[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Couple tell brother and SIL they're expecting, on the day of their cousins wedding doesn't really sound that bad to me

Yeah I don't get that either. My brother and sister in law told me they were having another baby at my cousins wedding....no big deal. Had they announced it to the media that day I could understand the outrage a little more but to tell close family members (possibly to explain why Meghan wasn't drinking or looked a little off colour) is not a big deal

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

Yeah I don't get that either. My brother and sister in law told me they were having another baby at my cousins wedding....no big deal. Had they announced it to the media that day I could understand the outrage a little more but to tell close family members (possibly to explain why Meghan wasn't drinking or looked a little off colour) is not a big deal

Fergie (the mum-in-law) was raging

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Fergie (the mum-in-law) was raging

Oh no, we can't upset Fergie.

[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Fergie (the mum-in-law) was raging

Oh dear

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Fergie (the mum-in-law) was raging

The general compass of morality

[Crimson Dynamo]

The failing Guardian hate the Royal Family and know their reader does too so a vindictive editiorial attacking Her Majesty is par for the course

[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

[bots]

Even now, twenty-four hours after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex published their intention to start “working towards financial independence” at the ages of 35 and 38 respectively, their brand new website, sussexroyal.com, does not feature highly in the Google search results for “working towards financial independence”.

For those seeking to work towards financial independence, the collective wisdom of the internet still offers frankly parochial advice: live a frugal lifestyle, grow your earned income, invest in the stock market. That sort of thing. It is, indeed, distinctly possible that the Duke and Duchess’s work towards financial independence has not yet driven the newly financially independent* (*working towards) couple to google the phrase “working towards financial independence”. I say this because there does seem to be a rather large disconnect between what is considered the conventional means by which to achieve financial independence, and the methods the happy couple appear to be pursuing.

To take a cursory glance around sussexroyal.com is to find oneself suddenly cast as one of Alan Sugar’s evil henchmen in the interviews round of The Apprentice, unable to find exactly where the business plan is. “Live a frugal lifestyle” certainly doesn’t appear. What does, on the other hand, are many photographs of the happy couple pointing at African children, juxtaposed with inspirational quotes from various dead self-help gurus.

While the Duke and Duchess of Sussex may not yet have fully worked out how to achieve financial independence, it seems, they have worked out a lot besides: “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex,” proclaims their new website, “believe in the shared strength and spirit of Community ... The Duke and Duchess of Sussex recognise the unique perspectives through which different communities view the world ... The Duke and Duchess of Sussex believe that for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows ... The Duke and Duchess of Sussex believe that junk food tastes so good because it’s bad for you. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do.”

And who among us can say that’s not the main thing? Naturally, we wish them well on their new adventures in the world of personal finance. Admittedly, none of their ideas have featured prominently on Radio 4’s The Money Programme in the years I’ve been listening, but who’s to say they are not the pioneers this age of low-interest rates so urgently requires?

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” So spoke Desmond Tutu, apparently while staring into the eyes of Meghan Markle, while she stared into the eyes of her baby son, in a loving snap featured on the “Community” page of sussexroyal.com. Surely, a mantra for the benefits of compound interest?

I confess to not having a clue what I am meant to think about the happy couple’s semi-retirement from their highly lucrative non-jobs while still in their thirties. The conventional wisdom seems to be that they’re happy to have Mr and Mrs Taxpayer pony up the cash for various seven-figure home improvement projects they’ve just had done, and then jack in their ribbon cutting duties by way of a thank you. But then, I have always been somewhat mystified by the assumed right of the monarchy-loving British public to inflict a life of misery on the people they appear to adore. We pay for them, who do they think they are, refusing to give us a steady supply of photographs of their two-month-old baby? It’s a disgrace!

There’s also the fact that Prince Harry’s mother was killed while being pursued by paparazzi photographers, and is now watching his wife is being carefully crafted into a public hate figure. There genuinely does appear to be a sense that Prince Harry ought to have more respect for the industry that killed his mother. Best of luck with that.

So there’s a lot going into this particular moral melting pot and frankly, it’s not one that I have any interest at all in stirring or sniffing. Maybe the pair of them do indeed want to have their cake and eat it? Who knows? Who cares?

But in the meantime, Harry and Meghan’s journey towards financial independence doesn’t appear to be getting off to the most auspicious of starts.


https://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-a9277321.html

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

Even now, twenty-four hours after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex published their intention to start “working towards financial independence” at the ages of 35 and 38 respectively, their brand new website, sussexroyal.com, does not feature highly in the Google search results for “working towards financial independence”.

