Priti Patel makes a teeny Anglo-Irish blunder.

[Pickman's model]

A lot of Brexit has left me speechless, but this has to be the nadir.

you won't believe what happens next, it'll make this 'nadir' look like the apotheosis of reason and good taste

 

[agricola]

you won't believe what happens next, it'll make this 'nadir' look like the apotheosis of reason and good taste

TBF they'd probably object to the use of the term nadir on account of it being a loan word from Arabic.

 

[Pickman's model]

TBF they'd probably object to the use of the term nadir on account of it being a loan word from Arabic.

They likely would

 

[Ax^]

just to go into a tangent

I was in Hounslow today.. anyways their has been a pub in the town that has been for about the last 15 years known as
an irish pub has gone through plenty of names the wishing well, the friend in hand , Tommy Flynns and the Snug


its new name is the Oliver Cromwell

 

[Poi E]

Funnily enough he wouldnt have approved, either.

 

[Ax^]

 

[Cheesepig3]

A lot of Brexit has left me speechless, but this has to be the nadir.

Maybe... so far.


I suspect that the worst is yet to come.


Looking forward to tomorrow's little shindig. I might bimble in to town in the PM, meet up with my Brexit ex Army friends, if they're not in a Black Maria, to taunt them.

 

[Cheesepig3]

just to go into a tangent

I was in Hounslow today.. anyways their has been a pub in the town that has been for about the last 15 years known as
an irish pub has gone through plenty of names the wishing well, the friend in hand , Tommy Flynns and the Snug


its new name is the Oliver Cromwell

You're shitting us!! I was drinking there in June-July, nice kid behind the bar; considered himself Irish despite born here.

His Dad was Irish Catholic but did many years British Army.


I can only assume a total change of ownership.


Mind, the beer was shite, I had to resort to Dog.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

just to go into a tangent

I was in Hounslow today.. anyways their has been a pub in the town that has been for about the last 15 years known as
an irish pub has gone through plenty of names the wishing well, the friend in hand , Tommy Flynns and the Snug


its new name is the Oliver Cromwell

have they got the pogues' 'young ned of the hill' on the juke box?

 

[Ax^]

oddly I did not go in

will save that for when they try to do a St Patrick days event next year

 

[Cheesepig3]

oddly I did not go in

will save that for when they try to do a St Patrick days event next year

I'm going next week. Curiosity.

 

[Ax^]

fair play tell me if a corkman is still running the pub

 

[Cheesepig3]

fair play tell me if a corkman is still running the pub

If I survive/can remember I'll post during my first pint.


Wish me luck.

 

[Ax^]

So update


The Oliver Cromwell Pub in Hounslow has been renamed the lamplighter

due to lack of Customers

 

[likesfish]

shame a st patricks day event at the oliver cromwell would have been all sorts of

 

[teqniq]

Another blunder from Priti vacant: