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Last Big Push or More Major Fireworks to come?

Their MO has always been one offs or hit and run type flashy photo ops and then crickets into the night style.  That we know.

But they seem to be having longer and longer time periods between these PR moments.  Is this because they are finding less and less organizations willing to take the little offered by them?  Or is it that they are working behind the scenes to pull together something for their commitments to Netflix or Spotify as in their backs are up against the wall contractually?

And what about the idea of people being paid by Sunshine? Is it a bunt to deceive or could it be real?  Or a little of both?  If is it not real, is there a way they could use it to swing people to their version of their truth without long term fallout?


Comments

abbyh said…
Seemed like a good time for a new topic.
I definitely think there are paid bots and the like. Scabies for one has to be on the payroll. 🤨

Whether the Yankee Wally find is a set-up or evidence there was a slip up with Maggots flying monkeys, I’m a bit on the fence with. 😉

I’m forever hopeful that things are are massively failing and their backs are up against the wall with their so called Spotify and Netflix deals. 🤨
Elskainga said…
@Raspberry Ruffle

I agree with you regarding paid bots at which SS agency excels. Realizing Twitter, Facebook, even Netflix like to censor criticism of independent thinkers, Yankee Wally has been targeted, perhaps an easy target, but she has rights as well on social platforms. Omid Scabies is obviously a paid cheerleader so it is not an unreasonable stretch to say the S Squad are paid bots. If YW has primary evidence, then it’s about time the *s are bared for having little to no support.

It is telling that Oprah has moved on with this pair of fakers; her reputation as a competent interviewer was damaged. Nothing from megagossiper Gail King , including the *s NYC trip. Both ladies are experienced and professional enough to regroup and block communication / gaslighting from the Suxesses. Oprah is hoping her next interview with Adele will boost her popularity. It is rumored that Adele’s interview will cost Oprah’s network a few million. At least she is a talented singer with new songs to promote and is very down to earth.
The 6s said that they were not paid for the Oprah interview, so how were they paid because the love of money is their idol?

P.S. I went on a website with lots of photos of Doria and in every single one she looked stoned.
Elsbeth1847 said…
Well a couple of thoughts:

If the stans are being paid, then all money they receive is reportable and therefore taxable. If it is above $600, they should have received a 1099.

Article in the DM about a proposed trip to America next year (possible mentioned at Earthshot for the next location). It mentions that it is also to repair the image of Prince William and Katherine.

Comments are running that the news may be from CA because people are questioning the need of image repair (we don't have royalty, many of us saw through the interview for what it was, so on) and that it means that many articles will come out about apologies received, meetings and so on leading up to the actual event and after.
Elsbeth1847 said…
Oh, and someone called her Wallis Yoko.
Enbrethiliel said…
I'm sure the Harkles would love more fireworks, but they can't seem to afford anything any longer.

If they were hoping to attract new backers in New York, then they got a rude awakening. The ethical *anking thing was the best they could do. Had they landed a better deal, we would have heard about it by now.

They've just offended too many people on the way up to expect any help on the way down. There has been only silence from Tyler Perry, the Fosters, the Beckhams, the Ohanians, the Legends (if they still count), Kamala Harris, James Corden, and even Oprah Winfrey. Our first clue that they are now friendless was that ridiculous article about Harry hanging out with "anonymous tech billionaires." The Harkles couldn't name drop real celebrities any longer, so they had to make up a completely fictional group of people!
OKay said…
Elskainga said...

It is telling that Oprah has moved on with this pair of fakers; her reputation as a competent interviewer was damaged.
________________
Many of us don't believe Oprah ever had any such reputation. She's an entertainment reporter at best; no one expects hard-hitting news from the likes of her.
Enbrethiliel said…
@Elskainga
Oprah is hoping her next interview with Adele will boost her popularity. It is rumored that Adele’s interview will cost Oprah’s network a few million. At least she is a talented singer with new songs to promote and is very down to earth.

Oprah is reminding me a little of the Harkles here -- desperately grasping at the next "big thing" that will resurrect her former glory, not realizing that she has blown too many chances since then. I think she chose Adele in the hope that they'd recreate the kind of chemistry she once had with Celine Dion. But this references the past rather than the present.

Those who pay closer attention to pop culture may correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Adele's biggest hits are also behind her. I had to look up the title of her most recent single, and I wasn't wowed at all while listening to it. She was at her peak during the Skyfall and Hello years. Her new song is considered a comeback, but it doesn't seem to be as successful as anticipated. Adele will remain greatly respected for years to come, but I don't know if she's "hot" enough today to get people tuning into geriatric Oprah.
Mel said…
She's an entertainment reporter at best; no one expects hard-hitting news from the likes of her.
-----

True. But it didn't do Oprah any favors, either. Took her down a notch.
Enbrethiliel said…
@Elsbeth1847
Oh, and someone called her Wallis Yoko.

Wouldn't Wallis Ono be better? Or Yoko Simpson?

My favorite take on the Yoko theme was Woko Ono. How about Woko Simpson?
Fifi LaRue said…
I think the Harkles' backs are up against the wall with the Netflix deal. The wife future faked with Netflix, and now they have to deliver based on a legal contract. Their content, filmed and recorded surreptitiously in Harlem, will be unusable. It is simply not legal to film minors, (poor, black, disadvantaged) without consent, for profit.

Harry acting the fool at the Diana statue unveiling, the demand for a christening for the "baby" at Windsor were all plays to get more film.

All their good publicity is bought and paid for. They have been ghosted by all celebrities with whom they've been in contact.
Girl with a Hat said…
@Fifi LaRue, I have dozens of ideas she could use for Netflix but she's going to have to come up with them on her own.
Mel said…
Fifi LaRue said...
I think the Harkles' backs are up against the wall with the Netflix deal. The wife future faked with Netflix, and now they have to deliver based on a legal contract. 
-----

I think so, too. Gonna be interesting to see how they get out of the Netflix deal.

It doesn't really look good for Netflix that they got scammed by the Harkles, either?

So probably some face-saving story for both sides?

Although I can't say how much I would like to see the Harkles fail in the most spectacular public way possible.

Snarkyatherbest said…
I have a thought about the Sussex letter to Congress. It was bold, especially using the big letter head and tiny font on the body of the letter. I think the point of that was for Netflix and for the BRF - for the BRF "see what I can do; pay me to stop or i dare you to strip the titles" Brf? yawn what? who? Netflix - think about the behind the scene footage - one sided conversation on the telephone; we hear 6s wife "what did you call me; that is so raciss? you are pulling titles because I am black? I cant believe it?" gives a lift to the footage and the viewership. BRF still yawns and doesnt take the bait That whole letter was borne out of desperation. Keep it coming. its so much fun!
Elskainga said…
The Netflix contract may be a one and done. Pearl will be another vanity project for * and may burn another bridge going to Uncles Elton and David F. I haven’t heard much hype re: the Invictus Games filming that Harry will “produce” for Netflix.
Spotify is one and done; all their efforts towards that podcast almost a year ago and Whale Songs rated higher.

Harry’s upcoming book is ghost written thus will be legible and will sell, but at 37 yo, what else does he have to say.
Tom Bowers’s book will overshadow Harry’s book.

Chimpo position at BetterUp means he checks in once a month and the investment in Ethic is interesting. An investment group whose main goal is to make lots of money for clients with a woke window dressing schtick. They may actually make some $$$ from this investment it’s been reported but their word salad on financial responsibility is laughable. They are invested to make $$$$$.
Humor Me said…
I had a good chuckle at the publically printed letter to the Democratic leaders from MM - poor, little young adult, making her way at the salad bar. What a comedown it must have been from her days at the private school, then Northwestern, then that ? 6 month stint in the Argentina Embassy. And now - living in her mansion, she too, wants to make it better for the people who are ......poor. Because - she knows.
And to get their attention, she (gasp) used her title! Becuase - she IS important, and not just anyone, especially in her own mind.
Will there be a lawsuit next at just WHO dared to publish that letter from a constituent to a congress person. My privacy was invaded once again - and I need more security!! The horrors. (sarcasm intended).
Girl with a Hat said…
CDAN says that * met with the California Governor to discuss her political ambitions.

https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2021/10/blind-item-7_21.html#disqus_thread
Enbrethiliel said…
I can't wait for the letter to Congress to be hyped as much as the Dove soap letter to Procter & Gamble.

Oh, wait. Does * have enough in the PR budget for that? And I'm not just asking above-the-table PR. This is the sort of thing you need the Sussex Squad for, and if those angry tweets about delayed payments are real, * won't be able to count on them this time around.
Este said…
I really hope Meghan is deluded enough to believe she has a political career. Oh please let this be true because she has no support in America and it's going to be a massive wake up call for the delusional duchess. Her run for governor or President would be like Marianne Williamson's run only Marianne did built up a base of devotees based on decades of spiritual self-helpy mumbo jumbo. And the woke crowd is a dog eat parakeet world and I've no doubt there are plenty there who already resent Meghan for being too light skinned with no political record. Meghan has only been able to look as good in the press because she's never had to face the public. When she runs for office, all that changes and she'll be seen for the over-reaching, self-important joke that she is.
Maneki Neko said…
So * had to eat at salad bars. Couldn't she cook basic food? And the poor child was waiting tables at the age of 13. I checked and to wait at tables the minimum legal age to work is 14 in California - although it may have been lower then? Get the violins out 🎻 And what is the point of their letter? To be in the news? To remind us she's 'a mom'?

