Page 7 | Prince Harry - sounds articulate and quite intelligent

oakleaffy · 09/01/2023 00:13

AuroraCake · 09/01/2023 00:05

And right at the end of everything which is known in Cali because of the Spanish influence. quieres comer un platano, si?

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Definitely an upward inflection.

QueenOfHiraeth · 09/01/2023 00:15

I wish he could refer to Meghan by name instead of "my wife", I don't know why it irritates me so much but it does.
I think he came across well but he was talking about his chosen topics to a tame journalist with pre-approved questions

ittakes2 · 09/01/2023 00:16

Antagonist is a word my teens are taught in their high school English classes to describe main characters in story lines.

Tamarindtree · 09/01/2023 00:19

He comes across as an immature empty vessel that has been filled with woke crap, cliches, bitterness, navel gazing victim mentality topped up with taking no personal responsibility for himself.

LivelyBlake · 09/01/2023 00:20

Beachdays44 · 09/01/2023 00:03

I thought his body language was interesting at the end when he was asked if he was happy...he looked away a number of times and said something about being happy but that 'some other people' wouldn't be happy if he was? Compared to when asked about his kids and he gave a genuinely happy look.

I haven't read a tabloid in more than twenty years... I was surprised when he said something about all the newspapers being lined out at the various Palaces and you couldn't avoid them? Surely they don't buy those rags?!

The press department of any organisation including the RF get all newspapers every day and produce daily reports. It’s part of their job.

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pigalow27 · 09/01/2023 00:22

ittakes2 · 09/01/2023 00:16

Antagonist is a word my teens are taught in their high school English classes to describe main characters in story lines.

The main character is the protagonist; the antagonist is the character in conflict with the protagonist.

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GriddleScone · 09/01/2023 00:22

ittakes2 · 09/01/2023 00:16

Antagonist is a word my teens are taught in their high school English classes to describe main characters in story lines.

Protagonist?

Suboptimalsitch · 09/01/2023 00:30

He reminds me of a teen returning home after their first term at uni. Full of newly discovered ideologies, politics, opinions and often totally insufferable . No one else is as enlightened, aware and knowledgeable and they are intent on ramming their hodgepodge of brand new learning down their ignorant parents and younger siblings throats. They usually turn into fully formed adults after a while and realise they’re not the first person on the planet to know what they have just discovered. In Harry’s case he still sounds like that patronising, smug and self-righteous fresher.

Backstreetsbackalrightdadada · 09/01/2023 00:30

When he thought a family reunion would have a “ripple effect across the world”…. Are you serious?!

XanaduKira · 09/01/2023 00:37

Tamarindtree · 09/01/2023 00:19

He comes across as an immature empty vessel that has been filled with woke crap, cliches, bitterness, navel gazing victim mentality topped up with taking no personal responsibility for himself.

Sadly I agree with this.

ReedRite · 09/01/2023 00:38

My 7 year old impressed her teacher last term by piping up in literacy that there was an antagonist in the story they were studying, as well as the protagonist that the teacher had just pointed out. I didn’t tell the teacher that she had learned this term from YouTube videos by gamers talking about Nintendo switch games.....

Point being that these are not words indicative of a high level of intelligence, or even education.

JennyJenny8675309 · 09/01/2023 00:38

ArseInTheDogBowl · 08/01/2023 23:01

Would a 'quite intelligent' man think it was a good idea to go into such detail about his time in the army, provoking a response from the Taliban?

The man is a fool, I've seen 15 year olds with a greater ability to consider the consequences of their actions.

Agreed.
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YouOKHun · 09/01/2023 00:39

BradfordGirl · 08/01/2023 23:45

FYI Eton has a learning support unit and gives specialist support to pupils with SEN like dyslexia. So Harry did belong there.

I agree with you @BradfordGirl. Schools like Eton have the resources to provide very good support and has many pupils who need different forms of support but are also academically able. The question is more whether Harry would have passed the interview, reasoning tests and entrance exam if he’d gone through the same process as others are required to go through and the answer is it’s highly unlikely. I expect Eton would have been a source of misery for him because it’s not the sort of place I’d want to be at school if I was struggling compared to my peers. Gone are the days when a place was offered based on being titled or the son of an old Etonian, now it’s academic competition with a high bar and it was when he was there too. The fact he went there shows they made a concession for him, not that he’s particularly able.

JennyJenny8675309 · 09/01/2023 00:40

Tamarindtree · 09/01/2023 00:19

He comes across as an immature empty vessel that has been filled with woke crap, cliches, bitterness, navel gazing victim mentality topped up with taking no personal responsibility for himself.

This is it, in a nutshell.

