Sell Oprah The Bag

[randallscott35]

These racist Euros...first they go to the track without a pony and then they deny the richest woman in America a chance to splurge on worthless ****.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...h-Winfrey.html

[my miss storm cat]

It can take a couple of hours for the alligators to die.

They're held down while someone bashes in their head(s) and then they're left, suffering. Some of them don't die fast enough and are skinned alive and others just kind of bleed to death.

Snakes are sometimes nailed to trees and then skinned. Alive.

Rather than go into what I think of Oprah I thought I'd just mention this.

**** her and **** anyone who buys such things.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

It can take a couple of hours for the alligators to die.

They're held down while someone bashes in their head(s) and then they're left, suffering. Some of them don't die fast enough and are skinned alive and others just kind of bleed to death.

Snakes are sometimes nailed to trees and then skinned. Alive.

Rather than go into what I think of Oprah I thought I'd just mention this.

**** her and **** anyone who buys such things.

Oh I think she is as self absorbed as it gets. I don't understand the handbag fascination in general. Strange

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by randallscott35

Oh I think she is as self absorbed as it gets. I don't understand the handbag fascination in general. Strange

Yeah she is really something.

This was my favorite comment...

Why does she presume it's racism. She might just have looked cheap, fat and ugly.

[Danzig]

first world problems....

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Danzig

first world problems....

If only she was wearing a hoodie....

In light of the adultery charges in NY?

Bigger fish to fry!!!!

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Yeah she is really something.

This was my favorite comment...

Why does she presume it's racism. She might just have looked cheap, fat and ugly.

yeah, poor oprah. poor, poor oprah.

i cannot imagine spending that kind of money on a purse. a purse! but then, i don't get people crazy about coach purses. i bought a purse on sale. paid 10 dollars. holds my stuff as well as something that costs hundreds, or thousands.

racism is still very much an issue..

but i feel a lot more empathy for people getting stopped and frisked because of what they look like, sentenced differently because of their race.
but oprah trying to say she experienced it, because she wasn't able to look at a very expensive purse....yeah, i'm trying. i do recall a woman in the u.k. who put up a sign at her restaurant, warning people the place was owned by a black woman. she'd had many patrons walk in, only to see her, say they were in the wrong place and leave.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

It can take a couple of hours for the alligators to die.

They're held down while someone bashes in their head(s) and then they're left, suffering. Some of them don't die fast enough and are skinned alive and others just kind of bleed to death.

Snakes are sometimes nailed to trees and then skinned. Alive.

Rather than go into what I think of Oprah I thought I'd just mention this.

**** her and **** anyone who buys such things.

Originally Posted by Danzig

first world problems....

I'll never understand the high price tag obsession for many items.

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Not saying it's what took place here, but one can get into trouble telling a Black Person that something is overpriced...Just don't do it.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Rather than go into what I think of Oprah I thought I'd just mention this.

**** her and **** anyone who buys such things.

Read the whole article before getting worked up about her purchasing choices. She didn't ask to buy the bag; she asked to look at it. And at the bottom of the article was this:

Even if Oprah Winfrey had been allowed to look at the handbag, she may have thought twice before buying it.
The £24,460 bag was reportedly a crocodile-skin version of one of Jennifer Aniston’s favourite designs.
But as Miss Winfrey is a strident opponent of animal fur clothing and was named 2008 Person of The Year by animal rights group PETA, she may have felt crocodile skin was a step too far.
The TV host has occasionally worn leather belts and scarves, but crocodile skin is seen by some campaigners as being particularly cruel, given the poor treatment exotic species are often subjected to by farmers.
A spokesman for Tom Ford could not be contacted to confirm if the handbag was made of real or imitation crocodile skin.

I'm no fan of Oprah Winfrey because of her giving a platform to Jenny McCarthy and her child-killing anti-vaccination b*llsh*t, likewise her touting of Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz, both of whom are also full of crap, but in this case, I think it's a reach to accuse her of animal cruelty since all she wanted was for a salesperson to get a purse out of a display case so she could take a closer look.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Not saying it's what took place here, but one can get into trouble telling a Black Person that something is overpriced...Just don't do it.

Right, because making assumptions about someone's finances based on the color of the person's skin is... what's the word... it rhymes with basest....

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Right, because making assumptions about someone's finances based on the color of the person's skin is... what's the word... it rhymes with basest....

it's best not to assume anything about anyone...looks, dress, etc. i've gone out in less than my best, salespeople don't know what i can/can't afford.
and i've got some people who come in my office who look like poor dirt farmers. they're anything but.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

it's best not to assume anything about anyone...looks, dress, etc. i've gone out in less than my best, salespeople don't know what i can/can't afford.
and i've got some people who come in my office who look like poor dirt farmers. they're anything but.

So true. I was at Aqueduct early this year with friends (the ones who rescued three of the Paragallo horses) and they pointed out two people in the paddock to me- to look at them, they were dressed not too far off of what I've seen some homeless people on the streets wearing, but my friend said in fact they were billionaires. They definitely weren't spending it on their wardrobe.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

So true. I was at Aqueduct early this year with friends (the ones who rescued three of the Paragallo horses) and they pointed out two people in the paddock to me- to look at them, they were dressed not too far off of what I've seen some homeless people on the streets wearing, but my friend said in fact they were billionaires. They definitely weren't spending it on their wardrobe.

Strange but I got back from San Diego last week and out there the homeless people looked homeless and the rich, well looked rich.

Highly noticeable was both the homeless and the rich were in far superior physical shape compared to their peers back home in the Midwest.

[randallscott35]

Even the homeless gotta look good in Cali

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

Strange but I got back from San Diego last week and out there the homeless people looked homeless and the rich, well looked rich.

Highly noticeable was both the homeless and the rich were in far superior physical shape compared to their peers back home in the Midwest.

My husband commented that the first thing he noticed when he moved from Dallas to NYC was how much thinner people were in NYC. And I have a friend in Florida who asked me if people in NYC dress better than people in the rest of the country. I said, not exactly, but NYCers do plan what they wear, as opposed to the tourists here, who are identifiable because they clearly just picked the most comfortable things they own, put them on and called it an outfit. So, while a New Yorker can look just as bad as any tourist, a person can tell that it's a bad that they thought about ahead of time.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

My husband commented that the first thing he noticed when he moved from Dallas to NYC was how much thinner people were in NYC. And I have a friend in Florida who asked me if people in NYC dress better than people in the rest of the country. I said, not exactly, but NYCers do plan what they wear, as opposed to the tourists here, who are identifiable because they clearly just picked the most comfortable things they own, put them on and called it an outfit. So, while a New Yorker can look just as bad as any tourist, a person can tell that it's a bad that they thought about ahead of time.

Which is why the obese in this country should subsidize health care for the rest of us, not the other way around.

[Danzig]

someone made a comment yesterday about why so many here are obese. i said 'yeah, cause everything is fried with gravy on it'.

we've walked into, and then right back out of restaurants around here many times. i will not eat where everything is breaded and fried. cooking is a regional thing, just like many other things... and i guess folks down here don't know that frying food adds 40% more calories to the food they're ruining....

oh, and biscuits served with EVERYTHING.

[jms62]

I think there is a lot of Stress eating going on in this country right now.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by jms62

I think there is a lot of Stress eating going on in this country right now.

fine but then go the Tracey Gold route afterwards.