Re Netflix, what if the 6s can't fulfil their obligations? Will they have to repay the advance they were given?
Girl with a Hat said…
@Maneki Neko,

we considered friends who could get part time jobs waiting tables at 13 or 14 to be lucky. The rest of us had to babysit to make pocket money and that didn't pay very well.
The Letter
"mom" "kids" "bucks" "as ever"
The sophistication of it
Elskainga said…
According 2taz video
14:47 in length (First ~two minutes, she talks about her anniversary.)

She talks about *’s letter to Congress written on Duke and Duchess of Sussex office stationery which is a breach of Royal protocol, a breach of Megxit terms, and there may be retribution from BP/ greysuits.

Also, Taz mentioned that * wrote I/me in the letter 14 times.
If * is really interested in going into politics, she’ll have to drop the Royal title. Well, I can’t see that happening so just more cage rattling from Monteshito.
Elskainga said…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhnTniUWHok

Sorry, forgot the link🤭
Magatha Mistie said…

As ever,
Signature Tossed Salad
“Ship to Shore”
Dressing optional 😬
HappyDays said…
I can easily see Sunshine Sachs buying bots and paying people to post sycophantic comments about Meghan and Handbag Harry.

Meghan allegedly bot followers for The Tig prior to Harry. She needed to be able to craft the facade for him of being a global philanthropist/activist/humanitarian, successful actress, and online influencer to snag Harry.

However, she was found to be allegedly purchasing followers for The Tig. See this article in the Canadian magazine Macleans:

She wasn’t that big of an influencer. She was caught buying followers, which is very common among people trying to make themselves more popular than they truly are.

https://www.macleans.ca/royalty/meghan-markles-twitter-bot-network-the-whole-thing-is-a-bit-insane/
Girl with a Hat said…
Danja Zone had an interesting video today. She talks about her cancer and losing her hair for the first part, but afterwards, about halfway through, she talks about how * is stalking all sorts of celebrities and they are talking about her as someone to avoid. Ashli mentions Angelina Jolie, Amal Clooney and someone else, I forget.

I can see * doing this. I can see that when she thinks you can be of use to her, she hangs on like a barnacle on a sperm whale.
HappyDays said…
Girl with a Hat said…
Danja Zone had an interesting video today. She talks about her cancer and losing her hair for the first part, but afterwards, about halfway through, she talks about how * is stalking all sorts of celebrities and they are talking about her as someone to avoid. Ashli mentions Angelina Jolie, Amal Clooney and someone else, I forget.

I can see * doing this. I can see that when she thinks you can be of use to her, she hangs on like a barnacle on a sperm whale.

@GWAH: You are likely right about TBW stalking other celebrities to attempt to network. In a way, that’s partly what the 40 at 40 mentoring project was. She was attempting to buddy up with a wide circle of people while also attempting to portray herself as a caring humanitarian.

There was also a blind item as I recall, either on Crazy Days and Nights or Blind Gossip shortly after Megxit and her return to California that she tried to meet with Gwyneth Paltrow to discuss her successful lifestyle blog Goop. As I recall, she only got as far as one of GP’s employees at Goop briefly speaking with her. GP isn’t stupid. She must know that Meghan had The Tig, sonwhynis she going to let Meghan pick her brain in order to revive The Tig and compete with Goop.

Also, in the thread previous to this one I mentioned a blind item that said Meghan was attempting to get a meeting with Bill Gates to discuss charitable works and that she was willing to travel to meet with Gates. This was right when it was rumored his marriage was close to a divorce announcement. So she was trying to network with one of the biggest most prominent philanthropists on the planet. The blind said she did not hear from him or any of his people.
Magatha Mistie said…

Mutton dressed as Ham

She’s taking the pish
With her ‘special’ soap dish
Panhandled on surf, ‘n’ turf
As, ever all hot air
Another nothing burger
Indi-gestation, double serve
Birth ‘n’ Furph

Fifi LaRue said…
@GWAH: You must have a great imagination! Cringe is so icky I would not be able to come up with jobs for her.

Enty made a correct assessment at the beginning of her blog: Cringe would have been wildly successful, and extremely popular, at hosting a travel show based on all the counties in the UK. For a while we had "Escape to the Country" on tv here, all about people in the UK wanting to relocate from busy cities to the bucolic counties. Markle should have hired a screen writer to write her all kinds of scenerios to plan her life after marriage to Dumbo. But no, she knew better.

FWIW: British Astrologer Marjorie Orr also stated that Markles' biggest opportunity would have happened in the UK, and the dumb b*tch threw it away with her delusional thoughts of mega stardom in Hollywood.
Maneki Neko said…
@alinor d'aquitaine

The Letter
"mom" "kids" "bucks" "as ever"
The sophistication of it
----------
Quite but this is to appear closer to us peasants.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
There is a good article by Jan Moir in the DM with a send-up of *'s letter. One of the comments is revealing (no surprise there):

no drama please, SB, United States, 7 hours ago

She claimed in her blog that after every dance rehearsal her father would take her to Musso and Frank for a shrimp cocktail. It's a very expensive restaurant. Back then she wanted people to know she was privileged and 'better than you', now her story is 'I was poor like you because I ate at Sizzler'. Her father won the LOTTERY when she was 9 YEARS OLD. He's now bankrupt and of no use to her. This woman is a pathological LIAR. (my emphasis).
Magatha Mistie said…

@Fifi

Nah, her whining voice and false laugh
would put viewers off from the start.
All we’d see would be artsy ‘footage’
of bossy britches striding across
fields in her too big wellies,
complaining about poor peasants
having to live under thatched rooves!
Or her smirking chops peering
poignantly over hedgerows
whilst clacking her gums around
strange place names (must modernize)
Better for all she
“Escaped from the Country” 😉

Magatha Mistie said…

@Maneki

Good old Jan Moir
What’s the difference between
madam and yogurt ?
Culture… 😵‍💫

Maneki Neko said…
@Magatha

Culture 😂. But the culture in yoghurt is good bacteria. TBW is more like a nasty virus.
Magatha Mistie said…

Singalong 🎤
Apologies: Dusty Springfield
The Look of Love

Grass Roots

The look of lies is in her eyes
The look her smirk can’t disguise
She could hardly wait to nab him,
wrap her legs around him
He can’t get away…

The look of spite is on her face
That look so hard, and base
She won’t let go
Ho needs him so…

The look of greed is on her lips
The lips that launched many ships
She joined the queue at Sizzler
After rolling up a Rizla
Munch, munch away
Blowing horn every day…

Magatha Mistie said…

@Maneki

A petrified petri dish 🥺
Enbrethiliel said…
@GWAH
Danja Zone had an interesting video today. She talks about her cancer and losing her hair for the first part, but afterwards, about halfway through, she talks about how * is stalking all sorts of celebrities and they are talking about her as someone to avoid. Ashli mentions Angelina Jolie, Amal Clooney and someone else, I forget.

I'm afraid I've been skeptical of Danja Zone ever since Ashlii "revealed" that Harry and Catherine had fallen in love some time after William and Catherine's wedding, that they had had an intense, passionate love affair, and that Catherine had had to see the royal therapist for it. (The "royal therapist" part is my favorite detail. It seems so quaint somehow -- as if the BRF is both with the times and behind the times. But it's also the most plausible part of that video.)

That aside, other sources have said that * stalks celebrities, and we ourselves have deduced it from other evidence. If Amal is one of those she has been reduced to stalking, that's a pretty big demotion from when she got to fly in the Clooneys' private jet.

What's most striking to me here is the idea that other huge narcissists, who climbed to the top of the most narcissistic industry in the world, are talking about going grey rock on a fellow narc. It's that bad.
Enbrethiliel said…
@HappyDays
Also, in the thread previous to this one I mentioned a blind item that said Meghan was attempting to get a meeting with Bill Gates to discuss charitable works and that she was willing to travel to meet with Gates. This was right when it was rumored his marriage was close to a divorce announcement. So she was trying to network with one of the biggest most prominent philanthropists on the planet. The blind said she did not hear from him or any of his people.

What's really funny to me is the timeline. Did she try to do this before or after hiring Catherine St-Laurent, who used to work for Bill and Melinda Gates? St-Laurent left the Gateses right before it was revealed that Bill had been stepping out on Melinda with female employees. It was a smart move, if St-Laurent had been hoping to avoid the fallout. But if * had been hoping that St-Laurent would give her an "in" with the Gates, specifically Bill, then she severely miscalculated with this "strategic" hire. Even if St-Laurent hadn't been engaged in improprieties with Bill, the situation was too heated for her to reach out to him again. I imagine that * explicitly ordered her to do so and that St-Laurent said no to *'s face.
@Magatha

I know now how the King felt about Becket although the knights' response wasn't what the king intended and it backfired spectacularly.


HM has spent the night in hospital but is back at Windsor now. It doesn't look good.

I hope she has the satisfaction of seeing * get her come-uppance before the inevitable happens.

God Save the Queen!
Magatha Mistie said…

Top Scat

Her next step looks like Washington
Desperate now for oxygen
Making her markle on D.C.
Just to prove she’s ‘IT’ T.C.
Henry no balls and Doria Dibble
Appear to be in a bit of trouble
Hard to keep up
with a cat from the alley
Their final stop will be down,
in the valley…


Magatha Mistie said…

@WildBoar

Be careful what you wish for..
Modern martyrs, in the Royle words
of Jim, My Ar*e!!

