My gaffer has just written this to put outside our pub. I think it's pretty cringey and personally hate it. But I'm a miserable git – moreso on weekends – so am just curious what the unbias consensus is.

by Drew-Pickles

38 comments

  1. Your gaffer is jumping on the bandwagon and pays your wages, you want those wages to continue?

    I’m also a miserable git but not the gaffer so my opinion means fuck all 🙂

  3. Don’t really care for it, but I do want to go down the pub now.

    Thanks for nothing OP.

  4. it’s cringeworthy and awkward and about 30 years out of date but you’re a pub trying to get people in for a pint.

  5. I’d definitely look at it as boomer humour but that’s it, wouldn’t think negatively of the business would just assume the owner/ staff might not be the funniest people in the world, but I don’t go into bars to be entertained by the staff so

  6. Dreadful casual sexism. Can you imagine it being the other way around?

  7. I like it as it’s amusing both ways you look at it.

    Just a light hearted way of getting customers through the door.

  8. I’d assume that any pub with that outside it doesn’t want to serve women, or will treat customers to the same kind of tedious sexist jokes over the bar. Not somewhere I’d personally want to be, but maybe your gaffer wants to attract that kind of customer.

  9. I hate the boomer humour from Wives of “Husband is child, useless and inept” as much as I hate the Husband humour of “Wife bad not let me watch sports because in-laws” – but it’s a pretty standard form of marketing.

    It’s cringe sure, but it’ll make people remember it.

  12. 🙈 shouldn’t it say, delegate the shopping to your partner and come in for a cocktail?

  14. It’s shit, but it’s keeping up with the normality of shitness we surround ourselves with now.

    I’d still come in for a pint

  18. Infantialisation of the father of your children really shows how much you respect them. Tired and you can tell a boomer came up with it as they lack any imagination whatsoever. Great stuff

  20. Imagine replacing the word husband with wife and there is your answer

  23. I don’t let it bother me. It’s just a bit of fun.

    Of course, it’s an old joke, but it’s not harming anyone.

  26. The wives don’t need to drop them off, the husbands always find their way to a pub

  27. Cringe, but doesn’t bother me. Plenty of shitty marketing around. Coming up to mothers day it’s all about pampering and face cream and similar products – like your missus doesn’t wash and looks haggered the rest of the time or something.

  29. As a stay at home dad for seven years, it’s patronising bollocks.

  30. If ITV’s Loose Women were a pub sign ….

    “Oh aren’t our husbands useless?”
    “Mine can’t even do XYZ …”
    “Same here – LOL”

    🤨

    It’s painful and imagine if it was the other way around.

  31. Terrible.

    I used to have a collection of awful “funny” pub signs I shared whenever somebody posted something like this here, but I stopped because almost every time I got abusive private messages from people saying I was being miserable.

    I might see if I can dig it out so your boss can see the level of naffness this is.

  33. Crikey. Didn’t expect this to go the way of gender politics. I just think it’s a lame unoriginal joke.

  35. It it attracts more punters than it repels, then it’s done it’s job

  36. I like how it’s all capitals but where there’s meant to be a capital, it’s just an enlarged capital.

    Stupid and smart at the same time.

  37. I don’t know why, but I find the questions more cringe than the misandry (I think that’s the anti-man one). It’s always been something that’s bugged me, adverts asking questions as a way to make you “interact” with them

  38. It’s harmless. There’s videos of people being killed in war zones all over social media and this sign is what upsets people.

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