A Pillar To Post...(Or Maybe Many)
It's been just little under 2 months since the last blog, and unsurprisingly, Newcastle United haven't stopped the self-harm. They've simply become more battered, more Bruced and more likely to entirely capitulate. Laugh at the SMBs aal you like about their Pizza cup 🍕, but they could be serving up a better dish than us next season...
But we divn't wanna discuss that! ⚽...
It's been an even smaller amount under 2 weeks since the Meghan and Harry interview, and beyond 2 days in the modern world means that the story is not just old, but archived, and then cultivated ready for the next wave of chaos that the modern world seems intent upon creating.
So which camp are you in? I guess is the question that people online would immediately ask. Inevitably.
They're (as collectives) all being arseholes. So that finishes that discussion 😅. Next topic...
But in all seriousness. They are. Just to varying degrees. In a cyber-world that cannot decide if it needs more robust boundaries or if it needs none - the common-sense-fence-sitters find themselves having to either climb great walls or sit on floors, preventing decent views from being had or shared. So I'll sit on this post, as it's the closest thing I can find to a fence.
To be clear and concise, I am somewhat of a Royalist; and already I have a sense of apprehensive discomfort as some of those, if not most, who are likely to read this blog sit back and read that sentence, thinking "ah here we gan..."
Wey, stick with it...
If I were to build a nation from scratch, I'd not have a royal family, as the time for kings and queens has passed.
However, I am a Royalist in that I believe there is no need to change what we have, in terms of structure. Other than maybe cutting it back and reducing it down to a more manageable size. Time to get rid of the dead wood, the hangers on, and most importantly - the worst of the worst - the nonce. I hold the view that once Prince Philip hits his major milestone of 100 years old, and the Queen hits her Platinum Jubilee in 2022, it's time to abdicate, enjoy life and pass on the reigns to William, bypassing Charles, and subsequently pulling the Royal family into the modern world.👑
They probably bring more in than they cost economically (?), and the royal family also acts as a somewhat unifying voice, away from the politicians who are simply dividing and conquering our country. I think that's probably a strong enough argument, based on the current political shambles.
Anyways, I digress. The interview - I guess it really centred around two key topics; the issues of racism and mental health. Neither of which should be taken lightly, especially by an institution that represents a nation, let alone a commonwealth. A commonwealth that has consisted of many different races and ethnicities.
The racism debate was once again sparked as Meghan claimed conversations had centred around what colour skin the baby would have. To my eyes, that's a fairly normal, inquisitive question. I have an Italian girlfriend who is darker skinned than that of myself. I'd not be offended, and more importantly - nor would she, if say my Grandma asked what colour the skin would be, depending on the context in which it was asked, of course.
Frankly though, does it really bloody matter what colour skin a baby has?! Just like it doesn't matter what colour hair it has, or eyes. What matters is that it's healthy and she's not been shagging the butler on the side (Naughty Jeeves!). But nonetheless, similar questions would be asked about the hair or the eyes. Would there be this uproar if people asked if he'd be ginger?
So immediately, this issue becomes murky because of the lack of context, and it becomes a case of who you want to believe. However, what we can be certain of is that it's naive at best, and bigoted at worst for anyone in such an institute to make such comments, given the desire and ambition to move towards a more equal world. So whoever said it is being an arsehole to a degree which is dependent on the actual context of the conversation(s).
Likewise, the lack of mental health support for Meghan in such an institute is ignorant and completely baffling given the way the family as a whole have been hounded since Diana's demise. How she cannot have found support from within the institution or otherwise is beyond me. Perhaps she was advised not to seek it given the way the media are though? Again, more context needed.
So advisors, or the institution itself, are being arseholes. 👎
It's possible for anyone to have suicidal thoughts, if they're facing a time of mental weakness, and especially if they're being bullied on a scale of worldwide press coverage. That's for certain. Had it not been for the tabloids, then maybe she'd have been alreet within herself and not required assistance. Had the tabloids not been so vitriolic then maybe the institute could not live in fear of the repercussions of finding such help. Perhaps there were more sinister reasons...
To be honest, I'm a broken record at times on this blog. There's generally a common theme to most my posts, as you've probably realised (if you've lasted this lang!). The media are just absolute whoppers really. The biggest hypocrites of all. Dodgy second-hand car salesmen (and women!) out to screw over anyone to make a quick buck.
An example of this is no other than Piers Morgan from Goad Morning Britain.
Throughout COVID in particular and this governments shambolic running of the country, he has done well to press issues with MP's that even Tory voters want answers on. He's shown up the party for it's inadequate, rudderless tenure. He's there to create a stir, to gain viewers, to create discussion and that, he does. He made his take on the interview - each to their own, he's entitled to that, but he's paid to do so with some degree of decorum and articulation, and that's what was ultimately missing on his outburst. His storming off was childish when faced with the same adversity he places others under. This fella, who's been sat on a moral pedestal for however long despite printing falsified images of our own soldiers fighting in Iraq. Blokes a tit.
