Weird Royal rules

I wouldn't pick up a dead fly with my hands, I would either have rubber gloves or a duster. It would be rude in my opinion, in some ones home anyway. There again the pays not good, so wouldn't apply unless I lived next door and it avoided travel costs.

Not sure I agree, Eloethan It was read with more than a hint of scorn at the "ultrasensitivity" of those who didn't have to put up with even a dried pea under endless featherbeds. Perhaps some households were more conditioned to touch the forelock respectfully to "those and such as those" than my family was.

Yes, I agree, and yet this sort of story was read to children and indoctrinated them with the idea that princesses and the like are somehow "special" people with finer feelings than anybody else.

It's kind of like the Princess and the Pea tale. I always thought the if the Princess was rude enough to complain about the uncomfortable sleep she wasn't really well brought up as a well mannered princess.

Having money means you can be miserable in comfort.

When you have a separation and you have to leave, no cash means you can’t buy food or find a place to rent, if you have children it’s worse, nothing to do with taking the pain away.

Anniebach it doesn't take away pain. No. But you don't have the added worry of no money. One of my children is having a very difficult time and the fact that I can take away the financial worry is very helpful I can assure you.

Would I find life easier if one of my daughter’s personal lives was reported in the media if I had lots of money - no

Yes PECS but money does not take away pain, and if you don’t want to leave a marriage but wife/husband does money takes that pain away ?

Define dysfunctional ?

Precisely - and what is functional?
It's just that most families are not in the spotlight of the world's press.

nanna8

I wouldn’t work for that family however much I was paid. Now they are truly dysfunctional.

It would be a bit difficult as you're in Australia, aren't you, nanna8?

You must be used to flies
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annodomini

Do they keep a stock of dead flies in a freezer, or are they able to find one as the occasion demands?

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They can have the collection from my conservatory as flies seem to commit hari kari in there.
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As if the Royal Family undertake interviews for new staff!!

Ha ha, good try, it will get the Republicans going anyway.

Annie you are right money cannot solve all problems but when you do have difficult situations to deal with: life changing illness, unhappy relationships, etc. etc. at least you do not have the added worry of how to pay the rent, enough money for the meter, losing your job, can you afford to leave a marriage etc etc.

Do they keep a stock of dead flies in a freezer, or are they able to find one as the occasion demands?

There are other problems in life , making ends meet is not the
only one, though some think money solves all life’s problems.

What do they know about having to make ends meet ect

Nothing.

Well they are not really functional are they? They don't work hard they hardly work at all. Everything is done for them, palaces servants. What do they know about having to make ends meet ect

Kittye

Why would anyone want to be at the beck and call of the over privileged is beyond me. And for a pittance too. ??‍♀️

Simply because it pays the rent, or feeds the kids, apart from cleaners you have serving staff, kitchen staff, retail staff who are serving often unpleasant unappreciative customers.
Many of us have done it, because we needed to!.

Lots of job interviews stick in that type of "test" as part of an interview process. I have taken prospective ' caretakers' round a building and then asked them to say what they would do / change etc. having been round a site. Obviously some things are set up to give you an indication of how alert a candidate is.

They had eaten one side of it, *Welbeck", down to the skeleton. The uneaten side showed when it was turned over. Must have been a whole fish, not a fillet.

nanna8

I wouldn’t work for that family however much I was paid. Now they are truly dysfunctional.

Define dysfunctional ? There was a thread on this before. I said that I have one brother I don’t spend time with purely as we have nothing in common - I’m divorced - I have two sons married with children and we all love each other including daughters in law. So does that make my family dysfunctional? I think it’s a bit judgmental to describe a family that way.

Nanna8 I know, but it would be sooo interesting!

I wouldn’t work for that family however much I was paid. Now they are truly dysfunctional.

I'd do it. It would be fascinating!

Kittye

Why would anyone want to be at the beck and call of the over privileged is beyond me. And for a pittance too. ??‍♀️

Because afterwards you can go to the States and work for rich people and earn an absolute fortune on the back of the fact that you've worked for the Royals.
You are set up for life.

i don't quite understand about the fish, Elegran. had the first guest not eaten the fish then ? wasn't it obvious that it had been picked over, how could she serve it again.