Adventure Bar

[hillside]

Hi there. Last Sunday evening me and my mate went for a drink in East Dulwich.We went to the "Adventure bar" on Lordship lane. We bought two beers and sat at a high table and were pleasantly talking about life and family and world issues and all. The bar was completely empty. Five minutes later the barman came over and asked my mate to kindly remove his "Hoody".We thought he was joking and asked him if he was serious. Oh yes he was,he said.Now what I want to know is, is this the reason why this bar was so pitifully lacking in clientele,or is it just because of the economic woe were living through. When two fairly respectable looking Dads cant go for a drink looking kind of street an ting what is da world coming to......or at least our little corner of it.Thoughts please..................and by the by we went straight back down to the EDT where we were welcomed with open arms

[PeckhamRose]

Was it raining in the bar, or is that question hopelessly uncool?

[Michael Palaeologus]

Did your friend have an ear infection perhaps?

[snorky]

he was blates disrespektful shank him good bludz

etc

[karter]

Maybe the music was too loud for the chap so he kept his hood up.

[seanmlow]

that place is shite.

[FelicityNormal]

This paranoia about hooded tops is laughable

[Brendan]

They?re dangerous I tell you. Just the other day I was in a rush to get out the house and put my hoodie on backwards. Being inexplicably blinded I tripped down the stairs and accidentally mugged 2 pensioners.

[Strawbs]

Brendan Wrote:

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> They?re dangerous I tell you. Just the other day I

> was in a rush to get out the house and put my

> hoodie on backwards. Being inexplicably blinded I

> tripped down the stairs and accidentally mugged 2

> pensioners.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA that gave me a proper excellent Friday giggle.. x

[Mikecg]

Because of the way things are this day and age, some places dont allow you to wear hats hoods or crash helmets, because of security reasons. I dont think the barman singled you out, its more than likely a company policy, and no matter who was in there they would ask you to remove an item of clothing that obscures your identity.

[Louisa]

I can appreciate some of the fear amongst older people that has been generated as a result of scare mongering by the tabloid press, but that really does sound way beyond the mark to be telling people in an empty bar to remove certain items of clothing. Youd never have had that 10 years or more ago in ED let me tell you! Bloody snobs!

Louisa.

[Brendan]

I know. In fact removing certain items of clothing [sic] normally gets you thrown out of places in my experience.

I blame yuppies trying to organic everything with their global warming.

[Mikecg]

Thing is yuppies wouldnt be seen dead in a hoodie would they?

[Pickle]

Oh I dunno... a nice Carhartt one from ED maybe?

[Mikecg]

If I was a barman and a hoodie walked in, I would ask him to take the hood down, otherwise id be thinking he might try and rob the place. LOL!

[Huguenot]

Yep, this is another one of those rights versus responsibilities thangs.

He has the right to wear his hoodie.

He has the responsibility to cater for other people's sensitivities when the personal impact is insignificant.

I'm all for a society where people talk less about their rights, and contribute more constructively to their responsibilities.

[SteveT]

When I had shops I would refuse entry to anyone wearing a crash helmet, this was long before 'Hoody' culture was born as there were no cameras to hide from in the seventies and eighties.

[Brendan]

Where I grew up it was quite common for men to not be able to wear hats in pubs. Depending on where you were it could just as likely earn you a smack in the mouth as a request to leave. For the simple reason that it is actually bad manners for a man to wear a hat indoors.

Although Adventure Bar is hardly a high class establishment and I would have thought it caters for the kind of clientele who are more than likely unaware of proper manners.

[Brendan]

Hmmm.... ever read over one of your own posts and think, ?What a conceited knob.??

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Oh Brendan, darling, you are so right - your first post, not the second.

You have exquisite manners - I love it when you stand on a lady's arrival/departure, etc, you could teach the chaps of ED a thing or too.

[Mikecg]

Brendan wrote,

Hmmm.... ever read over one of your own posts and think, ?What a conceited knob.??

snip<

No, but I have thought why the funk didn't I think before I posted.

[red devil]

Get your hoodies on and flash mob them!...Flash Mob

[Horsebox]

Perhaps you should raise this issue with our MP?

[????]

I got asked to take my hood down and my cap off in the Cherrythingy bar last night which exposed the EDF drinks to my boufant barnet...which is far scarier

[SimonM]

The trouble with relying merely on the "security" argument, rather than citing the bad manners/looking a pillock argument too, is that only by including the latter can you deal with the twonks wearing baseball caps back to front....:))