Current Events > Gay lesbian couple 'reduced to tears' after being told to turn it down in public

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UnfairRepresent
10/19/19 2:26:57 PM
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A LESBIAN couple claim they were told to "tone down" their kissing and cuddling in a Wetherspoon pub after a customer complained.

Hannah Clifford and Leoni Malbon-Baker said they left the bar in tears after a waitress told them someone had reported them for "snogging each other's faces off".

The graduates, both 21, had met for lunch at the pub chain's Coronet in Islington, North London on Wenesday.

They said they shared a kiss because they hadn't seen each other for a while, reports the Evening Standard.

But after ordering drinks, they claim the waitress informed them a complaint had been about "intimate, inappropriate touching".

They said they were asked to "tone it down" before deciding to leave the pub feeling "vulnerable and embarrassed".

Hannah told the publication that as they left the bar, three men, who they suspected to be the complainants, made sexual gestures at them and shouted: "Bye darlings."

She said: "When I got outside I burst into tears. I was more upset than angry.

"I had my arm around Leoni and had given her a cuddle and a kiss when we arrived because we hadn't seen each other all day. But it was nothing raunchy because we were in public.

"I had my arm around her when the lady came up to us and gave us our drinks and said she didn't mean any offence, but someone had complained about us 'snogging each other's faces off' and said could you please 'tone it down'."

Hannah explained: "I turned to the lady and asked how she could ask us to tone it down for cuddling but could allow them to make sexual gestures towards us?"

The two women said they returned to the pub with a friend to lodge a complaint with the manager.

They say the manager offered them a free breakfast, which they declined.

Although regular customers, Hannah and Leoni have vowed not to return as they now feel uncomfortable and "unsafe".

Eddie Gershon spokesman for JD Wetherspoon said the matter would be investigated.

He added: "A member of staff asked the couple to stop because they had received complaints from customers saying there was intimate, inappropriate touching under the table.

"They were fine with this at first and then decided to leave.

As far as we are concerned, if a woman wishes to kiss a woman, or a man wishes to kiss a man in our pub, or any combination of that, that is fine by us.

We are not sure of the background to this situation at The Coronet and it will be investigated.


Full Article: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10165108/lesbian-couple-tone-down-kissing-weatherspoon/

vmhKTRs

I'm not a lesbian but the girl on the left seems way out of the girl on the right's league.

And damn @ all the comments
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PIITB415
10/19/19 2:28:23 PM
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If they were attractive no one would care
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Zikten
10/19/19 2:30:05 PM
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if one was a man, nobody would have cared. people have a weird hangup with seeing same sex kissing in public. it's viewed as "more risque" than a hetero kiss. even if it's just a quick peck
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konokonohamaru
10/19/19 2:31:12 PM
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Heterosexual couples get asked to tone it down too.
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evil_zombie11
10/19/19 2:32:53 PM
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PDA in general can be annoying to some

Get a room people
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DeadBankerDream
10/19/19 2:36:01 PM
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Why is her tongue so triangular?

Is that normal?
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Guide
10/19/19 2:36:54 PM
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If this were bigotry I'd be opposed, but it's really gross when any couple is going at it that hard when I'm trying to eat.

That being said, if they were just cuddling, yeah, fuck the joint and the shitty kids.
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Unit7
10/19/19 2:37:49 PM
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konokonohamaru posted...
Heterosexual couples get asked to tone it down too.


but are they falsely accused of it? The couple claim it was a quick kiss and some cuddling. Not much to tone down if true.
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gmanthebest
10/19/19 2:41:18 PM
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Unit7 posted...
konokonohamaru posted...
Heterosexual couples get asked to tone it down too.


but are they falsely accused of it? The couple claim it was a quick kiss and some cuddling. Not much to tone down if true.

