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I know very little about Prince Harry and even less about
his fiancé Meghan Markle. I know he is the younger son of Charles and Diana and
I believe she hails from the entertainment business and is no spring chicken but
that’s about it. Probably not an enormously uncommon level of ignorance even if
media exposure suggests otherwise.
In years gone by I would have treated such a story as a
slice of social information. To know at least something about the people
involved would have been very mildly interesting, but more importantly it would have been a kind of insurance
against abject social ignorance. Shaky insurance I suppose, but better than nothing.
These days things are different. There is a whole world of
fascination out there, but Harry and Meghan aren’t part of it. They are not
fascinating. I’m content to be ignorant about this minor soap opera because
that is what it is – a minor soap opera. It’s the Harry and Meghan show and it’s
not for me.
Is Harry short for Harold? I’ve no idea. Does it matter?
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As the grip of the mainstream media loosens, and our culture begins to dissolve, not knowing this sort of boring shit becomes more socially acceptable. One can dispense with celebrity catchphrases, soap opera plot-twists, and the recognition of "Old whatsisname - look, that one there, who used to be in that thingummyjig series on the other channel!". Bliss. Just think of all that wasted effort, all that forced enthusiasm.
Our newspaper of record, The Mail, today has a full blown family thing on the lady. It is intriguing to see a Thomas Sykes there at around the time that Dickens was immortalising Bill Sikes in the book "Oliver Twist". Could they be related I ask.
Sam - is it too late to enjoy to the full?
Demetrius - presumably the Mail expects considerable interest from its readers. I wonder if it is right?
Strikes me that this patrician distancing oneself thing you do from the ever so pervasively and obviously stuck on your shoe thing is not quite the thing. If you can disentangle that sentence, which I can’t. But consider the thrust of it. Dispassionately as you can, if you can. It’s all a bit like shit, gets everywhere just when you don’t want it to. Would you if you could, you (him, actually), in his, hers or their shoes? Bonking-wise, a definite cause of potential matrimony. I definitely would, if I could, but couldn’t. But once upon a time, did, sort of. Let the world go hang. It’s what horny young people do. Leave them alone; no doubt, life, aided by paparazzi, censorious idiots and cynical media will likely teach them how self-evidently wrong they were. In horrible spades.
To me, an important tenet of conservatism, respect and decency is not to be a prurient prick and not to play their silly game. Must admit, in terms of our apparent future queen but one, I definitely still would if I could. But that’s just me. Great teeth and norks. Even if I weren’t ginger, balding, heir to fortunes, made for life whatever (most at least of which I’m not, as if it mattered) …. Hey, come back! What an utter total bitch…
I just knew I shouldn’t have even have thought about having virtual internet sex with her on the occasion of her happy announcement, when I’d never actually seen her nor indeed barely heard of her before. That’s hateful maleness for you. Irredeemable pigs! Can’t see something even vaguely wholesome without inappropriately trying to get its imaginary leg over it. I’ve had dogs like that. Appears males can’t help ourselves. I’m told. I expect I can sort of forgive me, I think…
Most of all, we need to leave people alone. Not because they are good or bad; and not because they are admirable or execrable; they are mostly just dead ordinary. But most of all just because we mostly haven’t got a clue what we’re talking about.
Not at all a popular view on the internet, I’ll grant you…
Clacket - we do need to leave people alone, but they have no intention of leaving us alone in the sense that they occupy a visible place in our worldview and are not likely to withdraw from it except on their own terms. We can ignore them to a degree, but not entirely because they are there and they have influence we never gave them.
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