What do you do when you're desperate? Most of us have been desperate in some way, at some time in our lives.
Desperate for money, desperate for love, desperate not to lose a job or a business built over years.
Personally, I remember being so desperate to work things out with a certain gentleman that I put on a gown and crashed a gala dinner where he was a guest, then had to hide in the ladies' loo when the security guards came after me. (Unsurprisingly, our romance did not go forward after that incident).
One of the Webster definitions for desperate is "involving or employing extreme measures in an attempt to escape defeat and frustration."
When you're truly desperate, you'll do some pretty extreme things. Cheat, steal, lie.
Or share your most intimate and personal medical information, surrounded by great gobs of self-pitying word salad.
Did Meghan have a miscarriage?
Did Meghan have a miscarriage, as she stated in a recent personal essay in the New York Times?
I hope not, because no one deserves that, not even Meghan.
However, as Meghan herself states, this tragedy happens to roughly one out of five women. (Including me, although mine was quite early, and followed quickly by a successful pregnancy.)
It is not unusual and certainly not generally caused by the emotional "coldness" of one's in-laws.
No one would question
Having a miscarriage is common, but writing about it for the New York Times is not.
However, when you're truly desperate, you're willing to "employ extreme measures in an attempt to escape defeat and frustration."
When your (Democratic) presidential candidate has apparently won but no one on his team will take your phone calls; when the money you desperately need is linked to a streaming service that is in the news for insulting your husband's family; when you're stuck in an expensive lawsuit you appear to have no chance at winning, it's understandable to want to grasp at any sympathetic story you can.
The story of a miscarriage is one no media outlet - and probably no husband - would think to question.
Can you think of any other topic that would have gotten Meghan permission to write a long personal essay in the New York Times in November 2020?
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So far the Word Alive has not responded to my simple question, despite assuring me they would be back to respond within 24 hours.
If I am not alone sending them inquiries about the possible "borrowing" of the text they are probably desperately trying to decide: Ignore? Downplay? Laugh? Say they don't see any similarities at all? React angry?
They are likely to ask their lawyer how to react, no?
My point was to clarify that being direct or indirect is not important at all nor is position in the line of succession.
What's important is the criteria set out in the letters Patent 1917 and 2013.
I illustrated my point with the Kents and Gloucesters who by your definition are indirect heirs.
I further illustrated the flexibility of the line pf succession with 2 examples - Victoria (6th in line) and the entire Hanoverian dynasty ( 51st in line).
The flexibility of the line means that the people at the top fo not have to die for the lower orders to be promoted. The 50 people ahead of the Hanoverians didn't die to install them and in more recent history nor did David, Duke of Windsor in order to install his younger brother.
As for modernisation vs distant history, much of what was set up in the distant past still governs royals today regardless of modernisation.
As an example, the 'of body' and 'in legitimate marriage' rules for legitimacy were set up in Stuart times. Over 330yrs ago. Nevermind modern innovation of DNA testing and gestation carriers.
The permission to marry rules that are required of royals were set up over 250yrs ago. The only modernisation of that particular rule is to restrict the affected people to top 6.
It's extremely rare for the monarchy to come up with new rules that have no historic precendent including ideas that appear modern eg Charlotte as an heir in her own right despite being female. This is not new or revolutionary within the context of the British monarchy. The first female heir and Queen Regnant to the English throne was Matilda in 1141 whilst Margaret the maid of Norway was the first female heir and Queen Regnant of Scotland in 1286.
It's the only institution that is led by the past no matter how distant that past.
Love it! I want to start calling her Nearly Fluent now. Thank you for reposting.
YES! I remember chuckling over the multilingual fairy tales when I was interrupted! (Still chuckling!) I imagine she's about as graceful at the Warrior's Pose as I am, which can best be described as "T. rex does yoga". It was a masterful hint as to how unnecessary Harry is to her, just like she does in everything she writes.
I'm also not sure why Princess Anne's children's titles keep getting brought up. Succession to the throne and titles are different matters. While Princess Anne is a member of the RF, her children are not. They belong to their father's line and can only inherit his titles if he had any. Any title HM could have ever bestowed on him would be outside any titles the monarch's lines could inherit.
The monarchy depends on precedent. Archie not using Harry's lesser titles in stark contrast to the Wessexes children is indeed a red flag. Such a difference suggests the RF not the Sussexes set a unique life path for Archie.
If Charles really is committed to slimming down the monarchy, giving Archie a title after he ascends would make him a huge hypocrite to what he has been preaching for years. It would certainly look vindictive to ostracized the capable York Princesses while prioritizing his freeloader son and grifter wife.
Charles the nitwit and complete cave in to Harry and Megan. Especially caving in to Megan squandering Duchy millions left and right on couture, jewelry and Frogmore renovations. His vacuous propaganda about slimming down the monarchy. What this really meant was sideline Andrew and his offspring. Charles has been pulling this power trip for years.
Reason is Charles despises Andrew and has for ages. I suppose Andrew hates Charles by now.
Andrew has produced two solid and capable children. Charles has produced just one, with the other one being an ingrate, backstabber, druggie and all around embarrassment.
It is just karma that Charles has been left high and dry by Harry who wanted out of Royal duties. Encouraged by Megs he got out.... ELF did such a good job with Harry's rehabilitation that Charles never saw it coming, the Harry/Megs abdication for the glitter of Hollywood.
Meghan and Harry s circumstances are entirely their own doing. I imagine they wanted Archie to be Earl, HRH, etc but were unwilling to meet the Firm halfway. Thus, their situation and the rules of the family and Monarchy dictated 'Master.'
Instead of the duo accepting the FACTS, and reporting the FACTS, they victim-empowered themselves again: 'we chose to decline Archie's titles and stylings'. Well, they sort of did. The reality is they wanted them without proof. So when they didn't get it their way, they retaliated with a made up narrative hence 'victim-empowerment' knowing the BRF no comment policy.
The BRF having a no comment policy was made for people like Meghan. Interesting that an internal member is attempting to use it against them day after day, though.
And she obviously writes Harry's script too as he used not only the raindrop bit but also used his Aunt Fergie's piece. I doubt he would have come up with it inhis own.
His vacuous propaganda about slimming down the monarchy. What this really meant was sideline Andrew and his offspring. Charles has been pulling this power trip for years.
Reason is Charles despises Andrew and has for ages.
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His reasons are irrelevant, it's a smart move regardless (or would have been, had Harry stayed on the job). Look at how many people The Firm support right now - it's not sustainable in the long term.
Interesting take on Raindrips recent monologue
I've sent the publishers an email, I'll let you know what they say (if they do).
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2020/12/blind-item-8_2.html
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I read the article you posted. Then I came across this statement:
‘Being in nature is the most healing part of life, I truly believe that’s one reason why it’s there.’
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He really fits the name Raindrip.
Snowflake is a 2010s derogatory slang term for a person, implying that they have an inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are overly-emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions.
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Someone on Twitter suggested that they're adopting, thus the lawsuit delay.
Could also explain the miscarriage essay. We thought the essay was setting up for a surrogacy, but it could be setting up for an adoption, also.
The lawsuit delay is better explained by an adoption than a pregnancy, or health issues on either of their parts.
We shall see.
