Mrs D taps daily into a rich seam of interweb humour, and the absolute avalanche of really funny Harry&Meghan stuff is often side-splitting stuff: the neighbours can probably hear us. And the Sussexes ain't even back here in the self-imposed full-bore glare of the UK meejah yet. Oh, how that pair are going to relish being back in Blighty. It'll be just like the old days for both of them, and we know how much they enjoyed it last time around. It's mutual: we can just see the accountants of Fleet Street already banking the extra newsprint sales and online hits.
Now, here's the Thing. We have all been duly reprimanded for laughing out loud at fraudster-fabulists and their amazing behaviours and statements because, notwithstanding their self-chosen high profiles and prolific public output of creative tales, their entire squadrons of outriders, and their use of aggressive lawyers, they are of course Very Vulnerable. And - see what happens then ... And it'll all be our fault & we'll all be Sorry.
Upon solemn reflection, I reckon the 5th in line to the throne isn't necessarily as robust of brain and character as we'd all hope for. And we know that people who've had to navigate the terrible micro-aggressions and material deprivations meted out to victims of, errr, intersectional oppressions[1], are doubly at risk.
So we must all refrain from adding to that avalanche of funny stuff. I shall only repost any of it if it's really, really funny, and has been subjected to a rigorous Risk Analysis[2] conducted by the Chief Safety Officer here at C@W corporate HQ.
ND
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[1] I may have got the technical terminology wrong here. It's not my project.
[2] You think this is satire? Read this crap from the execrable Jolyon Maugham, attacking the Grauniad no less, including the following:
"What risk analysis was done by [Gruan editor] Kath Viner following the multiple warnings about Professor Arday’s mental state?"
4 comments:
I feel sorry for Harry. Having your parents sex lives (not with each other) all over the media is no way to grow up, and then losing your mother so young and in such circumstances... he's made a lot of bad decisions, but not as bad as those of his parents. The sins of the father ...
Megan & Harry, reminds me of Cassandra's quip - enough to make grown men long for a quiet corner, an aspidistra, a handkerchief and the old heave-ho.
Thoughts of symbiosis - mutualism both benefit, commensalism one benefits and parasitism one benefits at the expense of the other. H&M depend on all three and so do the meeja.
Back in the day I was told of 'research' - copy it out but in your own words - that counts as research, copy verbatim counts as plagiarism. One of our 'researchers' got sacked for it.
We didn't have plagiarism from Einstein or Higgs, Foucault and Derrida had some interesting thoughts on plagiarism but did not do that sin themselves. They were genuine original thinkers.
What comes out of this is that Cambridge has a problem sorting wheat from chaff. A big integrity problem high up the dunghill. Where integrity problems are usually to be found. The port is with you I think.
As the saying goes 'the more you stamp on a turd the larger it gets'. Big shut down exercises in progress.
re Cambridge, some subjects are just full of crap. If say you can't hack medicine (vast amounts to learn and then keep abreast with) why not do "Globbal Health" or maybe this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_sociology
"Health disparities commonly relate to typical categories such as class, race, ethnicity, immigration, gender, sexuality, and age. Objective sociological research findings quickly become a normative and political issue."
There are still grants available for revelations like "alcoholics who sleep under bridges die younger than married actuaries".
I like the definition that an alcoholic is someone who drinks more than his doctor.
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