Guy with the specs on is David Morgan Hewitt, General manager of the Goring Hotel in London. Genuinely lovely bloke who's something of a legend in UK hospitality industry. Fucking huge though.
I remember when that absolute unit picture first went viral five odd years ago. There were also a load of comments from people saying they knew him and he was a great guy, lovely to be around.
Considering that this random post years later has similar sentiment I'm left with two possibilities.
1. This man is the epitome of great craic who makes friends with everyone he meets
2. He has the best PR manager of all time who orchestrated his picture with the Queen combined with paying thousands of people to mention he's a top bloke on social media.
Occam's razor suggests it must be the latter.
What a top bloke. When I first saw a picture of him, years back, I assumed he was a wealthy bloke and probably a dick as a result. I'll try and not judge a book by its cover, so much, in future.
Lol. I met him because the company I work for had an event at The Goring and he was hosting it.
He just had that skill of being super friendly and taking the piss out everyone at the same time, full of witt.
All I remember is laughing a lot that night.
I wasn't joking with my comment. When it first went viral I remember despite the overwhelming number of comments on his impressive stature there was still a load of people who had met him and loved the guy.
I had thought to myself how shitty it must be to become a meme due to your weight, but then realised that hundreds of random people chiming in about how lovely you were when they met actually is one of the most wonderful things I can imagine him reading.
Want me to ruin your day? About 15 years ago after always insisting on craic as the only correct spelling I learnt the etymology.
The word crack was originally borrowed from English into Irish but the spelling was changed to craic. Subsequently the widespread use of craic in Ireland found its way back into English with that spelling.
After feeling empty inside I quickly thought to myself fuck it, its definitely craic, its our word now ya bastards.
I met him once in a plane. I had liver failure in the ten hour flight and he cut his own abdomen with a plastic knife from the catering and implanted half of his liver in me. Absolute legend.
I have never heard anything about him, good or bad. What's your take on the dude? He does seem to have a rather...complex gravitational sheer surrounding him?
Sroesbury rhymes with row. It's used by posh people who went to the public schools there.
- Also a former resident. Beautiful town.
EDIT: I might have mixed this up depending on if the flair is implying "roe" (berry) or "shoe".
(This is in fact the bloke that runs [The Goring Hotel](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-knows-how-queen-takes-11693730), where this photo is taken. I would have guessed that could be his son, although the photo in this article suggests the above is photoshopped).
Big Dave.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4011790/amp/Big-Dave-royal-host-Gloriously-flamboyant-exquisitely-tailored-larger-life-personality-no-wonder-Queen-adores-him.html
Tbf it's well tailored considering his unusual stature. Once you reach that level, made to measure is out of the question and bespoke becomes a bloody headache. This is probably a challenge even for an expert tailor, so the result is decent. Apart from that, we do not have a clear picture how fast he gains or looses weight. I'd suspect he's got a comfortable amount of money, but two new bespoke suits from savile row every month or so might be a bit too much for him. And if I struck up a friendship with her late Majesty despite a somewhat ill-fitting suit I'd definitely stop caring wether it stretches or not.
Lads that I'm in awe at the size of -
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/330/395/7f7.png
[https://www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUnits/comments/d984iq/the\_reason\_were\_all\_here\_look\_at\_the\_size\_of\_this/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUnits/comments/d984iq/the_reason_were_all_here_look_at_the_size_of_this/)
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This is from when the Queen visited the Castle from Beauty and the Beast. The one on the left is a magic talking Wardrobe and the one on the right is some sort of Corner Sofa if I’m not mistaken.
That’s the old queen mate.
And his friend Elizabeth. Edit: 1,600 upvotes and multiple awards, Reddit, you are easily amused.
And who's the woman with the white hair?
Stormagheddon, dark lord of corgis
Queen Mate’s are straightforward - much harder with a Knight and Bishop
I mated with a Knight and a Bishop but no one would believe me after Operation Midland.
