Mums thrown out of 'family friendly' pub

[CatherineHMumsnet]

Story today from Southampton about a group of mothers who were asked to leave an apparently 'family-friendly' pub because the landlord thought their infants were too noisy. We've been asked on by BBC Three Counties radio to comment - what do you think? Sounds a bit strange, doesn't it?

Story here

Talking of crap magazines, I had a look at Closer while I was being 'electrified' as the chiros today. My God! Those slebs live in a very stressy world don't they? They are 'devestated' 'guilty' 'furious', 'distraught'. Don't sleb do 'fed up' or 'miffed' at all? Poor loves.

' how does it justify a group of us being nasty? '

Depends on what you define as a group being 'nasty'? I was taking the piss out of Reality myself. mumsy was deffo being nasty by personally calling Reality an idiot. Saying someone looks like a badger is an opinion. I think Angelina Jolie looks like she's been beaten with an ugly stick. So sue me.

But if you see it all as 'nasty', well, that's an opinion, too.

Whatever.

It's a non-story, IMO. And a bit dumb. A mate and I were once asked to leave a pub in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh when he went to order a round and the bartender didn't like him because he was Irish and 'I know how you lot get after drinking.'

So we went somewhere else.

I also don't think correcting your/you're is rude, either.

really expat ?
i don't want anyone correcting my grammar, bad typing. fanks.
thought that was a unsaid rule on mn. don't correct someones spelling, grammar, especially not in spite.
thats just nit picking, surely ?

Oblomov
Dont bother with these fools. Save your (you're) energ and move on to another forum. If they want to live out their life in this fantasy forum world of theirs than I say let them.
Seems strange to me they chose Mums.net in the first place - I guess Inbreds.net full up.

Am shocked at Expat.
she should know better. what is going on here ?

ROFL at inbreds.net

@ inbreds.net ..

I quite like Mumsy ..please don't leave

I'm starting to quite like Mumsy too

Comedy value in a recession and all that!

inbreds.net - that is brilliant

Come back mumsy, we are lovely girls really except reality

school holidays are obviously getting to everyone. i have never seen such a bunfight over feck all

Yeah that Reality is a right badger

Just seen them on South today and they all look rather lovely, must be the daily echo photographer getting them to gurn!

I think actually, anyone who is sufficiently self-obsessed and precious to go whining to the local paper about being asked to leave a pub must have been a PITA who deserved to get thrown out in the first place.

Yes, Ob, really. I don't find it rude when someone corrects my grammar at all. After going through the process of learning French and German, I'm really over it. They correct you. You either spend your life there pissed off or get over it and learn.

I've been in lots of pubs in my 45+ years, but never one where there was parking for four buggies.

Those buggies don't look like the fold-up types, either. They look like carrycot prams.

Why can't they leave the bloody monster prams outside?

Silly women

I never got big prams. I guess it's because when I had DD1, we lived in Edinburgh with no car. So it was sling sling sling so I could always get on the bus. Then, she didn't walk until late, come to find out she has dyspraxia, so it was a fold-up Maclaren and a sling for DD2.

DS came along. So it was one of those buggies you could whack the car seat on and it still accommodated a buggy board.

Has to fold up to fit in the boot.

Well summed up, sgb