BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner

Subject: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 03:56 AM

[UK readers will know what an Old Git is. For the benefit of friends across the pond (and many apologies if I'm teaching US grannies to suck eggs here), an "Old Git" is a phrase sometimes used contemptuously, sometimes affectionately, for the older and occasionally more curmedgeonly of the male sex.]

Like many another before me, I frequent my local pub two or three times a week, at the witching and bewitching hour of 5pm, to have a drink and gossip with others of my ilk for an hour or so, in what is affectionately named "The Old Gits corner" of the bar. From time immemorial, Old Gits have gathered here to set the world to rights, to talk rubbish, to take the piss out of each other, to enjoy the refreshing qualities of beer and spirituous liquors, and to help the landlord on his way to an early and profitable retirement.

You may wonder what the duties and responsibilities and characteristics of being a member of the Old Gits corner are. Well...

Members are usually of those hovering around retirement age, i.e. who have attained it, or who see it firmly on the horizon. I myself reach that time in a just a few weeks and have been a member of the corner for 4-5 years now.

Occasionally, the Oldest and most Omnipotent Git of all - Age - transports one of our number to a slightly more remote Corner. But, having raised a glass in memory, we look round at the Younger Gits in other corners and see several promising prospects for the future.

Strangers who come into the pub for the first time may feel a little intimidated by seeing so many Old Gits clustered by the bar, some standing, some sitting. Our duty is to wave them to the bar with a smile, part like the Red Sea, and make some space so that they, too, can contribute their mite to the landlord's retirement fund.

The ladies (bless 'em!) who occasionally join the Old Gits circle are welcomed, treated with courtesy and creaking gallantry, but never patronised. We couldn't allow them to buy a round of course - perish the very thought...

In spite of being Old Gits, one of our duties, at those rare times when one of the members has a personal worry or heartache, is to temporarily forget that we're Old Gits and to offer a sympathetic ear, a comforting word, practical help (if we can), and to demonstrate that - just now and then - we can also be a caring and sharing sex.

Long live the Old Gits!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 04:04 AM

Oh, I think that paints too rosy a picture. And anyway, would I join a club that would admit me as member?

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 04:06 AM

Come, come Groucho! Don't underestimate the piss-taking...

Actually, our Old Gits corner is young compared to some. There's a Saturday lunchtime Old Gits session in a pub over in East Sussex which has met every week for 40 years!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 04:39 AM

So what do Old Gits drink?

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 04:48 AM

Well, CS, I'm rather partial to the local Sussex brew - Harveys - but the Senior Member (A, aged 80 and as fit as a flea) has several pints of Morland Speckled Hen 5 days a week after a full day gardening. There's always a guest beer, and I'm partial to the Cornish beer Doombar, when I can get it.

However, I sometimes have a malt or a brandy after the first pint or two. F - who has no taste - drinks Fosters, and I've been known to have a glass or two of light spritzer in hot weather.

P (a German lady) joins us occasionally with her dog, and has a small glass of cider with ice - which always looks tempting. The two Peters drink Harveys and Harveys respectively.

R's also a Harveys man but restricts himself to a pint after a recent (and successful) cancer operation.

N's a Guinness man - but he's quite young.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: bubblyrat
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 05:21 AM

A celebrated,or reviled (depends on your politics) "Old Git" myself,I eschewed Beer ,Ale,and Lager in favour of Apple-based beverages some years ago,and am also partial to The Grape.Sadly,a slight miscalculation as to the strength and potency of Weston's Cider at 8 point- something percent caused me to suffer two non-fatal ( sorry, Richard) but blush-making nautical mishaps at Henley Regatta on Wednesday.Of course,sharing the same genes as Will Fly may well be a causal factor.......

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 05:34 AM

Bloody hell, bubblyrat - have you let the family side down yet again...? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 05:38 AM

Will, if I can join your Old Gits, you can join the GODS (Growing Old Disgracefully Society).

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 05:46 AM

Excellent! I feel as though I've been a paid-up member for years...

Do you remember that quote from Orwell (quoted most famously by John Major) about old maids biking to Holy Communion through the mists of the autumn morning? Well, we don't have any of those, but we do have old K, who drives a disability buggy. He's been spotted by me (returning from a gig) many a time, at around 1am, headlights glaring, weaving along the road by the common, pissed out of his skull. He drove into a ditch once and had to be hauled out, still singing, by the local firemen.

He's a country member of our Old Gits - but a dead ringer for your GODS!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 05:53 AM

Incidentally, do you think this qualifies me as member of the GODS? (Apologies to those who might have seen it before).

