Happy birthday Archie

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Yes it's his birthday but you wouldn't know it. Not one mention jn the media about it and yet we were subjected to plenty of charlotte and her recent birthday. Funny that.

I highly doubt one photo will reverse the good work they have done. They have a little boy, little boys love balloons and I trust that two environmentally conscious people would dispose of the balloons responsibly. This is just nit picking

@ChardonnaysPetDragon - are you being serious??

Jesus Mary and Joseph and the wee donkey. I'm not a massive fan of them, but now there are comments about the balloons. These guys can't do right for doing wrong. Give them a break!

I have said a number of times in the past that the arbitrary H&M hate just isn't that prevalent on MN - then someone goes and claims that their 2yo having balloons will single handed my melt the polar ice caps. I hate being proven wrong

BTW you'll hate me, DD'a 9th birthday is coming up and I've ordered a balloon arch for her party. May as well just go and strangle a rabbit ey?

@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop

I don't agree. These famous people raise awareness. Do we ask all the celebs who do CINeed how much they've donated? What about SUTC that's been on... shall we ask them too? They do Bake Off, must make sure they divulge what they;ve donated before they bake those cakes!

That is nitpicking. Along with the balloons.

@Roussette well I don't personally ask them because I don't know any of them but I've always wondered yes - when millionaires preach to the every day man that they need to donate money it's absolutely fine to wonder "well hang on, millionaire, why don't you do it if you care so much?". My opinions on this predated H&M by about 20 years. Not nitpicking, a valid question around philanthropy

@ChardonnaysPetDragon - are you being serious?

Yes. This is a very famous couple who are trying their hardest to be humanitarians. They are sending the wrong message which will be copied by millions.

It's wrong and sad.

Yes, millions of people will go out and release balloons into the air because Archie had a bunch of balloons on his 2nd picture. That is definitely something that will definitely happen

I trust that two environmentally conscious people would dispose of the balloons responsibly.

Firstly, you cannot possibly know that. Secondly, are you just as certain that the ones who will follow their example will be just as conscious?

@ChardonnaysPetDragon I reckon I could count on one hand the amount of people who will "follow suit" and get balloons for no good reason because of this photo

You are trying to minimise this and I understand your motives.

However, the message they send is wrong and they ought to know better than this.

Bloody hell, no wonder they walked away.

@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop
glad to hear you're not just picking on H&M for this pressing need to know about how much all these people donate.

But we all know if H&M said they donated $$$$ the posts would say, look at them showing off about what they've donated.
I've seen it on here with the donations they have made. The roof on the Texas womens shelter, SmartWorks etc... all the posters who don't like them said how much they were looking for attention, we don't want to know etc.

Bottom line. They can't win if they do. Or if they don't.

I've seen it all before on these threads.

Bloody hell, no wonder they walked away

Ain't that the truth.

Chardonnary

Would a bouncy castle be suitable for you? Or is that dangerous and they are sending the wrong message?

What about facepaints? Some children are allergic to facepaints... how irresponsible of them?

There is nothing they can do that will be accepted by some.

@ChardonnaysPetDragon

You are trying to minimise this and I understand your motives.

However, the message they send is wrong and they ought to know better than this.

Oh do tell me what my motives are please. Do you think I am the owner founder of a multi million pound balloon company?

@Roussette you're probably right. They can't even get balloons to celebrate their child's birthday without coming under fire. Most odd.

@Roussette

Chardonnary

Would a bouncy castle be suitable for you? Or is that dangerous and they are sending the wrong message?

What about facepaints? Some children are allergic to facepaints... how irresponsible of them?

There is nothing they can do that will be accepted by some.

Absolutely not!

Archie must stay in his room and only play with recycled-from-nappies wooden toys and wear rags, and eat foraged berries lest he tears a hole in the ozone layer with his tiny little hands

Stop it, you're making me 🤣😁😂

I’m not sure why it’s so difficult to understand why balloons are dangerous for wildlife and why it’s so important to send the message that they are, indeed, dangerous.

But it does seem that some posters do struggle with it.

@ChardonnaysPetDragon no one is struggling wth that concept. It's quite well known that helium balloons can be damaging.
However the point is

1. It's a weird assumption to think the balloons were let loft
2. An even weirder assumption to say that millions of people will know be letting balloons off willy nilly because of that one picture.

Sometimes people on the public eye are allowed to not be perfect

*let off

The first thing I thought was "those balloons had better not be released". I'm trying to get our council to ban balloon litter releases.

When I saw the photo of the balloons, i knew there'd be a lot of comments about them. Not very woke of them to use balloons. it's a cute photo but I wonder why they are so obsessed with not showing his face. He just looks like a young harry.

I believe the ballon arch that Princess Charlotte was playing with was when they were on an official trip to Canada. So, not something they had much control about.

[quote FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop]@ChardonnaysPetDragon no one is struggling wth that concept. It's quite well known that helium balloons can be damaging.
However the point is

1. It's a weird assumption to think the balloons were let loft
2. An even weirder assumption to say that millions of people will know be letting balloons off willy nilly because of that one picture.

Sometimes people on the public eye are allowed to not be perfect [/quote]
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