The royal nonsense.
The royal nonsense.
Not that I really care about Harry and Meghan
But I am so glad to see that supercillious pick Piers Morgan pull an epic face plant.
But I am so glad to see that supercillious pick Piers Morgan pull an epic face plant.
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Can’t find any tumbrels on Google ![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif)
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In the next installment of family feud...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-10/ ... w/13232698
"The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan," the statement read.
"The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning.
"While some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately."
"Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved family members."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-10/ ... w/13232698
"The whole family is saddened to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for Harry and Meghan," the statement read.
"The issues raised, particularly that of race, are concerning.
"While some recollections may vary, they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately."
"Harry, Meghan and Archie will always be much loved family members."
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That Ainsley ditz from Fox & Friends said it she'd had all those gowns, jewels and castles she'd never leave. ![Bang Wall :bangwall:](./images/smilies/BangWall.gif)
Edit. Stupid autocorrect.
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Edit. Stupid autocorrect.
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You missed this one....
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Hey, something good happened because of the interview - Piers Morgan is off the air!
I only saw a few minutes of the interview, but that included her speaking out about being suicidal, knowing she had to tell someone, and seeking help. Every time someone speaks up about suicide, lives are saved. Don't like Morgan, do like that he lost his job over this, and sad so many are like him and do harm.
https://thenewdaily.com.au/entertainmen ... ry-meghan/Presenter Piers Morgan has left UK television’s Good Morning Britain show following a storm over his criticism of Meghan Markle’s mental health revelations.
The TV host stormed off the set of the morning news program on Tuesday (local time) following a heated discussion with his colleague Alex Beresford about Prince Harry and wife Meghan’s bombshell interview with Oprah Winfrey.
“Following discussions with ITV, Piers Morgan has decided now is the time to leave Good Morning Britain,” a statement from ITV said on Wednesday.
I only saw a few minutes of the interview, but that included her speaking out about being suicidal, knowing she had to tell someone, and seeking help. Every time someone speaks up about suicide, lives are saved. Don't like Morgan, do like that he lost his job over this, and sad so many are like him and do harm.
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Yes, there is a lot of......erm .....arrant .....BS in the Duchesses extended whine-a-thon.
As an example she tearfully (whilst conspicuously rubbing baby bump) moaned about how nobody was there to help her or provide her assistance with her depression.
And yet her husband, her brother in law and her father in law are all on the record as saying they have received counselling and said support around not dissimilar matters. Are we to believe that none of them, especially her husband would not have pointed her towards the necessary?
Then there is the whole color of the baby statement, something that the Ginger Whinger was suddenly massively coy and dismissive of followed by a sudden statement that the Queen and Prince Phillip were not the ones in the frame.
If there is anyone I could see making a ham fisted comment probably meant as a joke along the lines of skin color and a probable fiery ginger head of hair...it would be Phil the Greek.
"I felt naked without tax payer funded security, it's because I'm not white"..... Actually, so long as she and he were working royals they received EXACTLY the same cover as every other working royal doing the work. They are treated EXACTLY the same as Prince Edward and his family, Fergus etc.
"Oh wow my child isn't automatically a Prince it must be racist". Again arrant BS, Princess Anne's children (who don't get tax payer funded security either) don't have any royal titles.
"Oh noes....I had no idea that marrying into the most written about royal family on the planet came with obligations and expectations....I never looked". Does anyone on this planet actually believe that poor Meghan didn't do EXACTLY what every woman of her age did BEFORE, DURING and AFTER being set up with friends...Google the feck out of him, his background and his family?
Let's face some actual facts, before Meghan met Harry she was and would have remained a C list, minor TV celebrity, most remembered for being on Suits. She would never have been "friends" with Oprah, been lent Tyler Perry's mansion etc if she wasn't married to a Prince
Two feckless, arrogant, self obsessed, self righteous, entitled (and titled) whiners bemoaning their unearned lives of wealth and privilege and how how hard done by they are is not news.
As an example she tearfully (whilst conspicuously rubbing baby bump) moaned about how nobody was there to help her or provide her assistance with her depression.
And yet her husband, her brother in law and her father in law are all on the record as saying they have received counselling and said support around not dissimilar matters. Are we to believe that none of them, especially her husband would not have pointed her towards the necessary?
Then there is the whole color of the baby statement, something that the Ginger Whinger was suddenly massively coy and dismissive of followed by a sudden statement that the Queen and Prince Phillip were not the ones in the frame.
If there is anyone I could see making a ham fisted comment probably meant as a joke along the lines of skin color and a probable fiery ginger head of hair...it would be Phil the Greek.
