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Indifference to PoW?

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FaiIureToLunch · 28/01/2024 08:51

I find it strange that there’s no real interest or concern from the public about POW being in hospital. Nobody seems to be that bothered. If you compare it to the circus if Diana had been in the same situation….. I just find it odd. I always thought she was relatively popular because we’re constantly told she is but actually…. Tumbleweed.

I know it’s her own business etc but it just feels quite odd that somebody can disappear and there is no interest in why. I don’t really know or care what’s happened or why, but the silence is really intriguing. It reminds me of when the brexit referendum happened and I had no idea that there was such strong feeling about the EU…. I had no idea that there was such apathy about the PoW until now. It’s been a real eye opener for me.

I reckon the next generation or two, the monarchy will be gone.

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Roussette · 02/02/2024 17:09

Oh, don't be silly now Jeff. That sort of daft statement doesn't work! 😂
(But thanks for the laugh!)

Samcro · 02/02/2024 17:10

jeffgoldblum · 02/02/2024 17:08

Why would rousette want this thread deleted?

You know I don’t mean them
are you stirring?

ArcaneWireless · 02/02/2024 17:12

I’m not sure they meant Roussette Jeff.

Although I’m wary of making assumptions ….

smilesy · 02/02/2024 17:12

ArcaneWireless · 02/02/2024 17:07

I would hope not Samcro.

Thankfully MNHQ were on the ball earlier. I’m sure they will be responsive to any further reports should they be warranted.

Shame, we quite like a bum fight, don’t we @ArcaneWireless ? 🩲🩲😂

Maireas · 02/02/2024 17:13

Oh, the bum fight! 🍑 😂

ArcaneWireless · 02/02/2024 17:14

Don’t make me cough.

I’m not weeeeeeeeell. 🤒

jeffgoldblum · 02/02/2024 17:16

Well who do you mean then??? @Samcro !
I haven't got a bloody clue at this point!
And no I didn't think you would want the Thread deleted @Roussette , that's why I asked!

jeffgoldblum · 02/02/2024 17:18

ArcaneWireless · 02/02/2024 17:12

I’m not sure they meant Roussette Jeff.

Although I’m wary of making assumptions ….

Well who do they mean then?
This cryptic stuff boils my onions !! 🧅

jeffgoldblum · 02/02/2024 17:56

No replies? , can someone tell me who it is?
The suspense is killing me!

goodbyestranger · 02/02/2024 18:04

And can't you see how awful that sounds? You 'just mentioned' something really nasty and damaging 'in passing' and don't expect people to scrutinise this malicious rumour, or to pull you up on it?

CoffeeCantata no I don't see it's awful at all I'm afraid. The law of defamation provides the defence of justification and since I happen to strongly believe that William is a cheat I'm quite comfortable that any comment I make to that effect is justified. Your view is that this is a malicious rumour, other people (including myself) do not.

That's the way it is.

goodbyestranger · 02/02/2024 18:07

If people remain polite I can't quite see why the thread would be deleted. Any personal attacks can be picked off if anyone offended chooses to report. There certainly does seem to be a tactic by the more ardent monarchists to start arguments to get threads deleted but MN is doing a great job of not being tripped up by that any more.

jeffgoldblum · 02/02/2024 18:10

goodbyestranger · 02/02/2024 18:07

If people remain polite I can't quite see why the thread would be deleted. Any personal attacks can be picked off if anyone offended chooses to report. There certainly does seem to be a tactic by the more ardent monarchists to start arguments to get threads deleted but MN is doing a great job of not being tripped up by that any more.

On this I quite agree with you @goodbyestranger .

Playingintheshadow · 02/02/2024 18:14

After some of the posts I have just read I think I need to bleach my eyes and have a lie-down in a darkened room!!

Roussette · 02/02/2024 18:16

Playingintheshadow · 02/02/2024 18:14

After some of the posts I have just read I think I need to bleach my eyes and have a lie-down in a darkened room!!

Add a cooled flannel on your forehead, and a couple of slices of out the fridge cucumber slices on your eyes... works for me!

