Harry’s juggling balls!

It's the kind of daft thing Tommy Cooper would have done.

Yes, I did think Morecambe and Wise but thought there was another one as well.

Seeing Harry juggling balls has reminded me of the Harry we saw so many times having fun, the race with Husain Bolt, the
clip of him with the Queen I think using a mobile phone, his
acting the goat with his brother.

No scripted speeches about saving the world.

Yes, Morecambe and Wise.

Was it Arthur Haynes? He used to appear upstage washing windows whist serious talks were going on.

Callistemon

Bluebellewould
I hope you don't think I was attacking you - I did really think the Meghan video with Harry playing the fool in the background was a spoof but it wasn't!

I keep trying to think which comedic clip it reminds me of - someone speaking seriously and the fall guy leaping around in the background making an idiot of himself.

Morecambe and Wise?

I don’t get why everything this couple does has to be rubbished. I’ve no time for the way they turned on their families and washed their dirty linen in public. But if they’d still been here, part of the Firm, this initiative would have been lauded and they’d have been applauded for at least trying to help others. What’s so bad about what Meghan’s doing? If only a few people are helped back into work - and they will be, those “friends” have contacts and influence - it’s worthwhile, surely? Professionals and business people who like the idea are signing up on the Archewell site to pledge much more than 40 minutes of their time to support and mentor others. As for the launch video, why so much scorn and derision? She’s wearing heels and some sort of stole, he’s clowning about in the background, she makes a couple of jokes…. There’s really not a lot to see here, folks.

People’s widely varying opinions that I may or may not agree with is fine, how boring it would be if we all thought the same. It is just that there seems to be a few posters who seem to have a very vitriolic response to each other that takes the point of the post away and ends up with a bitch fest. Less hissy fits and more discussions on the point of the post is what I’m trying to say. Disagreeing with other posters is great and welcome.

Bluebellwould

I started this thread because we all know of Harry and Meghan and I thought the differing opinions would be interesting. I have not spoken a word to another human being for 3 weeks and Gransnet is a way of keeping contact with other people, even if I don’t always agree with what is written. Some people post with matters I don’t know about or not interested in so I don’t respond. Can people not comment on things without the same few people attacking one another all the time? For some of us widowed and isolated people Gransnet is a window into life beyond our very isolating walls and a very necessary tool to keep a little bit of brain ticking over. Perhaps there should be a list of safe topics that the holier than thou amongst us could approve.

I sympathise with you for your isolation and hope things will improve for you.

There is nothing at all wrong with starting any thread you like but people will disagree, it’s the nature of the beast and GN would be really dull if we did all agree !

62Granny

Never mind Harry juggling, which as others have said seems childish, why is she wearing 6inch heels to sit at a table in her own home, especially as the rest of her outfit is basically a vest and a hoodie?

Why the hell shouldn’t she ?!
Honestly anything at all to snipe at!

25Avalon

Lucca

25Avalon

Interestingly no sign of that smug smirk I dislike.

So why mention it !?

Because elsewhere I have criticised her for it whilst noticing previous photos of her show her with a normal smile. No sign of the smug smile so it obviously depends on certain circumstances such as putting the RF down.

“ No sign of the smug smile so it obviously depends on certain circumstances such as putting the RF down.”

I’m thought the famous smug smile was when she was walking up the aisle ?

Galaxy

People are free to express their views and Alegrias is free to give her views on those views, it's how it works.

Yes Galaxy you’re right, and I respect Alegrias’s views.

Bluebellewould
I hope you don't think I was attacking you - I did really think the Meghan video with Harry playing the fool in the background was a spoof but it wasn't!

I keep trying to think which comedic clip it reminds me of - someone speaking seriously and the fall guy leaping around in the background making an idiot of himself.

Bluebellwould

I started this thread because we all know of Harry and Meghan and I thought the differing opinions would be interesting. I have not spoken a word to another human being for 3 weeks and Gransnet is a way of keeping contact with other people, even if I don’t always agree with what is written. Some people post with matters I don’t know about or not interested in so I don’t respond. Can people not comment on things without the same few people attacking one another all the time? For some of us widowed and isolated people Gransnet is a window into life beyond our very isolating walls and a very necessary tool to keep a little bit of brain ticking over. Perhaps there should be a list of safe topics that the holier than thou amongst us could approve.

That’s a sobering post Bluebellwould
Sometimes by the end of a weekend, I have spoken to nobody but the dog, so I have some idea, but three weeks!
Social media sites such as GN do give us a window to the outside world and a degree of communication. Not perfect, but better than nothing.
Only those who have experienced this will really understand.

People are free to express their views and Alegrias is free to give her views on those views, it's how it works.

I don’t disagree with you Alegrias about some of the things that are said about Harry and Meghan, but I will repeat that if people, whoever they are, are in the public eye, that other people will form opinions of them, either positive or negative. And I will go further in saying that people, whether on Gransnet or not, do have a right to express those opinions regardless of whether we agree with them or not. In the end, history will judge the actions of Harry and Meghan, because undoubtedly they will remembered in history, in just the same way as such people as Florence Nightingale, Pol Pot, and Edward V111 are remembered, and their actions judged favourably or negatively. I suspect they may be regarded in a rather more benign manner than Edward V111, and judged to be of little importance in the overall scheme of things. Who knows? I won’t be here to see it.

Never mind Harry juggling, which as others have said seems childish, why is she wearing 6inch heels to sit at a table in her own home, especially as the rest of her outfit is basically a vest and a hoodie?

Thank you May7

Agree Alegrias1 and if there was a like facility I would ?

He was telling us all his circus is still rolling

I don’t look at them, they bore me to bits, switch over for few minutes.

For all their faults, I think comparing M&H to Hitler and Henry VIII is a new low.

You do like to jump to conclusions, Alegrias, and put words into people's mouths. The names Hitler and Henry VIII were chosen for alliterative purposes, plus their activities are well documented and generate strong opinions. Mary, Queen of Scots and Marilyn Monroe if you prefer.

Agree Bluebellwould

I'm going to take a flying guess and think that I'm part of the group you call "holier than thou" Bluebellwould. Because I don't just sit here and scroll past the terrible things that are said about M&H time, after time, after time.

It doesn't just stay with criticising the video, wondering about their motives or so on, does it? The comments include calls for Harry to be neutered, calling him a fool, comments about him behaving like a child to attract mum's attention.

These are not neutral or even critical comments, they are pernicious and make me wonder what on earth motivates people to make such nasty and cruel comments, then to justify them with the retort that, basically, they deserve it and its just a bit of fun.

If they were standing there in front of us, would we say it? Would we tell a person they should be neutered? That they were an attention seeking fool? Because if we wouldn't, then we are cowards. And if we would, then we are bullies.

I started this thread because we all know of Harry and Meghan and I thought the differing opinions would be interesting. I have not spoken a word to another human being for 3 weeks and Gransnet is a way of keeping contact with other people, even if I don’t always agree with what is written. Some people post with matters I don’t know about or not interested in so I don’t respond. Can people not comment on things without the same few people attacking one another all the time? For some of us widowed and isolated people Gransnet is a window into life beyond our very isolating walls and a very necessary tool to keep a little bit of brain ticking over. Perhaps there should be a list of safe topics that the holier than thou amongst us could approve.