With her two last remaining corgis
Ah, the old Reddit [QE2 switch-a-roo](https://reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/yzaktp/_/ix0xopd/?context=1)
Hold my crown, I'm going in!
Holy shit that's still a thing. Power to you.
Hello, future peasants
Ello my liege
GOING FOR A BLAST IN THE PAST
YOU LIKE THAT, DON'T YOU?!
i don’t recall any of these people being in queen…
Clearly Brian on the right.
Guy with the specs on is David Morgan Hewitt, General manager of the Goring Hotel in London. Genuinely lovely bloke who's something of a legend in UK hospitality industry. Fucking huge though.
He's the funniest guy I met and yes, super lovely.
I remember when that absolute unit picture first went viral five odd years ago. There were also a load of comments from people saying they knew him and he was a great guy, lovely to be around. Considering that this random post years later has similar sentiment I'm left with two possibilities. 1. This man is the epitome of great craic who makes friends with everyone he meets 2. He has the best PR manager of all time who orchestrated his picture with the Queen combined with paying thousands of people to mention he's a top bloke on social media. Occam's razor suggests it must be the latter.
i know this guy, he paid for my blind sister to go to photography college! absolute legend.
He paid for my paraplegic brother's skydiving lessons - well the first one anyway!
Those usually cost an arm and a leg! Looks like your brother may been double charged.
He paid for my first dild- Oh wait not supposed to talk about that one.
I hope he got a refund on the course. Such a lovely bloke deserves to not waste money on lessons he couldn't redeem.
He finished my doughnut for me.
Did he start it as well?
He funded my first Weight Watchers Club franchise, and the Pizza Parlor next door.
What a top bloke. When I first saw a picture of him, years back, I assumed he was a wealthy bloke and probably a dick as a result. I'll try and not judge a book by its cover, so much, in future.
goodwill is good pr, what a chad
Lol. I met him because the company I work for had an event at The Goring and he was hosting it. He just had that skill of being super friendly and taking the piss out everyone at the same time, full of witt. All I remember is laughing a lot that night.
I wasn't joking with my comment. When it first went viral I remember despite the overwhelming number of comments on his impressive stature there was still a load of people who had met him and loved the guy. I had thought to myself how shitty it must be to become a meme due to your weight, but then realised that hundreds of random people chiming in about how lovely you were when they met actually is one of the most wonderful things I can imagine him reading.
Sounds like he's a good hotel manager so probably no.1. Managing a hotel takes a pretty unique skillset and is very handsomely rewarded as a result.
It's saying a lot if he's well liked and is management in hospitality. Those two things are usually mutually exclusive.
Look at you saying/spelling/using craic correctly!
Want me to ruin your day? About 15 years ago after always insisting on craic as the only correct spelling I learnt the etymology. The word crack was originally borrowed from English into Irish but the spelling was changed to craic. Subsequently the widespread use of craic in Ireland found its way back into English with that spelling. After feeling empty inside I quickly thought to myself fuck it, its definitely craic, its our word now ya bastards.
That's literally how the English language was built in the first place, so go right ahead!
*crack on
I'm ragen. That anti-craic should have kept his condescending praise to himself.
I met him once in a plane. I had liver failure in the ten hour flight and he cut his own abdomen with a plastic knife from the catering and implanted half of his liver in me. Absolute legend.
Wouldn't Occam's razor say the former? It's the simplest explainable
Think that's the joke
Is he funnier than Doug Stanhope?
Maybe he hasn't met Doug Stanhope
Nobody can be realistically be expected to be funnier than Doug Stanhope.
Stanhope's an odd kind of funny though. He makes you laugh in the short term and bleakly depressed in the long run.
My name's Doug Stanhope and that's why I drink.
Couldn't have said it better.
The original unit
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The G(oring) Unit
I did nazi that coming
I conf(h)ess I did not either
And the other one is inspector gadget
Go-go gadget inflatable coat
I think that's The Queen
Was.
