‘not allowed to serve squaddies’

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....n-parade-Romford.html

Why should our brave service personnel, who on their returning parade from Afghanistan, (especially after receiving the Freedom of the Borough), be barred from a public house?

[bazwillrun]

"A Muslim. Clever isn't he? "

whats clever about it ?

would you have made the same facetious comment if id abbreviated scot for scottish or brit for british, or yank for american etc etc ...you get the picture ?! probably not

[ummmm]

Not if a thread was actually about them. This thread has nothing to do with Muslims.

[friedgreentomato]

Because they are a bunch of hooligans that cause to much aggro and damage!

[bazwillrun]

"Not if a thread was actually about them. This thread has nothing to do with Muslims."

its about people being barred from getting served in pubs

[modeller]

No explanation from the pub and who actually said it .
The worst town I experienced as a squaddie was Stratford on Avon they didn't ban you they just ignored you.

[FredPuli43]

Never lived in Colchester,aog? The Army lads enjoy having a good ruck after a few beers . The Military Police are kept busy'

I want to know what's wrong with lawyers. There was a pub in Guildford which had a sign outside saying 'No soldiers or lawyers'. There is a solicitors' training college in Guildford. Never discovered whether counsel or judges from the court house up the road were intended.

[jake-the-peg]

No Lawyers? - Interesting

Sounds like a publican who'd been through an expensive divorce perhaps?

[FredPuli43]

Maybe, jake, but I suspect he'd had trouble with groups of arrogant, drunk, troublemakers from the solicitors' training college, the College of Law. They probably behaved like a less rich Bullingdon Club.

[rojash]

AOG, I wasn't "taking an attitude", I was merely stating a fact.

[ummmm]

"its about people being barred from getting served in pubs"

Very very unlikely scenario so no need to bring it up.

[sandyRoe]

I was in a pub in London a few years ago and was asked to take my flat cap off before they could serve me a drink. I explained I only ever take it off when I was going to bed and was then asked to leave.

[aelmpvw]

soldiers like fighting ... whatever next

[andy-hughes]

No reason that I can see - but as the piece advised, it was an error.

There is really not need to get worked up about a simple mistake, for which an apology has been issued.

I would (as usual) take issue with your notion that 'brave' service personel should be more outrtaged over a simple mistake than anyone else.

They are serving personel - there is no evidence that the individuals concerned have been 'brave' - merely that they have done what they are employed to do,

[LazyGun]

I used to live in Guildford for a while, and squaddies were lucky to get into the town without a passport. Used to be a lot of trouble between the squaddies and the local oiks looking for trouble, till they banned the squaddies from town.

Still remember the strange looks i got from the patrons of the Horse and Groom pub in Guildford - Long hair and a goth girlfriend did not sit well with the squaddies, it seems :)

[sandyRoe]

I think the pubs in Guildford could have taught the apartheid regime a thing or two about segregation.
I accidentally wandered into a 'student' bar there and a girl asked why I had my name written inside my forage cap. I'm not sure she believed me when I said it was in case I forgot my name.
All in all, it wasn't a very welcoming bar.

[ChuckFickens]

"Never lived in Colchester,aog?"

I have:) if AOG thinks squaddies don't cause trouble in pubs then I'd have loved to have seen him popping out for a few quiet ales in the wig and pen on a friday night.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

Never been under fire have we not Andy?

I consider them Brave, regardless of the fact 'that it is their job' as you put it,

Just as I consider firemen who have had to enter a burning building, BRAVE.

Or a policeman who has faced an armed criminal, BRAVE,

Or Lifeboat crews who have to enter stormy seas so as to rescue crews of a sinking boat, BRAVE.

Or those Mountain rescue teams that have to turn out in terrible weather so as to rescue someone up a mountain, Brave.

No need to carry on with examples of bravery, you must have got the gist.

It's incredible that a member of the US forces has only to enter an establishment in America, and he never needs to put his hand in his pocket to buy a drink.

[Zeuhl]

I expect all the pubs should now welcome squaddies despite their previous experiences - which evidently don't amount to much when compared with aog's sentimental, rose-tinted view.

Perhaps aog will settle all the bills for damage subsequenty suffered?

[Baldric]

/// Never been under fire have we not Andy ///

Still trying to sort out the negative/double negative content in that one!

[Nibble]

Never been under fire have we not


Two negatives become a positive (nope - don't get it) either, sorry.