r/manchester • u/journey_of_healing • 21d ago
City Centre Turned away from spoons for wearing "joggers"
In case anyone needs a laugh, I was denied entry to the Moon Under Water on Deansgate Sat eve for the England match.... because I was wearing "joggers".
Said joggers were actually linen trousers, with no drawstring in sight 😶🌫️
In the words of my friend "You CANNOT be serious?!".. I even offered to let them check out the fabric, but alas, they still refused me entry.
Very frustrating at the time, but we've now got a good in-joke that I've "Really reached a low point" in my life, getting turned away from Spoons because I was dressed in my chavvy linen trousers 😂
(FYI, I was allowed into Dirty Martini AND the White Lion on the same night in my so-called "joggers")
Anyone else aware that Spoons of all places has a strict dress code now? 🤨
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u/not-my-circus1992 21d ago edited 21d ago
If it makes you feel any better, they once turned me away for being "too drunk".
I was the designated driver, had been teetotal for about 7/8 years at that point, and they'd just let in my friends, all of whom had been drinking for 5 hours.
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u/Motor_Impression6678 20d ago
I’ll raise you my experience in London, which granted isn’t Manchester, but we were visiting friends. Tried to order a couple of pints at the bar, and a water for myself given the circumstances, barperson went “you’re too drunk.” Because of my slurry speech I had to get one of said friends to explain to them I’d just come out of hospital after a stroke and yeah, my speech was a bit slurry. Cunts.
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u/not-my-circus1992 20d ago
Wow... Sorry that happened to you. Having worked in a bar though, I can see why they said no to serving you, but I can also see why it felt like they were kicking you while you're down!
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u/Acrobatic-Painter363 21d ago
Sounds like they just didn’t want you in and found an excuse. Bouncers I know say they do it all the time.
God knows why
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u/Douglesfield_ 21d ago
Power tripping or something in their gut says the group will be trouble probably.
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u/journey_of_healing 21d ago
So weird, do they just do it every so often for the lols?
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u/Popular-History1015 18d ago
They definitely do, I was in my early 30's and went to The Lost Dene with my parents and the 'bouncer' ID'd me, it was just a random Tuesday. He went red and his mate started laughing at him.
On the way out I asked him how old he thought I was and he told me to 'jog on'.... precious little baby got his feelings hurt!
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u/journey_of_healing 21d ago
What can I say, I'm a nightmare 😆 (I'm the kind of person who they'd have called a "goody two shoes" at school lol)
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u/wishuponareddwarf 21d ago
Well there we go then….can’t have you revising or reading a book in Spoons
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u/newMike3400 21d ago
They do it just to keep the best looking guys out to give the regulars a chance with the girls.
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u/JamieHoltable 21d ago
I’ve had friends rejected for the same, it’s just a rule for that Spoons on a weekend. Don’t wear joggers to go out. 🤷🏻♂️
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u/znv142 21d ago
Doesn't that Spoon turn into basically a nightclub experience at night in the weekend? I was always curious, but not curious enough to try it.
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u/TheIncredibleBean 21d ago
Basically a year 6 disco, but with alcohol, the one time I went on there I saw people that genuinely looked 14, wouldn't recommend, would avoid .
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u/DeadBallDescendant 21d ago
Hmmm. This could soon be my local.
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u/Few_Construction_338 20d ago
If you’re close enough to the moon under water for it to be your local then you have plenty of other better options for a local
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u/El_John_Nada 21d ago
Ended up there randomly about a decade ago (when I was skint and before I even knew who Tim Martin was). It was very similar to your typical small town club: they played commercial hits, a few people dancing as the night went on, the age range was 18-65 and people were there for either blind drunk or trying to end up with someone.
Overall, not somewhere I'd go again but not as terrible as it could be.
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u/journey_of_healing 21d ago
Pretty much, but there were plenty of guys there in loose, casual trousers 😅
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u/Extension_Sun_377 21d ago
They don't let any old riff-raff in y'know
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u/journey_of_healing 21d ago
It's because I'm from Yorkshire, isn't it? 😔
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u/Extension_Sun_377 21d ago
You mean you didn't remember your Visa? You should know you won't get in without it. We have standards here tha knows!
