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Nearly Sane

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Only good enough to be a mistress
« on: November 27, 2017, 01:03:53 PM »
The go ahead far thinking Spectator thoughts on a bloke called Harry and a women called Meghan getting engaged. I am presuming the idea was write some click/comment bait.



https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-the-union-of-royalty-and-showbiz/

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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2017, 01:07:24 PM »
You didn't warn us it was by Melanie McDonagh. You are a bad man.

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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2017, 01:19:19 PM »

You didn't warn us it was by Melanie McDonagh. You are a bad man.


Isn't she the woman, I was going to say lady but thought better of it, upon whom Rita Skeeter was based?
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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2017, 01:26:57 PM »
Isn't she the woman, I was going to say lady but thought better of it, upon whom Rita Skeeter was based?
Apart from finding this woman/lady thing a bit odd, the answer to that would be no.


ETA: I wonder if the Melanie you might be thinking of is Melanie Phillips but the answer to that would be no as well
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« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2017, 02:21:30 PM »
The go ahead far thinking Spectator thoughts on a bloke called Harry and a women called Meghan getting engaged. I am presuming the idea was write some click/comment bait.



https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-the-union-of-royalty-and-showbiz/

What an unpleasant article! >:( I wish them both well.  :)

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« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2017, 02:25:34 PM »
What an unpleasant article! >:(
... though very far from wrong in every particular.
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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2017, 02:40:08 PM »
Harry & Meggy should be made Duke and Duchess of Middlesex, it would be very hip and LGBTQQIP2SAA.

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« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2017, 02:50:17 PM »
... though very far from wrong in every particular.

Seriously? You think that simply because Markle is divorced she's unsuitable to marry a royal? Aside from Catholics like McDonagh I don't see the rest of the nation really giving a fuck, any more than people 'love' the Queen any more or less because she didn't leave Philip and marry a footman.

As for her snide 'Princess Meghan' comment, she won't be a princess.

Do I give a shit about this? Not really, but this article is just a gob of spite.

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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2017, 02:59:39 PM »
Markle will make history as the first mixed race member of the British Royal family, which is a huge PLUS, imo.

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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2017, 03:11:12 PM »
Melanie McDonagh doesn't seem to realise that the royal family are not stuck in a time warp when it comes to divorce and, in any case, Prince Harry is a fair way from being in line to the throne.

Agree with floo & Rhiannon it is an unpleasant article, a gob of shite.
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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2017, 03:14:25 PM »
Seriously? You think that simply because Markle is divorced she's unsuitable to marry a royal?
No - that was horseshit in 1936, never mind now.

I meant that the whole thing is a fusion of royalty and showbiz. It's an X Factor-style royal engagement.
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« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2017, 03:15:37 PM »
No - that was horseshit in 1936, never mind now.

I meant that the whole thing is a fusion of royalty and showbiz. It's an X Factor-style royal engagement.

That’s the headline. It’s not the article content. Like NS said, it’s click bait.

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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2017, 03:17:18 PM »
That’s the headline. It’s not the article content.
This looks like it is:
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What the engagement will do is consolidate the real nature of the modern royal family, which is part of the entertainment and showbiz side of the nation.
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« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2017, 03:19:26 PM »
This looks like it is:

No, the focus as a snobbish lifestyle judgement on someone for being both divorced and liberal.

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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2017, 03:22:31 PM »
No, the focus as a snobbish lifestyle judgement on someone for being both divorced and liberal.
Yes I know - I don't expect otherwise from the Speckled Tater. The point is the content isn't belied by the headline (or vice versa).
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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2017, 03:27:33 PM »
I switched on the lunchtime news to the seemingly endless tide of sycophancy. I'm afraid each time such an announcement is made it reinforces my republicanism. I may have to just ignore the news until next summer -  which given the state of the world may be no bad thing in itself.
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« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2017, 03:29:36 PM »
Yes I know - I don't expect otherwise from the Speckled Tater. The point is the content isn't belied by the headline (or vice versa).

Isn’t the point of content to reflect and elaborate on the headline?

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« Reply #17 on: November 27, 2017, 03:30:14 PM »
I switched on the lunchtime news to the seemingly endless tide of sycophancy. I'm afraid each time such an announcement is made it reinforces my republicanism. I may have to just ignore the news until next summer -  which given the state of the world may be no bad thing in itself.

I’m waiting for the announcement that we get a day off but it’s not looking likely.

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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #18 on: November 27, 2017, 03:36:53 PM »
Markle will make history as the first mixed race member of the British Royal family, which is a huge PLUS, imo.
  What's race?

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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #19 on: November 27, 2017, 04:07:19 PM »
There is one other thing which doesn't seem to have surfaced yet ... did I hear that this young woman is - not only divorces, of mixed race, politically liberal - but also Catholic?
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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #20 on: November 27, 2017, 04:09:37 PM »
There is one other thing which doesn't seem to have surfaced yet ... did I hear that this young woman is - not only divorces, of mixed race, politically liberal - but also Catholic?
Now allowed and not of interest to Melanie McDonagh (at least in a bad way)
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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #21 on: November 27, 2017, 04:12:54 PM »
Now allowed and not of interest to Melanie McDonagh
... any more than are the policies of the Church of England, presumably, though she seems to have a keen interest in them.
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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #22 on: November 27, 2017, 04:14:50 PM »
I switched on the lunchtime news to the seemingly endless tide of sycophancy. I'm afraid each time such an announcement is made it reinforces my republicanism. I may have to just ignore the news until next summer -  which given the state of the world may be no bad thing in itself.


Yep.
No harm to the couple, but the tide of kowtowing sycophancy to an unelected anachronism turns my stomach.
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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #23 on: November 27, 2017, 04:15:49 PM »
I switched on the lunchtime news to the seemingly endless tide of sycophancy. I'm afraid each time such an announcement is made it reinforces my republicanism. I may have to just ignore the news until next summer -  which given the state of the world may be no bad thing in itself.
I share your pain.

I swear, when the current incumbent leaves a vacancy I'm going into a total news blackout mode for at least six weeks, even more so than now. No laptop, no live telly, no phone, no nowt.
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Re: Only good enough to be a mistress
« Reply #24 on: November 27, 2017, 04:21:02 PM »
There is one other thing which doesn't seem to have surfaced yet ... did I hear that this young woman is - not only divorces, of mixed race, politically liberal - but also Catholic?

Yes, nominally so I gather.
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