Holy Grail owner ignorant of Downs Syndrome

Cutting hair with blunt scissors…Nice.

Once again, it is lucky the majority of the posts do not agree with you, amazing how pig ignorant you are.

Actually, some people, most presumably the patrons of the Grail, do have bizarre and fickle perceptions of what they expect.

As I said before, this cheese is just representative of a bigger problem, don’t use all your energy shooting the messenger.

Nobody would ever enforce a hairdresser to cut hair with blunt scissors.

WMD, re your comment before directed at me, you know where you can stick it. Everybody else but you manages to understand my posts, this isn’t one of those crazy coincidences.

realityskin – your comment was not just NPC. It was just plain bizarre.
Why would someone with a disability make you lose your appetite?
You must have had very limited contact with ppl with disabilities.
Knowing that I share my community with ignorant ppl who are willing to make comments like you did, makes me lose my appetite. It makes me feel sick in my gut actually.

Realityskin, you did use a derogatory term to describe a person with a disability. I think f-kwit is an appropriate term in this case.

Of course you can have an opinion, realityskin. Others can also have opinions about your opinions and your level (or otherwise) of fuckwittedness, wankery, fitness to breathe air and ability to wait on tables at the Holy Grail.

wtf, i can have a NPC opinion .. go take your box and jam it up your arse

Only if you were dying in a gutter by drowning in the dribble.

Actually, not even then…

hey now, that’s a bit harsh

realityskin you’re a fcuk wit and I hope you die in a gutter somewhere.

barking toad said :

And that’s just the pollies that binge there!

The poors oul at the centre of this is prbably more capable than these monkeys my friend.

@ dalryk

Well, I’ll be darned … you’re correct! It seems Down’s Syndrome has been adopted by WHO in recent times, because they got sick and tired of people calling it Down’s incorrectly. They said, what the hell, let’s just chuck the “s” on the end of it and accept both Down and Down’s.

I read the article over a particularly delicious laksa at lunch.

Also in the article ‘His lawyer said he was being unfairly punished for “slackness” ‘

I think being punished for being knowingly half arsed about other peoples money in your own pocket is very far from unfair.

And maybe stung was commenting to my assessment of Meldrum, not Meldrum’s assessment of his employee.

The guy’s a knob. I’d be interested to read the article – just have to find someone who actually buys the CT since it doesn’t appear online…

Drunk most likely, probably behind the wheel again too.

Sure, I’d be a bit worried if a blind crustacean started serving me food.

Someone with a disability, however, would be fine. They’ve still got to be able to do the work to get hired. Most people with Down’s Syndrome can.

Having just read the full CT article, I’d have to say Ian Meldrum sounds like a complete and utter f-wit. What a waste of space.

I dunno about anyone else, but i’d rather not be served a meal by a remo, kinda off putting, no ?

agree with all above about the farkwittedness of meldrum and resolve never to frequent h-g again, not that i’ve ever been a regular…

but did c/t article go on to correct the appaling misrepresentation in his comment, to the effetct that down’s syndrome does not involve people drooling on others’ food, etc? if not, whither the integrity of journalism these days – farking typical.

and stung, you’re a goose. ‘fair’, how? to whom?

I’ve worked with many people with down’s. I can safely agree with those on here who say they don’t dribble. The effects vary from person to person, but many whom suffer from this syndrome are capable and in some cases more capable of functioning than people without the syndrome in public places.

I also find Meldrum’s use of ‘down’ to fully describe someone with down syndrome offensive . Down Syndrome does not apply to every aspect of a sufferers personality. The person is not the syndrome. It’s kind of like calling everyone who wears glasses ‘visuals’ or something.

And Maelinar, all this does is highlight the ignorance of the majority. To those who say it’s ‘harsh but fair’ it’s umm….not exactly fair. Meldrum is suggesting that he discriminates against those with a syndrome acquired through no fault of their own. How, in any way, shape or form bar the abscence of a brain is that fair? How?

I will never drink, dine or do anything bar spit on the holy grail. Meldrum is a scumbag.

@ CanberraResident

“Down’s syndrome” is also correct.

Good on ya Wagons. This issue is particulary important to me as my brother has Down’s. I’m so sick of ignorant people!

Great idea AussieGal83! I might do the same.

I just wrote a long letter to the Anti-Discrimination Commission reporting this fool and his comments. I hope they investigate.

Meanwhile, I think I may send emails to all the pollies asking them to discontinue their patronage.

HHmm, this ar@e crack Meldrum has been in the news a lot lately. Front Page Saturday CT had a story about him getting a character reference from some politician for a drink driving court appearance.

BTW, it’s “Down” not Downs.

Karma will get Meldrum; I have no doubt.

“harsh but fair…”
WTF?
Do you even know anyone with Downs Syndrome? Cos the people I know who have Downs Syndrome certainly don’t go around dribbling everywhere.

And that’s just the pollies that binge there!

“…..you can’t have someone dribbling saliva over people who are eating.””

Maybe he should tell his patrons that: half of them are dribbling morons.

I don’t think it is a bigger ‘bias’ – you really have to be pig-ignorant to think that way. I also don’t think that many people love the Holy Grail – it is a cheap souless place that you drop into if other places are too full.

The customers he loses will be outweighed by the customers who continue their patronage. He’s just representative of a bigger bias – don’t shoot the messenger and all that.

What c*nt. I’m so going to throw eggs and dead fish at HG. Mother fucker!

harsh but fair ..

There’s a general antipathy to special needs people there, to be making such an ‘urban myth’ comment. Which is, of course, just as bad if not worse.

What a shallow fuckwit.

Yep, agree, will never go to the Holy Grail again. If the owner can be so ignorant and discriminative – he certainly cannot get his head around managing a decent business. Popping it straight into the Zefferellis category.

I think that this guy needs a little education..
I know where I won’t be eating from now on.

.. sounds reasonable to me.