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To find Prince William a bit smug

534 replies

strawberriesandpecans · 08/10/2020 12:42

I'm sure he means well, it's just that he seems to be lecturing everyone on the environment while he travels by helicopter a lot and has a mansion. Also I just find them quite twee and irritating, particularly at the moment when so many people are struggling. AIBU?

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AuntMasha · 15/10/2020 15:09

I don’t wish harm on them, I just want to be a citizen, not a subject. I wouldn’t subject myself to tugging my forelock at people I consider degenerate, amoral and as a pp pointed out, very, very dim. However, I think after Elizabeth pops her clogs, we’re going to see a different, modernised monarchy. Part of the problem is that Elizabeth is extremely old.

AuntMasha · 15/10/2020 15:11

I’d like to see these dreadful people quietly put out to grass

TheKeatingFive · 15/10/2020 15:16

You’ve just told another poster to play the ball not the player but you’re attacking the royal family.

I called them deeply average. All things considered, I think that’s quite kind. I could say a lot worse about Andrew alone.

From your comments I think you’d throughly enjoy giving orders to the firing squad!

Not at all. I’d love them to have the self awareness and grace to go quietly.

ajandjjmum · 15/10/2020 15:30

Not at all. I’d love them to have the self awareness and grace to go quietly.

But that is not what the majority of the people in this country want.

Unless you consider those people to be what a PP has kindly called 'very, very dim', and therefore their opinions don't count over those with superior intellect. Hmm

Andante57 · 15/10/2020 15:31

Part of the problem is that Elizabeth is extremely old

Her age is part of which problem?

TheKeatingFive · 15/10/2020 15:32

But that is not what the majority of the people in this country want

I accept that.

I reserve the right to find their views very strange. Why does anyone in 2020, want to be a subject?

Andante57 · 15/10/2020 15:36

Unless you consider those people to be what a PP has kindly called 'very, very dim', and therefore their opinions don't count over those with superior intellect. hmm

Yes, along with Brexit voters. After the referendum a poster suggested that in future referendums only the ‘well informed’ should be allowed to vote. Presumably all these thickos who want a royal family wouldn’t get to vote!

Andante57 · 15/10/2020 15:37

I accept that.

Do you though, thekeatingfive? I thought you wanted to start a revolution?

TheKeatingFive · 15/10/2020 15:38

I thought you wanted to start a revolution?

Did I say that?

I wonder about posters on here, I really do.

stairway · 15/10/2020 16:43

I made an error it was Prince Harry that said no one wanted to be king in an interview and that they were only doing it for the greater good of the British people ( although he still hasn’t renounced his place) That makes more sense as Wills wouldn’t have been foolish enough to admit it.

user1471538283 · 15/10/2020 16:47

They've always been smug. He's not at risk of losing his job so he can wang on about other stuff. It annoys me that we are still funding them.

Andante57 · 15/10/2020 17:48

@TheKeatingFive

I thought you wanted to start a revolution?

Did I say that?

I wonder about posters on here, I really do.

I’m sorry, I thought when you said ‘I understand not everyone is up for revolution‘ the implication was that you were.
IcedPurple · 15/10/2020 18:07

I don’t wish harm on them, I just want to be a citizen, not a subject.

If you hold a British passport, then you are a citizen. Britons are citizens, not subjects, and have been for decades now.

AuntMasha · 15/10/2020 18:54

They are known to be dim. Just stating a fact.

AuntMasha · 15/10/2020 19:38

@ajandjjmum

Not at all. I’d love them to have the self awareness and grace to go quietly.

But that is not what the majority of the people in this country want.

Unless you consider those people to be what a PP has kindly called 'very, very dim', and therefore their opinions don't count over those with superior intellect. Hmm

You’ve completely twisted my post.
Genevieva · 15/10/2020 19:45

I don't think he lectures people at all. He cares about nature, ecology and climate change. Lots of people are richer than him and even more people have far bigger carbon foot prints than him. Plus it isn't all about carbon foot print. His programme was all about celebrating things people are doing to encourage a love of the nature around them, whether it is a bug hotel in a city primary school or a wildlife tourism initiative to persuade young people to be safari expedition leaders, not poachers.

notafanoftheman · 15/10/2020 20:23

Suuuure he cares loads about the environment. Just not enough to actually implement any useful changes in his own lifestyle.

ajandjjmum · 15/10/2020 20:23

@AuntMasha

They are known to be dim. Just stating a fact.
But it's such a horrible thing to say about someone. Where is the reputable statement saying 'The Royal Family are dim'? Like all of us, I'm sure they have brighter members of their family, and not so bright, but intellect is not the only way of judging someone.

How are you judging dimness? Is the the 'A' level grades or degrees someone has? Which uni they went to?

God help those of us who didn't go to uni - our dimness must know no bounds!

I don't even have an issue with you not supporting a royal family - your choice - but to imply that someone who doesn't meet your standards is dim, is just unpleasant. Sorry.

derxa · 15/10/2020 20:54

Prince William is not dim nor is Catherine. They're above average in terms of intelligence. That's a fact

Soupcon · 15/10/2020 20:57

Well, it’s at the very least interesting that both William and Harry supposedly passed, on merit, the entrance exams to a highly academically-selective school, received a first-class education that costs £20,000 a year, and left with Alevels considerably below the average attainment of their peers, and in Harry’s case, accusations that he’d been helped to cheat by Eton staff.

MsKeats · 15/10/2020 21:07

@Soupcon

Well, it’s at the very least interesting that both William and Harry supposedly passed, on merit, the entrance exams to a highly academically-selective school, received a first-class education that costs £20,000 a year, and left with Alevels considerably below the average attainment of their peers, and in Harry’s case, accusations that he’d been helped to cheat by Eton staff.
www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/prince-harrys-art-teacher-wins-case-against-eton-296894.html

It's not just that -they have the best possible schooling and tutors money could buy. Whilst he might not have "cheated" he was certainly aware of the help he was getting was beyond normal.

MsKeats · 15/10/2020 21:09

Apparently the exam board found "no improper action had taken place" she claims to have a recording saying he admitted she did all the work.

nildesparandum · 15/10/2020 21:36

@Autumleavesturntogold
I believe in every word you have written here

I will never forget when William and his wife were leaving the hospital after the birth of their third child, and he turned to the waiting crowds and said ''We have three times the worry now''
if that was meant to be a joke it was not a good one.

Andante57 · 15/10/2020 21:36

@MsKeats

Apparently the exam board found "no improper action had taken place" she claims to have a recording saying he admitted she did all the work.
Was the recording played in the employment tribunal?
Andante57 · 15/10/2020 21:39

@Soupcon

Well, it’s at the very least interesting that both William and Harry supposedly passed, on merit, the entrance exams to a highly academically-selective school, received a first-class education that costs £20,000 a year, and left with Alevels considerably below the average attainment of their peers, and in Harry’s case, accusations that he’d been helped to cheat by Eton staff.
That cheating accusation must have brought you great pleasure and satisfaction, I’m sure.