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Sorry, I found this burger bar more offensive than a lapdancing club
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | Liz Jones

Posted on 10/19/2010 4:28:35 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

This is probably the worst Friday night of my life - and that's saying something. I'm sat on a high stool at a small table, plasma screens are oozing sports programmes around my head and there is a grubby plastic menu in front of me that is littered with pictures of fast food.

Not a green vegetable in sight, unless you count a deep fried chilli, coated in batter.

There is the thump, thump, thump of awful music in the background, competing with the braying of table upon table of men: young men, old men, students, office workers, football supporters...

Weaving between the tables are young women bearing enormous, overflowing jugs of beer and steaming piles of food. I keep beckoning the wrong waitress, as it's so hard to tell them apart.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bars; guesswhosdateless; hooters; liziscrabbywabby; sports; sportsbars
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To: ConservativeStatement; humblegunner; sit-rep; Squantos; Eaker; 50mm; Vendome; shibumi; ...

The girls at the office are taking me to Hooters this Friday for my birthday. I’m gonna be a very happy almost-54-year-old.


21 posted on 10/19/2010 4:54:48 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: ConservativeStatement
Liz Jones; skank with a column. She'll never understand Hooters because she'll never understand men.

And she'll never, ever be the girl next door.

22 posted on 10/19/2010 4:55:30 PM PDT by DakotaGator (Weep for the lost Republic! And keep your powder dry!!)
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To: vladimir998

I’ve been in a few Hooters restaurants in different states. There’s nothing trashy about them. Hooters is a family restaurant.


23 posted on 10/19/2010 4:56:57 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: Larry Lucido
I don't watch much TV but the series “The Office” had an episode where two of the main characters went to a Hooters for a birthday. Supposedly, one character was unprepared for the greeting/song the waitresses perform and his reaction came across as genuine. Have fun!
24 posted on 10/19/2010 4:57:26 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: aruanan
Because your children should be treated to the sight of t!ts and a$$? Hooters is absolute trash, and trashy, and proud of it. It is a half step up from a strip club at best.
25 posted on 10/19/2010 5:01:05 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: allmendream
Was that the three story Hooters up there in the Oceanside/Carlsbad area?

They are kinda' dense there aren't they.

26 posted on 10/19/2010 5:02:33 PM PDT by muawiyah ("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Go to a grocery store. Buy some meal ingredients, including vegetables. Take them home; cook them and eat them.

Wasn’t that easy? And inexpensive, too!


27 posted on 10/19/2010 5:03:27 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I love the smell of napalm in November. Cue the Wagner music ...)
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To: Larry Lucido

Ooooh! Have a giant, sloppy burger and a nice beer for me, and Happy Birthday to you.

The rest of the beers you’ll have to have for someone else, LOL!

I’ll be nine years older than you for the next couple of months.


28 posted on 10/19/2010 5:04:01 PM PDT by TheOldLady (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I tried, but I just couldn’t finish the article. Too much whining.

The bottom line for me is, if you don’t like a place, don’t go. Hooters isn’t my thing, but I’m not going to tell any of you that there’s something wrong with going there, ‘cause where you eat is your *own darn business*.

Man, I wish these old liberal busybodies would do us all a favor and pull the stick out of their rear ends!


29 posted on 10/19/2010 5:05:30 PM PDT by DemforBush (You might think that, *I* could not possibly comment.)
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To: LibWhacker

Or if not Liz, Ms. Garofalo before she puts on her makeup...


30 posted on 10/19/2010 5:07:10 PM PDT by DemforBush (You might think that, *I* could not possibly comment.)
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To: allmendream
Because your children should be treated to the sight of t!ts and a$$? Hooters is absolute trash, and trashy, and proud of it. It is a half step up from a strip club at best.

There is less skin at Hooters than in Olympic figure skating or a day at a municipal beach. Your comments show one of two things:
1. you, like others, haven't been there at all, preferring to ride the horse of self-righteousness by relying on reports by critics, or

2. you're simply deranged.
You're incorrect on all counts.
31 posted on 10/19/2010 5:07:28 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: ConservativeStatement

Bookmark.


32 posted on 10/19/2010 5:07:47 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: ConservativeStatement
It's not that you're not welcome, Liz, but they didn't start up this business with you in mind. If you want to eat there, it's a free country, go on in. If you don't like the food or the decorations, don't go there.

Did you not KNOW what this place was?

33 posted on 10/19/2010 5:07:58 PM PDT by ZOOKER ( Exploring the fine line between cynicism and outright depression)
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To: who knows what evil?
Poor Liz...not exactly a ‘Page 3’ girl, is she?

No, she'd need more than silicone to get to Page 3.

She says she was in the Playboy Club on Park Lane in the 70's and found it superior to Hooters.

I also was in the Playboy Club on Park Lane in the '70's and thought the atmosphere there was pretty sad. The Hooters girls at least smile.

34 posted on 10/19/2010 5:08:39 PM PDT by Ole Okie (American.)
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To: LibWhacker

Well, the one holding the sign certainly isn’t. (Decoration, I mean)


35 posted on 10/19/2010 5:09:25 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I always thought having an owl (and owl eyes) as a logo
was a good business decision.


36 posted on 10/19/2010 5:09:30 PM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: muawiyah
Nope, the one in downtown mission valley.

They came wheeling out of the parkinglot swerving, saw my wife from across the street, rolled down passenger window and screamed out to me what was obvious to all and sundry....

Yes, she has really nice t!ts you lowlife scum. Now why don't you go choke on a hotwing!

Place is no better than a stripclub with about the same level of clientele, other than the people who think it is a “family restaurant” and bring their family! Because what 9 year old doesn't like seeing the bottom part of a gal's bottom poking out of her shorts?

37 posted on 10/19/2010 5:09:46 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: TheOldLady

And I’ve got ten plus years on you.

Tempus fugit,eh ?


38 posted on 10/19/2010 5:12:10 PM PDT by Mears
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Hooters was started in 1983 by six Florida businessmen with no experience of catering...”

Calling Hooters “catering” somehow sounds like an insult for both parts.


39 posted on 10/19/2010 5:14:20 PM PDT by Moose Burger
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To: aruanan
I have been there. Several times. With some of my more low brow and less refined friends. (delightfully tacky and yet unrefined is their freaking motto, tacky amounts of skin, real family place!)

At the beach they pay women to be scantily clad while they hustle you for tips? Olympic figure skaters have to show a minimum amount of cleavage and/or HAVE a minimum amount of cleavage? Sorry, not even close.

It is a place for MEN to be MEN, drink beer, watch sports, eat hot wings, and gawk at (and talk to, the real losers even try to hit on) a beautiful woman.

It is no more a family restaurant than a stripclub is a singles bar.

The men coming out of the Hooters sound and act like men coming out of a stripclub.

“Your girlfriend has nice t!ts” was my experience.

“Show us your tits, if you had any.” was hers.

Sounds like a real family environment to me! If your family is from the trailer park.

40 posted on 10/19/2010 5:15:53 PM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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