I Didn't Think This Was Serious Until I Watched It On The News

[emmie]

would you buy a stick off a branch for £18 quid

http://ews/uk-news/florist-ridiculed-selling-sticks-18-10118349

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/florist-ridiculed-selling-sticks-18-10118349

[emmie]

wonder why server not found....

unless its an early april fool's joke..

[RandyMarsh]

Southerners emmie, they can be easily parted with their money.

[Mamyalynne]

Look at the beginning of your link, it's incomplete - I posted the full link.

[emmie]

Botanique, in trendy north London suburb Stoke Newington, says the pieces of wood are ideal for using to hang things on the walls.

[RandyMarsh]

you wouldn't pay more than £12 for a twig eh mams?

[emmie]

mamy
thanks..

[vulcan42]

I would have thought that if a person bought any, the ridicule should be directed at that person, not the florist. In the old days this would have been considered entrepreneurial wouldn't it?

[emmie]

a fool and his money, if this is to be believed.

[Mamyalynne]

I may run to a fiver Randy, this is nothing new - craft shops selling pebbles with a coat of varnish springs to mind.

Quite enterprising really if people are prepared to pay.

[emmie]

there is entrepreneurial and there's taking the michael, i know which i believe

[Mamyalynne]

Caveat emptor.

[kvalidir]

Yeah but what they don't say is they are actually particularly shaped sticks cut to size and are used by the Shoreditch set as coat hooks- so actually you're buying a coathook for £18 rather than just any old stick. I'd still find my own though tbh if I wanted any.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/53/99/16/5399160a1046e7b5bb51ad391ddf037d.jpg

[pixie374]

She isn't making any false claims about them- I don't think it's the florist who's daft.

[-Talbot-]

emmie
Botanique, in trendy north London suburb Stoke Newington, says the pieces of wood are ideal for using to hang things on the walls.




Yes but only once they have been attacked to a wall

[andy-hughes]

[kvalidir]

'attacked to a wall'- surely not a typo Talbot? lmao

[emmie]

AH
yes i know, they played one piece from his show, hilarious.

[-Talbot-]

kvalidir 'attacked to a wall'- surely not a typo Talbot? lmao



O'dear ... tick tock

[trt]

The Yanks will buy them for a little bit of England, ya know wat am sayin!