Rational rage. Maybe.

[Otta]

And Papa Lazarou's alter ego worked in the charity shop *shudders*

[Lynne]

Yes, Sue, as I said "IT'S A SHOP".

My book didn't count in their scheme because it was a hardback, and so, obviously, not a book. Perhaps this makes it a small coffee table or door step.

[Sue]

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> Yes, Sue, as I said "IT'S A SHOP".

> My book didn't count in their scheme because it

> was a hardback, and so, obviously, not a book.

> Perhaps this makes it a small coffee table or door

> step.

One of my other two books was a hardback, and they seemed to think that was included in the sale.

I now have an urge to make it into a (very very) small coffee table :))

[DulwichFox]

A glass made out of glass is a glass..

An ashtray made out of glass is an ashtray not a glass.

So when does an ashtray become a glass..

Take a table and cut an inch off each leg.. it is still a table..

Cut off another 2 inches .. it is still a table..

Keep going.. When does a table become a tray. ?

DulwichFox.

[Sue]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> A glass made out of glass is a glass..

>

> An ashtray made out of glass is an ashtray not a

> glass.

> So when does an ashtray become a glass..

>

> Take a table and cut an inch off each leg.. it is

> still a table..

> Cut off another 2 inches .. it is still a table..

>

> Keep going.. When does a table become a tray. ?

>

It's all about function, Fox .....

[Seabag]

Andonwegowithsuesendlesstrialandpedantictribulationsbubbleandsqueekoorlaintandfolkmusicitalljustmeltsintoonedrippingmetathreadofsueness

[rendelharris]

As opposed to your vital thread on whether or not you should wear a tie, Seabag? What's sauce for the goose...bit of live and let live, maybe?

[red devil]

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> Andonwegowithsuesendlesstrialandpedantictribulatio

> nsbubbleandsqueekoorlaintandfolkmusicitalljustmelt

> sintoonedrippingmetathreadofsueness

I'm not playing Scrabble with you...

[jaywalker]

No it cannot be about function. That would mean it had an essence as being-for something in advance of the practice in which it was recognisable.

There are no glasses, tables or ashtrays: we reify constellations of signifiers as things (here, as prototypes) and then tell children they are beings - 'get your elbows off my table or I will hit you' (I remember).

[civilservant]

Sue went into a shop

Sue tried to buy goods as advertised in the shop

Sue was fobbed off by the shop assistant who made a mistake and then refused to admit it

end of

its being a charity shop is neither here nor there

[Seabag]

rendelharris Wrote:

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> As opposed to your vital thread on whether or not

> you should wear a tie, Seabag? What's sauce for

> the goose...bit of live and let live, maybe?

Ties are absolutely vital RH, get a grip

Imagine a world without them

Bloody hell, whatever next

[rendelharris]

Seabag Wrote:

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> rendelharris Wrote:

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> > As opposed to your vital thread on whether or

> not

> > you should wear a tie, Seabag? What's sauce

> for

> > the goose...bit of live and let live, maybe?

>

>

> Ties are absolutely vital RH, get a grip

>

> Imagine a world without them

>

> Bloody hell, whatever next

True, sorry - hadn't thought it through.

[DulwichFox]

jaywalker Wrote:

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> No it cannot be about function. That would mean it

> had an essence as being-for something in advance

> of the practice in which it was recognisable.

>

There are no glasses, tables or ashtrays: we reify

> constellations of signifiers as things (here, as

> prototypes) and then tell children they are beings

> - 'get your elbows off my table or I will hit you'

> (I remember).

That is True and there are no books.

http://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-there-are-no-solids-there-are-no-things-there-are-only-interfering-and-non-interfering-r-buckminster-fuller-103-97-36.jpg

Who is going to argue with Fuller.

DulwichFox

[Lynne]

Didn't Plato have something to say about the essential inner thinginess of things? (I may be paraphrasing him). Thus the dead parrot. So even if a book was used as a coffee table, it would still be a book.

If I'm wrong, I'm sure people here will tell me.

[Sue]

Seabag Wrote:

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> Andonwegowithsuesendlesstrialandpedantictribulatio

> nsbubbleandsqueekoorlaintandfolkmusicitalljustmelt

> sintoonedrippingmetathreadofsueness

If you don't like my posts don't read them!

