown in there, but its the same with any pub. Wild Turkey is brilliant, could never find the stuff over here till they started selling it :)

i avoid my local one here in morden like the plague as its known as the local hangout for OAPs. the place is heaving with them.

i did go into suttons today (known as the coon on the hill because of all the fighting that goes on in there between the black wannabes -just reporting not making a statement!- )

my friend at work natalie whos 16 is suffering from depression that ive seen in myself, pissed off with work, people accusing her of being anorexic, splitting up with her bloke etc., so i took her to the weatherspoon for a drink and chat at lunchtime because im a nice person!

AnthillMob spouted:
so i took her to the weatherspoon for a drink and chat at lunchtime because im a nice person!

or you just fancied a cheap half!;)...joking mrs mob:)


ours isnt too bad...the curries are good,the staff(male) are wankers....see post above regarding tits oot etc..

an excellent 'monday club' venue!

sambo recomends:

ask for a bottle of 'cold water creek'(aussie white wine--£5.95),its aptly renamed round these parts as cripple creek-guaranteed to make you go home and beat up gf/wife/bf/husband etc..

even the manager knows it as cripple creek.

i recommended this to dogbomb...was gonna try it out....now i know where he's been all christmas :))

justbecause spouted:
this stuff called 'Knob Creek.' It smelt vile and looked like piss. I couldn't drink it.


There was a clue in there somewhere.

To be honset if I had the choice betwen serivng some dried up old bloke and some nice bit of skirt I'd go for the skirt. Fuck doing my job well, if your stuck in a shit job why should'nt you act like a cunt and have a bad attitude, most of the staff are probably drunks themselves or on drugs how else could cope with working a such a shit place.

Cheap beer but the food is still just mass produced microwaved shoved under the grill for a few seconds to brown it off cack.

The one near me in Richmond, North Yorks, gets packed out on Thursdays with loads of Top Class ladies. Brilliant.

richmond is great for quality lasses, pity theres lots of squaddies too (no offence an that) :)

Dreadful, cheap boozers. No character, shit service, pissy beer.

And has anyone noted how full these places get on St Giro's Day? The great unwashed come swarming out of (insert your local shit estate here), via the post office.

if you drink mild its a pound a point in my local.

salsa spouted:
pound a point in my local.

fuck ! Surely the going rates more that

This is how bad it is to work in these places: Last night I remembered that in March 2001 I worked in the Hayes & Harlington Weatherspoons for 3 weeks before I walked out in the middle of a shift. I actually repressed the memories.

There is no emoticon to express my loathing of that hell-hole.

wannabepornstar spouted:
Hayes & Harlington
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/me wakes up screaming

There is no emoticon to express my loathing of that hell-hole.

What really gets me about Wetherspoons is their Mcdonaldisation of the economy of leisure. Cunts.

"Six-for-one deal every day before 11am!"

"Wetherspoons respects your decision to drink responsibly"

Cunts.

It wont be long before everywhere is like everywhere else

We will be in a town that looks like all others in the UK.

Drinking shit flat mass produced beer in a pub that looks the same as every other fucking pub in town.

Being served by sullen resentfull underpaid staff who hate you

Listning to shit irratating music that everyone but 12 year old girls hates

And wonder why?

Why are we there?

Why we have botherd?

Just before we drink another drink because we are so fucking bored and pissed off about being there in the first place.

Aye, there's nothing worse than underpaid staff who hate their job serving (and resenting) you. Thankfully they don't take notice of the daft "no swearing" policy the organisation has. That's the silly side of the place... it's a pub! A place full of working men winding down after a long day. Newsflash: you're going to hear working men's language - deal with it!

no swearing? seriously?

There's a Wetherspoons up the road from me, and despite the pikey presence, it's no' bad. Plus it's opened til one of a saturday night/sunday morning, it being in the West of Scotland and all. £2.50 for 2 Archer's Aquas- it's like getting pished on juice! And if you go in early enough, you'll have enough time to get pished then beat the munchies with a slab of chocolate fudge cake :D

coupla good thing about 'spoons.

The Prince of wales (in cardiff) is chuffing awesome. Its absolutely huge and they have mahoosive tellies for watching the footie on

Theres one in town too, (in a hotel) and a good start to the night is a pitcher of cocktail each. Theyre about 7 quid. Had 2 full of voddy redbull NYE and was nicely warmed up by 9

Lintuk spouted:
coupla good thing about 'spoons.

