Oprah Winfrey's towering ego.

How does anyone STILL not know how rich I am?!?

Yeah, yeah. Racism is bad. I'm moving on to the part where Oprah expects everyone to give a shit who she is and how much she's worth. Keep up, now.

Here's a picture of her in Zurich at the time. This doesn't scream "wealth" to me so much as "People of Wal Mart," so yeah, we're back to "I'm Oprah fucking Winfrey, and you better recognize!"

Oh look, UA missed the point of something. Again.


It's not that they didn't realize who she was, it's that they just assumed the random black lady couldn't afford something expensive. If you've ever worked in sales, you'd know it's one of the stupidest mistakes a salesperson can make.

I got it just fine. Go to TBBS if you want an echo chamber circle jerk of by-the-numbers PC sentiment. I threw you a racism bone so you wouldn't fucking belabor the obvious.

Did I fucking say I agreed with the clerk's actions? No I did not. So you can take your assumptions and blow them out your ass.

All I'm saying is, 1) if you walk around looking like that picture, you shouldn't bitch about people assuming you aren't filthy rich, and 2) Oprah needs to get the fuck over her very prominent, very important self.

Or that the random lady who gives every appearance of being a Target shopper couldn't afford something expensive. There is every possibility in the world that it had nothing to do with her race and everything to do with the fact that she looks like she's got maybe $20 on her.

Based on that picture, I wouldn't've recognized her either. I guess the media pictures of her are either really old or really photoshopped.

If you're selling bags for $38,000 you sure as fuck should know who Oprah Winfrey is.

I'd fire the shop assistant not for being racist but for being fucking stupid and useless.

Looking at that photo, it's possible she was being judged for her shitty clothes, rather than race.

I disagree that anyone had "better fucking know" every millionaire celebrity on sight. I disagree that anyone should be expected to give the faintest whiff of a shit about celebrities at all.

No argument there. Turning away a customer is turning away a customer.


Then again, a place that sells fucking hand bags that cost nearly as much as I make in a year...I dunno. I mostly just want to raze it flat and build public outhouses on the site.

I don't think they show Oprah in Switzerland.

What kind of people does a store that sells $38,000 bags cater to?

Normally however I'd agree. This is different though, and were I the employer I'd have my people on every shitty gossip website when they weren't slinging overpriced crap.

There's this whole weird sub culture with women and expensive handbags and these designers are just laughing their way to the bank. Personally I think it's brilliant and wish I had thought of it.

Do they have the internet in Switzerland or is it just a mystery thing there that only the rest of the world uses?

This.

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Or we can just sit back and watch the wealthiest woman in America bring out teh Stupid in the RR.

People who don't generally walk around in t-shirts and stretch pants, I'll wager.

If I were the employer, I'd wake up one morning and realize "Holy shit, I'm a purveyor of overpriced purses!" and promptly find a fjord to go jump in.

As someone who's bread and butter is the telemarketing industry, I hereby condemn and disapprove of taking advantage of peoples' greedy materialism.

Careful there, this almost sounds like class envy. If the value of your labours less than a purse, then that's what it is.

Yes, yes. That's nice. We know stretch pants are high fashion among the discerning customers in your water aerobics class.

Oprah is on American TV. Everybody in the entire world and on Omicron Persei 8 should know who she is, right?

Get back to me when I'm demanding government-subsidized purses, mandating preferential lending practices to open the purse market to lower-income customers, or crying to the government to step in when I get in over my head and can't make my purse payments.

Stupid bitch should have remembered this scene in Pretty Woman.

No one in this story is "the good guy".

I'm having a hard damned time caring.

So what? We have internet in the US, but I seriously doubt that I'd know who the talk show hosts on Swiss daytime TV are.

Hey, now, calm down. Nobody's accusing you of not being able to afford your purses. And I'm sure they make you feel pretty.

What is the source of that photo?

Switzerland is not Norway or Sweden. No fjords in Switzerland that I'm aware of. :/

The answer you were looking for is celebrities.

Has it even been established that she went into the store in stretchies and a T? I thought that pic of her was just her walking around randomly?

I'd probably be at the strip club showering Swiss strippers with all my easily earned spinach.

Totally.

The board is dead as shit.

Actually, this place, TNZ, and the STO message boards are all dead as shit, AND I AM FUCKING BORED!

Hey man, you can run your expensive purse store in to the ground if you want. Mine will thrive.

Stupid, cliché-ridden, and off topic - it's a UA trifecta!

Guarantee you my butt’s smaller than yours, and I still wouldn’t wear stretch pants.

“Water aerobics” your Mom!

Fucking Google newsbot rearranging it's fucking links every ten seconds. I finally found the first story I read on it.

Here's the link.

Caption below that picture:
"Girls' weekend: Oprah Winfrey and best friend Gayle King ahead of Tina Turner and Erwin Bach's wedding celebrations in Zurich, Switzerland"

Sure sounds to me like they all went "Disneyland casual" for a little shopping before the wedding.

UA doesn't care about regime change in Iran or GWB's stent implant, but he sure cares about Oprah!

Well, shit, go smack yourself around with something, then.