Prince Charles to marry his slag

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You could have fooled me.


After 40 pages or so, you still don't get it, do you? Or you like to pretend you don't.

At the age of 19, Diana was led into a trap laid by this entire royal bunch. She had no chance at happiness with her husband who had a thing going with Camilla even as the marriage was arranged and performed. She had the queen against her, and Charles refused to come to her side. Despite it all, she rose up and emerged to be a far more beloved figure than anyone in that dysfunctional bunch.

So now, years after the knife-in-the-back Machiavellian maneuverings are exposed, Charles marries the mistress. Whoopee. Are we supposed to be happy for them?

Charles, the Queen and co. made a stinking mess, it is completely their own fault, and no amount of posing on a balcony is going to clean it up for them.

If the royal family is going to play up the 19 year old Diana Spencer for all the world to see as a symbol of elegance and a source of national pride, then the royal family, Charles included, can be prepared to to get condemned when that same woman is treated so badly.

You got it now?

why you so agitated about this keltic?

I agree with McTag ref the use of gratuitous and insulting language.

For the record, the term "slag" has no meaning in U.S. English, other than the crud that floats to the top when you work with molten metal.

cjhsa, it has a very clear and pejorative meaning here, and most posters are well aware of that.

Kelticwizard, your last post disses me, but is illogical.
I am aware of the shabby way Diana was treated, and also that she was very damaged by the end, perhaps because of that treatment but not only that, I think.

Anyway, that is beside the point, which is the willingness of you and all comers to criticise Camilla unfairly.

But I could care less. My fun was punny.

Yes, and it was the pun I praised cjhsa for.

Slag was not his choice of word, nor mine. I agree it has a pejorative sound, though it is not an actual word applicable to a person over here. But I think cj figured that as long as that was the word being used in the thread, he might just as well have some fun.

And the pun was indeed funny.

Well that's two people who agree that the pun was funny. I think we've beaten that one just about to death, now.

It seems to me your question has already been answered, but here goes.

If you agree that Diana was treated terribly, as you seem to do

And if you agree that Camilla was part of that terrible treatment, which I think is clear

Then why is this criticism of Camilla unfair?

Please note, I have never once in this thread criticized her looks, only her actions. However, human nature being what it is, if someone does something bad, especially a public figure, then the looks do seem to get criticized, by editorial cartoonists as well as others.

I'll sign in on both sides. I was a very early poster against the word slag, as they must mean me and many other people I love and admire and they cast the word so freely as if from a spring of innocence...

and I also thought the pun enjoyable.

From a dictionary of London slang.



Actually, this is about what I figured it was, a contraction of "slut" and "hag".

I think it's fair to label it as pejorative.

I can't possibly imagine what it might be you have done, Ossobuco, to think anyone would want to put that label on you.

Huh, sure I have been slutty or, what was my other choice?

KelticW, I am something of a fan of yours, but do you mean to say no western woman cannot , er, just mate, when she wants to?

Okay, and here's what m-w says:

source: Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002

I got that already, early on, as I as an american have actually read the odd paper or book from the British kingdom.

I don't understand the easy use of 'slag' re women who don't cling to their spouses for a halfcentury, noted by men who **** around.
Much less by women of little worldly passage.

The flow of indictment is almost an indicator of ... of what?
of some other streak, perhaps politics.

I don't agree that Camilla was much, if anything, to do with Diana's problems, not personally.
I think Diana's private persona was much different from her public face.
I don't wish any harm on the reputation or the person of either.

I think Camilla, like the rest of us, deserves a little happiness in her life and people should get off her case.

I agree completely with you, McT. Unfortunately, they won't be retiring thereafter to a quiet house in the country together, never again to occupy the public spotlight. Given the position which Charlie occupies, this sort of thing is likely to go on for a long time to come.

... and it would be just perfect if the British taxpayer didn't have to financially support them!

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww! They are probably DOING IT right now!! Can you imagine all the loose, white flabby bits flopping all over the place and the muffled groans and grunts???

I'm trying not to.

Again, in the U.S. "slag" is a term applied to a byproduct of metal casting, particularly steel and cast iron, and also refers to a type of cement.