Reply to: Harrods sold by Al Fayed

[vetran]

Can you be a nazi and pro-Israel?

Well you can be an idiot and Pro Hamas/Hezbollah.

[sadkingbilly]

Can you be a nazi and pro-Israel?

sorry, should have said fascist. not nazi.
my apologies.

[sadkingbilly]

Can you be a nazi and pro-Israel?

obviously

[woody1]

AFAIK you're not the racist, misoginistic, xenophobic nazi that is Vetty.

Can you be a nazi and pro-Israel?

[sadkingbilly]

And the Fugging Egyptian Grocer is featuring on TWATO this afternoon.

I assume it's my turn because Vetran is banned at the moment.

not at all. AFAIK you're not the racist, misoginistic, xenophobic nazi that is Vetty.

oh, and what's TWATO? - reform's tv platform?

[DoctorStrangelove]

a 14 year old thread. FFS

And the Fugging Egyptian Grocer is featuring on TWATO this afternoon.

I assume it's my turn because Vetran is banned at the moment.

[sadkingbilly]

a 14 year old thread. FFS

[DoctorStrangelove]

Got to say, I will miss Harrods under the operation of Al Fayed.

The assistants won't miss The Fugging Egyptian Grocer.

In 1983, Rowland took over The Observer newspaper and became its chairman. He also campaigned to gain control of Harrods department store in Knightsbridge, but he was defeated by Egyptian-born Mohamed Al-Fayed.^[10] Rowland described his relationship with the Fayed family in his book A Hero from Zero.^[11] He started with the following words:

In Spring 1985, the three Fayed brothers acquired House of Fraser. They did so despite detailed allegations by Lonrho as to their unsavoury character and the fabrications as to their origins and wealth which they had invented to present themselves in a falsely favourable light.

[original PM]

I don't know about a Greggs but you can rest assured that there is a McDonalds and a Starbucks on the Champs-Elysées so there is no need to force any of that foreign french muck down your throat.

It is interesting how we are all different. I have a huge soft-spot for Paris mostly because I always felt I had eaten very well when visiting.

Yep has been there since ooh must be 1989 if not before - went there to get a Royale with Cheese - after getting some cassettes and Tshirts from the virgin megastore

[Churchill]

That'll teach the fugging fuggers to fug off.

Or something.

Tiny Rowland must be spinning in his fugging grave, the fugger.

Get to fug!

[Churchill]

Does that mean we can deport the dodgy arms dealer?

[SantaClaus]

Got to say, I will miss Harrods under the operation of Al Fayed.

The sales assistants are friendly and courteous, which is more than can be said of Selfridges. I guess it must be because Al Fayed personally walks around the store to check the service is up to scratch.

Last time I made a purchase from Selfridges, it was a completely silent transaction because the assistant was on the phone to his mate. The staff there just cant be bothered.

I wonder what will happen to Al Fayed's waxwork in the menswear section on the ground floor?

[Sysman]

There was an item on the news stating that Al-Fayed had been a big success for Harrods - he changed the marketing away from rich well-to-do Brits (fewer and fewer each year) and instead targetting rich foreign visitors, especially from the Middle East.

We used to call it "Arabs'" for that very reason.

When I was in Oxford Street in the early nineties it was full of cheap clothes shops selling bankrupt stock. They were leasing shops by the week apparently.

[cojak]

I'm waiting for a Poundland to appear..

[MrMark]

The only thing I buy in Harrods is made to measure shirts, and I must say each time I visit the place it is heaving with people.

But most, at least two thirds I'd say, are clearly foreign tourists, who I suppose may just be traipsing round the place and not actually buying anything.

I suspect a lot of "shoppers" go there to buy something for 5 or 6 pounds, just so they can parade the bag. Harrods don't mind as the item they've sold for a fiver probably costs them 60 pence.