As Ever Part 7 - Whatever, however, whenever with edible flowers on top

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New thread as the previous one is full!

Regarding Mindy Kaling, there is also a segment on Conan where she admits she was attracted to this tall good looking actor. She got a lot of backlash about that when the clip resurfaced years later.

In a 2015 interview, Conan asked Kaling if she ever felt her position of power could lead to unprofessional behavior. While it is common for attractive men to appear on The Mindy Show, Kaling claimed she is a “professional” who can behave like a “lady.”

However, Kaling then admits she had definitely “succumbed to that temptation.” During a shoot on The Mindy Show, she had improvised an unscripted kiss with Lee Pace, to his shock.

Despite her blatant confession, her response led to an abundance of laughter from Conan’s audience. Kaling adds that the series’ writer-producers warned she could get sued for her actions. As a result of her staff’s warnings, she threatened them, declaring, “Tell anyone and you’re fired.”

Although the interview occurred seven years ago, the video has resurfaced, and many are outraged by Kaling’s confession.

I see the Sussex Squad on Twitter are taking pictures of edible flowers in supermarkets and attributing them being in stock to the Netflix show. Someone needs to tell them this absolute overpriced wank has been sold for years

You have to laugh though.

5 years ago, they were going to change the world.

“Our lives, both independent of each other and as a couple, have allowed us to understand the power of the human spirit: of courage, resilience, and the need for connection. Through our work with diverse communities and their environments, to shining a light on people and causes around the world, our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope.

“As new parents, making inspirational family programming is also important to us, as is powerful storytelling through a truthful and relatable lens. We are pleased to work with Ted and the team at Netflix whose unprecedented reach will help us share impactful content that unlocks action.”

Now their fans are claiming a rise in demand for edible flowers is some great victory?

My god they just can’t help the bloody word salad. It’s awful and meaningless and everything I completely hate about the world.

Why can’t people just say what they mean?

Because "we don't really have much talent, ability, sensitivity or intelligence , but we'd like to use our titles as a way to coin it in" doesn't sound as good..

The most shocking clip I saw was Markle saying to Kaling “It's so funny too, that you keep saying 'Meghan Markle, you know I'm Sussex now”. It is honestly one of the rudest remarks and put downs I’ve ever seen on TV. Even though she says it’s “funny” she is obviously not laughing lol, and is clearly angry with her “friend” for her terrible faux pas. So gob smackingly rude, so stuck up, and ridiculous to boot. Also passive-aggressive and condescending.

And then there’s her twin set beige jumper and tank top 😂 I think they were fashionable about 40 + years ago. Still stops her waving and showing off her arms for once as she does for every blinkin’ occasions, however inappropriate (she did this at a funeral when engaged to H). For sure, Meghan loves her arms, and her hair of course, but her hair looks terrible now 🤷‍♀️

I agree it was said almost through gritted teeth.

If that’s how she speaks to her friends imagine how she spoke to the palace staff who claimed she bullied them. I absolutely believe them.

Also the whole “I want to make little differences to people’s lives that let them know I’m thinking about them” what she means is “But not underlines or people not worthy. Only people who can benefit me”.

For someone who made a big fuss about being forced to wear muted tones and not wearing colours like she wanted - she wears an awful lot of muted tones these days. Same on the Drew Barrymore show where she holds Drew’s hand and talks a load of shite.

Drew Barrymore must have the hide of a rhino to tolerate “Meghan Sussex” feeling sorry for herself - Drew was basically a trafficked and abused child fed drugs while she was still in elementary school and experienced god know what childhood trauma whilst overcoming a drug addiction before she hit adulthood. But Poor Meghan Sussex had to <gasp> sit behind someone once.

A lot of people feel the 'i'm a Sussex now' comment was scripted to launch her using Sussex as a surname but she was unable to carry it off as a genuine candid response, due to not being the best actress.

To me, it did look like she was very much riled about it and trying to contain her irritation.

Of course, she never wore "muted tones" as a working royal. It takes about 2 minutes of looking online to find pictures of her in bright yellow, green, purple, red and blue. I've no idea why she would lie about that, when it's so easy to disprove!

Oh and the self write-ups above are both disturbingly and hilariously pretentious and up-themselves.

What does producing “impactful content that unlocks action“ mean in this world 😮?

You couldn’t make it up – oh wait, that’s the point, it is all made up (nonsense).

Her default setting is to lie. She seriously is dangerous, we haven't seen the worst of her yet.

This bit is genuinely hilarious:

powerful storytelling through a truthful and relatable lens

😂😂😂

Are you saying that Meghan's how to on the best way to make ladybird canapes was not done "through a truthful and relatable lens"?

That's a very serious accusation!

Snap!

@GiveMeSpanakopita I agree with you re Jeremy Clarkson & why he's popular. The other thing is he has been given awards by the NFU for highlighting the problems of farmers and encouraging people to support British farming. I would say he has done more in the way of impactful content than M&H ever have.

