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  1. For the women at the casino, if they knew going into the job that heels were required, then shame on them, if they were hired and then it was forced on them then, shame on the company.

    I think that generally that is probably how most of us feel, although I think the article in question started on one train of thought and moved elsewhere - typical american journalism.
  2. In that case posting such a question in one of the other forums I mentioned might have been wiser. Who do you need permission from? I'm sure if you warn other members of the forum as to the nature of the contents of said URL then they are free to make up their own mind as to whether of not they click on it, or if you post the URL without the http:// bit in front of it then members will actually have to cut and paste the URL into the browser address line to even access it. No I haven't seen the movie, is it free?

  3. stilettos:

    I want an answer to the following question:

    Where exactly in in that Fox News video did the reporter specifically tell the viewers that the BBC were blamed in the Hutton report for being anti-America etc?

    Actually he said it with his very first sentence: "Wednesday, the British Broadcasting Corporation was forced to pay up for its blatant anti-Americanism before and during the Iraq war.

    Now I'm sure you're going to say that he didn't specifically say the Hutton report but he didn't specifically say it wasn't the Hutton report. And as the only piece of news concerning the BBC on that Wednesday was the Hutton report what else could he have been speaking about. It's blindingly obvious that he is talking about the Hutton report, indeed he mentions the Hutton report later so what else could he have been talking about? How would you interpret the comment?

  4. Well, my friend, I have watched that Fox News video clip again and the journalist (I don't know his name) makes no suggestion at all that the BBC was blamed in the Hutton report for being anti-American. I am not sure where you got this idea from.

    However, I did agree with his (the journalist) opinion about the whole issue. The word "appeared" has no meaning here.

    Doesn't seem like you watched the same Fox video as I did, here is a transcript of it:

    Wednesday, the British Broadcasting Corporation was forced to pay up for its blatant anti-Americanism before and during the Iraq war. A frothing at the mouth anti-Americanism that was obsessive, irrational and dishonest.

    Well the first paragraph alone sets the scene and appears to suggest that this is all to do with some anti-American stance by the BBC. It continues...

    The BBC -- the “Beeb” -- was one of the worst offenders in the British press because it felt entitled to not only pillory Americans and George W. Bush, but it felt entitled to lie. And when caught lying, it felt entitled to defend its lying reporters and executives.

    Again the lying is associated with the pillory of Americans and Bush. It continues...

    The incident involved the reporter Andrew Gilligan who made a fool of himself in Baghdad when the American invasion actually arrived in the Iraqi capital. Gilligan, pro-Iraqi and anti-American insisted on the air that the Iraqi army was heroically repulsing an incompetent American military. Video from our own Greg Kelly of the American Army moving through Baghdad at will put the light to that.

    One would be forgiven at this point for thinking that the lying incident concerned Gilligan insisting on air that "the Iraqi army was heroically repulsing an incompetent American military". To be honest I doubt if Gilligan ever made those remarks about the Iraqi army. It continues...

    After the war, back in London, Gilligan got a guy named David Kelly to tell him a few things about prewar assessments on Iraq's weapons' programs. And Gilligan exaggerated about what Kelly had told him.

    Now we are getting closer to the truth and notice that lying now becomes exaggerated. It seems a bit late to start with the real story when viewers have already been primed with the anti-American BBC stuff above.

    Kelly committed suicide over the story and the BBC, far from blaming itself, insisted its reporter had a right to lie, exaggerate, because, well, the BBC knew the war was wrong and anything it could say to underscore that point had to be right.

    The British government investigation slammed the BBC Wednesday and a Beeb exec resigned to show they got it.

    But they don't.

    So the next time you hear the BBC bragging about how much superior the Brits are delivering the news rather than Americans who wear flags in their lapels, remember it was the Beeb caught lying.

    I am lost for words.

  5. No offence here or anything but what the hell are you talking about?

    Of course America is not mentioned in any Hutton anything.

    Your argument is what exactly? What point are you trying to make here?

    The fox news video clip I posted seemed to suggest that the BBC were blamed in the Hutton report for being anti-America etc... You appeared to side with the fox news report so I was just asking. It seems I didn't understand the US humour.
  6. Is there an actual shop front or is it just mail order as they don't give much away on the "About us" section of what and where they are???

    Well they gave these two addresses:

    ICON-SHOES, 234 Sandycombe Road, Kew, TW9 2EQ

    ICON-SHOES, 148 Bedfont Lane, Feltham, Middlesex TW14 9NJ

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