Royal drama
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@Kiwiwomble said in Royal drama:
@canefan sure..."Mrs CF".....
I fucken hate the shit she watches. All those reality style shows are filled with vapid catty women who have little actual talent
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@canefan said in Royal drama:
@Kiwiwomble said in Royal drama:
@canefan sure..."Mrs CF".....
I fucken hate the shit she watches. All those reality style shows are filled with vapid catty women who have little actual talent
That's the elephant in the room suggesting @booboo is probably wrong. The audience won't tire of the self promotion of royalty. That's even better the normality of self promoting whores. And the commercial appeal of mixed marriage has quite some life left in it I'd hazard.
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@antipodean said in Royal drama:
@canefan said in Royal drama:
@Kiwiwomble said in Royal drama:
@canefan sure..."Mrs CF".....
I fucken hate the shit she watches. All those reality style shows are filled with vapid catty women who have little actual talent
That's the elephant in the room suggesting @booboo is probably wrong. The audience won't tire of the self promotion of royalty. That's even better the normality of self promoting whores. And the commercial appeal of mixed marriage has quite some life left in it I'd hazard.
I hope you're wrong. But I doubt it. However the Kardashians know what the people want, they don't take themselves too seriously I suspect. Meghan amd Harry on the other hand...
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@Bones says it all
Previous Ripple of Hope winners have included the US vice-president, Kamala Harris, the poet Amanda Gorman, the USâs chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, musicians Bono and Taylor Swift, the South African bishop and activist Desmond Tutu, actor George Clooney, former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, and the Apple CEO Tim Cook.
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@MajorRage said in Royal drama:
Certainly didn't watch it but seems Harry & Meghan think they are the cause of Brexit.
Wow.
Haven't watched and won't... but just checked some dates, and they apparently met in July 2016 (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/prince-harry-meghan-markle-netflix-documentary-relationship-timeline/).
Brexit referendum was 23 June.
Damn they're good.
What was the context Rage?
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@booboo said in Royal drama:
@MajorRage said in Royal drama:
Certainly didn't watch it but seems Harry & Meghan think they are the cause of Brexit.
Wow.
Haven't watched and won't... but just checked some dates, and they apparently met in July 2016 (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/prince-harry-meghan-markle-netflix-documentary-relationship-timeline/).
Brexit referendum was 23 June.
Damn they're good.
What was the context Rage?
Jumped the gun. Apparently the same racism that caused Brexit was behind their departure.
Anyway, loathe to post this but itâs pretty straight up
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Thereâs a few onion headlines here ..
âPeople getting paid lots for a few photos seems to make them a bit crazyâ ⌠says man getting paid 100mill for a few pics, texts, videos, interviews.
âI never once thought about raceâ says woman who has mentioned race at every opportunity, including to Oprah.
âShe doesnât have a father, itâs very sadâ says man whose wife has a father.
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...i had not realised that this is a series...not just a one off special
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Broadcaster Meshel Laurie noted the irony of Meghan and Harry complaining about press intrusion while selling details of their private lives to the highest bidder.
'If Meg wanted privacy, she should've stayed on Suits because I'd never heard of her or it before,' she wrote on Instagram.
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@MiketheSnow said in Royal drama:
Broadcaster Meshel Laurie noted the irony of Meghan and Harry complaining about press intrusion while selling details of their private lives to the highest bidder.
'If Meg wanted privacy, she should've stayed on Suits because I'd never heard of her or it before,' she wrote on Instagram.
Protecting Privacy where "Privacy" was always a euphemism for "Commercial Value".
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Aussie columnist Joe Hildebrand* doesn't miss.
- I know there are some who don't like him, but more often than not I agree with him ... including on this ...
Harry and Meghanâs Netflix show was âindulgent horses**tâ
Long before Harry and Meghan released their self-produced documentary series I was planning to write a column saying they were probably everything that was wrong with humanity.
But before rushing to judgment I thought I should at least watch the first episode on Thursday night.
Having done so, I have now changed my position. They are definitely everything that is wrong with humanity.
In a lifetime spent consuming and producing literally every form of media known to man, I have never seen such jaw-dropping, gobsmacking, breathtaking, stomach-turning, self-indulgent horseshit ever placed on the public record.
