Prince Harry

[Treacle Toes]

She does seem pretty shrewd. In the last week she's managed to humiliate the Daily Mail and attempt to bring down the House of Windsor. As vile as she is, I can't argue with either!

Yep, utterly vile, I mean why else would someone stand up for themselves against years of vitriol, racism and demonisation.

 

[Petcha]

I wonder if the Firm also asked James Hewitt and Di how ginger the kid would be..

 

[Treacle Toes]

I don’t really care to be frank.

You cared enough to post, Frank.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

You cared enough to post, Frank.

It was a passing comment for flips sake. I’ll leave you to it. You seem intent on being offended.

 

[Orang Utan]

It was a passing comment for flips sake. I’ll leave you to it. You seem intent on being offended.

bingo

 

[Orang Utan]

I wonder if the Firm also asked James Hewitt and Di how ginger the kid would be..

Probably not as there are gingers in both parents' families

 

[Treacle Toes]

Come on - no one is suggesting he was abusive. Families fall out and feud- God knows mine can feud for England, but it all comes out in the wash.
I'm of the opinion that God chooses your family but you choose your own friends, and conversely blood is thicker than water.

Whilst it's an option I think you need to consider very carefully before cutting lose a close family member. They need to have done something pretty bad I reckon.

Man turns his back on his family well he just ain't no good as Bruce Springsteen pointed out in the 80s

Or maybe you could consider carefully why they have used their platforms to clap back against the continuous attacks on them?

You can believe that God chooses our families, so what? IME people don't distance themselves or turn their backs on their families without good reason/s.

 

[8ball]

It was a passing comment for flips sake. I’ll leave you to it. You seem intent on being offended.

Easiest if people agree on a single definition of a single usage type of 'pass' before introducing more.

 

[Treacle Toes]

It was a passing comment for flips sake. I’ll leave you to it. You seem intent on being offended.

I'm not offended in the slightest. You seem to be offended by me not agreeing with your passing, factless comment. Can't think why.

 

[Orang Utan]

A pity, but Harry broke the 'deal', he had a life of immense privilege, the downside of course was a life of 'royal service'. Meghan couldn't handle that, she seemed to have no understanding of what she was signing up for.... basically having to cease having an opinion on anything at all contentious.

Going back to this - what's wrong with having opinions and expressing them? And what's wrong with not wanting to be part of the vile shitshow?

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

I'm not offended in the slightest. You seem to be offended by me not agreeing with your passing factless comment.

Well I guess that’s both of us that appear to be offended. If neither of us are that’s probably a good thing.

 

[Pickman's model]

why is Sasaferrato so exercised about it?

Confused with frogmarch no doubt

 

[Orang Utan]

Passing is a very loaded word btw

 

[killer b]

Going back to this - what's wrong with having opinions and expressing them? And what's wrong with not wanting to be part of the vile shitshow?

The royal family have plenty of opinions on contentious issues anyway. Mostly they share them privately with the government to influence policy rather than with the press though.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Going back to this - what's wrong with having opinions and expressing them? And what's wrong with not wanting to be part of the vile shitshow?

It's another reality-free comment though. Harry has been openly critical of the whole 'royal' life and media attention in the past. It's just another way to attack MM and paint her as 'wearing the trousers'.

 

[Orang Utan]

The royal family have plenty of opinions on contentious issues anyway. Mostly they share them privately with the government to influence policy rather than with the press though.

Being concerned about the amount of melanin in a baby's skin is also rather a contentious issue

 

[Treacle Toes]

Well I guess that’s both of us that appear to be offended. If neither of us are that’s probably a good thing.

Yeah, that must be it. I engage with you, correct your flippant assertion and the only meaning you can make from that is that I must be 'offended' because that's the only basis for me disagreeing with you right? That's the only reason it could be, not because I am right and feel it's worthy of saying anything? Gotcha.

 

[danny la rouge]

basically having to cease having an opinion on anything at all contentious.

95 Prince Philip gaffes in 95 years

The so-called ‘Prince of gaffes’ has developed a reputation for being one of the most blunder and solecism prone members of the Royal Family

www.independent.co.uk

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Yeah, that must be it. I engage with you, correct your flippant assertion and the only meaning you can make from that is that I must be 'offended' because that's the only basis for me disagreeing with you right? That's the only reason it could be, not because I am right and feel it's worthy of saying anything? Gotcha.

I was trying to be nice with that post.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Being concerned about the amount of melanin in a baby's skin is also rather a contentious issue

It's a pretty common dynamic and experience in mixed ethnicity families IME, where the wider family culture includes 'racist' attitudes that is..

 

[D'wards]

IME people don't distance themselves or turn their backs on their families without good reason/s.

The most recent feud in my family was because my cousin was on Married at First Sight lol
Only lasted a few months that one thankfully

 

[8ball]

I remember some years back the term "ambiguously brown" being discussed on here. Common in computer games, cartoons and some TV shows - relates to a person who is clearly not of Northern European ancestry, but who does not get a specific clear ancestral background written in for them (sometimes in futuristic concepts, everyone is "ambiguously brown" - most of the humans in Mass Effect for instance).

Often a witless and low-cost way of giving the impression of fostering diversity in your content, but without having to tread near any potential landmines.

I haven't seen or thought of the term in ages, but typed it into Google and pic of Meghan came right up. I kind of think without that layer of ambiguity she might never have got a foot near Buckingham Palace.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Passing is a very loaded word btw

Didn’t realise. What does it mean? I thought it was the polite way of saying ‘looks like’.

 

[ddraig]

Didn’t realise. What does it mean? I thought it was the polite way of saying ‘looks like’.

What do you think "pass for" means?

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

What do you think "pass for" means?

Looks like.

 

[ddraig]

Looks like.

So not "looks like enough to pass as"?

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

So not "looks like enough to pass as"?

Well obviously. I don’t get your point, sorry.

 

[brogdale]

kinnel, 17 minutes into C4 News and they're still on this story.

 

[8ball]

It's a pretty common dynamic and experience in mixed ethnicity families IME, where the wider family culture includes 'racist' attitudes that is..

Pretty common for the non-white members to kind of think of themselves and kin in terms of a ranking of relative white/blackness too ime. Sadly heard my Mum come out with something quite racist a while back about someone much 'blacker' than her. The internalised stuff can come out in ways that are rather tragic.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Looks like.

It means both pretends to be and is perceived to be.