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bimble said:
Wandered into thread thinking wtf how come they’re all going on about prince harry this much. Very reassuring to find it’s actually a thread about the genitalia of cardinals. Good.
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Statistically, there's about a 1 in 8 chance that any random Urban thread will be about Pontifical Penises. Even more if it's a thread on Urban about Pope Urban VIII.
 
Spymaster said:
This is a poor reading of what I've written.

Of course he was there and of course he killed people. The point is, what was his motivation for describing it so graphically in the book?
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Is this graphic? Or am I missing some detail

"It wasn't a statistic that filled me with pride but nor did it make me ashamed," he writes. "When I was plunged into the heat and confusion of battle, I didn't think about those as 25 people. You can't kill people if you see them as people. In truth, you can't hurt people if you see them as people. They were chess pieces taken off the board, bad guys eliminated before they kill good guys. They trained me to 'other' them and they trained me well."
 
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bellaozzydog said:
Is this graphic?

"It wasn't a statistic that filled me with pride but nor did it make me ashamed," he writes. "When I was plunged into the heat and confusion of battle, I didn't think about those as 25 people. You can't kill people if you see them as people. In truth, you can't hurt people if you see them as people. They were chess pieces taken off the board, bad guys eliminated before they kill good guys. They trained me to 'other' them and they trained me well."
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Of course it is. And you’ve missed a chunk out; namely numbering his kills in the first place. Any description of detail of his service involving killing people, possibly beyond the fact that he was there, is unnecessary and ill advised.
 
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Spymaster said:
Of course it is. And you’ve missed a chunk out; namely numbering his kills in the first place. Any description of detail of his service, possibly beyond the fact that he was there, is unnecessary and ill advised.
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Round the time of the Falklands war there were stories in the newspaper about iirc the scrap at tumbledown, where one of the soldiers described killing an argentine soldier. Bravo two zero - which I regret I haven't read - is supposed to be about, and so give details, of a special op round the time of the gulf war. There's loads of memoirs more graphic and likely better written than Harry's effort, including Patrick leigh fermor's book about kidnapping a German general in create.

I don't understand why there's one rule for harry mountbatten-windsor and another for everyone else.
 
Pickman's model said:
Round the time of the Falklands war there were stories in the newspaper about iirc the scrap at tumbledown, where one of the soldiers described killing an argentine soldier. Bravo two zero - which I regret I haven't read - is supposed to be about, and so give details, of a special op round the time of the gulf war. There's loads of memoirs more graphic and likely better written than Harry's effort, including Patrick leigh fermor's book about kidnapping a German general in create.

I don't understand why there's one rule for harry mountbatten-windsor and another for everyone else.
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Of course there are more graphic descriptions of war but they need to be taken in the context of the purpose of the book they’re being written in, by who the author is and their motivation. This isn’t a book about a military operation, written by an anonymous former SAS soldier, aimed at detailing or dramatising warfare.
 
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QueenOfGoths said:
Copies have just been put on the shelf here.

The reactions, from the staff no customer interest yet (even though we're a ROYAL borough :D) but then we only opened 11 minutes ago, were all along the lines of "£28.00!! Fuck off/Fuck Me/Bollocks/Fucking hell" etc... :D
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I could well be wrong but I’ll be surprised if it flies off the shelves, since people have surely already seen all the best bits - frost bitten penis falling off into the dog bowl etc - won’t the rest be just more tedious, self-pitying fodder about his anguished millionaire life.

I can’t believe anyone other than the most toadying, royal family groupie, Daily Mail flunky “please take more of my taxes so you can live in another palace” nobberies would actually shell out cash for this tosh.
 
Spymaster said:
Of course it is. And you’ve missed a chunk out; namely numbering his kills in the first place. Any description of detail of his service involving killing people, possibly beyond the fact that he was there, is unnecessary and ill advised.
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If that passage is anything to go by he seems to be talking about the dehumanising effect of killing and being trained to kill people, which seems an ok thing to do to me?
 
