The lights are low and atmospheric, fairy lights blink around a bar stacked with wine bottles.
Since then, the indignities have stacked up at such a rate it feels like a tragicomedy that Blackpool's motto on their club crest is "Progress".
What the police discovered when they raided the three-bedroom flat in spring 2011, however, had more of a Young British Artists vibe: homemade shelves stacked with hundreds of juice cartons and tinned food with a 1980s sell-by date.
The odds are stacked in the city's favour: the local produce is magnificent with peachy fresh seafood – Dungeness crabs in season and Hog Island oysters.
The open shelves are stacked neatly with "museum quality" (non-acidic and chemical-free) cardboard boxes.
"Even the majority of Republicans believe that the deck is stacked against the people in this country," Devine said.
"It's fair to say that if you look across the country, the deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top," she said.
Both the opinion pollsters and the Washington political strategists were humbled on Tuesday night, however, when the Tea Party once again showed its capacity to upset the carefully stacked apple cart.
For instance, they stacked the cards against themselves by purposefully picking a very hot year to start the analysis and a cool year to terminate the study (1998 and 2012, respectively).
Many people have the odds stacked against them from the outset, their class of origin holding them back in too many ways to list here, choking the vast potential everyone possesses.
Shoeboxes full of passports, wads of bankcards and trays of wallets are stacked on the floor, while an impressive pile of feather jewellery sits on the side.
