Spotify dumps deal with Harry and Meghan

TerriBull great post, thank you

Anniebach

TerriBull great post, thank you

I second that.
'Vapourings' 🤣
It will be my word of the week.

That's very interesting TerriBill. I hadn't really thought about it like that.
the flat out lie that you can be anything that you want to put out there by Meghan snd others is dangerous. Especially where young people are concerned.

Thank you Terribull for drawing our attention to this article.

Thank you Terribull

Sir Trevor's articles are always pertinent and interesting.

Sure lots of mothers say to their children You can be anything that you want to be with a bit of effort determination and education. You can't be Prince Princess King or Queen. Thats for story books, only one lazy mediocre family in UK use those names. Those people get rich and richer, don't pay their taxes..Also called Head of State though don't defend our freedoms. They are good though at making sure many laws don't apply to them and that benefit them 🤔

Grany the nub of it is that you can possibly be what you WANT to be but who in their right mind would want to be royalty? I am not sure I would want to be very rich either. There really is more to life than being rich.

I am actually not that sure that we can all be what we want to be. We all have physical and mental limitations. DH was unable to be what he originally wanted to be because it was a career that required good eye sight and he has seriously poor sight. DD would have liked to have been a ballet dancer, but her build was completely wrong. It hasn't stopped her enjoying dancing, but not professionally.

I have a mathematical ceiling, which I have probed, that meant most careers where the use of figures goes beyond the merely mechanical is beyond me. Likewise my dyspraxia excludes any requiring good balance or any physical precision.

The art of living is the art of knowing what is achievable for you and not to waste time chasing what is really impossible or sighing because you cannot do something.

"The art of living is the art of knowing what is achievable for you and not to waste time chasing what is really impossible or sighing because you cannot do something". Life is much happier if you're 'a half glass full' person and not 'a half glass empty' one.

I suppose with Meghan she is what she wanted to be:
a rich woman with a doting husband;
famous (or notorious);
one of the most talked-about women in the world.

For the time being.

I suppose it depends if you want to be talked about regardless of what's being said.

Is she a doting wife?

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She is very good at doing the, Only have eyes for you, look!
Maybe it's genuine.

I don’t think anything about her is genuine.

According to what I've recently read M is not going to be the face of Dior. It was just a rumour put around by her new PR company to distract from her sacking by Spotify. Another thing I read is that her interviews for Spotify were sometimes conducted by others, M's voice asking the questions being added later. Smoke and mirrors spring to mind!

I think that's not quite right though NotTooOld -

Andy Scott, from Gimlet Media, (which produced Archetypes) tweeted:
"We did occasionally have producers do interviews, though never the main ones, and we never edited her asking questions into interviews that producers conducted."

So maybe she had secondary people ("b" listers??) in her interviews that were perhaps just commenting on a theme..?
I don't know as didn't watch more than the few mins which popped up on the news.

Someone here may know.

Camilla was seen wearing a Dior outfit at Ascot; perhaps she is going to be the new face of Dior.

In an interview in the DM today to celebrate Windrush Day, Trevor Phillips said of H&M

they could have been beacon of discovery and reconciliation, not just to Britain, but the whole world. Instead they completely squandered a golden opportunity to show everyone what this country is really like in matters of race - a country where no one disturbs themselves about marriage across the lines of race and ethnicity

But they constructed this completely ridiculous and unpleasant story about how maltreated they were - which, frankly, no one believes. No one cared about Megham's race. They could have made things different for millions of people, and they chose not to.

Germanshepherdsmum

I don’t think anything about her is genuine.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy813UT2I-A

here is a fictional musing which you may find entertaining.

welbeck

Germanshepherdsmum

I don’t think anything about her is genuine.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy813UT2I-A

here is a fictional musing which you may find entertaining.

I smiled.

I grinned at the film poster behind her - Wall-e 😁

😂😂😂

😀😀😀😀😀😀😀 thank you

I like Meghan

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She is very good at doing the, Only have eyes for you, look!
Maybe it's genuine.

I wonder if he ever annoys her?
It must be difficult to keep up the adoration 24/7/365 (366 in a leap year).

Oh godfathers ........

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