Oliver Bromley has a genetic condition that causes non-cancerous tumours to grow on nerves.

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.

    • Skua@kbin.earth
      62·
      19 hours ago

      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

      • wjrii@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        17 hours ago

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

    • variants@possumpat.ioEnglish
      61·
      19 hours ago

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

    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
      411·
      15 hours ago

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

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        7 hours ago

        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.

            • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
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              3 hours ago

              Good question. I got off Reddit after they banned third party apps, but I should probably get off Lemmy as well.

              There were a lot of great things about Reddit that originally led me there, but everything I loved about it was gone by the time I left. I was hoping Lemmy would fill that hole; I was looking for a place for great insights and opinions around niche topics. But Lemmy feels more like a political echo chamber, which is a shame.

              The original comment we’re responding to is a great example of that. There’s no reason for ignorance to be hated like it is here, but dislike and getting on the negative bandwagon is what Lemmy thrives on.

              I’ll probably be gone soon, and your comments are a big part of that. I genuinely don’t mean that as an insult, it’s just that you inspired some retrospection introspection. I guess this comment is basically just for myself in the end, but thank you.