The Royals

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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,877
    edited September 2022
    kingstongraham said:

    I don't understand going to 24 hour news instead of the usual programming for this story that is not really going to develop very quickly. Go full on for sombre music if you think Homes under the Hammer is disrespectful.

    BBC2 is back.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,095
    TheBigBean said:

    kingstongraham said:

    I don't understand going to 24 hour news instead of the usual programming for this story that is not really going to develop very quickly. Go full on for sombre music if you think Homes under the Hammer is disrespectful.

    BBC2 is back.
    Homes under the Hammer is only disrespectful if it's on BBC1.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    rick_chasey said:

    First.Aspect said:

    rick_chasey said:

    Quite looking forward to the new notes and coins etc.

    How are they going to make Beaker look anything other than a Muppet?
    Side on hides the ears.
    They could have them full face and create little 'lugs' on the edges of the coins for his ears. It would make them difficult to forge but a bugger for coin slots.




    The older I get, the better I was.

  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,316
    kingstongraham said:

    First.Aspect said:

    I don't understand why sport is being cancelled.

    Out of respect - same vibe:

    Every cloud...
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,461
    kingstongraham said:

    First.Aspect said:

    I don't understand why sport is being cancelled.

    Out of respect - same vibe:

    Worst place I've ever visited, we got in free and didn't have to queue for anything and I still felt I'd been ripped off.
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,648
    That lego queen has to be a windup surely. Looks like someone stuck a crown on a star wars leia model.
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  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,877
    kingstongraham said:

    TheBigBean said:

    kingstongraham said:

    I don't understand going to 24 hour news instead of the usual programming for this story that is not really going to develop very quickly. Go full on for sombre music if you think Homes under the Hammer is disrespectful.

    BBC2 is back.
    Homes under the Hammer is only disrespectful if it's on BBC1.
    I didn't have you down as that much of a fan of Homes under the Hammer.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,316
    pangolin said:

    That lego queen has to be a windup surely. Looks like someone stuck a crown on a star wars leia model.

    Looks a bit like the robot from that Film Short Circuit.

    Strap line on the ad doesn't really work though.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,095
    TheBigBean said:

    kingstongraham said:

    TheBigBean said:

    kingstongraham said:

    I don't understand going to 24 hour news instead of the usual programming for this story that is not really going to develop very quickly. Go full on for sombre music if you think Homes under the Hammer is disrespectful.

    BBC2 is back.
    Homes under the Hammer is only disrespectful if it's on BBC1.
    I didn't have you down as that much of a fan of Homes under the Hammer.
    Is that the one with Dion Dublin on it?
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,271
    Thanks all for confirming that generally this is a place of people with their heads screwed on vaguely the right way... looking at other places, I had started to wonder if I was the only person who, while respecting how the Queen had carried out her role over so many years (even if I'm no great fan of the monarchy), finds the blanket grief-n-tributes for a stranger rather vomit-inducing.
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,316
    edited September 2022
    briantrumpet said:

    Thanks all for confirming that generally this is a place of people with their heads screwed on vaguely the right way... looking at other places, I had started to wonder if I was the only person who, while respecting how the Queen had carried out her role over so many years (even if I'm no great fan of the monarchy), finds the blanket grief-n-tributes for a stranger rather vomit-inducing.

    There doesn't seem to be a lot of disagreement on this, does there? Best stay off social media for a while. I'm using the TV mainly for Prime Video and Netflix for a bit as the gushing tributes are already getting a bit tiresome. Even Putin sent his condolences and praised her, FFS.
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,461
    briantrumpet said:

    Thanks all for confirming that generally this is a place of people with their heads screwed on vaguely the right way... looking at other places, I had started to wonder if I was the only person who, while respecting how the Queen had carried out her role over so many years (even if I'm no great fan of the monarchy), finds the blanket grief-n-tributes for a stranger rather vomit-inducing.

    As Lloyd-Webber wrote in Evita "we've all gone crazy, mourning all day and mourning all night falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right".
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,316
    edited September 2022
    Maybe the title of that other thread should be changed to 'Mourning sickness'?
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • blazing_saddles
    blazing_saddles Posts: 22,722
    Pross said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Thanks all for confirming that generally this is a place of people with their heads screwed on vaguely the right way... looking at other places, I had started to wonder if I was the only person who, while respecting how the Queen had carried out her role over so many years (even if I'm no great fan of the monarchy), finds the blanket grief-n-tributes for a stranger rather vomit-inducing.

    As Lloyd-Webber wrote in Evita "we've all gone crazy, mourning all day and mourning all night falling over ourselves to get all of the misery right".
    I am currently in mourning for today's Vuelta stage........
    .......because it wasn't cancelled.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,271
    Stevo_666 said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Thanks all for confirming that generally this is a place of people with their heads screwed on vaguely the right way... looking at other places, I had started to wonder if I was the only person who, while respecting how the Queen had carried out her role over so many years (even if I'm no great fan of the monarchy), finds the blanket grief-n-tributes for a stranger rather vomit-inducing.

    There doesn't seem to be a lot of disagreement on this, does there? Best stay off social media for a while. I'm using the TV mainly for Prime Vide and Netflix for a bit as the gushing tributes are already getting a bit tiresome. Even Putin sent his condolences and praised her, FFS.

