yen_powell Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 I had to cut a friend free, a stripper had tied him to a chair and no one could get the knots undone. I remembered someone had sold me a penknife earlier that day at work. I found it and freed him. The next thing I recall is the barmaid putting a blue catering plaster on my bleeding finger to stop me leaking over the buffet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 4 minutes ago, yen_powell said: a stripper had tied him to a chair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyrider Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 1 hour ago, XTreme said: what sort of a place was this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 20 minutes ago, skyrider said: what sort of a place was this ? The background to this was, the stag do organiser (future brother in law to the groom) was wandering around collecting money for the strippers to tie the groom to the chair for various reasons. It backfired on him and it was him instead who ended up tied to the chair minus his lower garments. I still see him, we used to trail ride together, went out for a road ride this recent summer, he was fully trousered though, riding on his KTM 'Bigthing' (not sure of the model). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 1 hour ago, yen_powell said: who ended up tied to the chair minus his lower garments. A night out with Yen sounds a bundle of laughs to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted January 23, 2022 Author Share Posted January 23, 2022 17 minutes ago, XTreme said: A night out with Yen sounds a bundle of laughs to me! He has his bike on his whatsapp pic. You may know exactly what it is, they all look the same to me. He's not supposed to ride a bike after a very serious spinal operation about 10 years ago. He had old injuries from his horse rolling on him when he was in the Royal Horse Artillery, plus various bike crash injuries on top. He says this one bike gives him a riding position that doesn't aggravate his spine surgery. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 4 minutes ago, yen_powell said: He has his bike on his whatsapp pic. You may know exactly what it is, they all look the same to me. He's not supposed to ride a bike after a very serious spinal operation about 10 years ago. He had old injuries from his horse rolling on him when he was in the Royal Horse Artillery, plus various bike crash injuries on top. He says this one bike gives him a riding position that doesn't aggravate his spine surgery. He's really colour coordinated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 12 hours ago, XTreme said: He's really colour coordinated! My old next door neighbour used to be his colonel when he was colour co-cordinated like a gay hussar. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted January 28, 2022 Author Share Posted January 28, 2022 The pub that faced two different directions. Can't be many pubs where the front has swapped sides. Never been inside, but will try and get down there soon in case it does vanish. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/28/save-the-george-tavern/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 2 hours ago, yen_powell said: The pub that faced two different directions. Can't be many pubs where the front has swapped sides. Never been inside, but will try and get down there soon in case it does vanish. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/28/save-the-george-tavern/ Do many of these old spit and sawdust boozers still exist back there now Yen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyrider Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 8 hours ago, yen_powell said: The pub that faced two different directions. Can't be many pubs where the front has swapped sides. Never been inside, but will try and get down there soon in case it does vanish. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/01/28/save-the-george-tavern/ there is a pub in preston with three doors that lead on to three different street's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted January 29, 2022 Author Share Posted January 29, 2022 21 hours ago, XTreme said: Do many of these old spit and sawdust boozers still exist back there now Yen? I've only ever actually seen one pub with sawdust on the floor, the Spotted Dog in Barking. Used to see it in butchers, but even that has stopped now. There are a few normal pubs with 'normal for London' regulars in east London, but not many. Most get converted into flats, demolished and replaced with glass fronted flats, become mosques or a very few get converted into trendy expensive pubs. I've just done a small paving job outside an old pub, they rebuilt it from the ground up, not intentionally, the old structure was meant to be refurbished but it was so bad they had to start from the foundations up with an exact replica of the bottom part but now with flats on top. I made them reverse an outward opening door before I gave them their change from my works as that is a big no no in the UK. They have still not managed to find anyone willing to take on the pub part and run it, no one is interested, they've done a really nice job as well. This is the original pub https://goo.gl/maps/PKcgWXBxVEQdfDgP6 This is how far down they had to demolish in the end https://goo.gl/maps/64z9hU1KrASL8CscA I'll dig out a picture of the replacement when I have access to my work files. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 On 28/01/2022 at 13:06, XTreme said: Do many of these old spit and sawdust boozers still exist back there now Yen? There used to be a pub in Keysham (the Trout Tavern) that always had sawdust on the floor , I'm not sure if it's still like it now ? edit: it seems not, booooooo hisssssss 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 I remember in The Tredegar in Swansea in 1972.......a few of us were sitting in the bar and the owner walked a horse through the room. Went out the back yard for a piss (the bogs were just a wall covered by a corrugated roof) and there was a rat sitting there looking at me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted January 30, 2022 Author Share Posted January 30, 2022 On 29/01/2022 at 15:02, XTreme said: Went out the back yard for a piss (the bogs were just a wall covered by a corrugated roof) and there was a rat sitting there looking at me. I bet he flung himself on the very next trap he saw after seeing the ginger nest at the urinal. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted January 30, 2022 Share Posted January 30, 2022 6 minutes ago, yen_powell said: I bet he flung himself on the very next trap he saw after seeing the ginger nest at the urinal. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 It's a corker today. Underground Karzi. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/03/at-gods-convenience-o/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 2 minutes ago, yen_powell said: It's a corker today. Underground Karzi. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/02/03/at-gods-convenience-o/ Now you're talking Yen! This is inspirational stuff...... If I was you I'd do a Ride Report there and have a good fucking dump to commemorate the occasion! No doubt in later years people will be able to pay a visit and see a plaque saying "Yen Powell dropped his guts here 2022". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 4 hours ago, XTreme said: Now you're talking Yen! This is inspirational stuff...... If I was you I'd do a Ride Report there and have a good fucking dump to commemorate the occasion! No doubt in later years people will be able to pay a visit and see a plaque saying "Yen Powell dropped his guts here 2022". Crapping in the city is not as cheap as it used to be. The old saying, 'Here I sit broken hearted, paid my penny, only farted', no longer applies, it's around 50p to dump the kids off at the pool these days. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 31 minutes ago, yen_powell said: Crapping in the city is not as cheap as it used to be. The old saying, 'Here I sit broken hearted, paid my penny, only farted', no longer applies, it's around 50p to dump the kids off at the pool these days. 50p to take a shit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 1 hour ago, XTreme said: 50p to take a shit? Or a piss only. They pretty much leave it up to you, they're not control freaks. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boboneleg Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 It's a great word 'Crapper' don't you think ? I remember when someone told me where the word came from I wouldn't believe them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yen_powell Posted February 3, 2022 Author Share Posted February 3, 2022 2 hours ago, boboneleg said: It's a great word 'Crapper' don't you think ? I remember when someone told me where the word came from I wouldn't believe them Yes, same here, I thought someone was yanking my chain (see what I did there). I barely believed the same sort of thing about the sandwich, cardigan or wellington boot, they are too familiar to be peoples' names. Perhaps one day people will look at an old tramp with no trousers on and his arse hanging out of a pair of grimy under-crackers and say to them selves, look at the state of his yens. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XTreme Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 4 minutes ago, yen_powell said: Perhaps one day people will look at an old tramp with no trousers on and his arse hanging out of a pair of grimy under-crackers and say to them selves, look at the state of his yens. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyrider Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 16 hours ago, boboneleg said: It's a great word 'Crapper' don't you think ? I remember when someone told me where the word came from I wouldn't believe them the guy that invented the bog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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