[Misc] Spare

[rogersix]

You mean Kate is doing her job.

Because the Royals do work hard at what they need to do as part of their roles.

So in reality it's MM landing a job and then expecting to go in there and do as she pleases while telling the employers how to run their own business.

If regular people do that in their workplaces they tend not to endear themselves to the boss and cause enough trouble and they lose their job.

does any of this make any sort of sense?

 

[crodonilson]

Well it's now out in the public domain for everyone to read. Several bookshops across the country opened their doors at midnight such is the anticipation and the woman at the front of the queue in London said she had camped overnight for 2 nights to be the first to purchase the book and hear what Harry has to say 'from the horses mouth'.

Five live said this morning the queue at Waterstones was 'more than two hundred' in length when the doors opened on the stroke of midnight.

 

[rogersix]

Well having looked back at my posts on here, having accepted the word gloating was wrong, over and over again (I never said celebrated, so not sure when the pile on crew urged you to use that word), I can only assume you disagree with my comment about cockroaches having no nose.
Well they don't. Not sure why you would get so angry about a cockroach having no nose, unless, and I stress unless you haven't actually read anything I have written and just joining in on the old
fashioned NSC pile on.
I know a mod is sniffing around who is usually involved in these sort of things.

are you quite vulnerable irl?

 

[beorhthelm]

apparently people were more interested in the drama of a Yorkshire police woman than the drama of Prince Harry.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Well it's now out in the public domain for everyone to read. Several bookshops across the country opened their doors at midnight such is the anticipation and the woman at the front of the queue in London said she had camped overnight for 2 nights to be the first to purchase the book and hear what Harry has to say 'from the horses mouth'.

How feckin sad the world is....

 

[drew]

Drew, are you a Harry superfan or against the rest of the Royals? - I do respect the passion you've defended him with.

If you were in the cottage that night, they'd be one less neckless & dog bowl broken.

Lol. No, I'm not a Harry superfan, I haven't watch the Netflix series or seen any of the interviews. However, I do have sympathy for him in that I see him as more of the victim than any of the others. He might have a privileged background but he's had a pretty shit life. His mother died in an horrific crash, played out in all the media and he was required to walk behind her coffin and 'keep a stiff upper lip'. He may or may not have been aware that for most of his childhood, his dad was cheating on his mum (and there are of course rumours that she subsequently did the same but who could blame her) and then he had to accept that the woman that was the third party in the marriage was moving in. It's not too far of a stretch of the imagination that he would blame Camilla (and possibly his dad as well) for his mum not being around.

And then of course, there's the great British press. If we take one example, the story of the 25 kills, the press have painted a picture of him boasting/gloating etc etc and some have lapped it up. Now I haven't read the book but I posted a clip of James O'Brien reading a large segment relevant to the 25 kills referred to. It puts it in context and is completely the opposite of the way some papers have portrayed. I suggested LennyTee listen and he might have a different opinion but he seems not to be interested.

And as for LennyTee. He has basically regurgitated crap from elements of the media. Retracting one word (gloating), denying he used another (celebrate) and then when I pointed this out then comes up with the absurd comment that the words are interchangable due to the slash. Not entirely sure what he's driving at. Is he saying that because he retracted one word then the others are also retracted. Doubt it as that doesn't make sense. Of the three, only one was accurate, ie that he published the info about the 25. He could quite simply have said he didn't mean to use the word celebrate but couldn't bring himself to do that. His view is entrenched and he's not prepared to listen to any evidence to the contrary.

As for the royals, I think they are all probably damaged by the system they are in. Charles was brought up and groomed to be King and had to wait longer than any other heir to the throne, even suggestions that he was sort of plotting to get her to abdicate. He was raised in the 20th century by an institution stuck in the 19th. I doubt nobody will know the truth but had he married Camilla when he first had the opportunity then all this mess might have been avoided but there are various stories of other members of his family plotting to arrange marriages for him. He went to sea with the Navy and Camilla married her previous beau, Parker Bowles.

I'm sure some will comment that loads of families have 'issues' and I won't dispute that but they are not played out in public and public opinion isn't steered by whatever agenda the press have decided upon.