Hard to say in a 'he said, she said', but if multiple people complained AND the pub kicked them out instead of telling the complainers to shut up, I'm inclined to believe that it was probably more than just a quick kiss.
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Zikten
10/19/19 2:46:34 PM
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or people were exaggerating their PDA cause they are lesbians
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FrozenXylophone
10/19/19 2:48:59 PM
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Unit7 posted...
konokonohamaru posted...
Heterosexual couples get asked to tone it down too.


but are they falsely accused of it? The couple claim it was a quick kiss and some cuddling. Not much to tone down if true.


Ofc they said that.
So would a hetero couple.

Only difference here is the tears.
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LordMarshal
10/19/19 3:12:36 PM
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tone it down

reduced to tears at someones simple request....

Hmmmm........
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spikethedevil
10/19/19 3:18:01 PM
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Surely CCTV could prove who is right?
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UnfairRepresent
10/19/19 3:24:46 PM
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spikethedevil posted...
Surely CCTV could prove who is right?

Ah you're that commenter
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spikethedevil
10/19/19 3:29:29 PM
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The one that goes hey there is a way for those involved to solve the issue?
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Hexenherz
10/19/19 3:30:04 PM
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*Reads OP*

Is there such a thing as... straight lesbian couples?
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s0nicfan
10/19/19 3:48:46 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
He added: "A member of staff asked the couple to stop because they had received complaints from customers saying there was intimate, inappropriate touching under the table.


I'm confused. Most of the article just says the complaint was over a brief kiss, but then further down in the article the manager says it was due to below the waist inappropriate touching.
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Gafemage
10/19/19 3:50:24 PM
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Gay lesbian couple
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RdVEHfJqAvUPIbk
10/19/19 3:50:25 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
UnfairRepresent posted...
He added: "A member of staff asked the couple to stop because they had received complaints from customers saying there was intimate, inappropriate touching under the table.


I'm confused. Most of the article just says the complaint was over a brief kiss, but then further down in the article the manager says it was due to below the waist inappropriate touching.

Articles written with bias tend to do that
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jborgan
10/19/19 3:53:55 PM
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Hexenherz posted...
*Reads OP*

Is there such a thing as... straight lesbian couples?
One of his many gimmicks. Male man murders female woman by shooting them with loaded gun filled with bullets.

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brestugo
10/19/19 4:02:02 PM
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I don't know what happened in this incident, but everyone has seen couples - gay and straight, go overboard on PDA in public.

A kiss, a hug, sure that's fine but if they were feeling each other up under the table, then yeah take it to a motel or something.
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Hexenherz
10/19/19 4:02:49 PM
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jborgan posted...
Hexenherz posted...
*Reads OP*

Is there such a thing as... straight lesbian couples?
One of his many gimmicks. Male man murders female woman by shooting them with loaded gun filled with bullets.

rofl I love it, thanks for the explanation.
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UnfairRepresent
10/19/19 4:28:11 PM
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brestugo posted...
don't know what happened in this incident, but everyone has seen couples - gay and straight, go overboard on PDA in public.

Not in Japan
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Perascamin
10/19/19 4:37:32 PM
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Imagine crying over something so trivial lmfaoooo

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MARKINGRAM22
10/19/19 4:45:50 PM
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Unit7 posted...
but are they falsely accused of it? The couple claim it was a quick kiss and some cuddling. Not much to tone down if true.


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hockeybub89
10/19/19 4:51:03 PM
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People can say what they want about how annoying PDA is, but in practice there just isn't the same backlash when a straight couple gets kissy and cuddly. Or when it happens in media.
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stoltenberg11
10/19/19 4:52:47 PM
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konokonohamaru posted...
Heterosexual couples get asked to tone it down too.

yeah this. its trashy no matter who is doing it
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UnfairRepresent
10/20/19 7:23:33 AM
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stoltenberg11 posted...
konokonohamaru posted...
Heterosexual couples get asked to tone it down too.

