Paralytic

I suspect you meant trawl, but the irony in the word you did type is beautiful.

wolf72

Aggressive British lads on a stag do abusing alcohol and giving Britain a bad rep in a business class lounge. Nothing new.

Smid

Not etiquette, quite simply they have grabbed a shared resource and kept it for themselves. Which means it is no longer shared.

It's not as if they have a need to do that, they just needed to go to the bar to fill up.

Lounge staff should be told, and they should take care of it.

Making noise and enjoying themselves isn't relevant. While a bit annoying sometimes, it's just part of the airport experience. Grabbing all the booze is.

Wozza2404

I'm sorry but if they were British lads coming back from a stag do in Prague and they are still physically able to consume alcohol at that point, then that stag do must have been appalling.

nufnuf77

seconded

wolf72

Very very appalling.

WHBM

It wasn't a stag party, but was the Sunday midday after an International rugby match in Paris (I shan't say which of the home nations).

BA lounge at CDG. Two returning fans stand close across the bar. First one, then the other, produce silvered hip flasks, which they proceed to fill right up with the whisky.

"Have to say that's a bit inappropriate, chaps".

"Ah, xxxx off, you (different home nation) xxxx".

Aventine

I think they should have been thrown out of the lounge for treating it like their own personal playpen.

Pascoe

And that in a nutshell is why grabbing the bottles of shared booze and taking them to your table caused an issue for the OP. Not because it's particularly logistically difficult per se to go and get the bottle back, but because increasingly, in this aggressive culture that we now seem to have to tolerate, there's always that moment of uncertainty when you engage with 'a group of lads' (or increasingly possibly 'ladettes') when you're not sure whether you're going to get told to f**k off. Or even worse.

And the group mindset just empowers some people to behave that way.

I have sympathy with the OP, although it is unfortunately a fact of life. Probably best route in hindsight is to ask them to put the bottles back as they're for all to share. But good chance that backfires I reckon.

Therefore who wants that in their life?

wolf72

With that kind of attitude, I would have reported both of them and had them both thrown out french style. They didn't deserve to be in the lounge.

wolf72

I would have just filed a complaint with the lounge staff and let them handle it. And taken photos of the individuals and written an email with photos included to some trashy tabloid about how "good boys giving our nation a bad reputation overseas" and embarrassed them with an article in the papers.

That would have taught them a lesson in humility and attitude.

Email would have sounded something like..."guests at the lounge watched in disgust and anger as 4 english lads trashed a business class lounge in a drunkard episode that will strain international relations between Britain and our partners in the EU. The disgusting acts of stealing bottles of alcohol and acting like university students on a pub crawl were seen by over 100 people and nothing could be done to stop these barbarians."

DYKWIA

Who said anything about aggressive?

DYKWIA

You don't half post some rubbish

South London Bon Viveur

It's a bit like putting your bag on the empty seat next to you on a busy train; or talking loudly on your mobile. It's mildly anti-social, but probably something that we have all done. It's not crime of the century, but it is annoying.

Wozza2404

What the Englishman says: "Excuse me, but is anyone sitting there?"
What the Englishman means: "I suggest you immediately remove this bag from the seat before I end you."