So, no, I'm not a Harry superfan and who knows, sometime in the future stuff will come out changing my view.

 

[herecomesaregular]

Which question didn't I answer and I'll do my best to rectify that.

Where is Dr No? No, no NOOOOOOOO!

 

[drew]

Where is Dr No? No, no NOOOOOOOO!

Didn't he die in the reactor and then Bond escaped with Honey?

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Well it's now out in the public domain for everyone to read. Several bookshops across the country opened their doors at midnight such is the anticipation and the woman at the front of the queue in London said she had camped overnight for 2 nights to be the first to purchase the book and hear what Harry has to say 'from the horses mouth'.

Five live said this morning the queue at Waterstones was 'more than two hundred' in length when the doors opened on the stroke of midnight.

Geez....haven't these people got a life....!!!!!.

 

[rippleman]

Well it's now out in the public domain for everyone to read. Several bookshops across the country opened their doors at midnight such is the anticipation and the woman at the front of the queue in London said she had camped overnight for 2 nights to be the first to purchase the book and hear what Harry has to say 'from the horses mouth'.

Five live said this morning the queue at Waterstones was 'more than two hundred' in length when the doors opened on the stroke of midnight.

Except that....the woman interviewed on R4 this morning who had turned up at 6am expecting queues around the block said there was no queue at all. In fact she was the queue. Hopefully most of the public aren't interested / don't give a shit / have read it in the papers / watched the interview.

Pulped with Partridge by the end of the month and I can't see Harry "Bouncing Back" anytime soon either.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Except that....the woman interviewed on R4 this morning who had turned up at 6am expecting queues around the block said there was no queue at all. In fact she was the queue. Hopefully most of the public aren't interested / don't give a shit / have read it in the papers / watched the interview.

Did she happen to give any reason why she needed it first thing today?

 

[rippleman]

Did she happen to give any reason why she needed it first thing today?

Errr...in a word.....no!

 

[Lenny Rider]

Don't know if its 'fake news' or just good old fashioned bullshit, the reporter for GMB at W.H.Smith's in Windsor said Harry had received a £20million advance from the publishers despite a lot of retailers selling at £14 a 50% discount on the RRP.

Even for all the publicity, you've got to shift a lot of books to get that back and still come out on top?

 

[Worried Man Blues]

If only he has made enough money fgoes away, but I have a horrible feeling he'll be like this till he dies or divorces!

 

[drew]

Firstly, I believe it's quite common knowledge that he got a £20m advance.. As for the discount, just a selling gimmick to persuade idiots they're getting a bargain. It happens everywhere.

Finally, I don't know the economics but say the publisher gets £7 a book then that's only 2.6m copies needed to be sold and that's not just in the Uk don't forget.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Firstly, I believe it's quite common knowledge that he got a £20m advance.. As for the discount, just a selling gimmick to persuade idiots they're getting a bargain. It happens everywhere.

Finally, I don't know the economics but say the publisher gets £7 a book then that's only 2.6m copies needed to be sold and that's not just in the Uk don't forget.

Richard Osman books - which you can't move for - sold approx 3 million copies prior to the release of his 4th one. That's a lot of muggy royalists you are hoping cough up to read about a family row.

I'm sure someone somewhere knows what they are doing.

 

[Randy McNob]

 

[KZNSeagull]

Waterstones are saying that this is the biggest pre-ordered book for over a decade. As for the discounting going on, the smaller bookshops (those that are left that is) will be getting 35 to 45% from the publisher, so the supermarkets and Waterstones etc will be getting more than that, so a 50% discount will at the very least be selling them at cost, but more likely a 5 to 10% profit I would guess. Hive.co.uk are selling it at just over £20 (28% discount), they support the independent shops so again that will be at a small profit.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Spare review: The weirdest book ever written by a royal

Prince Harry's book, with sex, drugs and monarchy, reaches parts never seen before in a royal memoir.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Triggaaar]

If only he has made enough money fgoes away, but I have a horrible feeling he'll be like this till he dies or divorces!

I don't know when they'll divorce, but I know it'll be our fault not theirs.