    That's what I meant about the collective (relative) sanity here. To be fair, teaching colleagues at school managed to get through the morning nearly completely without reference, other than being grateful that E2R outlived Johnson's Prime Ministership.
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,691
    kingstongraham said:

    First.Aspect said:

    I don't understand why sport is being cancelled.

    Out of respect - same vibe:


    Paris Hilton tweeting she was "the original girl boss" was my particular fave...

    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,271
    I suspect Private Eye will risk bringing the wrath of the Royal Weepers down on itself, under several headings, not least 'Desperate Marketing'. But I also suspect the front page will both gently mock and pay tribute at the same time - it's something they are quite good at, though it's never had the death of a much-loved UK monarch to deal with. They'll be hoping to get it right...
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • katani
    katani Posts: 140
    edited September 2022
    Stevo_666 said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Thanks all for confirming that generally this is a place of people with their heads screwed on vaguely the right way... looking at other places, I had started to wonder if I was the only person who, while respecting how the Queen had carried out her role over so many years (even if I'm no great fan of the monarchy), finds the blanket grief-n-tributes for a stranger rather vomit-inducing.

    There doesn't seem to be a lot of disagreement on this, does there? Best stay off social media for a while. I'm using the TV mainly for Prime Vide and Netflix for a bit as the gushing tributes are already getting a bit tiresome. Even Putin sent his condolences and praised her, FFS.
    Birds of a feather flock together. I bet he sees her as a great inspiration for his own imperial and colonial ambitions.
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,316
    katani said:

    Stevo_666 said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Thanks all for confirming that generally this is a place of people with their heads screwed on vaguely the right way... looking at other places, I had started to wonder if I was the only person who, while respecting how the Queen had carried out her role over so many years (even if I'm no great fan of the monarchy), finds the blanket grief-n-tributes for a stranger rather vomit-inducing.

    There doesn't seem to be a lot of disagreement on this, does there? Best stay off social media for a while. I'm using the TV mainly for Prime Vide and Netflix for a bit as the gushing tributes are already getting a bit tiresome. Even Putin sent his condolences and praised her, FFS.
    Birds of a feather flock together. I bet he sees her as a great inspiration for his own imperial and colonial ambitions.
    Missing the point, but maybe she can inspire him to die?
    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,271
    Haha, I've had someone from France Bleu contact me wanting to ask me something (they used some of my photos of the local forest fire)... if I'm their token Englishman, and it's about what I think about the death of Queenie, I think I might find myself busy doing my hair, as they'd probably want to hear how much I'm grieving...
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,271
    briantrumpet said:

    Haha, I've had someone from France Bleu contact me wanting to ask me something (they used some of my photos of the local forest fire)... if I'm their token Englishman, and it's about what I think about the death of Queenie, I think I might find myself busy doing my hair, as they'd probably want to hear how much I'm grieving...


    Yes, that's what they wanted, for broadcast tomorrow evening. I'm doing my hair.
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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    In the spirit of 'The ToB doesn't come past my house'...turns out the funeral cortege will pass at the end of my street tomorrow on the way to Edinburgh. I'll give you all a wave - I'll be the one with the "Allez Opi-Omi" sign.
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,095
    So bank holiday for the funeral - hope it's the Monday as I'm on the Eurostar on the Tuesday and don't want any disruption. Out of respect, you understand.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,271
    kingstongraham said:

    So bank holiday for the funeral - hope it's the Monday as I'm on the Eurostar on the Tuesday and don't want any disruption. Out of respect, you understand.


    Telegraph suggesting Mon 19 Sept. Good day for a bike ride, if the weather's good. My way of grieving, you understand.
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,095
    Quite impressed that I've managed to avoid any TV or radio coverage of it so far. Out of respect.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    briantrumpet said:

    kingstongraham said:

    So bank holiday for the funeral - hope it's the Monday as I'm on the Eurostar on the Tuesday and don't want any disruption. Out of respect, you understand.


    Telegraph suggesting Mon 19 Sept. Good day for a bike ride, if the weather's good. My way of grieving, you understand.
    Arris. Got, or had a plumber booked in for tasks various on Monday 19th. Perhaps he's not a royalist....
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,271
    orraloon said:

    briantrumpet said:

    kingstongraham said:

    So bank holiday for the funeral - hope it's the Monday as I'm on the Eurostar on the Tuesday and don't want any disruption. Out of respect, you understand.


    Telegraph suggesting Mon 19 Sept. Good day for a bike ride, if the weather's good. My way of grieving, you understand.
    Arris. Got, or had a plumber booked in for tasks various on Monday 19th. Perhaps he's not a royalist....

    Self employed. He'll come, and charge double.
    https://www.facebook.com/unanglaisendiois
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,691
    thegreatdivide said:

    In the spirit of 'The ToB doesn't come past my house'...turns out the funeral cortege will pass at the end of my street tomorrow on the way to Edinburgh. I'll give you all a wave - I'll be the one with the "Allez Opi-Omi" sign.

    I want to say please do this but I'm concerned for your safety. Think you can pass it off as a Wallonian expression of royal subservience?
    We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
    - @ddraver
  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,310
    They have arranged an interview process on the 19th and I am supposed to help… so that will be rearranged and I will be busy on the other day… :)
    left the forum March 2023
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,095
    19th it is, official now.

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