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Curmudgeons' Corner 6 - Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet 🍵

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    philippa smith2 said:
    Why do "pale" people work so assiduously on changing colour - sun beds, spray tan, etc.? 
    Toxic marketing. We're all ugly and everyone else is prettier and having more fun. The only way to be happy is to spend money.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Well, I hope we all know that's not true altho a spot of HRT - horticultural retail therapy - sometimes hits the spot.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Isn't the problem that the Monarchy, having declined in real power since the 17th century (and more so since Victoria), have become a caricature of themselves in as much as they are what is reported of them. So, when is all going well and Queenie is doing her bit at promoting the UK around the world, the Monarchy is seen as a good thing. She is a brilliant ambassador.
    But they are ( @Hostafan1 ) on a pedestal - a pedestal made by the media largely. They are the souvenir plates, the glossy magazine inserts, the head on the coins. They are Britannia. So when the pedestal rocks slightly (or in Andrew's case, topples and shatters into a thousand pieces), they are totally vulnerable to how that is portrayed by the media (and now 'social media'). They are that portrayal - they are the glossy marriages, the public births (well not quite - but you know what I mean), and the pomp and ritual that goes with their actions. Those are their pedestals. The price they have to pay for being 'Royal'.
    Now, with H&M (they should have grabbed that trademark and logo) trying to duck out of the limelight, it effects the whole Monarchy. And once questions are asked about the publicity they receive, then there are the obvious problems - as they ARE that publicity. They live within that media bubble.


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The cost of security is a tricky one.  Harry can't help who his father is ... he and his son are going to be a target for madmen, terrorists and blackmailers ... even if he renounces his HRH.  

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Dovefromabove said:
    The cost of security is a tricky one.  Harry can't help who his father is ... he and his son are going to be a target for madmen, terrorists and blackmailers ... even if he renounces his HRH.  
    I imagine there's people right now who'd love to get their hands on the only American member of the British Royal Family. :/

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Dovefromabove said:
    The cost of security is a tricky one.  Harry can't help who his father is ... he and his son are going to be a target for madmen, terrorists and blackmailers ... even if he renounces his HRH.  

    Seems to be a bit of a habit lately, but I agree with you again.  Irrespective of dropping any title, Harry will still be a member of the same family, and still a target for any whacko etc looking to make a name for themselves.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2020
    KT53 said:
    Dovefromabove said:
    The cost of security is a tricky one.  Harry can't help who his father is ... he and his son are going to be a target for madmen, terrorists and blackmailers ... even if he renounces his HRH.  

    Seems to be a bit of a habit lately, but I agree with you again.  Irrespective of dropping any title, Harry will still be a member of the same family, and still a target for any whacko etc looking to make a name for themselves.
    Exactly ... John Lennon wasn’t a Beatle any more but ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    philippa smith2 said:
     Can't remember what they were actually supposed to be advertising but sure as hell it wasn't normality.

    That depends on your view of normality.  If your normality is orange skin, painted eyebrows which Groucho Marx would have been proud of, and 4" long nails, then the advert was aimed at you.  If not.......

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    A lot of celebs attract too much attention from nutjobs, but they have to pay for their own security. I'm sure Paul McCartney pays for his.  If they want to be celebs and not part of the firm fine, but you can't have it both ways.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2020
    fidgetbones said:
    A lot of celebs attract too much attention from nutjobs, but they have to pay for their own security. I'm sure Paul McCartney pays for his.  If they want to be celebs and not part of the firm fine, but you can't have it both ways.
    Yes but those folk have chosen to be celebs ... even if Harry and Megan take wee Archie and go and live in a log cabin in the Rockies and live off and wear what they can hunt and never ever buy another pair of Jimmy Choos, they will still be the Queen’s close rellies and as such the targets of the aforementioned ne’er-do-wells, simply because of an accident of birth. It’s not just that they will be at risk, but they could be potential hostages. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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