It's quite sad really.
The Apple (in Bedminster, Bristol).

For those of you who don't know Bedminster, it has its fair share of 'social problems', every other shop is either a version of 'cash converters' or a bookies/gaming arcade

Anyway, the pub is question is a cider house, popular with the unemployed, the unemployable and, now and very occasionally, me.

Many many years ago, I played 5-a-side- footy on some broken glass covered 'pitch' oppostite it.

So, post match, gone in for a large apple juice and it all stars to kick off.

Two pensioners - one wearing his hard earnt medals from the war - start going at each other. Not in a glass-in-face way, more 'proper punches' considered, accurate and with devestating determination.

Two proper hard old school fighting men.

The reason?

Apparently, one of them happened to 'glance' in the direction of the fruit machine whilst the other one was gambling. The gambler lost his couple of quid and accused the other pensioner of 'giving that machine evils' (to translate, staring at it, therefore making sure he lost his money).

When I spoke to the guv'nor of the pub he said, 'Oh, those two? They are always at it, last week they had a fight because one of them had bet on a horse and we were showing the race, so obviously it was the other one who was responsible for that rank outsider that lost....'

Gotta love Cider houses.

Mullered.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 10 Feb 2009, 21:56, 2 replies)

Have another click....
....because I spent a lot of time in there when I was a Bedminster resident.

*click*
( The Pollitt chooses to listen to Enya on, Wed 11 Feb 2009, 9:44, closed)

Good ol' Bemmy!
The apple is a classy pub, love walking past it on my way to work and always seeing the disabled guy in the wheelchair waiting at 8am for it to open.

Made a "mentally challenged" woman cry in the White Hart the other week by accident, not been back there since!
(Laxly, Wed 11 Feb 2009, 17:51, closed)