If you owned a pub/ bar, what would you call it?

profk · 2016-10-21T10:51:22.182Z

The Carbon Fork

ma0sm · 2016-10-21T10:52:36.409Z

The MC & Shitthread

saps · 2016-10-21T10:53:41.035Z

Friday night at MC Shitthread’s!

1101010 · 2016-10-21T10:57:23.721Z

Can you tell us more about this? Presumably it wasn’t in Britain with a name like that. Poland? How come you owned it? (Sorry, just interested.)

We have done this thread before. And my answer is still The Bullock’s Bollocks.

shucks · 2016-10-21T11:00:43.740Z

The Goat and Seven Trumpets

chadders · 2016-10-21T11:10:20.656Z

The So Near So Bar

Known to locals as The Doesn’t Even Rhyme

1101010 · 2016-10-21T11:14:39.239Z

Sketches:

Sure. It was in the Czech Republic. Had a mate who was massively into his wine, something I am somewhat into. He had previously managed wine shops, a vineyard a couple of other things. He fancied opening a bar and as obviously owning a bar sounds like a wicked thing I got on board and funded it.

Was a great little place and people liked it. I really enjoyed the process of getting it off the ground. In the end though, not being hands on was a terrible idea and the woman managing the place stole a lot of money and faked out the balance sheets. She also hid the fact she wasn’t paying some suppliers and utility companies which I only found out when the power got cut off one day. After trying to sort out the whole mess and not getting very far I cut my losses and walked away. A valuable learning experience overall and I don’t regret doing it.

Oh man, a whole rollercoaster. Shame you couldn’t be on site as that would have probably been a great time had by all!

profk · 2016-10-21T11:30:59.986Z

Saw this place in Bratislava

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profk · 2016-10-21T11:36:48.293Z

yeah it is a bit. quite charming in a way, though.

_Em · 2016-10-21T11:37:25.032Z

I’ve been to the Depeche Mode bar in Tallinn, where they only play Depeche Mode, and the walls are covered with photos of Essex.

Told my friend about it when we were drunk, and she made me solemnly swear that if either of us ever won the lottery we had to open a Fleetwood Mac bar on the same lines. We didn’t get far on the imaginary menu, but it had Whisky Macs and Lindsey Buckfast.

sarahispi · 2016-10-21T11:37:32.830Z

The Leaky Tampon

profk · 2016-10-21T11:39:00.475Z

depeche mode seem to be massive in east Europe for some reason. got a few #slovakianmates who are obsessed with them, and also used to work under a Czech guy who had been to like 20 depeche mode concerts.

_Em · 2016-10-21T11:40:32.651Z

I’ve spent more time in Bratislava bus station than any human should have to (old job used to book flights to Bratislava and make you take a coach if you were going anywhere in the region to be cheap)

I went to this ridiculous place in Prague for a laugh. It’s V for Vendetta themed, but they also tried to be fancy with expensive cocktails/obsequious table service and a really bad 30s style jazz band. It was really weird, but a fun thing to do for one drink/to say you’d been.

AnonymouS Bar

AnonymouS Bar | Cocktail Revolution | Michalská 12, Praha 1

Welcome in the Hideout. Sit back and relax, here you can leave your troubles outside. With one of our signature drinks in your hand. Or let us make a cocktail just for You.

profk · 2016-10-21T11:42:03.075Z

did you ever go to the big random M&S on the road from the airport into town?

_Em · 2016-10-21T11:42:26.691Z

@profk

The reason why is brilliant. In the communist days, to get music that wasn’t approved by the government, you had to know someone, who knew someone, whose cousin worked in customs confiscating things/went to Hungary or East Germany regularly. So there were lots of tapes of tapes of tapes floating around. So anything with distorted guitars sounded terrible really quickly. Depeche Mode apparently still sound good if you tape them loads of times. So they became really popular.

_Em · 2016-10-21T11:51:22.183Z

Yes, when I had the flu, for extra surrealness. I’d been working in rural Austria, and by that point I just used to get the company to give me cash and arrange my own travel, after they sent me to the wrong side of Italy and then booked my return flight back from an airport near the wrong place rather than the right one (they also used to often overestimate how much cash to give me, which was great). So I arranged to stay with a friend in Vienna for 3-4 days, and then booked a flight back from Bratislava.

As soon as I got to my friend’s place, I came down with the lurgy, and spent most of the time sleeping on the sofabed in the kitchen. One evening I managed to drag myself out to the small gig we’d planned to go to, and fell asleep in a chair. Was still like that when I had to drag myself to Bratislava airport. Hoped there would be food at the M&S, but it was all clothes.

profk · 2016-10-21T11:56:20.454Z

I imagine Bratislava would be one of the worst cities to fall ill in. Literally no shops in the residential areas (as far as I could tell), and there appeared to be some sort of refinery very close to the city pumping smoke into the air.

_Em · 2016-10-21T11:58:16.091Z

I think the most exciting things I have ever done in Bratislava are

See the castle
Drink a coffee or one beer

Went to art college with a girl from there, and she just went to Vienna for everything.

_Em · 2016-10-21T12:02:07.328Z

Must have been particularly annoying in the Iron Curtain days. Like I worked in a place in Austria called Oberpullendorf that’s right on the Hungarian border. Their local big shopping town is Sopron in Hungary, and the train line was built in the days when Austria and Hungary were one country. So the train to Vienna goes via Sopron. In the communist days, you used to get locked into the train while it went through Hungary. It does mean that this small Austrian village has a surprising number of shops though.

profk · 2016-10-21T12:04:02.649Z

yeah, everyone I know who lives there commutes into Vienna for work. Strange city, but I enjoyed my weekend there.