The Prince of wales (in cardiff) is chuffing awesome. Its absolutely huge and they have mahoosive tellies for watching the footie on

Theres one in town too, (in a hotel) and a good start to the night is a pitcher of cocktail each. Theyre about 7 quid. Had 2 full of voddy redbull NYE and was nicely warmed up by 9

Me and my mate (male) usually start off sharing the pitchers of VRB, with glasses and staws and all, then we slowly progress to just sticking th straws in the pitchers and drinking them like that, then we end up with one each trying to drink out of the pitcher directly, like it's a big glass. Then I wkae up in the morning and wonder why I'm all wet and sticky :D

no swearing? seriously?

Just a quickie link, it says 'may ban' but there are later articles somewhere that confirm they *did* carry out the ban :)

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/04/1054700275736.html

(Knew I'd gott'n that "working man's language" description from somewhere!

There was a classic joke at the time, I think it was on Have I Got News For You... paraphrased:

"JD Wetherspoons are to ban swear words such as 'piss' and 'bollocks'. That would make it really difficult to order a pint of Fosters and a burger."

I doubt they could ban swearwords in walsall, they have enough trouble stopping women going in the gents loo's

hugo-a-gogo spouted:
richmond is great for quality lasses, pity theres lots of squaddies too (no offence an that) :)

/me sighs at squaddies. No offence taken. (Scrote).

Was there tonight, 99p a pint. Scary.

Wetherspoons, MetroCentre

Kinda rolls off the tongue doesn't it?

And if you want to know what the over-corporatised future will look like, come to Newcastle, England's most corporate city, where every old building has been turned into a trendy bar with no respect for heritage, all the 'lastest' most 'fashionable' design to turn the places into posing parlours!

Party city my arse

Apparently there are two Wetherspoons in their own right in Newcastle, one near Central Station, which never seems to be that clean and the other on West Road in Newcastle's glamourous West End (not far from the city's A&E, which is handy when a Smathead gives you the kicking that you're pretty much guaranteed to get should you go drinking in that area)

Sligfhtly more to my taste is the Lloyd's No1 that Wetherspoons have recently bought out, the one on the Quayside (called the Quayside, and it's changed ownership many times in a short space of time) is wonderful on a Summer's afternoon on a Sunday, being one ofthe few pubs to have seating outside.

Of course, the other Lloyd's No1 is in that soulless hole where the Mayfair used to be called THE GATE (spit} and because of that, I will never be going!

OK, I work in a Lloyds No.1 Bar, which is part of the wetherspoons chain.

Now, because our place is the busiest pub in the wethersppons chain, we dont go for cheap prices. E verything is more expensive than normal wetherspoons :P

From a staff point of view... I'm pissed off at how much some of the staff get away with doing - where as I get bitched at if I go and have a 5 min breather!

*shrugs* ah well... of to work - we're short staffed tonight

I wonder why

woo...

cripple creek now at £4.49 :D

does it sell white grenache?

http://2kay.net/hate/wetherspoon.html

Wetherspoons are usually in great buildings though- although not so much the ones in the bigger cities. The one in Exeter has a massive orangery with a huge semi circular window at the end that looks over the hills- it's quite nice really.

The one in Walsall has Dino's in it.

We've got two in our fairly small town, completely different ambience in each. One full of the old man and giro gang, the other full of the trainers n cap yate's type brigade. Don't mind either though. Always pop in for a swift one if in town. Would never make a night of it in there though.

on the swearing there a pub near me that has a no swearing rule, and they are dead strict on it too.

I like my local Weth'ies - both of them - the newer one is a poser only area - so I go in and have a laff at 'em. The other older one is full of - older people. It's nice an quite, cheap beer and in this one the satff are OK. In fact some of the female bar staff are damn attractive - but unfortunately, it does have a high turnaround :(

I like it since they sell Guiness for well under £2 - which no other bar in town does! It's the starting place for the rest of the night. Rock!

Not a big fan, have not stepped in one for three years, since it took an hour for undercooked badly presented scampi and chips to be dumped in front of me and a mate. Not a single word from the grumpy tart, the food was disgusting.
What these idiots don't realise is that
stroppy service = unhappy customers = no tip = stroppy service.
Every pint you buy from the corporate chain kills a bit of this unique country.

Thats well over the top.