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Oscar winner Natalie Portman has administered a righteous shoeing to fashion designer John Galliano, who has just been given his marching orders by Christian Dior after being accused of delivering a spectacularly obnoxious anti-Semitic rant. Galliano was caught on mobile phonecam last December outside Paris café La Perle, …

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  1. lansalot
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    Astounding...

    But what of Kerry Katona? And what's the latest with Jordan, Lester ???

    What ???

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    1. Marky W
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      She was in some Star Wars films which have beaucoup computers 'n' robots 'n' shit. Bleedin' obvious when you think about it, innit.

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Funny...

        She doesn't look Druish.

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      2. Furbian
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        Happy

        Thanks for clearing that up...

        I was about to ask about the Tech angle...

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      tangential thought

      I couldn't help thinking it is mighty convenient how the slurs about Assange being anti semitic (and they do seem a bit spurious to me based on what I read - although all I have to go on is what I read about what someone said they recalled of a meeting. However, that is what the allegations seem to be based on) surfaced at the same time all this is in the public eye.

      Mine is the heavy one with the lead lining and Conspiracy theories 'r us badge!

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    3. Captain TickTock
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      Boffin

      It was the smartphone...

      ... wot dunnit

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  2. Sonny Jim
    WTF?

    Err.....

    "the Christian Dior house has decided to lay him off immediately and has begun firing procedures against him."

    Err, firing procedures? What?

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    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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      Joke

      Why does he love Hitler and what does he have against Italian ladies?

      >Err, firing procedures? What?

      Better than gassing procedures, right?

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      1. Fred Flintstone Gold badge
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        Saved by the early hour

        It's a good thing I'm not near a breakfast yet - it would have costed me a keyboard. Thanks :-)

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Firing Procedures

      He was shot whilst trying to escape?

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  3. windywoo
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    I think I only need an icon

    Obviously because it's about a fashion designer it must be an iPad2 rumour? Or because it's about Natalie Portman it's a play on the fact that she has port in her name? Yeah I can scrape the barrel too.

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    1. Jedit Silver badge
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      Paris Hilton

      Or...

      ... because it's a Bootnote, it could have no IT angle at all.

      Paris, because she's all angles.

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      1. Robert Hill
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        Bootnotes...

        heh...should't Bootnotes be renamed "Editorial Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Cards"?

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  4. Cazzo Enorme

    Mildly impressed

    " ... because of the particularly odious nature of the behaviour and words ..."

    That's far stronger than the usual corporate waffle that gets issued when a celebrity twunt does a silly. Now if only Chelsea Football Club could grow a pair and sack a certain gun toting idiot.

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  5. Ian McNee
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    Blimey!

    Fashion icon turns out to be vile little wanker, never saw that coming!

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    1. Dan 10
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      Oh yes!

      If I could upvote several times, I would...

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    Totally contradicts the values which have always been defended by Christian Dior

    I can't stop thinking of Stewart Lee's 'Values of the Carphone Warehouse' routine.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IE0kSZmW6g

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    Racist?

    Sounds more like he just plain obnoxious than racist. He seems to rant at everyone equally.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Ratfaced

      Having also seen the video it looks very much like a case of being obnoxious. Not to be the anon'er that cried VinceCable, but this seems like it was another case of a honey trap... unless the voice of French male youth rises even higher in adolescence (prior to a intense post-18 drop) while also giggling inanely at wankered anglos.

      Thankfully the media circus won't devalue or distract from actual, threatening, and reckless anti-Semitism.

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  8. Anonymous Coward
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    It's obvious

    Obviously Portman is an IT icon since her role in star wars?

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    1. dogged
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      Bootnotes.

      See title.

      Then get a life.

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  9. Stumpy
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    Oh the irony...

    ... of course, the irony that Galiano seems to have missed is that if Hitler was oh so great, and the Third Reich had indeed won the war, he would be one of the first up against the wall (or in the showers) for being gay ...

    ... obnoxious twunt.

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  10. banjomike

    ...values which have always been defended by Christian Dior...

    Er, this quote is from Wikipedia, from the Christian Dior page: "For the duration of World War II, Christian Dior dressed the wives of the Nazi officers and French collaborators.

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    1. NogginTheNog
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      Must be true

      You are quoting Wikipedia there, right?? You have checked that edit didn't go up in the last 24 hours or anything?? Has happened...

      Secondly, yeah yeah we can all find examples of terrible things done by previous generations of leaders of organisations still in existence: does that make those now in charge automatically guilty, or even tarred with the same brush, or holders of the same beliefs?

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      1. banjomike
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        very clever...

        but the last edit of the page was on 22nd Feb, and yes, I did check BEFORE I posted.