Could it be? A real life version of Eastenders that is being discussed here?
My understanding of the royal family is that they were given the right to rule by a sword in a pond and some magical powers bestowed.
Here they can't manage some beards, mild drugs and the fact someone has a girlfriend the wrong colour.
And they are in charge because?

 
scalyboy said:
I could well be wrong but I’ll be surprised if it flies off the shelves, since people have surely already seen all the best bits - frost bitten penis falling off into the dog bowl etc - won’t the rest be just more tedious, self-pitying fodder about his anguished millionaire life.

I can’t believe anyone other than the most toadying, royal family groupie, Daily Mail flunky “please take more of my taxes so you can live in another palace” nobberies would actually shell out cash for this tosh.
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I disagree. People will buy it. This entire affair is completely different to other royal family news, in that it’s engaged a totally different set of people, namely those who dislike the monarchy and are enjoying them being publicly humiliated. If anything, it’s royalists who significantly won’t be buying the book.

Not sure I can remember many 130 page threads on here about them either.
 
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Spymaster said:
I disagree. People will buy it. This entire affair is completely different to other royal family news, in that it’s engaged a totally different set of people, namely those who dislike the monarchy and are enjoying them being publicly humiliated. If anything, it’s royalists who significantly won’t be buying the book.

Not sure I can remember many 130 page threads on here about them either.
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I think you’re right about who has been engaged by the story. What I’m not convinced is that they are a market for this book. I’ve been a top 50 cranberry contributor to this thread, but I wouldn’t dream of buying the book. He’s still a royal.
 
How big is this book? The dimensions? Reason I ask, is that some people might be buying it to put on a coffee table to start conversations and the like. That'd be an utter fail, can you imagine a monstrously large photo of the spare looking at you every time you sat down with a cuppa. Eek.

He's always going to be known as THE Spare now, isn't he? Even though history has been littered with them.
 
scalyboy said:
I could well be wrong but I’ll be surprised if it flies off the shelves, since people have surely already seen all the best bits - frost bitten penis falling off into the dog bowl etc - won’t the rest be just more tedious, self-pitying fodder about his anguished millionaire life.

I can’t believe anyone other than the most toadying, royal family groupie, Daily Mail flunky “please take more of my taxes so you can live in another palace” nobberies would actually shell out cash for this tosh.
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it's number 1 in the bestseller lists on preorders alone, reckon it's probably going to sell ok
 
frogwoman said:
Has anyone bought or planning to read Harry’s book?
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Despite wishing there was a ‘don’t show me any Harry/ Royals stuff online‘ button for teh internets, I think I will read it. I read plenty of biographies (just read Islander, then Jennifer Saunders - in the queue is Debbie Harry, Jarvis Cocker and Trevor Horn), because severe ADHD in my case means I can’t read most novels, can’t follow plots, I just forget important elements and get confused. I won’t pay for it, he’s got enough money, I’ll get it off libgen. 😈
 
Times Radio was savaging* the spare this morning.


*it's all relative, it was a bit critical e.g. shut up now Harry.
 
pinkmonkey said:
It will but I did laugh at the roving reporter on BBC breakfast this morning, waiting for the hoardes and masses in Waterstones London. One (slightly bonkers) woman showed up. 😂
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Yeah, it must be hard for the BBC: they know the market has changed, but a shot of a finger hovering over the preorder button doesn’t really have the same televisual impact.
 
Spymaster said:
I disagree. People will buy it. This entire affair is completely different to other royal family news, in that it’s engaged a totally different set of people, namely those who dislike the monarchy and are enjoying them being publicly humiliated. If anything, it’s royalists who significantly won’t be buying the book.

Not sure I can remember many 130 page threads on here about them either.
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Its number one seller already on amazon.
 
Pay for it not a chance, If I can borrow/illegally download a copy I might quite possibly read it.
 
cesare said:
How big is this book? The dimensions? Reason I ask, is that some people might be buying it to put on a coffee table to start conversations and the like. That'd be an utter fail, can you imagine a monstrously large photo of the spare looking at you every time you sat down with a cuppa. Eek.

He's always going to be known as THE Spare now, isn't he? Even though history has been littered with them.
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I can see Royalists buying it. And changing the cover so nobody sees what they're reading.
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