Fruit Machine Chat

... Oxford when the male half of the drippy student couple who have arrived to take over from me on the machine after I've just finished playing says, without a hint of irony, "Perfecto timing".




There are others. Much as I love the place, you know you are quizzing in Liverpool when there is a big sign above the one quiz machine and three fruities in Yates to the effect that "You must buy a drink from the bar to play these machines". Whilst that unofficial rule is usually present, it was weird to see it stated as explicitly as that.

Any other examples? Gratuitous insults to Luton will of course be frowned upon...

Dundee student union, when the group of 3 guys stand behind you and tell you answers you already knew (i.e. whats 3 x 4? 12 mate! hit 12!).

And when the spoilers kick in, the ultra spotty member of the group lunges forward and hits the screen for you (wrong answer) all because he 'thought he knew it'.

And then they get you thrown out for having the sheer audacity to tell them to fuck off and leave you to play it in peace.

Nil Satis wrote: There are others. Much as I love the place, you know you are quizzing in Liverpool when there is a big sign above the one quiz machine and three fruities in Yates to the effect that "You must buy a drink from the bar to play these machines". Whilst that unofficial rule is usually present, it was weird to see it stated as explicitly as that.

They certainly used to have the same sign in a pub called something like the Railway out the back of Liverpool Street station in London...

You know you are quizzing in the suburbs of Nottingham when the barmaid says, "I don't think I've ever seen anybody win on that before"

Well you have now girlie.

You know you are quizzing in 2008 when every other pub you come across has shut down.

QuizMaster wrote:You know you are quizzing in the suburbs of Nottingham when the barmaid says, "I don't think I've ever seen anybody win on that before"

Surely that could be anywhere QM...!

You know you are taking your life in your hands when you're quizzing in a dive pub in the middle of nowhere when you're on an old cabinet with fruitex/pepsi chart quiz/millionaire on it.

You know you are quizzing in Sheffield Hallam SU bar when someone is watching you with a pet rat.

rogerthymes wrote:You know you are taking your life in your hands when you're quizzing in a dive pub in the middle of nowhere when you're on an old cabinet with fruitex/pepsi chart quiz/millionaire on it.

Ditto if you're playing the old GamesNet cabinet with one screen of games, including old Ant and Dec / Caveman Capers / Countdown. I know of three of these in London, and they're all in the most squalid types of pub imaginable.

You know you're playing in a coastal resort town if the machine is a standalone title from c. 1996.

You know you're playing in the bar on the concourse of Paddington station if you're playing an Ind:e and it's unimaginably rock hard.

You know you're playing in Maidenhead when you're waiting to get on the machine and some Oxbridge twat puts 'contrafantabulosa' into Word Up and then looks around with a smug self congratulatory grin.

... Oxford when the male half of the drippy student couple who have arrived to take over from me on the machine after I've just finished playing says, without a hint of irony, "Perfecto timing".

thought they graduated from Cambridge

QuizMaster wrote:You know you're playing in Maidenhead when you're waiting to get on the machine and some Oxbridge twat puts 'contrafantabulosa' into Word Up and then looks around with a smug self congratulatory grin.

Sour.

...wetherspoons if the only people in there are you, a dozen assorted soaks and lushes refusing to talk to each other and some chavs swearing at the fruit machine. meanwhile the barstaff are dashing around on unimportant errands to pretend that they are busy, nobody is going to buy a drink anytime soon.

QuizMaster wrote:You know you're playing in Maidenhead when you're waiting to get on the machine and some Oxbridge twat puts 'contrafantabulosa' into Word Up and then looks around with a smug self congratulatory grin.

QuizMaster wrote:You know you are quizzing in the suburbs of Nottingham when the barmaid says, "I don't think I've ever seen anybody win on that before"

You know you are quizzing in Brierley Hill when you return two weeks later and the same barmaid, who doesn't recognize you, repeats the same observation as you extract the money again.