That's it. Harry is so old news. Living in the multiroom mansion with a huge water hungry garden, still envious of the great work his brother is doing and the great esteem Wills is getting from all walks of society.
I think it’s telling that Will doesn’t get the same stick that HarryRaindrop gets for being privileged and yet working to support conservation efforts. It’s because he doesn’t preach, but always puts his efforts out as an effort to support and educate. The same is true about Catherine. This slight variance in presentation and attitude would help the Harkles immensely.
Re your post on 2nd Dec @ 12.58 am: I've used the link to email the publishers and like you, I saw an error message after I'd sent it. I got an automated email reply straight away, though, and they said they'd respond within 24 hours. I'll keep you posted.
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I read the article you posted. Then I came across this statement:
‘Being in nature is the most healing part of life, I truly believe that’s one reason why it’s there.’
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He really fits the name Raindrip.
At this point, I'm wondering whether he is deliberately passive-aggressively sabotaging MM's agenda or is he really that, er, well, as we would say (prefaced by "bless his heart" of course, so you know something ugly is comin') "His elevator doesn't go the top floor" or "His bread ain't done!" or "He's just eat up with the dumbass!"
Thank you. I sent my comments to the emails I found on their website. I received two autoresponders, as someone else said above. Will let everyone know if I get an actual response. I hope they have been flooded with emails. I also hope it means some sales for the author.
What you wrote is true for a state-sponsored adoption (one that goes through agencies). But for a private adoption (one where it is between the parties and their attorneys, no going through the state of California) very little is done that would prevent the adoption. Usually a background check and one home visit. Maybe some letters of reference but if its ok with the birth mother its usually pushed through. This was done so that grandparents could easily adopt their grandchildren (when parents were junkies, incarcerated, or otherwise "unfit", ).
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That statement just baffles me. It is one where, for me anyway, when you read it it just makes you go ' what? ' He really is a dim bulb.
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It might have been an idiotic speech delivered by this foreign born A list celebrity, but at least it wasn't plagiarism like his A list celebrity significant other did in her most recent public pronouncement.
So ENTY reads Nutty, too?
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I posted that CDAN item earlier.
"It's certainly reminded me about how interconnected we all are, not just as people but through nature," he continued. "We take so much from her and we rarely give a lot back."
Um, you say Mother Nature, I say a biowarfare lab in Wuhan, China.
*sigh* Harry, Harry, Harry, women do not respect a man that has more estrogen than they do, although that roast chicken is seeming much more plausible. Maybe you need to start a GoFundMe to see if you can raise enough money to get out of time out. How much money do you have to earn before you can leave your room?
Yep I went due to your link [CDAN] and couldn't believe what was I was reading! :)
A GoFundHarry is brilliant. 'the great escape fund'
I wonder what the magic number is. I wonder if Meghan would force him to leave her so she'd get better child support. Anything is possible.
I wonder what the magic number is. I wonder if Meghan would force him to leave her so she'd get better child support. Anything is possible.
If he *had* $11,000,000, I'm pretty sure most of it is gone. There's an old saying about "you cannot get blood from a turnip" and Harry is pretty turnip-like. Maybe they can go on one of those afternoon talk shows where they present the DNA evidence of parenthood in front of a live audience. THAT would be interesting. If it were a pay per view, it may set the kid up through college and Harry would be off the hook.
I'm so curious what Netflix is wanting to get out of their deal.
They need at least $4MM a year income to live the way she wants. That is nothing to sneeze at, and very hard to come by in the real world. I think we've all figured out they're going to need to cut the budget. Personally, I think they got used to the expense account at the BRF, not realizing just how much $$$ what they were doing took.
OT but some time back you mentioned an allergy remedy that worked really well. I looked back through the posts and couldn't find it. Would you mind repeating it?
I'm so curious what Netflix is wanting to get out of their deal.
They need at least $4MM a year income to live the way she wants. That is nothing to sneeze at, and very hard to come by in the real world. I think we've all figured out they're going to need to cut the budget. Personally, I think they got used to the expense account at the BRF, not realizing just how much $$$ what they were doing took.
They are expecting (or creating) something scurrilous to get eyeballs/viewers would be my best guess. How hard are Harry and Meghan really accustomed to working?
I learned many things from having family living in California since the Gold Rush. They lived through many fires in San Francisco, escaped the city by boat after the Earthquake of 1906, to Oakland. Corrupt politicians built gas lines next to electric lines, on top of land made from trash. Half of San Francisco today will be destroyed in another big one. Nature does not care if you are a dried up drip. Nature does not care if you call yourself a Duke or Prince. Nature is not here for anybody or anything at any time. Man plans, Nature laughs.
What Nature does is take care of people who call themselves raindrops. Maybe the next zooms will be about the winds people cause by preaching idiocy, the pieces of earth people are in each mudslide, and each of us in every flash of wildfire. The dry dust Just H will breathe during the next water emergency.
The idea that `Nature' is here for the benefit of humankind has been around since Genesis - the mainstream Christian churches are now embarrassed by this notion. We are part of `nature' - it doesn't exist for us.
`Mother Nature', so-called doesn't give two hoots about us, despite the Pathetic Fallacy. Ruskin knocked that misconception on the head in 1856.
Meanwhile, I caught the tail-end of a report on the radio this morning that the epidemic situation in LA is so bad that a `lockdown' has been imposed. Must check it out.
So does that mean no pap-walks but lots of Zoom?
I checked through history to find what proportion of Princes of Wales have actually ascended the throne, given:
- those that died when their father, the king, was still alive (the crown then went to the old king's grandson - eg George II to George III );
- those that died legitimate-child-less when their father, the king, was still alive:
crown went to next brother in line (Henry VII to Henry VIII, James I to Charles I, Edward VII to Geo V)
-the king dying without legitimate child - the crown went to next brother- (Charles II to James II, George IV to William IV);
- the king dying without legitimate child and next brother is deceased - crown went to deceased brother's daughter - (William IV to Victoria)
- and a childless king abdicating - (Edward VIII to George VI, even then, there was a possibilty that George/Bertie could have been passed over).
Overall, the historical odds for Charles becoming king are only about 50%, that's from battle of Bosworth (1485), the last time the Crown was fought over by a king against a usurper who wanted the throne for himself. It's probably not so different in the earlier period.
DM today has tagged MM's bunions onto a story about another celebs bunions!
Just the sort of publicity she loves - not!
1 day ago — Ada Nicodemou, 43, reveals bunions on her feet as she walks Palm Beach in heels - after A-listers such as Meghan Markle and Victoria Beckham suffered with the condition in the past. She's the jaw-dropping Home and Away actress who rarely puts a foot out of line when it comes to fashion.
Meanwhile, I caught the tail-end of a report on the radio this morning that the epidemic situation in LA is so bad that a `lockdown' has been imposed. Must check it out.
WBB-m, the "lockdown" is not for people such as the governor, who was photographed eating at a restaurant (French Laundry) with more people than were supposed to be gathered, all without masks. They were noisy, too. Then he got all pissy about being exposed. Totalitarians gonna totalitarian.
I'll be curious as to whether anybody actually follows these recommendations. I expect that there will be a lot of anatomically impossible suggestions given to the politicians.
