Hey @Activia why does my vanilla yogurt, purchased in a twelve pack from target, taste vaguely of peach and have a weird consistency? This is the second time this has happened! If I wanted peach, I would have bought peach
@LairdOfTheManor So well said! Also, as an American, she wouldn’t necessarily use “tonne” instead of “ton” or “behaviour” instead of “behavior”. Is it just another affectation or did someone else write it? her?
I feel Meghan, Duchass of Succubus’s, reply to her online criticism needs a reply…
Oh, heavens preserve us, what a positively exhausting sermon we’ve been served from the Mount of Montecito, courtesy of Meghan Muckraker and her impeccably curated bleat, With Love, Meghan. One can scarcely recover from the whiplash of her pronouncement - “me and my team put together so perfectly” - before being assaulted by the galling assertion that this tepid little series “absolutely demonstrates what it means to be a woman with skills.” Skills, you say? Unless the syllabus now includes sanctimonious whinging and the art of flogging a pilfered title for all it’s worth, one might beg to differ.
Her indignation at the “irresponsible behaviour” of a public daring to question her motives is nothing short of a pantomime. She wails of “toxicity” from “men and surprisingly now women” who, in her lofty estimation, “just aren’t really educated enough” to grasp that this isn’t for them - nay, it’s a sacred gift for the sisterhood. How quaintly condescending, how blissfully oblivious to the irony that she, a self-anointed duchess, presumes to lecture the unwashed masses on their own comprehension. The Sussex title, that bedraggled cash cow she’s been yanking by the udders since the nuptial knot was tied, is apparently now a beacon of feminist virtue - never mind that she’s wielded it to peddle her crocodile tears across every paying platform from Oprah to Netflix, all whilst sneering at the institution that lent it its lustre.
And then, the pièce de résistance: her claim that this series - a glorified cookery show with a side of smug - is a “remedy” to the “tonne of misogyny and sexism” plaguing the globe. One might choke on one’s tea at the audacity. In a world riven by economic chasms and social strife - cost of living spiralling, households buckling under inflation - does she truly believe the downtrodden yearn for lessons in “how to be a resourceful woman in a household” from a woman whose resourcefulness seems chiefly to involve trading on a borrowed coronet? The disconnect is staggering, the ignorance positively Olympian.
She rails against “review bombing” and “false criticism,” decrying the “sexist and misogynists” who oppose “whenever something involves a woman,” yet one suspects the dissent stems less from her gender and more from her insufferable sanctimony. “We need to stop obsessing over ones personality,” she pleads - oh, the rich, dripping hypocrisy of it, from a woman whose every venture hinges on the cult of her own exhaustingly curated self. The “very loud place, a very dark place of lost individuals” she laments? Perhaps a mirror might serve, for it’s her own narrative - a tapestry of victimhood and entitlement - that rings hollow to anyone not dazzled by her delusions of profundity.
“I expected better results,” she sighs, as though the world owes her adulation for this trite parade of domesticity. One might suggest that if she seeks to “reach so many more” with her gospel of “what it takes to be a powerful woman in 2025,” she might first acquaint herself with the actual pulse of the populace - not the pampered echo chamber she inhabits. Cooking tips and task-juggling do not a revolution make, dear Meghan, especially not when delivered with such tone-deaf pomposity in an age of genuine want. With love, indeed - though one suspects it’s a love affair with her own reflection, undisturbed by the trifling realities of those she claims to enlighten.
With utter contempt,
@LairdOfTheManor 🎩
@lady_doi I have it! I bought it just before the jubilee! Not only does her dress change colors, but it comes with a very cute box with a kings guard on it and a sparkly paper crown 👑
Welcome to Scarf Sunday!
I am going to do my best to catalogue as many of our Late Queen’s Scarf Collection as possible and today, I bring you Queen Elizabeth at the Royal Windsor Horse Show on 08 May 2019
And she is wearing
Hermès silk twill La Promenade de Longchamps Scarf by renowned artist Phillipe Ledoux. Original issue date 1965, this model depicts carriage horses and ornate gold scrolling.
Her Late Majesty is wearing this in White with Light Blue Border.
#ScarfSunday#QueenElizabethII
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Beautiful family Joshua. My goodness, 30 years old seems like a lifetime ago to me because it was. What would I tell my 30 year old self as pearls of wisdom?????
*Don’t sweet the small stuff. Enjoy your children, it will be over in a blink.
*Start saving for retirement NOW. Can’t afford it, you can’t afford not to. Drive your car until the wheels fall off. No one is paying any attention to what you drive, wear or have. You will notice at 65 if you failed.
*The memories are made from being together, the marshmallow roasts, the trips, the time spent doing an activity. Children never remember how much you spent, they remember how much you gave of yourself. Example one year we did not have much $ so I made up a birthday party where the kids came dressed as their favorite pirate. We had a scavenger hunt and at the end, the kids found a cardboard treasure box with gold chocolate coins inside. It was the dumbest idea for a party, but my son still talks about it being the coolest b day party ever. I hated to tell him, it was a function of not being able to spend much. My point is these kids had fun. That’s how they gage parties not by how much you $$$
Rome's Borghese Gallery - home of masterworks by Bernini, Raphael, Titian and Caravaggio.
It is impossible to walk these vivid halls and not be totally awestruck.
An unanswerable question. For argument's sake, Michelangelo's depiction of the lifeless Jesus held by the Virgin Mary is the most moving work I have witnessed. It is also the only piece that the great polymath ever signed (as seen on the sash across the Mary's Chest).
@Activia my last three purchases from two separate grocery stores are runny and watery and frankly, not very nice to eat. Pretty gross, actually. What’s up? Was there a formula change?
@scott_mills Daughter had her wisdom teeth out. On the ride home, peeved that dad hadn’t put out any Christmas lights, she asked why. He answered and her counter was we could put them in the landscaping rocks, or better yet...get bioluminescent algae and build a moat!
@sarajcox Chocolate mayonnaise cake - sounds weird, but you can’t taste the Mayo, it makes it really moist! Won a blue ribbon at a baking contest as a kid with this cake spendwithpennies.com/chocolate-mayo…
@sarajcox@BBCRadio2 Not an ILY, but my sweet husband told me he was going to marry me on our third date. A year later we were married - he knew before I did😍
Have you been told “I love you” for the 1st time in an unexpected way/strange place? What was your reaction? Have you said “I love you” to someone for the 1st time &got a weird response/reaction? Silence? Horror? Tears? Talking funny I♥️yous on @BBCRadio2 today from 5pm
My daughter has been a nanny for this amazing kid for over a year. When he realized she wouldn’t have a senior prom, he wanted to throw her one. He planned a socially distant prom, complete with dancing & her favorite foods.
@somegoodnews@ABC11_WTVD#bestpromever#SomeGoodNews