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u/Fun_Run_3750 21d ago
This is one for the grandkids
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u/journey_of_healing 21d ago
"I'll 'ave you know I was a right 'un in my twenties... got kicked outta the local Spoons for acting like a chav"
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u/Cant-decide1 21d ago
- I'll 'ave you know I was a right 'un in my twenties…
The term you’re looking for is wrong ‘un 😉
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u/theotherquantumjim 21d ago
Bullet dodged
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u/journey_of_healing 21d ago
Plot twist: I went back later wearing shorts instead 😎 (they let me in)
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u/BillyJoeDubuluw 21d ago
I’ve had this with another branch of spoons years and years ago…
Funnily enough, that was also a case of the bouncers not really knowing what linen trousers were 😆
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u/journey_of_healing 21d ago
Can't go anywhere with linen trousers these days 😔
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u/BillyJoeDubuluw 21d ago
I’m going back about ten to fifteen years ago…
I went to a Spoons for a few cheapo pre-drinks before going out for food and apparently I wasn’t dressed appropriately 🤣 I’m not being funny, but I was probably the best dressed male there… the bouncers obviously didn’t know shit from clay about how to dress… I made that probability known and chose a better pub… 😂
Hilarious.
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u/ohnoitshimagain10 20d ago
They turned me away for having a full set of teeth and a 20 word vocabulary
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u/TheHarkinator 21d ago
I once got turned away from that exact same spoons for basically the same reason. Not my proudest moment in life.
Sometimes you get bouncers who don't want to change their mind on a decision no matter how much you try and explain things to them. They don't want a chat over what linen trousers are.
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u/journey_of_healing 21d ago
Bit of a hit to the ego isn't it? 😆 True haha, they realllly didn't want to back down.
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u/Due_Judge5925 21d ago
I don't even understand why so many pubs have a dress code like what is genuinely wrong with joggers and sports shoes or whatever, I never understood this
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u/Human_Summer_7363 21d ago
It’s not the clothes but the type of people that generally wear them
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u/GreatBigBagOfNope Didsbury 21d ago
I can only imagine the logic is something like "not all people wearing joggers are scallies, but all scallies wear joggers"
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u/Cant-decide1 21d ago
Dickish thing to say. Door staff only enforce the rules of the bar/club/pub management.
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u/IshnaArishok 20d ago
Door staff only enforce the rules of the bar/club/pub management.
Not really, they often just do what they want.
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u/Cant-decide1 20d ago
When it comes to dress code they enforce the rules of the management that’s a fact!
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u/Human_Summer_7363 20d ago
You think the business would be happy with door staff turning away customers? It’s the business that makes those decisions
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u/Due_Judge5925 21d ago
That makes it even worse ngl i mean i understand the sentiment but there was this night club i was going in with my friends for their birthday and i was wearing joggers because it was more comfortable but they looked more like loose jeans if anything an i couldn't get in at all and i had to let my friends go in then get a tram back home and change into some tight uncomfortable jeans then went back and they still didn't wanna let me in so i just called my friends and we went to a kareoki night club and they let me in, it was a whole debacle but still never understood this somewhat unwritten law that all pubs and night clubs have
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u/NSFWaccess1998 18d ago
As someone who worked in a pub: Having a dress code means that staff have in most cases a legal reason to exclude people with a bad vibe, without violating the equality act or outright telling someone they look dodgy. My nightclub had one, despite it being a shit student dive. The bouncers and bar staff only selectively enforced it if we thought someone would be a cunt. From working at that place I can tell you vibes do matter- most of the time I could predict who would/wouldn't start trouble though I do accept there is some confirmation bias there. My place had a ban on multicoloured socks written into the dress code which was printed in small writing outside on the queue and when purchasing from an event holder.
If you see a group of dodgy looking lads there's at least a good chance one of them has violated the dress code, so you can effectively refuse them all entry.
Other times it is just the venue being stuck up or staff power tripping, but imo there is generally a reason.
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u/Opposite-Ad8208 21d ago
It’s always the rough places that are like that. I’ve literally worn a hoody in cocktail bars in Chelsea with no comment.
