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No offence
As I passed a well-known chemist in Bristol today, I was stunned and offended by a poster on the front door, declaring: “BAD BREATH, STAINED TEETH, CLOTHES STINK, BAD SKIN, ALWAYS BROKE. CONCLUSION = SMOKER.” I went in and made a complaint. An overweight staff member, with an overweight customer, defended the wording. So I put it to both these large ladies that if there was a poster declaring, “GREEDY, LAZY, SWEATY, SMELLY CLOTHES, GREASY SKIN, OFTEN DEPRESSED. CONCLUSION = OBESE PERSON”, would they find those words appropriate to describe an overweight person such as they?Guess what? They told me they found “my” words offensive.
Bristol Evening Post (F Harvey)
Going nuts
Nurses on their way to work through Langley Park have been told to wear protective headgear, walk in pairs and carry umbrellas after a nurse was singled out by two grey squirrels. Apparently, the animals approached the woman because they thought she might feed them nuts.
Durham Advertiser (Armstrong)
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