I assume this is illegal...

[JumboBeef]

From a "room to rent" advert:

ad said:

Furnished Double Room for mature Single English person in in London Road Devizes with easy off road car parking, no big vans.

http://www.spareroom.co.uk/flatshare/flatshare_detail.pl?flatshare_id=2153032&search_id=198936721&city_id=&flatshare_type=offered&search_results=%2Fflatshare%2F%3Foffset%3D20%26search_id%3D198936721%26sort_by%3Dage%26mode%3Dlist&

[eddrevhen]

shouldn't be - spare room is used to rent rooms in your own house, akin to having a lodger - the person writing the advert is simply stating their preference to whom they want to share part of the house with*

[Morningside]

I would have thought so. Reminds me of the signs that used to read. "No Blacks, No Irish and No Dogs"

[waterwonder]

On the other hand it saves someone who doesn't fit the criteria finding out the hard way.

Btw I'm not saying it's right or legal.

[jas xjr]

i am outraged as a former large van owner

[Cooperman]

I recall the late Spike Milligan who had a show called 'The Bed Sitting Room' in the early '60's.

In it he goes to the doctors and says "Doctor, I keep thinking I'm a bed sitting room, what should I do?"

Doctor: "Quickly put up a sign saying "No Coloureds, Irish or Children".

[markiii]

its there room they can rent it to whom they like

[delboy735]

Don't know if it's "illegal", but in todays bullst language, it is "politically incorrect"......which as most know, is also bullst.

[fatboy b]

Some places have covenants for no commericial vehicles.

[Rockettvr]

markiii said:

its there room they can rent it to whom they like

I seem to recall a b&b owner being prosecuted for not letting a room to a gay couple - and was found guilty. So the above statement is not true.

[Piersman2]

Can someone explain what's illegal? Am I missing something?

Is it the single, or mature , or English or no large vans that's the problem?

[Pebbles167]

Rockettvr said:

I seem to recall a b&b owner being prosecuted for not letting a room to a gay couple - and was found guilty. So the above statement is not true.

A b&b is a business, a room for rent is different.

[Nigel Worc's]

I'm guessing it is illegal, although factual and something I'd support.

Their room, their house, they should be able to specify actually with detail who they would like and who they wouldn't, it saves trouble all round.

I was annoyed by the ruling on the B&B couple, again their business, their property. It just served to increase my dislike of that particular group of people, (homosexuals), in no way did that ruling make me think "oh look, they must be equal and I must like them, the law says so".

If I don't like you I won't fix your machine(s), as I'm not short of work and enjoy being self employed so I control what I do and don't do.

[Blakewater]

It might not specifically be an issue of prejudice. Rent a room to someone foreign and if they do a flit back to their home country without paying their rent and other costs they're harder to trace.

If rules are set governing what stipulations you can place on who rents a room in your house, who's to say it isn't sexual discrimination for a woman to say she only wants another woman in her house and not a man? It seems like a perfectly reasonable stipulation but it could be deemed illegal.

[Janluke]

Suggests it could be on dodgy ground

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18588612

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Morningside said:

I would have thought so. Reminds me of the signs that used to read. "No Blacks, No Irish and No Dogs"

I thought it was ordered black, dogs, Irish. The impression being Irish was worse than blacks and dogs.

[ging84]

They could have been a bit more subtle, if they had said English speaking for example, that would have given the hint to most of us that it was a member of the BNP or EDL

[Pet Troll]

Pebbles167 said:

Rockettvr said:

I seem to recall a b&b owner being prosecuted for not letting a room to a gay couple - and was found guilty. So the above statement is not true.

A b&b is a business, a room for rent is different.

Also they were only in trouble because they refused to let them the room based on their sexuality. They could have refused to let them the room without giving a reason and wouldn't have been in any trouble.

[Triumph Man]

Wish I'd put "no s" in mine, would have saved a lot of bother....

[Funk]

Nigel Worc's said:

I was annoyed by the ruling on the B&B couple, again their business, their property. It just served to increase my dislike of that particular group of people, (homosexuals), in no way did that ruling make me think "oh look, they must be equal and I must like them, the law says so.

Please tell me you're making some sort of (bad) joke?

If you're not then fking hell, you have serious issues as a human being.