Flicking through this guy’s website is an excruciating experience. See, he’s taken on what is ostensibly a pretty cool and enviable task of reviewing every pub in Britain. So you’d be forgiven for thinking he’s a bit of a ‘livewire’, who in his reviews shares some of the hilarious anecdotes that he’s picked up from all over the country. And given the fact that he’s putting a hell of a lot of effort into this, you would think he’s done a lot of reading around the area. You know, maybe read that McCarthy’s Bar book (and I’m sure Bill Bryson has done something similar to this) and realised that he should probably try his hardest to go one better than them and maybe have a quirky twist on the whole idea.
There’s really so much potential in the whole concept that his head must have been swimming with ideas about funny puns he could make with the idiosyncratic names of local ales, or tales of boozed up locals talking nonsense to him, or even explore the darker side of local pubs (badger-baiting, bare-knuckle boxing, cock-fighting, that sort of thing)... Shit, it’s getting me excited even thinking about the possibilities!
However, much like a fat child who can’t make his mind up in a sweet shop he came home empty handed. The reviews are exceptionally dull and so unreliable that one has to question if he even bothered in going to a single pub during the site’s construction. Take this appalling review of The Court pub in Goodge Street for example. A Scream bar as “trendy”?? Who even uses that word anymore?? And “Upon entering you will find the place to be moderately busy”… Really? Don’t you think that might depend on the time or day you fucking go there??
Well done for spending so long creating a completely useless guide to pubs in Britain. What a waste of fucking time.
11 comments:
I know that pub, it's in Bournemouth, a few doors down the road is the KFC where Jade Goody's Dad ODed.
YOU ARE A BASTARD.
You are a LEGEND....
I agree, that site is fucking useless. I don't think he went to most of those bars - and if he did, he went alone and sat in the corner... What a crap way of realising a great idea.
I imagine he enjoyed his time alone, sipping his half pint of diet coke.
you really lacking your own imagination to the extent that all you can constructively do is rant on about other peoples blogs? really?
its his blog and if thats the format he wants, let him get on with it. unless you feel you can do better, then of course go ahead. moron
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you know what, I don't even think tony hart exists. i reckon it was a 'nom de plum' for Greg or "g" to hide behind.
Pathetic.
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"STOP. I must get angry over something someone has written on the internet".
Your blog aint all that either mate.
chris you moron
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaa.
reoww. claws out.
wow that pub blog is gay
At least there appears to be some kind of point for the existence of his blog in the first place...
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