I live in south Bristol where the “Bristol stool scale” and the “pubs that need your help” overlap distressingly.

Thanks for pointing out the stool scale. I went from "hahaha I'm sure this some kind of 'how shitty stuff is'" to "let me see how it works" to "oh, it's actually a useful medical chart" lol

so...you got me. thinking it might have something to do with out worn the stools in your pub are. nope it's just, you know, stool.