Thread by @Sage_Opinion

When you screw up in public & the hate mob are intent on shaming you, don't bother apologising as they won't accept it. They want to crucify you, "sorry" won't stop it. Even though you are best placed to say what you were thinking, apparently they....

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... understand your thoughts, decision making process, opinions, values, morals & ethics better than you do. They will even have some fuckwit psychology quack on hand, to provide a gloss of expertise to their postmodern, victimist wankery.

So here's the thing, I've some....

... experience in risk management that involved looking at why mistakes happen. One reason we screw up, is due to the way our brains are hardwired to process information, make decisions, recall information etc. It is an inherent problem that cannot be completely eradicated....

.... even with an awareness of the problem.

Whilst we all like to think we are as logical as Mr Spock, the reality is rather different. In short, we do things that are irrational. Without going into detail, this includes potentially life threatening actions, even when there...

... are known risks. Dear readers, I know this from personal experience in a somewhat hostile working environment when I have on numerous occasions taken "calculated risks" that were probably not rational, when looked at later. We are adept at ignoring information in our memory..

... when making fast, intuitive decisions. I've done things that could have resulted in a very loud bang and me getting my arse blown off, so some bloke making a mistake, whilst trying to find a picture to make a satirical joke about the royals, is small potatoes. On a related...

... issue, until Harry became Megan's boyfriend, I didn't realise she was black, even though I had seen her in "Suits". Perhaps I'm not very observant or maybe I just don't give a shit about a person's race, but at a push, I may have thought she was Hispanic. This may be a...

... a complicating factor in the story, as some of us, when asked to think of Mrs Windsor, simply think of her as being the future ex Mrs Windsor, based on the Windsor track record. Her ethnicity is not of paramount concern to me, so it's just as well I don't work at the BBC.