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Pub Science Experiment #1 Pub 2: The Railway Tavern, Globe Road E2
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Pub Science Experiment #1
Pub 2: The Railway Tavern, Globe Road E2
Category: Railway
Bang goes one side-theory: that these places would all be super-quick to get to because they’re all near stations. The Railway is only a five minute walk from […]

I’LL HAVE A PEE PLEASE BOB
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I’LL HAVE A PEE PLEASE BOB
Possibly the oldest quiz machine still in existence found in the Grafton Arms on Grafton Way on Friday night. Instead of the gurning faces of Messers Tarrant (Millionaire) and Foxy (Pepsi Chart), we instead had the be[…]

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Publog Picture Quiz
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Publog Picture Quiz
What is this?

a) A prawn?
b) A Locust?
c) The hairest pork scratching in the world ever, as discovered in a packet of these bought from The Sekforde Arms on Friday night.
Apologies for the poor focus; the light was very poor inde[…]

THE PAST IS A V.FOREIGN COUNTRY pt whatever
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THE PAST IS A V.FOREIGN COUNTRY pt whatever
“apple: generic term for all fruit other than berries but including nuts““botulism: derived via german from Latin botulus, sausage” “cake: a flat round loaf of bread” &#[…]

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Which of the following is not a pie?
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i. shepherd’s/cottage pieii. cheese flan/pizzaiii. scotch eggiv. boiled egg

actually i am not going to bother you w.all the ins and outs of the GREBT PIE DEBATE, as i wz not in on its inception, and besides the militia are now formed and a s[…]

It’s that time of year
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It’s that time of year when ‘pub awards’ start to be handed out. Will the Freaky Trigger collective be giving a pub award? Yes they will, just as soon as we think of a sufficiently preposterous scientific way of judging it. However,[…]

Most Expensive Piece of Toast Ever.
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Most Expensive Piece of Toast Ever.
Questions this article raises:
a) Toast clearly does not go mouldy!
b) AMerican cheese really is indestructible.
c) From her depiction on this sandwich the Virgin Mary clearly had elephantisis (it may explain her v[…]

One of my favourite things about being a meat eater
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One of my favourite things about being a meat eater (aside the meat I guess) is having a casserole or stew with the meat on the bone and discovering offal popping out of the fluid near the end. This is particularly good with smaller animals which you[…]

Indie Chicken
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Indie Chicken – an occasional series
#5 – Laz Fried Chicken & Pizza, 190 Archway Rd, London N6 5BB
Post-FAP last Friday night, I and my boo hopped off the bus, bid goodnight to Pete and headed for the local filthy chicken establishme[…]

KitKats
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47 KitKats are eaten every second in the UK and ex-Bond heartthrob Pierce Brosnan is a ‘big fan’.
Not everyone is on message, though. From the Guardian (natch):
KitKat is my favourite bar, but I have not bought one since Nestle tried to e[…]

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  1. Tom, I loved loved loved these polls and participated obsessively, until one day (it was March 2023) I just stopped…

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