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I read on twitter this morning that the 5b figure was literally just made up by some spoof account, and has then been seized on without any sort of fact checking / application of common sense by various outlets who just repeated it. Although Lindsay Hoyle probably thinks it should have been higher than merely 5b given the earth shattering importance. -
Reading big words out loud is HARD.
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Dunno, maybe semantics here somehow? If you hate it or maybe even find it offensive are you really going to say that you grudgingly respect what a terrific show of pomp it all was?
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Well no, the key part here is not that news sources are paying attention, it's that people around the world are impressed. That they think it's a great show and think the UK is "doing it well." Really?
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Confident statement this. What elements of it are "putting on a good show"? There seems to be a potentially unfounded assumption that the rest of the world is looking on and is somehow impressed in many quarters here. Huge parts of the world must be a) not looking on or b) find it utterly cringeworthy and outdated and a horrendous waste of money, time and resources.
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It's worse when you're in the country and it's all being passed off as normal.
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Could start a bingo game with folk they interview from the queue. - History - She meant a lot me/us - Wouldn't miss this - Feel it's a duty - She did so much for us/the country - It's a bit longer / shorter than expected - I've travelled from <x>
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Apropos of nothing recent in the conversation, the banter today referring the the BBC as Mournhub is top notch.
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No wonder
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Oh my word. Have the police arrested the people actually whooping and hollering outside Buckingham Palace as the hearse went past? Far more deserving of it. What the hell. Such a weird response.
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That would be better wouldn't it?
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Now there's a woman in Edinburgh who's "been round" 7 times. That's a lot of respect being paid.
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There was a woman who's started informally queuing interviewed last night who is there "because they say it could be a 30 hour wait" to get in. So you're showing up 3 days early to avoid that 30 hour wait. Gotcha
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Frankie Boyle also managed to express some of this in brief
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Enjoyed the drama of that. Camilla's first signature must be a state the way she was holding it. Bet they were practicing their new signatures with the R last night.
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Was sqeaky bum time for viewers in Scotland at the initial omission.
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Oh my. Now taking about how diverse the room is when it was just all 'old white men' when it was the queen. There's about a dozen women and less than half that who aren't white. One in a wheelchair though I think.
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Would be quite a move if Nicola Sturgeon refused to sign this document renewing the act of union.
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Well, the thing about the bit bolded is that you don't really know. Now, I know forward planning on how to implement huge decisions isn't necessarily seen a a requirement in the UK now, but you would like to think there would be some sort of plan for what replaces it. The only real advantage of monarchy is that it largely takes away any political element to it. I'd like to think we'd go for some form of nominally non-political symbolic/figurehead head of state instead, but there's a real risk it turns into another political position with an the friction that brings.
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I'm not surprised that they all have huge respect for her. I think many of us would have more respect for them if they showed the same care and compassion for everyone else in the country.
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The worst thing about them becoming KC's is that their staff will have to endure said KC's banter about how they're now his/her sunshine band.
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May just die after the funeral, his purpose served.
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Can confirm this wouldn't be terribly well received.