We should send them to the New York Times for publication as punishment for foisting plagiarized sentiment upon their readers (which probably number about two).
I can see that but I can also think that with today's medicine, that ups the chances of living longer and greater quality of life (and more pain free). Covid knocks it down a couple of notches but generally speaking, people are not dying as much from stuff which used to kill most of the people who got it.
Wild Boar Battle-maid said...
"Gotta larf -
"DM today has tagged MM's bunions onto a story about another celebs bunions!
"Just the sort of publicity she loves - not!"
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Ada Nicodemou reveals bunions as she walks ... - Daily Mail
www.dailymail.co.uk › tvshowbiz › article-9008503
There is a full length pic of Meghan in 2010, looks like she's in a swag room or has too many purses...you can see the bunion clearly.
BUT to ice the cake, they put a HUGE closeup of her feet at the time. The same size as the full length portrait. Eesh. they only did this to one other actress in the article....
DM does point out her feet look different now, with a 2019 full lengtsapic of her in a sparkly dress and sandals, no bunion present! I think there is moonbump tho.
I'm not thinking so much about death but how Prince Albert, Duke of York, nearly didn't make it to the throne because he was deemed inadequate by the political PTB. Baldwin (the PM) Cosmo Lang (Archbishop of Canterbury) had already seen off his brother...
That was why it was so important that he could at least give a good speech when it mattered, despite being terrified.
Wild Boar Battle-maid said...
"The idea that `Nature' is here for the benefit of humankind has been around since Genesis - the mainstream Christian churches are now embarrassed by this notion. We are part of `nature' - it doesn't exist for us.
"`Mother Nature', so-called doesn't give two hoots about us, despite the Pathetic Fallacy. Ruskin knocked that misconception on the head in 1856."
Well said!
I say: sheep were not put on this earth for any other purpose than to provide MAN with a nice meal, the grass is green rather than any other colour as it is restful to MEN's eyes and night was provided because it is then easier to sleep.
I am however sorry for WOpersons because it is only WOpersons who suffer from bunions, WOpersons do not dress for the benefit of men but for their own pleasure and so it is surprising that those with large feet attempt to fit their feet into Cinderella-size shoes. My Mother did that which is how she acquired bunions and it killed her because in her old age she took aspirins to ease the pain and the asprins eventually eat through the lining of her stomach. Literally dying for fashion - but it was a quick death as I was there to save her from falling as we walked up to the pub for lunch. I never had lunch that day - damn. Bee warned ladies.
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https://thenationalpulse.com/breaking/markle-husband-covid/
Editor’s Note: The National Pulse has taken the editorial decision to stop referring to Harry Windsor by his reputed title, “Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex” on account of his failure of his duties towards the British public on behalf of The Crown.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13373937/prince-harry-mistaken-christmas-tree-salesman/
with this apparent tweet after
"They seems like very nice people honestly. Meghan sounds very kind and Harry sounded and acted like a chill lad honestly. I’m really glad they liked our trees"
But one family was still milling around the trees and their child ran towards Harry thinking he was staff.
Posting on Twitter he wrote: "Meghan and Prince Harry came into my work today and we sold them their Christmas Tree.
"It was anticlimactic, but a very very interesting experience.
"We had our lot empty when they got there- their agent promoted them a good time to come instead of us shutting it down.
"There was one family in there and their stoked little son ran through trees up to Harry and asked if he worked here not knowing who that is.
"They seems like very nice people honestly. Meghan sounds very kind and Harry sounded and acted like a chill lad honestly. I’m really glad they liked our trees. We got the best we could get from Wa. Very appreciative."
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/02/meghan-markle-disaster-british-monarchy-katie-hopkins/#.X8gAsanO6Gs.twitter
Markle saw an opportunity for stardom and she pounced on it, like a black widow spider eating her mate, the male redback, when she is done. In nature the male spider has a taste for sacrificial sex, flipping his bare abdomen into the hungry female’s mouth during mating. So too at the Palace, where the Prince-Formerly-Known-as-Harry has been consumed by the woman he was desperate to be loved by.
I could be noble. I could say that I wish her well with her new celebrity life of excess in North America. But I do not. I rue the day Prince Harry fell into her trap and flinch as I watch His Royal Redback get gobbled up alive.
So .... where's Archie? Why not have pictures of him walking/talking/grabbing like this little kid?
(what is the mantra: it isn't real unless there are pictures).
This is a beauty. Its in the Times, but also in The Cat with an Emerald Tiara blog for those behind a paywall.
https://the-cat-with-the-emerald-tiara.tumblr.com
"Help! Prince Harry is now Speaking Californian"
You're right about green being restful - is seems to have less energy and a lesser excitatory effect on the nervous system compared with red. I may not be coincidence that football teams who wear red do rather well!
When we try to answer `Why?' questions, we need to distinguish between `what was the causal agent? and `to what end did it happen?'. If we think of someone falling off Beachy Head, is `Were they pushed?' or `Did they want to end it all?'
The biologist in me tries to avoid teleology but sometimes it's is difficult.
Another btw: I've been told that bunions can also be set off by being trodden on by a horse - it displaces the joint. That could might explain why I have one on my right rather than my left foot, because that's the side a horse is conventionally led from in the UK. Mine certainly followed receiving the weight of a very large draught horse when I was wearing plimsolls, cheap forerunners of trainers.
"So the palace announces William had COVID, then the Cambridges’ dog Lupo dies, Harry and Meghan face immense backlash for their cemetery photo op and then we’re expected to believe that the timing of this release, four months after the fact, is purely coincidental and not to drum up some good publicity for them?"
"I've sent the publishers an email, I'll let you know what they say (if they do)"
Thank you! I hope you and I are not the only ones who did. I doubt very much they will respond, they are a small publisher of Christian literature, so they are probably way out of their depth with this story.
That they are not very well known and based in California to boot probably explains why Meghan chose their book as "inspiration", if she did. A small publisher is also much less likely to create a fuss.
Whoever caught the similarities with the book is a genius.
Seriously, what is the chance two women both independently chose to use words "firstborn" and "clutching" in the same short paragraph telling about the loss experience in a strikingly similar way?
Why? because they’re bigger stars than all the actual top A-listers who take their children for tree shopping?
Because they can only be photographed in cemeteries treading over the dead? Or carrying toothbrushes out of the dental office?
And they .....went to get the tree? Why? During Covid blighting California? No delivery service a for a mansion-size “best” tree? I mean, the only reason to go now is to share the experience with their child, who wasn’t there, or snap a photo, which we do not see. Did Mummy M take little Normal Haitch the Raindrops for his first American tree lot visit, was that it?
(Hey, if they kill a tree for Christmas, is that one more added to the private jet eco-love replanting list?)
Of course they didn’t bring their pesky invisible son for this family time rite of passage. Even though far bigger “celebs” do. No, instead their PR used a made up kid running eagerly to the warm, child-loving “chill” Harry who has no actual normal life photos with his own son, Archie. Best a made up stranger child, than one’s own son.
Proving again that Archie is either imprisoned in a bubble and not allowed fresh air or human interaction, or doesn’t exist This is turning into a sort of baby horror tale, if he does exist.
And so is dangerously pregnant M okay after this trip to a tree lot? Asking for a judge.