I read about it and thought it sounded bad. Then I watched the clip and it was even worse. That exasperated little shake of the head she does. Like a stroppy teen doing an eye roll. So patronising and rude. Meghan had been married for over 5 years at that point and not once had she publicly asked to be addressed as 'Meghan Sussex' so how was Mindy supposed to know?

I agree that this wasn't scripted. Mindy looked genuinely taken aback by her response. Madam Sussex was a producer so could presumably have demanded that that little interaction not make the final cut, so she must have actively wanted it there. I think she has no idea of how she comes across to others.

I think she’s really quite a sinister character too. She is so detached from reality and so totally lacking in self awareness it’s scary. Harry is an idiot and seems to have absolutely no discernment .the two of them are a worrying combination.

And let’s not even get into “the Bench”. Once again, pretentious beyond belief. Its premise and execution and deeper meaning and art work all had to be explained to us simple proles 😂. Total nonsense.

Maybe this madness was ignited at her expensive, private school. Maybe there they were perhaps encouraged to thing of themselves as the prime of miss Jean Brodie? Or it could have been the powerfully American woke-agenda or US business-speak generally? Honestly the whole thing is so bizarre in many ways.

Lady Colin Campbell made a point recently, when commenting on Markle’s flowers in ice cubes, that she misunderstands true elegance, that elegance can also be simple and plain. It doesn’t necessarily have to be complex. Meghan’s striving for this and the many other signals of her status actually just show her manic insecurity. Princess Anne probably throws a pheasant on a bare wooden table and says “help yourself” to her guests (not exactly but you get my drift). However, it’s the continuous simpering “we care/i care/we must show we care” that kinda grates me. Mentioned once might be fine but it’s all the time. And from a woman with so much hired help she barely has to do anything, anything at all. Marie Antoinette mark II.

I’ll stop now :).

I love the idea of Princess Anne doing that!

Meghan is VERY California - but x100. I’ve lived in the states and they are very wishy washy and feel the love types. Insufferable. I preferred no nonsense New Yorkers personally

They also have a mutual connection with Jessica Mulroney who was Mindy's stylist for several years. Although not currently.

@AtIusvue (& anyone else who’s interested) - here’s the Sunday Times Culture review in full:

Towards the end of the first episode of With Love, Meghan, our eponymous hostess, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, sits down to eat a slice of honey-lemon cake with her friend Daniel Martin, her make-up artist, who has been there for her “before, during and after”, ie before getting together with the Harry formerly known as Prince.
Before them is a multimillion-dollar vista of the Santa Ynez mountains framed by topiary. So beautiful is everything — so amazing, so expensive — that Martin begins to doubt his very senses. “What is this view?” he exclaims, checking that the chair he is about to sit in is not a hallucination. “I feel like this is all fake.”
But no. It’s all real, every colourful and joyful moment of Meghan’s eight-part show. Well, admittedly it’s not actually her house, it’s a £6.3 million farmhouse in an avocado orchard near Montecito. And I wonder if Meghan is as cavalier about wearing pristine white linens with no apron while whipping up frittatas for Archie and Lilibet.
So consummate is her performance as an awestruck little girl, though, that I really do believe she is this amazed by eggs, this inspired by parfait, this fulfilled by putting peanut butter pretzels in small plastic bags and tying them up with ribbons. As she collects beeswax for candles, she instructs the crew to “talk in our bee voice”, a sort of farm-to-table version of baby speak.
Yet she also enjoys the role of kindergarten teacher to the pampered and clueless of Hollywood, inviting friends over so that they can slightly screw things up for her to calmly fix, or simply express awe.
Martin beholds a crudité platter. “How long did it take to make this?” he pants as if she has secured lasting peace in Ukraine as opposed to chopping some carrots and cucumber. When the actress Mindy Kaling sees her sprinkling flowers on top of a parfait, she exclaims: “What? Are you Tinker Bell?”
I should say I always had a great deal of sympathy for Meghan for the cruel and inhospitable treatment she received in this country. There are plenty of awful things that she was blamed for that were not her fault. But I think this one is on her.
With Love, Meghan makes an inadvertent case for a cynicism consultant in the TV industry alongside other newly created roles like sensitivity reader and intimacy co-ordinator. A cynicism consultant would be someone with a well-developed gag reflex who could strike out all the most emetic dialogue before it reaches the public. Just about anyone British would do. It feels irresponsible to have phrases like “Mamma moments” and “It just looks a little more darling” out there unchallenged.
Then again, With Love, Meghan might serve as a comment on this terrifying new geopolitical era we seem to have entered, to illustrate how the American elite became so out of touch with reality, spooning out yoghurt became a miracle to them

"cruel and inhospitable treatment she received in this country" 😂😂😂