Pub Sign Study - The Seven Oaks Spoof sign – Manchester
@arthurchappell (45002)
Preston, England
June 6, 2016 5:37am CST
This silly sign is often presented outside Manchester’s Seven Oaks pub in the city centre Chinatown district. It invites women to dump their boyfriends and husbands in the pub with money for beer so the ladies can shop in peace. I rather like the idea of a pub being a crèche facility for adults though it could be seen as sexist to assume some men don’t enjoy shopping. I do.
Arthur Chappell
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@Morleyhunt (21746)
• Canada
6 Jun 16
I think that if you have a thin skin everything could be considered sexist. Nothing is universal....I am a woman, I rarely shop for the pleasure of shopping. I consider it a necessary evil.
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
6 Jun 16
@Morleyhunt for me it depends what i'm shopping for and how big the till queues are
@Morleyhunt (21746)
• Canada
6 Jun 16
@arthurchappell if there is a long queue, I have to be desperate, or I wait for another day. I don't do queues well.
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@teamfreak16 (43419)
• Denver, Colorado
6 Jun 16
I'd love it if my girlfriend would deposit me at a pub while she shopped.
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
6 Jun 16
@teamfreak16 I oftem put myself in the pubs anyway
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
6 Jun 16
there is shopping and there is shopping, and that made me chuckle
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
6 Jun 16
@Inlemay it is one that turns up a lot
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@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
6 Jun 16
@WorDazza these kind of signs are often dulicated by different pubs - impossible to trace who used them first
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Jun 16
That's very clever and enterprising!
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