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daltonr
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I don't know if this should be in The Craic, or here.
There's a magazine called Company which is a womans mag like Cosmo or whatever. (please don't ask how or why I was reading it!!!).
Anyhooo. Possibly the funniest/scariest column I've seen for a long time was one entitled "Creative Accounting", which explained to ladies how they could juggle their figures in order to afford that expensive dress, or pair of shoes or whatever.
I was expecting something along the lines of using the 56 days interest free credit on a card, or haggling with the store for a cash price instead of paying with VISA, or avoiding store credit like the plague!
But no. The advice was as follows:
Find a dress that is extremely expensive say...£600. Then don't buy it. Buy a dress for £60 instead. Now, you've saved yourself £540. Now you can buy those shoes for £140, and your still £400 to the good.
It goes on in this vain and gets MUCH worse.
Is this really how women think?
I don't want to appear rude or chauvinistic but seriously if there are people walking around with this kind of reasoning then I'd like to know about it because they clearly pose a danger to all of us.
I'd like to think that this column was in jest, but there's nothing to suggest that it was. Maybe by not having womens intuition I wasn't able to see though the joke!
-Rd
There's a magazine called Company which is a womans mag like Cosmo or whatever. (please don't ask how or why I was reading it!!!).
Anyhooo. Possibly the funniest/scariest column I've seen for a long time was one entitled "Creative Accounting", which explained to ladies how they could juggle their figures in order to afford that expensive dress, or pair of shoes or whatever.
I was expecting something along the lines of using the 56 days interest free credit on a card, or haggling with the store for a cash price instead of paying with VISA, or avoiding store credit like the plague!
But no. The advice was as follows:
Find a dress that is extremely expensive say...£600. Then don't buy it. Buy a dress for £60 instead. Now, you've saved yourself £540. Now you can buy those shoes for £140, and your still £400 to the good.
It goes on in this vain and gets MUCH worse.
Is this really how women think?
I don't want to appear rude or chauvinistic but seriously if there are people walking around with this kind of reasoning then I'd like to know about it because they clearly pose a danger to all of us.
I'd like to think that this column was in jest, but there's nothing to suggest that it was. Maybe by not having womens intuition I wasn't able to see though the joke!
-Rd