Jewellers deny entry to veiled women wearing burqa

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Wezil
Most buildings are heated Flubber. Take the toque/ski mask off when you enter.

Obviously-- and personally I usually do. BUt if I pop into the convenience store for a second, I probably wouldn't bother.

The question is whether the store would require me to do so. At the local conveneince store, there can be literally dozens of face-covered folks walking in and out every few minutes so from a practical point of view the conveneince store will never bother

In a Canadian jewelry store, I wouldn't object if taking off face covering was a requirement. Although as I said, everything of value is out of reach anyway so the only purpose of covering your face is a blatant robbery attempt

[Zkribbler]

There was a similar problem with passports right after 9/11. It was held that a woman wanting a U.S. passport couldn't have her picture taken while wearing a burka.

[Proteus_MST]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
There was a similar problem with passports right after 9/11. It was held that a woman wanting a U.S. passport couldn't have her picture taken while wearing a burka.

Hm, it would sound like a srange means of identification,
to identify a person whose passport just shows someone covered with a Burka.

Lets see:

Officer: Passport
Women wearing a Burka gives him her passport
Officer: That isn´t your passport. The women on the passport is wearing a blue Burka with gold trimmings, but you are wearing a red Burka with silver trimmings.

[Straybow]

Errrr, how much is "Rs three lakh" and "Rs four lakh" for those of us not conversant in Hindi or Gujrati or whatever language that may be?

I see here that USD1 = INR45, so unless "lakh" is 100,000+ a loss of 3 or 4 "lakh" isn't huge.

[aneeshm]

A lakh is exactly Rs. 1,00,000. Good guess, though.

[aneeshm]

It is descended from the old language's system of measuring magnitudes in powers of 10.

[Straybow]

Well, it couldn't be a million and 10k was still too small.

It makes sense to have a separate word for ten thousand and hundred thousand. "Myriad" means 10k, but that is an archaic use that would confuse the average reader rather than enlighten. I know of no word for 100k.

[aneeshm]

Old Indian language. It's still in use in India, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future.

[C0ckney]

it's nothing out of the ordinary, some shops/bars here don’t allow people in baseball caps or hoodies in for security reasons.

don't see anything wrong with such restrictions myself, it's their business after all. though of course i would be against similar measures in public buildings.