Bread and Royal Circuses...

[Fab Foodie]

Harry and Megan's new vid is out, the Royal Famalam are unhappy, the press apoplectic, some MPs are outraged and Netflix are coining-it in.
Those that are culpable don't see the part they play in all of this.
Whilst millions can barely heat their homes and rely on food-banks, why does this country still buy-into the royal soap opera?

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...-the-ring-of-truth?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Front pages:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...etflix-documentary?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Time to bevrid of the outdated and tired Royal Family.

 

[bobzmyunkle]

Time to bevrid of the outdated and tired Royal Family.

I agree, let's bevrid of them. To that end I'm going to boycott this thread, as I'm sure you're all going to heed the Daily Mail's (via some government nonentity) call to boycott Netflix.

 

[Unkraut]

Time to bevrid of the outdated and tired Royal Family.

President Scargill, President Thatcher, President Blair, President Farage ...

Edit: Don't want to derail your thread, so ... as much as you may dislike the royal family as the personification of privilege, aren't Harry and Meghan simply privilege feeling sorry for itself? Using their royal status to cash in?

 

[Ian H]

President Scargill, President Thatcher, President Blair, President Farage ...

Edit: Don't want to derail your thread, so ... as much as you may dislike the royal family as the personification of privilege, aren't Harry and Meghan simply privilege feeling sorry for itself? Using their royal status to cash in?

I suppose it shows that racism is no respecter of privilege.
On the other hand, I don't for a moment imagine that anyone would offer to make a Netflix documentary about my dislike of my in-laws (if I had any).

 

[Deleted member 49]

I reckon the Mail and their fake outrage and the rest of the tabloid press are going to p1ss their pants a lot more over this than the nonce in the family.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I agree, let's bevrid of them. To that end I'm going to boycott this thread, as I'm sure you're all going to heed the Daily Mail's (via some government nonentity) call to boycott Netflix.

Bevrid may be tbe OED's word of the year 2023!
You read it here first....

 

[All uphill]

Funny when Trump tried to cling on to power with no mandate we were all screaming.

Royals have clung on for hundreds of years with no mandate and we are cool with that!

 

[Unkraut]

Royals have clung on for hundreds of years with no mandate and we are cool with that!

When you say we are you including other posters or are you just speaking for yourself? ...

I suppose it shows that racism is no respecter of privilege.

It's also possible that privilege is no respecter or racism.

 

[Deleted member 28]

Harry and Megan's new vid is out, the Royal Famalam are unhappy, the press apoplectic, some MPs are outraged and Netflix are coining-it in.
Those that are culpable don't see the part they play in all of this.
Whilst millions can barely heat their homes and rely on food-banks, why does this country still buy-into the royal soap opera?

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...-the-ring-of-truth?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Front pages:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...etflix-documentary?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Time to bevrid of the outdated and tired Royal Family.

So many things happening in the world to upset poor toomuchfoodie, how do you manage to even raise a smile with things so bad.

You poor, poor burdened soul.

I bet you lie awake at night in your Barret box worrying how you're going to help the less fortunate amongst us whilst still finding time to remind this colossus of a forum of the woes we face.

What a Man, what a Man!!

 

[Ian H]

President Scargill, President Thatcher, President Blair, President Farage ...

Is it a game to name the people you least like to see a head of state? Is there a winning trump name?
Do we actually need a purely ceremonial head of state?

 

[BoldonLad]

President Scargill, President Thatcher, President Blair, President Farage ...

Edit: Don't want to derail your thread, so ... as much as you may dislike the royal family as the personification of privilege, aren't Harry and Meghan simply privilege feeling sorry for itself? Using their royal status to cash in?

My take on it exactly.

They want privacy, why don't they just sod off and stop squawking, I for one will not miss them.

 

[Fab Foodie]

,cza

Is it a game to name the people you least like to see a head of state? Is there a winning trump name?
Do we actually need a purely ceremonial head of state?

I'm all for a ceremonial goat as head of state....

 

[All uphill]

When you say we are you including other posters or are you just speaking for yourself? ...

It's also possible that privilege is no respecter or racism.

I dislike the use of "we" when "I" is meant. Inaccurate and misleading. In this case I'm doubly at fault because I wouldn't include myself in this "we".

I suppose I was referring to some imaginary great British royal-loving public.

I will try harder to be accurate.

 

[Unkraut]

I dislike the use of "we" when "I" is meant. Inaccurate and misleading. In this case I'm doubly at fault because I wouldn't include myself in this "we".

Sorry, I was winding you up with a play on the word we being the royal we.

 

[albion]

A useful distraction for our establishment schemers.