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[Uricon2]

WTF Ghana? Just why?

Thanks @jeffgoldblum 💗

"I’m not on Instagram but apparently the As Ever NY clothing company have had to turn off comments on their posts on there due to the severity of abuse from the sewer squad"

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has got its shoes on. Someone has lied to you. I wouldn’t be taking the monetized royalist accounts’ word for anything. They don’t deal in truth, they make shite up, and pass on unsubstantiated rumours, and they do it for the money.

The mayor in Spain saying 'I can't afford to take on the British Crown over this.'
Just shows the massive unearned privilege that surrounds Meghan.

He doesn’t need to take on the Crown. Meghan has nothing to do with the Crown.

She's probably infringed a GDPR-type law. People needed to be able to unsubscribe from ARO then make their own decision to sign ip for AE. I'm not sure how anyone knows data has been transferred from one to the other though.

@Upsidedownimturningit I know. But I am struck by the fact that that's the mayor's assumption.

The mayor is a she. We know it's not about the Crown but I think it's reasonable that a citizen of another country might not be up to date with how it works.

They’ve stooped lower in the past. Much lower, with their tactics and harassment.

As I posted, I’m not on instagram. It was easy and quick for the posters that are on that platform too, to check. I didn’t state it categorically but I believed it.

Unfortunately, their supporters have a reputation for being bullies. A bit like the couple themselves.

They don’t deal in truth, they make shite up, and pass on unsubstantiated rumours, and they do it for the money.

Yes H&M do that.

Yeah, like believing in complicated cancer narratives and such.

I've been meaning to warn you @Jacquettes , I think someone has taken your account, there is another Jaquette on here ! Please be careful!

@Uricon2 I too think it is understandable the Mayor doesn't realise she wouldn't be taking on the Crown , if she did she might feel better . On the other hand if she knew how litigious H&M can be she might feel a whole lot worse 😀

I doubt she cares @BasiliskStare , her home has had that coat of arms since the 13hundreds , it's carved into every stone monument in the town ( by the ancestors of all who live there) , it's more than traditional!
And CV let's not forget every Spanish town has its own personal coat of arms !
This is not some minor quibble about a logo it goes far deeper.

No idea where cv came from!! 😳

That’s me. I deleted my account but when I rejoined I was not able to resume the user name Jacquette, and as I wanted to use the closest name to the name I previously had, I stuck an ‘s’ on the end.

Oh that's good news! I was worried someone was doing something, I'm not tech savvy but I think i remember someone else having their account hacked? Or copied? And it was very upsetting for them 👍

Just as the royal family supporters have a reputation for being bullies. There are bullies in both groups. I recognise that there are reasonable people too.

If we are going to discuss bullies in the royal family, it’s not only Meghan that has been accused of bullying - Charles has been accused of it too. Obviously, so has Andrew.

Off point a bit - but I’m reminded of something - I was trying to remember how it is that we know Jason Knauf bought the accusations of bullying to William? I’ve forgotten how we came to know that. I googled but couldn’t find it. I may not have been using the right search words though.

Thanks Jeff 👍

Was it Valentine Low? I’m doubting myself now.

Ive been thinking 🤔, I like William and Catherine and Charles , but I don't believe anyone is above criticism, I think the problem with modernism of the monarchy is twofold,
1 Catherine and William want to modernise the monarchy but dragging something hundreds of years out of date into the future is not an easy task , people want proof of boots on the ground work but more modern practices are online this is a problem for obvious reasons, it's going to look like they are not pulling their weight! We all know how people think working from home isn't a real job!

2 Charles , he had many plans about modernising the monarchy and stripping it back when he was prince of wales and his parents were alive, but monarch she may have been but she was his much loved mother , stripping apart her life's work everything she thought was appropriate is another thing entirely when his mother is dead,
I don't think we can expect the changes that Charles wanted until he's fully over his mother's passing or William is on the throne.

As a person with feelings I can't condemn either for fully human thoughts or failings.

The King has been on the throne for not quite two and a half years.

For the last year he and William have been dealing with his own and Catherine's illness.

And when things have been around for hundreds of years, I think it's a good idea to look at why they have lasted that long, rather than deciding they've been around a !ong time therefore they are out of date and need to be got rid of.

Are you sure? Because that's literally against US Company Law. Per the 2021 Platform Accountability and Consumer Transparency (PACT) Act, there has to be a clear option shown to unsubscribe.

The endless cock-ups around the launch of As Ever support my theory that the Sussexes are desperately short of cash. I can see no other reason why Meghan would be doing this launch so cheaply and shoddily.

To summarise my reasons for believing she's doing this launch on the cheap:

1. Inadequate patenting advice - good (ie expensive) patent lawyers would have advised from the start that ARO was a no-go, and would also have advised that As Ever is a bad brand (too diffuse, and also, already in use by a niche but popular clothing company)
2. Bad PR support - hence the leaks. Good (ie expensive) PR agents have the bargaining power to control leakage. Meghan clearly does not have this.
3. Bad brand advisers. A good branding specialist would have clocked immediately that the brand logo is not only ugly (less sunny Cali, more ancient Sumerian stone carving) but is also similar to one already in use as the civic symbol of Mallorca. Hell, a Google Image search could have told Meghan this for free; albeit we know from her own words that Meghan is not aware of the vast company, Google, nor its famous search engine, so perhaps we can forgive her here. But a brand specialist would have told her!
4. Bad business consultancy. Jam is a TERRIBLE product to lead with. It's too cheap to make; most people only make occasional use of it, so repeat orders won't be frequent; it's being launched at a time when the East and West Coasts are quitting sugar en masse; the US market for artisan jams is BEYOND SATURATED, as per Whole Foods and Trader Joes annual reports (and in-store shelves). Jam doesn't have the aspirational quality nor the product quality to make decent operating profit margins.

Speaking as a PR and marketing professional I am genuinely shocked; these are the kind of mistakes that an MLM hun in her early 30s with no college degree and no marketing experience would make when starting up her at-home business with zero staff or advice. It's THAT basic. And that's even before we get on to the tired, Instragram-in-2015 aesthetic of the visuals released so far.

I'm willing to believe Meghan when she says she's a highly intelligent and detailed oriented person, but in that case, what the hell is happening here? Is it a joke? Just, for the love of all that's holy, WHY???

@GiveMeSpanakopita Against my better judgment, I subscribed to As Ever just to see if I can then unsubscribe and I can't see anything that gives me the option to unsubscribe.

This is all there is , I can't see how to unsubscribe

It should be there somewhere. Usually in the T&Cs at the bottom of your confirmation message.

I refuse to believe that it's not there because the alternative, in terms of sheer unprofessionalism, is just too pitiful to contemplate.