Harry & Meghan - watching and waiting (no.13)

[yolofish]

A new thread in which to discuss what happens next in this saga.

And best wishes to mustress and thanks for her excellent thread titles.

I am so jealous of all people having lovely dinners, we are going on a weekend trip (lovely, I know), to train station food for us....

I’ll be reporting the very many attempts to derail and will leave MNHQ to their job.

Please include cats and dinners in your reports. Merci!

If exchange a nice dinner for some train food and a weekend away!

As a nation Britain is well known for its irony & sarcasm.
That's why our sense of humour doesn't always make sense to other countries.

I'm rather partial to a train station pasty and a packet of walkers ready salted 😋

I was so gutted by the Danny Baker incident but it wasn't 'the press' - it was Baker on his SM account. God it was depressing, just when the really lovely photo of Madge and Doria and Archie and H&M was published, it seemed such a natural affectionate picture and he ruined it.

As a nation Britain is well known for its irony & sarcasm.

To whom? PMSL.

Exactly niceguyeddie I see it as lampooning the poor time and place of the statement and the poor behaviour of the person who made it, not the person themselves

The royal family have been commented on and critiqued for hundreds of years

Hey Curly, missed your posts! Yeah, got to stay in the limelight... is the post giving extensive information about the beneficiaries of MM's efforts, or is it another virtue signalling photo-op?

I think @MNHQ's policing efforts are best spent on pile-on threads that include vile insults, e.g. Laurence Fox.
Here we have a handful of very active posters, aggressively demanding replies and opinion justifications, tagging people every 2 minutes. It's tedious and there is no requirement to acknowledge unpleasant posters. It's for my mental health, you see.

I can confidently tell you that Britain is renowned for being completely devoid of a sense of humour - worldwide.

Hey Fainne are you a gaeilgeoir?

I like looking at the source material from their own mouths type of thing: interviews, statements etc.

Newspaper stories on avocados, nah.

The Sun / Murdoch are credited with Tony Blair winning. A other way of looking at it is The Sun followed the public mood.

Fainne known but not always understood

The Instagram CV update is just strange.

That picture is interesting Curly. Was she there out of altruism or to create an image and raise her profile? There's a certain kudos to being a philanthropist and humanitarian isn't there

I think what gives a lot away is the quote from her friends how she wants to be embraced by charities in Canada, rather than them to be embraced by her

7Worfs did you see my Russian history book rec on the other thread?

Thanks, @LilyMumsnet

Let’s confine the badmouthing, bitching and bullying to —inflammatory, defamatory— posts about MM (aka just a bit of lighthearted fun) and not turn it on @rockingchaircandle

Hey Fainne are you a gaeilgeoir?
Sea

(Strike our fail)

I wonder what the agenda is for Americans posting on this thread because
I wonder if the nuances of British society and the way the RF works is something which needs some explanation, that’s all. I wonder if there is a bias to feeling more positive towards M because she is American. It’s a different value system. I don’t mean that in a disparaging way.

Yes, I think there's a weird bubble here where you have to agree and post the right 'in' things about feeling ok and your dinner. You can post snarky comments if you agree with the OP. (See the opening posts of this thread for the cancer allegations, although the main post has now been deleted, @TheMustressMhor still hasn't clarified)

Also, you can't have anyone disagree with you without being told you're a SCOLD or on your moral high horse. I've never been very good at taking orders though. I've many posts on topic, that are engaging with the topic. (None on my dinner though sorry!). Point out the ones that are wrong! You can't. It really is just policing the thread. And that is what will get the thread deleted if anything. If you want a bubble find a private forum.

I'm happy to keep discussing, my posts will probably be more pro Meghan and Harry than others. I will defend myself as necessary as well!

Hey Fainne are you a gaeilgeoir?
Sea

To quote my son...Class 👏👏

She’s posted a picture from a pre-marriage charity gig in 2016

And what the heck is wrong with that? I support anyone who does something for charity, whether it be MM, a celeb or just a Joe Public. However, someone famous can bring far more to a charity than just an ordinary member of the public.

what it looks like to me is that some posters are determined to get threads pulled and other posters banned because they think they are moral arbiters on threads

Sigh. That is incorrect. I (personally) just want fairness and feel incorrect facts should be challenged. I posted a long post about my feelings on the whole thing on the previous thread. It wasn't rude, it was trying to explain. It wasn't provocative or designed to inflame or provoke.. No one answered, presumably because they were told to ignore those that disagree.

I can confidently tell you that Britain is renowned for being completely devoid of a sense of humour - worldwide

That made me laugh