And the fact that they themselves placed it on the public record only speaks even more innumerable volumes to their infinite and unworldly capacity for self-love and self-pity, both bound together in an unbreakable helix that spirals heroically up the anus of the 21st century.
This is, by any measure, a remarkable feat. So letâs just take a moment to savour everything so nauseating about Harry and Meghanâs crusade for ⌠well, Harry and Meghan.
But letâs not be unkind. After all, right at the beginning of the documentary Harry and Meghan said it wasnât just about them. In fact it was much bigger than them.
The only problem was that even after a soul-consuming 60 minutes, in which time not only stopped but threatened to asphyxiate anyone but Oprah, they hadnât actually articulated who else it was about.
But perhaps this is also unkind. Harry did complain about the repeated photography of his parents and children, so perhaps these vague others were simply his own lineage.
This seems a strange take for someone seemingly repelled by the concept of heredity but Iâm just a poor boy from the suburbs so what would I know about the pressures of being a break-glass monarch â as the upcoming memoir Spare will no doubt document in harrowing detail.
It is also true that Harryâs mother Diana was photographed a lot, one of the burdens of marrying into the most famous family on the planet.
And who could not be scarred by the documentary footage of Diana politely asking if a photographer could stop taking photos of her family on a skiing trip and the photographer politely asking if he could take one more before he went on his way.
There are children in Ethiopia who will never know such suffering. We can only hope they are counting their blessings tonight.
And of course we know that Diana was hounded to death by the media. It wasnât like she just got into a car with a drunk driver and wasnât wearing a seatbelt.
Harry also complains about the tabloid media documenting or â quelle horreur! â exaggerating his various misadventures. Like, say, getting pissed, dressing up as a Nazi and playing nude pool.
Frankly he seemed like more fun back then. More to the point, this is nothing that every two-bit Hollywood actor, reality star, TV host or Instagram influencer hasnât had to deal with every other day. Maybe âHâ can ask Andrew OâKeefe for some tips on crisis management.
But of course itâs unfair that Harry was simply born into this role and never had the chance to choose for himself the life that he would lead.
Good point. After all, reality TV stars seek their fame and influencers seek their, er, influence. These lowborn scabs deserve everything they get for chasing a dollar, right?
Meanwhile our film and television performers are just doing their jobs and shouldnât have to be photographed while off duty â except on the red carpet of course. Let the art do the talking, I say!
But even then, they have chosen their profession. If fame is the curse of their talent then that is surely more just than the fate that has befallen poor Harry, whose only curse was to be born to a stratospherically high-profile and wealthy family.
The only minor caveat to this is that is that Prince Harry decided to marry a Hollywood actress, who is apparently outraged that the media devotes more attention to her choice of husband than her body of work in Suits.
And so when will this symphony of suffering end? When will Harry and Meghan finally be free of the oppressive public gaze?
One way to pursue such freedom might be to buy a remote farm in Canada or perhaps live in a village in Botswana, where we are earnestly told Harry felt most at home.
Or they could just rent out a San Fran flat or a Soho loft and peer into each otherâs eyes over ever-escalating wellness juices. Both options would be very on brand.
But the best way to avoid media attention would surely be to buy a giant mansion in California and commission a TV series by the planetâs biggest streaming service in order to broadcast to the world how upset you are about media attention.
And yet it seems even that hasnât worked. Honestly, what more do they have to do to finally get some privacy?
More importantly, at what other moment in history, in what possible universe and in what deranged culture and ideology, could two such people ever be considered victims?
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More Piers.
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@booboo said in Royal drama:
@Kruse said in Royal drama:
@booboo He misses a fair bit. Obviously a twat.
But - gets a fair bit right before he starts looking for his word-count.Do share.
It's difficult to pick out specific examples. And there's no way I'm reading through it again.
But the whole "feel" of the piece seemed deliberately/overly aggressive. Some contradictory comments. Some leaps in logic. etc etc.
But - it's an opinion piece, and he had a certain word-count to get to, so... I can see how it ended up where it did.
And I was very loathe to even comment on it - as I'm VERY much not a fan or even apologist for these delusional self-absorbed ex-royal fluffybunnies. And certainly don't want to get into a debate supporting/defending a viewpoint I don't hold.
Just that piece... I certainly never want to read anything by that person ever again.