"Aussie hotels ban patrons with tattoos"

I don´t understand a word of this. How will Mike Tyson visit these places, wearing a burqa? And does the police authority have legal power to forbid their employees from getting tattoos?

(Not that I like tattoos, their permanent nature annoys me, and I would like to legally ban the use of tattoo inks other than which are designed to be easily removable with laser or something else. Such inks exist already.)
 
Bet they would soon have a change of mind when it comes to turning away people like David Beckham and Nicole Kidman.
 
I don't like tattoos either but they are ubiquitous these days. Virtually everyone (well, legal adults anyways) under 25 has one anymore.

However this is discrimination of sorts. I guess businesses do get to establish rules for customers to a degree but this just doesn't sound right to me.
 
I'm a little confused with the article actually. While the headline says that its about tattoos, it seems more about being 'appropriately dressed', whatever that means.

Stanway said he had no problem with small, discreet tattoos and did not mind if his policy discouraged young people from dining there.

'If you want to come in, you've got to be respectful to my business by being respectfully dressed,' he said.
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Where's volatile when you need him?

(Anyway, I think volatile is one of the forumites with a lot of knowledge and passion about tattoos.)

While I think legally they might be allowed to do this (I dunno about Australian law but I doubt being inked is a protected class), they are excluding a segment of the population that increasingly has disposable income to spend on things like hotels :)
 
Absolutely ridiculous. This country doesn't appreciate liberties like it should.

This crap won't last, though, not just as lionking has said, but also because it's dumb and backwards.
 
Salerio said:
Bet they would soon have a change of mind when it comes to turning away people like David Beckham and Nicole Kidman.
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If I was trying to bring a little class to my establishment, my first rule would be "No Beckhams."
 
I wonder if he includes "permanent makeup" in this ban. Not only is that practice tattooing, it's also far more hideously disfiguring than the majority of regular tattoos.
 
I would definitely ban those earings which make a massive hole in someone's earlobe. Horrible. And only seem to be worn by people who are trying a little too hard to be "different".

In my hotel, all the guests would look the same: like me. And they would all share my tastes and prejudices of which I have many. But they're all sensible ones.
 
But how will I know how deep you are if I can't see the bible verse on your shoulder or the Marilyn Monroe/Walt Disney quote above your ass?
 
Orphia Nay said:
"Restaurants and hotels in Sydney are banning patrons with visible ink, with signs being erected warning customers they will not be allowed entry unless they cover up their tattoos."

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Odd...e_hotels_ban_patrons_with_tattoos_720435.html

:D :cheerleader2 Ripper! I'm not a fan of tattoos.

/beat-up post about a beat-up story. :)
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There is a difference between not being a fan of tattoos and having so much hatred from them, you refuse money from willing patrons. It's self-defeating and goofy.

I think the spoiler has slang I don't understand.
 
Imagine the reaction first time he refuses service to a soldier with his unit tattoo showing.
 
KingMerv00 said:
There is a difference between not being a fan of tattoos and having so much hatred from them, you refuse money from willing patrons. It's self-defeating and goofy.
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One might think the same about restaurants that have any kind of exclusive dress code; but such establishments seem to do okay.
 
Orphia Nay said:
"Restaurants and hotels in Sydney are banning patrons with visible ink, with signs being erected warning customers they will not be allowed entry unless they cover up their tattoos."

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Odd...e_hotels_ban_patrons_with_tattoos_720435.html

:D :cheerleader2 Ripper! I'm not a fan of tattoos.

/beat-up post about a beat-up story. :)
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It is 'aimed at riff-raff'... but if they cover it up, then they aren't riff-raff and are welcome to come in and get drunk?

Is there something else going on with this in regard to say Maori folks, who obviously can't cover their facial tattoos, or the more heavily tattooed Asian gang members?
 
Checkmite said:
One might think the same about restaurants that have any kind of exclusive dress code...
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I knew someone would bring this up. :D

Dress codes don't deal with permanent physical features of their clients.

"I'm sorry, sir. Your face...it's simply too wrinkly."

...but such establishments seem to do okay.
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And they'd do better with even more money, yes?
 
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