H&M PR disasters 52: Roundabouts and walkabouts

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The continuing story of the Sussexes and their PR issues.

It would certainly make sense why those very strange texts a few days ago only made sense to me when I read them in a pretend Russian accent. 😆

.... and these days you can't exile them to the Bahamas!!!

It's morning here. Just putting down a placemarking 🍑 before I start catching up.

@bluegreygreen Thanks for the new thread!

PS that's a PEACH everyone, not an 'emoji euphemism'! It's one of the ones that 'alliterates' with placemarking.

Mark Toth warned about that back in 2024.

They were rather obvious attempts to reiterate that PH remains at the centre of the RF and has an unassailable constitutional role from which he can't be removed, that's for sure.

Well the RF is descended from both Elizabeth of York and Henry Tudor. Nice touch on the part of the then Prince Charles.

I thought it was an apricot! 😁

Your post made me ponder 'authenticity'. 'Authentic' just refers to something being being real, being genuine. It doesn't necessarily mean 'good'. One could say that Trump is living his 'authentic' life. It may be 'authentic' but it's just not a very good or honourable life, is it?

So if HaM want to say they're living their 'authentic' life, let them. Because I suppose they are. But personally, if it were me, I'd keep that version of 'authenticity' to myself. And I certainly wouldn't say "Let us show you how to be as 'authentic' as we are".

I'd like to know who commissioned a drone to take ariel footage of the 'crowds'.

I'd like to buy them a pint. 😉

I thought it was a strawberry

So if HaM want to say they're living their 'authentic' life, let them. Because I suppose they are. But personally, if it were me, I'd keep that version of 'authenticity' to myself. And I certainly wouldn't say "Let us show you how to be as 'authentic' as we are".

I've no wish to be as authentic as they are, thanks. The fact that they keep banging on about it just shows that the whole 'authentic' thing is a pose because they don't even know what they mean by the term.

Given the way they chop and change they're about as authentic as chameleons.

I think their understanding of authentic is doing exactly what you want to do and bugger the consequences

Ohh ! , if we keep going we will have enough for an artfully arranged fruit platter!

I've thought that for ages there are a number of the HAM posts that are written with a mixture of intent and hope to destabilise the UK.

Along with the "Trump is a good guy and everyone really thinks that", some of the "Lucy Letby is guilty" posts and some of the "there's going to be riots" or "political party is xyz" posts.
They're all written with the inability to argue their point, rigid mindset, repeat the same rubbish over and over again with no evidence for, only evidence against, and have a tendency for hysteria.

Plus I had a point where very similar posts were being made about Trump/HAM on our local FB chat (to great hilarity), clearly written with the same outlines given until their authors were banned for "not living locally", as did my sister in a totally different area - so clearly someone or some group was making a concerted effort to make their point badly

But that's just the point I was trying to make - the people who turned up to see H&M were 'encouraged' one way or another - they don't seem to have been the normal type of onlookers that we get at Royal Events - so they were not real or genuine

And the Soho Farmhouse, from what I've read, is a place where you pay a hefty subscription and the staff are trained to make friends with you. Again, not real or genuine

Isn't it ironic that H & M probably wanted to do a half-in royal life, with all the premieres, state occasions, balcony, carriages etc, but to skip the overcast October day in a Nottingham industrial estate (for example).....?

Oh dear.

If they were to be given the securidee they think they should have, they'd be out so often the UK would run out of petrol.

'Oh H, I'm just going to the corner shop for a pint of milk to show how English I am.'

'M, I'm going back to where I walked the dogs earlier because I forget to pick up the turds and put them in poo bags.'

'Just as well we had these life-size rag doll models of Princess Lilibet and Prince Archie made, M. As it's Bonfire Night, I've asked the securidee to drive them around the picturesque villages of the Cotswolds with 'Legend' playing out of the windows at full blast and then take them trick or treating in Windsor Great Park. They need to get to know their cousins so they can lead a normal life when Willy ascends the throne. It's my sacred mission to stop genetional trauma. It stops with me.'

'H, our next door neighbours deserve a proper hot dinner sprinkled with flowers. I'm going to take them some of the traditional steak and kidney pudding I made this morning with my own recipe suet pastry. Back in three!'

Now ,now mrsdanvers , chameleons are very misunderstood creatures and still more authentic and warm than ham!

.....leave it to William to be hardarse and to carry out the nuclear option. He's probably got a plan in different coloured pens that he updates regularly.

This gave me a mental picture of W sitting down at his desk, looking for a different coloured pen and sighing in exasperation: "Well fuck*. Strike version 2343923 of 'what do we do about them'. On to version 2343924".

*I'm sure the PoW doesn't actually say 'fuck' in moments of exasperation. But he is forgiven when it comes to HaM. They'd drive a saint to using profanity.

I totally agree. It's low level stuff, but it accumulates in people's minds and builds up an impression.

To me authenticity is deciding your values, living by them and being seen to live by them. Not that that means being authentic in that way is necessarily admirable, of course.

The way they bang on about it reminds me of those people who keep saying 'you can trust me' - '' yeah, that should be obvious. if you have to keep telling me, clearly you know you're not coming over as trustworthy, are you?

I don't think they even know what the hell they mean by it.

Oh the piss would be taken big time. It would be a disaster

*I'm sure the PoW doesn't actually say 'fuck' in moments of exasperation. But he is forgiven when it comes to HaM. They'd drive a saint to using profanity.

I really hope he does.

He’s British and in the U.K. , of course he swears ( probably not in public though) 😁

Harry being buried, under the weight of royal duty? Because, yes, I do believe he would go there.