Ripped OffA friend who worked in a second hand record shop told us about a Japanese guy who regularly bought "rare" records in their shop. One time, he was looking for a signed copy of "Never Mind the Bollocks".
They didn't have one. Four people and one magic marker later, they did. Ker-ching!
How have you been ripped off? Who did you rip off? Are you a British Gas customer?
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chthonic, Thu 15 Feb 2007, 16:28)
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Strip Joint Moaners!Hello gullible folk, who have been moaning about £10/pint lager, £45 "service fee" for the dubious pleasure of the deeply disinterested company of someone's booze-raddled old granny!
These are not "strip joints", rather "clip joints".
They are typified by:
a) Probably not having a booze license, therefore falling outside the normal regulatory oversight by selling alcohol free drinks. This is publicised in 3 point text on their drinks list, which you never get to see anyway.
b) Promising saucyness and possibly even sex, which never, ever materialises.
c) Using subtle and not so subtle threats of violence to persuade mugs, sorry, customers to pay their surprising and extortionate bills.
d) Relying on the mug's shame and / or transient presence (in the case of tourists) to avoid the involvement of the feds. Having said that, the utterly brazen operation of some of these joints may lead some to wonder if the forces of law and order aren't being subsidised in order that they chose to look the other way.
(, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 1:13, Reply)
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