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[woodie]

erg! I been to one in states.

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[SeanMacGabhann]

haven't been to any but I was surprised to see they had an airline as I flew back from the US

Hooters Airline

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[bignumber5]

haven't been to Nottingham Hooters yet

The only one I HAVE been to (stag night). As my (now) brother-in-law noted the day after, the only thing less classy than ending up in hooters was being asked to leave...

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[SimonM]

There's been a Hooters in Interlaken for some years. I would have thought ED was far too suburban for them!

[bon3yard]

Does this mean potential competition for Molly Knocking Shop?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I think hooters in Lordship Lane should be more effectively employed. I love making pedestrians jump.

[Jah Lush]

I think we've got quite enough crap American restaurants over here already.

[seanmlow]

Will be interested to see what the place is like -

we should keep abreast of the issues on here (sorry).

Sean

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> Does this mean potential competition for Molly

> Knocking Shop?

What ? Molly as in Transvestites ?

[bon3yard]

Molly runs the bordello up near the library. Shes a hell of a Gal.

[annaj]

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> haven't been to Nottingham Hooters yet

>

> The only one I HAVE been to (stag night). As my

> (now) brother-in-law noted the day after, the only

> thing less classy than ending up in hooters was

> being asked to leave...

I'm soooo proud. ;-)

[seanmlow]

Bignumber -

That is hilarious - I love it.

[bignumber5]

Asked to leave?!

Started with a big pitcher of beer 8-9 hours into the drinking day :)-D and ends with the word "projectile":-$. The Heathrow Convention prohibits further details...

[shoshntosh]

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> I think we've got quite enough crap American

> restaurants over here already.

agreed, but there are also plenty crap english "restaurants". but does anyone on this forum actually like americans or anything about americans or about america (by which i presume we all mean the United States of America, rather than those other huge chunks attached at the top and bottom)?

anti-americanism appears alive and well in east dulwich! -- at least on the east dulwich forum. too bad cuz yanks LOVE the english, and the scots and welsh too (not that most would detect the difference). methinks here there is possibly an empire hangover/chip on shoulder/inferiority complex....???

easy on, peeps. i would expect a culture that celebrates page three girls to be equally embracing of hooters...

[SimonM]

I have nothing against americans. Most I have met both here and in the USA and elsehwere have been charming and friendly. I could draw up a long list of, say, american writers I like - Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller etc etc - and film-makers/actors and so on and so forth. It's America the Political Entity and its Empire-building foreign policy I loathe.

[Moos]

I love America, and have enjoyed a number of holidays there. In particular, I think the American tradition of hospitality is delightful, and we could learn from it.

However, that doesn't mean that people can't express dismay when American-style culture is imported here, especially if it feels as though there is too much of it. I think there are an awful lot of gifty shops and curry restaurants on Lordship Lane, doesn't mean I don't like either gifty shops or curry restaurants per se.

Edited for randomly included unnecessary extra words... like this sentence?

[SeanMacGabhann]

We can reasonably state that the restuarant chain in question is fairly "crappy" regardless of where it comes from tho can't we?

I almost don't want to comment on this thread as Alan Dale will near certainly start banging on about me and Americans again

If the English chains (Happy Chef! Aberdeen Steak House! the joys.... ) decided to expand across the US and locals there complained about "crappy UK restaurants" I wouldn't take it as being anti-UK... I would just call it sound judgement

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> I almost don't want to comment on this thread as

> Alan Dale will near certainly start banging on

> about me and Americans again

That's exactly what I've been hoping for! >:D<

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Sean - some of my finest moments have been in an Aberdeen Angus steak house!

Incidentally, does anyone else wonder how those restaurants at Victoria manage to stay open? I don't think I've ever seen a punter in them.

[SeanMacGabhann]

PGC - really??? I suppose it's possible to have a party and enjoy people's company but if you start telling me it was a great steak I'll be gobsmacked!

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> Incidentally, does anyone else wonder how those

> restaurants at Victoria manage to stay open? I

> don't think I've ever seen a punter in them.

Which ones? The ones around outside the front of the station where the buses are? They seem to always be full of tourists during the day and then there is the pre/after theatre tourists too.