They are nitwits, and so are their lavish 12-person PR staff.
That's an interesting list of succession failures. It's actually worse if you go back before 1485. From William I to Richard III, only 5 eldest sons made it to the throne.
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Harry Markle has a new post revealing the way WaterBear makes money (by latching onto your data if you visit the site, sharing the data with many organizations and basically internet stalking you forever to keep using you). Funny way for the Privacy Pirate to make his rent money.
Also Artemis Good has a new drawing in Twitter of H as a pink fairy raindrop, watering a bear.
"Pics or it didn't happen." :)
Where is Archie? I can not imagine not taking a child Christmas tree shopping. I mean really? Is he not to have a childhood in the name of "privacy"?
Is covid a danger to him but not his parents?
This really makes me think he DOESN"T live with them.
Cheers Nutties, thank you.
Loving the Turgid Prose, more please!
"About Harry’s speech... people are assuming MM wrote it due to the wording, and are exploding over the Mother Nature comment. I find it hilarious that PH single-handedly undid all MM’s positive PR from her recent NYT story, using “her” own words in that speech. Tell me that wasn’t on purpose, because it falls right in with the, “My wife will now give a speech in French” and the, “Is it mine?” comments. She must be fuming, as he took her right back to negative perception in really a matter of hours."
I dont know if Harry could be that devious, but the poster quoted seems to view this as an own goal for MM.
Had Catherine given her that lift to Waitrose she is so bitter about, would she have expected similar treatment there? With Catherine waiting dutifully along with the rest of the would-be shoppers beside the trolley rank in the car park?
I imagine that's a `yes!' then.
'Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.?
Kate Sheppard
More plagiarism by MM for JH's recent zoom speech/lecturec ?
Have any Nutty posters here mentiined this quote ?(found on Skippy tumblr )
'Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.?
Kate Sheppard
More plagiarism by MM for JH's recent zoom lecture speech
"Harry sounded and acted like a chill lad honestly. I’m really glad they liked our trees. We got the best we could get from Wa. Very appreciative."
Does anyone else think that sounds fishy?
I think it odd that the American tree salesman would use the phrase "chill lad" as written in his tweet:
"Harry sounded and acted like a chill lad honestly. I’m really glad they liked our trees. We got the best we could get from Wa. Very appreciative."
Does anyone else think that sounds fishy?
(Waves hand wildly in air.) I do! I do! Should have been "Seems like a chill dude." And whenever somebody says "honestly", it isn't.
I read the article on the Christmas tree trip.
So .... where's Archie? Why not have pictures of him walking/talking/grabbing like this little kid?
(what is the mantra: it isn't real unless there are pictures).
Exactly. One does wonder, eh? All these stories pouring forth about how the Numfarkles are *so excited!!!!* and *looking forward* to *their first Christmas in California as a family!***
What family?
Especially in the wake of the tragedy that 'just' befall her (5 months ago, allegedly) in which she 'lost her secondborn (son)' You would think Meg would cherish all the more all these precious memories she could be making with her surviving child. So many of the Christmas activities this time of year are geared for children. At 18 months, Master Archie would be too little to actually 'help' to pick out the Christmas tree, but think of all the adorable photo ops. No Santa visits this year, but photos with Daddy at the tree lot running around would be prime.
I do not buy for one Montecito Mudslide Minute that Meg is hoarding her child because someday somebody is going to pay her $5 million dollars for his picture. If the terms of Megxit forbid her to sell his images . . 1. when has that ever stopped her for a heartbeat? She's still merching 'Duchess of Sussex' for all she's worth, in direct defiance of orders . . see also: pontificating about politics; insulting dead American servicemen, etc.) 2. Archie is an American citizen and a private citizen at that. He's not part of the Royal family brand, despite having a place in line. Peter Phillips made his (now ex) wife Autumn convert to the Church of England so that he could retain his place in the succession, though he is 15th or something like that. That didn't stop him and Autumn from selling photographs of their wedding to Hello Magazine for some 50,000 pounds. They were criticized for it at the time, but the Queen neither stopped him doing it nor revoked his place in line, so . . If Meg sold some cute photos of Archie making cookies or trimming the tree or playing with the dogs to Good Housekeeping for a more modest sum, it shouldn't be any skin off the Queen's nose.
Yet, she hasn't done it. Archie is for all intents and purposes, a ghost. In the next couple of weeks, the Royal family is going to be releasing their official Christmas cards, and there is going to be a cute one from the Cambridges, and Catherine might treat us to a few other festive family snaps. What is Meg going to counter with--the 'New Year's Day' photo from last year? Frankenbaby Christmas photo? We are still seeing the South Africa photo. Before too long Archie will be two years old and Duck Rabbit video aside, we haven't had any new images of him for over a year. Let's see what exercises in Photoshop come forth after the Royal holiday cards are released.
When's the last time that Doria has been mentioned? I think I read that she was gonna 'drive down to Montecito' to join the Harkles for Thanksgiving, despite the pandemic. Good thing the Farklebutts got their tree when they did since California is going back into lockdown.
Will The Sussex Titles Stay Or Will They Go?
Yes, 'chill lad' immediately struck me as not American English completely. We say 'chill', especially those of the Millennial generation, but 'lad' is very UK in flavor. In California, one may be a 'chill dude' or a 'chill homie' or even a 'really chill guy' . . .but lad, no.
Either Haitch is trying his hand at his own press tales or possibly the tree salesman is not American-born? Cali is very diverse; someone who grew up in the Commonwealth island countries or UK would probably say 'lad'. I gather there are a lot of Brits in the L.A. area.
'Harry sounded and acted like a chill lad honestly' is just a very awkward sounding sentence. It doesn't sound authentic. 'Very appreciative?' Who says that in a sound bite? That sounds like someone is composing a thank you note.
As with everything else to do with this couple, the whole episode does not pass the smell test.
2) I have never met anyone describe someone they just met as "kind". We say nice family, nice person, nice couple etc usually. Why call a customer you spent less than 15 minutes with "kind". Thats one of Meghans favorite adjectives.
3) Lad? We don't say that here. Mate either r for that matter. We say "guy", "man", "dude", or "gentleman"( especially when referencing old folks).
4) M&H were asking restaurants to have other patrons sign NDAs just to have dinner at the restaurant in Canada. M had seats cleared out in Wimbledon for her and her friends. They didn't ask this man to have an NDA or clear the lot for them? Nope.
The comment from the man just doesn't jive for me. This is another PR fantasy gone bad. Perhaps in a few weeks we will get a fuzzy picture from a distance of some people that look sort of like them. Just like pub lunch with Archie after he was born.
Yeah, it just does not make sense.
The story of the little boy, could easily have been something similar with his own kid. But it is not. Instead we just happen to have a lovely family (who just happen to be dawdling on deciding on a tree after the lot closes) which has a darling little boy who just happens to get so excited that he runs up to a total stranger and holds on. (did a Hollywood script writer concoct this?).
And the comment up thread about how the story is always how kind she is. Good observation. IF you are really kind, it is obvious to onlookers and participants in ways that don't need to be spoken.
Wow what a brilllllllliant catch! “Chill lad” is a giveaway of a Scobie story, don’t you think, unless the tree salesman is from the U.K. too. I applaud you, I totally missed that!
