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What happened to thread last night

Had gone this am. Didn’t know why

I watched it this am. Can’t believe Noel Got Heidie name wrong on birth certificate

The silliness about the uniform being new was ridiculous. Do they never pass clothes down in the family. They come across as vacuous and wasteful

Liked the boy settling in to school but do they ever go to other people's houses or have friends back?

@woodhill would you be happy for your kids to go there for a play date or sleepover? I'm sure they get to go to other peoples houses to play, I'm sure it would be a welcomed break

I think I wouldn't have minded, they seem well cared for in a haphazard sort of way

I ended up watching a couple of the vlogs.
In one they are given a holiday house to use in Devon. In a couple of the shots there is a girl who didn't appear to be a Radford so I assume one of them had taken a friend along.

one thing that struck me is that they're quite coy about media being a source of income...but why else would you put your whole life out there, show all your kids, your house etc if there was literally no material benefit?

I'm confused. In the episode last week they made out like the pie shop was struggling due to corona and so one of the daughters came up with the idea of selling pies online. So they started doing it and it's going really well. Great I thought.

But I've also been watching the older programmes and in one from 4 or 5 years ago they talk about how they're now selling pies online and how well it was going. So why the bullshit?

@FatCatThinCat Maybe because the shop now closed there only income would be online so they had to push sales on Instagram. Although Noah said he got a lot of messages during the night which is strange as he would surely be used to that.

[quote RevolvingPivot]@FatCatThinCat Maybe because the shop now closed there only income would be online so they had to push sales on Instagram. Although Noah said he got a lot of messages during the night which is strange as he would surely be used to that.[/quote]
But the shop didn't have to close, takeaway food businesses have been allowed to remain open haven't they?

In the beginning so March /April pubs cafes coffee shops etc were shut weren’t they

Then reopened maybe may June so be a few months no income

@Blondeshavemorefun

In the beginning so March /April pubs cafes coffee shops etc were shut weren’t they

Then reopened maybe may June so be a few months no income

Only no income from the shop itself though- as others have said they have been selling the pies online for several years and also have their social media income.

Only no income from the shop itself though- as others have said they have been selling the pies online for several years and also have their social media income.

This is why the whole we have no koney because covid made us shut the bakery pisses me off so much. Compared to millions of people in the UK they were raking it in during the pandemic even with the bakery closed.

During those months they still had the youtube money and any other money from social media. They still got mountains of crap gifted and they still had the online pie business which is hardly pocket change at a minimum of £20 odd quid per order. The fact they then went on national TV pleading poverty is just completely tone deaf.

@Same4Walls

Only no income from the shop itself though- as others have said they have been selling the pies online for several years and also have their social media income.

This is why the whole we have no koney because covid made us shut the bakery pisses me off so much. Compared to millions of people in the UK they were raking it in during the pandemic even with the bakery closed.

During those months they still had the youtube money and any other money from social media. They still got mountains of crap gifted and they still had the online pie business which is hardly pocket change at a minimum of £20 odd quid per order. The fact they then went on national TV pleading poverty is just completely tone deaf.

Sorry I must’ve missed something, when were they pleading poverty?

@Wondermule on the tv show.

Wasn't it the narrator saying things about poverty and the like?
So it would have been the editing by the programme

Wasn't it the narrator saying things about poverty and the like?
So it would have been the editing by the programme

Noel said "We’ve gone from earning a wage to absolutely nothing."

Oh ok

@FatCatThinCat no they weren’t saying they hadn’t sold online before they were saying they hadn’t used Chloe’s SM to promote it before.

@SquirtleSquad

Noel said "We’ve gone from earning a wage to absolutely nothing."

Yes I was sure I remembered him saying something similar on the show and I believe they also said something similar in their vlogs at the time as the papers picked it up and did a story on it. The narrator might have also done a segment on it but they definitely played heavily on the impression that without the pie shop being open they wouldn't have any income at all.

[quote MyDcAreMarvel]@FatCatThinCat no they weren’t saying they hadn’t sold online before they were saying they hadn’t used Chloe’s SM to promote it before.[/quote]
I thought it came across as they had just started selling online. Chloe only has around 55k followers while the Radford page has 365k followers so no need to use Chloe's social media.

It definitely came across as they'd never done online before

@purpleme12

It definitely came across as they'd never done online before

What does it really matter though?

Because they've said in previous series that the shop was online?
So if they're saying something different to that then it makes them come across fake really and like they're lying

@Wondermule because this thread is discussing the show. We are here to discuss elements of the show. That was a part of the show how new and innovative it was and how their daughter saved the business - which it's just more bullshit.

I expect the autistic kids are internalising the chaos. I expect that inside they're churning masses of anxiety, stress and sensory overload. I expect this is the case as I was an autistic child growing up in a large family (although small compared to them as there were only 6 of us). It's a nightmare situation for an autistic child

I think your speaking for yourself? Every Autistic child is different. I suspect they are desensitised to the "chaos". Also, not all children with Autism exhibit high levels of anxiety and sensory needs.