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By: Zhongguoist

Zhongguoist — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:32:15 +0000

I briefly volunteered in a charity shop and I couldn’t believe how picky the person who ran the shop was. ‘Oh that’s not a designer we can’t take it’ even when things were in perfectly good nick.

By: milt

milt — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:25:22 +0000

As if anyone with the surname “Cheese” deserves to be listened to. I knew a lad called “Cheeseborough” at University. No-one listened to him, and what happened? I don’t know, I wasn’t paying attention. Which kind of proves the point. Swallow that, Gordons Brown.

By: GREG COOK

GREG COOK — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:53:16 +0000

At the risk of linking two threads, does anybody remember when Harry left Eton and there was a massive tabloid kerfuffle because the cleaning lady found a pair of ladies ker-nickers in his room.
The toffs were up in arms. After all they don’t spend all that money sending their sons to Eton to have them turn out heterosexual, do they? Apparently there was no cause for alarm. The kecks in question were a memento of his late mother. They were the ones she was wearing on that fateful night in Paris. If you look really closely, I heard, you can actually see the skid-marks.

By: sackcloth and ashes

sackcloth and ashes — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:41:55 +0000

Reminds me of a cartoon in ‘Modern Toss’ where a complaining customer says ‘I bought these Y fronts off you. There’s shit in them but it’s not mine. How do I stand legally?’.

Now I know where this comes from.

By: Ros

Ros — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:55:04 +0000

Hmm. Isn’t the point of a charity shop to sell stuff, so they can give money to their chosen cause? (It’s also very ecological!) They are like a business, and no business would sell clothes that were ruined. Would these people buy soiled clothes, anywhere? I doubt it!

By: Vicky

Vicky — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:37:56 +0000

Here are a few other people who were shocked to discover that charity shops are called SHOPS because they SELL things:

I am actually shocked by the fact that people are making money out of charity.
Edith, London

I do not give my clothes to charity so that people in the Third World have to pay to get them but so they can get them free and either sell them or wear them. I am appalled.
Katy Charles, London/England

They were commenting on this article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4813032.stm

By: Jollity

Jollity — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:41:06 +0000

I worked as a volunteer in a Scope shop in St. Austell back in 1999, and there were certainly things people gave that weren’t fit to sell. Those things were donated to be made into carpet underlay or similar, so I guess anything can be used if you put your mind to it. But there was a certain smell to the back of the shop…

(also, Primark clothes often last no time at all - I got a huge hole in a pair of Primark trousers after one wash)

By: The Gnome Secretary

The Gnome Secretary — Fri, 30 May 2008 22:30:54 +0000

This guy’s an idiot. I left a lunch bag full of shit outside a charity shop the other day.

They took it inside, what more does he want? Two words: The Birtish aNtional Party!

By: A.N

A.N — Fri, 30 May 2008 21:11:34 +0000

“No-one wants 2nd hand goods anymore. Lets be honest if you can buy a brand new jeans for £4 out of Primark then you won’t go to a charity shop.”

I would rather buy 1 pair for a fiver than the charity shop that lasts for years rather than spend a fiver in primark every three months when they fall apart. The ones from the charity shop will almost certianly look better, anyway.

I presume mr cheese thinks that people who can only afford to shop in primark or charity shops only deserve to be able to wear soiled clothes?

By: Petpete

Petpete — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:24:27 +0000

I’m tempted to register my own charity and actively search for Mr Cheese’s cack-stained y-fronts. I’m just intrigued as why he wants to give them away so badly.