@ Magatha Exactly!

Much better for her to experience failure in her schemes - as Rabbie Burns didn't say,

`The best-laid plans
Of mice and men
Go up the spout
Every now and again'.

I'd wish total humiliation on her, if only I could be sure it'd register in her mind. I'd like her to feel the total misery and desperation that rage can't improve.
Girl with a Hat said…
Adele chooses Harry over William in her quick survey for Vogue

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10119595/Adele-cheekily-chooses-Prince-William-Prince-Harry-British-themed-quickfire-questions.html

I know a lot of people like Adele but I hate, absolutely loathe the woman and her songs. So, it fits her personality as I see it. I think she is also a liar about her gastric band, and probably an alcoholic or at least has addiction issues. She seems to have rebounded with a man who cheats on her but at least he's the right colour this time (for her), all the while, she is bad mouthing the father of her child. Also, her latest song is auto tuned to the max. That is not her natural voice. And it's whiny and shrill.
LavenderLady said…
Comment on DM: "The Duchess of Sizzler". LOL!
CatEyes said…
Now we know the genesis of Meghan's 'Word Salad' from....Sizzler!

She was so impressed at the salad bar it became her muse.
Girl with a Hat said…
I wonder if * will wade into the gun control issue now with what is happening with Alec Baldwin. I know it was on a movie set, but I wonder if she will try to make it all about her.
Girl with a Hat said…
Does anyone know if Adele is repped by Sunshine Sachs?
Maneki Neko said…
@GWAH

I think Adele's PR company is Satellite414.
Girl with a Hat said…
@Maneki Neko,

Thanks. I couldn't find the info.
snarkyatherbest said…
Girl in the Hat - "well once there was a man with a gun in his belt at the Sizzler salad bar I looked like it wanted to go off probably because he was a cop and I am black but it didnt because climate change altered the humidity in the air so the gun wouldnt discharge. None of this would happen if i was paid to be on maternity leave with my non-existent dolls" Did i cover it all ;-)
Girl with a Hat said…
@snarky,

it's brilliant! thank you.

I think you have to throw in the abuse she suffered at the hands of the BRF, though!
Enbrethiliel said…
Is * really dumb enough to make an enemy of Alec Baldwin while he's down like this? Not to mention that it would be in very bad taste. She'd turn off a lot of other people -- not just Baldwin's friends, but also everyone with a sense of delicadeza.

(I'm no fan of Alec's, but it must be horrible to carry the burden of an innocent person's death. I feel for the family of the dead cinematographer, but also for him.)
JHanoi said…
adele- shes over-rated, like most celebrities, and way over exposed again now that she released her new album.
She planned the timing well though, from a business perspective, to release the album right at the end of the endless covid restrictions, not much ‘new’ has come out.
She also has her whole new look, and personal life to promote. I agree i think there’s a lapband there too… and probably future loose skin surgery to come. i find it kind of icky though to use private convos between you & your son in your music. I hope the kid gets a cut of the profits and writing credits.

on the surface seems total opposite of PH/TBW who seek to ‘not’ profit off their kids and keep them under a blanket their whole childhood. but i think we all know thats a Sussex farce and the kids will be trotted out as soon as it becomes financially beneficial for them.
Enbrethiliel said…
Does anyone here listen to H.G. Tudor? His tea (via Duncan Larcombe) is that the Cambridges will be making a US tour that may be a separate event from the next Earthshot Awards! Should it happen, he says it will be to * the equivalent of a finishing move in the violent video game Mortal Kombat.

This is the link to his latest video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCMmgZ2dDiM

Nota bene: Tudor claims to be a narcissist himself and in this video talks casually of his own psychopathy. He said he decided to start blogging about fellow narcissists as a way to collect fuel and to create a legacy for himself.
D1 said…
Apologises in advance, very off topic.

For WBBM and anyone interested in Iceland.

Fab comedian Ari Eldjarn.
D1 said…
"Pardon my Icelandic"
Girl with a Hat said…
@Enthebreliel, thanks for the info.

Yes, the Cambridges are going on the offensive. Ha ha. I would laugh if their U.S. tour was a huge success in America! I hope they go to L.A. and Hollywood and get snapped on the red carpet with Beyonce!
Girl with a Hat said…
loads of stuff from the Express. First:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1510127/meghan-markle-news-prince-harry-fan-social-posts-queen-elizabeth-ii-hospital

people reported to police after vile tweets regarding coffins after the Queen was admitted to hospital

Girl with a Hat said…
Eddie Redmayne felt sorry for William at Eton:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1510246/prince-william-news-eddie-redmayne-eton-college-graham-norton-show-royal-family-spt
@D1 - Thank you! I hadn't come across Ari before - he's so accurate in what he says!

Old English and Old Norse are related and what makes modern Icelandic so tricky, namely the way absolutely everything has to agree, applies to Old English as well - even verbs, (different forms of verbs if the subject noun is male or female, not just singular or plural).
We've managed to lose that inflection in Modern English.
There's overlap in vocabulary as well, either because words share a common root or they're `loan words'.
SwampWoman said…
Girl with a Hat said...
Adele chooses Harry over William in her quick survey for Vogue

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10119595/Adele-cheekily-chooses-Prince-William-Prince-Harry-British-themed-quickfire-questions.html

I know a lot of people like Adele but I hate, absolutely loathe the woman and her songs. So, it fits her personality as I see it. I think she is also a liar about her gastric band, and probably an alcoholic or at least has addiction issues. She seems to have rebounded with a man who cheats on her but at least he's the right colour this time (for her), all the while, she is bad mouthing the father of her child. Also, her latest song is auto tuned to the max. That is not her natural voice. And it's whiny and shrill.


Hmmm. I saw a review of her latest on YouTube that said that she was incredibly out of tune. Now I may have to watch it. Reviewer is Fil from Wings of Pegasus.
Girl with a Hat said…
@Swamp Woman,

Thank you for that link. I learned a lot from listening to Fil.
SwampWoman said…
@Girl with a Hat, I love to hear his analysis of musicians from an earlier era, too. I had no idea how multi-talented some of those people that he analyzed are.
Girl with a Hat said…
@Swamp Woman,

I think that everyone I come across has something to teach me, if I am willing to listen to what they have to teach. You've taught me a lot, so I am grateful for that. It's thanks to you that I bought horse dewormer even when I thought it was a ridiculous thing to do, but it might have saved my life.

And, I love music. I taught myself to play piano during lockdown so now I can learn the intricacies of applied music theory as well thanks to you.
Magatha Mistie said…

Aside Salad

From the slums of Kensington Palace,
to the dross of Windsor Great Park
Nothing’s ever good enough
for Wazzers raging narc
Forget that measly marriage
Complete with manky carriage
It’s all our fault, we did her wrong,
an apology is due
All Nobgoblin really craved,
was a Sizzler salad, no queue

Magatha Mistie said…

@GWAH

I can imagine William being a
target at rugby.
Hard game, even harder when
you’re pinpointed at every match.
Poor bugger!!

I’m impressed with your piano playing.

Magatha Mistie said…

Party Games

So her latest mission
To cling to her position
Was a missive to her favoured party
Her calls for inclusive
Was rather exclusive
Only one party privy to her parley

Magatha Mistie said…

Sorry, when I gets the urge,
I needs to purge!!

Apologies:
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe

Big Foot Shuffle

There was an old woman,
feet too big for her shoe
Had a couple of children,
where from, no-one knew
She hid them away,
all night and all day
Hoping that somehow
she could merch,
make ‘em pay

Enbrethiliel said…
@GWAH

You're welcome! I have so much schadenfreude in advance, at the thought of a Cambridge tour of the US!
Girl with a Hat said…
@Magatha,

I just know a few songs but I am learning! I enjoy it, and that's what counts.

@Enbrethiliel, LOL.
Girl with a Hat said…
William, Catherine and their 3 children photographed at airport on way to vacation

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1510428/prince-george-princess-charlote-prince-louis-lates-pictures-heathrow-kate-middleton

I wish they would stop travelling together.
Elsbeth1847 said…
OOO la la

French Vogue is in an uproar over the push to bring American woke values to the magazine. Apparently not enough non-white faces on the celebrating a century of Vogue Paris so there was a shuffle in editors.

What is also intriguing is the comment that Conde Naste is going the way of online influencers and SJW. The push will be downward in all their other magazines apparently.

I am not convinced that influencer lifestyle is a good long term option all around despite all the people announcing that they are going to do this. I think a few will be raking in the big bucks but I suspect there is a fair amount of turnover and thus a constant shifting of followers and support. Most probably will not be all that successful but more people are throwing themselves in every day. The numbers work against you.

And what do you do once you no longer are a leading edge? Or worse, get really no where? When do you give up that dream? What is your encore and at a fairly young age? Do you continue to chase the pinnacle or do you allow yourself to settle for a more traditional job with benefits?

I think of it as a flash in the pan not unlike the time pomegranate juice in cooking was everywhere. I remember a magazine which worked it into most side dishes and basted on the turkey. You and everyone else at the table would have to not just love it but be willing to not have the traditional dishes that they eat every year at this time.

