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  1. 9 hours ago, mrw072 said:

    I think it'll depend on how the figures are calculated.  I reckon if it's people watching 15 to 20 mins of the service today, not necessarily live, it'll be much higher than 1 billion.  But the number of people watching the full service will be a lot lower than that.

    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. 

  2. 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?

  3. 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    Huge parts of the world must be a) not looking on or b) find it utterly cringeworthy and outdated and a horrendous waste of money, time and resources. 

  4. 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. 

  5. 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.

  6. 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. 

  7. 6 hours ago, Readingfanman said:

    Payment waiting from 

     

    @bermybhoy& @arenarossI believe chaps

    I'm completely locked out of PayPal because of their ludicrous PSD2 checks :mad:

    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. 

  8. On 04/06/2021 at 12:33, Readingfanman said:

    You can also just do it via card:

     

    www.paypal.me/elmparkroyals

    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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