yeah this. its trashy no matter who is doing it

I have never seen a heterosexual couple been asked to tone it down
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Ving_Rhames
10/20/19 7:26:54 AM
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Ill never understand how people are so distracted by this stuff. Mind your own damn business, or are you somewhere alone and cant help but have your eyes wander? Small wonder youre alone then
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DanHaren2019
10/20/19 7:44:55 AM
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I would much much prefer lesbiens making out as opposed to a hetero couple or 2 men. I don't see the problem.
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Jerry_Hellyeah
10/20/19 8:15:45 AM
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Imagine a world where gross lesbians cant jack each other off in a bar.
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Jiek_Fafn
10/20/19 8:30:08 AM
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They think the guys that were into it were the ones that complained? That's an odd conclusion to jump to.
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Fossil
10/20/19 9:10:46 AM
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No one wants to see a whale slobbering on a semi cute chick
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Vicious_Dios
10/20/19 9:21:24 AM
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Has anyone seen my violin?
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amzpeng
10/20/19 9:22:40 AM
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Vicious_Dios posted...
Has anyone seen my violin?

yeah I smashed it because you overused it in topics of sensitive nature
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DanHaren2019
10/20/19 10:32:29 AM
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Fossil posted...
No one wants to see a whale slobbering on a semi cute chick


I do
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nemu
10/20/19 10:35:24 AM
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This is one of those cases where it's impossible to tell who is in the right without more context. It could very well be a couple who was going way overboard, or it could be a couple prudes who can't fathom that two people in love would ever show even the slightest affection in public.
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awesome999
10/20/19 10:38:55 AM
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I remember watching a brain games episode saying humans are the only primates why don't like PDA, other primates do it in full view

The experiment used hetero couples. So no, there's no bigotry here
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Banjo2553
10/20/19 10:39:22 AM
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If it truly wasn't raunchy and just a simple kiss, then they shouldn't have been targeted.

Nobody wants to see a couple going to town on each other in public.
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inloveanddeath0
10/20/19 10:52:23 AM
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DanHaren2019 posted...
Fossil posted...
No one wants to see a whale slobbering on a semi cute chick


I do

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The Admiral
10/20/19 10:54:12 AM
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"Someone asked me to tone down my disgusting PDA... the oppression!"

*reduced to tears*
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nativengine
10/20/19 11:01:11 AM
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PIITB415 posted...
If they were attractive no one would care



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Tsuyoi3
10/20/19 11:01:52 AM
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If they were targeted unfairly, then that's terrible.

They say the manager offered them a free breakfast, which they declined.

Although regular customers, Hannah and Leoni have vowed not to return as they now feel uncomfortable and "unsafe".

Rofl
Yeah, so unsafe.

Like I said, terrible if unfairly targeted, their reaction is a bit over the top.
Not really sure what the point of this is though, it's not like we know who actually complained, and we don't actually know if they weren't being lewd under the table.

Just seems to be trying to cause general outrage? But to what end?
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RoseIsHorriblle
10/20/19 11:02:42 AM
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They probably thought that the whale on the right was trying to eat the average chick on the left.
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UnfairRepresent
10/20/19 11:38:13 AM
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nemu posted...
This is one of those cases where it's impossible to tell who is in the right without more context. It could very well be a couple who was going way overboard, or it could be a couple prudes who can't fathom that two people in love would ever show even the slightest affection in public.

Does your butt ache from sitting on the fence so intensely?
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nemu
10/20/19 11:43:26 AM
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I'm not sure what else you'd expect me to say. They're the only ones claiming the events happened as described. There are no supporting quotes in the article. The management giving them a courtesy apology doesn't affirm or deny that it happened. There's not enough info to claim if they're playing it up to look into a lawsuit or if they were actually harassed for nothing.
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SuperExcitebike
10/20/19 11:51:14 AM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
I'm not a lesbian but the girl on the left seems way out of the girl on the right's league.


Thats like 90% of lesbian couples

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LeadPipeCinche
10/20/19 11:54:31 AM
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Just looking at the pic of them, nothing about them says "innocent kiss".

Willing to bet 1 of them tried shoving their tongue down the others throat.
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