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  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    FlakeNoir said:
    GNTLGNT said:
    Siblings Born Within a Year of Each Other Are Called Irish Twins Which Was a Derogatory Term Referring to Poor Catholic Families With Many Successive Children httpstcoPFYfYN1BQg Children Meme on MEME
    So my partner and all of his relatives, basically. Holy crow... hopefully this one will be phased out with many other nasties still circulating. 😲
    ....yeah, every joyous thing has to be corrupted....
    FlakeNoirNotaro
  • Hedda GablerHedda Gabler
    GNTLGNT said:
    Hedda Gabler said:
    GNTLGNT said:
    I am getting a little disappointed.  Just because i don’t have a Twitter or Facebook account doesn’t mean I don’t follow people. Well, a lot of facebooks you can’t follow, so i focus more on Twitter personalities.

    So many authors especially, or publishing houses run contests or giveaways that i can’t participate in because i don’t tweet, i don’t fauxbook.  

    Bums me out. My money is green too. My fan-ism is valid. Just because I refuse to sell my soul to tech, shouldn’t mean i don’t count.  Which,  book giveaways and contests shutting me out is a bit ironic.  I would think authors would feel a little solidarity with old  school  consumers supporting book stores.

    many talk the talk , but they aren’t walking the walk of including brick and mortar buyers who don’t want to be part of the tech fish pond of gathering my information . 

    And yes, i use tech everyday. My information is being gathered every minute. But unless you’re just being obtuse, i think you know what i mean and the difference . 
    Okay, I was excited today.  I got an email from Cemetery Dance to enter a giveaway they are doing.  I was tickled!  And then I kept reading.  It was for people who ordered Chasing the Boogeyman.  wah, wah, wah.  My face sagged lower than my boobs.

    I am hoping beyond hope that CtB will be offered in stores because I will purchase it, immediately.  I want it. I'm just not ordering books right now because I have too many ordered I haven't received yet.  That list needs to get caught up.  If I can get my hands on them in a store, I'll buy them, if not, sigh. I lose.  

    Anyway, I kept reading and at the bottom, it said, "for those who don't want to order online or want to enter for free..."   YAY!  Hope again! I can play too!  All I had to do was send a postcard to their address.

    Today is March 7th.  Guess when that postcard had to be to their office?  Yep.  March 7th. 

    In all fairness to Cemetery Dance, maybe they have sent previous emails with that opportunity and I just didn't see them. 

    And the prize was The Dark Man signed.  I'd rather have CtB signed.   


    ....yes, they sent out multiple e-mails......
    Then I totally stand corrected  Scott.  I opened emails but must not have kept scanning down to see that opportunity. Totally on me.  
    .....no biggie, just knew they'd been blowing up my e-mail.....
    Teaches me i need to read the WHOLE email!
    FlakeNoirNotaroGNTLGNTMarsha
  • Hedda GablerHedda Gabler
    There is so much i want to say about this harry and meghan interview because that’s about how exciting my life is. 


    MarshaKurbenGNTLGNTFlakeNoirNeesy
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    Hedda Gabler said:
    There is so much i want to say about this harry and meghan interview because that’s about how exciting my life is. 


    ....I am heartily sick of the whole damn thing!!......they live in a world so disconnected from mine that it is absolutely meaningless....I'm not being pissy toward you Deej, just can't feel sorry for a millionaire and his wife(Thurston Howell anyone?).....the racism, misogynic conduct and antique ideals have no place in a world that has moved on....
    FlakeNoirMarsha
  • Hedda GablerHedda Gabler
    edited March 2021
    GNTLGNT said:
    There is so much i want to say about this harry and meghan interview because that’s about how exciting my life is. 


    ....I am heartily sick of the whole damn thing!!......they live in a world so disconnected from mine that it is absolutely meaningless....I'm not being pissy toward you Deej, just can't feel sorry for a millionaire and his wife(Thurston Howell anyone?).....the racism, misogynic conduct and antique ideals have no place in a world that has moved on....
    Oh, I know.  I totally believe the interview they gave BUT ---

    Look.  I love the royals.  Love them.  BUT, they need to turn into real live people in today's world.  They have opinions and feelings and ideas and make mistakes independent of each other and the Firm -- this stiff upper lip and not allowed to be real humans drives me nuts.

    I am sorry for Meghan that she was/is having mental health issues.  I believe her.  I believe she asked for help and I believe she received nothing.  We saw it play out with Diana and after the fact, we learned even more.  And obviously they learned nothing.  They talk the talk on mental health issues as spokespeople, but they don't walk the walk.  It's not lip service, it's action.

    Where I'm having problems with this interview is the part about what color the baby's skin would be.

    Why is that racist to wonder? 

    When I was pregnant, I wondered, What color is his hair going to be?  Light like mine or dark like my husband's?  Will he have my blue eyes or my husband's brown? Will he grow tall like my family or will he be practically "little people" sized like my husband's side.  Oh please don't let him have my dumbo ears hanging off his little bald skull.  Please give him my family's cheek dimples!  It's natural to wonder what the kid is going to pick up from each side.  So, if you are in an interracial marriage, as in Harry and Meghan's case,  why is it racist to wonder if the baby's skin will be light like his or darker like her side of the family?  I don't understand that.

