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PR disasters thread 4

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AtIusvue · 21/01/2026 20:57

One stop shop for all As ever, Archewell, Meg n Harry disasters

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OtherS · 11/02/2026 14:53

Thedom · 11/02/2026 14:38

I don’t know how true the wellness thing is, it was speculation, it might be a bit far fetched because who asks to go to a spa if they are feeling so suicidal they fear they will kill themselves and their unborn baby!

Still less weird than asking an HR team - whether yours or anyone else's - if they'll let you go to hospital. And then when told they can't help you because they're not your HR team, just accepting that it must therefore be entirely impossible for you to access lifesaving care full stop, and just soldiering on best you can, hoping for the best. Rather than then asking your personal medical team if maybe they could help. Or your husband's therapist. Or any of the mental health charities you're directly involved with. Or your friends, family, staff, employees or acquaintances.

TheAutumnCrow · 11/02/2026 15:02

OtherS · 11/02/2026 14:53

Still less weird than asking an HR team - whether yours or anyone else's - if they'll let you go to hospital. And then when told they can't help you because they're not your HR team, just accepting that it must therefore be entirely impossible for you to access lifesaving care full stop, and just soldiering on best you can, hoping for the best. Rather than then asking your personal medical team if maybe they could help. Or your husband's therapist. Or any of the mental health charities you're directly involved with. Or your friends, family, staff, employees or acquaintances.

She could also, given where she was living then, have picked up the phone and accessed a free and confidential NHS advice line for mental health issues; or the Samaritans (who are very good). Also, NHS 111 had been fully rolled out in England by 2014. Harry really must have been fucking useless to have known nothing of any services whatsoever.

Lunde · 11/02/2026 17:00

bluedancingtwiglet · 11/02/2026 10:34

The reference to speaking to HR about her health just sounds ludicrous. I suspect it was Meghan's usual spread it wide/ accuse no one specifically/but say it happened tactics only this time her claims were looked at. She may have got away as a minor actress being a Walter Mitty but sitting there with OW took it all to a new dimension. She thought she could carry on with her previous games but after the initial " poor you" furore it was found out that she lied. She sat there and threw out the bait and Oprah like the greedy pig she is swallowed it hook, line and sinker. Harry sat there thinking WTF. There were both Markled.

Such a strange thing to say - it made great Oprah headlines but who goes to "HR" and tries to shift the blame onto her husband's 93 year old grandmother rather than just pick up the phone to call her expensive private healthcare provider or the midwife/OB-GYN/Portland who were providing her maternity services?

Then you have Harry's baffling comment about being "ashamed" to raise MH issues - seemingly forgetting that he, William and Kate formed Heads Together in 2016 to destigmatize MH issues/treatment - seems he didn't understand his own charity!

BoudiccaRuled · 11/02/2026 17:18

Lunde · 11/02/2026 17:00

Such a strange thing to say - it made great Oprah headlines but who goes to "HR" and tries to shift the blame onto her husband's 93 year old grandmother rather than just pick up the phone to call her expensive private healthcare provider or the midwife/OB-GYN/Portland who were providing her maternity services?

Then you have Harry's baffling comment about being "ashamed" to raise MH issues - seemingly forgetting that he, William and Kate formed Heads Together in 2016 to destigmatize MH issues/treatment - seems he didn't understand his own charity!

Harry doesn't really understand anything. Leaving the RF has really shown just how unintelligent he really is. Unfortunately combined with a malicious streak!

bluedancingtwiglet · 11/02/2026 20:26

IAmATorturedPoet · 11/02/2026 10:41

She sat there and threw out the bait and Oprah like the greedy pig she is swallowed it hook, line and sinker. Harry sat there thinking WTF. There were both Markled.

I’m not sure if this was supposed to be humorous but it made me laugh 🐷 😆
It does sum it up nicely.

Oprah Winfrey Yes GIF

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IAmATorturedPoet · 11/02/2026 21:19

bluedancingtwiglet · 11/02/2026 20:26

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😂

ShamedBySiri · 13/02/2026 10:21

Roll up, roll up…..The As Ever “pantry” is available at the knockdown price of $295

You know that feeling when you feel peckish and look in the pantry for something tasty to nibble on.
Next time consider yourself lucky your pantry isn’t stocked with runny jam spread, packet pancake mix, honey and rabbit food flower sprinkles. 😅

I guess she’s never watched Nigella and marvelled at her shelves full of exotic sauces and spices and kitchen essentials not to mention her special liquorice collection.

https://x.com/that_1/status/2022016345966297220?s=46

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jeffgoldblum · 13/02/2026 10:24

ShamedBySiri · 13/02/2026 10:21

Roll up, roll up…..The As Ever “pantry” is available at the knockdown price of $295

You know that feeling when you feel peckish and look in the pantry for something tasty to nibble on.
Next time consider yourself lucky your pantry isn’t stocked with runny jam spread, packet pancake mix, honey and rabbit food flower sprinkles. 😅

I guess she’s never watched Nigella and marvelled at her shelves full of exotic sauces and spices and kitchen essentials not to mention her special liquorice collection.

https://x.com/that_1/status/2022016345966297220?s=46

Do candles belong in a pantry? 🤔
a question for the ages! 🤣

ShamedBySiri · 13/02/2026 10:38

Good point. My DH would say yes in case of a power cut but he just scatters those nightlight ones around the house at the start of the first October storm.

Here’s a shot of Nigella’s stores. That’s a lot of shelves to fill with the As Ever collection.