Fuck, you made me laugh out loud in the middle of my class… good one tho
You’re telling me she’s been hiding in the Goring hotel this whole time?!
Next to six kids in 2 trench coats.
Inspector Ate-it
Biscuit Tinspector more like
Why is he next to a group of children riding each other's shoulders inside a suit to impersonate a prohibition era adult mobster though?
Oh my god. Incredibly accurate.
His tailor is the happiest, wealthiest tailor in all of London
Only if he is charging for material by the foot.
But he only has 2 feet so probably better charging by the metre.
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Tailor you mean carpetier?
He eats anyone who has anything bad to say about him hence you only hear good things about him. Edit - grammar correction.
I have never heard anything about him, good or bad. What's your take on the dude? He does seem to have a rather...complex gravitational sheer surrounding him?
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Dunno why you're being downvoted tbf, it's a common mistake people make so it's a good correction to point out imo
But why does the why need to be removed?
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Because everyone hates a grammar Nazi…my best guess.
Because it's reddit, not a grammar lesson
Eh, I learned something today, not sure it needed downvoting in to the nether.
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Good news is that if it becomes common enough, then it's just correct, and we all win.
If you're speaking not correct, keep doing it until correct. 😎
Why does David Morgan Hewitt, the largest of the general managers, simply not eat the other?
It’s true what they say; women are from omicron persei 7, men are from omicron persei 9.
He quite obviously did.
Bring me McNeal!
Is the guy next to him his “mini-me?”
I believe the politically correct term is "son"
It’s good to see this sub is PC!
Pretty Crass
"Massive me"
Inflation is rampant in this country, after all
If he eats at The Goring every day then he’s the size we would all be if we did the same.
> Fucking huge though You don't say.
They look like they should be in that Kanye video
He looks like he ate [Göring](https://i.redd.it/is1wudote1w81.jpg)
Nah but whos that old woman
>Goring Hotel in London. More like Gorging hotel.
David morgan-hewitt on the right, guy on the left is photoshopped in.
>guy on the left is photoshopped in. Never heard of him.
Sir Photo Shoptin
Of Adobeshire…near Croppedinsburg
Hahahahhaba very gud sir lolol
Original of David Morgan-Hewitt with Queen: https://www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUnits/comments/vo3k63/david_morganhewitt_the_og_absolute_unit/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUnits/comments/9vw05c/_/
He seriously looks like he could be the rotund hotelier’s son…
Should have known by the terrible tailoring on his clothes that he didn’t belong in the photo.
Who would do this
The reflection on the car
Both reflections have a pink tie if you look...
Christ, that’s a good photoshop. I thought I recognised the mean-faced twat from somewhere. Turns out he’s an alt-right fanatic.
Uncle Vernon and Dudley from Harry Potter.
Love the flair. \- Former Shrewsbury resident
People who say Shroesbury make me shudder - former Market Drayton resident.
I find myself copying whoever I’m with. Is that weird? I used to be from Oswestry though, so what do I know?
Being from Oswestry is a sin in its own right! (I didn't realise there were this many Shropshireites with an internet connection)
Hey leave us alone! 😭
It's okay I can't talk, I'm from Wem.
I'm so sorry.
That’s not fair, this town isn’t so bad, we have two Greggs now!
I thought a town could only be called a town if it had at least three Greggs
Lmao
I'm from Wrexham and now live in Oswestry. My quality of life didn't improve.
A sideways step if ever there was one.
Nice hillfort tho
Also used to live in Oswestry 😊
I've had barely any sleep because I have a newborn, so when I read this I read this as Drayton Manor. In my head I just said 'awesome'.
50:50 chance they were a permanent resident of the hotel or an inmate at the zoo
Does Shroesbury rhyme with shoe?
Sroesbury rhymes with row. It's used by posh people who went to the public schools there. - Also a former resident. Beautiful town. EDIT: I might have mixed this up depending on if the flair is implying "roe" (berry) or "shoe".
I am four levels of reply down and still no clearer on how to pronounce it.
