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    It fucking well is as well.

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    I'm struggling to find one where Eugenie looks worse.

    My mother has this interview on, and Meghan just seems a bit thick. How, whilst being at the very centre of the Royal Family, do you manage to convince yourself that your kid isn't getting a title because of racism when anyone with a bit of historical knowledge could have explained otherwise? Oprah just sitting there like an idiot as well, supporting what Floyd was saying about their famous people never hearing any criticism.

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    I'm spending way too much time over this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    I'm struggling to find one where Eugenie looks worse.


    This one for sure.

    EDIT: Looks worse zoomed in on the google search

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    Yeah that's one, but that's probably the best picture of the other one ever taken. I don't see it as a general rule.

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    I don't even know which one's Eugenie. I know them by sight as Equine and Jawline. But there are loads where Equine shapes up ok (normally with smaller hair, as above) and Jawline is clunking her features off the scenery.

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    First 16 mins of the BBC news including a comical recorded fact-checking piece with belters like "who made who cry?"

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    Does anyone out in the country (apart from the usual royal freaks) actually give a shit about this, or is it just a media event? I'm sensing the latter, and my senses are getting better year on year.

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    Oprah looks like she’s made of playdoh

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Does anyone out in the country (apart from the usual royal freaks) actually give a shit about this, or is it just a media event? I'm sensing the latter, and my senses are getting better year on year.
    It's a media event insofar as it can be temporarily absorbed into wider NARRATIVES, but lol at people thinking it's some sort of crisis for the institution. The state of some of the American 'takes' on it all as well. It must be revenge for all the shit we churn out about them.

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    Some cunt who abandoned his wife in a care home (in sickness and in health, you disgrace) was recorded going in to visit her even though she hadn't a clue who he was and hugging her even though that's in direct contravention of the rules.

    Malala going from Oxford alumni Nobel Prize winner to working on the next series of RuPaul's Drag Race. What a fucking important figure.

    I'm in a top mood tonight.

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    There hasn't been a proper crisis for the institution, well, certainly not in our lifetimes. Diana and this are just temporary inconveniences. The line is sorted.

    Last proper CRISIS was probably the abdication. Before that, probably George III or something. It's rock solid until such time as one of the main line does a Juan Carlos.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    I did have sympathy for them both at one point, but their approach in the last six months seems completely at odds with the desire for the media to leave them alone, so one has to wonder whether they just couldn't be arsed with the no doubt incredibly tedious stuff you have to do as members of the royal family.
    Changed my mind watching this.

    Either Meghan is a brilliant actress (I've seen a lot of Suits, she isn't) or they're just a couple of people who got a lot of shit from the media (which continues to be up there in the list of morally bankrupt industries), had little to no moral support from their family in dealing with that, thought fuck this, then realised they needed to make obscene money somehow and that a media presence is the easiest way to do it.

    Fair play to them.

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    I only watched the first half an hour, but my take away was that she really is an astonishingly beautiful lady and The Firm can get fucked.

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    I’m Team Prince Charles. Fuck Meghan and James Hewitt’s son.

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    Racist.

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    One thing I do take issue with is the desperation to compare this to Diana, which is ridiculous.

    The racism might be worse than any one thing Diana experienced, but I'm old enough to remember how much interest there was in Diana and this doesn't even touch the sides. We didn't even have a celebrity culture back then, it would have been far worse for her now.

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    Some American woman on Newsnight just used that Danny Baker monkey tweet as an example of us having the same race problems as them, and it got a mention in the interview itself; but neither of them mentioned Baker by name. Gutted for him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yevrah View Post
    One thing I do take issue with is the desperation to compare this to Diana, which is ridiculous.

    The racism might be worse than any one thing Diana experienced, but I'm old enough to remember how much interest there was in Diana and this doesn't even touch the sides. We didn't even have a celebrity culture back then, it would have been far worse for her now.
    It seems difficult to square blaming the media for killing your mother whilst also saying that their negative coverage of your wife was racially-motivated. They can simply just be equal opportunity scummers who simultaneously hounded Diana whilst making Camilla Parker-Bowles into a national hate figure.

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    I remember seeing the Danny Baker monkey tweet when within seconds when it first went up, and looked at it, and thought oh, he's making one of his south London 'I'm working class railing against the aristocracy' posts, which he does a fair bit, and carried on scrolling. Half an hour later I came back and saw all the stuff and thought oh, hang on, Megan's black? So she is, I guess.

