National Anthem 'snub' trio thrown out of tearoom

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

A royalist County Durham tearoom owner told how she threw three women out after they refused to stand when the National Anthem was played.
Anita Atkinson opened Royal Teas in Stanhope in time for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and to display some of her huge collection of memorabilia.
The National Anthem is played at 15:00 BST and Ms Atkinson said she expected her customers to stand.
So when three women refused to do so, she threw them out.
Ms Atkinson said: "It's meant to be funny and it's a little quirky part of the tearoom that we have got. At 3 o'clock every day we play the national anthem and we expect people to stand.

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"It tells you that in the legend on the menu. The whole thing is just a bit of British eccentricity.
"But these three ladies vociferously refused to stand and made it known that they were anti-monarchist so god only knows why they came into the tearoom in the first place. So I threw them out."

(More on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-18141421)

We silly Brits and our eccentricities and Royal Family..

[EdgyandOriginal]

I was born in County Durham. :laugh:

She does have a point though, if you're an anti-monarchist, why pick a place with cardboard cutouts of the royals?

[Hit The North]

Apparently, according to other recent threads, DNZ would have stood and been allowed to finish his Tiffin.


Ms Atkinson said: "It's meant to be funny and it's a little quirky part of the tearoom that we have got.

She wouldn't be laughing if a quirky but nicely aimed republican brick came flying through her tearoom window.

[Angry Young Man]

This is really a chit chat post.

Oh, there's already a chit chat post? ^_^

And it calls on comrades to go in there and demand the finest wines available to humanity? ^______________^

http://www.revleft.com/vb/solidarity-stanhope-3-t171866/index.html

[Mindtoaster]

Fucking republican traitor assholes