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Astronaut Katy Perry.......

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mae13 Tue 15-Apr-25 02:27:01

........er, like who?

Ilovedogs22 Wed 16-Apr-25 00:10:12

Sorry, too much beer, cannot spell astronaut properly, !

Macadia Wed 16-Apr-25 06:27:05

Granmarderby10

🎶 You’re Gonna Hear Me Roar 🎶

The #1 cancer fight song for kids.

Macadia Wed 16-Apr-25 06:32:50

No, she was only a passenger.

Marg75 Wed 16-Apr-25 06:57:32

She can actually sing and what's wrong with her hair? Oh dear.

Aldom Wed 16-Apr-25 07:51:43

These ladies were simply passengers on the flight. Just as many of us will have been passengers on aircraft.
No-one expects an airline passenger to be capable of flying the 'plane, or even understanding how aero dynamics work. So why all the negative remarks about a group of people and one woman in particular, who could afford to pay for such an amazing experience?

GrannyGravy13 Wed 16-Apr-25 08:10:49

Aldom I agree, an amazing opportunity which is only open to those with a healthy bank balance.

I hope they all enjoyed it.

Casdon Wed 16-Apr-25 08:16:54

Ilovedogs22

Marg75

There's some real sour grapes here.

For a very good reason!!
Marg75.
We want women who do brilliant things that we can relate to.
Not some drippy, pop singer who can't actually sing!, with her flipping stupid hair & a ruddy, limp daisy!!!
God give me strength!.! 😶

What a derogatory summary of a woman who is a best selling pop artist. Entertainment is so important, and she is hugely successful in her career - and she definitely can sing! I always think when people make comments like this, tell us all what amazing achievements you have had in your life that surpass hers then? It’s just sour grapes.

M0nica Wed 16-Apr-25 08:22:17

It was a vanity project by a rich business man, who is filthy rich because he is the sort of man to expect his fiancee and her hen night friends to pay for themselves.

GrannyGravy13 Wed 16-Apr-25 08:34:29

M0nica

It was a vanity project by a rich business man, who is filthy rich because he is the sort of man to expect his fiancee and her hen night friends to pay for themselves.

Come on M0nica all the ^space tourist women* are rich in their own right, why oh why shouldn’t they pay for themselves.

GrannyGravy13 Wed 16-Apr-25 08:35:20

This thread has morphed into the normal pile on towards anyone who is wealthy…

Anniebach Wed 16-Apr-25 08:37:10

They pay for themselves, why speak of a harem

Ilovedogs22 Wed 16-Apr-25 10:04:52

Allira

😂😂😂
I Wannabee a Spacegirl

Just go for it Allira!
Don't forget your daisy though 😉

RosieandherMaw Wed 16-Apr-25 10:11:21

Well it put the recent thread we had on Hen Nights in the shade!

Iam64 Wed 16-Apr-25 13:17:41

RosieandherMaw

Well it put the recent thread we had on Hen Nights in the shade!

😂

mae13 Wed 16-Apr-25 17:09:07

GrannyGravy13

This thread has morphed into the normal pile on towards anyone who is wealthy…

Ah, but how do the obscenely wealthy obtain their wealth?

GrannyGravy13 Wed 16-Apr-25 17:23:01

mae13

GrannyGravy13

This thread has morphed into the normal pile on towards anyone who is wealthy…

Ah, but how do the obscenely wealthy obtain their wealth?

mae13 no idea why don’t you tell us?

If whoever you define as obscenely wealthy has earned/inherited the money legitimately and has paid all legally required taxes I cannot see a problem…

What amount of money makes someone obscenely wealthy in your opinion?

Casdon Wed 16-Apr-25 17:26:07

What are you implying mael3? Katy Perry was not from a rich family, her parents were pastors. The money she has is what she has made in her career.

MayBee70 Wed 16-Apr-25 17:27:52

Nothing wrong with being wealthy. But when so many people are struggling ( even more so since Trump was elected) flaunting it isn’t a good look. And when climate change is affecting the planet doing an unnecessary trip into space isn’t a very good look, either.

Norah Wed 16-Apr-25 17:29:32

mae13

GrannyGravy13

This thread has morphed into the normal pile on towards anyone who is wealthy…

Ah, but how do the obscenely wealthy obtain their wealth?

It seems the crew were will paid women, spending their money on something they found interesting or enjoyable. Were they all wealthy?

Norah Wed 16-Apr-25 17:30:01

will well

Anniebach Wed 16-Apr-25 17:42:54

MayBee an unnecessary trip into space isn’t a good look ‘?
is a motoring holiday, any holiday necessary?
Buying a second home when families are placed in one bedroom accommodation because of a shortage of rental housing necessary?

SueDonim Wed 16-Apr-25 21:25:27

Marina Hyde expresses more eloquently than I ever could my misgivings about this ‘trip to space.’
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/15/lauren-sanchez-katy-perry-space-blue-origin-female-flight#comments

Anniebach Wed 16-Apr-25 21:44:07

I knew nothing of Katy Perry, reading the link to the guardian I
thought she would speak of being elevated,
No matter , she has been mocked in this thread and to compare a group of women with a harem shocked me

Marg75 Thu 17-Apr-25 07:05:17

Anniebach I have been shocked as well. It's good to see our younger generation of women using the freedom they now have. We shouldn't mock them. As far as I can see Katie Perry is a very successful singer, a feisty young woman who knows her own mind not some airhead that some on here want to believe. It took a lot of guts to go up into space, I don't think I could have done that even when I was her age.

M0nica Thu 17-Apr-25 07:49:43

This event was organised by one of the richest men in the world as the hen party for his fiancee. A more egregious case of willy waving, I have yet to come across.

All those attending were tall slim and attractive. Nobody was plump, short in the leg etc and their overalls were designed to enhance their good looks.

I neither know not care who was on board. A man gathering together a group of attractive women, to be sent into space on a rocket with his name mentioned all the time can well be described as harem.