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    #51
    & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

    In a lot of provincial towns, Wetherspoons pubs are now among the nicest in town. That's certainly true of the Twelve Tellers in Preston, which has taken over the old (and ornate) Natwest Bank building.

    Of course in a lot of others, they remain among the worst in town, ironically also true of the previous Wetherspoons in Preston, which is the ground floor of a 1990s office building under a Jobcentre and is like the Mos Eisley Cantina.

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      #52
      & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

      Guy Potger wrote:
      Originally posted by WOM
      Here's the funding statement from their 2014 Annual Report.

      May I suggest they are nominated as the official otf charity of 2016?

      Those of us in the UK in employ can fund them for a tenner a month, surely?
      I'd back this for "unsexy" charities in general.

      I work in third sector so I'm jealous, but Cancer Research (and MacMillan are ConglomoCorp in terms of charities. I'm not accusing them of anything untoward and there is nothing wrong with paying staff a good wage and having a nice place to work, because the socialism of misery is a pernicious thing in our society.

      But places like Headway do good work for a very vulnerable group of people who can't reliably get served in pubs and the amount of people who raise money for them is fuck all. Cancer Research spend more trying to get you to donate to them every year than Headway get in total in a decade.

      Or CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably). Young men kill themselves all the time but nobody donates a quid to CALM other than young men who have mental health issues themselves. Meanwhile there's another fucking MacMillan Coffee Morning because cancer yaaaaaay!

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        #53
        & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

        Flynnie wrote:
        Originally posted by Guy Potger
        Originally posted by WOM
        Here's the funding statement from their 2014 Annual Report.

        May I suggest they are nominated as the official otf charity of 2016?

        Those of us in the UK in employ can fund them for a tenner a month, surely?
        I'd back this for "unsexy" charities in general.

        I work in third sector so I'm jealous, but Cancer Research (and MacMillan are ConglomoCorp in terms of charities. I'm not accusing them of anything untoward and there is nothing wrong with paying staff a good wage and having a nice place to work, because the socialism of misery is a pernicious thing in our society.

        But places like Headway do good work for a very vulnerable group of people who can't reliably get served in pubs and the amount of people who raise money for them is fuck all. Cancer Research spend more trying to get you to donate to them every year than Headway get in total in a decade.

        Or CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably). Young men kill themselves all the time but nobody donates a quid to CALM other than young men who have mental health issues themselves. Meanwhile there's another fucking MacMillan Coffee Morning because cancer yaaaaaay!
        What's even more egregious about that is that Cancer Research and palliative care for the seriously ill is not tax-payer funded.

        (And don't even get me started on the RNLI)

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          #54
          & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

          Do people who habitually get so plastered that they risk being refused service carry round fake cards like this?

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            #55
            & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

            ad hoc wrote: Do people who habitually get so plastered that they risk being refused service carry round fake cards like this?
            I know I do…

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              #56
              & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

              My seperate experiences of Wetherspoons, and Doncaster, is that put them together, and all she had to de was make a snide remark about East European immigrants and she wouldn't have had to worry about getting served as she would have had her drinks bought all night by a bloke in brogues, shellsuit bottoms and a promotional lager t-shirt.

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                #57
                & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

                This wouldn't happen in Ireland, because there's a drink driving ad on telly about a guy who crashed his car after a feed of pints, and now has a fairly severe brain injury. The pay off line is "I drove while drunk, now thanks to this brain injury I look drunk all the time."

                It's Fucking grim.

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                  #58
                  & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

                  Big Boobs and FIRE! wrote: My seperate experiences of Wetherspoons, and Doncaster, is that put them together, and all she had to de was make a snide remark about East European immigrants and she wouldn't have had to worry about getting served as she would have had her drinks bought all night by a bloke in brogues, shellsuit bottoms and a promotional lager t-shirt.
                  I was born in Doncaster.

                  And I don't have a problem with drinking in 'Spoons

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                    #59
                    & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

                    I wasn't born in Donacaster.

                    And I do have a problem with drinking in 'Spoons.

                    But as Gary Coleman himself says; the world don't move to the beat of just one drum.

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                      #60
                      & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

                      Errorist Sympathiser wrote: Quite why anyone would choose to drink in a Wetherspoons* is beyond me.

                      (*outside London, at least, where it's the only place to get a pint under £3)
                      Unless you can find a Sam Smith's pub, like the Chandos close to Trafalgar Square - they're good value too.

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                        #61
                        & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

                        They're a bit shit, but reliably shit.

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                          #62
                          & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

                          This is all pretty horrible.

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                            #63
                            & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

                            dalliance wrote: Might have been avoided had she shown her card at the beginning rather than after swearing at bar staff and being asked to leave. As was said up thread, the bar isn't going to back down at that stage.
                            I think this is being ignored. For me the key point is "She admitted Danielle had sworn at bar staff after being refused service"...

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                              #64
                              & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

                              I'm ignoring it.

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                                #65
                                & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

                                EIM wrote:
                                Originally posted by dalliance
                                Might have been avoided had she shown her card at the beginning rather than after swearing at bar staff and being asked to leave. As was said up thread, the bar isn't going to back down at that stage.
                                I think this is being ignored. For me the key point is "She admitted Danielle had sworn at bar staff after being refused service"...
                                Depends on how she was refused service, I suppose.

                                I think the thing that is being ignored is that Wetherspoons have apologised and said that they are going to train staff.

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                                  #66
                                  & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

                                  But that's what you say when you get on the wrong side of a people story in the press. You have no other option. It's not really an 'admission of guilt' per se, or indicative of some kind of systemic problem.

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                                    #67
                                    & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

                                    It's a crappy situation and to me reflects badly on societal understandings of people who aren't quite the 'norm'.

                                    However, there's a lad in our sister office who has a condition that makes him look, walk and talk like he's absolutely smashed and I've seen him get served in a few 'Spoons and plenty of other places besides.

                                    Having said that, I suspect he's quite possibly been refused a few times too.

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                                      #68
                                      & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

                                      We also don't know if she has history in that place in the past.

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                                        #69
                                        & kick a cripple for me too, Mr Wetherspoon!

                                        Her card does say be patient with her and that should include her actions, such as swearing.

                                        The NAS cards are ok as far as they go, the problem is people see ASC and think of Dustin Hoffman.

                                        People on the spectrum may have other conditions and a wide range of anxieties that could be articulated through verbal abuse and/or violence.

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