Busted, H, busted, M! Never try to fool a Nutty!
I haven't heard from the publishers. A publishing consultant was supposed to be in touch 'within one working day'.
They're based in Canada (Winnipeg).
It would good if they'd received lots of comments but even so, I doubt there will be repercussions for Megalo.
Doesn’t the tree story sound a lot like the story about how they encountered a couple hiking and having trouble taking a selfie and they were “so kind” and helped them with it?
I'd forgotten about that, too. Is she soliciting people from Fiverr to write her PR feel-good stories now? I can knock one out in ten minutes and throw in a near-death experience and seeing angels surrounding her glowing kind countenance as I returned to my body.
“The Feet that launched a thousand Yachts”
Tedifying
With her bunions removed
Her digits re-hooved
She thinks she can walk upon water
Her toe curling spare
And his love for wet bear
Follows the Tedict, of his kindly old yachter
The Trial of the Loathsome Whines
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree
Wherefore art thou, poor Archie
Your kindly mum, and drippy dad
Left home alone, that’s really sad
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree
I wish you Well, dear faux farcey
Magatha, help me out here! 😅
@Mimi
Suesie
“The Feet that launched a thousand Yachts”
Tedifying
With her bunions removed
Her digits re-hooved
She thinks she can walk upon water
Her toe curling spare
And his love for wet bear
Follows the Tedict, of his kindly old yachter
ROFL, I wish I could fit those lyrics into "Play that Funky Music White Boy" by Wild Cherry.
I don't know how they could tell that from a 3 second interaction and her with a mask on.
Sorry I've been away, with MIL in and out of hospital and so was I for a week in September, then hubby got a COVID scare, one of his co-workers got COVID and didn't tell anyone, so he had to quarantine for 14 days, then work got crazy. I still work from home but it's the end of the year so lots to do before year end. Needless to say things got exhausting. I'm hoping for a nice quiet Christmas with no drama attached to it :) I get more than enough drama from the Gruesome Twosome.
Anyway, stay safe and have an enjoyable, intimate festive holiday this year. I hope to see you all on the other side :) Love you guys!!
The guy from the tree shop said of
their visit:
“It was anticlimactic, but very, very
interesting”
Anticlimactic, hahahaha!
Not a happy ending then?
@Swampie
I love “play that funky music”
The Christmas tree story is also similar to the food delivery story. Where the recipient was saying that Mm seemed so down-to-earth.
I don't know how they could tell that from a 3 second interaction and her with a mask on.
Maybe "seemed so down to earth" meant that she left the tiara at home?
was thinking of cute names for a girl....if she has not miscarried and had a girl.........LIZZY, JESSIE, MARCHIE, DEE-DEE,...
Magatha, help me out here! 😅
Lady Fortune Markle-Windsor, Emerald Tiara Markle-Windsor, Lotta Ka$h Markle-Windsor, Hope Diamond Markle-Windsor...
Blind Item #3
There has been a lot of online chatter over the past 48 hours about the alliterate one and whether she hazed two pledges to her sorority so badly they got the alliterate one suspended from the school and the sorority put on probation for four years. It is true the sorority wanted no part of celebrating her wedding and made that clear on the record to reporters. They just would not say why.
“Hope Diamond Markle-Windsor”
Arghhh Swampie, brilliant, what a gem 😉
Koh-i-noor Rhinestone-Ragland
I am holding onto my old name pick for Eugenie’s potential daughter: Diana Samantha Emerald Tiara Elizabeth Angelina.
So, for M’s plastic seed, if a girl, I will offer up “Queen Charlotte California Billionaira Fort Knoxina Blanka Chequella Mona Lisa Anderson”.
@Mimi
Triplets, Tony, Oscar, Emmy, the Golden Toes!
and Grammy Doria..
....this tree lot story sounds much too much like the past stories of peasant encounters with the sparkling royal duo as they make their rare appearances, floating unphotographed like golden archangels through woodlands and tree lots, bestowing kindness — instead of their usual recorded smug sweaty bitter hectoring lecturing foolery. All we are missing are leprechauns with buckets of coins.
If grip and drip really did go to the tree lot (and without Archie) there would have been a photographer taking pap shots for sale and a video crew recording "Harry's First American Christmas Tree" for Netflix.
@AnT
“Golden archangels-bestowing kindness”
Hahaha!
Megsies little elfers, Gnomid and the trolls.
@Musty
Grip and Drip, Yes!!!! 👍
The Con-ifers
The Archback of Notre Sham
Should really remember her plan
World domination
Needs more animation
Than a flit through the pines with her man
The Golden Arch
Grip and Drip
Set out on a trip
To fetch poor Archie a tree
When she got home
With her red headed gnome
She watered it well, with a pee
Yeah. Right!
Meghan cannot have kids. Archie is living with someone else. Meghan and Harry left 50/50 their decision and BRF decision. They were offered Africa, all expenses paid. They chose DIY Cali, only if they left Archie behind and had visitation. Like a divorce. They divorced the family and these were the terms.
Meghan is using all of Harry’s money to deludedly sound more important than she is. No one cares about Meghan. Some people still worry about Harry, but he was never famous in the USA unlike the Uk. They got used to that fame and press in the Uk. Oh, you’re not important? Sorry!
I think there is so much more that happened between the wedding and fallout and I commend the BRF for refusing to engage these morons. Let them be victims. At least they cannot affect a child in the process!
Sorry this latest PR nonsense about a ‘tree’ really offended me. Lol!
When did the sorority denounce Meghan and her wedding? She must have really burned bridges for that to happen. No surprise there!
Sorry for all my posts.
When I gets the urge
I needs to purge!
Home alone and we’re having a heatwave!
Thats my excuse 🤗
@Swampie
Apologies to you, and Wild Cherry!!
Lay that hoochie mama, daft boy
Lay that hoochie mama, right
Lay that hoochie mama, daft boy
Lay down with Megsie, you’ve laid
that hoochie mama ‘til you’re dry
Til you’re dry
Please, never apologise for all your posts! We need a laugh and your poems are so welcome!
@Jdubya
I read about the sorority story in the Cat with the Emerald Tiara yesterday but she adds that 'the source of it is completely unreliable.' So, who knows.
Wondering idly if he included Wee Megsie among his subjects, I googled both names and came up with this - clearly he didn't ask MM and she has retaliated with this:
https://heatworld.com/celebrity/news/meghan-markle-prince-harry-bear-grylls/
How Meghan Markle plans to make Prince Harry the next Bear Grylls
She thinks he could be TV’s next big thing
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BY KATIE HOLLOWAY |
POSTED ON27 07 2020
It’s fair to say that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s move to Hollywood hasn’t been quite as peachy as they were hoping, thanks to the c-word shutting down the showbiz industry as soon as they arrived.
Now, an insider close to the ex-royal couple tells heat Meghan has come up with a plan to give Harry a new focus and help him kickstart his career in the US.
“Meghan has been really concerned about Harry feeling lost in LA lately,” our source says. “It’s always somewhere she’s been very comfortable with, but she gets that it is a huge lifestyle change for him – so she’s been scrambling around trying to think of a project that will give him a purpose. One of her ideas is to turn Harry into the new Bear Grylls, and she has been pitching the idea of him having his own adventure show with other celebrities.”
