The Royal Family

[Bamboo]

[Sharpe's Fox]

57 minutes ago, Spudulike said:

 

'Gammons'?

 

Do people really say that anymore?   

 

Could serve you up with egg and chips.

[yorkie1999]

1 hour ago, surrifox said:

The revelation that Charles has blocked his number/ declined his calls was a big point in the interview . After the loss of his mum that is surely unforgivable ( if true) 

But that was followed by harry saying charles is taking his calls again.

[Babylon]

5 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

But that was followed by harry saying charles is taking his calls again.

Don't know what the big deal is, my Dad didn't talk to me for a month when I called him a c*** a long time ago. 

[UpTheLeagueFox]

 

[Blarmy]

43 minutes ago, bmt said:

No offence but this is completely baseless and feeds into a narrative started by the British media.

 

Having one experience of something isn't a good basis for an argument which is dependent on statements like "have a high percentage of their populace who".

No, not completely baseless. If we couldn’t make suppositions and put our thoughts forward this wouldn’t be much of a discussion forum - we don’t know anything yet and I have no horse in the race - in fact I hope I’m wrong.

[Carl the Llama]

 

I like this meme, it's like a classier version of Trump's day out with the Aussie interviewer.

 

[Christoph]

Example of Gammon. Notice how the complexion gets a deeper shade of red when being called out on his bullsh*t. 

 

[StanSP]

Whether she is good as an actress or not shouldn't detract from anything she said, especially considering she mentioned MH and having suicidal thoughts. You don't get to that stage or conveying that level of desperation or feeling without really meaning it. 

 

And if we're using the fact she was an actress as a stick to beat her with and to not believe her, then I presume we never should believe anything any actor/actress says ever away from the shows they're on. Because after all, they're just acting, right? 

 

 

What concerns me the most anyway is just the general treatment of Meghan as a human being. Forget who she's married to or in to. Forget her career. What exactly are the media wanting from her? Or wanting her to do? Commit suicide? Martyr her like they did with Caroline Flack? Then if she does do that, act all sympathetic as if they had no role to play in their demise? It's tragic what the mainstream media has become anyway. I'm not saying not to have an opinion on her, or even to like her, but to villify her to such an extent (and other public figures) just feeds in to the frenzy around them. 

Kind of on a note to what @UpTheLeagueFox posted. Why does it have to be so divisive? 

[Carl the Llama]

Reddit is on fire today

[Blarmy]

37 minutes ago, String fellow said:

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. That is according to Shakespeare in As You Like It. Could it perhaps be that Meghan is currently playing the victim role as she laughs all the way to the bank? Let's not forget that nobody forced her into marrying into the Windsors. And Harry, if he loves his father as we were informed, would he really criticise him so publicly?

Yeah exactly. Some fame (attention) and some cash and status. The victim role/smear campaign would be classic signs of what this could be.

[yorkie1999]

I'm leaning towards what her dad's said. Could have just been a dumb question that megan's taken offence to  

[ozleicester]

18 minutes ago, Bamboo said:

wow... i have never heard of this

[yorkie1999]

3 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said:

 

I like this meme, it's like a classier version of Trump's day out with the Aussie interviewer.

 

Has Megan sat under a tree full of pigeons?

[foxile5]

2 minutes ago, Carl the Llama said:

Reddit is on fire today

It's not even paedophilia according to one paedophile apologist on here!

 

If this weren't the royal family but a family on Jeremy Kyle folk wouldn't let it go. 

[bmt]

What is everybody's obsession with calling people names (gammon, snowflake, etc.)?

[Scotch]

4 minutes ago, Blarmy said:

Yeah exactly. Some fame (attention) and some cash and status. The victim role/smear campaign would be classic signs of what this could be.

This argument makes no sense. There is far more money, fame and status in remaining a working member of the royals....

[Blarmy]

49 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

If it isn't too much for you to talk about, would it be ok to elaborate here?

 

Feel free to say you don't want to clarify further, though.

No it’s fine, I’m over it now (just about).

 

In a nutshell, I was fvcked over by a woman who has a serious personality disorder. She pretended to be someone she wasn’t, and did a very good job of it. Look up malignant narcissist, in particular the lovebomb/devalue/discard/hoover cycle.

 

Its on the DMT5 and she ticked every box. And I didn’t have a clue until I’d moved in with her...

[bmt]

13 minutes ago, UpTheLeagueFox said:

 

I think there is more nuance. 80% of the people on this thread who care fall somewhere in between.

[Blarmy]

1 minute ago, Foxy_Bear said:

This argument makes no sense. There is far more money, fame and status in remaining a working member of the royals....

And a lot of restrictions that go with it. She might have loved the idea to start with, but if my theory is true things can quickly change if she wanted out - I.e she wouldn’t do it in a way that made her look bad.  And what’s the best way to do that?

 

As I say, it’s just a theory.

[bmt]

3 minutes ago, Blarmy said:

No it’s fine, I’m over it now (just about).

 

In a nutshell, I was fvcked over by a woman who has a serious personality disorder. She pretended to be someone she wasn’t, and did a very good job of it. Look up malignant narcissist, in particular the lovebomb/devalue/discard/hoover cycle.

 

Its on the DMT5 and she ticked every box. And I didn’t have a clue until I’d moved in with her...

Sorry that happened to you mate. What I meant with my earlier post is the estimated number of women falling into that category is 1/200 (from a quick google post), and people are often blinded by their personal experience of something which is actually not that likely to happen.

[Voll Blau]

12 minutes ago, Blarmy said:

Yeah exactly. Some fame (attention) and some cash and status. The victim role/smear campaign would be classic signs of what this could be.

She was already famous before she met him for fvck's sake. You really think she'd make up being suicidal for a bit of cash, knowing that her children will one day find out about everything that was said in the interview in future?

 

I think the worst thing you can accuse her of (if you want to - some people are clearly desperate to accuse her of something) is being too naive about how the Royal Family operates before she got involved with it. From what he was saying, it sounds like Harry was as sick of the institution as she was. Hard to blame him when you see how it treated his mum.

Edited 9 March 2021 by Voll Blau

[Carl the Llama]

1 minute ago, bmt said:

What is everybody's obsession with calling people names (gammon, snowflake, etc.)?

It's a good litmus test.  If somebody gets offended at a term invented to describe unsavoury people and would choose to pursue that thread in the middle of a conversation about social inequality, or if they use the word snowflake in an unironic fashion, then it lets the rest of us know to steer clear.

[Blarmy]

Just now, bmt said:

Sorry that happened to you mate. What I meant with my earlier post is the estimated number of women falling into that category is 1/200 (from a quick google post), and people are often blinded by their personal experience of something which is actually not that likely to happen.

It’s fine, no worries. As I say it’s a theory - but there are parallels with not just what happened to me but the standard pattern of this type of relationship.

[String fellow]

5 minutes ago, Blarmy said:

No it’s fine, I’m over it now (just about).

 

In a nutshell, I was fvcked over by a woman who has a serious personality disorder. She pretended to be someone she wasn’t, and did a very good job of it. Look up malignant narcissist, in particular the lovebomb/devalue/discard/hoover cycle.

 

Its on the DMT5 and she ticked every box. And I didn’t have a clue until I’d moved in with her...

Same here. It turned out that access to my wallet was her only objective. Tbh, anyone can say stuff about feeling suicidal - it's a classic tool used by those wishing to manipulate others. Most actual suicides occur without any prior warning, apart perhaps from signs of depression. I know from personal experience.