Quote Originally Posted by SWv2 View Post
I think Wetherspoons gets a bad press and I am going to take a stand to defend them.

Yes, within their chain of over 1000 pubs there is ****holes, like the one on Highbury Corner. Yes some of their clientele may be chaps you would not want to socialise with, nor invite into your house – but then this would apply to the clientele of virtually every pub in your so called United Kingdom and also in Ireland.

I was very fond of some of their pubs back in the day.

The one in Croydon is I suspect a fúcking shíthouse, kind of goes with the area.
My rare forays into these establishments have inevitably seen me confronted by hoards of toothless, desperate alcoholics. Or, as we call them, 'Irishmen'.

One of our party ordered 'food'. This 'food' simply defied description.

I quite understand the business model but, as with airlines, dragging standards down to reach absolute bare-bottom costs will only result in attracting a certain clientele: chaps, with all due respect, such as yourself.