    What we watched on that interview was a game of telephone.  Meghan was not in the conversation where the baby's skin color was brought up.  So, she is relying on Harry to tell her what was said.  But did she hear the tone in which it was said?  The context? Could she look the person in the eye and see if it was just a genuine wonderful mystery to ask or a hateful malicious racist comment?  So, she tells Oprah this.  With this "victim" look on her face.  As a black woman, I guess hearing anyone asking that might put you on edge, but you don't immediately jump to it was racist.  CONTEXT CLUES.  TONE.  That's what tells you what's in someone's mind.  She wasn't in the conversation to see or hear either.  Then, when she told Oprah that, notice Oprah's reaction.  The outrage ramped up the dial way past 11.   She was so appalled.  So, now, that story is getting worse and worse.  Everyone is so sure that was racist.   That is just not true.

    We are seeing real live telephone in action.  Each person is adding their own tone to the comment.  And that tone is uglier and uglier.  I won't buy into that.  

    We are condemning someone who isn't coming forward to speak for themselves and clarifying what their thoughts and feelings and intentions were when they wondered that question.  

    I personally think it was Charles who commented.  After years of watching his droll persona that almost always backfires, I think he was just wondering what this beautiful little grandbaby was going to look like.  It is natural to wonder and be curious.

    I am so sad that people have to take this to the ugly place.  


    GNTLGNTFlakeNoirMarshaSundrop
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    ....I truly understand natural curiosity about the child's look, but it's all about how it was phrased....like you say....context.....if it was tilted toward just the skin color, I then call racism....but we'll never know.....
    FlakeNoirMarsha
  • Hedda GablerHedda Gabler
    edited March 2021
    GNTLGNT said:
    ....I truly understand natural curiosity about the child's look, but it's all about how it was phrased....like you say....context.....if it was tilted toward just the skin color, I then call racism....but we'll never know.....
    Nope. We'll never know.  So, I'm giving the benefit of the doubt.  I want to think the person who asked the question was excited and curious about a beautiful baby coming into the world.  That's what I choose to believe because I wondered so many things about my kids before I got to see them.  It was this fantastic little mystery waiting to unfold and I loved every minute of it.
    GNTLGNTFlakeNoirMarsha
  • Hedda GablerHedda Gabler
    edited March 2021
    And, after all that, why did they do the interview?  What were they hoping to gain? What was their end game?  

    I'm truly baffled why they felt the need to speak-out to strangers.  Sure, share with family and friends all your thoughts and feelings.  But why include the world?  What purpose did it serve?

    Someone answer this. I just don't have a clue.  I have speculations and they are all unkind.
    FlakeNoirGNTLGNTKurbenMarshaSundrop
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    Hedda Gabler said:
    And, after all that, why did they do the interview?  What were they hoping to gain? What was their end game?  

    I'm truly baffled why they felt the need to speak-out to strangers.  Sure, share with family and friends all your thoughts and feelings.  But why include the world?  What purpose did it serve?

    Someone answer this. I just don't have a clue.  I have speculations and they are all unkind.
    ...a verbal "Tea Party"......
    FlakeNoirHedda GablerKurbenMarsha
  • KurbenKurben
    I honestly, until this hulla baloo started, had no idea that Meghan was partly colored in origin. That tells you something of my very limited interest in the english royal house. I had seen pics of course of her and Harry but never made the connection. 
    As to why they spoke out i'm cynical. Now that they dont get money from the royal house anymore they must get it from somewhere else. No doubt they got a sizeable amount for this interview. And the more spectacular it was the more they can get for the next one. But thats me, i might be totally wrong. I hope i am.
    Hedda GablerMarshaGNTLGNTFlakeNoir
  • Hedda GablerHedda Gabler
    They said they did not receive money for this interview, but honestly, they did in a roundabout way.  All of this publicity generates green in other ways.

    thanks for the answer kurben— i learn and try to understand from  other’s  viewpoints. 
    KurbenMarshaGNTLGNTFlakeNoir
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    ....according to what I've read-they took no money for the interview....Harry is living off a sizeable(millions)inheritance from his mother, as is William and Meghan had made bank from her TV "career".....neither need worry about where their next meal comes from or a roof over their head......
    MarshaFlakeNoirHedda GablerNeesy
  • not_nadinenot_nadine
    May be an image of fire and text that says SKL Stephen Kings CELL has come to life A zombie-like virus is spreading like wildfire and phoners are everywhere THE ITEM YOUR RIGHT IS YOUR ONLY EAPON WHATISIT IT WHAT
    GNTLGNTFlakeNoirNotaroHedda GablercatKurbenMarshaNeesy
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    not_nadine said:
    May be an image of fire and text that says SKL Stephen Kings CELL has come to life A zombie-like virus is spreading like wildfire and phoners are everywhere THE ITEM YOUR RIGHT IS YOUR ONLY EAPON WHATISIT IT WHAT
    ....a large jar of dry roasted nuts.....
    FlakeNoirHedda GablercatKurbenMarshaNeesy
  • FlakeNoirFlakeNoir
    not_nadine said:
    May be an image of fire and text that says SKL Stephen Kings CELL has come to life A zombie-like virus is spreading like wildfire and phoners are everywhere THE ITEM YOUR RIGHT IS YOUR ONLY EAPON WHATISIT IT WHAT
    If anyone says "a roll of toilet paper" I'm putting on my hazmat suit and going home.

