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Don?t worry about your Alpha falling apart it would appear that being an Alpha mechanic in ED is a popular choice of career especial considering the amount of interest there is on another thread about their course. There appears to be a lawyer who is considering retraining as one.


Anyway my house has more throw cushions, picture frames and candles than any one abode should. I blame Northcross Road.

Possibly a bit sexist, but to be fair, if you counted the customers of these shops over an average week, I'm pretty sure women would be a huge majority, so maybe it's just a cheeky way of making a valid point.


I've said this before on here, but some years ago a friend who owns one of these shops described HER business to me as "selling a load of frilly cushions to housewives with far too much time and money", so if they feel that way, we can't really blame honk.

Keef Wrote:

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> Possibly a bit sexist, but to be fair, if you

> counted the customers of these shops over an

> average week, I'm pretty sure women would be a

> huge majority, so maybe it's just a cheeky way of

> making a valid point.

>



I mean the proprietors, not the customers.


My dad opened a bridal shop for his wife on a whim once, mainly as otherwise she would seemingly have sat at home bored. Other popular types of 'my wife's bored' shops are


'The shop that sells some oddments of cookware, novelty ice cube trays and ironic birthday cards'


and


'The Upmarket Pet Shop / Dog Groomer'


East Dulwich has a surfeit of such types of shop*



*this is not based on any kind of extensive research

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I mean the proprietors, not the customers.


My dad opened a bridal shop for his wife on a whim once, mainly as otherwise she would seemingly have sat at home bored. Other popular types of 'my wife's bored' shops are


'The shop that sells some oddments of cookware, novelty ice cube trays and ironic birthday cards'


and


'The Upmarket Pet Shop / Dog Groomer'


East Dulwich has a surfeit of such types of shop*



Oh, in that case, yes that's rather sexist.

TillieTrotter Wrote:

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> My original comment was taking the piss guys in

> reference to honk getting all PC on the "Ladies be

> careful" thread! I personally couldnt give a

> doodah about the title.;-)


It was more devil's advocate than anything PC

KalamityKel Wrote:

Tony.London Suburbs Wrote:

I've yet to meet a Man who goes shopping when he is bored but then I am only 54....:))


Really? Man you haven't lived!


If I have to rely on "Retail Therapy" then I really will need therapy!


Shopping: Go to Supermarket(armed with list), Get Trolley, Fill Trolley a.s.a.p. with said items, find the shortest queue, take items from basket, maybe talk to Guys in queue and Assistant. Put items in Bags and Pay, Thank Assistant, Go to Car and unload items and get the hell outta there a.s.a.p.:-$

Hi,


My cat likes the cat that is in a shop window! He has got a crush on it. No I am not telling you which shop it is in, as all the other moggies will congregate outside.

Soon we could have a Moggies versus Hoodies.


Well better go, My carer has just turned up.


Regards.

Tony.London Suburbs Wrote:



> Shopping: Go to Supermarket(armed with list), Get

> Trolley, Fill Trolley a.s.a.p. with said items,

> find the shortest queue, take items from basket,

> maybe talk to Guys in queue and Assistant. Put

> items in Bags and Pay, Thank Assistant, Go to Car

> and unload items and get the hell outta there

> a.s.a.p.:-$


Shopping - I need a pair of jeans. Go into first shop that sells jeans, try my size on. Like it, buy it, go to pub.

Cassius Wrote:

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>

> Shopping - I need a pair of jeans. Go into first

> shop that sells jeans, try my size on. Like it,

> buy it, go to pub.


Shopping - I need a pair of jeans. Make an appointment with the jeans specialist shopper at Selfridges. Spend a week fretting about the size of my thighs. Cancel appointment. Spend a week fretting about how silly I'm being. Make a new appointment. Cancel it again. Spend a week considering liposuction. Wear my old jeans with a long cardigan and a high boots and congratulate myself on my pragmatism. Have a glass of Sauvignon blanc.

giggirl Wrote:

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> Cassius Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> >

> > Shopping - I need a pair of jeans. Go into

> first

> > shop that sells jeans, try my size on. Like

> it,

> > buy it, go to pub.

>

> Shopping - I need a pair of jeans. Make an

> appointment with the jeans specialist shopper at

> Selfridges. Spend a week fretting about the size

> of my thighs. Cancel appointment. Spend a week

> fretting about how silly I'm being. Make a new

> appointment. Cancel it again. Spend a week

> considering liposuction. Wear my old jeans with a

> long cardigan and a high boots and congratulate

> myself on my pragmatism. Have a glass of

> Sauvignon blanc.


That sounds so exhausting - have you ever tried my method? Incidentally TK Maxx sell lots of cheap jeans (tu)

It IS exhausting Cassius. I've never had a pleasant experience buying jeans or swimwear.


I think women are more complicated in the whole bum / thigh / leg department than men - so many variations of body shape. I don't know what my jeans size is, I don't know which style will flatter MY particular shape more. I've never just tried on a pair of jeans and they've fit. If only!

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