[release]Billions of people around the world will watch as Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot on Friday, except in one pub in Derby, where bosses have banned anything royal wedding-related.
At the Alexandra Hotel in Derby, the words ``royal'' and ``wedding'' are banned, with customers ordered to donate to a ``swear box'' if they slip up.
The TV will be turned off, there is no bunting adorning the building, and even the pub brewery's specially-created ale Kiss Me Kate won't be served.
Landlords Ralf Edge and Anna Dyson, who are getting married themselves next year, said they decided to make the pub a royal wedding-free zone after hearing their customers complain about the royal wedding fever spreading across the country.
Miss Dyson, 33, said: ``We have a lot of male customers and a lot of them were coming in complaining about how much they had to listen to talk of the royal wedding.
``They came in after work saying, 'oh, this royal wedding, it's all anyone's talking about'. We hadn't really got any plans for the day anyway, so we decided to ban it. We've made this a safe haven for our customers so it's somewhere they can go without hearing, or seeing, or talking about it.''
And the plans have already gone down a storm: ``They're loving it, they have all said they'll be in on Friday. We're not going to have the telly on, we've got no bunting. It's just another normal day.''
Any customer who utters the words ``royal'' or ``wedding'' will be expected to donate #1 to the swearbox, with money raised going to the Nightingale Macmillan Unit at the Royal Derby Hospital, Miss Dyson said.
Kiss Me Kate - created by Castle Rock Brewery especially for the royal wedding - is being taken off the pumps at the Alexandra Hotel on Friday. ``We have been serving Kiss Me Kate but we're not serving it on Friday,'' she added. ``We've also got bottles, but they won't be out either. If anyone comes in on Friday, they wouldn't even know there's a royal wedding.''
And despite their lack of enthusiasm for the royal nuptials, Miss Dyson said she and Mr Edge, 26, were very much looking forward to their own big day next July, adding: ``We're excited, just not about the royal wedding.''
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"Billions of people around the world will watch as Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot on Friday"
I don't think so
[quote]We have a lot of male customers and a lot of them were coming in complaining about how much they had to listen to talk of the royal wedding.[/quote]
This is a great case of 'shut the fuck up and just deal with it'.
Pubs are now getting hipster in my area, too many people like it, so we're going to hate it :smugdog:
[QUOTE=Melon_Mapper;29484314]Pubs are now getting hipster in my area, too many people like it, so we're going to hate it :smugdog:[/QUOTE]
more like listening to their customers
Just like some bars in Southern and Western America ban hats!
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Cause theyre gay
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the hats
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not the bars
[QUOTE=Matrix374;29484335]more like listening to their customers[/QUOTE]
It was a joke, I don't give a crap about the royal wedding either.
[QUOTE=BurnBlackJay;29484299]"Billions of people around the world will watch as Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot on Friday"
I don't think so[/QUOTE]
Well maybe not billions, but I know I'll be watching.
Not far from me. Anti-nationalism is the best ism.
I'm arriving back in London on friday. It's gonna be hell to get home from Victoria.
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also, good for them. I don't care.
I don't care for the Royal Wedding either, nor does anyone I know care for it either (other than as for an excuse to get drunk). It's a waste of taxpayers money.
My work (An amusement arcade) are having some sort of royal wedding celebration, thankfully I have the day off, and I intend to go to a biking festival. :v:
It's times like these I'm glad I don't have a TV.
Because most if not all channels are gonna be plastered with [I]OMG ROYAL WEDDING!![/I] to satisfy all those people with grey hair on their head and/or high level of estrogen.
I'm getting married tomorrow, so I won't hear anything of it :smug:
[QUOTE=Gishank;29484542]I don't care for the Royal Wedding either, nor does anyone I know care for it either (other than as for an excuse to get drunk). It's a waste of taxpayers money.[/QUOTE]
You do realise that no tax payers money (beyond policing, which really its their job anyway) is being used and its being paid for by the royal family using money they have sitting around right?
i like how even in America i have to see this shit on TV, why the fuck should i care about a wedding in britland
[QUOTE=Jsm;29485574]You do realise that no tax payers money (beyond policing, which really its their job anyway) is being used and its being paid for by the royal family using money they have sitting around right?[/QUOTE]
Which comes from the tax payers.
[QUOTE=c0nk3r;29485843]i like how even in America i have to see this shit on TV, why the fuck should i care about a wedding in britland[/QUOTE]
Well, it's nice we're taking interest, but it needs to stop. It's annoying when you can't even go 10 hours without hearing the words royal and wedding in the same sentence.
i still don't know why it's such a big deal
is it because they are rich? I bet if they were poor no one would care they were royal
[QUOTE=mokkan;29485987]i still don't know why it's such a big deal
is it because they are rich? I bet if they were poor no one would care they were royal[/QUOTE]
Yeah that's pretty much it. Plus there's loads of money to be made from milking it like a cow.
It's just a glorified wedding occasion with no wedding cake at the reception which is a good enough reason to ban it.
[QUOTE=Charybdis;29484894]I'm getting married tomorrow, so I won't hear anything of it :smug:[/QUOTE]
Facepunch + Relationship + Marriage = Syntax error
Times like these make me glad that not many people in my area talk about stuff going on outside of America
[QUOTE=xeonmuffin;29486026]Facepunch + Relationship + Marriage = Syntax error[/QUOTE]
Facepunch + well used joke = RUN THAT SHIT INTO THE GROUND!
Anyway, I sure as hell won't be watching the wedding. Unless there's some kind of drinking game involved.
Is it any wonder why so many pubs are going out of business with brilliant decisions like this?
All you need to is put up a Union jack and scribble 'Celebrate the Royal Wedding here!' On an A4 Piece of paper and their quids in!
[QUOTE=Ond kaja;29485936]Which comes from the tax payers.[/QUOTE]
Not all of their money does (the money that does works out at an equivalent of 66p per person in the UK). A lot of it comes from rent etc on royal estates, some comes from tourists and I assume the money they have gains interest as well.
[QUOTE=Gishank;29484542]I don't care for the Royal Wedding either, nor does anyone I know care for it either (other than as for an excuse to get drunk). It's a waste of taxpayers money.[/QUOTE]
i thought only Americans used the stupid and entitled-sounding term "taxpayer's money". learn something new every day.
[QUOTE=Jsm;29487039]Not all of their money does (the money that does works out at an equivalent of 66p per person in the UK). A lot of it comes from rent etc on royal estates, some comes from tourists and I assume the money they have gains interest as well.[/QUOTE]
i can watch a video on youtube too
[QUOTE=BurnBlackJay;29484299]"Billions of people around the world will watch as Prince William and Kate Middleton tie the knot on Friday"
I don't think so[/QUOTE]
This. To insinuate that at least a sixth of the world's population (taking into account India, china, and starving African people) gives a fuck about this wedding is going too far.
Good, this Royal Wedding can be compared to a soap opera. It won't change anything anywhere.
The only people who actually give a fuck about this are all elderly women, and eccentric "overly-british" families.
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