Harrods bans soldiers on Poppy Day (Remembrance Day outrage)

Daily Mail ^ | 11-18-06 | Staff

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Methinks the SAS should be sent to Mr. Fayad's residence to have a little "Chat" with him...

[Maeve]

It is an outrage. Mohammed al-Fayed should be in prison already. Pack him and his family up and drop them in the Atlas Mountains.

[OldCorps]

amen

[Kirkwood]

"al Fayed thinks the British government killed his son.
He hates them.
Therefore, he won't let them onto his property.
If that's really what's going on, it's understandable.
Irrational, and in the end bad for publicity, but understandable."

If he really believed that, why doesn't he move out of the UK? If he said that, then he is a lying hypocrite. As it is, he is a scumbag piece of trash who should be thrown out of the UK. Does he own property or companies in the US?

[RicocheT]

It is a sad day for the United Kingdom when one of Her Majesty's officers is denied entry to a public place by a shopkeeper. One can only hope that the British shop elsewhere in the future.

[RicocheT]

Marks and Spencer gives good rates when you are changing dollars to pounds or euros. Their underwear and socks are top rate too.

[ArrogantBustard]

I've been thinking about this. (Dangerous, I know, but here goes):

O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Tommy, go away";

There's always been a certain element of this ... perhaps worse toward enlisted than officers (debatable?) ... a presumption on the part of some elements of society that Soldiers are Soldiers because they can't "make it on the outside". That snobbery was usually tempered by the hypocritical:

But it's "Thank you, Mister Atkins", when the band begins to play,

in which the snobs are at least sometimes willing to recognise that the Soldier is doing necessary work.

Beginning with the scandalous maltreatment of veterans returning from SEA, and continuing today, the pacifists aren't even willing to do that. The band's playing. The drums are rolling. There's trouble in the wind. And these freaks still both literally and figuratively spit on Tommy.

[ApplegateRanch]

Boycott Harrods.

Haven't bought anything there in decades, and never will again. ;)

No; American, not Brit, but I do have relatives in the area whom I occasionally have buy stuff for me.

But not at Harrod's ever since it was made part of Dar al Islam. The R.H.s get enough of my money to fight us with via oil and "foreign aid", without willing giving them more.

[Rummyfan]

On my visits to London in the 80s and 90s, I spent a lot more at M&S than Harrod's!

[Stashiu]

Yup. I had two friends who came back to the States all banged up from Nam. One got slapped in the face, the other his crutch grabbed from him. Both were obviously wounded (in uniform, with crutches, one also with a neck brace). I got off lightly with verbal insults.

So much for the pacifists filled with compassion.

[Jack Hammer]

Perfect. Thank you.

[Valin]

I was hopeing someone would post this.
Give yourself an attaboy
ATTABOY
The more things change the more they remain the same.

[jboot]

I have always wondered why you guys didn't wipe the floor with those weasels. Had a bunch of grotty kids harassed my grandpa when he got back from WWII, he and his unit buddies would kicked the stuffing out of them, MPs be d*mned.

(They actually did stomp a bunch of zoot-suiters for a lot less.)