D1 said…
Sorry OT

@WBBM

Re Ari,

He was also very accurate about the Scandinavians lingo, we were laughing and nodding at the same time.
@D1

Yes. I like David Aaronovitch's comment in his book `Paddling to Jerusalem' where he observes IIRC that overheard Norwegian conversations sound like `Hurdle-snurdle, hurdle-snurdle...'
LavenderLady said…
Growing up on $4.99 Sizzler salad bar...AND lunch at a Hollywood icon https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10119695/Growing-4-99-Sizzler-salad-bar-lunch-Hollywood-icon.html?ito=native_share_article-masthead

This is pure gold...
Maneki Neko said…
@LavenderLady

Re * lunching at Musso & Frank Grill, I mentioned yesterday a comment in the DM saying the same. This was from an American commenter - obviously, * is too stupid to remember what she's said so her lies catch up with her.
LavenderLady said…
@Maneki,
Indeed. Like Lady C says, you can't make it up.
Enbrethiliel said…
"You can't make it up" is also, ironically, excellent advice for *.

I wonder how many mainstream people have started asking: "If she makes up stories about her childhood, did she also make up those stories about the BRF?"
LavenderLady said…
@Enbre said,
"You can't make it up" is also, ironically, excellent advice for *.

I wonder how many mainstream people have started asking: "If she makes up stories about her childhood, did she also make up those stories about the BRF?"

____

Well yes, in TBWs case yes she can make it up and does make it up. In Lady C's latest, she fake whines about "my version of the truth"...waa waa (imitating the Duchess of Sizzler which is always hilarious).

To the rest of us that are not disordered, it's so astoundingly crazy it leads people to exclaim "you can't make it up"...

I think logical people will come to what you ask; what else is she fabricating?
Girl with a Hat said…
People who make up stories to tell you don't have much respect for you, I always thought.
SwampWoman said…
Blogger Girl with a Hat said...
William, Catherine and their 3 children photographed at airport on way to vacation

https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1510428/prince-george-princess-charlote-prince-louis-lates-pictures-heathrow-kate-middleton

I wish they would stop travelling together.


So do I, and I'm just an uncouth colonist!
Mel said…
I wish whoever is leaking their private whereabouts would just stop.
SwampWoman said…
Mel said...
I wish whoever is leaking their private whereabouts would just stop.


I think our phones track us in real time. I think we would be very surprised at how under surveillance we all are.
Magatha Mistie said…

Good Julie Burchill article
in DM.
Yep - if your phone's on, `they' know where you are. Also Google knows more about you than you do, I gather.
Magatha Mistie said…

Munted and Dunted

Will she or won’t she
we all want to know
Has she lined up
the next sucker blow
Has to be a billionaire
No more paupers
like ginger ex spare
No money in it
all service, and care
In her race to be Top Dog
She’ll end up spilling Tig
on her blog…



Elskainga said…
Blind Item #7 on CDAN

This foreign born A list celebrity is going to allege in a book that his father enabled a molester of the celebrity and did nothing to stop him from molesting others.


All the commenters ,except one, have guessed Harry/PC. Read the comments as the majority have a negative opinion of Harry and if a true blind, will have his titles removed by Parliament or a terrible accidental death or both.


https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2021/10/blind-item-7_01654276697.html#disqus_thread


Magatha Mistie said…

@Elskainga

Interesting, could be Wazzer?
Comments veering towards
Jimmy Savile, I’m more inclined
towards Laurens van der Post.
As for ‘Enabling’
put the pipe down Henry

Shaggy said…
This is a must-read....

Meghan Markle letter to Pelosi and Schumer backing paid leave exposes a class divide
The U.K.’s ingrained class system is a large part of why Britons have never embraced the Duchess of Sussex.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/culture-lifestyle/meghan-markle-letter-pelosi-schumer-backing-paid-leave-exposes-class-d-rcna3644
SwampWoman said…
Most people probably (?) realize that Harry has no means to earn money to keep him in the lifestyle to which he is accustomed ("money for nothing, and his chicks for free") EXCEPT by trashing the family who no longer monetarily support him. Apparently he didn't really want "freedom"; he wanted his family to continue to support his wastrel lifestyle and shut up about his conduct and appearance.

What next, Harry? After 'writing' a book that will alienate the rest of your family not already alienated forever, how are you planning to survive? You've already run through a helluva lot more money than you are likely to get from a book, and your wife is planning on taking most of it.
O/T sort of...

Our less-than-favourite authoress is featured in this item from the Grauniad:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/24/hilary-mantel-tells-a-great-tale-but-ruined-abbeys-tell-a-different-one-says-expert

It's an interesting piece reflecting on one aspect of English history - namely the Dissolution of the Monasteries and how Mantel is regurgitating Tudor propaganda. In many ways, the loss of the monasteries was a Bad Thing, as `1066 and All That' might have said.

Mantel is photographed posing on Budleigh Salterton Beach - remind me of the Scottish Widows ads, or even the poster for the film of `The French Lieutenant's Woman' - if anybody else can remember them.
OKay said…
Julie Burchill is a nasty individual. Good on her for making the points she has, but I still neither like nor trust her.
Girl with a Hat said…
@SWamp Woman,

* also wanted to accuse her father of things he wasn't guilty of. I remember Lady C saying on more than a few occasions that * wanted to accuse her father "of the worst thing a father can do". * had her friends hint at it when they spoke to Lady C, ostensibly when Lady C was writing her book about the 6's.
Fifi LaRue said…
IMO both of them will accuse family members of sexual abuse. Harry will accuse someone in his family, and the b*tch wife is going to accuse her father (after he passes). It will be their next step to get attention, to write opinion pieces, to go on talk shows, to get more press. They will stop at nothing.
SwampWoman said…
Warning! Ringing leper bell! Off Topic! Unclean, Unclean!

@Wild Boar Battle-maid, not a Catholic here. I've always regarded the monasteries and abbeys as small islands of knowledge in a sea of ignorance such that when bad times of war, famine and pestilence came (and they always did), civilization wouldn't have to claw its way back out of the very bottom of the mire.

I was talking to an acquaintance that is my age a few days ago. We both expressed concern about how many people do not possess even one book. We were also concerned that so many do not possess any historical knowledge whatsoever.
Enbrethiliel said…
@SwampWoman
Most people probably (?) realize that Harry has no means to earn money to keep him in the lifestyle to which he is accustomed ("money for nothing, and his chicks for free") EXCEPT by trashing the family who no longer monetarily support him.

I had actually liked one of the "leaked" plans for his book -- a memoir on his years in the military. As someone who is fed up hearing about his childhood (and well, about his mother), I thought that shifting the focus to a part of his life that hasn't been talked to death would be really interesting. It would also be an organic way to start salvaging what's left of his personal brand. Yes, most of the Hero Harry stuff was fake anyway; but it was something he did before * came into his life.

And now that I've typed that, I think I know one likely reason why that proposed plan got nixed. Isn't the current narrative that he didn't start truly living until St. * saved him?

But since her brand is trashing the BRF at every opportunity, that's becoming his brand now, too. He's not allowed to have anything that is just his own.

@Girl with a Hat
* also wanted to accuse her father of things he wasn't guilty of. I remember Lady C saying on more than a few occasions that * wanted to accuse her father "of the worst thing a father can do".

Ooooh, well remembered! I remember some Tumblr bloggers speculating that she had told Harry that, which is why he refused to meet Thomas. I do wonder why she has held back from making it public. She doesn't seem to care about all the other lies she tells. Maybe she was hoping he'd die of a stress-related heart attack first, then she could reveal it without him being able to defend himself.

The way things are going, it looks as if Prince Charles may die of a stress-related heart attack first. (Was it Lady C or River who said that he is currently more stressed than any septuagenarian should be?)
SwampWoman said…
@Girl with a Hat, @Fifi LaRue, I wish that you were wrong about the two of them willing to absolutely trash the reputations of their family members for money but, sadly, I don't think that you are.

They have nothing else to offer.
JHanoi said…
CDAN blind- #7

so if that is JH, Enty is often not clear. is he saying PA molested him(JH) and PC has enabled PA’s bad behaviour over the years?

I dont buy its JH. PA and his family seems to have sympathized with JH’s situation … at least more so than most of the BRF.
I’ve only seen Randy Andy linked and randy with women/females. doesnt mean he wasnt playing all sides, but I hadnt seen rumors like that. JH and PA have never seemed particularly close now or when JH was a kid and didnt seem to spend much time together.
but JH was close to Bea and Euge so maybe there were sleepovers?

I dont see see how PC ‘enabled’ molesting behaviour. does JH mean with himself or others?
he wasn’t ‘king’ and in a position to do alot about it. HM decided what role or postion everyone played in the pecking order. more recently PC and now PW are consulted on things contributing to future of the monarchy .

very confusing if it is JH. Enty is often very confusing.
Enbrethiliel said…
@Fifi LaRue
IMO both of them will accuse family members of sexual abuse.

If she's waiting for Thomas to die, I hope he has another decade left in him.

She's already insufferable as Woko Ono, whether she's complaining about "male, pale, stale" universities in the UK, babbling about vaccines in New York, or preaching about reducing our carbon footprints from the cabin of Uncle Elton's private jet. Imagine what will happen when she enters her next "incarnation" of sexual abuse survivor. She can no longer call her critics racist; will she soon be able to call them misogynist enablers of abusers?

