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David Shayler?

My reaction to this was that there is not much chance of CNN, at least for a goodly while, being ‘live and let live’ enough to appoint a transgendered news presenter with a wig and a miniskirt.

My reaction to this was that there is not much chance of CNN, at least for a goodly while, being ‘live and let live’ enough to appoint a transgendered news presenter with a wig and a miniskirt.

I think that’s his real hair.

Silverton is a great town. (It’s a 45-minute drive from my house.)

Exactly, that’s the problem with “dress codes”, whatever they are.

there is not much chance of CNN, at least for a goodly while, being ‘live and let live’ enough to appoint a transgendered news presenter with a wig and a miniskirt.

Let’s start with them employing a butt-ugly news presenter. Baby steps.

Chris Morris will need to up his game in future.

I agree with Walter Sobchak.
The Mayor reminded me of Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz.

Excuse me, the story has rattled my mind so much that I have to go smoke my first joint since 1981.

Well, quite, people should be allowed to whatever they want – mini shirt, niqab, shorts, or whatever.

Sorry but I would never vote for anybody who’s that keen on plastic surgery.

Well, quite, people should be allowed to whatever they want – mini shirt, niqab, shorts, or whatever.

Niqab isn’t a dress of choice, Farnos.

It is an embodiment of mysoginy. It is a device used to contain women by terrified and thuggish men. It is a dehumanizing shroud, a cloak of death, a mantle of misery, up there with white pointy hats, swastikas and other symbols of hate.

This is the fucking space age. How dare you, a so-called “progressive”, support a device that forces a woman to cover her body because apparently seeing so much a nose would result in men around her uncontrolably going into seizures of lust and sexually assulting her.

HOW FUCKING DARE YOU!

You are a traitor to the enlightement, Farnos. You are a traitor to the female half of humanity.

As Pat Condell so splendidly puts it, YOU and every other man who supports this medieval savagery should be forced to wear a burqa or a niqab.

Bet she’s Lib Dem!

Morgoth,

Dress codes are wrong, whatever they are, enforcing the niqab is wrong, enforcing people to wear sets of approved clothes is wrong, like Maoist China.

So, if you want to wear you occulist black outfit with an orange sash, as much as I dislike it, I will support your right to free expression.

Dress codes are wrong, except the ones that ban swastikas.

So, if you want to wear you occulist black outfit with an orange sash, as much as I dislike it, I will support your right to free expression.

You complete pillock. Everyone knows orange doesn’t go well with black.

Dress codes are wrong, whatever they are, enforcing the niqab is wrong, enforcing people to wear sets of approved clothes is wrong, like Maoist China.

The mindset that brainwashes an otherwise free human being into wearing a tent because either a) some stone age gangster wore one or b) she thinks men will rape her if she exposes so much as a nose is equally wrong.

“You are a traitor to the enlightement, Farnos. You are a traitor to the female half of humanity.”

Morgoth is exactly right.

What a bizarre world we live in, that people who defend women from slavery are calumnized as illiberal and regressive.

Bloody hell, when I saw the title of the entry I thought for a minute it referred to Silverton, Devon and that strange things had been going on in the village whilst I slept

Re: nothing in particular. The tunes of ‘Sylvia’s mother’ popped into my head when I saw the headline, if you’re thinking of commemorating the mayor in song you can have that idea for free.

Morgoth

‘You complete pillock. Everyone knows orange doesn’t go well with black.’

Deep Purple on the other hand.

You complete pillock. Everyone knows orange doesn’t go well with black.

That’s not true. Its so 2008 though.

http://fashionista.com/2008/07/halloween_is_in_well_sort_of.php

This isn’t about dress codes, this is about professionalism — professionalism that she signed onto when she took the job. If you are a mayor you should, as Morgoth says, know how to color coordinate. But in all seriousness, when you represent your town, you represent everyone. And that requires a little sobriety in how you present yourself to your community and your neighboring communities, and your state.

A little eccentricity is one thing, and “fashionably” permittable… But if you want to make your town look good, then “dress good.” If you you want your town to look trashy… well… the example is above for all to see. YICK!

Gwaan the Mayor of Silverton. Not to mention his electorate. Respect

Oi bill I’m wearing hot pants and sliver thigh boots and I’m a bloke who’s a primary school teacher…….Call the cops

Mr Danger

The catwalk halloween horrors you link to rather prove Morgoth’s point.

No doubt those fahionistas frequent restaurants that serve them trout and mutton tartelettes on a bed of strawberris with rhubarb and chocolate coulis and a side of cheese and onion crisps.

It still dont make it right.

mrbp

If you don’t tell the Governors that I’ve got a BDSM dungeon in my stock cupboard, I won’t tell about your hotpants and silver fuck-me boots… deal?

Oh and have you nicked my flatbed stapler, you twat?