    My answer: knife block.
    (take that motherfewkers, um... except I'll just need someone else to do the stabby, stabby thing for me please?) 
    GNTLGNTHedda GablercatKurbenMarshaNeesy
  • NotaroNotaro
    not_nadine said:
    May be an image of fire and text that says SKL Stephen Kings CELL has come to life A zombie-like virus is spreading like wildfire and phoners are everywhere THE ITEM YOUR RIGHT IS YOUR ONLY EAPON WHATISIT IT WHAT

    A machete which I've been using to cut slices of cheese.... 
    FlakeNoirGNTLGNTHedda GablercatKurbenMarshaNeesy
  • FlakeNoirFlakeNoir
    Notaro said:
    not_nadine said:
    May be an image of fire and text that says SKL Stephen Kings CELL has come to life A zombie-like virus is spreading like wildfire and phoners are everywhere THE ITEM YOUR RIGHT IS YOUR ONLY EAPON WHATISIT IT WHAT

    A machete which I've been using to cut slices of cheese.... 
    That's a big effing block of cheese, Irish. 😳
    NotaroGNTLGNTHedda GablercatKurbenMarshaNeesy
  • NotaroNotaro
    FlakeNoir said:
    Notaro said:
    not_nadine said:
    May be an image of fire and text that says SKL Stephen Kings CELL has come to life A zombie-like virus is spreading like wildfire and phoners are everywhere THE ITEM YOUR RIGHT IS YOUR ONLY EAPON WHATISIT IT WHAT

    A machete which I've been using to cut slices of cheese.... 
    That's a big effing block of cheese, Irish. 😳
    Had to use a machete, my axe is at the sharpeners😁
    GNTLGNTFlakeNoirHedda GablercatKurbenMarshaNeesy
  • FlakeNoirFlakeNoir
    edited March 2021
    Notaro said:
    FlakeNoir said:
    Notaro said:
    May be an image of fire and text that says SKL Stephen Kings CELL has come to life A zombie-like virus is spreading like wildfire and phoners are everywhere THE ITEM YOUR RIGHT IS YOUR ONLY EAPON WHATISIT IT WHAT

    A machete which I've been using to cut slices of cheese.... 
    That's a big effing block of cheese, Irish. 😳
    Had to use a machete, my axe is at the sharpeners😁
    You Irish are very rustic, rugged, resourceful. 😄☺
    NotaroGNTLGNTHedda GablercatKurbenMarshaNeesy
  • NotaroNotaro
    FlakeNoir said:
    Notaro said:
    FlakeNoir said:
    Notaro said:
    not_nadine said:
    May be an image of fire and text that says SKL Stephen Kings CELL has come to life A zombie-like virus is spreading like wildfire and phoners are everywhere THE ITEM YOUR RIGHT IS YOUR ONLY EAPON WHATISIT IT WHAT

    A machete which I've been using to cut slices of cheese.... 
    That's a big effing block of cheese, Irish. 😳
    Had to use a machete, my axe is at the sharpeners😁
    You Irish are very rustic, rugged. 😄☺
    It's all the rain.... 😁
    FlakeNoirGNTLGNTHedda GablercatMarshaNeesy
  • GNTLGNTGNTLGNT
    ....y'all are SO violent.....pelting 'bies with heavily salted peanuts is at least protected by the Geneva Convention....
    FlakeNoirNotaroHedda GablercatKurbenMarshaNeesy
  • FlakeNoirFlakeNoir
    GNTLGNT said:
    ....y'all are SO violent.....pelting 'bies with heavily salted peanuts is at least protected by the Geneva Convention....
    That's a little inSALTing.. 😜
    NotaroHedda GablercatMarshaGNTLGNTNeesy
  • catcat
    not_nadine said:
    May be an image of fire and text that says SKL Stephen Kings CELL has come to life A zombie-like virus is spreading like wildfire and phoners are everywhere THE ITEM YOUR RIGHT IS YOUR ONLY EAPON WHATISIT IT WHAT
    I think I'm screwed...my firestick remote. 

    😅😅
    FlakeNoirNotaroKurbenMarshaGNTLGNTNeesy
  • not_nadinenot_nadine
    Your're doing better than I am with nail polish remover.
    FlakeNoircatKurbenMarshaGNTLGNTNeesy
  • KurbenKurben
    A carton of chocolate chip cookies. Wonder how effective they are as weapons??
    catMarshaFlakeNoirNotaroGNTLGNTNeesy
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