Miscellaneous Prats30 May 2008 01:22 pm
By Nelson
Thanks to Jon.
Charity shops are not being charitable nowadays: many are too choosy & turn down slightly soiled items.This is unacceptable & I have ceased to support them on that account.
ian cheese
They must be fucking gutted not to receive your “slightly soiled items”.
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I love it when people use ampersands & colons. It makes them look authoritative. And slightly soiled.
My god. And to think the people who open these bags are volunteers. Suddenly, they seem less like sweet old ladies with not much else to do, and more like modern urban heroes.
I’d turn it down too if it had Mr Cheese’s skid marks on. Maybe he should wash his clothes first…
Oi, nothing wrong with ampersands!
Colons, on the other hand, are just lazy umlauts.
Lazy? No, colons are umlauts that have fallen down the side of the bed. You just don’t like them cos they’re black.
Mr Cheese should just do what I do and leave his donation outside the shop in a bag, then they can’t foist your soiled kecks back on to you.
If your colon’s black you should get yourself to a doctor pretty sharpish, I would have thought.
Colons? Soiling? Way to put me off my lunch, guys.
This guy knows the score, though:
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.
Burglaries are in declining because of this too. Changing times I am afraid. Only the strong will survive.
Jason Convery, Montrose, Scotland, United Kingdom
Well I suppose really strong burglars would have an easier time stealing grand pianos, gold bullion etc. or just holding you down whilst they take your kidneys. In the face of market forces one must adapt or die, just ask Madonna. Oh no, sorry that was adopt. Silly me.
Ignore me, I’m very bored at work and trying to keep myself occupied so as not to be drawn into KNIFECRIME!!!
I think I’ve found someone for Mr Cheese to pass on his soiled rags to… a man so stingy that he needs to justify his thriftiness by boasting about how much money he has:
Problem solved. NEXT!
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.
“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?
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!
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)
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.