💩 Shit & Not Shit Pubs in Reading 🍺

Niche appeal, this, but whatever. I fucked Reading off last year and moved 12 miles north to poncy Wallingford. It’s nice here and I’m old and boring now, so don’t expect STiR behaviour. Fancy a weekly newsletter about a town you don’t live in? Weirdo. thewaffle.beehiiv.com

@ShitThingsRDG Food based theme, exclusive subscriber content, threat of waffling… Where have I seen this before? 🤔 Still, good you’re keeping busy!

@pipterino Yeah, you're pretty much entirely the niche crossover audience.

@ShitThingsRDG I’m interested

Niche appeal, this, but whatever. I fucked Reading off last year and moved 12 miles north to poncy Wallingford. It’s nice here and I’m old and boring now, so don’t expect STiR behaviour. Fancy a weekly newsletter about a town you don’t live in? Weirdo. thewaffle.beehiiv.com

Apparently I brought this thing back just so I could do things like write 2,300 words about a new bowling alley. Why? I can't honestly say. Still, here we are. Best of luck: shitandnotshitpubsinreading.com/2025/07/14/bow… #RDGUK 🎳

@InedibleReading Would you like to join my new bowling team?

@ShitThingsRDG You'll be wearing a bowling shirt and talking about spin and splits soon

@jimbfc To a degree, aye. Ta. Just kickstarting the reviews, more than anything. This town needs not-particularly-helpful pub and bar reviews.

@ShitThingsRDG This was a nice surprise, you back?!

Foster's tops! Old football! Bhajis! Smut! An actual review of a pub, for a change. Albeit one that's also sort of a restaurant... ... It's West Reading's The Spread Eagle Limited! shitandnotshitpubsinreading.com/2025/07/01/the…… #RDGUK

LATER TODAY 🦅

CLUE: It's not The Queen Legs, because that's not a real pub, as you WELL know. Although 'I'm waiting for The Queen's Legs to open so I can get a drink' was quite possibly the first rude joke I ever memorised.

New Shit & Not Shit Pub review coming tomorrow. Whether you like it or not. Can you guess what it is from this mildly saucy teaser image? #RDGUK

The pub/bar reviews are BACK. I know you're excited. First up? @boombattlebar. Where you can chuck axes about. For some reason. shitandnotshitpubsinreading.com/2025/06/07/boo… #RDGUK

The correct smartarse comment here btw is 'she must be an expert in twats married to you'

Isn't it supposed to be 100% off with these..? [JOKE SUPPLIED BY MRS. STiR]

Just saw a woman down an alley wiping her backside with a handful of leaves. Happy weekend, everyone. 🌿🌿🌿

@pipterino TBF I was grieving at the time

@ShitThingsRDG Bit clunky tbqhwy

How Clean Is Your Corpse?

@pipterino Alright, @thesundaysport? Gis a job.

@pipterino I went with the MUCH nicer How Clean is Your Funeral Home? earlier. As well as the slightly less nice Kim Willburn.