He replaced it with ‘NO SENSITIVE DRUNKS’ after receiving complaints.
George Watson, owner of The Dock bar in Montauk, Long Island, should know never to piss off his core group of customers.
Watson put up a sign that said ‘NO IRISH DRUNKS’ on his bar’s window but had to replace it when people’s feelings got hurt.
“If you spoke about any other religion or race they would probably take offense to it, but the Irish have a sense of humour,” Watson thought, but that proved not to be the case.
Pauline Turley, who sounds like a barrel of laughs, told IrishCentral.com that she wanted down with that sort of thing as it propagated a national stereotype (that’s well earned over years and years of hard drinking, JOE says, but we’ll keep quiet).
“I was taken aback by the way that kind of stereotype was so blatantly displayed,” she gave out. “’No Irish Drunks,’ that’s very pointed.”
H/T Newstalk
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