Patrick Stevens said:
After a foreign football team was banned from Harrods, a bunch of scouts has now been refused entry because they are wearing uniform.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8574009.stm
So, what do you have to wear/avoid wearing to be allowed in?
It is actually funny, and at the same time deeply lamentable, that the judicious public take offence to this. Harrods, The Ritz, and plenty of our establishments used to actually know the meaning of class. If you wore training shoes you were disallowed, if you wore an under-shirt externally you were disallowed. Now I see Americans swagger into the Ritz in denim, unkempt hair styles, and an overly cavalier attitude.
Then again, can we expect much from the public when we side with those that demand the right to purchase their Groceries at the store wearing their pyjamas.
Whatever happened to our country, you cannot blame this on the immigrants, unless those scapegoats happen to be the Americans whose advert-clad culture* seems to have pervaded our own.
*Obviously America has a diverse and multifaceted range of cultures. What often passes for American culture is the superficial materialistic and facile tosh where everyone is a category and has their own predictable traits. There are many impressive parts of American cultures, after all it is the birth place of Jazz.