Skodacool · 09/01/2023 00:42

RewildingAmbridge · 08/01/2023 22:42

😂 posh accent doesn't equal intelligence. He sounds like he's regurgitating life coaching/therapy jargon

That was exactly my reaction

AuroraCake · 09/01/2023 00:48

YouOKHun · 09/01/2023 00:39

I agree with you @BradfordGirl. Schools like Eton have the resources to provide very good support and has many pupils who need different forms of support but are also academically able. The question is more whether Harry would have passed the interview, reasoning tests and entrance exam if he’d gone through the same process as others are required to go through and the answer is it’s highly unlikely. I expect Eton would have been a source of misery for him because it’s not the sort of place I’d want to be at school if I was struggling compared to my peers. Gone are the days when a place was offered based on being titled or the son of an old Etonian, now it’s academic competition with a high bar and it was when he was there too. The fact he went there shows they made a concession for him, not that he’s particularly able.

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This William probably wouldn’t have gotten in either. William got the lowest A Levels in his year. Not that I am saying everyone who goes there is really intelligent. Actually most people you see who go there are average but they are the types who do well in academic settings.

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pigalow27 · 09/01/2023 00:52

Actually most people you see who go there are average

I think this is highly unlikely. It is average to get grade 4 or 5 at GCSE Maths. Please have a look at exemplar papers which show this standard. In English you'd still be unlikely to use an apostrophe to show possession correctly, comma splice at least occasionally and make homophone errors. Do you really think most Eton students are of average intelligence?

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AuroraCake · 09/01/2023 00:54

pigalow27 · 09/01/2023 00:52

Actually most people you see who go there are average

I think this is highly unlikely. It is average to get grade 4 or 5 at GCSE Maths. Please have a look at exemplar papers which show this standard. In English you'd still be unlikely to use an apostrophe to show possession correctly, comma splice at least occasionally and make homophone errors. Do you really think most Eton students are of average intelligence?

To talk to, many don’t shine out as anything too special. Extremely well educated obviously.

comfyshoes2022 · 09/01/2023 01:01

pigalow27 · 08/01/2023 22:39

There seems to be an accepted view that Prince Harry is very dim and unintelligent but he seems to be to be really quite articulate and have a wide vocabulary (antagonist, complicit.) I've thought this before when he made a speech at the Invictus games but assumed it was written for him and he was reading it but the answers to the questions in the interview couldn't all possibly have been learnt,

I agree. I’ve been surprised by how intelligent he seems.

Blossomtoes · 09/01/2023 01:01

ittakes2 · 09/01/2023 00:16

Antagonist is a word my teens are taught in their high school English classes to describe main characters in story lines.

That’s a shame because the correct word is protagonist.

Eyerollcentral · 09/01/2023 01:12

pigalow27 · 09/01/2023 00:52

Actually most people you see who go there are average

I think this is highly unlikely. It is average to get grade 4 or 5 at GCSE Maths. Please have a look at exemplar papers which show this standard. In English you'd still be unlikely to use an apostrophe to show possession correctly, comma splice at least occasionally and make homophone errors. Do you really think most Eton students are of average intelligence?

Yes you are correct that most of the students at Eton are average at best. Most though due to the level of personal education they receive are able to achieve grades which allow them to enter prestigious universities. Whether the rest of the royal family are bright or not is not the question you posed. Harry still does not come across as intelligent or articulate in this interview

HaroldsHoodie · 09/01/2023 01:28

Articulate and quite intelligent? Coherent and cogent??

You must be having a laugh.

I don’t quite know what to do with that tbh.

Delectable · 09/01/2023 01:29

QueenOfHiraeth · 09/01/2023 00:15

I wish he could refer to Meghan by name instead of "my wife", I don't know why it irritates me so much but it does.
I think he came across well but he was talking about his chosen topics to a tame journalist with pre-approved questions

She is his wife. He chose her above all other women he could pick from. Unlike some, he also loves his wife. His great-grand uncle did the courageous thing, abdicated and married the woman he loved. Your king deceived a 19 year old to marry him at 32 after meeting her only a dozen times; for two things heirs and enough time to change the law to suit his agenda. Now you have the queen and king who hardly even live together.

Only one reason why you'll be irritated a man proudly and publicly refers to his wife as his wife; thankfully he is supporting and protecting his wife unlike Charles in the past and even Willy failed to do.

Delectable · 09/01/2023 01:33

LivelyBlake · 09/01/2023 00:20

The press department of any organisation including the RF get all newspapers every day and produce daily reports. It’s part of their job.

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@Beachdays44 the RF have at least 25 public relations consultants talk-less of other officers who deal with their diary and engagements.

Delectable · 09/01/2023 01:33

@Beachdays44 the RF have at least 25 public relations consultants talk-less of other officers who deal with their diary and engagements.

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In fact it was again stated in the Sunday Times yesterday.