(Just having a joke!)

Playingintheshadow · 02/02/2024 18:17

Roussette · 02/02/2024 18:16

Add a cooled flannel on your forehead, and a couple of slices of out the fridge cucumber slices on your eyes... works for me!

(Just having a joke!)

Sounds good - as the saying goes Every Little Helps!😉

ArcaneWireless · 02/02/2024 18:19

Canny who you lie alongside…. 😁 🦇

Indifference to PoW?
jeffgoldblum · 02/02/2024 18:21

I think I need eye bleach after that giff arc!
I'm going to have nightmares about him tonight!! 🤣🤣

WinnieTheW0rm · 02/02/2024 18:21

goodbyestranger · 02/02/2024 13:46

Maybe the person who shared it with you 'orally' lives under a bridge too

Haha no very much not under a bridge.

Shrieking is a word I used deliberately. The responses are quite out of proportion to a perfectly balanced few posts. Outrage would do adequately too.

The idea that any member of that social circle would go to the press is laughable. People are not going to self destruct socially for a couple of minutes of press time. It's not important enough, just a thing for a while. I don't think anyone actually cares, but lots of people like a scandal. It's in the nature of things to talk mutually, especially when it's just known in a circle. Camilla's affair was very widely known in army circles at the time - would there have been this level of angst if MN had been in existence in the 80s and I had posted that Charles was a cheat?

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If you were going to suggest that, in the 80s, Camilla was the only mistress, then yes you may well have been ridiculed

goodbyestranger · 02/02/2024 18:26

Well this is the thing. The rf are so entitled yet such schmucks it's just incredible to me that they expect people to fawn.

Playingintheshadow · 02/02/2024 18:31

goodbyestranger · 02/02/2024 18:26

Well this is the thing. The rf are so entitled yet such schmucks it's just incredible to me that they expect people to fawn.

I don't believe they expect or want people to 'fawn'.

If a person chooses to "fawn" as you so charmingly put it, then that is on them.

wildernesssw · 02/02/2024 18:38

I don't 'fawn'. The suggestion that saying 'in the absence of proof I will treat gossip as unproven and give people the benefit of the doubt' shows up your angle on this.

The same for SM accusations against any other well known figure.

Mylovelygreendress · 02/02/2024 18:42

Playingintheshadow · 02/02/2024 18:14

After some of the posts I have just read I think I need to bleach my eyes and have a lie-down in a darkened room!!

Just back and catching up . Met friends for coffee but accidentally ended up in the pub however by the tone of some of the posts on this thread and others , probably better I had something stronger than coffee !
Goodness me !!

Playingintheshadow · 02/02/2024 18:47

Mylovelygreendress · 02/02/2024 18:42

Just back and catching up . Met friends for coffee but accidentally ended up in the pub however by the tone of some of the posts on this thread and others , probably better I had something stronger than coffee !
Goodness me !!

I think I missed most of the deleted ones and I'm quite glad I think!

I totally LOVE "accidentally ended up in the pub" 😂😅😂

goodbyestranger · 02/02/2024 18:48

wildernesssw · 02/02/2024 18:38

I don't 'fawn'. The suggestion that saying 'in the absence of proof I will treat gossip as unproven and give people the benefit of the doubt' shows up your angle on this.

The same for SM accusations against any other well known figure.

Perhaps I need to re-iterate: you are very welcome not to cast William as a cheat. I'm amused that there's no reciprocity though and that for some reason I'm being pressured to say that I don't believe it to be a fact, merely a rumour. That's not my position I'm afraid.

Playingintheshadow · 02/02/2024 18:51

goodbyestranger · 02/02/2024 18:48

Perhaps I need to re-iterate: you are very welcome not to cast William as a cheat. I'm amused that there's no reciprocity though and that for some reason I'm being pressured to say that I don't believe it to be a fact, merely a rumour. That's not my position I'm afraid.

Why are you still banging on (pun intended) about it though? Does it give you some sort of pleasure to insist that the man is a cheat? I don't even care how you think you know. Unless of course William told you. Which I very seriously doubt.

It's just boring now.

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