Shane Jackson responds to yesterday's poorly chosen photographs on real estate listings with this dining room from an otherwise unremarkable four-bedroom home somewhere in Washington state, US. Someone has either a terrific sense of humour, or a very large dog.
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Tom from the North Shorewonders why outdoors clothing company Kathmandu keeps thinking he's pinching its stuff.
"I do like a reasonably priced warm layer of blended merino and polyester and I do like a good winter sale," says Tom. "The trouble is, if you're wearing an old Kathmandu garment or you are carrying your Kathmandu backpack, inevitably the shoplifting door alarm sounds. This has happened to me four or five times, the last time at the Barrys Pt Rd branch. There, under the accusing gaze of a queue of winter sale customers, I was obliged to forage beneath my layers of clothing and show the confused staff that my old Kathmandu top was setting off the beeper. Previously, when walking out of a CD shop, my backpack set off the alarms because of its still-active security tagging (which had earlier set off the alarm at Kathmandu and had supposedly been deactivated). Is it just me? Or are other customers getting pinged for their brand loyalty? Why can't this outdoors company let us out the door?"
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Two members of the UK Women's Institute did a world tour of brothels and named a Wellington provider Best Brothel.
In a campaign to legalise prostitution because of concerns for worker safety, Jean Johnson, 62, and Shirley Landells, 73, visited the Purely Blue brothel in Auckland, while being filmed for a Channel 4 documentary.
"It was lovely, just like a hotel," said Mrs Johnson.
In Wellington they visited Bon Ton, a "boutique-style venue", where they were pleasantly surprised that most sex workers had degrees and professional jobs.
(Source: Daily Mail)
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