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 06:12 AM

If you came to Gevon, you'd find that al members of the old gits table drink rough cider ( £1.60 per pint). They just about tolerate me drinking real ale, but then, as a recent early retiree, I'm not yet a genuine old git.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 06:18 AM

as a recent early retiree, I'm not yet a genuine old git.

Hmmm... I think we'd have to see you in action before we took that view.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Leadfingers
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 06:35 AM

I am NOT sure that I approve of the 'Party Political' Song Will !!!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 06:42 AM

Oh, I don't know - I'd rather hear that being sung at a Party Conference than the crap they've come out with over the years. Give them all large teddy bears, I say, and make 'em do silly things while singing (instead of in cabinet).

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 10:05 AM

Gevon????   Devon of course.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 10:09 AM

Will, singing 'Blue Heaven' doesn't qualify you as an old git on its own. However, if you then Loudly declaimed ' Not like modern rubbish, you can actually hear the words...AND it has a tune. There's been nothing good since Bing Crosby    etc. etc., THEN you'd definitely qualify.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Stu
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 10:12 AM

"So what do Old Gits drink?"

Mild. Perhaps s pint of mixed, or if you fancy something exotic a pint of black and tan. Never ever lager - not inside a pub leastways.

I might be too young to join, even though I have worn a flat cap since I was twelve*. Unless being an Old Git is a state of mind, in which case I'd like to be considered.







* Not continuously.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: wysiwyg
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 11:15 AM

A salute to all the Old Gits in MY life, of whom there have been and still are several-- not yet in my home, but it won't be long now! :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 11:39 AM

I was realy upset by the smoking ban in pubs. Not because I smoke or because I object to it but because when I retire I had planned to smoke the smelliest black twist I could find in the corner of the pub, have a terrier that steals peoples crisps and mutter under my breath at any passing youngster. I suppose I could just fart instead...

:D (eG)

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 11:40 AM

Will, singing 'Blue Heaven' doesn't qualify you as an old git on its own.

Oh I know THAT - I was wondering if it qualified me to join the GODS _ Growing Old Disgracefully Society!

The quality of posts in these threads is not what it used to be...

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: David C. Carter
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 11:50 AM

"The quality of posts in these threads is not what it used to be..."

Are you going for "Grumpy Old Gits" as well?

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 11:53 AM

"Incidentally, do you think this qualifies me as member of the GODS?"

No doubt about it! I'm assuming you threw up on the floor afterwards.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 01:10 PM

So what do Old Gits drink?

That's very civil of you. I'll have the same as you're having.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Alice
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 01:13 PM

No need to explain what an Old Git is. We use the term over here, too.

Alice in Montana

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 01:16 PM

As long as you aren't a bunch of MOGS, then it sound like fun! Is it always age-based or is there credit given for "life experience?":-)

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 02:00 PM

This old git drinks Scotch.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 02:01 PM

I've known several quite young Grumpy Old Sods. It's a philosophical viewpoint, rather than a matter of age - but getting older undoubtedly helps. (And, yes, life-experience counts.)

But not too old - note how my original post began to sound almost mellow towards the end. Richard Bridge also noticed it - but Richard, if you had been in my local this evening (I've just returned from a very Git'ish session), I think you would have approved.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: frogprince
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 02:36 PM

Our circle of old gits meets most mornings on one side of the Tim Hortons a mile from us. At least three of the regulars (not including me) are licensed small plane pilots, two of whom own their own planes. My wife usually joins, a couple of other wives come occasionally, and a single feminine "mother trucker" has been joining for the last few days.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Skivee
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 02:47 PM

Are the GITS who drink cider enjoying Grumpy Scrumpy?
Just askin'.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 03:24 PM

Will Fly.... love the vid... ya can really sink yer teeth inta that there one! Excellent!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: DougR
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 05:24 PM

The best thread I've read on the Mudcat in quite a spell.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: kendall
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 05:31 PM

Doug, if you know the dog bites.....

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: gnu
Date: 03 Jul 09 - 05:33 PM

Git em Rover!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 04 Jul 09 - 12:46 PM

Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be....

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: mouldy
Date: 04 Jul 09 - 12:58 PM

I used to be married to a GOG, and my friend has one who is MaGOG from time to time.

I wanna be a GOB (Grumpy Ol' Biddy).

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 04 Jul 09 - 01:05 PM

Andrea - be my guest - GOBs always welcome! What are you drinking?

