I'll be surprised if The Flying Scotsman in Kings Cross hasn't been mentioned yet.
Back in the year 2000, I printed off a Monopoly Pub Crawl route map from that internet for my mate's stag. It was a helpful route plan, including bus stops and all that stuff.

We thought the Flying Scotsman had shut down when we reached it. It was all boarded up and sprayed with graffiti. We were about to walk away when one of the "boards" opened and someone left, blinking into the daylight. The Stag said "right, we're going in".

Once inside this squalid hovel, the clientelle and staff watched us warily. I looked around and noticed an older woman on the other side of the pub getting her tits out, like it was the most natural thing in the world to do in a pub. I thought this was odd, but the Stag wanted to investigate further.

Around the corner in a side room, a filthy room housed a even filthier section of King's Cross society watching a bored looking girl taking her clothes off on a makeshift stage.

When I refused to put some coins in a polystyrene cup that was passed around, we were told by the older woman that if we weren't going to pay, we had to leave. I didn't really need any more encouragement but I think the stag was genuinely gutted to leave. He's a bit 'alpha' like that.

This alpha nature made it awkward later on when the Monopoly List i'd printed sent us into the famous gay pub, the Halfway To Heaven in Trafalgar, which he couldn't want to leave. Great day out.
( Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Mon 10 Feb 2014, 17:02, 9 replies)

Monopoly, Stag, Pubs and random thing about gays.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Mon 10 Feb 2014, 17:18, closed)

That word 'alpha' doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 10 Feb 2014, 18:09, closed)

I wonder what I mean...

( Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Mon 10 Feb 2014, 21:57, closed)

A sexually-repressed dickwad.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 10 Feb 2014, 22:42, closed)

That's the one.
What did I say?

I don't see the sexually-repressed dickwad anymore. More's the pity.
( Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Tue 11 Feb 2014, 15:46, closed)

'Couldn't want to leave'.
Should he had still got married if that was the case?
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 10 Feb 2014, 18:31, closed)

Why didn't you post this last week?

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Mon 10 Feb 2014, 19:25, closed)

If you think it's so important
why didn't you?
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Mon 10 Feb 2014, 22:04, closed)

I've been to the flying Scotsman.
I once went to London to meet a girl and having been to several pubs in the kings cross area I commented on how all the pubs looked the same Mahogany/polished brass/mirrored back bar/etc and that if the pub lacked character they would also lack the kind of characters that can make an afternoon in the pub so entertaining ie. drunkards. So after a walk to find another pub we stumbled upon the flying Scotsman and at her insistence we went in since "this place looks full of character". So in we went and ordered 2 Jack Daniels and coke which the barmaid told us was too expensive and that we should just have 2 pints of lager instead and without waiting for a reply proceeded to pour said lager. After a couple of sups my date asked where the toilets were only to be told there were no ladies toilets but she could use the staff toilet. She came back looking a little shocked and told me she had met a woman in the toilets standing doing her makeup fully in the nude. We wandered next door to find the stage show you mentioned with an ugly middle aged woman (insert your mum joke here) getting her overgrown bush out at about 2 o'clock on a Monday afternoon.
(Figmaus, Tue 11 Feb 2014, 0:09, closed)