Can You Feel The Love?
Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there, and a big thank you to The Beauty Bible who featured us as a suggested gift and all our customers – we thank you, our bank manager thanks you. Check out our nice write-up here:
It’s been a while, what with sorting out the wretched email system that spammed our subscribers, and it’s also been crazy busy. The world is moving at such a fast rate at the moment, I’m sure I’m not the only one that is suffering from whiplash. The big story has of course been H & M. Remember what I said earlier about distractions and changing the story? What no one seems to be asking is why we are still in lockdown with deaths decreasing rapidly week on week even if we still have CASES, CASES…… Anyhoo, we are nearly there. In case you’ve missed it, the US is opening up rapidly apart from good ole California, or Commiefornia as it’s called these days (sorry, it’s childish but it makes me laugh). Life is nearly back to normal in the continents of Africa, South America and Asia but you wouldn’t know if from the European press. This blog is luckily a Covid-free zone as we are now bored senseless like most of the populace, so moving on……
H & M, haven’t seen it, don’t plan to, but I found the fallout very interesting as an amateur sociologist. My favourite part? Poor William declaring that the RF isn’t racist. I’m afraid everyone in the world had a real laugh as the headline we immediately thought of was, ‘After much consideration, man declares himself entirely innocent‘ 🙂 Well, he would say that, wouldn’t he? Yes dear, I think we will be the judge of that, if you don’t mind. What made it even more amazing is that Harry emphatically insisted that Britons aren’t racist, the press is. The wily press instantly turned that into ‘Harry accuses his family and the British people of being racist’, leaving William etc in an impossible situation. Is William racist, is the RF racist? No clue, don’t know any of them. Unless shown otherwise, I’m assuming they are just like anyone else and they get the benefit of doubt.
Then came the bullying claims. Meghan complains of being subjected to intolerable abuse in the press and on social media. What follows? Millions of people saying she’s lying about the abuse and has received nothing but rainbows and roses, and then making or writing abusive comments in….. the press and on social media. Total lack of self-awareness, human beings are so used to trolling people they don’t actually realise how devastating it is anymore. How scary is that? Someone in your workplace calls you fat, you can sue and get thousands in compensation. Thousands upon thousands of of articles and tweets etc call you a manipulative narcissist and you complain; you’re a snowfalke and anyway you live in a multimillion pound house so why are you whinging? People-baiting as a sport, what a mirror is being held up to our society. The last year of lockdown and deaths and suffering has apparently not increased our kindness or compassion. Are Meghan and Harry nasty pieces of work? No clue, don’t know them. Do news outlets dissemble and lie on occasion, do they destroy people by making them clickbait-worthy? Do they make money by publishing endless articles about some hate figure? You be the judge. My instinct is always to stick up for the underdog, and I hate bullies. And yes, I’ve often picked the wrong side so at the end of the day, only God can judge. Not sure who judges if you don’t believe in God, but that’s another story.
In other insane news, hundred women attend a vigil being held for a young woman who has been brutally struck down in the prime of her life. The vigil is unapproved but people including the Duchess of Cambridge feel compelled to visit and offer their condolences. The suspect is a serving officer in the Met. The police response? Wade into a crowd of screaming women, pin them to the ground, handcuff them and drag them away. Just like, wow, as the youngsters say. How tone-deaf is that? The word the Met forgot is …optics. Yes, they are breaking the law according to the Covid Act but what happened to sensitivity? And where were the police when the Rangers FC fan were having a blast celebrating their win in Glasgow? The response in Glasgow was the right one – it’s a huge crowd of deliriously happy people who have had a rubbish year. It’s one night, let them get on with it … and send them a bill for the damage afterwards. Yes, it’s a superspreader nightmare but it is what it is, that kind of crowd is almost impossible to control without equally non-distanced chaotic arrests. 100 distressed women in London? What is wrong with you? My local supermarket has about that number of people in it at any given time. They should just have appealed to them to socially-distance, given them 30mins and then shut it down. It’s a good thing that I have contact with lots of people in my job so that I know that most people are kind, sensible and compassionate – we all need to remind ourselves of that more and more frequently these days. Thank God for family, friends, our communities, and today, all mothers. Have a terrific, strife-free week and may the wind always be behind you. Today’s joke:
Daughter: Mum, what’s it like to have the greatest daughter in the world?
Mum: I don’t know dear, you’d have to ask Grandma.
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