Cultural changes

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    I've just seen something on telly that's got me thinking. Its made me chuckle to myself, but I wont say what it is yet. It highlights a major cultural changes that's silently happened some time over the last 30 or 40 years.

    If I said that in my old favourite pub, it was common for blokes to have impressive moustaches, and wear skin tight shiny black leather, these chaps had no qualms about bursting into song and doing a well practised dance on a whim, what sort of bar would you say I was in?

    For PC reasons, I'll understand if nobody dare answer, but I know what anyone under the age of about 35 will be thinking, and I'll bet it is very different to what people over that age are thinking:heehee:
     
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    Well i'd be thinking this Dave

    i wanna take you to a gay bar - YouTube

    But i'm sure you will shame me for my shortsightedness:chicken:
     
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        It was the video for YMCA that made me think of it.

        The pub I used to frequent was popular with old bikers. They are nice chaps. Their fashion I guess is mostly functional (if I fell off a bike I'd rather be in leather than in, say, a pair of tracky bottoms) but partly to make them look well 'ard.
         
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          Was this your local :D
           
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            Video Embedding disabled :scratch: Like from when :chicken:
             
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            Forgotten how funny that was Harry:loll:
             
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            I need to be enlightened, what would an under 35 year old make of it?
             
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              Were you watching TOTP Boy Bands? I saw that too, really enjoyed the YMCA video. I was far too naive to realise it was about gay sex at the time it came out. Seems absolutely blatant seeing it now though.
               
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                Yep. I didn't think YMCA was meant to be about gay sex. I thought it was just some macho men singing a song that was later adapted by the gay scene.
                 
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                Your local is obviously a German Beer Cellar, but in this day and age
                I would say you are visiting a Gay bar ?

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                  Its full of older hells angels. Or at least it used to be, until the new landlord tried to take it up market and lost all his customers, and now struggles along with a just an old chap who lives just round the corner, and a couple of alcoholics that nobody else is willing to serve:loll:
                   
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                    You just wonder where many peoples heads are
                    We had the same in Dundee, Nay the whole of Tayside and Fife
                    All the bikers used it, there was no trouble, they looked after that themselves

                    All the bar did was profit from the heavy drink consumed, and door money on Rock Nights
                    Then the new landlord, did not want scummy types, got rid of them all
                    ripped out the old oak paneling and replaced with plastic and shiney mirrors
                    chrome bars stools and a kitchen

                    Err EMPTY, it still is after six years,

                    I used to service and maintain the gaming machines two taking £700pw each
                    Last time I was there one machine £34pw

                    I was admittedly a bit worried the first time I went to open and count money with all the bikers there, but they were a great bunch of people Hells Angels on their biker jackets but ANGELS at heart

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