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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/christmas/9754793/Harrods-Santa-told-he-must-keeps-palms-on-show.html

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Officials at Harrods have reportedly told workers they must keep their palms on show at all times during a child’s visit in the wake of the Jimmy Saville scandal.
Other changes introduced by the upmarket store, in Knightsbridge, central London, has installed CCTV in its grotto and ensuring there is an elf there at all times.
Meanwhile, children can only sit on Santa’s with the permission of their parents, the Daily Mirror reported.
"It is political correctness gone mad,” a source told the newspaper yesterday.
“But following all the press coverage of Jimmy Savile, bosses felt they could take no chances and decided to take out strict preventative measures.

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Other changes introduced by the upmarket store, in Knightsbridge, central London, has installed CCTV in its grotto and ensuring there is an elf there at all times.

Elf & Safety?
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Amnesia10 wrote:
Other changes introduced by the upmarket store, in Knightsbridge, central London, has installed CCTV in its grotto and ensuring there is an elf there at all times.
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We are all Bratty, in some way.
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Wouldn't surprise me if in the next few years, kids can only see Santa from behind a glass/plastic cubicle with drilled holes to allow speech through.

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Frankly, we all knew Father Christmas was a bit of a dodgy character anyway. I wouldn't leave the drunken old fraud alone with my kids, if I had any.

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Wouldn't surprise me if in the next few years, kids can only see Santa from behind a glass/plastic cubicle with drilled holes to allow speech through.

Like Hannibal Lector? :lol:

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cloaked_wolf wrote:
Wouldn't surprise me if in the next few years, kids can only see Santa from behind a glass/plastic cubicle with drilled holes to allow speech through.

Like Hannibal Lector? :lol:



My thought was "aren't there places like that in Soho and Amsterdam?"

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Another nail in the coffin of Christmas.

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cloaked_wolf wrote:
Wouldn't surprise me if in the next few years, kids can only see Santa from behind a glass/plastic cubicle with drilled holes to allow speech through.

Like Hannibal Lector? :lol:


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It's not his just the hands. It's the secret boner hidden in those baggy trousers too.

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"It is political correctness gone mad,” a source told the newspaper yesterday.


I'm always wary of these sources*, I mean who talks like that? Is the Mirror's source a Daily Mail reader?

* Private Eye always has something like, '"It is political correctness gone mad,” my imagination told the editor.'

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