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Rubbish on pub tables
LazyLohan · 08/08/2015 11:18
I was out at the pub last night with DH having a quiet drink. We were outside at a small table and there was a large table of hipster types next to us. A few of them, every time they finished with something were just turning around and dumping it on our table. So empty crisp packets, the plastic off cigarette packets, empty cigarette packets, spent match packets. I asked them to please stop putting rubbish on our table and dispose of it elsewhere.
They descended into some sort of very hipsterish rant about our apparent 'inability to harmoniously interact and share space with others in a cooperative tolerant manner'. My husband said 'look mate, she's just asking you not to use our table as a bin' and they responded 'Oh yeah, you're two people who've found the right person, miserable and hate other people, if you can't operate as part of an amicable community you should just stay home brother'.
Is this just me? Is that an acceptable thing to do? They didn't want rubbish on their table, should I be expected to tolerate it on mine because they've put it there.
I'd have scooped it up and put it back on their table and then repeated whatever shit they had just spouted at me.LazyLohan · 08/08/2015 11:29
It did actually happen. One or two of their friends did look a bit embarrassed. But most of them seemed so self righteous about it they did sort of make me doubt myself. Like I should have been relaxed about it. They seemed to think that I was incredibly petit bourgeois despite hipsterism being petit bourgeoisim in vintage clothing.
I wanted it for dd. the BBC don't repeat the whole thing, so she's only seen the odd clip. It's very sad.LazyLohan · 08/08/2015 12:30
Some beards are okay I think. Others are 'too mainstream'. All the men seemed to be channelling Supa Dj Dmitry and Towa Tei. Which is a shame because I liked Dee-Lite. The girls certainly weren't channelling Lady Miss Keir. I can only describe them as looking like a cross between a 1920s aesthete and Deidre Barlow circa 1981.
Birdsgottafly · 08/08/2015 12:54
Thankfully this hasn't reached Liverpool.
I did see a man who was the ringer of an Edwardian strong man, but he looked suitably embarrassed when faced with my "Are you fucking serious?", face.
At least the beards are stopping me finding young men (-40) inappropriately attractive.
Skeppers · 08/08/2015 13:14
MammaTJ · 08/08/2015 15:23
They were the ones with the 'inability to harmoniously interact and share space with others in a cooperative tolerant manner' not you. You were behaving normally, not invading anyone else's space, not dumping your rubbish on others. They were being selfish dickheads!
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