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Everythinggreen · 11/03/2024 20:53

Jumpingthruhoops · 11/03/2024 20:41

This really isn't about just 'a photo'...

🙄 really what bearing on your life does any of this have to make it MASSIVE news?

They're not politicians whose decisions and absence can have a massive impact on the economy and running of the country. They are representing an impartial, can't get involved in anything, symbolic head of state.

The fact you're trying to mock people who don't think it's "massive" and aren't twisting themselves in knots over hidden meanings of these people, is quite funny.

Jumpingthruhoops · 11/03/2024 20:56

Everythinggreen · 11/03/2024 20:53

🙄 really what bearing on your life does any of this have to make it MASSIVE news?

They're not politicians whose decisions and absence can have a massive impact on the economy and running of the country. They are representing an impartial, can't get involved in anything, symbolic head of state.

The fact you're trying to mock people who don't think it's "massive" and aren't twisting themselves in knots over hidden meanings of these people, is quite funny.

Glad I've amused you...

Primrosecottagelover · 11/03/2024 21:08

penjil · 11/03/2024 17:51

Yeah, yeah. We've heard enough about that.

Plus, most of us don't actually care anyway.

🙄

We care about Gaza, but besides donating and being skmewhat abreast of the issue, what else can be done.

Conspiracy theorist is just a “gaslighting word” used to diminish anyone capable of 3 dimmensional thought and analysis. Apparently if you don’t live your life on the surface, like some 1950’s housewife that believes the world deserves your trust optimism, you’re crazy.

Wendysfriend · 11/03/2024 21:16

Feel really sorry for her. I bet she just wants to hide in her bed and tell everyone to fuck off.

Clafoutie · 11/03/2024 21:56

I think we have lost our collective minds. Endless analysis, complete with red circles, of misaligned cuffs, blurry hands, etc. Why do we have so much energy to give to this, and yet so little regard for so much else?

GinForBreakfast · 11/03/2024 22:10

Wendysfriend · 11/03/2024 21:16

Feel really sorry for her. I bet she just wants to hide in her bed and tell everyone to fuck off.

www.instagram.com/p/C4YG0mEs148/?igsh=NHphMXc2dXN0cnpi

Mayorhumdinger19 · 11/03/2024 22:17

Looking a bit shit after an operation perhaps?? Shes only human!

Mayorhumdinger19 · 11/03/2024 22:18

Sorry the above was to @Halloweenrainbow in response to what doesn’t she want us to see!

Isitautumnyet23 · 11/03/2024 22:22

Clafoutie · 11/03/2024 21:56

I think we have lost our collective minds. Endless analysis, complete with red circles, of misaligned cuffs, blurry hands, etc. Why do we have so much energy to give to this, and yet so little regard for so much else?

Totally agree - sat down to watch the news and it was the main story. Really???? Nothing more important has happened anywhere in the world 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think the biggest shock for me is knowing the press dont like edited photos of the royals (I presumed every photo was heavily edited anyway).

She even came out and admitted its edited today - a woman no doubt totally exhausted after surgery now being hammered by the media for editing a photo when she probably had zero patience for it.

The press really have learnt no lessons from the past.

Wendysfriend · 11/03/2024 22:49

😂😂😂 now there's a brilliant photoshop

Gloriosaford · 11/03/2024 22:59

Isitautumnyet23 · 11/03/2024 22:22

Totally agree - sat down to watch the news and it was the main story. Really???? Nothing more important has happened anywhere in the world 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think the biggest shock for me is knowing the press dont like edited photos of the royals (I presumed every photo was heavily edited anyway).

She even came out and admitted its edited today - a woman no doubt totally exhausted after surgery now being hammered by the media for editing a photo when she probably had zero patience for it.

The press really have learnt no lessons from the past.

Edited? Surely you mean several different photographs stitched and wangled together?

ThinWomansBrain · 11/03/2024 23:23

Massive news?
How boring is your life to think that?

Primrosecottagelover · 12/03/2024 03:30

Amazing to me that people so above this news story and economic with their time, have read through the thread and comments.

Something is amiss as to why the “moral police” keep extinguishing freedom of speech and thought, shaming anyone who is interested in this story.

Deardoofus · 12/03/2024 07:12

Something is amiss as to why the “moral police” keep extinguishing freedom of speech and thought, shaming anyone who is interested in this story.

