Imagine this: Your pub wins Pub of the Year in Cornwall County (UK) for the third time, but then some loser notices a picture online of a tiny little Nazi armband which is on display at your establishment so then they complain and get your title as Pub of the Year taken away by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA).
That's exactly what happened to the Hole in the Wall down in Bodmin.
First it was celebration time:
Then, four days later, it was buzzkill time:
Seriously, that's how fast the woke world works.
The Hole in the Wall is "filled wall to wall with curiosities, including a stuffed lion, ancient guns and a picture of Winston Churchill, among many other items," but when the woke are out to dig up dirt on you, they'll search your bar from top to bottom for anything deemed offensive. And there it was, in a dark corner of the bar, a tiny little Nazi armband with a swastika on it.
The landlord, who has been behind the bar at the Hole in the Wall for 20 years and has employed more than 100 staff, said the Nazi armband, about four inches by one inch in size, had been in a glass cabinet on top of a pillar in a dimly lit part of the pub among all sorts of [curiosities] for decades and had been brought back from the front by a returning serviceman of the Duke of Cornwall's Regiment.
FOUR INCHES BY ONE INCH!!!
And now the pub is canceled as Pub of the Year.
Bro, Bodmin was a garrison town, so when the Nazis were defeated, the armband was brought back as a memory of that great victory.
Here's more of what the owner, Steve Hall, had to say:
Bodmin was a garrison town. These soldiers came back from the war with spoils of war memorabilia. It was not to hero-worship Hitler or the Nazis but to celebrate the victory over fascism and to remember their comrades who died fighting against evil. You can't whitewash history …
It's not my memorabilia. It belongs to the pub. It's been here for longer than I have. If I had put it there myself, Camra's decision would be justified. But this has not been seen in context. It's sad for Bodmin. We have a lovely town with a lot of good stuff happening here. But it has gone through some dark times in the last year. To win Pub of the Year would have been a bit of good news, not just for us, but for the whole town.
And now CAMRA has stripped the pub of its title as Pub of the Year.
This is ironic because they'd won the award twice before while the same Nazi armband sat in the same spot at the pub.
Talk about times a changin'!
Boy, if there's anything I'd thought would never go woke it's the Campaign for Real Ale. I mean, Nazis drank beer, right? Should we get rid of the CAMRA organization altogether then?
Just an idea.
Also, I'm pretty sure Hitler got his eugenics ideas from England, so should we really be handing out awards in that country in the first place?
It's a relevant question.
Anyhow, let's hear it for the Pub of the Year, the Hole in the Wall in Bodmin.
For the record, the owner took down the Nazi armband once he caught wind of the complaint. He shouldn't have had to do that, but he did it anyway.
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