Rupert (Ron Weasley) Grint in the Times

Ha ha ha that headline! Desperate attempt to make a boring day in the life of piece move a bit online

Yeah, I get now that it was some kind of a joke. Sometimes I live on a different planet and I'm very by most pop culture references!

Malahaha,
Apologies. My comment was meant to point out to Ron that one can no more identify out of being prone to tanning easily than one can (in reality) opt out of being a man or a woman.

This holds true no matter how dark-skinned you identify.

I don't "identify" as dark-skinned. I AM dark-skinned. Please don't allow their language to infiltrate other areas of our lives!

I don't know any dark-skinned person who uses sunscreen. It's not a need for us. But white-skinned people keep telling us it is.

If you're pale-skinned it's especially important to be aware of the need for sunscreen.
This holds true no matter how dark-skinned you identify.

More evidence that we're educating young people to live by slogan and don't bother about critical thinking.

Ugh, I wonder what his partner and daughter will think of this in about 10 years.

The sunscreen thing I reckon is him trying to be cool dude and referencing this song.

www.google.co.uk/search?q=wear+sunscreen+song&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

It's one thing (an easy thing) to lecture women about the principles you think they ought to have.

It's quite another thing to have and act on principles of your own, specially if acting on them causes you to lose shedloads of money.

It would appear Rupert is a gentleman whose own principles appear to be flexible when they meet up with economic reality.

Maybe Voldemort had played the long game and there was something more than a Horcrux in Harry that slowly took over and turned him into Voldemort II. Hermione could turn into a Dolores Umbridge, so sure she's right all the time that she overrides established safeguarding protocols. And Ron, riding their coat-tails agreeing with them both.

So Rupert would never say never to another HP movie? I would love it if JK wrote one where Ron was shown to be a self-centred backstabber.......

I know my daughter’s going to be OK and that’s nice.

Unless she gets really good at sport but not quite as good as the biologically male 'new girl' on the team.

Or wants to have a changing room that's female-only.

Or gets caught up in a group of teen friends succumbing to ROGD.

Or feels pressured into letting her boyfriend choke her during sex at 17 because that's what the cool sex-positive girls do.

Refuge no, prisons you'd hope not, but money can't completely protect you from from misogyny.

Like many self-absorbed young men, he’s happy to exploit the work of a woman for his own gain. Just not stand by her if it means a loss of approval from strangers on the internet.

www.glamour.com/story/rupert-grint-will-never-say-never-to-another-harry-potter-movie

Yes what has disappointed me is that I have never heard him saying anything good about JKR or acknowledging any debt to her for basically making him rich enough to not have to worry for his daughter's future. And no acknowledgment of the vitriol she received. Have completely gone off him.

I laughed when he was saying he has always been a bad sleeper, he has a baby ..... and now his sleep is much improved! I spy round the clock nannies.

*off the actual important topic

Am I the only one who reads Wednesday & thinks Adams? & we know Wednesday would have stood with JK & then fed Weasley a cherry bomb pie while Morticia looked on approvingly.

I know my daughter’s going to be OK and that’s nice.

Right. She will never have to share a dorm or a changing room with males, as she will be well protected on the cushion of his wealth. All thanks to JK.

So what if feminists were doing the same thing re questions?

He’s a man, with all the privilege, who got rich off the back of a woman and he has a daughter to think about.

Besides if he doesn’t want to get called transphobic by wokey woos then he can play to his gormless strengths and say ‘I dunno much about it all tbh, bit shit at knowing what’s going on in the world me. But JK’s fricken awesome, what a woman & so talented. I owe my whole career to her. Can’t wait to read my girl Harry Potter & tell her all about JK.’

Super easy & not the least bit weasely.

I certainly wasn't taking the piss out of gingers! I'm just not as aware of the risks to them as I should be, being dark of skin.
Yet still, I never saw "wisdom" as something relating to common-sense care of the body so as to maintain good health.

But probably I missed the tongue-in-cheekiness there, as someone upthread suggested.

I'm another one who never heard of Humpday. The joys of being retired: what's a weekend?

But mentioning red hair (I didn't see mockery) and a silly baby name Vs ignoring the awful treatment meted out to a woman who's done nothing wrong and is solely responsible for his huge success...

...I think I know who might need to be trying hardest.

Well I've learnt something new... humpday

I don't agree with him, but the fact that this thread is taking the piss of the fact that he has red hair, and the name of a baby girl, makes me think that there DOES need to be more kindness.

Yeah - imagine the week as a hill, it's all downhill towards the weekend after Wednesday, after the hump or peak of the hill.