I had thought her next "skin," after she molted out of her California Girl identity, would be Luxury Lobbyist . . . but that attempt seems to have flopped horrendously. (Or depending on how you see it, flopped wonderfully!) So she might have to start her Strong SA Survivor phase earlier than scheduled. Maybe she'll allege that someone in Hollywood abused her, too, and have people speculating about directors, producers, et. al. the way they speculated about which BRF member wanted to have conversations about how dark Fauxrchie would potentially be.

But whom would she tell this new story? Katie Couric is finished after the former nanny's nuclear bomb -- and Oprah and Gayle don't seem to want anything more to do with *. Hey, maybe Martin Bashir will be available!
Enbrethiliel said…
@JHanoi

I think the blind is alluding to Jimmy Savile, a television presenter who abused hundreds of women and children, and who was a friend of Prince Charles's.
Girl with a Hat said…
Speaking of Oprah, did anyone read how Adele is having problems finding A listers who will talk to Oprah for a special on Adele? does that speak to Adele or Oprah's likability?
abbyh said…
Swampwoman - re historical knowledge

Or limited to fictionalized versions of real events is that is the way it really happened - the conversations, what they are watching is not filtered through some historian or writer's world view.

As for the possible accusations of molestation, it seems kind of funny that something like that would not have surfaced before somewhere. Why not at the interview? It would have been a much more full frontal attack - making it harder to defend.

thoughts about PC's health? what about the abrupt changes being made about HM's schedule?

SwampWoman said…
Enbrethiliel said: I had actually liked one of the "leaked" plans for his book -- a memoir on his years in the military. As someone who is fed up hearing about his childhood (and well, about his mother), I thought that shifting the focus to a part of his life that hasn't been talked to death would be really interesting. It would also be an organic way to start salvaging what's left of his personal brand. Yes, most of the Hero Harry stuff was fake anyway; but it was something he did before * came into his life.

And now that I've typed that, I think I know one likely reason why that proposed plan got nixed. Isn't the current narrative that he didn't start truly living until St. * saved him?

But since her brand is trashing the BRF at every opportunity, that's becoming his brand now, too. He's not allowed to have anything that is just his own.


I think the more likely explanation is that his military book would reach a *very* small audience and was thus deemed not viable by publishers. I look at it from my perspective as a former service member. Would I want to read the military adventures of a spoiled, protected, tantrum-throwing princeling? Nah, but I was in the (US) military. I can see where people in the UK military might want to read it for comic relief. Husband was a bit more, err, profanely adamant (yeah, that's a good explanation) about not reading it.

He could probably self-publish it as a Kindle book, but I'm not sure that his ego could take not having a coffee-table display book.
Enbrethiliel said…
@GWAH
Speaking of Oprah, did anyone read how Adele is having problems finding A listers who will talk to Oprah for a special on Adele? does that speak to Adele or Oprah's likability?

Why not both of them?

Birds of a feather flock together. Oprah and the Harkles were both washed up by the time they collaborated. The Harkles were even more in the toilet when they were publicly linked to the beleaguered Guthy-Renker. Now we see that Adele, for all her legitimate achievements, may be on her own downward trajectory. And perhaps she, too, made too many enemies on her way up for anyone to cut her a break on her way down. Even if A-listers didn't show up for her, you'd think songwriters and producers with whom she has worked would love to talk about sharing the creative process with her. They may not be household names themselves, but they've won awards, created some hits, and still profit off of significant royalties.
Enbrethiliel said…
@Abbyh
As for the possible accusations of molestation, it seems kind of funny that something like that would not have surfaced before somewhere. Why not at the interview? It would have been a much more full frontal attack - making it harder to defend.

That's a damning point, to be sure. Especially since Harry had brought up "genetic pain" beforehand. But it would have been too much of a distraction from the racism narrative that * was peddling.

Of course, this is all assuming that they were thinking logically and strategically. Another possibility is that it had not yet occurred to * to share her "survivor of sexual abuse" status with Harry. Or maybe they had intended to say that, but even that was too much for Oprah to risk her brand on. If (when?) they finally say it, Oprah will be far, far away from the wreckage, washing her hands of them.
SwampWoman said…
Enbrethiliel said...
@JHanoi

I think the blind is alluding to Jimmy Savile, a television presenter who abused hundreds of women and children, and who was a friend of Prince Charles's.


Now, wouldn't THAT be interesting. Is that supposed to have been after Diana's death, or before? Perhaps he'll throw both parents, living AND deceased, under the bus! And, of course, William failed to protect him (volume 2), and his grandparents failed to protect him (volume 3), and his aunts and uncles failed to protect him (volume 4), and his friends' parents failed to protect him (volume 5) and eventually we'll get to who did not protect him from *.

I'm not saying that Prince Charles was an engaged or ideal parent, because I don't think he was. I do believe that he loves his children. I think PC was reacting to his (more authoritarian) upbringing by being a more hands off parent and it failed spectacularly in Harry's case. I have a hard time believing that he would be passing his child to a friend for the friend's sexual satisfaction.
Mel said…
Or maybe they had intended to say that, but even that was too much for Oprah to risk her brand on.
--------

Maybe that's what in the missing 90 minutes of the O interview?
Or at least an allusion to it?
With PP on the verge of death, they decided to save that ammunition for another time?
SwampWoman said…
abbyh said...thoughts about PC's health? what about the abrupt changes being made about HM's schedule?

HM has been keeping an extremely busy schedule for a 95-year-old woman (well, to be fair, her schedule would probably kill a 95-year-old man). I would not be surprised that she became exhausted and was told to slow down and delegate more. I hope that that is the only reason and there are no hidden health issues but, with the schedule that she has been keeping, I doubt that that is the case.

I can't speculate about PC's health. He appears frail at the moment but, with his idiot child, daughter-in-law, and the death of his father, who can blame him? For him to be ridiculed for so long about organic and sustainable and to stubbornly persist regardless indicates that he has strong internal fortitude.
Girl with a Hat said…
@SWamp Woman,

PC is a Scorpio. with a Leo AScendant. He has Chiron conjunct his natal Sun in his 4th house of home and family. I think that is why he feels so hurt all the time.
Enbrethiliel said…
@SwampWoman
I think the more likely explanation is that his military book would reach a *very* small audience and was thus deemed not viable by publishers. I look at it from my perspective as a former service member. Would I want to read the military adventures of a spoiled, protected, tantrum-throwing princeling?

I get your point. Even I, who found that angle very interesting, didn't really envision buying a copy. Nor would I have done so, were Harry still enjoying his former popularity. A book about Invictus, on the other hand, would have been interesting to me. A documentary (or series?) even more so. He really blew it with Netflix, didn't he?

It would also have been lovely to read the memoirs of a well-adjusted, insightful Prince Harry, who managed to grow from the loss of his mother at such a young age. In this hypothetical book, the BRF would be flawed, but loving family members -- all of them trying their best, despite making mistakes. But that's a book he'll never be able to write.
Enbrethiliel said…
@SwampWoman
I'm not saying that Prince Charles was an engaged or ideal parent, because I don't think he was. I do believe that he loves his children. I think PC was reacting to his (more authoritarian) upbringing by being a more hands off parent and it failed spectacularly in Harry's case. I have a hard time believing that he would be passing his child to a friend for the friend's sexual satisfaction.

I agree with this assessment. Without getting too personal, I have first-hand experience of how hard it is to accept that your parents, for all their mistakes, truly did their best. I believe it intellectually, but I don't know if I will really understand it until I have a child of my own. Prince Charles may have made poor choices with respect to Harry's upbringing (and maybe William's too?), but what parent hasn't, at least once? But it takes a special kind of monster to abuse one's own children in the way that the blind is alleging, and we've seen too much of Charles's temperament, habits and decisions to believe that of him.
Enbrethiliel said…
@Mel
With PP on the verge of death, they decided to save that ammunition for another time?

Oh, how compassionate of them! . . . Okay, I'm done rolling my eyes.

In all seriousness, though, I think someone else put the brakes on it. If they had already been cut off by the Bank of Dad, * would have been furious enough to go for the jugular. I'd like to think that Harry had some sense of decency and refused to say what * wanted him to say. I'd also find it plausible that Oprah, with decades of interviews behind her, figured out it would be a bad idea to air.

But if she held on to the footage . . . Maybe it was earmarked for a second season of The Me You Can't See? For when the Queen came out of mourning, the BRF went back to business as usual, and one of the Yorks dredged up some new bad press?
SwampWoman said…
Heh. When the kids complained about me, I told them to tell it to their therapist when they grow up because I'm not paid to listen.

PC was another well-known figure taken in, I suppose, by Jimmy Savile.
SwampWoman said…
Enbrethilial, they both blew it so badly on so many levels that I'm still astounded. The British people were ready to take her into their hearts if only she had reciprocated their affection, but I don't think that's an emotion that she is capable of feeling. If she could have avoided trying to make everybody else look bad while simultaneously pretending that she was on a higher plane above all the chaos that SHE caused, that would have been great. It was beyond her capabilities and she has never, ever figured out that you don't make the people that outrank you look bad. You are there to make them look good.

