"When you get white hair people patronise you, treat you as if you are a congenital idiot, start calling you we," rails the 82-year-old actor Dudley Sutton before sipping his Red Bull and making a start on a packet of digestives.
I love US shows like Mad Men and Six Feet Under: the broad sweep, the risks they take, the fact they don't patronise their audience.
Only 20% of the city's inhabitants patronise the arts.
It was the cultural commentators who were predominantly posh, and however well intentioned, were therefore unable to do anything but patronise.
"I'm grateful that the halal option is there," laughs Ms Saleem, a businesswoman, "but it's 2014–I think we'd be okay with something other than chicken tikka".For years Britons hungry for halal food, especially meat, have tended to patronise specialist butchers in areas with large Muslim populations.
In recent months, a group of Buddhist monks has tried to persuade the constitution-drafters to strengthen the wording of the previous charter, which merely required the government to "patronise and protect Buddhism and other religions".
"We don't come down to get rich" she says, "It's a day out".And so it is for the hundreds of punters, mainly older women, who patronise the 2,000 video-slot machines at the Dover Downs racecourse.
When one does, there will be an army of bitcoin devotees vowing to patronise the new channel.
Behind them all is an emotive question: whether there can be such a thing as willing prostitution.How far can you go?Since 2002, the policy of the United States has been to oppose prostitution, and to urge all governments to "reduce the demand" for prostitutes through education and by punishing those who patronise them.
Even income inequality is the result of hard work to attract the "ultra-rich", who patronise shops and restaurants and pay lots of tax, Mr Bloomberg suggests.
No longer can the French and the Italians patronise the Stuttgart company's efforts with the small A-class, which was re-engineered after it turned over in a "moose test", and the upcoming wacky Smart car, which is small enough to put in the boot of a big Merc.
