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LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 2025-08-17T17:08:05+00:00

Why do these mediocre men need to keep speaking? You’d think this was written by a 12 year old, who uses the word ‘baddie’ ffs? 🤦♀️ It’s so full of virtue signalling, ‘look at me with all these young people showing them how cool I am’ it’s absolutely tragic.

TheUnusuallyQuerulentMxLauraBrown · 17/08/2025 19:13

caramac04 · 17/08/2025 18:36

I didn’t know this! Oh the joys of getting old 😂

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Yeah, my almost-14 year old uses it in a way that’s more a short form of ‘a badass person’ than a short form of ‘a bad character who exists to be a good character’s nemesis’.

Absentmindedsmile · 17/08/2025 19:11

How embarrassing for him.

Needmorelego · 17/08/2025 19:10

So a bloke is in a pub with his work colleagues who happen to be younger than him.
I have no idea what the OP is on about.
Although - I didn't read the article. Just the quote.
🤷

Needmorelego · 17/08/2025 19:07

mondaytosunday · 17/08/2025 19:00

What has his brother got to do with him? And how do you get that @ThatCyanSheepabout owning property?
And he had admitted the AIDS thing was the worse thing he has ever done.
@Needmorelegohe says it’s the film crew he is working with - right there at the beginning.

I just looked at the picture.
I didn't read the article 🙂

anytipswelcome · 17/08/2025 19:04

Needmorelego · 17/08/2025 18:38

What's the back story of the group he is with?
Who are they?
Local book club?
Church group (he is a Vicar after all)?
Local litter picking group?
Is he running the group as the leader (so that's why everyone else is younger?)

He says in the post that he’s making a tv show with them.

HeronandChips · 17/08/2025 19:03

The issue here is middle aged women not knowing how the term ‘baddie’ is used these days 🤣

I like Richard. Seems like a nice chap. I probably wouldn’t waste time pulling this apart

LittleBitofBread · 17/08/2025 19:01

Needmorelego · 17/08/2025 18:57

Oh ok.
I read he is still involved with his church.
I have no idea if he actually is.

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Oh, well then he might be, in (presumably?) a different/ less formal capacity. I don’t actually know, only that he’s no longer an actual vicar.
He also seems to be in the Faroe Islands just now; I don’t know if that’s where this group is?

mondaytosunday · 17/08/2025 19:00

What has his brother got to do with him? And how do you get that @ThatCyanSheepabout owning property?
And he had admitted the AIDS thing was the worse thing he has ever done.
@Needmorelegohe says it’s the film crew he is working with - right there at the beginning.

ShoeeMcfee · 17/08/2025 18:58

Poor Richard Cole, I rather like him.

Needmorelego · 17/08/2025 18:57

LittleBitofBread · 17/08/2025 18:53

He’s retired as a vicar, so I doubt it’s a church group.

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Oh ok.
I read he is still involved with his church.
I have no idea if he actually is.

Gwenhwyfar · 17/08/2025 18:55

Sux2buthen · 17/08/2025 18:50

Hes not his brother so that’s irrelevant.

much like this thread

The thread is interesting, but he's not his brother's keeper so you're right that it's not relevant.

LittleBitofBread · 17/08/2025 18:54

ThatCyanSheep · 17/08/2025 18:30

What I find bizarre is how he can sit there as a rich celebrity and think it’s a good thing the younger generation don’t think they’ll ever buy a house

How do you get that from what he says?
Genuine question.

LittleBitofBread · 17/08/2025 18:53

Needmorelego · 17/08/2025 18:38

What's the back story of the group he is with?
Who are they?
Local book club?
Church group (he is a Vicar after all)?
Local litter picking group?
Is he running the group as the leader (so that's why everyone else is younger?)

He’s retired as a vicar, so I doubt it’s a church group.

AnnaQuayInTheUk · 17/08/2025 18:51

LegleEagle · 17/08/2025 18:34

I think he’s saying how they have different views from him, not necessarily endorsing what they’re saying.

I agree. I don't think he's saying anything he needs to be embarrassed about.

Sux2buthen · 17/08/2025 18:50

Hes not his brother so that’s irrelevant.

much like this thread

softlyfallsthesnow · 17/08/2025 18:45

LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 17/08/2025 18:37

This is a man who pretended to have AIDS in the 90’s and whose brother is a creep. He has no moral high ground whatsoever.

Last time I looked I get to decide what I ‘waste energy on’.

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At least you (probably) didn't have to sit through an after dinner speech of his that I was obliged to listen to. It was vacuous but everyone just tittered along. Self absorbed.

MaryGreenhill · 17/08/2025 18:43

It's fine

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LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 17/08/2025 18:41

PermanentTemporary · 17/08/2025 18:35

He’s not saying that he agrees with them.

If you haven’t understood what the standard view of JKR is in that age group, at least in public, you’re in a bubble.

I have many young people in my life of that generation who believe the exact opposite of JKR, but then they were brought up to think for themselves and not be brainwashed by SM.

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Davros · 17/08/2025 18:39

I’ve never liked him. Mostly because of the religion

Needmorelego · 17/08/2025 18:38

What's the back story of the group he is with?
Who are they?
Local book club?
Church group (he is a Vicar after all)?
Local litter picking group?
Is he running the group as the leader (so that's why everyone else is younger?)

KilkennyCats · 17/08/2025 18:38

LittleBitofBread · 17/08/2025 18:30

If anything I’m hearing a little bit of shade towards his younger companions; the word ‘baddie’ is quite childish and maybe implies that he thinks hating JKR for her views on women’s rights is itself childish and/or simplistic.

That’s how I took it too?

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LadyBracknellsHandbagg · 17/08/2025 18:37

Tunnocksmallow · 17/08/2025 18:26

Oh come on. He’s stating that he’s sat around a table with people of different generations. There are differences. He’s acknowledging that they grew up on Harry Potter, but disagree with JKR. Ok, he used the word baddie, no need for the snark. He’s a man of the cloth, he’s hardly going to be calling her a C*nt is he? Especially if those kids are going to look that post up. He’s having some respect for their ages and their parents, who he probably doesn’t wish to fall out with.

And I don’t actually know where he stands on the Trans debate.

I find him to actually be quite a nuanced, respectful and funny man when I’ve heard him talking about things. This, isn’t something to waste energy on.

What I’m saying is; if it were me, there’s plenty worse words I would’ve used to describe the hateful woman.

This is a man who pretended to have AIDS in the 90’s and whose brother is a creep. He has no moral high ground whatsoever.

Last time I looked I get to decide what I ‘waste energy on’.

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caramac04 · 17/08/2025 18:36

AtomicBlondeRose · 17/08/2025 18:28

Baddie is a compliment in gen z slang!

I didn’t know this! Oh the joys of getting old 😂

PermanentTemporary · 17/08/2025 18:35

He’s not saying that he agrees with them.

If you haven’t understood what the standard view of JKR is in that age group, at least in public, you’re in a bubble.

Coatsoff42 · 17/08/2025 18:35

i don’t know what he means, I think Sabrina carpenter is a classic baddie. Im not sure what he’s saying!