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Jul 09 - 04:32 PM

As long as you aren't a bunch of MOGS, then it sound like fun!

Where I live a "mog" is a cat. I'm sure that can't be what katlaughing meant there!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: katlaughing
Date: 04 Jul 09 - 05:40 PM

Where you live I was also told it meant Miserable Old Gits!**bg** But that wouldn't be you gents, a'tall!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 04 Jul 09 - 05:54 PM

Old Farts is the other term in which my generation takes pride. Well, the male half anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Jul 09 - 01:02 AM

That is so not fair.. when blokes get together and fart in public, it's funny, it's a competition... when a woman comes over to join them and farts in public, they screw up their faces and say it's disgusting... is it because you can't stand the competition?

I would also like to apply for GOB-dom, but not sure that the application would be accepted on the grounds that I'm a bit too perky and cheerful... maybe if I stopped taking the Prozac again?!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: mouldy
Date: 05 Jul 09 - 02:51 AM

My body doesn't like alcohol, despite me telling it that it should; but on recent results, mine's a single malt please!

Anyway, there's fewer calories in spirits...

I got a badge which says "Old Fart's Wife". I used to wear it with pride! You should have seen the look on his face when I first put it on.
As regards farting: I have the added benefit of living alone most of the time!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 05 Jul 09 - 08:16 AM

Maritime old farts, when they are 'Wattling', always ask for a short.

Wattling (v) a practice indulged in by retired seamen in dockyard towns in the SW of England. Prominently wearing Blazer and cap of clear nautical origin, they entertain grockles ( holiday makers) in dockside pubs, with rather imaginative accounts of their seafaring days, and tales of the docks in the good old days. When the male grockle asks his partner what she would like to drink, he adds, indicating the old salt, What'll he have ( the wattle) to which the answer is a rum or whisky. Successful wattlers can drink for free all summer.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 05 Jul 09 - 09:11 PM

In other parts near there they entertain emmets.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Rowan
Date: 06 Jul 09 - 12:01 AM

While old gits are known in Oz, most are known as old farts, for the same reasons McGrath has mentioned. This one prefers a CabSav that has a nice body and sensuous appeal.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: kendall
Date: 06 Jul 09 - 06:28 AM

I am not old.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 06 Jul 09 - 08:17 AM

Of course you're not old, Kendall - but are you a true Git? You'd be very welcome in our corner, and there are a couple of good malt whiskies for tasting. First one's on me...

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: alanabit
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 08:16 AM

A pint of that Doom Bar for me please. (No harm in you having a youth section).

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 08:49 AM

Ah - the Doombar (a special guest ale) has been drunk out at the moment. We're on to Youngs Special for the moment, but the 3 regular ales - Harveys, London Pride and Speckled Hen - are still lying quietly below the pumps.

Come and join us, but no rowdiness, mind - and a respectful, youthful tugging of the forelock from time to time wouldn't hurt either.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 09:45 AM

I want Riggwelter - and lots of it! (Actually, Hobgoblin would do.)

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Rowan
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 07:04 PM

In the 70s one of the better folk clubs in Melbourne was held at the Rainbow hotel in Brunswick, whose publican was an exJesuit (Mr Costigan, who had married an exnun and whose brother was a Royal Commissioner who buried the "Bottom of the harbour" tax schemes; info for the benefit of Oz old farts). The main bar had an extensive library, including the Kinsey Report and other excentricities and, usually, a collection of eccentrics categorised as "The Experts"; they could pontificate endlessly (and accurately) on any aspect of sport you'd care to name.

Mostly they drank Fosters but nobody's perfect.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: jacqui.c
Date: 07 Jul 09 - 07:29 PM

Speckled Hen. Mmmmmmmmm........

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 03:30 AM

Well, I spent a pleasant couple of hours last evening with a no-so-old git friend sitting outside Wetherspoons at Leeds station drinking an unusal beer called, I think, Red Fox, from a small brewery in Osset (£1.69 a pint!!!!). I can now inform everyone here and all world leaders that the world has been put to rights.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 04:28 AM

Good to see that the Australian and Yorkshire branches are doing well! There used to be an Old Git-ish sort of gathering in the "Whitelocks" many years ago. (The Turk's Head in Turks Head Yard, for those not acquainted with Leeds). I wonder if that's still the same...