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Mylovelygreendress · 13/02/2026 11:19

ShamedBySiri · 13/02/2026 10:21

Roll up, roll up…..The As Ever “pantry” is available at the knockdown price of $295

You know that feeling when you feel peckish and look in the pantry for something tasty to nibble on.
Next time consider yourself lucky your pantry isn’t stocked with runny jam spread, packet pancake mix, honey and rabbit food flower sprinkles. 😅

I guess she’s never watched Nigella and marvelled at her shelves full of exotic sauces and spices and kitchen essentials not to mention her special liquorice collection.

https://x.com/that_1/status/2022016345966297220?s=46

How much ????

Lunde · 13/02/2026 11:27

ShamedBySiri · 13/02/2026 10:21

Roll up, roll up…..The As Ever “pantry” is available at the knockdown price of $295

You know that feeling when you feel peckish and look in the pantry for something tasty to nibble on.
Next time consider yourself lucky your pantry isn’t stocked with runny jam spread, packet pancake mix, honey and rabbit food flower sprinkles. 😅

I guess she’s never watched Nigella and marvelled at her shelves full of exotic sauces and spices and kitchen essentials not to mention her special liquorice collection.

https://x.com/that_1/status/2022016345966297220?s=46

She's a couple of months too late - but it's like one of those overpriced Christmas hampers that are filled with odd products.

CurlewKate · 13/02/2026 11:35

I haven’t tasted any of this stuff-but it seems to have had pretty crap reviews and obviously it’s risibly expensive. But I really don’t get the
aversion to flower sprinkles!

bluedancingtwiglet · 13/02/2026 12:19

Oh she's on the ball for Valentine's Day though - blob of jam in the bottom of a glass , add some of her tea and bingo 🤮

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bluedancingtwiglet · 13/02/2026 12:21

CurlewKate · 13/02/2026 11:35

I haven’t tasted any of this stuff-but it seems to have had pretty crap reviews and obviously it’s risibly expensive. But I really don’t get the
aversion to flower sprinkles!

Don't pay through the nose though! Just get it from Amazon!

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CurlewKate · 13/02/2026 13:52

bluedancingtwiglet · 13/02/2026 12:21

Don't pay through the nose though! Just get it from Amazon!

Oh I don’t buy hers! (full disclosure-I make my own.) Just people seem to object to it on principle…

Atlanti · 13/02/2026 14:03

bluedancingtwiglet · 13/02/2026 12:19

Oh she's on the ball for Valentine's Day though - blob of jam in the bottom of a glass , add some of her tea and bingo 🤮

Well clearly she isn’t on the ball for Valentine’s Day - as any order placed today will not be filled, dispatched and received by tomorrow. Missed the boat - As Ever.

Atlanti · 13/02/2026 14:06

bluedancingtwiglet · 13/02/2026 12:21

Don't pay through the nose though! Just get it from Amazon!

Very funny flower forage for “pigs and small pets” - I wonder if it’s for PH and she sprinkles it on her lady garden.

jeffgoldblum · 13/02/2026 14:09

Atlanti · 13/02/2026 14:06

Very funny flower forage for “pigs and small pets” - I wonder if it’s for PH and she sprinkles it on her lady garden.

Please don’t!! 🤮🤮

RecoIIectionsMayVary · 13/02/2026 14:13

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jeffgoldblum · 13/02/2026 14:14

RecoIIectionsMayVary · 13/02/2026 14:13

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Ahh that’s better!! Many thanks! 😉🤣

RecoIIectionsMayVary · 13/02/2026 14:15

I do wish I was better at AI prompts, can't quite get my thoughts onto paper 😆 probably for the best

jeffgoldblum · 13/02/2026 14:16

RecoIIectionsMayVary · 13/02/2026 14:15

I do wish I was better at AI prompts, can't quite get my thoughts onto paper 😆 probably for the best

I don’t even know what ai prompts are , so you are doing better than me! 🤣

Lunde · 13/02/2026 15:02

bluedancingtwiglet · 13/02/2026 12:19

Oh she's on the ball for Valentine's Day though - blob of jam in the bottom of a glass , add some of her tea and bingo 🤮

Jam and tea cocktail? That's .... erm .... interesting!

Just add some scone sprinkles and top with clotted cream 😂

BasiliskStare · 13/02/2026 15:10

CurlewKate · 13/02/2026 13:52

Oh I don’t buy hers! (full disclosure-I make my own.) Just people seem to object to it on principle…

@CurlewKate - my honest impression is people aren't against flower sprinkle per se , it's just her using them on anything and everything . (and I think the sheer price of hers ) . It's just become a running gag. I've nothing against a well placed sprinkle in its place. (Well , not just one , I admit you need a few for effect ) 😊

Lunde · 13/02/2026 15:38

BasiliskStare · 13/02/2026 15:10

@CurlewKate - my honest impression is people aren't against flower sprinkle per se , it's just her using them on anything and everything . (and I think the sheer price of hers ) . It's just become a running gag. I've nothing against a well placed sprinkle in its place. (Well , not just one , I admit you need a few for effect ) 😊

Yes - that was my impression - I don't think there was so much criticism when she used them on cookies and cakes - but putting them on scrambled eggs, omelettes and other savoury dishes seemed a bit yucky

Then there was the quality - the ones she used on WLM were tiny, delicate and cute - but the ones I saw on the early reviews of AS seemed huge, stringy and resembled the ones you buy as pet food! 🐹

An issue of what you bought v what you got

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