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I Want To Get Out The Lewes Fishbowl

On 16 Jan 2013 at 10:48pm Goldfish wrote:

I am 30 years old and like most Lewes people, I have never ventured out the town. My parents never left Lewes either, and neither did their parents. All my grandparents told me that their great grandparents had never left Lewes either.
I have sat at the window of the Royal Oak watching all the same fellow goldfish walking past at the same time each day. Whenever I speak to them in the street they tell me what has been going on in our goldfish bowl because this is what we do. Where else can we speak about?
Anyway, have any of you fellow goldfish ever been drunk enough to venture as far as Brighton, or are you like me.
I wanted to go to London for the Jubilee but I have been assured my naivety would scream from me and that it would be like a lamb to the slaughter. There are rumours about a fish who did risk it and they never came back the same. They could never speak of the experience apparently because they had to be inebriated the whole time to cope with being outside Lewes.
Can somebody please help me down in this bowl. I am fed up with swimming rond and round the whole time, looking out and wondering, but never having the courage to leap over the edge.

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On 16 Jan 2013 at 10:59pm Expat two wrote:

My money's on it being Sussex Jim.

On 16 Jan 2013 at 11:32pm Local wrote:

Have you ventured to the Runaway? Go on, try it.

On 17 Jan 2013 at 7:08am drone wrote:

The perils of playing with your smartphone when you`ve had a few too many in the Oak, eh Goldfish...

On 17 Jan 2013 at 8:36am Sussex Jim wrote:

Expat two- it is not me
Goldfish- you must venture out into the wide world, but stay sober as it is a jungle out there, especially in the resort of Brighton (the last resort!).
I have been to all continents except one- but I have never been in the Royal Oak in Lewes.
Breaking news- I have just heard on the wireless that the Runaway Cafe has been saved.

On 17 Jan 2013 at 11:29pm Bloke 2 wrote:

The OP sounds like a Big Goldfish in a small pond. Why don't you finish your pint and get yourself to the train station at the bottom of the hill and fook off

On 18 Jan 2013 at 5:32pm bastian wrote:

One of my little fish has just ventured North to live..it has been hard, she has heard things that shocked her but she is doing alright..but she loves to come home..this is home. Lewes.

On 19 Jan 2013 at 1:39pm Bugsy wrote:

I had a similar problems with one of my bunnys. They ventured out met all types of other bunnies, developed a mind of his own. Even worse he tried to bring these other bunnies home - London bunnies, Manchester bunnies, Cornish bunnies it was shocking it was.
So I set up a barricade and banned all future bunnies from leaving....did the trick. I have an odd escape here and there but it's no great loss. You just need a strong bunny willing to rule with an iron fist.