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It is a generally acknowledged fact that working in retail is utter shit. I myself learnt this from two years of Saturdays spent squashing rich bunioned feet into vile gold shoes at Russell and Bromley, while the owners of said toes treated me like an invisible peasant.

It has to be said that one clear advantage of retail is that if you serve enough rich tossers, chances are you will serve some very famous tossers at the same time. This will consequentally trouce every one of your friends' 'Ooh I saw that bloke from Eastenders in Woolworths' pub stories and for a second make you feel like you are Worth Something.

My friend, who works in a designer store, recently told me these little gems about celebrity manners, specifically those of a certain sitcom actor...

 

How long has Boris been mayor? a week? Two? Who knows. Anyway, the the best game-show host in politics has clearly been busy. What with re-signing his megabucks deal with the Torygraph and banning booze on public transport he's still found time to head down to the graphic designers. Noticed the "Mayor of London" logo on the new "Don't-Drink-on-the-Tube or We'll-Stare-at-You-Disapprovingly" advertisements? Where once the last two letters were shaded a different colour -picking out the word "on"- the logo is now all in one colour. What can this mean? Is Boris sending out subliminal messages that suggest London is no longer the swinging, cosmopolitan city of the Ken years or does he simply have an enough rubbish gimmicks of his own?

Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

And while we're on the subject, here's one of Tower Bridge after 9 Prides, 2 grams of Mum and Dad, and mushrooms (extra point to whoever sends in the corresponding Riemann Manifold).