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Old Feb 25th 2009, 9:17 am
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The second great piece of Irony I've read today

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7908866.stm


I have to say, tis the same in some places in AD, puts me right off
purchasing. Wonder if the sales assistants get to wear the stock as per most outlets??
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I guess that is why Marks & Spencers at Marble Arch is always full of Arab women buying underwear.
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Originally Posted by Eva
The second great piece of Irony I've read today

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7908866.stm


I have to say, tis the same in some places in AD, puts me right off
purchasing. Wonder if the sales assistants get to wear the stock as per most outlets??
'Because physical contact between unmarried men and women in Saudi Arabia is forbidden under strict segregation laws, women can also not be properly measured for their underwear. '

what a stupid country.
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Originally Posted by Bambi in Abu Dhabi
I guess that is why Marks & Spencers at Marble Arch is always full of Arab women buying underwear.
Sounds like somewhere I could work
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Originally Posted by Spugsy
Sounds like somewhere I could work
No, M&S lingerie is very boring and functional. Agent Provocateur on the other hand...
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Originally Posted by Eva
The second great piece of Irony I've read today

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7908866.stm


I have to say, tis the same in some places in AD, puts me right off
purchasing. Wonder if the sales assistants get to wear the stock as per most outlets??
oh i agree, i hate it that they have guys in lingerie shops here...and it's bizarre cos male hairdressers need to get special licences etc, which is much less intimate as far as i'm concerned...

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..well, at least if the women bought edible underwear...perhaps the male counter staff might know and tell them the flavour !
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..well, at least if the women bought edible underwear...perhaps the male counter staff might know and tell them the flavour !

You are getting worse..... rabies jag due is it?
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oh i agree, i hate it that they have guys in lingerie shops here...and it's bizarre cos male hairdressers need to get special licences etc, which is much less intimate as far as i'm concerned...

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Absolutely......
Thing is too they have to 'touch' your intended purchases.I used to get tennis knickers in AD. Perfectly capable of lifting box from display and going to check out myself but no....Mohammed had to take em outta the box bla blah ..................needles to say left without em.

Still, just mail ordered some new stuff from IDEX,mostly top halfs
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Originally Posted by Eva
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Absolutely......
Thing is too they have to 'touch' your intended purchases.I used to get tennis knickers in AD. Perfectly capable of lifting box from display and going to check out myself but no....Mohammed had to take em outta the box bla blah ..................needles to say left without em.

Still, just mail ordered some new stuff from IDEX,mostly top halfs
i only mail order now cos it's so rubbish here for underwear, from bravissimo or figleaves, and then spend a bleedin fortune in rigby and peller every summer...ohhh to be boobless, the money i would save...

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Originally Posted by Madam Medusa
i only mail order now cos it's so rubbish here for underwear, from bravissimo or figleaves, and then spend a bleedin fortune in rigby and peller every summer...ohhh to be boobless, the money i would save...

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aye but you wouldn't be half the woman you are petal....
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Originally Posted by Bambi in Abu Dhabi
No, M&S lingerie is very boring and functional. Agent Provocateur on the other hand...
there was a Agent Provocateur salesmodel in Newcastle a while ago, with all the gear on, I almost dropped my sarnie, I thought she was a stripper at first.
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Originally Posted by Spugsy
there was a Agent Provocateur salesmodel in Newcastle a while ago, with all the gear on, I almost dropped my sarnie, I thought she was a stripper at first.
But I bet you kept hold of your pint, eh?
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Sounds like somewhere I could work
LEAVE IT lad. That is sure to get you into a spot of bother at one point or another .
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Originally Posted by Eva
You are getting worse..... rabies jag due is it?
Haha...so lovely to see the word 'jag' again (first time in 25 years ! ) and not the English 'jab' that the newspapers in Scotland are now using...
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Haha...so lovely to see the word 'jag' again (first time in 25 years ! ) and not the English 'jab' that the newspapers in Scotland are now using...

This won't hurt a bit..........
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