The couple – who moved to California with 15-month-old son Archie – stepped down as senior royals in March before their move, and it seems 38-year-old Meghan is hoping to get some lucrative work for her husband.
“She is desperate to turn him into a TV star to give him some motivation,” we’re told. “She knows it will have to be something active and exciting to get him on board, which is why she thinks Harry should take his experience of being in the army and organising the Invictus Games and turn it into a TV show.”
And while we’re told Harry is tempted by the idea of a project showing off his adventurous side, our insider reveals that those close to Harry aren’t so sure.
We’re told, “A lot of his friends back in the UK have been advising him against it. They’re worried that it could look as though they are chasing fame and fortune when their original mission was supposed to be about their charity. His mates are really feeling for him right now – they can tell that he’s not himself and can imagine he must be climbing the walls of his LA mansion without any of his friends.”
Thanks @Maneki
I’ve enjoyed myself, ready for bed now!! 😘
Prince of raindrops sounds so wet.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9016691/JAN-MOIR-shimmering-hypocrisy-Naomi-Campbell-crusader-criminals.html
As an aside:I'm loving all your stories ladies... and @Magatha you have surpassed yourself yet again!!
Now, THAT is truly an odd sentence. None of my friends would imagine that I am lost, bored, and/or at wit's ends without them being present. The next Bear Grylls should be able to entertain himself by hunting, cleaning, roasting and eating lizards. (He and Megs could be collaborating on a cookbook: Apocalypse Good Eats: How to Thrive in Bad Times.) He should probably have a chapter in there somewhere about cooking the horses of the horsemen of the apocalypse, Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death.
I've no idea what his outdoor skills are like - I wouldn't trust him to lead the simplest rock-climb with me as his no.2, I'd fear he's too irresponsible to make a proper belay to hold me if I slipped.
His navigation could be pants as well.
Swampwoman - are you forgetting? She's (probably) locked him in the basement or the linen cupboard.
I didn't see anything online about Mudslide Manor having a proper basement (we would call it an in-house swimming pool here) but they do sport a wine cellar. Perhaps his strange speech comes from being locked THERE. What a horrific fate! "No, Mummy, do not lock me in the wine cellar away from your presence yet again!" "To the wine cellar, Harry!" "Oh, woe is me!" (while hiding a grin). And really, is it even a proper Former Mad Russian Oligarch Abode without the obligatory Bondage BDSM room? Harry is probably handcuffed there.
Ah! Thank you for correcting my mistake - I mistook "ca" in the publisher's web address as "California" instead of "Canada". Well done, and I am an idiot typing too late at night when my head isn't working properly.
I still think if Megs used the book as a source she chose it because it had been published by a small business much less likely to create a fuss.
Funny, she lived in Canada several years and here we go - an obscure Canadian publisher and a book on the subject of loss with strikingly similar language!
re BearRaindrip; The first part sounded like pure Scooby-Doo-doo - the final para was more interesting.
I've no idea what his outdoor skills are like - I wouldn't trust him to lead the simplest rock-climb with me as his no.2, I'd fear he's too irresponsible to make a proper belay to hold me if I slipped.
His navigation could be pants as well.
Well, I'm not sure that I would want to ride in his car if he were driving for Lyft or Uber. Since he's hooked up with MM and his subsequent poor decisions have been exhibited publicly, I must admit that I don't have any confidence in his ability to ably perform even routine tasks.
... a plan to give Harry a new focus and help him kickstart his career in the US. ...
eh, what is the "existing" career which needs kickstarting? To kickstart something, you have have to already have a something to make it happen faster.
... One of her ideas is to turn Harry into the new Bear Grylls, and she has been pitching the idea of him having his own adventure show with other celebrities.” ...
um, wouldn't he be pitching it? Is he not there at the meetings to help control the narrative?
... it seems 38-year-old Meghan is hoping to get some lucrative work for her husband. ...
... She is desperate to turn him into a TV star to give him some motivation,” we’re told. ...
What I have noticed (time and time again) is that the person has to want it for the it to even start. It does not matter how much I might want my kid to become a doctor or a lawyer, family member to quit smoking, they have to want it. I cannot give them the motivation to do this. Nor can I make another adult do X if they don't want to do X.
... We’re told, “A lot of his friends back in the UK have been advising him against it. They’re worried that it could look as though they are chasing fame and fortune when their original mission was supposed to be about their charity. ...
oh my. Isn't that an interesting tidbit dropped in. Is that the gray men maybe?
Amazing coincidence! But, I'll bend over backwards so far as to endanger the integrity of my spinal column in order to be "fair" here: Maybe she is an introvert that secretly prefers to read prodigiously in the confines of her room to public life. She has read so much, locked away from public view, that she forgets where these ideas came from after she internalized them.
(Painfully re-straightening spine.)
oh my. Isn't that an interesting tidbit dropped in. Is that the gray men maybe?
Hunh. Good point about the charity and the gray men. I just rolled my eyes and thought "Don't you have to have money to give away if you establish a charity?"
I was reading an expose of a Hollywood charity for exploited women and very little of the money raised went to the women; most went to salaries. This is where I believe the Harry and Meghan Charity Theater (or Theatre) will be. Paul Newman established Newman's Own for products sold as an ongoing fundraiser for charities. What do Dominatrix and Submissive have to sell to fund their "charity"? If they raised over $550 million, as did the late but not forgotten Paul Newman, for charity, does anybody honestly believe that 100% of the proceeds would go to charity?
https://nypost.com/2020/11/28/star-studded-times-up-charities-spent-big-on-salaries-not-victims/
seeing a picture of Harry and his waxed eyebrows, I thought he looked similar to someone else, but couldn't put my finger on it. Then, it came to me. He is morphing into Marcus Anderson. He's getting that metrosexual look that Meghan seems to like in her male "friends".
Coming out party? Maybe that's going to be the big Netflix exclusive reveal.
haha, Harry is going to declare that he identifies as female, his name is now Harriet, and that the pronouns are she/they.
Grip and Drip
Set out on a trip
To fetch poor Archie a tree
When she got home
With her red headed gnome
She watered it well, with a pee
I've notified my local Starbucks that they are going to clear the establishment at a time of your choosing so that you can pick out all the free coffee and Christmas tschokes that you desire, on the house. They were thrilled to do this for such a kind and down-to-earth person, and they won't even ask you to take a selfie with the staff.
You make us merry here and we thank you so much!
Harry and his waxed eyebrows
I thought his face looked weird but I couldn't put my finger on it. Well, sh*t, she's got him waxing his eyebrows . . no wonder he feels 'lost in Hollywood'.
This Stockholm Syndrome is pernicious, isn't it.
I imagine William, getting the call in KP:
Courtier: Sir, now she's got Harry waxing his eyebrows.
W: It's a bloody shame they can't wax his mouth off as well. And hers. Now one needs to go punch something.
C: Very good, sir.
Already, he's changed his hair to have that stupid gel hair standing up by itself, botox, eyebrow waxing, and skin re-surfacing.
Perhaps some `kind' person should remind Megsie that the quickest way to `make a small fortune' is to start with a large one...
