Avoid JD Wetherspoon
TheEye hates passing on second-hand work, and therefore detests doing it for two posts in a row. However sometimes it is necessary.
Always have The Lone Voice on your blogroll. He’s got a bit of a thing going about the awful JD Wetherspoon and by all accounts it’s thoroughly well deserved.
TWO Royal Marines were stopped from having a homecoming pint at their local after returning from the frontline in Afghanistan – when staff refused to recognise their military ID cards.
Dan Buchanan, 21, and Kelvin Billings, 22, were turned away at the Isambard Kingdom Brunel pub in Portsmouth when doormen said they didn’t look old enough.
They showed the cards – which included their pictures and dates of birth – but managers at the JD Wetherspoon pub insisted they were not an acceptable form of identification.
Lance Corporal Billings said: “It would have been our first pint since getting back.
“We’ve used our Marines ID all over the world and it’s never been turned down before. We’d been back a matter of hours after serving our country for five months. I’m going back for another two months next week.
“I’d seen a fair bit of action and just wanted a pint of Kronenbourg with my best mate. I couldn’t believe it when they wouldn’t let us in.
TheEye drank in this very pub whilst an underage temporary denizen of Portsmouth.
Stick your name on Fido’s Avoid-JD-Wetherspoon, the facebook group.
I too have been turned away from a wetherspoons using my military ID.
Pain in the arse, but we need to raise more awareness that Forces ID is VALID ID!
JD Wethersppons, you are an absolute disgrace.
If a military ID is good enough to enable these lads to lay their life on the line then surely you, pathetic excuse for dumbfucks, could let them have pint upon their return.
You should in fact be showing them some respect and indeed be honoured that they should deem to visit your premises.
Callous cunts!
For some reason, it is on the “valid ID” list for picking up stuff from the post office. But maybe they don’t trust the Army’s ability to check the ages of it’s employees.
TheEye is 100% with GrumpyOldTwat, and with, he strongly suspects, St C.
Get them in and offer them a few free beers on the house.
This is not acceptable.