You lot are nuts

[wegoagainplease]

Two brothers have fallen out, with one leaving the family business to go and live with his wife in her country.

That's it.

The only reason the spin off stuff (books, TV, interviews) happens is because all of you provide an audience for it.

Switch off and it will end, keep on engaging and YOU keep it going.

Unless of course you all actually enjoy the faux outrage

You actually could in fairness just get on with your life anyway. Maybe?

I genuinely couldn't be bothered (figured media are their usual tabloidy lying self, MM and Harry obviously have very big egos and can't shut up too) but the excerpts have drawn me in.

Now I'm morbidly curious about Harry's psychological state, to be providing such detail about his... physical state. I'm not concerned or outraged but very interested in what's going on in their heads and what led to that lol

I have just found it all hilarious.

First the whole glorious ridiculousness of the book. It's brilliant.

Then the faux snobbish people calling everyone stupid / ghoulish / uneducated for talking about it. I mean that's ridiculous. Taking life so seriously that you can't take the piss out of someone who jumps the shark so monumentally in real life...that's stupid.

It's always the ones who pretend they are a soul above such gossip who on the quiet avidly read all about it. I have a sister who says she doesn't watch tele to all her intellectual daft friends. Her living room is wall to wall books.
It's upstairs in her bedroom

Here we go again - trying to silence anyone who speaks out with a different opinion than you by throwing around insults.

Where is this “hate”?

I have read hilarity, concern, indifference, surprise - where is the “hate”?

The hate is coming from a the snobs in this thread who have a deep rooted disdain for the ‘lowlife’.

Haven’t read it all - are they also trying to silence by saying that if you have a different opinion to them - that you must be a sheeple because you read the DM / tabloids etc - they don’t think it’s possible to form an opinion - as they have - via direct exposure or credible sources?

It must be excruciating for the fans to be so let down by their heros after all the fighting and defending of them they have done.

All they are left with is to try to mock and silence others.

Oh god no I don't hate them. This is far too entertaining. Spitting Image wouldn't even need script writers if it were still going, they could take some of this verbatim!

👏🏻 all of this.

Leave us alone. No one is forcing you to read anything you don’t want to.

They do, they love to hate

I love to love.

Sadly, my baby just loves to dance 🤷‍♀️

Nuts maybe.... There's a lot of us then!

All of those things can be rooted in hate, particularly in an annonymous setting where you can push a certain agenda while maintaing your indifference about it. Harry has released a book about his life where he's been more honest than people anticipated - this has now turned into a sensational narrative of 'he's out of control/mentally ill/he's endagered his family.'

I've just read an actual excerpt of the widely-quoted "Prince Harry reveals that he killed 25 people in Afghanistan. He did not think of the 25 as ‘people’ but as ‘chess pieces’" (as per a thread title on here) and it is far more measured and balanced than the tabloids are actually reporting:

twitter.com/_PeterHunt/status/1611502728659746821

I can guarantee that if any other ex-military wrote this in an autobiography, it would not be held up as some sort of reckless boasting about a kill count. Yet on here it's become this hugely gasped-over gotcha over how out of control Harry is.

If it makes me some kind of snob for thinking that in this particular internet age we're in, we need temperance rather than mob mentality and mass ridicule, that's fine. I can live with that.

It's a sad posh soap opera.
Family fall out that should not be played out in public.
Sad that there are children caught in the crossfire.

This Royal rift getting so much airtime when there are dreadful things happening in the world - Ukraine, the missing kidnapped girls in Nigeria, cost of living crisis etc

I can guarantee that if any other ex-military wrote this in an autobiography, it would not be held up as some sort of reckless boasting about a kill count.

How do you and your guarantee think it would be received?

😂

As a fairly standard description of the realities of killing the enemy and the conflicting emotions a military personnel would have surrounding that. No more, no less.

Afghanistan. Don't forget the women in Afghanistan. That's what we're supposed to be focusing on today. Not the sixth in line to the throne apparently making a massive tit of himself and dumping all over his family.

People keep hanging out on RF boards or posting threads about how they don’t want to talk about it. Im
bot convinced somehow

Aside from that we should all of course be only consuming constant doom media with no entertainment as a priority, no laughing allowed

It's been such a fascinating, twisting tale.

RF supporters were outraged that he'd write a book and wondered what there was left to say.
HAM supporters defended his right to publish the book and the RF would just have to suck it up.

Then the Queen died and rumours were he was trying to edit bits out of the book. The reports came saying he couldn't.
Traitor, shouted the royalists
Let him be, replied the HAMmers. He can write what he likes.

Then tensions rise as the publishing date nears. Royalists grumpy. HAMmers gleeful.

Next controlled release of an English excerpt through the Guardian. William beat his brother up.
It's the end of the monarchy, shouted the HAMmers. He can't be king.
Royalists made fun of the broken necklace, the dog bowl and explained the fight as, it's brothers innit. But still, it looked like a rough ride for the RF.

Then out of the blue, Spain does something extraordinary. They start selling Spanish copies. They're snapped up and translated in the most clunky, and funny, way. Story after story follows. Some so bizarre that HAMmers declare it must be a clever hoax book. How inspired and gifted is Harry.

MSM outlets say the RF is in real trouble with serious questions to answer. And yet, and yet, on SM a little sniggering is heard. Jokes start being made on US TV. And then on daytime TV, they're openly laughing at him and his stories of having his bottom spanked and his frozen todger.

And then, HAMmers, who weeks before were saying, let him write what he wants, are saying, stop talking about the book, he's ill. I wonder if the book had been well-received and the same stories were included, whether we'd still be thinking he was ill.

Of course, it could all change again. The English version might come out and be so movingly written, that he becomes a hero. Certainly I thought he came across quite well on the two pages I read about Afghanistan - even if he does discuss his target numbers. But will that overturn the images and opinions that people already now have embedded in their head?

The story's not over yet.

It's like watching a car crash.

You know you shouldn't be looking but you can't look away.

Would they write kill numbers? I'm interested. I didn't know it was something that is not expected to be talked about.

😂
In the entrance to Nott Cott with much enthusiasm, apparently because she was so upset about having to live there rent-free.

I'm not into military autobiographies so I couldn't really say. It does seem that the UK military are more close-mouthed about their kill counts compared to their American counterparts (www.wearethemighty.com/popular/most-legendary-snipers/), but that didn't stop the tabloids from hyping up the fact that it's a British marine from the South of England who is classed as the world's deadliest sniper with a kill count of 173. Yes, the marine is unnamed but surely it still puts a target on British marines to boast about this all over the tabloids?

Perhaps Harry just felt it was obvious that he would have killed Taliban fighters in Afghanistan and he wanted to take accountability for that? I don't get the sense from the excerpt that he was boasting about these numbers, rather trying to higlight that he wasn't there ceremonially.

You are the ones reading it and discussing it in minute details however !