And jacqui.c - Speckled Hen is indeed a great beer - shame it's now brewed by Greene King, who used to be a good local brewery, and who now seem to want to take over the world. Harrumph!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: mouldy
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 05:17 AM

I am against beers being moved to other breweries - they never taste the same cos for one thing, the water's different. Look what happened to Shipstones when Greenall Whitley moved it from the Trent Valley to Lancashire: it was unrecognisable! We used to reckon they drew the water direct from the Trent in its local production days. But when it was right, it was a bloody good pint - with flavour!
...and they had beautiful dray horses too.

I am in a real GOB mood today cos I got my spine x-ray results this morning and they have pushed me into advancing old biddydom - gotta get a bone scan. At least the BP was ok for once.

I need a drink!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 07:29 AM

When I lived in Lancashire, I was a staunch drinker of Hartleys - brewed in Ulverston - but that's now gone somewhere else and doesn't taste the same when I visit now. Or at least it appears to taste different to what I remember when I lived there. Because I suspect that living "down South" for over 40 years has changed my beer palate.

Anyway, what's the sense in "Sussex" bitter - formerly brewed by King & Barnes in Horsham - being called "Sussex" when it's now brewed in Blandford by bloody Hall & Woodhouse? Luckily, a member of the King family is still brewing in Horsham, and they do a nice winter "Old".

And Theakstons was sold. And, like King & Barnes, a member of the family continued to brew, and now sells "Black Sheep" (if memory serves).

I don't know what the world's coming to, I really don't. It were never like this when I were a lad... Anyway, I said to Fred the other day...

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 07:32 AM

And, Andrea - sorry to hear about the bone scan - apologies for overlooking the other part of your post in my need to rant. (Just like an Old Git).

Keep taking the tablets - and wash them down with a pint or two! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 08:01 AM

"There used to be an Old Git-ish sort of gathering in the "Whitelocks" many years ago"

Yup, I've been Old Git-ish in there many a time (does my memory deceive me or did they used to serve Younger's No.3 Old - the only other place I can remember that did other than Nellie's in Beverley. aka The White Horse, before bloody Sam Smiths took it over and ruined it by istalling indoor toilets and a bar?). As far as I know it's still the same but I haven't been for a while.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 08:35 AM

Thinking about it, although I was too young to realise at the time, the old Nellie's was the perfect Old Git's pub. There was gas lighting and open fires, the decor hadn't been touched for at least 60 years (this was in the late 1960s), and you could sit in the snug, the kitchen or in the main 'men only' room. There was no actual bar - your beer was served to you at your table by Nellie or her sister, Dorothy, so there was no need to move except to go for a pee, which you did against the wall in the back yard.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 08:38 AM

When I drank in the Whitelocks, it was certainly Youngers Scotch Bitter - and a gradely pint it was. I can't recall the No. 3 Old, but I wouldn't be surprised.

When I was a student in Leeds, there were whole hams and strings of sausages, and flitches of bacon hanging from hooks just over the bar in the Whitelocks. The barmaid (the female bar staff were "barmaids" in those days) would prepare sandwiches and rolls by slicing pieces of the meats as they hung over the bar - and we all smoked in those days! She was a very large, blonde lady, hair piled up behind her, standing like a queen behind the round-fronted bar which, if I remember correctly, was tiled and had a copper or brass top to it. And the tables were old sewing machines.

Ah.. great days - and boating on Roundhay pond when I should have been studying. Being a Young Git was nearly as good as being an Old One!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 08:42 AM

Your talk, leveller, of a men-only room, reminds of "The Tubs", as it was affectionately known, in Lancaster (so called because the tables were old beer barrels), where there was actually a women-only bar. Woe betide the hapless male who wandered in by mistake - he'd be met by some very disparaging remarks about his manhood by the ladies - old and young - cackling over their Mackie and orange.

It was The Tubs that served me my first pint of Guinness with a port in it - just to give it some body, d'ye see?

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 09:00 AM

"by slicing pieces of the meats as they hung over the bar"

Good reason to keep your flies buttoned!

"he'd be met by some very disparaging remarks about his manhood by the ladies "

Ditto!

Ah, happy days!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 02:42 PM

Happy days indeed? One for the road? My shout...

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Lizzie Cornish 1
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 02:53 PM

Here you go, lads...a book for you all... :0)

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 03:00 PM

"Guinness with a port in it - just to give it some body, d'ye see?"

Ooer, any good?

You Old Gits and your old pubs! Sheesh, we have Irish theme pubs like O'Neils and sorta greasy spoons come wine bars like Yates to beat that!
Well, maybe.... on second thoughts.

