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Posts posted by bermybhoy
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10 minutes ago, SouthCoastRed said:
Bloody Truss speaking so slowly
Reading big words out loud is HARD.
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1 minute ago, themadsheep2001 said:
Plenty are, plenty will not give two *****, plenty will hate it. This isn't a controversial point
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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11 minutes ago, themadsheep2001 said:
It's not unfounded though. Even if you don't like the monarchy ( and I don't care about them personally) , you'd have to be blind to ignore that loads do, around the world. Even a casual glance at non UK news sources would have shown you this
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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43 minutes ago, Peter G said:
Regardless of whether you agree of the Monarchy or not. You can't help but agree that we don't half do these things well, we know how to put on a show
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Huge parts of the world must be a) not looking on or b) find it utterly cringeworthy and outdated and a horrendous waste of money, time and resources.
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2 minutes ago, Loki679 said:
You're all batshit mental. Someone said they'd join the queue if it got down to 1.5 MILES and that passed as a normal comment.
Fruitloop of a country.
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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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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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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1 hour ago, Lucas said:
Very good thread, hard to disagree and I think he made some valid and fair points about the institution, and the political attachment the Tories are trying to make with this.
Frankie Boyle also managed to express some of this in brief
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14 minutes ago, blueglobefootball123 said:
Absolute drama for Wills and Camilla trying to navigate around the ink well which Charles left open.
Imagine if one of them had knocked it over!
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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7 minutes ago, Rob1981 said:
BANK HOLIDAY INCOMING
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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7 hours ago, EnterUsernameHere said:
I would love to say I'm not anti-monarchy but it's probably both untrue and a complicated matter at the same time.
I don't care care if the UK continues to have a monarchy or not. I know some people who know their history better than I do dislike certain elements of it, but I can't speak to that.
My position boils down to this - firstly, if the monarchy was disbanded today, what impact would it have on me? I'm going with next to none. Secondly, while I have no problem with people wanting to mourn the Queen's death, it makes me angry when people try to force their grievances onto others.
If people feel need to grieve, then grieve. I'm not patriotic, why should I care?
(These are probably the ramblings of a drunkard, but anyway)
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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5 minutes ago, anagain said:
Is it just me or are we actually seeing a human side to our polticians with their speeches in the Commons today?
I actually quite enjoyed the speeches of Boris and May.
God, am I getting old? I wear slippers...I'll have a pipe and a labrador next.
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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1 hour ago, Sons FC said:
More related consequences - all barristers who are QCs, immediately become KCs, all police (and other services) force badges with EIIR insignia will need to be changed, post boxes, currency, passports and stamps changes will be phased - Charles will face the opposite direction on the coins in accordance with tradition.
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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21 minutes ago, SouthCoastRed said:
I’m gonna hear Nick ****ing Witchell in my sleep tonight.
At least Charles hates his guts, so tonight’s probably the end of his career
May just die after the funeral, his purpose served.
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21 minutes ago, InigoPatinkin said:
Celtic are at home on Saturday, do it cowards.
Can confirm this wouldn't be terribly well received.
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6 hours ago, Readingfanman said:
I'm completely locked out of PayPal because of their ludicrous PSD2 checks
Checking online it's a common problem and there isn't any clear resolution. Crazy.
I might just need to set up a new account. That or I can do direct bank transfer.
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On 04/06/2021 at 12:33, Readingfanman said:
Trying to resolve a problem - it wants me to log in, but wants to text me for verification first, except it doesn't have the right number. In an endless loop where the only way to change it is to log in, but impossible to log in because I haven't changed it.
Will try again later.
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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passes away. 21st April 1926 - 8th September 2022.
in Hall of Fame
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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.