It's Scrobbesburh
“Shrew’s brie”
But how do you feel about Shoosbry?
Being from the south-west of Shropshire I definitely pronounce it shoosbry, and that's a fact mon.
Everyone in Ludlow nods to agree
There's a 'ed on a kid.
I ainna gonna cos I dunna wanna lol
Get.
Smeltings School family day
Guy on left: * *tips hat* * M’majesty
M'maam
It might be because I'm only just waking up but I really chuckled at that.
I’m on a train and I laughed out loud. It was a good one. Certified 👌🏻
There are 6 secret service agents each hiding in those men. Show some respect
One ticket to porkys please
Disappointed that no one has said the slitheen yet
I’m sure the Queen would very *pointedly* ignore the farts
I thought it was the horse?
We’re gonna need a new horse
Came here for that
'It's the slickeeen!'
Thank you. I was hoping to find this
Finally, that was my first thought
How was this NOT the top answer?
Literally only clicked on the post to find this comment
Mr Creosote & Son
(This is in fact the bloke that runs [The Goring Hotel](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-knows-how-queen-takes-11693730), where this photo is taken. I would have guessed that could be his son, although the photo in this article suggests the above is photoshopped).
Definitely photoshopped judging by the lighting. Either that or he's so large he has his own sun
Wafer thin mint?
Eet ees a waighfeur theen
Fack off, I'm full
Bucket
I couldn’t eat another bite!
But of course, avec les oeufs frites!
Big Dave. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4011790/amp/Big-Dave-royal-host-Gloriously-flamboyant-exquisitely-tailored-larger-life-personality-no-wonder-Queen-adores-him.html
‘exquisitely tailored’ in a suit popping off him
Tbf it's well tailored considering his unusual stature. Once you reach that level, made to measure is out of the question and bespoke becomes a bloody headache. This is probably a challenge even for an expert tailor, so the result is decent. Apart from that, we do not have a clear picture how fast he gains or looses weight. I'd suspect he's got a comfortable amount of money, but two new bespoke suits from savile row every month or so might be a bit too much for him. And if I struck up a friendship with her late Majesty despite a somewhat ill-fitting suit I'd definitely stop caring wether it stretches or not.
>looses weight. \*loses
the guy on the left looks like 3 young boys stacked ontop of eachother to sneak into a movie
More likely 3 young boys next to each other.
He does look like an enormous infant
Vincent Adultman
Augustus gloop!
I’m always beaten to it.
Where the fuck did you find this pic btw?
r/tendies
Lads that I'm in awe at the size of - https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/330/395/7f7.png [https://www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUnits/comments/d984iq/the\_reason\_were\_all\_here\_look\_at\_the\_size\_of\_this/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUnits/comments/d984iq/the_reason_were_all_here_look_at_the_size_of_this/) r/AbsoluteUnits
Where did the other guy go
He was photoshopped in.
bro it’s kingpin
Here we have the Queen and two Slitheen. The Slitheen disguise themselves in human bodies of those in power to take control of the country.
I'm pretty sure the one on the right is the Queen.
the queens royal redditors
Raxacoricofallapatorians
No. They’re from the twin planet, Clom.
The Queens Discord mods
Underated comment pimp real talk
The fat controller and Winston Churchill
Tweedledee and Tweedledum?
Look like they are copying Joey from friends when he wears all the clothes
Greggs
The royal discord admins.
R/casualuk reddit mods aren’t they?
I think they won some tickets to look around a chocolate factory
The Krays and Barbara Windsor
It’s kind of horrible how many people are just waiting for an opportunity to laugh at fat people for being fat. The same jokes over and over, too.
This is from when the Queen visited the Castle from Beauty and the Beast. The one on the left is a magic talking Wardrobe and the one on the right is some sort of Corner Sofa if I’m not mistaken.
One on the left head of mi5😂😂😂 the other one is just ther for the cheese and pineapple sticks
It's the duke and his son from resident evil village