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   StoopyDeGunt
   

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   I just received this on email. It seems a rather odd way of raising money for charity. Where's the value in what they're doing?

   Am I being too cynical?

   BIKE 4 BRA'S!
   The team from Solutions 4 Recruitment are cycling around the Isle of Wight tomorrow and Sunday to collect the Island’s unwanted and discarded bras, in aid of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Dickens or Shakespeare
   

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   Talk about backward!
   Would get the whole job done quicker and easier if they just collected them in a van.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   The All New Jeni B
   

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   Is it perhaps a wind-up air ambulance, like the balsa wood, elastic band driven ones?
   If so, I can perhaps understand the need for old and unwanted bras. They can re-use the elastic to power the ambulance.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   StoopyDeGunt
   

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   Is there any scrap value in bras?

   Are there microchips that can be re-used or something?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Mary Evans
   

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   The combination lock on the back that foils all of mankind is probably worth a few quid.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   The All New Jeni B
   

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   Erm, not in mine. Not unless some very small, bald, siamese twins need a hat...

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   rickwestwell
   

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   Common mistake, Stoopy - it's not widely known to the general public how valuable used bras are in the manufacture of gas masks.

   No, really

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Quaz
   

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   Maybe some perv is just collecting female underware for his own purposes. I'm sure I read somewhere once that in Japan there are vending machines for used womens knickers, maybe that's the business model.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   The All New Jeni B
   

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   Quaz, is it the women or the knickers that are used?

   Posted 2 years ago #
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    edward hack
    

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    around here we just get asked for any old bank notes or unwanted coins we are not using

    Posted 2 years ago #

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