A man with a facial disfigurement says he was asked to leave a restaurant in south London because staff said he was “scaring the customers”.

Oliver Bromley has Neurofibromatosis Type 1, a genetic condition that causes non-cancerous tumours to grow on his nerves.

Speaking to the BBC, he said when he had gone to place an order at a restaurant in Camberwell, staff told him there had been complaints about him.

“It’s a horrible thing to happen. I took it very personally on the day,” he said.

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      It looks to me like the first one was taken with the front-facing camera of a phone, and those often have a horizontal flip option

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        Pocket squares/boutonnieres are pretty much always on the wearer’s left-hand side, so that’s my guess as well.

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      Seems like BBC isn’t checking their pictures or maybe he chooses which side to pop his eye in each morning

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      Lmao most downvoted comment for asking a reasonable question (albeit with a pretty well understood answer). Lemmy truly is reddit 2.0

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        Were you expecting philosopher kings with a more advanced heuristic than “I don’t like this post”? The improvement is decentralization - that doesn’t make the users nice or smart.