All the partnership had to do for Netflix was come up with a somewhat appealing program. (I've looked at a lot of the Netflix programs; most of them are so stupid as to be unwatchable IMO.) It didn't have to be great. Netflix seems to be satisfied with mediocrity. They seem to be determined to stick knives in backs instead of coming up with something entertaining.
Maisie said…
IF this is Harry mentioned in the CDAN blind post could one not see a scenario where something did happen. (I often think about the child actors, when grown, come out and say that unsavory things did happen to them, that they were taken advantage of and offered drink/drugs by disreputable/envious people in their orbit.)

Early in their relationship Harry mentions this bad thing happened and his father did not protect him and quick thinking * goes, "ME TOO, and it was even worse, it was my DAD!!" Harry falls for this whopper and emotionally binds to her even more.
So then, the wedding comes along and of course Thomas is not included, BIG MAN Harry will protect the poor damaged * from the big bad man.

UGH, if true, what sick, sick games she plays.
snarkyatherbest said…
do we think someone in montecito leaked a “false blind” bringing up the saville/pc connection because of desperation. since the rose will rumors didn’t work why not try this one. i guess this is how to they are “winning” in montecito.
Anonymous said…
This from Wikipedia re Jimmy Saville:

“Former royal family press secretary Dickie Arbiter said Savile's behaviour had raised "concern and suspicion" when Savile acted as an informal marriage counsellor between Prince Charles and Princess Diana in the late 1980s, although no reports had been made.[84] Arbiter added that during his regular visits to Charles's office at St James's Palace, Savile would "do the rounds of the young ladies taking their hands and rubbing his lips all the way up their arms".[84]”
Mel said…
Snarkyatherbest....ya gotta wonder. Or laying the groundwork for Duchess Sizzler's metoo moment.
Mel said…
Maisie...wonder about that scenario, too. H seemed oddly adamant about needing to protect this grown, nearly 40 year old, twice married woman, who has bragged about how strong and independent she is.
Observant One said…
I just noticed in the DM, that Ed Sheehan has announced he has COVID. He performed at EarthShot on October 17th. I wonder if HMTQ tested positive and had to be hospitalized for an infusion? The timing makes sense, along with the attempt to keep her hospital stay hush-hush. And, maybe there is no connection and I am barking up the wrong tree. It wouldn’t be the first time.
Anonymous said…
From Sunday’s Telegraph:

Meghan isn’t Michelle Obama – she should butt out of politics
The Duchess of Sussex has tried to use her influence-by-marriage to sway policy. She should leave it to those in office

ZOE STRIMPEL

It’s not hard to understand why Marie Antoinette annoyed people in poverty-riven Revolutionary France. Her head should have stayed firmly on – chopping it off was an act of savagery a sane person should never condone – but there is something uniquely irksome, even insulting, about Royals – people in the lap of luxury through no hard work of their own – pronouncing on what the plebs ought to do, either directly or by interfering in politics.

The main sin of the French Queen was flaunting her indolence. Her involvement in politics did become increasingly intense, and some say shrewd, towards the end, but this was an inevitable result of being a monarch in that time and place. Compared with the Duchess of Sussex, Marie Antoinette was positively sympathetic, for at least she never tried to pretend to be a commoner, or to understand and meddle in the plight of commoners. Politically, she kept things top-level; war campaigns, plots and escapes.

The Duchess, however, has become an insufferable meddler in politics – just without the amazing dresses and headpieces. For years the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have spoken passionately about climate change and the need for urgent action, while using private jets and apparantly gas-guzzling SUVs, including one they were photographed in as they zoomed around New York last month while in town, entirely superfluously, for the UN General Assembly. The Royal couple topped their political play-acting off with cocktails at Bemelmans at the Carlyle, where rooms go for around $1,000 (£726), and martinis for $30.

The Duchess seems particularly keen on forging a sort of First Lady role for herself – the problem being that she lacks the genuinely impressive, relevant background of, say Michelle Obama, who, born into a poor family in Chicago, worked her way up to being a top lawyer, has years of policy experience, and is generally far more self-aware and sensitive in how she presents her campaigns. All this is obviously news to Meghan, whose commitment to wholly unqualified meddling in policy reached a new peak last week with a letter to Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Senator Chuck Schumer, whom she is lobbying for “parental leave for all”.

Paid parental leave for all is a humane and sensible idea, but is the Duchess the right person to be lobbying politicians on behalf of hard-scrabble working parents – or indeed anything else policy-related? I’d argue not. As she herself put it in the letter, “I’m not an elected official, and I’m not a politician”. She is, however, “a mom”. Yes, except the vast majority of mothers have about as much in common with Megs as they do with Marie Antoinette or a robot dog: nothing.

She writes: “Like fewer parents, we weren’t confronted with the harsh reality of either spending those first few critical months with our baby or going back to work. We knew we could take her home, and in that vital (and sacred) stage, devote any and everything to our kids and to our family. We knew that by doing so we wouldn’t have to make impossible choices about childcare, work, and medical care that so many have to make every single day.”

She can say that again, and maybe add in that she and her husband will never have to work for their living, will have an endless array of servants and childcare on tap, and can take for granted the kind of luxury and riches that most Americans could never even dream about.
Anonymous said…
Indeed the best thing Meghan could do at this point is to stop trying to inflict her influence-by-marriage on the corridors of elected power, and have the decency to accept that she is not Michelle Obama. She married a Prince, she got a title, she took him back to California, and she has a fondness for making her feelings – from her desperation at being repressed by the Royals to her love of motherhood to her fury at Piers Morgan – known to all, preferably on globally-franchised TV.

Meghan has a habit of humble-bragging, intended to give her the political street-cred Harry could never claim. I found it quite charming at the start of their marriage. But it has now become tiresome, as if she expects a Nobel Prize for having not been born rich and for having worked normal jobs like most other American teenagers. “I grew up on the $4.99 salad bar at Sizzler – it may have cost less back then,” she writes in her letter, adding, with a “let them eat cake” flourish, “(to be honest, I can’t remember)”. Then the rags to riches story: “I started working (at the local frozen yogurt shop) at the age of 13. I waited tables, babysat, and piecemealed jobs together to cover odds and ends.”

But Meghan: you were stupendously beautiful, stupendously lucky, landed a high-profile TV job, caught the eye of a prince, and the rest is a fairytale.

Someone needs to tell Meghan, and Harry too while they’re at it, that policy is not some easy-breezy confluence of confused celebrity whim. It’s a hard-graft affair that sits at the interstices of democratic politics and laboriously-gained knowledge.

Meghan has already made her mark, and it’s been confirming all the worst stereotypes of our age, from the apparent reluctance fully embrace the mundanity of royal duties, to the totally unfounded ultra-wokeness, to the “do as I say, not as I do” habits that define the woke-green brigade. She has fame and fortune: it’s time she left politics, and policy, to those with some actual right to conduct them.
Mel said…
Observant One.....a Covid-19 exposure could make sense. Especially since it was said that she had a mild cold. And the reticence about exactly what was she being tested for. And now she's tired.

I'm thinking that the hospital stay might have been a breathing assist issue.
Observant One said…
@ Mel
I think it all makes sense with the mad scramble to change her schedule and the orders to rest. After she came back from Balmoral, she has been out and about much more than she was before her holiday. Prior to Philip’s death, she had been very isolated. If it is COVID, or even just a scare, I expect the palace will tighten up her appearances again.
Magatha Mistie said…

@Rebecca

Thanks for the excellent
Telegraph article.
My only complaint;
“stupendously beautiful”
Hahahaha!!
Miggy said…
Dropping by for a second to post this video. (apologies if already posted - not got time to check.)

parents from Harlem New York thank Harry and his wife for recording our children without permission 😲

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr5u5Y85y54
Thanks, Miggy, that's some video! I do hope the parents sue.
Enbrethiliel said…
@Snarkyatherbest
do we think someone in montecito leaked a “false blind” bringing up the saville/pc connection because of desperation. since the rose will rumors didn’t work why not try this one. i guess this is how to they are “winning” in montecito.

It's possible that it's a trial balloon. In which case, I hope that the CDAN commenters reacted as negatively as we have here.

While it's terrible that Prince Charles was fooled and used by a narcissist of his own, that relationship never caused him to turn against his own family or his entire country. If this is indeed a "leak" by * to test the waters, I wonder if she sees the ironies.
Enbrethiliel said…
@Miggy

That video is on fire! Almost literally!

In the comments, the poster said that she first published the video three weeks ago, but it got taken down and she lost her original YouTube channel. She also received threats against herself and her family.

Other comments include an observation of Harkle hypocrisy: Did they sue photographers for papping their son? In this case, the parents of the Harlem school should band together and sue the Harkles for taping all their children!
Enbrethiliel said…
@SwampWoman
Enbrethilial, they both blew it so badly on so many levels that I'm still astounded.

I totally agree. I've never seen someone blow *so many* amazing opportunities in a row -- the kinds of opportunities other people would give their eyeteeth to get. Even my friends who don't follow royal news are confused by her. "Why couldn't she be happy with everything she was given?" She so dissatisfied with the many things she has (because she only sees the few things she doesn't have?) that she wrecks what she touches and offends everyone around her.
Girl with a Hat said…
@Miggy


thanks for that video. So Meghan is lying to the children and saying she's a princess?
LavenderLady said…
@miggy,
That video!! TBW got DRAGGED lol 😂

A life's supply of lattes for @ miggy, please.👍👍👍🙌🙌

Fifi LaRue said…
@Miggy: Thank you for posting the link to the video!

