Gay couple turned away from Berkshire B&B plan to sue

[paddyhasneeds]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8683949.stm

I can see why they felt offended, I can see why the B&B owners didn't want them sharing a room.

What I can't see is the point in wrecking a couple livelihood over some hurt feelings, just seems totally OTT.

[Mr_B]

The flip side is, if you don't like certain people being in your home, opening a B&B isn't such a great idea.

[TheEnd]

ooooh Lemonparty....

[Plotloss]

How do you like your eggs?

[OnTheOverrun]

Did anyone see that 'Three in a bed' programme where B&B owners rate each other's establishments? There was a gay only B&B on there, but I can't see any heterosexual couples suing them. . . . . .

[Heliosphan]

These two gays guys obviously think they have a case but it seems a bit vindictive to me. If they aren't doing it for the money then I assume a successful case will see them donate any proceeds to charity......

Will be interesting to see the outcome of this one.

[AndrewW-G]

Compensation culture dictates that hurt feelings = huge pile of cash. I await the counter action for religious persecution

[Heliosphan]

I'm not hijacking this in any way but it begs the question whether or not the case would be thrown clean out of the water had it been a Muslim owner refusing "gays" on grounds of religion.

[AndrewW-G]

Heliosphan said:

I'm not hijacking this in any way but it begs the question whether or not the case would be thrown clean out of the water had it been a Muslim owner refusing "gays" on grounds of religion.

Can we make the couple Afro-European, lesbian, grandmothers with at least one registered as being disabled?..........it would certainly win PC bingo

[StuartGGray]

If I were the B&B owner, I would refuse them entry on the grounds I don't like the look of them one bit, regardless of what they do with their willies.

[Mrs Trackside]

I'd be pretty pissed off if I booked a B&B to attend a friends party, and then when I got there they wouldn't let me in because I'm short/gay/a woman/black/ginger/Muslim*

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If you don't like the idea of certain types of people being in your house, running a B&B is possibly the wrong profession. They deserve to be sued

[Plotloss]

Mrs Trackside said:

I'd be pretty pissed off if I booked a B&B to attend a friends party, and then when I got there they wouldn't let me in because I'm short/gay/a woman/black/ginger/Muslim

fk me, you're a Police Recruiter's wet dream...

[Mrs Trackside]

Plotloss said:

Mrs Trackside said:

I'd be pretty pissed off if I booked a B&B to attend a friends party, and then when I got there they wouldn't let me in because I'm short/gay/a woman/black/ginger/Muslim

fk me, you're a Police Recruiter's wet dream...

I have a wooden leg and only one eye as well

[StuartGGray]

Mrs Trackside said:

If you don't like the idea of certain types of people being in your house, running a B&B is possibly the wrong profession. They deserve to be sued

Rubbish. Some people shouldn't leave their own homes.

[Mrs Trackside]

StuartGGray said:

Mrs Trackside said:

If you don't like the idea of certain types of people being in your house, running a B&B is possibly the wrong profession. They deserve to be sued

Rubbish. Some people shouldn't leave their own homes.

That's why Fleabay was invented

[Sheets Tabuer]

I got turfed out of a B&B in wales about 15 years ago because I was not married to the young lady I was staying with.

They said they don't have any funny business under their roof.

B&B owners are a funny lot.

[V8A*ndy]

Plotloss said:

How do you like your eggs?

With sausage.

[Plotloss]

V8A*ndy said:

Plotloss said:

How do you like your eggs?

With sausage.

[Parrot of Doom]

I don't think I've once ever stayed in a B&B where the owner could be described as normal.

One place I stayed in had a toilet, in the middle of the room, surrounded by a curtain. So you could have a st in the room, but not be seen by your roommate. And I do mean, slap bang in the middle of the room.

[Tangent Police]

Parrot of Doom said:

I don't think I've once ever stayed in a B&B where the owner could be described as normal.

One place I stayed in had a toilet, in the middle of the room, surrounded by a curtain. So you could have a st in the room, but not be seen by your roommate. And I do mean, slap bang in the middle of the room.

The arse bandits would have loved that