Justine has called anti-Meghan sentiment here deranged

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In the Telegraph today got to be worth a thread of its own. She is of course right !

This!

Sycophants have never been culture creators so be true to yourselves.

Haha

And you know this for a FACT do you?! What fact is that please?

I'm probably due a name change 😂.

Lets be honest of there was betting of the state of play in 10 years time, Harry and Meghan odds on divorced and Harry back in UK.

Sycophants have never been culture creators so be true to yourselves

Wise words as ever, bakalava

FWIW there's nothing wrong in a business owner prioritising the bottom line, as long as people recognise it for what it is. There's no obligation either to like your "suppliers", though an ability to hide outright distaste often helps

Above all, it often confuses me when posters refer to the content on MN, apparently without realising they're the content - a point worth remembering since nothing online is truly private and can often be sold

She's right

I'm probably due a name change 😂.
Lets be honest of there was betting of the state of play in 10 years time, Harry and Meghan odds on divorced and Harry back in UK.

@Bakeacaketoday73

Justine comment is about vitriol and deranged comments about M&H - I assume you disagree with her yet this is your contribution. If you or anyone else are in a relationship good or bad do you think people are betting on whether divorce is likely in the next 10 years. Why name change, keep it, you are not the first or the last.

That's really funny

😂😂😂😭😂😂

It’s actually not a standard phrase. It came into more common usage only a few years ago - used incorrectly on social media. The poster I responded to criticised Meghan for incorrect usage of words. Word salad used as the poster did, is incorrect.

“Or would you like to provide us with a list of words we are permitted to use and have been confirmed, by committee review, not to offend anyone?”

Yes, take it to extremes…. it’s a common way of putting someone down on mn.

vote with your feet, if you feel affronted, there are other forums

She is right and it makes me very angry that these people set the tone abroad for who we are. Outside of the UK we are seen as deranged bigots. I never in my life thought we would be portrayed on the world stage as ignorant, uneducated people. I thought that title belonged to people living in the deep, Deep South of America.

@debbrianna
too busy here anyway!

Well, yes. I have been to weddings where people were commenting on the likelihood of the marriage lasting. People do.

I was (joking) about a name change due to the response by the previous poster "Brutally accurate summary and no doubt you’ll be lambasted for it, but I agree" by @BethDuttonsTwin

Made me laugh too.

Harry seems to have proved he managed to be a right bellend (a frostbitten one) without any help whatsoever from Meghan for years before he ever met her.

😆

I don't think people blame Meghan alone, but we are allowed to dislike the hypocrisy displayed by her and by Harry.

We are also allowed to dislike the hatred, lies and vitriol spilling out from the pair of them while the RF say nothing. The couple know they can shoot fish in a barrel indefinitely making $$$$$ in the process.
We are allowed to see the intrinsic unfairness in this

Well, yes. I have been to weddings where people were commenting on the likelihood of the marriage lasting. People do.

Yes but you said betting - people bet on whether someone else's will last - especially as it is alluding that they hope it won't last - which I find odd as none of us know what is round the corner in our own.

Ah. Aren’t the peasants behaving as they should?

perhaps it needs the enlightened elite to go in and educate them in the ways of the progressives.

not that too much of that doesn’t go on already on MN.

I attended a distant family wedding where the bride was visibly pregnant in white but denying it (a no-no in our culture).
They were marrying in the UK at short notice even though they both lived in the US, their US family never knew and their UK family barely knew them.
People were openly talking about their divorce in front of them. It was awkward.
They had a baby four months later (full term but they insisted was a premmie) and divorced not long after.

I was careful to keep “word salad” in quotes because I am aware of its questionable usage outside of the field of psychiatry. I used it tongue in cheek, but clear about what I meant. It does after all signify “an unintelligible mixture of random words” … the term word salad by the way is also used in linguistics. I am interested in linguistics and notably pragmatics, one of its branches.

I’m truly sorry if I offended anyone!

Final thought, when a term is used in a new way by a sufficient number of people you get semantic shift - happens in many languages, not just English. I think this may be happening with “word salad”.

The Daily Mail told them so.

I think we are the only country that gives more of a shit as to how we are seen ‘from abroad’ than within our own borders.

I’m pretty sure it’s the likes of you constantly banging on about how horrible Britain is that the rest of the world believes it.