It was our first trip to Amsterdam.
We'd bought some smoke, and nice it was, but we fancied a beer, so found a nice pub.

But we also fancied a smoke.

We were a significant party in the pub - those who have been will know that some of them are absolutely tiny - as this one was - and we were a party of eight.

I went up to the barman.

"Hello mate. Is it OK if we smoke in here?"

"Sure" he said.

"No" I elaborated, "If we smoke hash?"

"Oh" he said, "Where are you from?"

"Er ... England" I said.

"Yeah - whereabouts in England" was the reply.

"Oh. London" I said.

"Oh well yeah - that's fine then!" he said with a broad smile, "I thought you might be from Liverpool!"

What Liverpool's done to Amsterdam?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 15:29, 10 replies)

i can imagine

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 15:43, closed)

YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE.
#NeverForget
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 23 Apr 2013, 16:38, closed)

If this is meant to be Beautiful South
you've got the words wrong.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 24 Apr 2013, 9:39, closed)

sorry but you lose.
Amsterdam coffee shops were legally disallowed from selling alcohol. and smoking weed in pubs was no more legal than it is here. as you would know if you had ever left your bedroom.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 14:16, closed)

Sorry, it actually happened.
I thought that legally that might be the case, hence my asking.

It wasn't a coffee shop, it was a pub, and whether the guy was prepared to bend the rules because he thought our trade worth the risk, I don't know, but it's a trufax, so feel free to cry and/or tell me to fuck off.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 14:25, closed)

She's partly wrong Vaggy, see below.
Haven't been there since 2007 myself though, so it might have changed since then.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 24 Apr 2013, 19:37, closed)

That only came in in about 2007 Sidekick.
And even then you could buy dope in the Doors Cafe (A coffee shop) and then go round the corner to the Doors Palace (used to be a coffee shop that sold beer, turned into a pub when the law against selling dope AND beer in the same premesis came in), buy a cold Heinekin AND smoke your newly bought spliff in there with no trouble whatsoever. You couldn't smoke a normal cigarette indoors though.
Also, he didn't say this had happened in the last couple of years now, did he?
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Wed 24 Apr 2013, 19:36, closed)

I've been a few times.
On the first two occasions I was able to order a joint and a beer at the same bar (in two different bars).
Last time I went (xmas last year) I saw people smoking joints in a couple of pubs, one of which I think was the arrangement stuj refers to and the other just seemed to allow it.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 19:43, closed)

If nothing else,
this seems to be drawing out the MASSIVE DRUGS crowd.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 24 Apr 2013, 20:27, closed)

More like the "miniscule drugs" crowd.
One of the party*, after his first spliff threw a whitey and face-planted in the street.



*Not me, I hasten to add**.
** No it bloody wasn't, so fuck off.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 25 Apr 2013, 10:40, closed)