Amusing Pictures ripped from the Net

**PlanK** · 16-10-2023, 03:20 PM

**CalEden** · 16-10-2023, 08:27 PM

Originally Posted by dirk diggler

I think that trough is from the days when men chewed tobacco and needed a place to spit. There's an old bar in Portland (Luke's) that has a trough along the bar rail, which I was told was for spitting chewing tobacco in. I certainly wouldn't want sit on top smelly stale urine drinking beer all afternoon.

**helge** · 16-10-2023, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by CalEden

I think that trough is from the days when men chewed tobacco and needed a place to spit. There's an old bar in Portland (Luke's) that has a trough

I saw them all over Australia.

Don't think they used it to piss in.

**david44** · 16-10-2023, 09:38 PM

Goes back to days of men only pubs and only 1 hour opening after work know as the "SWILL""

I saw but didn't use one in Dorrigo New South Wales after a few Ales, a lovely spot half way up the state inland from Bellingen