Toronto Trim's Hotel Cum Drop-in Centre

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Well, I had to get pulled away from the Lincoln Park penguin exhibit last year...they're hilarious/fascinating.

Pulled away? Another glory hole episode? Thats ballsy... those are nasty critters.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Assuming Hermes' version of the facts is truthful, that would be so wrong. It's pretty sad that Oprah is going to stew about this all summer and then make a big deal about it on her show. Is her audience -- full of common people who probably would never even walk in for fear of being sneered at -- really going to sympathize? She is already so disgustingly full of herself and such a fawning starfucker.

Flinty, I think the North African comment rumor has been debunked, and people were in the store prepping for the private event, not shopping.

Yeah, yeah, whatever you say, Frenchie.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Why would Hermes cave? How many housewives in trailers in Missoula buy $500 scarves?

I thought they already had apologized etc - I wouldn't be surprised if they offer her lots of stuff to make up for it.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
She promises to talk about it on the air when her show resumes taping in the fall. Has jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton jumped on the bandwagon yet? The whole thing is recockulous. The store was closed. They were getting ready for a private event. You are NOT the center of the universe Oprah.

On the up side, the audience members may get some lovely parting gifts from Hermes.

A few things.

1. This was in the story on CNN:

'The New York Post, in its Monday Page Six gossip column, reported she was turned away because the store had been "having a problem with North Africans lately."

In comments to CNN, an Hermes spokeswoman categorically denied that allegation.

"There was never any discussion of North Africans," she said. "The story is not true."'

I don't think that's true, but until we hear the exact words she was told when turned away, I won't go jumping to any conclusions.

If race was part of the decision, then it is a newsworthy item.

The fact that she is waiting to talk about it until her show airs, if there was any racism or not, is disgusting.

2. Hermes is insane. If they don't want their US sales to fall off the face of the Earth, they better start kissing some big Oprah ass fast.

3. If no racism was involved, Oprah needs to be smacked around with an Hermes Platinum and diamond covered mace.

TM

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Yeah, yeah, whatever you say, Frenchie.

Moi? I'm an American of German descent. The French hate me. Seriously, the last time I was in Hermes in Paris the clerks treated me so rudely. I wanted to say "Do you have any idea how much my boyfriend's Nikes fucking cost him? Don't think I can't afford this shit, bitch. I just don' t like scarves and crocodile is so environmentally irresponsible."

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Because the world is a stupid place, particularly when PR is at stake. Why do makers of luxury goods routinely give away those goods to celebrities who can easily afford them?

There's an Hermes in a mall near me and its situated just across from an Orange Julius-type place and a sugared pretzel store. I imagine an anthrologist could have a field day sitting in the bench between them.

I'd like to see them go to war and burn each other down. Nothing uspets me more than orange Julius (they put eggs in that shit), sugared pretzels and Hermes ties.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Because the world is a stupid place, particularly when PR is at stake. Why do makers of luxury goods routinely give away those goods to celebrities who can easily afford them?

Because when Oprah sports an Hermes watch on her show, every single brain dead housewife in this country saves up to buy one.

TM

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
...those are nasty critters.

next time I'm in Philly, I'm going to beat you senseless and force you to wear underwear.

TM

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Why do makers of luxury goods routinely give away those goods to celebrities who can easily afford them?

Why do Americans buy en masse what celebrities wear?

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Why do Americans buy en masse what celebrities wear?

Why the fuck would someone pay $450 for a beach towel?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I don't think he's gay at all. All of the gay people I know have souls. Tom Cruise is one of those creepy fake freaks who's probably so in love with himself that onanism is the only sexual outlet that gets him hard.

I hope his jet crashes in a Ritalin factory. The less I see of that midget the better.

I know just enough about myself to know I cannot settle for one of those simplifications which indignant people seize upon to make understandable a world too complex for their comprehension. Astrology, health food, flag waving, bible thumping, Zen, nudism, nihilism -- all of these are grotesque simplifications which small dreary people adopt in the hope of thereby finding The Answer, because the very concept that maybe there is no answer, never has been, never will be, terrifies them.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
A few things.

1. This was in the story on CNN:

'The New York Post, in its Monday Page Six gossip column, reported she was turned away because the store had been "having a problem with North Africans lately."

In comments to CNN, an Hermes spokeswoman categorically denied that allegation.

"There was never any discussion of North Africans," she said. "The story is not true."'

I don't think that's true, but until we hear the exact words she was told when turned away, I won't go jumping to any conclusions.

If race was part of the decision, then it is a newsworthy item.

The fact that she is waiting to talk about it until her show airs, if there was any racism or not, is disgusting.

2. Hermes is insane. If they don't want their US sales to fall off the face of the Earth, they better start kissing some big Oprah ass fast.

3. If no racism was involved, Oprah needs to be smacked around with an Hermes Platinum and diamond covered mace.

TM

It seems crazy that the clerk would have made the N. Africans comment to a black woman to whom s/he was denying entry, even if s/he didn't recognize her. But then again, the world is a stupid place and people who are inclined to make racist comments are not exactly judicious about it.

It also seems crazy that the clerk wouldn't recognize her, but if s/he didn't, woo-hoo!

If Hermes kisses ass just b/c Oprah pitched a hissy, that would be sickening. Do you really think U.S. sales would drop precipitously as a result of this if the facts don't bear out the racism thing?

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I know just enough about myself to know I cannot settle for one of those simplifications which indignant people seize upon to make understandable a world too complex for their comprehension. Astrology, health food, flag waving, bible thumping, Zen, nudism, nihilism -- all of these are grotesque simplifications which small dreary people adopt in the hope of thereby finding The Answer, because the very concept that maybe there is no answer, never has been, never will be, terrifies them.

oh great. Greatest(s)hit(s)ebby?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I know just enough about myself to know I cannot settle for one of those simplifications which indignant people seize upon to make understandable a world too complex for their comprehension. Astrology, health food, flag waving, bible thumping, Zen, nudism, nihilism -- all of these are grotesque simplifications which small dreary people adopt in the hope of thereby finding The Answer, because the very concept that maybe there is no answer, never has been, never will be, terrifies them.

Did you know that penguins are our rulers?

TM

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Why do Americans buy en masse what celebrities wear?

I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left to see but the glitter, and the brute routiness of maintaining it.

..I am also wary of all earnestness.