"I felt naked without tax payer funded security, it's because I'm not white"..... Actually, so long as she and he were working royals they received EXACTLY the same cover as every other working royal doing the work. They are treated EXACTLY the same as Prince Edward and his family, Fergus etc.
"Oh wow my child isn't automatically a Prince it must be racist". Again arrant BS, Princess Anne's children (who don't get tax payer funded security either) don't have any royal titles.
"Oh noes....I had no idea that marrying into the most written about royal family on the planet came with obligations and expectations....I never looked". Does anyone on this planet actually believe that poor Meghan didn't do EXACTLY what every woman of her age did BEFORE, DURING and AFTER being set up with friends...Google the feck out of him, his background and his family?
Let's face some actual facts, before Meghan met Harry she was and would have remained a C list, minor TV celebrity, most remembered for being on Suits. She would never have been "friends" with Oprah, been lent Tyler Perry's mansion etc if she wasn't married to a Prince
Two feckless, arrogant, self obsessed, self righteous, entitled (and titled) whiners bemoaning their unearned lives of wealth and privilege and how how hard done by they are is not news.
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Since we have a resident Irishman, I offer this from the Irish Times:
The whole article is worth a read.Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it’s like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown.
Beyond this, it’s the stuff of children’s stories. Having a queen as head of state is like having a pirate or a mermaid or Ewok as head of state. What’s the logic? Bees have queens, but the queen bee lays all of the eggs in the hive. The queen of the Britons has laid just four British eggs, and one of those is the sweatless creep Prince Andrew, so it’s hardly deserving of applause.
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A video game where you can become a King - Virtual Regality.
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I'd have to say that Ms Markle didn't spend a lot of time studying for this part. It's the part of a lifetime, literally. You don't just act it for as long as it takes to film the show or movie, and then go home. She didn't even stick it out long enough to become a citizen of the UK.
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Is it just me or does little Archie mostly look exactly like his great grandmother? (The photo is clearer at the link )
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-ne ... hies-skin/
https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-ne ... hies-skin/
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As the Resident Irishman, i was extremely sick of hearing about this inside 12 hours. On the scale of things happening in the world this was so far down the priority list it was scratching satan's back.
The thing about the Irish however is that we have a massive inferiority complex about the brits, and if someone was wearing a saucepan on their foot in London today, tomorrow people will be doing it all over Dublin. We are idiots when it comes to England. So it was all over our press and I was giving it a gigantic "So what? Spoiled Bitch vs duty bound Sultan? Is that the only thing we can talk about??? I know I've been begging you to stop talking about the fucking Virus for over 6 months, but THIS is what drags your attention away from it???"
Personally, I'm sure there's plenty of grey on all side in this. I read in last weeks edition of Private Eye that the queen et all had bee offering Olive brances to the couple for months, and all they wanted was to keep a link open, asking Harry to maintain being ceremonial head of a Military unit. But their olive branches were met with increasingly large demands from Sussex, till the Queen reached the end of her tether and snapped the link. At which point Megan ran to the Press about how MEAN everyone was being to her.
So, ya, not a fan of talking about this story. I really see no reason to take Megan's account as gospel over anyone else's, and I certainly don't see why this has to be the number 1 topic on everyone's tongues.
And for the record I'm pretty neutral on the Royal Family. They don't do any harm and do some good, so whatever.
The thing about the Irish however is that we have a massive inferiority complex about the brits, and if someone was wearing a saucepan on their foot in London today, tomorrow people will be doing it all over Dublin. We are idiots when it comes to England. So it was all over our press and I was giving it a gigantic "So what? Spoiled Bitch vs duty bound Sultan? Is that the only thing we can talk about??? I know I've been begging you to stop talking about the fucking Virus for over 6 months, but THIS is what drags your attention away from it???"
Personally, I'm sure there's plenty of grey on all side in this. I read in last weeks edition of Private Eye that the queen et all had bee offering Olive brances to the couple for months, and all they wanted was to keep a link open, asking Harry to maintain being ceremonial head of a Military unit. But their olive branches were met with increasingly large demands from Sussex, till the Queen reached the end of her tether and snapped the link. At which point Megan ran to the Press about how MEAN everyone was being to her.
So, ya, not a fan of talking about this story. I really see no reason to take Megan's account as gospel over anyone else's, and I certainly don't see why this has to be the number 1 topic on everyone's tongues.
And for the record I'm pretty neutral on the Royal Family. They don't do any harm and do some good, so whatever.
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Ehhhh for me I can understand, part of my family is from Ireland, so I know where you're coming from.
