ourtess Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 In 'Britains Toughest Pubs 2004' on the box the other night The Heron featured. It showed a big 93 year old chap called Frank firing left hooks at people. Is The Heron the toughest pub on the Island? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
When Skies Are Grey Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 I love the fact that the manxies were on there proclaiming the manxness and how they hated all things non-Manx...whilst proudly wearing the English premiership football tops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ourtess Posted December 8, 2006 Author Share Posted December 8, 2006 I liked the old chap who came up with: "To be manx, it's something..." <pause> "it is inbred" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VinnieK Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 It was an astonishing programme! "I f'kin hate the English, I f'kin hate the Irish, I f'kin hate the Scottish" being one memorable quote. Wasn't there also some strange and unlikely little anecdote about the time a student/businessman/some foreign devil accidentally wandered in the pub and asked for an orange juice/baby sham/generic non-big-tough-drink? The Heron is hardly the kind of convenient middle of town pub a stranger accidentally wanders into (I could be wrong on this last one, it's been a while since I saw the programme). For all the regulars talk of toughness, I think the Heron probably pales in comparison with the pub run by ex-paras or some of the other ones featured on the series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhumsaa Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 it's just a pub full of the kind of ignorant wankers who proclaim to drink 24 pints in a night and be fine idiots bragging about things not to be proud of but are probably made up anyway I've never been in the Heron.... not really feeling the urge to break that trend either... mind you the Clarendon can't be a million miles away or the Central in Ramsey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
When Skies Are Grey Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 Well we have been looking for a venue for a MF get together...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfoxie Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 That programme was a total stitch up. I believe it was meant to be about 'local characters' and all they did was take the piss. For instance they filmed lots of boarded up houses from Pulrose to make it look like the Heron was in the middle all them. The houses were all boarded up ready to be knocked down! The Heron is a great pub, nicely decorated and the regulars there are always raising money for different charities. Ps Rhumsaa - I am not an ''ignorant wanker'' either thanks very much!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhumsaa Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 yeah and if you don;t give money to the charities that 93 year old yesser will glass you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
When Skies Are Grey Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 Hardly a stitch up...unless the yokels were told what to say!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhumsaa Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 Ps Rhumsaa - I am not an ''ignorant wanker'' either thanks very much!! well I never thought the heron would get wi-fi - guess I misjudged that one I can see them all now with their laptops and fine wine then the tv crew come in and they stuff it all behind the bar order a real ale and start talking about how many fights they had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silverfoxie Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 Oh lord, a slanging match!! Of course you get some idiots, like you do in many pubs! But the majority of locals that go in there are normal working people with no intention of fighting etc. Blimey, some of us even own houses and have foreign holidays!!!! LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhumsaa Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 stop robbing me of my ignorant stereotypes damn you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
immortalpuppet Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 TBH i think the researcher was either a turd or they could not be arsed spending a lot of time looking into what people thought, it looks like they got in a taxi and some fool recomended the Heron. Henry Africas in Scunthorpe or Flamingos in Woowich are rough, the heron is simply surrounded by a stigma because its on an estate with a reputation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhumsaa Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 plus it's a lot closer than the Jurby Inn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thriller Posted December 8, 2006 Share Posted December 8, 2006 Nah, its the Railway Inn union mills. Im off there tonight for a few pints, game of darts and a sing song if anyones up for it.. oh and a fight. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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