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[–] 72 points 1 year ago

You're missing a few. Also, some of those have closed. Because of these discrepancies this map is literally unusable.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How many of them are called The Winchester?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Why so empty on the northern part? Non British here.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The people who lived there were forcibly relocated to the colonies because the lairds worked out that it was more profitable to use the land for sheep than peasants.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago*

    damn bro the night life really is dying. Barely any pubs nowadays.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Nope, incomplete. Here's one at the tip of that peninsula-looking island that's left bare (Skye).

    I'm curious now it there actually is a spot in the Hebrides or Highlands where you can be more than a day's walk from a pub.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It'll be interesting to remove the Red Lion and see the difference

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I looked it up and thought it was a franchise at first, just very creative and varied about it. Some of them looked really nice, too.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Long long ago, pubs didn't have names but they just had signs. People would call the pub whatever was on the sign. "The King's Head" for pubs with a portrait of a king, "The Wheat Sheaf" for ones with a picture of some wheat or barley, etc.

    Lots of old pubs displayed the Stuart coat of arms as a show of loyalty to King James I/VI and his heirs, which is a heraldic red lion. Hence why so many pubs have the same name even though they're all ancient and unrelated.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Looking at that blue line, OOP solved the traveling Irishman problem.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is missing a few, there's more than that in the rural regions of Scotland.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Great! Now do every bar in Wisconsin…

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why does it include part of Ireland? That's a completely different country.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    i have terrible news, you've left the good timeline (the Easter-1916 timeline) and are in ours now

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What’s the deal with the hole in the cloud of pins near the England / Scotland border?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'd be interested to see the alcoholism rates over history compared to the US. That's a lot of pubs, but I have a feeling the rates are lower there.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I recently visited one in Belfast.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    Sample output from my D&D pub name generator:

    Goblin and Squirrel
    Golden Pot
    Sleepy Troll
    Cheerful Spoon
    Baldric and Frog
    Green Toad
    Stoat and Halberd
    Goose and Halberd
    Squirrel and Halberd
    Goblin and Sword
    Well Fed Duck
    Laughing Duck
    Eye and Goblin
    Squirrel and Hen
    Kobold and Dog

    Dunno why it likes halberds so much here. It has its moods.

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