    It's all a question of how big identity politics is for you. For a lot of people now it's the only thing.

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    There was some fucking black UK atrocity [next to the US woman Lewis sights above] on Newsnight who was doing a sterling job single-handedly winning the war against racismz until she drew parallels between Archie and one of Thomas Jefferson's enslaved illegitimate children who was, and I quote her, "seven eighths black". These fucking people see everything as being linked to skin colour.

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    They're out in force in the replies to this. Someone's posted the author's employment details in an attempt to get him fired nevermind the colour of your skin, fucking address its thinness first.

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    A few apologies coming your way from people who said you looked like the shoe bomber. Have you got a payment app or anything?

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    Muzzies don't cry. That will be the name of my first autobiography.

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    I'm a twit

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    lol what a dweeb.

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    It's absolutely tragic how much he's fallen.

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    I don't understand how you get from Father Ted to that without some kind of severe trauma. Probably physical and mental.

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    Too much twitter.

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    Shittest mid-life crisis award

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lofty View Post
    Too much twitter.


    It does terrible / great things to people.

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    Agreed to separate.
    Sure you did mate.

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    He's right about trannies, but why has he thrown himself into it to this extent? What was his end goal?

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    Let's not forget he was sending dick pics on mumsnet.

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    What?

    On the subject of trans athletes, do they ever get any women going into mens sport or is it just the widely reported brick shithouses going into women's sports and battering them?
    Last edited by Lofty; 09-03-2021 at 07:55 PM.

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    Are there many trans men who have dicks sewn on? You rarely hear about them if there are many.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transg...orts#Trans_men

    There's a list here. It's dwarfed by the male to females. And their list seems to include ones that transitioned after retirement.
    Last edited by Shindig; 09-03-2021 at 08:01 PM.

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    More than I would have guessed, fair play to them.

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    Whoever put the Buckingham Palace response together is the best comedian working today.

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    'Recollections vary' slaying their two hour American TV special with two words, I loved it.

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    Team Nonce delivering a response that is neither here nor there.

    Oprah, Harry and Markle still have exactly what they wanted out of it.

    People on either side of the argument continue to believe what they'd chosen to believe before either the interview or the Palace response come out.

    I don't see much slaying going on.

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    The bullying claims got out first but I wonder if that was sneaked out ahead to muddy whatever came out in the interview. It'll die down anyway.

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    Yeah I mean everyone involved will just carry on as they were anyway just with slightly chillier messages written on Christmas cards by the butler.

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    Assuming he hasn't been sacked for trying to sell George's baby teeth.

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    The firm's PR have played a blinder, as they always do - lit her up in the build up, then lolled her off afterwards. A nice mafia hit job that will only enrage a small section of lefty pearl-clutchers over here who don't matter anyway. The Palace are no fools, and unlike American TV, they don't need the money.

    If you were handling it badly, as the firm, you would no comment your way through the build-up, then you would be forced into breaking your silence once she (ludicrously, as it happens) played the race card. If so then you'd be doing things on her terms and she would be setting the agenda. As it is, she starts the interview with half the population thinking she's a witch (or being more wedded to that opinion) and there's no losing it from there, even if Twitter declares you all to be racists/nonces. Meanwhile, your post-interview statement comes across as a de-escalation rather than a big old flap, and they have nowhere else to go without being defamatory and/or lying.

    One thing I've discovered during this exercise is the answer to a question that's been bugging me for a while, which is what/who is Piers Morgan's constituency? No one in polite society admits to liking him. The answer is what I would tentatively call Facebook Grandmas - the older, even more authoritarian cousins of the Facebook Mums. They've been out of the woodwork all over the twitter replies with their grey egg avatars. Absolutely seething that the weatherman dared to challenge him.

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    "half the population thinking she's a witch"

    "who is Piers Morgan's constituency?"

    Answered your own question.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    I only watched the first half an hour, but my take away was that she really is an astonishingly beautiful lady and The Firm can get fucked.
    This. Pre-prego No.1 she was really stunning. And is still attractive now.

    If I had to choose between her or the Middleton, it would be the black one.

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    The young women of colour redefining Australian beauty standards

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-...&sf243785723=1
    Last edited by Queenslander; 10-03-2021 at 12:39 AM.

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    People of colour is the worst thing America has contributed to the world. What's wrong with referring to lineage specifically, when it's relevant?

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