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Humanity Must Be Destroyed!! (Two Minutes' Hate) 20140525 - SEE RULES IN POST #2

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    #182
    Playboy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Playboy


    FTA69 wrote: »
    Trendy East London restaurants and their too-cool-for-school nonsense.

    "Oh here are your thrice cooked chips served in a steel cup/mini fryer basket yoke."

    "Would you like your cocktail in a jam-jar?"

    "Our cuisine is Dirty American meets New Orleans meets Asian fusion meets..."

    F*ck off.

    On Saturday I went to Red Dog Saloon with a buddy of mine, booked in advance and had a tasty (if pricey) feed of American BBQ. I land into work today to a p*ssy e-mail enquiring as to why we didn't keep our booking and reminding me that I deprived other diners of a seat. News to f*cking me considering I was in the for an hour stuffing my face before the Ireland game. Here is my response:


    Dear Sir,

    I do sympathise with this urgent and pressing matter and apologise profusely for any distress you may have experienced. However, unless I am having a localised psychotic episode (again), I clearly remember dining in your establishment at the agreed time. While your staff are clearly of an efficient and trendy disposition, they're not very observant if they missed two Irish fellas with giant beards, one of whom was 6'7", who apparently took this vacant table and managed to eat everything on the menu completely under the noses of the expectant waiting staff.

    Perhaps, it was a natural mystery á la the Sixth Sense whereupon myself and my mate Greg are actually ghosts who conduct our lives entirely invisible to the surrounding world? Or perhaps some sort of black hole was largely localised in Hoxton at the very moment we ate our buffalo wings so in fact, we consumed them in another dimension? Who knows? However, scientific and paranormal hypotheses aside, I must again emphasise that we did in fact keep our booking and we ate various mediocre to quite-tasty meat dishes.

    Yours,

    FTA69

    Bit cheeky of them even if you didn't show up! Who the fck do they think they are? Are customers now treated as children to be scolded by businesses if we choose not to avail of their services. Not sure what they are trying to achieve by sending an email like that, there could be a million reasons why someone doesnt show up for a reservation. The only thing that would come from an email like that is ensuring that the customer wont come in the future!


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    #183
    FTA69
    Registered Users Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Even more infuriating when we did show up and dropped 30 loop each in their gaff.


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    #184
    Playboy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,923 ✭✭✭Playboy


    FTA69 wrote: »
    Even more infuriating when we did show up and dropped 30 loop each in their gaff.

    Would like to see the response if you get one! :D


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    #185
    afatbollix
    Registered Users Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭afatbollix


    Seriously set it on fire and London might get cooler.


    I might go live in a pond.


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    #186
    AssaultedPeanut
    Registered Users Posts: 806 ✭✭✭AssaultedPeanut


    The fucking Central Line in summer! It feels so wrong to breath in air that hot.


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    #187
    cashback
    Registered Users Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭cashback


    Pretty specific but the 'Word on the Street' section in Time Out.

    Just seems full of the kind of stuff annoying hipsters say when they're talking to their friends really loud so everyone can hear their witticisms.

    I don't know why but I always feel compelled to glance at it and always regret it...

    Yes, I need to get a life probably.


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    #188
    RDM_83 again
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    Bleeding edge "cool" and "gritty" places, you go to a place with no name, no doors to the jacks and the bar being one dude in a cloakroom poring drinks, and loads of people smoking inside you expect people to be having a good time, never seen that many people on mdma standing around. You know they will all go home though and tell their mates the next day it was so "amazing and urban".

    Additional rant: If a place is playing Afrobeat or some other music associated with Black culture and the crowd is 95% white* you know its going to be a pile of sh*te and populated by people more concerned about being in a "cool" place than actually having a good time.


    *Too not be racist not a mad fan of a lot of the music but had a few great nights with more mixed crowds


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