Put another, way if a dude in a cow boy hat wanders into a fancy place and looks like he is going to spend, he is going to get treated like a rock star.  The US has some vague concept of old money in some very small circles, but for the most part, new money spends just as good as old money.  

I suppose this is more virtuous than a hereditary society, but I probably would still live it on the back page of the welcome brochure.

How they managed to type their missives one handed is another matter.

If we try to outlaw being a snobby, classless asshole, then the terrorists have won.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2221753/Pauline-Bailey-Law-graduate-snubbed-wedding-hotels-turns-star-adult-TV.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTMWgOduFM

Scratch that… being common just makes him all the better!

Incidentally, segregationist made the “it’s private property, so we can discriminate” argument in the heat of the civil rights movement. Rand Paul made that argument back last year, in fact. But, supremacy clause, so federal law baring discrimination of broadly described public spaces reins supreme.  Of course, this is the US, and the incident in question is Britain. I’m not as familiar with that ball of wax.  

I dont’ think the vegan/meat-eater question comes into this at all.  I am quite free to go to a vegan restaurant and eat there, they just won’t serve me meat. If I go and demand a steak dinner and raise a stink about it when my steak is a tofued affair, they can throw me out, because I’m being an asshat.

EDIT: Damn it! Now I need to go listen to Pulp’s Common People!

A wedding planner at a luxury hotel has been disciplined for describing a couple as not the “type of people that we would want” to get married there.

Pauline Bailey and fiance Paul Carty had wanted to hold their wedding at Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire.

But Miss Bailey said she had felt “crushed” after an email from wedding planner Michele Connelly was sent to her by mistake.

The hotel said it had apologised and Ms Connelly had been disciplined.

If they were saying that they didn’t want the business because the customers were black, I would definitely have a problem.

If they were saying that they didn’t want the business because the customers were gay, I would probably have a problem (I’m being honest. The religious rights of the owners vs human rights of the customers argument is something my head hasn’t settled as yet, but I’m leaning towards the human rights trumping religious rights).

What if they were saying that they didn’t want the business because the customers were meat eaters, and this was a vegan establishment?  Is that OK?  How does that line up with the religious argument, above?

They seem to be saying that they don’t want their business because they are ‘common’. Is that OK?  I’m asking because I really don’t know.

“In the future, do take care not to copy such emails to the couple in question. Also, good catch they weren’t the type for our establishment/”

I’m going to a wedding at Stoke Park in December.

Is the happy couple posh?

Although looking at the photos at the bottom of this article http://www.metro.co.uk/news/915766-too-common-bride-to-be-pauline-bailey-is-adult-tv-show-host-rachel-t they don’t look as different in age as the numbers would suggest, are Sure she’s 27 and not 37?

51 you say? I hope my midlife crisis doesn’t involve eyebrow piercings.

EDIT: Oh good they did.