My colleague and I went to pick up my dry cleaning from REGAL DRYCLEANERS in Newmarket which was “recommended by NZ’s leading fashion designers” and they were apparently voted “Best drycleaners in Auckland 2002” by Style and Metro Magazines.

Not only was my dress not dry cleaned, the cost was much more than what they had initially said it would be, I was asked to pay for a hemming that they promised would be free. They changed the cost 3 times and were still not satisfied.

At least the first two staff members I had to deal with were polite. Then came the third one who was “the supervisor”. She was rude and racist.

She said that her colleagues had misinformed me, there was nothing she could do about it, I should pay what she asked me to so I can have my dress back.

She pulled the dress away from where my colleague and I were and asked “go away, come back another time and speak to the manager,” and “I am not interested in speaking with you.” She walked away.

My colleague and I had waited over forty minutes for them to decide how much they would charge me. I was fed up, paid $55.20 cents to a man who had the look that he was forced to talk to us, and they sent us away with NO APOLOGIES for what she said was a mistake on the part of her staff.

Regal Drycleaners in Newmarket’s motto is “Delivering our promise” If their promise is mistreating and degrading customers, then yes they do that very well.

Well I am sorry if I had earlier recommended Regal Drycleaners to anyone. My colleague and I were treated poorly there.

Just thought you all should know. Please do forward this to all your networks. Might pay to send this to Style and Metro magazines, and the radio station too.

This approach of thinking short term sexual relationships are the answer to your problems only produces more grief. Ask any women whose been dumped by a man after a relationship breaks up.

“young immigrant woman far away from home, who has perhaps grown up in a culture with a lack of openess about sex and contraception and is outside the normal means of family support”

then surely they should have the ability to withstand short term relationships that then result in the death of another human being? I’ve noticed that despite all the open talk about sex and sexuality in our western society we haven’t managed to decrease sexual activity. So talking about it doesn’t help, it’s personal responsibility that helps.

These girl’s real problem is coming from conservative socities to a rampant West where anything goes: it’s Us in the West that are the problem. When are we going to clean our act up, or stop “Rearranging the deck chairs [to try] to keep the ship afloat” as Murray says?

But I’ll tell you why Codswallopington brings this up. It’s because she knows that we think badly of abortion and is reaching for smears to bolster her initial conclusion. This is why it doesn’t matter whether this is correct, or consistent with any of her other statements. It’s also why it’s prejudice, pure and simple. Conclusion first, evidence second if you can be bothered at all.

But shouldn’t she be applauding that? If they are having fewer children and they are so prone to be criminals doesn’t that high allegedly high abortion rate mean that the number of allegedly criminally prone Asians would be lower as a result? If they are such criminals instead of bitching about the 80% who she claims abort she should be complaining about the 20% who don’t!

And what is the response of the abortion authorities? Presumably the Asians are claiming abortions on the grounds of mental damage to the mother if the pregnancy is not terminated, which may be true, but is surely an unacceptable cultural practice to most NZers.

Or do Asian women go to the backdoor quacks?

Whatever.. the practice is unacceptable and should be stopped along with Asian immigration. The greatest benefits that immigrants bring are their children and the likelihood of integration.

JC

“I’ll get you…and your little dog too”

Good playing to your audience I must admit.

Well done that man.

Reflects on the quality of HoS though, doesn’t it?

But there is a world of difference between 37% and 82% as an abortion rate.

However consider the case of a young immigrant woman far away from home, who has perhaps grown up in a culture with a lack of openess about sex and contraception and is outside the normal means of family support.

Rather a different case.

Considering that no one needs to get pregnant if they don’t want to (or at least the risks are minimal) then what the hell is going on?

Rearranging the deck chairs isn’t going to keep the ship afloat.

Not entirely dumpster material, just a D (for Deb) minus in maths situation.

Not a hanging offence by itself, but unfortunate when printed in a column as a fact, rebutting criticism of a previous article for having facts wrong also.

Inside first page was a profile on Ms Coddington and her return to the magazine, made my decsion not to subscribe very easy.