Does freedom of speech and 'thought' only go one way? Aren't posters just as much entitled to express how ridiculous they find these types of threads? Of course they are, that's why it's a discussion forum. In any case, are you aware that the term freedom of speech doesn't really apply here? It's an online forum with rules, as long as posters stick to them, they can post whatever they wish. Look to China and Russia for more on 'extinguishing' (whatever you mean by this) freedom of speech.

Beefcurtains79 · 12/03/2024 07:42

Deardoofus · 12/03/2024 07:12

Something is amiss as to why the “moral police” keep extinguishing freedom of speech and thought, shaming anyone who is interested in this story.

Does freedom of speech and 'thought' only go one way? Aren't posters just as much entitled to express how ridiculous they find these types of threads? Of course they are, that's why it's a discussion forum. In any case, are you aware that the term freedom of speech doesn't really apply here? It's an online forum with rules, as long as posters stick to them, they can post whatever they wish. Look to China and Russia for more on 'extinguishing' (whatever you mean by this) freedom of speech.

Yeah but….why? There are loads of threads I find uninteresting or ridiculous, I don’t go into them admonishing posters and telling them how uninterested I am in the subject matter they are discussing and how sad they are for discussing it.

It is like the guardian TV section, where there are always posters who are desperate to let everyone know that ‘they don’t even own a television’.
Why bother? It doesn’t make them superior, - they just look like saddos for taking the time to actively seek out, and comment on, a subject that they feel oddly superior about.

TastyTakoyaki · 12/03/2024 07:57

People always get like this with the royal family though. It’s almost as if it’s a personal insult to say anything against them. Every time a poster or thread highlights the hypocrisy of the royals there is a jaws like thrashing and it gets nasty. I’m not sure if it was this thread or another one but HQ deleted posts for name calling, it’s just ludicrous. Fact of the matter is none of us are privy to the truth, this is a public forum, people are allowed to discuss and throw wild theories around. A lot of what’s said is nonsense and maybe when the truth appears it’s some benign story but until then it’s amusing to ponder the bonkers possibilities of that awful household.

FritataPatate · 12/03/2024 08:08

RobertaFirmino · 11/03/2024 00:13

Meanwhile, in Gaza...

100%

BobnLen · 12/03/2024 08:25

There is a forum on here for Gaza, likewise there is also one for the royal family.

CorylusAgain · 12/03/2024 08:38

Fact of the matter is none of us are privy to the truth, this is a public forum, people are allowed to discuss and throw wild theories around. A lot of what’s said is nonsense and maybe when the truth appears it’s some benign story but until then it’s amusing to ponder the bonkers possibilities of that awfulhousehold

What I dislike is that this attitude of "we can throw wild theories around" forgets that these theories are about people's lives. It appears that the fact that you don't value the royal family is your justification for doing this.

But it's part of a much bigger issue of how people use social media. It's become ok to throw wild theories around about anyone. It stretches from accusations about the RF, to real life events like the death of Nicola Bulley, to co workers, family members and class mates. And it leads to distress and bullying. I can't see how it's possible to draw a distinction just because it's about the RF.

It's completely different to challenging political activity or debating the principles of a democracy versus a monarchy, which posters use to justy their prurient theorising.

Notpossibly · 12/03/2024 08:50

DaBlackCatsAreDaBestCats · 11/03/2024 11:51

Yes, it’s uninterested not disinterested x

I actually thinks disinterested works better.
Only those related to Kate could remain on the thread and the rest of us would have to leave this nonsense and get on with our lives.
I'm a hypocrite I know.

Tessisme · 12/03/2024 08:56

I actually thinks disinterested works better.
Only those related to Kate could remain on the thread and the rest of us would have to leave this nonsense and get on with our lives.

This did briefly cross my mind when I mistakenly used disinterested up thread (and it was pointed out) but I decided just to be wrong😆

Idontpostmuch · 12/03/2024 11:26

Flowerfairie · 11/03/2024 00:30

@Emily1583 a simple Google would have told you

AFP said: “Mandatory kill. Due to an editorial issue this photo by the Prince of Wales has been withdrawn … and may no longer by used in any manner. Please immediately remove it from all your online services, stop using it in any other fashion and delete it from your servers.”

@Flowerfairie @Emily1583 You could say that about a lot of the questions asked on MN yet members choose to ask the community. A bit snipey to tell another member she should just have turned to google.

SarahC1983 · 14/03/2024 14:08

This is literally insane!! Can't believe we've still got no sight of her? Where is she??

Wellthisisntgreatreally · 14/03/2024 14:10

She's out of the public eye until Easter. Which is exactly what the royal family have said from the very beginning. Easter is at the end of the month so you don't have long left to wait.