Does anyone here have the skills to forward that video to Netflix?

That is the biggest/best take down ever!

Markle told the children in Harlem that she was a princess! What a delusional smug piece of work. Markle thought the black parents would be too dumb to understand about the permission thing.
Girl with a Hat said…
how to contact Netflix:

https://help.netflix.com/en/contactus

IF you tell me what you want me to tell them, I'll do it.
Fifi LaRue said…
@GWAH: You wouldn't have to say anything, merely forward the YouTube video.
SwampWoman said…
Observant One said...
I just noticed in the DM, that Ed Sheehan has announced he has COVID. He performed at EarthShot on October 17th. I wonder if HMTQ tested positive and had to be hospitalized for an infusion? The timing makes sense, along with the attempt to keep her hospital stay hush-hush. And, maybe there is no connection and I am barking up the wrong tree. It wouldn’t be the first time.


COVID is so far in my rear view mirror that it did not even occur to me, and it should have. I know very well that people that have been vaccinated can catch COVID, have severe effects, be hospitalized, and die. If she was indeed exposed or contracted it, hopefully the early treatment and rest will be all that she requires.
Observant One said…
@ Swamp Woman - I love your name, along with Wild Boar Battle Maid’s. They evoke some wild images!

It may not be COVID related at all, because the palace sources have denied that it is. However, I recalled seeing pictures of Ed at the shindig and realized that she would have been part of his contact tracing, at the very least. As a former Public Health nurse, it’s a natural conclusion for me to jump to.

I also wondered if her back pain is the culprit. She began using a cane, her trip was canceled and then she went to hospital. They might have done an MRI and given her a steroid injection. That scenario would also support the changing of her schedule for the foreseeable future.
I certainly hope that she recovers as quickly as possible.
Girl with a Hat said…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9iTo9bT5eE

Can anyone follow what Neil Sean is saying here? It's about the 3 million $ that * got for the elephant documentary from Disney. I couldn't follow with what Disney is saying. Did they pay * or not? because at one point they say they didn't, but then they say that it would be a private donation, so it's none of our business.
Fifi LaRue said…
@GWAH: I watched the video with CC. He said Markle did not get paid by Disney, she did it for free because she wanted to get into the voice over business. The elephant charity has not released their records on donations, so no info there. He called Disney to ask about the money, but it was unclear if Disney paid the elephant charity directly, or gave it to Markle to give away.
IMO the smart thing would have been for Disney to make the donation so they could get a corporate tax write off.
Observant One said…
@ GWAH
Neil said that he contacted Disney, and they’ve confirmed that * did not receive a fee for the voiceover work and that Disney paid the $3 million voiceover fee to the elephant charity, He stated that charities lag behind in their reporting, and COVID made that worse, but he expects the elephant charity to release their contribution report “soon.” This report will detail when they received donations and how much they received, but not who paid it, due to privacy reasons. Knowing how shifty * can be, she may have “forgotten” to pay the elephant charity.

I am not sure if this will clear up the murkiness around that particular transaction, or not. I like Neil, but this issue needs specific clarity. Who did Disney pay and how much did they pay? If the money was funneled through the Sussex Royal Foundation, how much was actually given to the elephants?
O/T

@Observant One,

Thank you! From at least the Iron Age in Europe, the wild boar has been symbol of courage, determination and, to pagans, divine protection - hence it's a common heraldic device, as used by the Irish clan to which some of my ancestors belonged.

Right now, I need every scrap of courage and determination to cope with everyday life - a neighbour said yesterday that she wondered why nothing is straightforward now? Why is what used to be so easy such a performance?

I blame IT and lack of consideration for older folk.
Magatha Mistie said…

Apologies:
Little Bo Peep

Grounddog Day

Little Ho Cheap
Makes my skin crawl, and creep
Filling my mouth with phlegm
Like a dog with a bone
She’ll chase whatever is thrown
Turning her tricks, ad nauseam

Maneki Neko said…
@Miggy

Belated thanks for the YouTube video, we were away and travelling. Short but to the point 😁. This is gold. I hope it gets the publicity it deserves. I hope it's genuine.
Magatha Mistie said…

Kneel Hauled

Haz surveyed the damage,
ship wreck
After bedding the ogress,
madam Shrek
Should’ve jumped ship
after taking first dip
The fool risked another
haphazard trek
Realised too late,
now swamped in his fate
Up to his neck,
with poop on his deck





SwampWoman said…
Wild Boar Battle-maid said: Right now, I need every scrap of courage and determination to cope with everyday life - a neighbour said yesterday that she wondered why nothing is straightforward now? Why is what used to be so easy such a performance?

I blame IT and lack of consideration for older folk.


I'm having a personal problem with several local companies that have *everything* on Facebook or apps for the phone. If, for example, I want to know a coffee truck's schedule that I *used* to frequent, I have to visit Facebook where they will post at which locations they will be for the next week. All the county government events are listed on Facebook BUT they are also listed on their website. If I want to get my hair cut, I have to schedule an appointment through an app. I don't like my phone cluttered up with apps. I refuse to make a Facebook account. The local grocery store has a "loyalty" program where, if I sign up and enter my phone number, I get "discounts" on groceries. Basically, some of the incredibly overpriced groceries are lowered to just slightly above competitive pricing when the loyalty discount is used. (When things are advertised as buy one, get one free, the price has been inflated to cover the "free" item.) We get to purchase groceries that we can almost afford, and they get to sell all of our purchasing information.

A couple that I know actually got divorced over the store loyalty thing. He refused to give out his personal information; she wanted cheaper groceries.

As for me, a new coffee shop opened with regular hours, a dining room, and maple bacon donuts should I be out and about and have a need for (good) coffee RIGHT NOW. Husband took The Lord's Name in Vain and made a hair appointment for both of us yesterday with the app on HIS phone (that used to be my phone).

As I get older and if I start to develop the tendency to wander off, maybe I'll see the need for a personal tracker. Otherwise, they can all sod off.
SwampWoman said…
Magatha Mistie, great doggerel as usual! Loved "Little Ho Cheap". Bwahahaha.

Hope that you are doing well and able to wander freely.
Magatha Mistie said…

Cheers @Swampie

I’m wandering freely,
without icloud 😉
Magatha Mistie said…

Thanks Miggy for the y/t clip,
not sure if I believe it!!
Where’s Puds?

Girl with a Hat said…
@Fifi, @Observant One,

Thank you. I got lost in all of Neil's explanations.
Girl with a Hat said…
has anyone been following the wedding of the Japanese princess who married a commoner?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10130771/Japans-Princess-Mako-marries-commoner-loses-royal-status.html

she has lost her royal status. She has apologised for all the commotion.

Quite a contrast to the entitled ginger whinger and his loathsome bride.
Magatha Mistie said…

Honey Thot

The ‘cito hills are alive
With the faux, kween beehive
She failed, didn’t know
That wasps have more go
More sting in their ring
a right royal thing
Give up now,
and bloody well go…
Magatha Mistie said…

@GWAH

I’m impressed with their respecting
bows.
Sadly lacking in Wallet & Vomit!
Girl with a Hat said…
@Magatha,

Wallet and Vomit, LOL
Maneki Neko said…
@GWAH and @Magatha

I saw that, @GWAHT, and it's a good point. The Japanese are very respectful people, particularly towards their elders. Princess (not a duchess in name only) Mako would never have disgraced her family the way the 6s have. And she had the good grace and humility to apologise for the trouble the engagement caused. A very typical attitude, a million miles away from the entitled attitude of some.
Maneki Neko said…
@Magatha

Love Wallet and Vomit! Can't do emojis on the phone but thanks for the good chuckle.
Miggy said…
Hi all...

I have no idea if the video I posted is the real deal or not... but it sure as hell was interesting! 😄


@Magatha - You crack me up! 😅😂😅 ( much needed )
O?T

Well, we a traditional branch of the bank some distance from the first one I'd tried , the all electronic one. The staff at bank no 2 have restored my faith in human nature and I achieved what I needed easily and with good humour.

The kindly clerk was interested in my complaint & wanted to know when exactly I'd been in branch no 1 (I got a statement from their machine so there's a time stamp somewhere in the system) -funny, I thought, will they be following it up?