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I do believe she is now experienced at that.
@Magatha Mistie
I settled on "Grip and Drip" but also considered "Flop and Drop". (as in a tribute to her acting career and speech writing ability)
He has said he needed more privacy, wants away from the clicks of the paps, and thought moving to America would help chill her out. The LAST thing Harry wants is to be a lowly Telly presenter. Roflmao. He is from the upper class. It doesn’t matter if he is short on cash. Those types do NOT *do* work.
It’s truly shocking how dumb this woman is.
A large part of why Megs wanted back to LA was to get these treatments from people who will not leak. LA must be the worlds center for this with all the actors and actresses who must maintain image and youthful appearance or die. And now she has hooked the newly Metro Harry into this. At least this is worth some laughs. He looks more bizarre and floaty each month.
I found this referred to on another website and i am just laughing like crazy
https://twitter.com/hrrysgreysuit?lang=en
Just copy & paste and enjoy the video's. They have made some great alterations. One of my favorites is Nov 21st post future christmas card.
She has probably begun to sort out that no one wants to hire a disliked, over-40 poor actress with a slate of histrionics and secret dumping and the propensity for bolting, or suing. My best guess is that she is also quite uninsurable. And probably the Netflix idea list is still blank.
So she realizes she has to try to pimp out H for the income. Maybe she has Markus managing the makeover details.
Of course, H doing anything but a very simplistic cohosting gig of a “bars and bikinis tour of the world” series would be impossible. Fellow has no skills and, as noted by a poster above, many of his kind simply don’t work....though David Armstrong-Jones does run Linley which has been a successful business that he founded, doing bespoke furniture restoration.
But H lacks direction, energy, skills. He is a bland piece of doughy nothingness, larded with “hobbies”, being poorly stage managed and constantly reshaped into new blob forms, by an angry rolling pin.
What is wrong with Meghan? She acts like she does not know Harry at all!
Beyond rampant Narcissism?
All I can say is, she must be *incandescent* in the sack to be worth Harry selling his soul for. Though for the record, I don't think she gives it to him any more. She hooked him with Roast Chicken early on. Probably had some mind-blowing chicken dinners in the early months when she was just his transatlantic tap. If that guy on Quora is reliable, Meg solicited Harry at the bar in Soho House in Toronto when he was there for some Invictus related thing, and spent the night in his room. She was a fixture at the bar, trolling for guys with money. She must have wet her knickers when she chanced upon Diana's secondborn son in her usual watering hole.
I think the sex was hot and heavy, albeit sporadic until sometime in the autumn of 2016, when she was removed from KP and escorted to Heathrow for violating the Cambridge children's privacy, or attempting to. She probably thought prior to this that she was in like Flynn, meeting Kate and Wills at KP and all. Then commenced the Stalker period for the next year. When was the incident at the polo, when William had her removed from the premesis between two burly courtiers . . was that Summer 2016 or 2017? If the latter, one can completely understand William's disbelief that Little Brother actually proposed to marry the stalker ho who'd been deported from KP six months earlier. The trajectory of this bizarro 'relationship' just hurts my noggin.
After she got the engagement ring, there was no further need to keep Hazza on the hook with roast chickens and tossed salad. I'd be really surprised if he's sampled any of her buffet since then. They didn't take a honeymoon; he went back to work for Granny and she flew off alone to Toronto to find herself a surrogate. I don't actually think the couple ever cohabited in any residence in the United Kingdom--NottCott; Cotwolds or the Empty House, FroggyCott itself. They may have checked into hotels, and they seem to be together in joint wedded misery in California, though if it's at Chateau Mudslide of the exorbitant prices, they are just renting it. Meg's PR puts out what she *wants* everybody to believe is true about her fabulous life. If she's gonna lie about something as tiny and mundane as buying a Christmas tree, I have no difficulty imagining her lying about buying a $14 million dollar mansion. Or having an active toddler named Archie.
Show us the proof, hon.
Harry seems to have had his soul sucked out of his body . .or perhaps it was surgically removed, along with his male reproductive equipment. I can't believe that he continues to go along with this shadow play willingly, especially if he's not even being fed up on chicken and salad. I can't believe that he wants to be the next Bear Grylls. Even if did *want* it, Haz is devoid of charisma on all fronts and seems from what we can tell to be devoid of muscle tone as well. The robust and ruddy soldier Harry who used to eat meat and drink beers is gone and in his place is this pasty, sweaty wraith with vacant eyes who is going to be the next outdoorsy lifestyle guru, to complement his wife's lock on pretentious book-and-birds-nest displays and merched candles on the domestic front?
Well, it is the season of Christmas. Maybe Santa will bring little Megsie everything her wicked grasping two-sizes-too-small heart desires? Santa only gives gifts to the good little girls and boys. The Sussexes do not qualify. Santa does not believe they are 'kind'. He calls bollocks on that. As do we.
She pitches the ideas, while he struggles to work out how to pitch a tent.
I don't know. I don't think most of those people that invest in the large plastic surgery procedures desperately seeking youth look better. They look like plastic people with no expression/face movement. It isn't an attractive look, IMO, and the individuality of their faces get erased.
WB,
She pitches the ideas, while he struggles to work out how to pitch a tent.
All this trouble started for Harry with the pitching of the proverbial tent. As for pitching *actual* tents, Haz always had a retinue of servants to do that for him. The poor lamb is, I believe, very low functioning out of his Prince bubble. Probably doesn't even know how to use a cashpoint machine (no worries, Meg sure does.) That bizarre picture of him in Vancouver Island this time last year picking up a bag of sandwiches was a suspiciously papped looking encounter. I suppose carrying a bag of fast food is within his capabilities, and he might even be able to handle the transaction at the counter.
But lead a production company? Or any company? Or string three sentences together without his wife giving him cue cards? Ha.
Wonder if Harry rues the day when Little Harry pitched that tent. He is in a hell of his own making.
I used to think it was just the blond eyebrows that gave Harry a perpetually angry expression. But it's not just the eyebrows. What a tool.
I read her Wikipedia when I first heard her name. Every word has been changed.
By the way, his blog site does more research than the New York Times, The Guardian, Telegraph, People(!) and every other media. Plus the commenters are fluent in the Queen’s English. I envy the wit and research. AnT, WBBM, Hikari, Girl With a Hat, Swamp Woman, on and on, thank you. And I always laugh with the genius of Magatha Mistie. MM, your wit is so quick, you are another Robin Williams, but on paper.
There are 20 people involved and most seem to be filmmakers involved in making nature/wildlife documentaries. Split between 20 people, the cost of maintaining a website is not prohibitive.
They are linked to 80 NGOs working in conservation in some way, and any donations go straight to the NGO.
The documentaries they make would be funded by big donors, and this is a way that those NGOs can get an audience.
Harry's involvement is, in my opinion, problematic because he is controversial and an environmental hypocrite. But, he does still hold positions in African NGOs and using him was actually a clever way to get noticed.
The media keep calling WaterBear a Netflix-type streaming service. It is not. WaterBear is free to watch. Netflix is not. Perhaps that was a plug for Netflix from Harry as he has some kind of deal with them.
