Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 05:29 AM

Speccy four-eyes. Shorty-pants (short pants and being called Shaw in synergy). Football pitch bullying for making mistakes (in the house team only as a makeweight, a great scapegoat when we list). Dunno really. Part of growing up is learning to roll with the punches. The job of the adults around kids is to be vigilant as to the nature of the bullying. Is it sporadic rough and tumble or is it concerted? Of course it ain't right to take the piss out of someone's ginger hair, but if the victim is really going under ostensibly because of that the chances are that the bullies are exploiting other vulnerabilities. A great ginger guy with a rounded personality could even turn the joshing to his advantage...

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 05:39 AM

Lost

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 05:48 AM

The only point I am making Doug and BWM is that 'schoolyard bullying' or its grown up equivalent is not in the same league as the race discrimination that the world is still witnessing. There is no KKK hanging people with red hair. There is no National Front beating up blondes. There is no fundamentalists burning the churches of those who wear glasses. (Khmer Rouge excepted!)

I said right at the outset that I accept it is a problem but I still believe that there is no comparison of scale or intensity. If you believe there is, fine, that is your opinion and you are as entitled to it as I am to mine.

DtG

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 06:24 AM

On balance I tend to tolerate humorous mild piss taking over sanctimonious moral high ground seizing & monopolising..

which in itself is a much more insidious control freak form of bullying...

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 07:05 AM

Someone who takes the piss out of your hair colour and nowt else has an uphill struggle in his career as a bully. Real bullying is concerted, insidious and attritional, and often subtle.

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 07:07 AM

Point taken, Dave.

Although I agree, I still don't accept that the colour of his hair, or his mother's choice of sexual partners, is a good reason to slag off any young man, let alone one who, through an accident of birth, is constantly in the public eye, and is prevented by royal protocol from responding as he might wish.

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 07:12 AM

He does have his compensations.

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 07:15 AM

Ok, so let's divert cruel attention away from 'arry's ginger bonce...

His new mrs to be.. in profile, her nose looks like a big toe....

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 07:44 AM

Perfectly suits my toe fetish...

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 01 Dec 17 - 07:45 AM

Not my cup o'tea at all. Prefer my missus.

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 02 Dec 17 - 11:34 AM

Can she do a decent poached egg I wonder? I'd wager that Harry can, having been in the army!

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 02 Dec 17 - 12:26 PM

Bonz - in this context is "a poached egg" a euphemism for some kind of kinky posh boy sexual activity
young 'arry might be familiar with...?????

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 02 Dec 17 - 05:09 PM

Like piloting an Apache helicopter against the taliban perhaps???????

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Allan Conn
Date: 04 Dec 17 - 10:16 AM

My mother had red hair but she had the kind of red hair colour that other women envied and men liked. Her sister on the other hand had more a ginger colour and did as a youngster receive a lot of stick for it. Maybe less so here in Scotland as it is more common here. Obviously it is true that it isn't the same as racial abuse etc - but it is also true that bullying like that also affects many youngsters. I had a pretty serious speech impediment as a youngster and it was bad enough having it without being mimicked and reminded about it. It didn't affect me too much as I had plenty of friends etc and was big enough that kids often only did it once - but at the same time I am pretty sure it dented my confidence a bit. I know others in speech therapy were affected worse and had a much harder time at school. You kind of know that kids are going to act like that because someone maybe can't speak as well, or they have ginger hair, or they are very small etc etc etc but you kind of expect grown ups not to reinforce that kind of behaviour!

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 10:06 AM

Oh dear. According to the Daily Mash, it's all orff!

Royal wedding off after Meghan realises Harry not Ed Sheeran

THE royal wedding has been cancelled after Meghan Markle discovered Harry is not actually Ed Sheeran.

Markle was introduced to Harry as a ‘rich, famous, ginger Brit’ and assumed that could only be her favourite pop star.

When Harry realised the confusion, he maintained the illusion by pretending Prince Charles was Simon Cowell and Fergie was ‘Adele without any make-up’.

A palace insider said: “We thought it was weird she called him ‘Ed’, but maybe it was some kind of pet name.

“He’d claimed he’d bought his working class family a palace with all the royalties from Galway Girl, but that he wasn’t allowed to sing her any songs because technically that counts as a concert and he’d have to give his management ten million pounds.

“I think she realised a few weeks ago but it was all a bit awkward by that point.

“Luckily she has since met Ed Sheeran and is now engaged to him.”

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 02:28 PM

ROTFLMAO! :-) :-)

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 11 Dec 17 - 08:35 PM

Next time you meet up with Musket, John, ask him to sing that well-known Mudcat folk song, Rot My Flay-o!

Subject: RE: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engaged-Nov 2017
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 12 Dec 17 - 02:22 AM

Tomorrow night, Steve (providing Mrs. Musket doesn't have him Confined To Barracks!). I might take my little Zoom H2 and record it for posterity! :-)