A bar in the NE of England has this sign outside, the joke changes every day but the message remains! League of Gentlemen?
Proper pub for proper drinkers!

by gianAB2977

49 comments

  1. The Canny Man’s pub in Morningside (Edinburgh) has the same rules, except with the addition of also prohibiting back-packers.

  4. How do we announce no card machines without making it obvious we are avoiding tax?

    Let’s throw it in the middle of a boomer Facebook post like message on the board and hope it slips through

  5. I was sat in a pub when a long piece of red tarmac walked in and started giving me the evil eye. I was going to say something but my mate said to leave it, he’s a cycle path

  8. God, I would rather stick pins in my eyes than drink in a place like this

  11. This’ll go down well with the introverts of Reddit, brace yourself..

  12. No tv? No blinking/noise machines? Just sit, have a pint, chat or watch the world go by… WHERE? I’ll beat a path to the door!!!!

  13. Honestly this is the kind of pub I dream of. I guess it’s not for everyone but I don’t want to drink in a gastropub, it just doesn’t feel right to me. I do indeed want a “proper drinkers” pub.

  16. Great idea, provided other drinking establishments are available.

  17. The pattern of where the chalk has faded makes me think that sign has been pissed on

  19. A proper British pub with proper British beer wouldn’t advertise “cold drinks”.

  20. The next reach xyz”live” article. “Another pub closing“ all with photos of the janky locals that use it with their glum faces, because they’ll need a new place to buy their smack and crack

    Almost every wet only pub I’ve been to has been a right shithole, with even shitter punters.

  22. This sounds just like our local…………….and it’s great.

  23. I’ll assume that women are also restricted to the lounge bar

  24. Sounds like my local. Massive pub, beautiful building, right by a local park so it could be raking it in. No, it’s the most miserable shit hole with the same dozen blokes in there drinking shit beer.

  29. It makes me happy when business owners let you know they’re a raging bellend before you set foot in their establishment so they can be avoided.

  34. “Proper pub for proper drinkers” – Serves cold ale (And it’s probably John Smith’s or that yellow one with the bee)

  35. It’s a local bar for local people, they’ll have no trouble there…

  37. What about if I want warm drinks and cold conversation?

  39. I was with them until ‘no card machines’. Aside from any suspicions about tax evasion, that alone is enough to make me go elsewhere just because of the inconvenience. I imagine the number of people who feel that way is only going to increase.

    Even if I could be arsed to go to a cash machine on the way, they’re shooting themselves in the foot by limiting customers to what’s in their wallet rather than what’s in their bank account.

  41. Quit my job and be unemployed like most of the NE? 😂

  45. Local bar to me, and I quote, has no fags, lefties or people who hate Johnny cash om the sign

    Least I knew where to avoid

  46. Right I’m sure I’ve been to one or two pubs like that but they don’t need bad jokes You literally get people asking who you are and are you from around here!?

    And I live in Brum just in case you mistook it as a small rural community somewhere Lol

    They’re only worried about the safety of the side Businesses I understand that !! 😁

  47. You need to be extremely careful around that piece of asphalt, I heard he’s an absolute cyclepath!

  48. I was once on a very long cross country walk somewhere in Yorkshire and stopped off in a local pub for a rest and some food/drink. Was hours away from where we were staying.

    I had been relying on a very useful OS map I had downloaded on my phone (was last minute didn’t have a physical copy). The pub had a “no phone” rule and my wife and I were literally the only ones in there. The barman chastised me for using my phone but I showed him we were using it to help find our way back.

    He wasn’t having it, wouldn’t budge even when I pointed out the rule existed to encourage people to talk and we were the only ones in there. Utterly moronic, I didn’t even finish my pint just went to the next pub instead.

  49. Well I don’t think that pints in the UK are precisely “cold”

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