Have you ever wandered into a rough pub/bar? Did everything go silent? Is there a pub near you that is just a 'no-go'? What happened when you entered into the pub?

apparently I did the wrong thing at a "waterskiing CLUB" interstate drinking my beer out of a can apparently ladies use a glass, as one busboy so kindly pointed out.

Kind of the opposite of what you meant

JDInteractive said:

Once, after a company party, we ended up in this pub ... it looked quite normal, I must say. It had a table soccer and stuff, and we already had had some drinks ... However, after a while, we saw all the other guys strangely
looking at the women in our company. It didn't take long after that for us
to notice it was a gay bar ... We should've noticed when ordering our first round ...

JDInteractive said:

I worked in a pub in a very dodgy part of Wolverhampton once. It was featured on Channel 4's "Dispatches" programme, where an undercover reporter posed as a barmaid and filmed dodgy goings-on using a hidden camera. (I hasten to add it wasn't ME that hired her!)

It was a pub that belonged to a chain that didn't have TVs installed, so how we laughed the evening the show was on as I propped a portable telly on the bar and all the customers gathered round to see themselves selling drugs and smuggled fags in the pub beer garden. And I mean that seriously, we p*ssed ourselves laughing.

Some of us (ie. ME) were laughing that nervous kind of "AH ha, what a bonkers lot we all are, eh? PLEASE DON'T KILL ME, I BEG YOU! LOOK, I CAN SEE THE FUNNY SIDE OF THIS AND EVERYTHING...!"

(I did NOT enjoy the conversation I had with one guy afterwards: "Oh course you are barred, you were filmed smoking heroin in our beer garden on national TV!" "You can't bar me for THAT!" "Erm...I would like to....I am not sure, given the fact you are looking at me like you wanna kick seven shades of poo out of me, that I actually CAN bar you, no, you may have a valid point there. Sir...Free drink, on me...?" )

Fortunately we received an email from our head office the next day saying that we had all carried ourselves in a dignified manner and that our working practices had not been brought into question.

They sold the pub some time later.