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tallulah71

tallulah71

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In terms of punters though I remember years ago, a friend who owns a shop on LL being told that a woman's unruly young children were simply 'expressing themselves' when asked if she could control them a little more.


she told the mum, "well they're about to express themselves with a bottle of bleach, so perhaps you'd better take them out the shop".


Works both ways

fatfightersforever

fatfightersforever

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Can't believe nobody has mentioned the wonderfully friendly and personal service you always get from Chi Chi Ra Ra.... Always a joy shopping there as is visiting so many of the friendly spots in SE22, SMBS, House of Tippler, Il Mirto, to name but a few!
Sue

Sue

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adonirum Wrote:

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> Read this thread with great interest, it's amazing

> people's different experiences and how their

> points of view are sometimes so diametrically

> opposed. Like mine here and now. Afraid I have to

> take issue with "New Wave" and their comments

> about Chener Books (although on this occasion I

> had dealings with the rather older lady I will

> kindly refer to her as rather than the gentleman

> ). Upon making an enquiry, I was met with the most

> disdainful, contemptuous and haughty attitude and

> reply it has been my misfortune to experience in

> many a long year from any person in any realm or

> walk of life. Fortunately, and I know that this

> comment will probably lead to some howls of

> derision, I am an extremely articulate and erudite

> individual, and managed to quite deliberately

> "slap her down" with a choice of words that I

> suspect she had neither heard before nor knew the

> meaning of. I further suspect that her attitude

> arose from the manner of my attire and some

> preconceived notion of the type of person I must

> have been. Yes, and this honestly is not meant as

> a pun, we are talking about the possibility of

> judging a book by it's cover!!! I left, somewhat

> confused and perplexed as to why an independent

> business would,from the outset,treat potential

> customers in this particular manner. and,

> obviously, without having conducted any business

> with them and,needless to say, taking my custom

> elsewhere. It would be interesting to learn if

> anybody else out there has encountered this lady

> and her pompous behaviour and air of superiority

> that was, it has to be said, and inevitably

> probably still is, somewhat misplaced!!!!!!


xxxxxxx


I have never had anything but excellent and charming service from both the lovely people in Chener Books.


Your post is a joke, right? You're a friend of hers?


Because if not, if what you have written is "real", I'm not surprised you got short shrift.


I'd have booted you out of the shop, locked the door and permanently banned you :))

a fish

a fish

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Otta Wrote:

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> adonirum Wrote:

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> > the rather older lady

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> That alone deserves a slap!


As does the phrase 'slap her down'. Your whole post, adonirum, smacks of sexist, self satisfied, smart arsed superciliousness of the highest, and creepiest, order.

cle

cle

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a fish Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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

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> > adonirum Wrote:

> >

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

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> > -----

> > > the rather older lady

> >

> >

> >

> > That alone deserves a slap!

>

> As does the phrase 'slap her down'. Your whole

> post, adonirum, smacks of sexist, self satisfied,

> smart arsed superciliousness of the highest, and

> creepiest, order.



Not to mention a try-hard wordy/thesaurus.com explosion.

a fish

a fish

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Sue Wrote:

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> ???? Wrote:

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> > And a misplaced apostrophe on a possessive it's

> (

> > sic).....adonirum is a right pseud

>

> xxxxxx

>

> Oh, that's very funny, I hadn't noticed the "it's"

> :)) :)) :))


Actually, if you want to get technical, it's chock full of mistakes, both grammatical and typographical. If I were a copyreader - and I have been - I'd send it back with at least thirteen reds. My particular bugbear (aside from the overuse of commas, apostrophes and needlessly redundant clauses) is the use of multiple exclamation marks; if one is a good enough writer, one should be able to convey enough meaning with one's words as to negate the need to use more than one.

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