Oklahoma restaurant refuses to serve gays, welfare recipients and the disabled

Lol. Never heard that term before. Wasn't part of the "where you, y'all from?" Harvard dialect quiz.

 

I always liked Ron White's retort.

"Only fruits wear hats! We're trying to keep them out of our club!"
"Oh, really, where I'm from, the way we can tell is if they wear their hair like ... yours!"

 

I don't know who I heard it from but I was listening to some stand-up comedy this week and some guy said that. I laughed so hard and figured I had to incorporate that into my use.

 

I think I heard the same routine.

Patton Oswalt talking about the apocolypse, I think, and how the survivors would stick him on the front of their vehicle naked and offer up a chance to take a run at his "dirt button" if the others choose their side. Then he said something about how it doesn't bother him, because his ass is as gaping as an empty tube of circus peanuts and he won't feel a thing.

 

I think that was it actually. Nice grab.

 

So if you have a business, you can't choose your customers? I've seen all sorts of establishments displaying signs reading "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone." OK, fine. Private business, their call.

At the core, it's no different than a club that has certain economic standards for membership.

The guy may lose some customers and good will, but he's certainly within his rights to do so.

 

Ultimate Fighting, I'll bet.

 

I once was denied entry into a bar in Japan basically for being an American male with short hair.

The place had just created a "No. U.S. Servicemen" rule because of recent mayhem/fights caused by our drunken sailors, but went way over-inclusive in enforcement and started booting other non-servicemen (like me) merely for looking kinda "Navy-ish."

 

Legally, he is not. Those signs do not have the force of law.

 

Hell, I've walked out of establishments because I didn't happen to like the band that was playing that day. People pick and choose for all sorts of reasons. I wouldn't go make a stink with management, unless I had reserved some spaces in advance for a group function. If it's just me or a small group, I just leave and go someplace else. Not a big deal.

Oh, and, yes, there have been places where I've been told to leave. Not fun. My responses vary depending on time and place.

 

Playgrounds?

 

Health Dept.

That's different.