Undoubtedly, in all of this, the tabloids have been the biggest of arseholes. Spitting their poisonous venom onto our papers and screens.🐍 They've contributed massively to this devolving situation and a modern day royal crisis. Who wins? That's right, the media. Yet for all, I think there's been bell-endery on display by a whole host of pricks, Meghan isn't absolved from blame herself, for me. I cannot help but feel the wool is being pulled over poor Harry's eyes somewhat.
If they wanted to get away from titles and duties, away from those wankers in the press, to go and do their own thing and live a somewhat normal life, then they cannot then complain as the royal perks get pulled away. Nor can they complain about being in the media eye, and then go on one of the leading talk-shows on the planet to air dirty laundry and call out a royal institution. I wouldn't go on Twitter to tell the world of issues within my family irrespective of whether people gave a shit about them.
You cannot tell me for one second that this lass knew nothing of the British Royal family, it's history and it's duties. That's why this interview doesn't sit well with me. The credibility is diminished by the air of 'naivety' that she claims to have. It's either an outright lie, or pig-fucking-ignorant in itself. If you can see that most people nowadays at least do a quick social media check on a potential partner then you wouldn't have to look far for a British prince. Even if she thought they were just a celebrity family (which to some degree they are) then surely, you'd check why. I find it incredible, that she just bumped into a fella and they hit it off and before she knew it, she was a royal princess of one of the world's leading nations (or at least it was). It's not fucking Disney hinnie. 👸
Then finally, as this filters out into the public eye, we have those anti-royalists on social media, trying to make out the Queen is some form of Nazi, or by contrast that Meghan is just, well... you can imagine... both horrendously stupid takes.
Next, a story whereby a young woman (Sarah Everard) was sadly murdered, and seemingly by a copper. "Sadly" not even fitting for such a catastrophe. This is a story I know very little about, in all honesty. However, the social media aftermath of this poor lasses demise is absolutely lifting: Charvers saying all pigs are the same? Ye remember that when some little divvy from the next road up pinches yi bairns bike at knife point, who do yi caal then? 🚔
More apparent on my Twitter timeline was women coming out and claiming all men are the same?! Errr - I think not pet', if we were aal the same there'd be nee women left. Then gadgies liking and sharing? Eh? Is that an admittance that we are? I don't get it. This desperation to validate claims we don't even experience or understand or simply aren't right. Of course we're not all the fucking same. These types of lazy generalisations are the same ones we're trying to escape! Live life, be free (if you can), without inaccurately generalising others.
That's what I ultimately don't get - the desire that some appear to have - that the only type of equality is that of equal persecution. It isn't my fault tjat the ancestors of my nation may have historically persecuted women, blacks, gays or anyone else. Nor would I accept it. So why am I seemingly judged on it? I don't blame German colleagues for the holocaust?
We must strive towards the right type of equality, as it doesn't yet exist and nor will it be achieved in this way.
I mean, even some feminists cannot put their finger on what women should and shouldn't do, what they can and cannot do, what they feel men force upon women either subliminally or otherwise. If a lass is scantily dressed some will say it's because they feel they have to for men to like them, whilst others say it's to empower themselves. Just dee what yi's want man, most normal lads don't care. Just don't put us in with that tiny minority of fucking nut-jobs who murder people.
This same story also brought about protests which were effectively shut down by the police, in the same week or two as Rangers' fans paraded about when they won the title (I'd be the same), the same year or so as Liverpool and Leeds' fans did similar without much contest. Yet women, take a bit of a battering for their protest, and later that week the government attempts to pass bills where they essentially prevent any kind of protest. Peaceful or otherwise.
It's no wonder women feel aggrieved when a government that they should be protected by (as should men) seemingly knee-jerk to protect the bad eggs in it's ranks upon a woman's murder. So aye, an end to peaceful protest, all whilst most the nation, ironically, cannot go out to protest it because of a global pandemic. Power to the people, ay? ✊
I cannot help but feel that, social media since Brexit, COVID, Black Lives Matter, general elections, lockdowns, protests, nonces, murders and royal debacles has proven to me that a freedom of speech and more importantly, a balance, in cyber-society does not exist, and nor do people want to achieve it. Whether it be the ignorant, bigoted and aggressive right, or the over-zealous, illiberal liberals.
Perhaps there is only no mans land and not middle ground for common sense?
I guess, above all else, what several issues over the last 2 or 3 years have told me is to simply come away from Tw@er and only use Facebook for mundane or personal things. So Tw@er is now off my phone. Facebook is for photo's of me hot dog sarnies, the smiley face I've made with me 🍔 and 🍟 or nice pictures of the family and friends.
Ultimately, the only people that matter are the ones you like and respect. You don't always have to agree, you just have to discuss, and so this is my rambling, that will probably only reach those that really matter, as I sit on a cyber-post awaiting the cyber-fence to be reset.
Ciao for now
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