But, at least we have good old Crack & PCP these days! Bet you didn't get THAT back in your brilliant old pubs with their smokey sausages and queenly barmaids?
So there.....!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 03:02 PM

Err, for the less discerning posters present, you can attach a sorta 'wry' smiley to that last post.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 03:02 PM

LOL! lizzie! Now that's a tempting buy... Though I'm not convinced that my particular circle of Old Gits are actually very grumpy. We harrumph a bit, but usually indulge in piss-taking rather than grumping. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 03:18 PM

And, Crow Sister, why not try a Guinness with a small port just drizzled over the top - it's a very warming experience.

Alternatively, a half of Guinness in a pint glass, topped with champagne, is a drink fit for kings and queens. (Black Velvet anyone?)

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: GUEST,romanyman on another puter
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 03:29 PM

Time this grumpy ol git got on this thread, as for theme pubs etc, stuff em up their own collective chuff boxes, my local, the world renound and fabulous CRAYFORD ARMS, sells real beers , has a crib team, a moaners corner, loves folk, though no one seems to go there, loves morris, hate telly football, its a perfect ol gits pub and i love goin for the banter moanin dominoes getting pissed away from the young i rule the world brigade, everyone knows ol gits rule,

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: mouldy
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 04:00 PM

I am just going to have a nice Bunnahabhain to go with the Ibuprofen.

The best pub round here used to be the Jug Inn at Chapel Haddlesey, one-time venue for the Yorks gatherings. The landlord was a GOG of the finest calibre, and he didn't half keep a good pint or five! It used to be fun to drop in there and see if he and his wife were on speaking terms!

He was always Uncle Syd to my girls, and my older daughter used to work at the pub, first waitressing, and then behind the bar the minute she could do it legally. Syd would quite often run her home if I was having problems. He was the GOG with the heart of gold.

The Jemmy Hirst in Rawcliffe has become a replacement for the Jug. I shall be in there for the quiz and bingo tomorrow, and the session next Weds. The only trouble is that it's about 8 miles from me, where the Jug was 3, and I had been known to bike it...

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 04:05 PM

What does an old git drink?


The brewery dry, of course!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 08 Jul 09 - 06:42 PM

Bells!
Why is it that every time I read this thread it comes with a 'country' accent - In My Head?
Really...
It's a bit scary now:
...I'm going to ignore the fusty portal, ignore the fusty portal, ignore -

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 03:25 AM

"But, at least we have good old Crack & PCP these days! Bet you didn't get THAT back in your brilliant old pubs with their smokey sausages and queenly barmaids?"

Certainly not. We didn't have any of them modern drugs....maybe just the odd spliff!


"The best pub round here used to be the Jug Inn at Chapel Haddlesey"

Yes, know it well. They did a mean pint of Speckled Hen and had great bonfires on Guy Fawkes Night. And, of course, there was The George and Dragon in West Haddlesey. How come I know all the Old Git pubs in Yorkshire? Might join you in Rawcliffe one night - I live just down the road.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 03:31 AM

...I'm going to ignore the fusty portal, ignore the fusty portal, ignore -

Heh heh! Not possible... have some Madeira, m'dear - it's really an excellent year. I cannot stand sherry, one cannot drink stout, and port is a wine I can well do without - it's simply a case of "chacun a son gout". Have some Madeira, m'dear!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 03:59 AM

I have a theory that this thread is in fact the creation of an evil scientist who wants to take over the world and send it back in time. The way it works is that all the Old Gits congregate in one point in space time (cunningly disguised as a 'nice' thread on a folk forum), creating a critical mass of Old Gitness, this then goes into gravitational collapse creating a tear in the space-time continuummything and the universe then implodes drawing the present in through the tear and turning the universe inside out. The virtual 'Old Gits Corner' then expands infinitely to fill the void the implosion formed. See, that's why this thread is a dangerous portal and should definitely be closed forthwith!

Otherwise, mines a stout with port to give it a bit of body...
(Just practising in case).

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 04:14 AM

(Just practising in case).

LOL! If you can't beat us (and you can't), join us. The Gathering is close at hand - only the venue has to be decided! And who are you bloody well calling 'nice'! Bah!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 04:17 AM

BTW all you young whippersnappers, by 2020 over half the population of the UK will be over 50! Long live the GOGs.! Long live the GODS! We WILL Rule the world!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 06:21 AM

I have a theory that this thread is in fact the creation of an evil scientist who wants to take over the world and send it back in time.

Wow - I've always wanted to be an Evil Scientist! Ta ever so for the sobriquet.