`In 1989 Chouinard Equipment was forced into bankruptcy after a series of suits filed by injured climbers who claimed "failure to warn."'
https://www.forbes.com/sites/christophersteiner/2014/09/10/a-fight-for-the-mountaintop-yvon-chouinards-disciple-challenges-patagonia/?sh=479abf697e3c
The allegation, as I heard it, was that there had been a failure to give adequate warning about something that should have been blindingly obvious - that it's not a good idea to unclip from the belay that prevents you falling off a narrow ledge above a long drop...
William and Harry are not the same.
William is second in the line of succession. Unless he dies or abdicates, with every death/abdication of someone above him in the list, he gets closer to being king. Willam was second when he was born and is still second.
Harry is an indirect heir because every birth pushes him further down the list. He was third when he was born and now he is sixth. Of course he can become king, but it is very unlikely that Charles, William and the three Cambridge children and all children they will have will die/abdicate and thus make Harry king.
Andrew is 8th on the list. When he was born, he was 2nd. Princess Margaret's two children are 21st and 24th on the list. When they were born, they were 5th and 6th.
Harry was well aware of his position as an indirect heir when he met Meghan. He also believed that he needed popularity and attention to achieve anything in his life, and that his time for that was limited (and that was before boss baby Louis).
...
I came across a lip reading of what they said in the car when they left that military gala they attended on their farewell tour. She wore that red dress and there is a pic of them in the car, leaving, with him looking miserable and her looking furious. To paraphrase, he said something like 'That's it ... it's all over ... I am finished' and she said something like 'No, we can do this'.
If Archie does have this inherited eye problem, I would think the Markles, like Sophie Wessex, could do much more to remove this “stigma” go away, and perhaps people would not make terrible, nasty as shit remarks in DM about Lady Louise, who almost died at birth, and has undergone eye surgeries for years. There is a real stigma about wandering eye, divergent strabismus, “squints” and their like. Doctors cannot fix everything at once. Countess Sophie has done much with patronage’s of eye charities, as Princess Eugenie is now volunteering her time on removing the stigma of scoliosis (she is not a working royal, and both ladies’ charities do not give them, royals, any payment.
MM was ejected from the polo match in 2017 so you can understand William's dismay when Harry proposed to MM.
"Harry Markle has a new post revealing the way WaterBear makes money (by latching onto your data if you visit the site, sharing the data with many organizations and basically internet stalking you forever to keep using you). Funny way for the Privacy Pirate to make his rent money."
Wasn't there some other thing like this they posted on the now-defunct Sussex Royal instagram? Or was it the same thing. It seems familiar...maybe i am thinking of Archewell, weren't they doing something with your email address when you signed up for notifications or some such?
Clearing out a Christmas tree lot for private use?
I think Charles used to go into shops after closing, if he went in a shop, so there would not be a crowd. of course one of his staff would phone ahead to set it up.
I would like to see if MM actually would draw a crowd, even once.
POSTED ON27 07 2020
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Looks like the Katie Holloway article was written in July, so apparently not a strike out at BG.
I'm not a Duchess, but I managed to have a beautiful Noble Fir delivered to my home from a lovely garden store near my home.
As a former retail business owner, I would have cheerily invited them to show up before or after hours for 15 minutes if it was really necessary. Closing a small business so these dum-dums can act like big shots is not very woke. Very Rude!
Meghan has exactly the same condition in the eye on the same side as Archie though her condition isn't as strong as his.
Hers is more subtle and only looks marginally cross-eyed if you notice at all.
However, if you google the christening photos where both are looking straight at the camera with Archie on Meghan's lap, their mutual lazy eyes jump out at you. Archie's much stronger than Meghan. That was the first time i noticed that Meghan had the same lazy eye as her son though to a lesser degree.
Once you see it, you can't unsee it. No matter how she tries to avoid front face photography. It jumps out at you immediately.
All this to say that Archie inherited this condition from his mother.
And i'm not the only one to notice both their lazy eye. If you look at the artwork of Meghan drawn for Gary Janetti's upcoming animation comedy inspired by George and the Windsors, Meghan is drawn with a lazy eye.
They didn't have the lot "closed" for them. According to the article their "agent" (?) called and asked for times when the lot was not usually busy.
Me thinks even the Harkles now know that they are not "special" enough to demand stores close nor can they withstand more negative stories regarding their diva behavior.
I believe their site auto-enrolled you as a follower if you just clicked on, and Archewell “shares” your data, via lists.
https://twitter.com/hrrysgreysuit?lang=en
Haha, it is very entertaining, esp the Doria's Money, Money, Money video.
Also, there are some clips of the Woke's trail-walking with doll and dogs that were not publisized. Can clearly see at the beginning of the video that one of the "security" was hatless in the first shot, close-up and put on a hat later in the further shot. The other security was wearing a red hat and towards the end of the video, at the close-up, can see that the red hat is off and he has something like a brown skullcap on. Truly weird.
The close up of Megain smiling widely while the security are totally uninterested in the photographer suggests that not only was this an arranged set-up, those are not genuine security guards - at least not provided by the UK or Canada forces.
I rate this a must watch. Sure to leave a smirk on your face:
https://www.dailysquib.co.uk/world/38976-world-mental-health-day-all-about-me-me-me.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true
WaterBear Network MD Victor Eckard outlines their long term for profit scheme. They are partnered with Roku, as one opportunity, searching targets and markets. They have partnerships to sell travel packages to the places they will cover in their eco documentaries. They will be going into product merchandising as well, and are planning a pay-per-view launch.
Thus free soft launch is about info gathering. They will adjust content based on what people want to watch. They say (for PR halos, I assume) it was designed to be a free service but will introduce the TVOD element by the end of the year. They have brand partnerships.
So,
Money, money, money, while wearing their nonprofit woke halos. Nothing new here. They will claw in the cash while they last, like any other network. None of these people are out saving wildlife. They are in offices, with titles and spreadsheets, climbing. It will last while it can and morph with their data and their profit goals. Even the US Discovery channel had to turn to reality shows to survive. As they capture subscriber data, they will morph.
See: tbivision.com, “Exclusive: WaterBear NetworkMD Victor Eckard details nature streamer’s launch plans.”
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How stupid does she think we are.(don’t answer that).......she was smiling at the gunman! Um, I mean, smiling at the photographer!!!!!!
I was actually thinking about that event yesterday and I think it proves Yankee Wally's theory that they were thrown out of the BRF, and that Megxit is just a cover story to allow them to keep their dignity. And the reason they were thrown out was the fake pregnancy.
I think that Meghan prancing around with that fake doll as Archie was a F.U. to the Queen for throwing her out.
They got rushed into doing it when they did because a journalist had gotten wind of it and was going to publish the story about it.
But if that hadn't happened, how long do you think they would have waited to publish it?
So what do you think of the lastest headline in the DM, Netflix is trolling the royal family with the new documentary re Diana.
Do you think the RF is seriously worried about the impact this will have on Charles, Camilla, and others or do you think this is more of a hint toward Drip and Drop re their association with Netflix?
@SwampWoman. YUM! Throw in some fried catfish with that order! So, glad I do not live in California. But, it must be wonderful though. Does this mean we are going to see a LOT more celebs stuck in their mansions doing Zoom, or perhaps they have all left for their second homes outside Hotel California.