Breaking: H & M in Car Chase

The D of S has a well deserved reputation for giving speeches that actually say nothing at all. Just drivel or as it’s now called “word salad” which I think is really apt as it is just a tossed together bunch of words. If you listen to any of her speeches/lectures you will notice she doesn’t actually say anything. I honestly don’t know why anyone thinks she says anything of value.

What is she on !

“It's just never too late to start. You can be the visionary of your own life.
"You can charter a path in which what you repeat in your daily acts of service, in kindness, in advocacy, in grace and in fairness, that those become the very things that are recognised by the next wave of women, both young and old, who will also choose this moment to join the movement and make our vision for an equitable world reality."

Be very grateful you weren’t set this as a passage for translation in your A level French, German, Italian or Spanish exam!
On second thoughts, translating this into English might be enough of a challenge in itself

Woman of Division good one TerriBull.

Foxygloves

“It's just never too late to start. You can be the visionary of your own life.
"You can charter a path in which what you repeat in your daily acts of service, in kindness, in advocacy, in grace and in fairness, that those become the very things that are recognised by the next wave of women, both young and old, who will also choose this moment to join the movement and make our vision for an equitable world reality."
Just so much gobbledegook.

Just read this, Slacked jawed am I, what does any of it even mean I always knew "California Talk" has a tendency to veer into mind bending drivel sometimes getting lost in translation, but this has elevated all of that to a whole new level. Never mind Woman of Vision Award, although some might think Woman of Division might be more apt! Surely this speech should win outright the highly coveted "A Complete Load of Jackson Pollocks Award", even Gwyneth Paltrow at her most batshit, couldn't better it!

So where was their luggage then?

Any one else read that H&M were forced to ride around the city because the hotel they wanted to stay at, wouldn't give them the suite for free?
They then had to find a friend to put them up. I wonder who that was?

Calendargirl

Sparklefizz

And when Harry did the "top of the bus" interview with James Corden, he said that Archie had asked the Queen for a waffle maker for Christmas. He must have been about 2.

Being picky, but don’t think Archie asked for the waffle maker himself. Think the Queen asked Harry what A would like, H said he liked waffles for breakfast that Meg made for him, hence the useful gift.

Arch would probably have preferred a toy, don’t think many 2 year olds would appreciate a kitchen gadget, even one as advanced as young Mountbatten Windsor.

Quite, Calendergirl, but Harry chose to say that Archie had asked for it. I remember thinking at the time that it couldn't be true.

Smileless2012

I think the next wave of women will have to look elsewhere .

🌊 + charter = ⛵️
Any help? No, probably not.

I think the next wave of women will have to look elsewhere .

Foxygloves

“It's just never too late to start. You can be the visionary of your own life.
"You can charter a path in which what you repeat in your daily acts of service, in kindness, in advocacy, in grace and in fairness, that those become the very things that are recognised by the next wave of women, both young and old, who will also choose this moment to join the movement and make our vision for an equitable world reality."
Just so much gobbledegook.

I think these days it’s called word salad but gobbledegook is just as good. Because that’s exactly what it is. No concrete examples!

Germanshepherdsmum

‘You can charter a path’. I thought people chartered yachts and planes.

I haven’t recognised much kindness, grace or fairness on her part.

I haven’t either.

Sparklefizz

And when Harry did the "top of the bus" interview with James Corden, he said that Archie had asked the Queen for a waffle maker for Christmas. He must have been about 2.

Being picky, but don’t think Archie asked for the waffle maker himself. Think the Queen asked Harry what A would like, H said he liked waffles for breakfast that Meg made for him, hence the useful gift.

Arch would probably have preferred a toy, don’t think many 2 year olds would appreciate a kitchen gadget, even one as advanced as young Mountbatten Windsor.

A bit like the usual ‘uncharted waters’. Always makes me cringe.
Perhaps she should team up with Gwynneth Paltrow. She seems to speak a load of nonsense too.

“It's just never too late to start. You can be the visionary of your own life.
"You can charter a path in which what you repeat in your daily acts of service, in kindness, in advocacy, in grace and in fairness, that those become the very things that are recognised by the next wave of women, both young and old, who will also choose this moment to join the movement and make our vision for an equitable world reality."
Just so much gobbledegook.

“Charter a path” - I heard that too GSM - I take it she meant “chart a path” but like most of the rest of what I heard it made precious little sense. Clearly written by somebody with very little sense of English, and if not by M, she needs better speech writers.

‘You can charter a path’. I thought people chartered yachts and planes.

I haven’t recognised much kindness, grace or fairness on her part.

Meghan Markle is apparently ( according to her publicist) one of the most famous and influential women in the world today.

She said, in her acceptance speech (for whatever it was she was awarded):

"It's just never too late to start. You can be the visionary of your own life.
"You can charter a path in which what you repeat in your daily acts of service, in kindness, in advocacy, in grace and in fairness, that those become the very things that are recognised by the next wave of women, both young and old, who will also choose this moment to join the movement and make our vision for an equitable world reality."

Holly Willoughby has been called the Megan Markle of broadcasting !

My youngest DC said her first sentence at 9 months (I had a witness too so it wasn't my fond imaginings).
Her siblings would say "and she's never stopped talking since!"

Small children love to pick up random words and phrases from adults even if they don’t know what they mean and even better if it grabs attention.
Ours used to pick up a saying every holiday when they were little, sometimes in French, usually meaningless, and it would get repeated as we travelled - with great hilarity on their part.

I do remember my granddaughter at a pretty young age, maybe 2 and half, issuing all manner of directives as to where to park, usually somewhere completely illegal and not a parking space at all, but always following it up with "I just said park there and you didn't listen!"

Sounds like my older DD
and younger DGD! 😁

Callistemon you’re right, Harry also said Archie’s first word was crocodile and therefore I’m thinking that these words/phrases were amongst the first things Archie said. The very first words are usually babble such as dada and mama, ta (for thanks) more, dog, cat, etc. Then they move on to attempts at other words such as crocodile or grandma Diana, but often indistinguishable to anyone other than the parents.

DH taught our youngest to say Rimski Korsakov whenever anybody asked her her name. She was under two! 😂

Small children love to pick up random words and phrases from adults even if they don’t know what they mean and even better if it grabs attention.

My car bleeps if someone in a seat or even childseat hasn't buckled up. It gets louder and louder until it shrieks!

I recall Harry saying that Archie’s first words were grandma Diana which I thought was pretty advanced for the first words. Maybe they were amongst his first words. My firstborn, a boy, talked very early and spoke in sentences by twenty four months. My next two were about three months behind him with their speech, but all three were chatting away by two and a half. I believe Archie could have been talking when he was two years old, I have no reason not to believe that. He could also easily have been saying drive safe at two as children copy what adults say.