It turns out, I had be correctly informed in the first place but the `chatbot' presented me with a different story and denied what I'd been told. Id like to think the incident will affect her next bonus as she's lost them an account holder - losing her job might be a bit harsh.
Girl with a Hat said…
https://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2021/10/blind-item-13_0306954254.html#disqus_thread

who is the A+ list singer who is causing a royal to cancel a trip?
snarkyatherbest said…
Adele interview with Oprah? Harry needs a reason why he missed the diana cocktail party

snarkyatherbest said…
Then again, it reads like Ed Sheeren's covid forced the queen home. Geez, how would you feel if you got the 95 year old beloved monarch sick and possibly kill her. That's gotta hurt record sales
SwampWoman said…
snarkyatherbest said...
Then again, it reads like Ed Sheeren's covid forced the queen home. Geez, how would you feel if you got the 95 year old beloved monarch sick and possibly kill her. That's gotta hurt record sales


I would think that everybody in an event that she attended would have to have a negative COVID test, maybe before being allowed to enter. I know that I wouldn't want to have the responsibility of making a beloved leader and symbol of a country ill, so I would get a test before attending just to be sure if it wasn't required.
SwampWoman said…
D'OH! Sorry for being unclear. Let me amend my first sentence to "I would think that everybody in an event that she attended would have to have an negative COVID test at the door before being allowed to enter."
Girl with a Hat said…
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1512012/meghan-harry-abuse-online-hate-twitter-accounts

what do you guys\gals think of this?
JHanoi said…
i didnt think ed sheeran was pro monarchy, so he probably doesnt care if HM gets sick because of him… who knows, maybe he sorta planned it, knowing he had covid or symptoms and met BRF or people in direct contact with them.
Maneki Neko said…
@GWAH

I wouldn't worry too much about all these supposed 83 Twitter accounts, the Express is very pro TBW. I don't agree with abuse/hate of any kind but won't lose any sleep over this.
Girl with a Hat said…
@Maneki Neko, I am wondering if Murky Meg and Yankee Wally are considered to be hate mongers wrt *.
Enbrethiliel said…
@JHanoi

Do you really think that Ed Sheeran knowingly turned himself into a biological weapon to take down the grandmother of two personal friends just because he's not pro-monarchy? We've all seen what really passionate ideologues are willing to do, but this is a serious charge against Sheeran's character that suggests you think he's worse than the Harkles.
Enbrethiliel said…
I know our minds all jump to covid these days, but Queen Elizabeth is also a 95-year-old woman. It could be, you know, old age.

Also, I don't want to step on any toes and am really not directing this at anyone, but I generally dislike the trend of blaming others when one falls ill. Unless someone knowingly brings an illness to you, with the deliberate intention of infecting you, there's no point in playing the blame game. Perhaps that's what @JHanoi was trying to get at in the previous comment I replied to, and I just missed the satire. If that's the case, I apologize to JHanoi for reading the comment in the worst light. There's no way we could know that it was Ed who (possibly) infected the Queen. How do we know it wasn't the Queen who (possibly) infected Ed?
Gracie said…
@miggy, thanks for sharing that video. I wondered if they got permission to film those kids. They are incorrigible. They sue a pap for taking a picture of a dangling doll that I’m still convinced that she set up herself, then they have the nerve to bust in on a school with a couple boxes of vegetables, hug and push the kids while covertly filming them for their own profit.
Maneki Neko said…
@Grace the Spinner

Re the video that @Miggy shared, remember that the 6s have form. They visited a school in LA with their photographer in tow just over a year ago when parents weren't even allowed inside, although on that particular occasion I don't think she claimed she was a princess.


Unsure why people think the Queen has Covid and worse still, be out and about? I’m absolutely sure with the best Doctors looking after the her they’d recognise symptoms, get her tested, and she most certainly wouldn’t be participating in any normal duties if that were the case.

As for Ed Shereen deliberately infecting anyone. Please, that reads just horribly. 😔

My Mum thought The Queen lost her usual bright smile when she was using a stick. 😉 We must remember The Queen is 95 years old, not 45. Just how many 95 year old people do you know who is as active as her, if you even know a 95 year old? Every single day the Queen lives is a bonus. 🤗
Girl with a Hat said…
I will post the link later because I am working at the moment, but Neil Sean says that donations to various charities were asked from the Harlem school parents. Not sure if they were asking for Archewell, but other charities were asking for $5 donations.
snarkyatherbest said…
So just saw on Gerts Royal - our favorite mrs is plump full of fillers and botox (my addition not Gerts) reading her favorite book (and its not Grifting 101) Glad they got a few bucks so she could get more work on her face because that would be horrible if she had to age cough gracefully.
luxem said…
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Maneki Neko said…
TBW read her literary masterpiece (The Bench, in case you were wondering) on YouTube for YouTube story channel for kids. Here is the link for those of you interested enough (I only looked at the comments - scathing, as usual)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10136803/Meghan-Markle-appears-YouTube-channel-read-Bench.html
Girl with a Hat said…
@Maneki

Thanks for the link.
Maneki Neko said…
And here is the link to the YouTube video if your stomach is strong enough

https://youtu.be/4a2c0Kr1A-Y
Maneki Neko said…
@GWAH

My pleasure 😉
Girl with a Hat said…
I knew that they were going to try to pin *'s critics on Twitter in this report.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/bot-sentinel-meghan-markle-prince-harry-twitter

The one where they say that there is an organized group of people trying to attack *. These are people like Yankee Wally, the Duchess of Monteshitso, etc. who are trying to organize an intelligence network to bring down *.

The organized and paid twitter users are fans of *. They have turned the tables, and doing the narcissist projection thing again.
Girl with a Hat said…
* really looks horrible in that pic from the DM.

Her face looks like she's been attacked by bees. One eye is turned inward and the other is looking straight ahead and her eyes look like little tiny slits with the huge swollen cheeks.
Girl with a Hat said…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a2c0Kr1A-Y

is the youtube video

* styles herself as Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex but she's not. She's just The Duchess of Sussex, according to Lady C in her video from yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgS2TCVfs00
@Maneki Neko

I can’t watch or listen to Maggot reading…some other brave Nutty or Nutties will have to take one for the team!😂😳😂
Svetlana said…
I tried to watch the video but couldn’t get far. I did see the introduction where she names her son but her “husband” as usual remains nameless. What a broad.
Enbrethiliel said…
@Maneki

My stomach is not strong enough. Thanks for your warning!

For those who have listened to it: Does she do that mawkish voice softening part at "our baby," just as she does in the audio sample on Amazon?
snarkyatherbest said…
Introducing herself as the duchess of sussex is just begging for the crown to strip titles. And they wont give her the Netflix footage satisfaction nor the airtime with Oprah over it.

As for the swollen cheeks - hey that the best filler money can buy ;-)
Girl with a Hat said…
if you go to the youtube video, don't forget about the downvotes. the comments are turned off though.
Mel said…
Her face looks like she had a stroke. Left eye swollen up?
Her eyes aren't the same size or shape anymore. She is so weird.
Girl with a Hat said…
@Enbrethiliel,

she has that fake soft voice throughout the video.
Elsbeth1847 said…
Saw this:

A little reminder that you're not responsible for the healing and happiness of your mother, father or siblings. You can inspire them and lead by example, but you cannot MAKE them choose a better path. Stop wasting your energy or you'll burn out. Live your life, not theirs.


Juxtaposition it with the article of Andrew Morton talking of how JH was lost until he found * and that he (JH) was angry and fighting against the world.

I suspect he was angry and he was floundering and trying to reconcile his childhood, the parenting by flawed humans he received with the adult he had become (or was trying to be). We are all flawed. The question is: How public are we willing to admit to it?

The other article, about the Tom Bower's thoughts, that Meghan will regret cutting people out of her life.

Ah but she's had years of practice of cutting people out dude and we've not seen a lot of indications that she has shown regret later on. She's always given the appearance of being able to have moved on. So maybe the regrets might be quite limited in number and more about physical or similar (maybe) than the people left in her wake.
Maneki Neko said…

Nothing about the 6s for a while, then a glut or articles. Now, LA preschool for vulnerable children thanks Meghan Markle for sending 'overjoyed' students personal copies of her book The Bench. Overjoyed, really? Confused surely. And what about children who are fatherless? How tactful!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10136055/Meghan-Markle-leaves-students-overjoyed-sending-copy-book.html
LavenderLady said…
RE: YT,
Lol was going to say I'm positive the comments will be disabled. Ha ha. Let's see how long it takes for that to turn stale since she has nothing new to say besides the dreaded word salad. The FBI and CIA can use her videos as a method of extraction. 😂
LavenderLady said…
I am watching the vid now (ironically as I eat a banana!). The background music is smaltzy Hallmark channel quality piano music, her voice is calm, boring, a bit of I'm trying real hard here to sound like the female version of Peter Coyote because I'm desparate for voiceover/narration work.

At one point I had to rewind as I thought she said, "as I shit on this bench" but it was my old ears. She said "sit on this bench". Shit works as well.

Let me get back to the video.
LavenderLady said…
Not much more to report. Her face is clearly full of Botox. Round and puffy; her eyes are disappearing...

Her makeup looks like stage make up and her skin looks strangly whiter. Maybe she didn't feel the need for tanner in this instance since she may be appealling to a certain type of parents. Cough. She goes out of her way to dress like an Amish woman. Plain, minimalist. Whatever. Same Olive Oyl bun.

She ends with wishing everyone their own special bench to shit on er, sit on.

From what I can see about the channel, it doesn't seem to indicate it's her personal channel. The About section says it started in March of 2016 in the US. The Community section has a thumbs up/down feature, no comments as of yet. Not sure if that section can disable comments or they have to be deleted on the owners end. Of course I left a thumbs down.

That's it. Boring af.
LavenderLady said…
P.S.
https://www.readbrightly.com/

Poor peeps. Thay are about to be Markled.
LavenderLady said…
P.S.S.
You're welcome.
snarkyatherbest said…
LL: well sh!t on the bench would explain that dress she wore for the Oprah interview! And I hope Ken Burns doesnt start calling for narration of his next documentary ;-)

I agree - the reading is boring, nothing fun or controversial about it. Bet the netflix before footage is even worse. Daniel the makeup man fawning on her how beautiful she is and the best skin. ^s wife commenting that she loves to read to children in between letters she is writing for royalty equality in hermes advertising. Harry at the window asking to be let in Archie and Lilibuck$ are at auntie oprah's cleaning the toilets
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