Costcutter ftw
24 hour booze supply right across the road
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:23, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Sweet, ours is about 10 minutes walk
And there's a takeaway en route.

Although I'm fucking pissed off about takeaways today. I paid £5 for a Chicken burger, chips, chicken wings and a drink, all was well until I bit into the burger, and they'd put FUCKING MAYO on it, without asking me. Bastards.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:27, Reply)

they assumed that as a fat bastard
you would want mayo
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:33, Reply)

Wasn't as big as I'd have liked it to be
The chips came in the same size bag as a small fries from McDonalds, and the chicken bits were tiny.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:34, Reply)

London is superb for the round-the-clock alkie.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:35, Reply)

It's disappointing, Monty
in my day in London you had to find the dodgy greek-cypriot supermarkets on green lanes that thought licensing laws applied to other people. It's just too easy for the drunken youth of today.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:41, Reply)

When I moved into my area
you had to go to the kebab shop in Shoreditch, buy some grotty food you didn't want (and threw immediately into the bin upon exit) and get your beer. The good old days.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:46, Reply)

OMG OMG OMG
i used to live on duckett road (one of the "ladders" that runs off green lanes). we spent our lives in those 24 hour drinking dens behind the kebab shops, some of them had pool tables and juke boxes etc. great times. total shithole though.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 10:51, Reply)

I lived on Warham Road, three up from that.
and Allison Road. Used to drink in the Old Suffolk Punch, but I think that's gone now.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 11:08, Reply)

so did i!
god it's a small small world, the london drinking world
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 11:09, Reply)

as I said when you were suggesting pubs in Clerkenwell
if there's a pub in London, I've probably been slumped on the bar there.

/when were you there?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 11:12, Reply)

1997-1998
it was one of our delightful student digs... you??
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 11:28, Reply)

94-95
and then around 97-99 on and off, although I was living in Bounds Green mostly then.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 11:36, Reply)

Oh and "Aeon FC" was our 24h kebabbery back room card den of choice.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 17 Jan 2011, 11:10, Reply)