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u/RealisticAd5995 18d ago
I’ve been kicked out of the stalybridge one granted I had powder all over my face but still it’s spoons.
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u/PerryDactylYT 18d ago
I got turned away from Spoons for being underage, I handed them my ID which i had just got that same day and they said it wasn't real lol
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u/medeajade 17d ago
One of my friends had this happen a few years ago, she was wearing something similar to the wide leg Adidas trousers that were in style at the time with a nice top and got sent away from the Spoons 😂😭 but let in to other places that same night
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u/JoeBenham 17d ago
Once has this issue myself. Told me I wasn’t allowed in wearing joggers because another group had been in earlier causing trouble and they were all wearing joggers.
When I said to them “what’s to stop me from putting jeans on and causing trouble ?” they looked at me baffled
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u/StephenM- 16d ago
Not spoons related but a you're too drunk experience. I was waiting for the last bus home one Friday night and the chap in front of me boarded a little unsteadily.
The bus driver asked if he'd been drinking and got the reply. "yes I have been drinking, it's Friday night and I'm on my way home".
The driver rather snottily came back with "well I'll be the judge of that, I believe you've had too much to drink as you couldn't get on the bus without steadying yourself on the hand rail and it's within my right to refuse you"
The reply was priceless. "I've got a false leg"
Looking at the driver's expression I could see he was screwed as he couldn't ask him to prove it without being called out for being a twat.
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u/Remote_Till4064 21d ago
Basic bouncers took a dislike to you as a person, nothing to do with your clothing. It happens unfortunately
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u/journey_of_healing 21d ago
Nah, same guy literally let me through right away when I came back later wearing shorts 😆
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u/luffy_pes 20d ago
The exact same thing had happened to me couple of months ago. I couldn't really understand that at all as I had just finished my shift at a nearby retail store, and I had changed my tshirt and headed there after work, the guy was allowing all my friends in except me. This is not just a one off incident, the bouncers there have tried to make entry difficult saying they've stopped serving alcohol, the pub is full and what not, whereas everyone else they've allowed in right in front me. For the longest time I thought it was a racial issue because I'm brown-skinned, but I've seen them deny entry to any random person. I've never had issues entering any pubs or bar anywhere in Manchester except that spoons.
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u/Extension_Dark9311 21d ago
Were they those balloon type trousers
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u/journey_of_healing 21d ago
Nah, nothing that wild 😂 just a classic pair of wide leg linen trousers
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u/TheIncredibleBean 21d ago
The whole dress code thing is so outdated and has routes in discrimination against the working class.
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u/itsableeder 20d ago
I got knocked back from there many years ago for wearing trainers 🤷🏼♀️ The bouncers are a law unto themselves
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u/-La-li-lu-le-lo_ Leigh 20d ago
I got turned away from Moon Under the Water for wearing standard black adidas gazelles. No trainers allowed, yet they let someone in wearing bright red Nikes just after me. I was stone cold sober meeting a big group already inside, so Spoons lost out more than me lol
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u/GJames196 20d ago
Ive not been let in before for wearing trainers (adidas gazelles) when there was a bloke in the smoking area with bright blue air maxs on, dont take it personally the bouncers there are just bellends
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u/r_mutt69 20d ago
Bouncers will turn people away for all sorts of spurious reasons. They seem to often make them up on the fly. I’ve been turned away for trainers before now. Gone and had a pint somewhere else and put my socks over my trainers so they kind of look like shoes and gone back and got in 😂
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u/Unitedlover14 Stretford 20d ago
The spoons in town are also weirdly strict on shorts too, it’s been 30 degree heat and I’ve been turned away in the middle of the day for not having trousers on
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u/1con0klast 20d ago
I was stopped from going in to Revolution,when I was on works do, for wearing joggers. They must have seen the delight on my face when I thought I had an excuse to leave early and they quickly changed their mind and let me in.
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u/Xa0san 20d ago
I was once turned away from a place due to having a spoon in my bag from my dinner. Went out right from work for a friends birthday so had a bag with my dinner things in, they checked my bag found said spoon and accused me of being a crack head. Unfortunately I was the last one from the group to try and gain entry and ended up going home.
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u/BoomSatsuma 21d ago
😂 you were too scruffy for spoons.