Patently Misunderstood

September 8, 2008 dinglesp 14 comments

Where do I start on this:

A – it’s a restaurant, not a hotel

B – it’s tacky to the extreme

C – can you patent interior design? It would have to be pretty special and unique (it was neither)

D – all the elements of the restaurant (including the poorly reproduced sistine chapel ceiling and moulded grandfather clocks) are copied from something else.

E – I forgot to take any pictures inside the restaurant to support D

F – This is pretty poor isn’t it, there must be something better to post about

G – Did I mention that I once met Lionel Ritchie’s ex personal shopper?

H – Oh, and once I waved to Prince Charles (along with the rest of my school) as he drove down the A34 (at speed), presumably the witches nuns thought he slowed down every time he passed a crowd of primary school children waving union jacks.

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Written by WoAi about 5 years ago.

Yes Dingle, it’s ironic that they rip off other influence and then worry others are going steal their idea. But copying designs is so rampant here it’s not surprising they forbid photography. And tackiness is what seems to work here anyway, so I think they’re on to a winning formula.

And can you PLEASE stop mentioning the Prince Charles story, yawn! Although Phil Collins’ mum used to be a regular at our restaurant in Ealing, West London and Selina Scott once came in with Russell Grant, the horoscopist!
Written by dinglesp about 5 years ago.

Oh, one of my friends once had his photo taken with Miss World you know
Written by dinglesp about 5 years ago.

There’s more, my friend won a Heineken competition which got us exclusive tickets to a Heineken party at Battersea Power Station. Through some security loophole I found myself at the VIP toilet (chandeliers, quilted toilet paper, no sick in the sinks) for a “sit down” visit, the toilet seat was still warm from the previous guest, I don’t know who it was but I’m guessing it was someone like David Beckham, Elton John or Wolf from Gladiators.

Anyway, I saved some of the hairs from the toilet seat, one day I’ll get them DNA tested and sell them on ebay for a hundred gajillion pounds.
Written by Angie in Texas about 5 years ago.

my ex-brother in law just lost in the US Open quarterfinals. =)
Written by WoAi about 5 years ago.

Angie – You were married to Juan Martín del Potro’s brother? Nice one:-p
Written by dinglesp about 5 years ago.

I look a lot like that George Clooney off the telly, so my mum says anyway.
Written by WoAi about 5 years ago.

Quite a few people say I look like Hugh Grant. No, seriously.
Written by kristi about 5 years ago.

Have they seen Hugh Grant ?
Written by dinglesp about 5 years ago.

Woai, it doesn’t count when you say “do I look like Hugh Grant? Do I? Do I? DO I?” and they reply “errrrm yes”
Written by wisemanofasia about 5 years ago.

Its funny I often get people saying to me that I look like andy lao, of jin cheng wu…uncanny really
Written by Fuzu about 4 years ago.

Ooh gosh i just wrote a long comment and when i hit post it come up blank! Please please tell me it worked right? I do not want to sumit it again if i dont have to! Either the blog glitced out or i am an idiot, the latter doesnt surprise me lol.
Written by dinglesp about 4 years ago.

Sorry Fuzu, nothing there in my comments list waiting for approval, checked my spam too, nothing there (unless your long list was about erection cream ).

You want to try again?

Generally when I’m writing a long reply on a blog I’ll copy and paste before I hit the “post” button, just in case!
Written by gary q. adair about 4 years ago.

Hello just thought i would let you know that i also had a problem with this blog coming up frozen as well. Might be gremlins in the page.
Written by WoAi about 4 years ago.

That happens to me all the time on James’ blog so I always copy before submitting but never here so far, fingers crossed.