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| 2010-04-26 | |
| 'Gay dog' refused entry to Australian restaurant Princess Madeleine's alley-cat former fiance looked a sure bet to succeed Tiger Woods as Dumbest Man in the World, but this waiter may have them both beat: SYDNEY -- An Australian restaurant that refused a blind man entry because a waiter thought his seeing-eye dog was "gay" has been ordered to apologise and pay compensation. YJCMTSU Ian Jolly was told he could not take guide dog Nudge into Adelaide's Thai Spice last May because a member of staff objected, The Sunday Mail reported. Gay dogs are a big issue in this person's life? We probably don't want to know the whole story.
"The staff genuinely believed that Nudge was an ordinary pet dog which had been desexed to become a gay dog," the owners said in a statement to South Australia's Equal Opportunity Tribunal. Well, sure there, Einstein, a customer referring to a neutered household pet as "gay" is far more likely than the same person asking about a "guide" dog. The tribunal on Friday ordered the restaurant to pay Jolly 1,500 dollars (1,400 US) and offer him a written apology for discriminating against him on the grounds of disability. The restaurant, which displays a "guide dogs welcome" sign, refused to comment to the newspaper and was unavailable to respond on Sunday. They are hiding their faces somewhere, never to be seen in public again. Jolly told the Sunday Mail he was happy with the result. "I just want to be like everybody else and be able to go out for dinner, to be left alone and just enjoy a meal," he said. Two old friends are reminiscing over gin and tonic in a Nairobi bar. "Say, what became of old Roberts anyway?" "Gone native. Living in a tree upcountry with a baboon." "Male or female?" "Why female of course. Nothing queer about old Roberts!" | |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #8 Maybe he could go into restaurants in France. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-04-26 18:22 |
| #7 My little Mountain Cur is an inveterate leg humper. I can't take him into restaurants. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-04-26 18:22 |
| #6 I can see how someone with a Sydney accent saying 'guide dog' could be heard as 'gay dog'. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2010-04-26 07:21 |
| #5 "ay" in non-Aussie English is pronounced like "eye", so "gay" would be pronounced "guy." I'm guessing when the dog was described as a guidedog, it sounded like "guy dog", or Aussie for "gay dog." NTTAWWT. Or intelligent about that, either. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-04-26 01:34 |
| #4 This looks like a job for Big Gay Al, you silly goose. |
| Posted by: Throper Forkbeard7372 2010-04-26 01:04 |
| #3 What do you expect from upside-down people? |
| Posted by: Goober Goobelopolous 2010-04-26 00:49 |
| #2 I love this story. However, I think it's just possible that the gayness of the dog was not the issue, but the dogness of the dog. You do not let ordinary non-guide dogs, gay or otherwise, into restaurants, and this may have been the actual problem. If you say "guide dog" in an Australian accent, you may understand the waiter's confusion. (I did wonder what kind of accent this woman had, but I confess that the possibility that the waiter did not have a firm grasp of English did not occur to me.) |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2010-04-26 00:45 |
| #1 The restaurant, which displays a "guide dogs welcome" sign Boggle. Seems like a useless sign to me. Unless it's in braille. |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-04-26 00:34 |