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I’m surprised no one’s commented on the absurdity of Meghan wearing a $4,700.00 Armani dress while Harry wore a scruffy suit, socks that were waaay too short so his bare lower legs were showing (Ugh! Such an ugly look.), and scuffed up shoes. If nothing else, I’d think Meghan would want her husband to be as fashionable as she strives to be, since it cheapens her appearance when he looks like a shlub. ![Nope :nope:](./images/smilies/eusa_snooty.gif)
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I hate it when people in $4K dresses tell me how terrible their life is. (sadz)
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I love it when members of a hereditary monarchy talk about discrimination (and apparently ignore possible wrongdoing by one of them). ![Bored :bored:](./images/smilies/boredsmiley.gif)
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I suppose Oprah is the new Barbara Wah Wah?
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That's Bah Bah Wah Wah, to you!
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To provide some further context around Surani's post, the Irish/English (NOT British....very different thing) thing is very different between the North and Eire (the South) along with very, very tribal internal politics both North and South.
Even the language of place names will identify someone.
If you want to know, at a high level the I individuals socio-political suasion, ask how they call the town of Londonderry
Londonderry
Derry
Free Derry
Orange and Green, are they
A color
A point of national pride
A swear word
July
Is a period of celebration
Is a period of unpleasant noise
Is WTF...
All to often you are your name...
Siobhan, Bernadette, Sean, Seamus
vs
Samantha, Victoria, William, Trevor
Does the school you went to as a child have a saints name, your language taught is Irish, you play hurling.....Catholic
State school, football (soccer) possibly rugby, French or German...Protestant
You're reading the Irish Times....probably Catholic
You're reading the (Belfast) Newsletter....probably a Protestant
The tribalism gets further mixed and matched in the political arena where you have some Catholic Nationalists who feel economically safer under a British government, Protestant Loyalists want a wholly seamless border and are more EU friendly.
Politicians in the South, particularly Sinn Fein who mouth the words of unification yet are terrified by the reality as the actualité of integration would permanently and seriously erode their power base.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP... aka the shouty party) are far more ant-abortion, religiously fervent, anti LGBT than mainstream British politics, yet share a number of the policy views with Fianna Fáil, Sinn Fein and Fine Gael, although would never admit it......
The Nationalists understand that separation from the UK would lead to a substantial drop in income due to the substantial amounts of economic support Westminster sends to Northern Ireland so much railing against the horrid British whilst eagerly grasping the largesse and touting it to effectively buy votes
And so in and so forth.....and don't get me started on the militant arms on both sides who whilst going on how they are just there to protect their community from the other side in reality are now simply crime families with hands in everything from extortion, smuggling, drug and people trafficking, fraud etc......
Even the language of place names will identify someone.
If you want to know, at a high level the I individuals socio-political suasion, ask how they call the town of Londonderry
Londonderry
Derry
Free Derry
Orange and Green, are they
A color
A point of national pride
A swear word
July
Is a period of celebration
Is a period of unpleasant noise
Is WTF...
All to often you are your name...
Siobhan, Bernadette, Sean, Seamus
vs
Samantha, Victoria, William, Trevor
Does the school you went to as a child have a saints name, your language taught is Irish, you play hurling.....Catholic
State school, football (soccer) possibly rugby, French or German...Protestant
You're reading the Irish Times....probably Catholic
You're reading the (Belfast) Newsletter....probably a Protestant
The tribalism gets further mixed and matched in the political arena where you have some Catholic Nationalists who feel economically safer under a British government, Protestant Loyalists want a wholly seamless border and are more EU friendly.
Politicians in the South, particularly Sinn Fein who mouth the words of unification yet are terrified by the reality as the actualité of integration would permanently and seriously erode their power base.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP... aka the shouty party) are far more ant-abortion, religiously fervent, anti LGBT than mainstream British politics, yet share a number of the policy views with Fianna Fáil, Sinn Fein and Fine Gael, although would never admit it......
The Nationalists understand that separation from the UK would lead to a substantial drop in income due to the substantial amounts of economic support Westminster sends to Northern Ireland so much railing against the horrid British whilst eagerly grasping the largesse and touting it to effectively buy votes
And so in and so forth.....and don't get me started on the militant arms on both sides who whilst going on how they are just there to protect their community from the other side in reality are now simply crime families with hands in everything from extortion, smuggling, drug and people trafficking, fraud etc......
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Thanks Mr B for the concise explanation. I know it's knotted linen and impossible to pluck a single strand much like the story of the ME. These are both tea leaves I don't even attempt to divine.
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I am kind of surprised at the vitriol in this thread. But I'll say no more.