slothrop@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoAltrincham bar bans solo-drinkers to 'protect customers'www.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down12
arrow-up155arrow-down1external-linkAltrincham bar bans solo-drinkers to 'protect customers'www.bbc.comslothrop@lemmy.ca to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up29·12 days agoSo, being someone who does a lot by myself I would not step in that place anytime as they have said I am a threat. Fuck this exclusion.
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up14·12 days agoAs a person who only ever goes to bars when part of a group, i would strongly try to steer the group from ever going to a bar that did that.
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·12 days agoAnd what, pray tell, would be your reaction to such an inane rule?
minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down11·12 days agoI’d rather do nothing than what they actually want.
minus-squareHikingVet@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7·12 days agoSo what was the point of your intial comment?
minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down8·12 days agoThat if you normally go out single, avoiding a bar because it bans singles is just really not going to impact them. It’s better to complain than threaten them with a good time.
minus-squareRayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 days agoYou wanna spend your free time getting into arguments with bar staff about being let into a pub on your own?
minus-squareAmidFuror@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·12 days agoNo. Not that that’s much worse than this online argument.
So, being someone who does a lot by myself I would not step in that place anytime as they have said I am a threat.
Fuck this exclusion.
As a person who only ever goes to bars when part of a group, i would strongly try to steer the group from ever going to a bar that did that.
That’ll show them.
And what, pray tell, would be your reaction to such an inane rule?
I’d rather do nothing than what they actually want.
So what was the point of your intial comment?
That if you normally go out single, avoiding a bar because it bans singles is just really not going to impact them. It’s better to complain than threaten them with a good time.
You wanna spend your free time getting into arguments with bar staff about being let into a pub on your own?
No. Not that that’s much worse than this online argument.
And yet you started it.