The British Monarchy
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bluethrunthru
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Massive question - its Monday night ( well just past ) - the Netflix documentary is released midweek - come Friday will anyone on here have had their life changed by its content?
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Yes, the folk who watch will never get those minutes of their lives back.
So far all I’ve seen is lots of people getting angry that stock footage and b roll isn’t accurate to the exact event being discussed at the time in the documentary, which is something that happens in every single documentary ever made.
Going by that level of forced anger, I suspect all the people who love to hate them will find a few dozen more reasons to hate them, and everyone else will be mildly interested at best.
Oh and we’ll have to endure a load of people pretending there’s no difference between inviting a documentary crew into very limited areas of your life you have control over and being followed by paparazzi and doing public appearances every day of the week.
It is common for gender specific roles like Women's Refuges and I suppose A Lady in Waiting.
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My indifference knows no bounds.
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if thats it why are the r/w press losing their shit? Oh I forgot ...clicks....
I couldn't give a stuff about them, so no. They can eat themselves if they want to.
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But they hate them already - mainly because of Meghans race given that Diana did much the same thing with interviews but became the peoples princess ( yes I know they would probably like Mghan to emulate her and die because thats how nasty they are ) but at the end of the day if you work on Morrisons deli counter or at Kwik Fit or at a call centre I fail to see how those people's lives are changed. I quite like the Royals but if they have an internal argument it doesn't affect me - I don't really have positive feelings to the Kardashians for example but I don't watch so if they have a meltdown so what.
People need to detach themselves from things they cannot affect and not be led by wankers like Wootten and Morgan to get involved because all they are doing is making themselves angry over shit and massaging the likes of Wootten and Hartley-Bitchfaces ego's and with clicks making them richer. Who would want to do that FFS?
For a couple that wanted to give up public life and the royal family, they do seem to be in the news a lot! But of course their main income supply is to keep dipping into the Royal well and pull out more stories about how bad their life is/was there . I think they would get more sympathy if they just shut the fuck up and stopped whoring themselves about as ex royals for hire, and actually went and lived the simple life they said they wanted .
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Correct and could Harry have a DNA test so we can all finally find out who is father actually is?
There are significantly more articles about them than articles that they elicit themselves. Unfortunately, they have been the subject of a targeted campaign, by certain elements of the media, because it drives clicks and profit. The articles are supported by the readers of those publications because of the race element.
I linked to an article discussing comparative headlines from a period before any drama and the bias was, and remains, absolutely clear. If I had been treated in this way, or my wife had, you best believe that I would not be silent about it.
Today, if you wish to, have a read of the comments section of this article: it is appalling.
Charity boss Ngozi Fulani suffering 'horrific abuse' on social media
Ngozi Fulani, the British-born founder of the charity Sistah Space, expressed shock at her treatment by Lady Susan Hussey, 83, following an event at Buckingham Palace last week.
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I am not in favour of a Republic and consider a Monarchy as the better option.
However there are far too many of them, they need a good culling like those folk do to their own wild deer population.
However there are far too many of them, they need a good culling like those folk do to their own wild deer population.
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I’d say there are different forms of racial prejudice, some direct, some indirect. The outright spit in your face (or worse) BNP type (as experienced by my daughter and plenty of others over the years), the “I didn’t mean to cause any offence” type where the recipient is made to feel deeply uncomfortable (in the case of Lady Hussey) and finally there is the “life is harder for me because of my race” type which covers a broad spectrum from racial profiling to it just being a little bit harder to do everyday stuff like buy make up or shampoo.
We do have a ways to go in this country still, although we can see why people think that the worst excesses of these prejudices can be demarked along generational lines - crikey how my grandparents would refer to people of colour was without malice but was nonetheless horrific - they would have certainly classed themselves as “I don’t mean any harm”.
There are significantly more articles about them than articles that they elicit themselves. Unfortunately, they have been the subject of a targeted campaign, by certain elements of the media, because it drives clicks and profit. The articles are supported by the readers of those publications because of the race element.
I linked to an article discussing comparative headlines from a period before any drama and the bias was, and remains, absolutely clear. If I had been treated in this way, or my wife had, you best believe that I would not be silent about it.
Today, if you wish to, have a read of the comments section of this article: it is appalling.
Charity boss Ngozi Fulani suffering 'horrific abuse' on social media
Ngozi Fulani, the British-born founder of the charity Sistah Space, expressed shock at her treatment by Lady Susan Hussey, 83, following an event at Buckingham Palace last week.www.dailymail.co.uk
I don't think anyone who cries about "but they wanted privacy" is acting in good faith.
Everyone knows there's a fundamental difference in voluntarily offering up a photo, an interview, a book & someone stalking you and harrassing you for photos or comment every day, rooting through your bins or bribing palace officials, old school friends & busybodies for gossip.
Privacy is the right not be intruded on, to choose how much of your life you put into the world. From what I understand, in America they are entirely free to put as much or as little of their personal life into the world, and that is privacy.
So no one who says "How can he do a documentary i thought he wanted privacy" is to be taken seriously - either they don't know what the word means or they are pretending they don't.
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I could be wrong but I suspect that most people are weary of the whole thing now and they will likely see it for what it is, namely a glib, self-serving docusoap featuring a couple of dimwits, and ultimately a pretty shameless attempt to make a load of dollar while they’re still relevant.
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So its just like any telly then?
By ‘stitch-up’ I meant (not her credentials at having a charity, btw) but, more the fact that she previously called-out the royals as being racist towards Megan - (this itself has never been validated with proof) and who transcribes conversations, and remembers every word? who could do that without a recording device? verbatim?
It's hardly a friendly stance - evading questions then hurriedly doing a kiss and tell to the press, I have no love for the royals at all btw, none, but yes, I think (but don’t know for sure, and neither do you) she had a pre-loaded agenda, I think thats obvious and apparent.