No not a camel, I just don’t lord it over other people expecting them to fetch and carry my own kit, I mean cycling is one of those sports which doesn’t require much of an uptake in fluid right, you know like golf and tiddlywinks, it’s not like you sweat or have to replace vital fluid.

So why not just walk out the door with an empty bottle and just pass it to some one beneath you to top up.

That’s the trouble, on the 19th Hole they probably do blow smoke up your Arse, giving it the “I,m considerably richer than yaw” over the bar. Pork scratchings and a pint of mild in my personalised tankard please tender, oh wait is Le Tour on, best get down to the pub in my Lycra and have one of those working class folk fill my bottle while I talk really loud about KOM,s, Grand Designs and bike carriers for Audi cabriolets.

Oh how the other half live

Yes I know, don’t worry though I’ll be purchasing a bottle and pissing people off soon though just like the rest of you,

It’s funny how everyone thinks it’s acceptable,

Mods. Can we end this thread, there’s no fun watching someone with a mental illness implode 🙁

Oi Binners!
I (vaguely) remember all the taps being turned off in the Hacienda bogs to encourage the pilled up punters to buy an overpriced drink from the surly barstaff.
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Time to let it go man….

I couldn’t possibly comment. I was off my tits the whole time, and only drank triple brandy and cokes I wasn’t paying for 😉

Had someone approached the bar to get their water bottle filled and called the police when refused, they’d never have found the body

I respectfully disagree

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What the actual ****?

Have you never seen a shop before?

This thread is brilliant. So brilliant I have opened another beer and got some snacks out to keep me going. On a school night too. carry on, carry on.

Can someone fill my water bottle?

Do you know who I am?

The cafe at whinlater refused to fill my bottle. And I’d bought food.

I was all ready to be outraged when the girl explained that as it was filthy (and usually are ) the manager had stopped it because, let’s face, it the staff do need clean hands.

The solution was for her to give me three glasses of water to do it myself!

Which was fine.

Cool story or what!

FFS you lot.

On a LEJOG way back in 2002, we regularly just knocked on the doors of peoples houses and asked for water.

Interested to know if relying on the kindness of strangers is more or less of a hanging offence than purchasing goods and asking nicely for some water in a pub/cafe….?

Blimey, this one looks like it will run and run. Lots of good stuff here!

Sadly not. But perhaps guilty of poking the big bear with a stick. My input into this is if you’ve entered a pub, bought a drink and snack and want to fill your water bottle, why not? Actually asking the staff to fill your bottle for you? Maybe not, but certainly asking for a pint of water and then filling the bottle yourself is fine.

In perspective, I have on numerous occasions (sometimes when cycling, sometimes when walking) gone into a pub and ordered a pint of beer and asked for a pint of water as well. It’s never happened, but if some t**t of a landlord went off on one re the water, he’d be getting it back and then some.

And yes, fwiw I’ve worked behind the bar in numerous busy restaurants/bars, clubs and pubs over the years

What a sad world we live in when occasionally relying or depending on your fellow man is seen as such a horrific crime.

It’s to be expected in an advanced country full of horrible pricks who couldn’t give a shit about anyone else or can’t see the beauty or opportunity that may arise from helping each other.

I have travelled in so many countries that have been through various degrees of utter shit and oppression where people would be utterly embarrassed if they felt people couldn’t ask for water, water would be the very least you would receive.

In Guatemala I asked a random fellow where the local drinking tap was in a small village and he took me and my mate back to his house and insisted we had drink and food with him.

It’s a different scenario that started this topic but **** me, this country can be so outrageously pathetic.

The horses are a lot smaller in Central America as well.

I’ve been thinking about this, and I now have an enormous amount of respect for these people who, despite possessing disabilities so severe that it prevents them from operating a tap, They somehow manage to still get out cycling.

Its very humbling.

Exactly. Why wouldn’t you help a fellow human, particularly if it required little or no noticeable effort?

We’re talking about a pub that had time to empty out bottles and have an argument with its customers?

Maybe you should try it, then see how you’d feel about some lycra clad cockwomble (possibly disabled) handing you 4 water bottles to fill, while they sat drinking pints and eating crisps

Just a thought.

Mmmmm sounds similar to the drivers who are so scared shitless they might be held up by 30 extra seconds because of a cyclist that they just pretend you aren’t there and nearly smash you into a ditch, do you sympathise with these people who don’t have the time as well?

Filling a few bottles takes no time at all, filling them and then emptying them because you are a prick takes double the time.

We don’t know how busy it was, but we do know they had time to empty the bottles.

Its not too difficult to get your head around. You don’t generally plan arguments. They just happen. That’s the soaring, majestic joy of them. One minute its a normal, boring stressful day, and then BOOM … the next minute you’re watching the faux outraged look on some whiney middle class cockbag’s grid as you cackle at him like a demented thing, while over-dramatically pouring HIS water all over the floor, then nonchalantly calling him a ginger **** for good measure, to secure your moral victory

Surely everyone would make time in their busy schedule for such joyous life-affirming encounters?

If you wouldn’t then you have no soul