        You seem to reading a different story to the rest of us. The Dior crowd are the ones that all innocent. It is the current leadership, Chief exec Sidney Toledano, who might be hypocritical by denying what their founder, allegedly, might have done.

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    2. Lars Silver badge
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      WTF?

      But the brave

      farmers did not sell milk or eggs to the Nazi and French collaborators. Shame on the Champagne producers.

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    3. Anonymous Coward
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      what?

      You didn't see that invisible asterisk at the end of the quote?

      Hell, if you go back far enough, all of us (or our forefathers) were evil, bastards, or both.

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      WWII

      Ah, but they used the previous year's fashion, imagine the embarrassment!

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    5. Robert E A Harvey
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      No suprise

      Peddlers of the superficial turn out to be shallow and foolish. No surprise there.

      Oh look who's there.

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    6. Anonymous Coward
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      Correct and the SS uniform itself was a Hugo Boss design.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Boss#History

      Conversely I am given to understand the rubbish shapeless WW2 British Battledress was designed in part by a young designer one Hardy Amies

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  11. Mark Southee
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    Firing procedures?

    Perhaps they're getting Ashley Cole in?

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  13. Anonymous Coward
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    When it's Natalie Portman

    You don't need an IT angle!!

    Paris, because if you imagine hard enough she becomes Natalie!

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    1. sT0rNG b4R3 duRiD
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      Errrr...

      That's going to take a lot, and I mean, rather a lot of beer. And even then...

      Nope, I reckon you best just enjoy Paris for just what she is and leave Ms. Portman out of it :P

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  14. J 3
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    Anti-semitic?

    What does he have against Arabs?

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    1. Jason Hall
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      @ J 3

      Personally - I'm not sure (don't really care) but here's what I thought:

      Jew = Practices the Jewis Religion

      Hebrew = Speaks Hebrew

      Israelite = Citizen of Israel

      Semite = Anyone of Semetic Group (Arabic, Hebrew, Asyrian)

      So you would be correct :)

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  15. Riscyrich
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    @Anonymous 18:56 GMT

    LOL - I get it :-)

    Big hair dryer FTW....

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  17. Daniel Evans

    Perfume Co. discusses "particularly odious nature" of comments?

    I see what they did there.

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  18. Anonymous Coward
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    what a cutie

    I saw the video of Galliano, his words were quite shocking indeed.

    And Natalie Portman is a cutie. Didn't know she's Jewish, don't care either. She could be any other color, too. A cutie from head to toe.

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    Natalie Portman

    /respect.

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  20. bharq

    obvious

    sorry to point out the obvious - but weren't the Italians on the same side as Hitler?

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    1. Ebaneezer Wanktrollop
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      WTF?

      When they were winning

      When they were losing they'd swap sides - pity they don't do the same in 6 Nations Rugby.

      As for the vile, disgusting comments - there are dozens of comments here from guys drooling over another mans, heavily pregnant wife!

      I don't get it really. We consider sending the military into Libya as free speech is being impaired but I can't take the piss out of the Jewish?

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  21. Anonymous Coward
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    Only Jews Buy Clothes?

    Funny how you can take the piss out of an Aussie but say one anti-Jewish thing and you're a "bad person".

    I'm sick to the back teeth of the super sensitivity of the Jewish community. I wonder if that's why they were targetted in the first place, so full of themselves?

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    1. Sarah Bee (Written by Reg staff)
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      Re: Only Jews Buy Clothes?

      Yeah, funny huh.

      Yeah.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      title?

      Well, the difference is that in France at least, it is actually _illegal_ to make these sorts of comments, hence why he was arrested (albeit for only a few hours due to his celeb status).

      But you can say what you want about the Aussies :)

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      Oh Dear

      Have "Aussies" been the victims of persecution for hundreds of years? Were millions of "Aussies" "targeted" then murdered by the Nazis?

      I'm not Jewish but I believe they have every right to be "super sensitive."

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      1. Zolko Silver badge
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        bis repetita

        @ Le Prawn : "Have Aussies been the victims of persecution for hundreds of years?"

        Well, if they were, would they wonder why that is so ? If an Aussie did belong to some "group" that was persecuted throughout history all the while claming some god-sent superiority, wouldn't you tell him to first stop pretending he is some sort of god-chosen people before complaining ?

        If an Aussie was insulted by a drunken guy, would he play some sort of "how shocking" role and take it to the police ?

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    4. Sara Bee
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      Aborigines?

      Over sensitive? I don't recall Australians, unless of course you refer to aborigines as "aussies" ever being rounded up and exterminated....

      Of course apart from that minor hiccup Adolf was a very nice chap

      Twat

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    5. Patrick R
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      He did not

      say anything bad about Mel Gibson. Don't know what you're talking about.

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