Any members who are Civil servants? Civil servants unite!!

I'll try to keep it short. I'm a civil servant, sort of - quango/agency blah blah, If you are a civil servant or know government structure you will know.

Anyway I am also a member of the civil service sports club 'CSSC' (£2 a month membership). As a member we get a load of discounts etc blah blah.... the point is, we also get access to the civil service bar in Chadwick street, Victoria. Which is discounted (not like a pub where your porking the barmaid discounted, but good enough) and nice and central.

price list:

There are a number of drinks, North, East etc, I was wondering who would be interested in a civil service drinks? This is a dangerous proposal knowing the normal civil servant type! However I reckon if you ride a FG/SS you must have some life in you!??

Thats it, now let the cunning linguistery and flaming begin....

aren't you about to lose your job what with all the cuts coming up?
good to see my tax is going towards subsidising your alcoholism.

(is that vitriolic enough for you?)

DJ is, I believe?

I need to try and get on this gravy train...it sounds amazing. Having said that, the equivilant drinks are cheaper in Sammy Smith pubs...Sammy Smith pub ride?

Never heard of Sammy Smiths? (not that I'm a pub guy really) is that in London?
If not might explain the price difference..

DJ = Dancing James? from what I just read in another thread he needs a drink today! some dude in a car tried to pull him off his bike while going over Kew bridge!

aren't you about to lose your job what with all the cuts coming up?
good to see my tax is going towards subsidising your alcoholism.

(is that vitriolic enough for you?)

Hopefully I'm not about to lose mine! with all the cuts - two year pay freeze, 25% reduction in operating costs - i think the staff deserve something! plus its not like its half price or somethng really good!

It could be even more vitriolic actually, but I think people realise it aint no playground in the CS any more!

There is a Samual Smiths on Trafalgar Square. It's called "The Chandos".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Smith_Brewery for more info. IIRC though, a pint of best bitter is somewhere around £2.20? It's nice too.

ahh they are a brewery - i thought it was a brand/venue name - Weatherspoons etc.
Not a bitter man, I love a Caipirinha me!

It is a venue, just like 'spoons. The brewery owns pubs/franchises pubs, and they only sell Samual Smith branded products... Hence, cheaper. all the beers are "hand brewed" in North Yorkshire, with 100% natural ingredients, no additives, water from the same well for 300 years etc.

Are you giving up the extra day you get for every bank holiday?

Hamsandwich is another...

Also, what is a "civil ervant"?

Samuel Smiths is lovely.

I went past the brewery itself last week:

Makes me thirsty just looking at it!

love to come and join you but im on long term sick right now

Sam Smiths is awful. As the old saying goes, what you don't pay at the bar, you more than make up for the next day. Hangover like no other.

Have you been in Chadwick Street bar, orrible and full of people filling up their flexi hours performing their Union committments.

Fuck I dont know how to use multi quote!

Markyboy - I am not actually a civil servant anymore but I work for a regulator - but membership stays with you once you keep on paying. So I dont get the holiday perks, just the membership perks.

Nebula - I was waiting for that one! slapped myself once I posted and read it over again.

Stir - funny guy.. very good

Jim - I have never been there, i dont expect it to be stringfellows but, its cheap and there to be used! if we need female entertainment we can always draft in strippers or one of the civil service slags.. oh so pc! er.. unless any of the female members are ivil servants!! in which case disregard the previous sentence.

The best Sam Smiths pub is The Angel on Bermondsey Wall East. Brilliant views of the riverside and quite comfy. Before the changed the pumps I did always like to ask for a pint of "man in a blue box".

aren't you about to lose your job what with all the cuts coming up? good to see my tax is going towards subsidising your alcoholism.
(is that vitriolic enough for you?)

They pay a membership so you'd need to check if there is taxpayer money being used here.

There is a Samual Smiths on Trafalgar Square. It's called "The Chandos".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Smith_Brewery for more info. IIRC though, a pint of best bitter is somewhere around £2.20? It's nice too.

Mate's missues worked there. Bit too busy for my liking. Lots of other Sam Smiths around.

Ye Old Chesire Cheese is Sam Smiths and a pretty interesting old pub.

Sam Smiths is awful. As the old saying goes, what you don't pay at the bar, you more than make up for the next day. Hangover like no other.

+1. Not that I've ever spent a Sunday afternoon drinking in one and attempted to do a days work on the Monday...

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The best Sam Smiths pub is The Angel on Bermondsey Wall East. Brilliant views of the riverside and quite comfy. Before the changed the pumps I did always like to ask for a pint of "man in a blue box".

+1

Short ride for me (near burgess park) so I'm always in there. £2.41 for a pint of stout - Bargain. Nice too