Actually, I've never really wanted to go back in time - ever. I have absolutely no desire, ever, to relive the past or live in the past. And, of course, I couldn't be an Old Git without having the Past to compare the Modern with - and grumble about the Modern. Let's face it - Old Gits have to have a reason to harrumph fairly regularly, and "things just aren't what they were" is as good a reason as any.

And after that epistemological concatenation of paradoxical paraphernalia, well... I'll have a single Grouse with Canada Dry, if you don't mind - with ice.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 06:39 AM

"with Canada Dry, if you don't mind - with ice."

Philistine!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 07:20 AM

No - not at all. Famous Grouse is a blended whisky, and a single measure with Canada Dry is a nice, refreshing drink on a hot day.

On the other hand, single malts such Dalwhinnie, Lagavulin, Glenfiddich, Glenmorangie, etc., should be drunk neat, in a brandy glass warming in the hand.

I was referring (hic!) to a single measure in my previous post - not a single malt.

Young whippersnapper...hic!

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: mouldy
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 01:48 PM

I'm off to Rawcliffe tonight for the quiz, (and to hopefully win some money at the bingo). I never thought I'd see the day when I willingly took part in bingo, but I actually enjoy my quid's worth!
I will also be in there next Weds for the session - car loaded to the gunwales with camping gear, as I am off for my annual "proper" camping holiday in Scotland at Silly-O-clock the next day.

And as well as the wonderful beers they sell at the Jemmy Hirst, it was there I discovered Bunnahabhain! And there is free food on quiz and session nights!

I drink my whisky neat, but my dad told me that if you put anything in it, it should be nice peaty burn water - "just enough to let it paddle; not enough to let it swim".

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: GUEST,romanyman
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 03:07 PM

whos got co codamol me back hurtin, need to get to the boozer they got poker on tonight im sure i can spoil it for em, hee ee, dont forget to leave yah teeth in the beer ten none of them young buggers will nick it

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 03:13 PM

Heard the one bout the Old Git who was going for a pee - so he propped a handwritten note against his glass. The note read, "I have spat in this beer".

When he got back someone had added, "So have I".

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 03:50 PM

I'm verging on githood, but I still look a bit too young. Maybe I should drink more whisky to accelerate the aging process...?

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 04:13 PM

"I was referring (hic!) to a single measure in my previous post - not a single malt"

Ah! Got it now. It would avoid confusion of you drank doubles instead - even when it's a single - if you get my drift. Ah, sod it - bring me a triple rum and coke.

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 09 Jul 09 - 06:06 PM

I'm verging on githood, but I still look a bit too young. Maybe I should drink more whisky to accelerate the aging process...?

Perhaps with a little Canada Dry, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: GUEST,romanyman
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 03:01 AM

nah ifn ya wanna really age, get some cheapo american burbon from lidls it will age you, and take the shine off ya dentures

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: mouldy
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 05:18 AM

One drawback with co-codamol is the bunging-up side effect! (Not to mention the chance of addiction, codeine being an opiate...) I used to be a carer, and the chaser for the bedtime drink of choice was often Lactulose, to offset said effects.

(At least I have a pharmacist in the family who reassures me that she "dispenses 'these' all the time"; sometimes adding that all the old bids are on these" Thanks, O fruit of my loins!)

I got me a nice whisky last night, won the quiz, but yet again not the bingo, dammit! There's cash to be won on that.

A friend has just emailed me with a welcome to the world of old gitdom, where every new experience is first seen as a symptom!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: Will Fly
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 06:13 AM

Sounds like a good evening - shame about your bingo, though...perhaps next time, eh?

I got some rum looks at first from the Corner at yesterday's session when I insisted on buying my own pint and sipping it until dinner called. However, there were understanding nods when I explained that I had some serious fiddle and guitar practice and related work to do.

One of the problems of a successful Old Gits session and a post-session dinner is that, for some unaccountable reason, I seem disinclined to do anything other than snore in an armchair until bedtime. I can't think why. Anyway, I had a will of iron in the Corner - which is about all I had... the willy of iron being a thing of the past... (Good Lord, did I really type that?)

Subject: RE: BS: In the 'Old Gits' corner
From: theleveller
Date: 10 Jul 09 - 07:21 AM

Had quite a nice hour in The Last Drop in York with a pint of the remarkably powerful Centurion's Ghost from the York Brewery before catching the train home.

Off to the Moonbeams Festival later on, in the Wold Top Brewery. Might catch up with afew OGs there and have a bloody good moan.