At least I have never made a personal attack on another poster, so far as I know.

[Otta]

When is a jam jar a beer glass?

[Seabag]

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> Seabag Wrote:

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> >

> Andonwegowithsuesendlesstrialandpedantictribulatio

>

> >

> nsbubbleandsqueekoorlaintandfolkmusicitalljustmelt

>

> > sintoonedrippingmetathreadofsueness

>

>

> If you don't like my posts don't read them!

>

> At least I have never made a personal attack on

> another poster, so far as I know.

Hands up, I did call RH a TIT

Tho even he will concede, he was being a bit of one

[DulwichFox]

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> When is a jam jar a beer glass?

When you are in Pedlar (Peckham) having a drink.

and other POSH places too.

Foxy..

[red devil]

It's not posh Foxy, just perceived trendiness. It will be something else 6 months on...

[DulwichFox]

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> It's not posh Foxy, just perceived trendiness. It

> will be something else 6 months on...

OK. Not Posh.. but Trendy.. Beards and Sandals ? Think it may be around for a while though. ?

I'm a bit old for that sort of thing.. I suppose they may hide me in a corner if they arn't too busy and I were to pop in.

:)

Foxy

[Seabag]

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> When is a jam jar a beer glass?

In 2012 I think

MeatLiquor or that Diner thing they did way back in the day had them, there after it's just wankery and need knocking on the head.

[Pugwash]

Many people 'volunteering' in charity shops are doing 'Community Service' following a court appearance - some who have poor 'customer service skills'. Although this does not make up for the rudeness to others. I would have just confessed my mistake and saying I was having a senior moment if I was serving and apologise.

Hubby volunteers in a charity shop and is incensed when people try to haggle with him wanting a ?2 item of clothing for 10p - tells them all the money goes to the charity and if they wanted something that cheap he suggests that they look around for jumble sales. At the same time he laughs at the things people donate - out of date packets of food, worn pants and bras, dirty kitchen utensils, packets of tampex (unopened)

[Sue]

Pugwash Wrote:

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>

> Hubby volunteers in a charity shop and is incensed

> when people try to haggle with him wanting a ?2

> item of clothing for 10p - tells them all the

> money goes to the charity and if they wanted

> something that cheap he suggests that they look

> around for jumble sales. At the same time he

> laughs at the things people donate - out of date

> packets of food, worn pants and bras, dirty

> kitchen utensils, packets of tampex (unopened)

Well it would be worrying if the packets of Tampax contained used items ...... !

If I'm not sure if a charity shop will accept items, I ask. I once took in some unopened cleaning products (I think it was) as part of a load of items following a clearout of a relative's flat when she died.

They said they couldn't sell them in the shop but that some of the volunteers might be glad of them.

I guess it would be the same with the (unopened!) packets of Tampax?

Better somebody can make use of something than it goes to landfill, surely?

Donating dirty items, that's a different matter, bleurgh.

[Otta]

Seabag Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > When is a jam jar a beer glass?

>

> In 2012 I think

>

> MeatLiquor or that Diner thing they did way back

> in the day had them, there after it's just wankery

> and need knocking on the head.

Only place I've had it (being as I don't visit anywhere remotely trendy) was The Communion Bar in Camberwell, when I went to see a friend play some music. Nice bar, I liked the surroundings, but the offerings from the bar were a load of wank served in bottles, or dirty looking jars if you asked for a glass.

[Sue]

Otta Wrote:

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> Seabag Wrote:

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

> -----

> > Otta Wrote:

> >

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

>

> > -----

> > > When is a jam jar a beer glass?

> >

> > In 2012 I think

> >

> > MeatLiquor or that Diner thing they did way

> back

> > in the day had them, there after it's just

> wankery

> > and need knocking on the head.

>

>

> Only place I've had it (being as I don't visit

> anywhere remotely trendy) was The Communion Bar in

> Camberwell, when I went to see a friend play some

> music. Nice bar, I liked the surroundings, but the

> offerings from the bar were a load of @#$%& served

> in bottles, or dirty looking jars if you asked for

> a glass.

Jam jars are nice to put flowers in, but why you would want to drink from one, God knows.

What really amuses me is that now, in places like Wilko, you can get glasses made to look like jam jars, complete with metal lids and holes punched in the lids for a straw :))