For those seeking to work towards financial independence, the collective wisdom of the internet still offers frankly parochial advice: live a frugal lifestyle, grow your earned income, invest in the stock market. That sort of thing. It is, indeed, distinctly possible that the Duke and Duchess’s work towards financial independence has not yet driven the newly financially independent* (*working towards) couple to google the phrase “working towards financial independence”. I say this because there does seem to be a rather large disconnect between what is considered the conventional means by which to achieve financial independence, and the methods the happy couple appear to be pursuing.

To take a cursory glance around sussexroyal.com is to find oneself suddenly cast as one of Alan Sugar’s evil henchmen in the interviews round of The Apprentice, unable to find exactly where the business plan is. “Live a frugal lifestyle” certainly doesn’t appear. What does, on the other hand, are many photographs of the happy couple pointing at African children, juxtaposed with inspirational quotes from various dead self-help gurus.

While the Duke and Duchess of Sussex may not yet have fully worked out how to achieve financial independence, it seems, they have worked out a lot besides: “The Duke and Duchess of Sussex,” proclaims their new website, “believe in the shared strength and spirit of Community ... The Duke and Duchess of Sussex recognise the unique perspectives through which different communities view the world ... The Duke and Duchess of Sussex believe that for every drop of rain that falls a flower grows ... The Duke and Duchess of Sussex believe that junk food tastes so good because it’s bad for you. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do.”

And who among us can say that’s not the main thing? Naturally, we wish them well on their new adventures in the world of personal finance. Admittedly, none of their ideas have featured prominently on Radio 4’s The Money Programme in the years I’ve been listening, but who’s to say they are not the pioneers this age of low-interest rates so urgently requires?

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.” So spoke Desmond Tutu, apparently while staring into the eyes of Meghan Markle, while she stared into the eyes of her baby son, in a loving snap featured on the “Community” page of sussexroyal.com. Surely, a mantra for the benefits of compound interest?

I confess to not having a clue what I am meant to think about the happy couple’s semi-retirement from their highly lucrative non-jobs while still in their thirties. The conventional wisdom seems to be that they’re happy to have Mr and Mrs Taxpayer pony up the cash for various seven-figure home improvement projects they’ve just had done, and then jack in their ribbon cutting duties by way of a thank you. But then, I have always been somewhat mystified by the assumed right of the monarchy-loving British public to inflict a life of misery on the people they appear to adore. We pay for them, who do they think they are, refusing to give us a steady supply of photographs of their two-month-old baby? It’s a disgrace!

There’s also the fact that Prince Harry’s mother was killed while being pursued by paparazzi photographers, and is now watching his wife is being carefully crafted into a public hate figure. There genuinely does appear to be a sense that Prince Harry ought to have more respect for the industry that killed his mother. Best of luck with that.

So there’s a lot going into this particular moral melting pot and frankly, it’s not one that I have any interest at all in stirring or sniffing. Maybe the pair of them do indeed want to have their cake and eat it? Who knows? Who cares?

But in the meantime, Harry and Meghan’s journey towards financial independence doesn’t appear to be getting off to the most auspicious of starts.


https://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-a9277321.html

[arista]

Look at Meghan Talk
you can see she is Trouble.

[Liam-]

Why is she trouble? Because she believes women are equal and should be treated that way? Do you not agree with her?

[arista]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Why is she trouble? Because she believes women are equal and should be treated that way? Do you not agree with her?

To Pushy.

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by arista

To Pushy.

Sexist

[arista]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

Sexist

No She is Petulant

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by arista

No She is Petulant

Sexist

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by arista

To Pushy.

Ah, women should just sit in the corner and speak when allowed to them yeah?

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by arista

To Pushy.

....why is she pushy... as a child, she brought about a change in the tag line, which wasn’t representative of equality...that shows great entrepreneurial skills, which is something you would admire in someone...

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Ammi

....why is she pushy... as a child, she brought about a change in the tag line, which wasn’t representative of equality...that shows great entrepreneurial skills, which is something you would admire in someone...

Enterprising you mean not entrepreneurial

[Ammi]

...it wasn’t a dream, Arista...Through her letters, Procter and Gamble changed the tag line in the commercial...because she felt it wrong that females should be shown as the people doing household chores...

[arista]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...it wasn’t a dream, Arista...Through her letters, Procter and Gamble changed the tag line in the commercial...because she felt it wrong that females should be shown as the people doing household chores...

Ammi
you would have been far Wiser
than Meghan

[Ammi]

...as a child, she got the tag line changed from..’women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans..’...to ‘..people all over America are fighting...etc...’...Queen of equality.....