More First lounge pilfering champagne
Jul 30, 2017, 9:35 am
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I don't see what people are getting so worked up about in this thread. I don't have a problem with people taking opened items out of airport or hotel lounges for immediate consumption. It's not like this guy took an unopened bottle of champagne out of the lounge. I've certainly taken cups or opened bottles of water out of the lounge so I could drink it on my walk to the gate. And for all we know, the subject of the OP consumed it in the lounge.
Jul 30, 2017, 10:59 am
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Jul 30, 2017, 11:06 am
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A local borough caution for drunk and disorderly behaviour. Have it framed as souvenir.
Sorry for OT
Jul 30, 2017, 11:19 am
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Learned the hard way! Back in 2002 or 2003 we ran out of mixer for the vodka at our table in a Mayfair club so used bubbly. It makes you mentally drunk which we realised a few hours later at Chelsea Police station collecting a yellow card
A local borough caution for drunk and disorderly behaviour. Have it framed as souvenir.
Sorry for OT
A local borough caution for drunk and disorderly behaviour. Have it framed as souvenir.
Sorry for OT
Jul 30, 2017, 11:21 am
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Disgusting behaviour, justified in some minds by the advent of BoB I suppose. If I'd seen that, I'd have asked him what the hell he thought he was doing in my version of a stage shout. That is not an idle remark made when not on the scene, my husband will testify that I have already called people out. If he answered back I'd bring the Lounge Manager and he/she anyone could justify their actions accordingly.
This is spitting in the face of hospitality and I don't stand for that sort of nonsense.
Jul 30, 2017, 11:55 am
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Learned the hard way! Back in 2002 or 2003 we ran out of mixer for the vodka at our table in a Mayfair club so used bubbly. It makes you mentally drunk which we realised a few hours later at Chelsea Police station collecting a yellow card
A local borough caution for drunk and disorderly behaviour. Have it framed as souvenir.
Sorry for OT
A local borough caution for drunk and disorderly behaviour. Have it framed as souvenir.
Sorry for OT
Jul 30, 2017, 12:32 pm
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It's an interesting thread, which reveals a lot about some of the individuals who have posted here.
Those of an older generation are slightly shocked, but morality and common sense has shifted to another plane these days.
Those of an older generation are slightly shocked, but morality and common sense has shifted to another plane these days.
Jul 30, 2017, 12:47 pm
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Yours exasperatingly,
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Jul 30, 2017, 1:41 pm
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Um.... yes?
I don't see what people are getting so worked up about in this thread. I don't have a problem with people taking opened items out of airport or hotel lounges for immediate consumption. It's not like this guy took an unopened bottle of champagne out of the lounge. I've certainly taken cups or opened bottles of water out of the lounge so I could drink it on my walk to the gate. And for all we know, the subject of the OP consumed it in the lounge.
I don't see what people are getting so worked up about in this thread. I don't have a problem with people taking opened items out of airport or hotel lounges for immediate consumption. It's not like this guy took an unopened bottle of champagne out of the lounge. I've certainly taken cups or opened bottles of water out of the lounge so I could drink it on my walk to the gate. And for all we know, the subject of the OP consumed it in the lounge.
Some folks around here are very specific in their opinions on the Flounge behavior. Namely, its theirs. Phone calls only in the business area. Food only in the restaurant area. No petty thievery. Certainly no sleeping (preferably only sitting up straight occupying one seat) and double certainly no children. No behavior of less quality than their own. All food and drink items consumed in acceptable quantities lest the Lord of Light a/k/a BA be somehow fraudulently duped out of an extra cookie and decides to cancel the whole shebang.
However, as is clear from the evidence, BA don't give a hoot about lounge consumption and thankfully the broader population does see it as a place to wait for a flight rather than the Hounslow branch of White's.
Jul 30, 2017, 2:21 pm
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Well I suppose I must be a KUL/SIN/HKG/MNL/CGK/HEL/OSL/CPH/ARN/GOT Gold 
Nonetheless, I really can't get excited about people filling their own bottles with BA booze... they'll just bring more out
Nonetheless, I really can't get excited about people filling their own bottles with BA booze... they'll just bring more out
