god save the king’
Makes me cringe every time I hear it…
Young squaddies shouted that as they went over the top to give themselves courage. Maybe
Is it just me or is watching Charles greet the crowds at Buck house to cries of ‘god save the king’ like a scene from Game of Thrones?
Prince Andrew walking naked through the streets of London to cries of 'Shame!'
I thought the King looked like he had just won a sporting competition, shake a few hands of his supporters, then head off to collect his prize.
do you think Liz Truss planned this?
I'm not sure Lis Truss is capable of such machinations. I wonder however if she and Boris are reflecting on the fact that the effort required to play her part in their pathetic political soap opera finished dear Queenie off. I hope the labour comms dept are photoshopping the 'Tories killed the Queen' memes for a future social media blitz when the hysteria has died down.
With flags at half-mast across the nation now, how high will Rishi Sunak’s trousers be?
Rishi will be rocking new diamond-encrusted sliders - with Queenie down there is no competition for his missus as “richest woman in Britain”.
So i ask again why do we need a head of state at all?
Can you name a counrty without one? To save you googling its only Switzerland & that's down to their Federal system. You need to have someone who represents the sovereign authority of the nation, which isn't the same as the government.
Why does anybody care about the Royal parasites?There a rotten bunch to the core.A leper colony in fact(who said that?).Probably unfair to leper colonies mind.
Apologies about canada. I thought they had got rid of the queen as head of state. Must be confuzzled with someone else . Australia?
That did make me look foolish
'She was a thoughtful Queen too, like that time she asked me if I wanted sugar in my tea, which was funny because I do take sugar in my tea. Ahhh she will be missed'
Apologies about Canada. I thought they had got rid of the queen as head of state. Must be confuzzled with someone else . Australia?
That did make me look foolish
It was Barbados - easy mistake to make, i mix them up all the time ;o)
It’s not the pheasants
It’s the pheasant pluckers son and he’s only plucking pheasants til the pheasant pluckers comes.
I’m not sure Lis Truss is capable of such machinations.
The sole survivor in government of Cameron's cabinet? There could be more than meets the eye. There has to be...
No need to apologise TJ, we needed the laugh.
That did make me look foolish
That's not really the issue though - getting something factually wrong undermines your argument, which is why I always try to double check everything, even things which I am sure about.
Filled with youthful enthusiasm it is clear that you rarely have time to double check anything TJ!
A lesson which I was taught very early in my career has stayed with me all my life - measure twice cut once.
A lesson which I was taught very early in my career has stayed with me all my life – measure twice cut once.
Are you a taxidermist?
A bespoke tailor.
A serial killer?
"A lesson which I was taught very early in my career has stayed with me all my life – measure twice cut once."
Measured in imperial, cut in metric.
Cut once - measure twice.
Then start swearing.
TBH they probably should vet the anecdotes.
Oddly I have a few.
One time I was on Bath Spa station and I was rather intrigued by a copper picking up a springer and letting it sniff all the hanging baskets as I'd never really seen a dog being picked up like it was/used like this.
Then I remembered she was popping in later on her train.
One time I was on Bath Spa station and I was rather intrigued by a copper picking up a springer and letting it sniff all the hanging baskets as I’d never really seen a dog being picked up like it was/used like this.
sometimes if I spill foodstuff on the worksurface I pick my dog up and let her clean it up. She loves it.
wife not so keen, so we try not to let her catch us.
A lesson which I was taught very early in my career has stayed with me all my life – measure twice cut once.
Jigsaw maker (jigsawerista)? Once met the Queen…
They hang the flower baskets a bit higher than a worksurface thou, it was probably a good workout 🙂
10+ days of this mawkish drivel is taking the utter piss
Get used to it: this is nothing compared to what we'll have when Macca goes.
One time I was on Bath Spa station and I was rather intrigued by a copper picking up a springer and letting it sniff all the hanging baskets as I’d never really seen a dog being picked up like it was/used like this.
I started by wondering how much damage a bomb planted in a hanging basket could do and ended with a picture in my mind of a very small bomb blowing up the planter and covering a delighted looking Her Maj in a blizzard of petunia petals...
You need to have someone who represents the sovereign authority of the nation, which isn’t the same as the government.
Why?
That could be to the people
a bomb planted in a hanging basket
Planted and regularly watered?
Watching all the clips from the Queens life it's fascinating how her accent has changed over the years, her piercing accent from her early speeches sounds almost excruciating and can actually be damaging to your ears if you've inadvertantly left the volume too high.
Had she carried on any longer she could well have ended up sounding like a yoot.
One's fam', true dat cuz' etc...
You need to have someone who represents the sovereign authority of the nation, which isn’t the same as the government.
And lest we not forget, "sovrinty" was seemingly vitally important to a lot of people just a few years ago.
How about Craig Charles then? All he has to do is change his first name to 'King'. Job jobbed.
a bomb planted in a hanging basket
Planted and regularly watered?
I chose my words carefully. ;D
Why?
That could be to the people
Well I could lead you on a long & tedious debate about what sovereignty is & how it comes about & if it were 'the people' how could they legitimately possess sovereignty if they didn't have it before. Or I could point out again that every single state in the world (except Switzerland) has a Head of State & presumuably this is not done just as a whim.
Or I could point out again that every single state in the world (except Switzerland) has a Head of State & presumuably this is not done just as a whim.
Give us the TL:DR - I'm finishing work in 10.
That could be to the people
It is in Scotland. The people are sovereign.
To be clear, is this the bloke that everyone's talking about?
Yes. People with / in power will often use it to lobby politicians and governments.
In fairness - that article's 7 years old and he wasn't King then. In his own words
Time will tell of course.
Or I could point out again that every single state in the world (except Switzerland) has a Head of State & presumuably this is not done just as a whim.
It's the wrong question if you ask me. The real question we should be asking is why do we need a state at all? Humans are perfectly capable of organising themselves without an all powerful bureaucratic entity to bully and coerce them into doing things they may or may not want to do.
Which side of the road should we drive on?
Obviously we don't need to organise things around the state level, but we do need to organise. Chaos is great till it isn't. Whatever level we organise at, sometimes it's useful to have someone to represent us. Sometimes that can be purely ceremonial, other times it is to organise with others at an even wider level. Fully distributed organising bodies don't necessarily scale well, and there's an awful lot of us on this planet.
One time I was on Bath Spa station and I was rather intrigued by a copper picking up a springer and letting it sniff all the hanging baskets as I’d never really seen a dog being picked up like it was/used like this.
Presumably now they'd use a King Charles Spaniel
but we do need to organise.
Presume you didn't see the sentence about 'humans organising themselves'?
Apologies if this is a bit too on topic given the direction of the thread....
The images from Buck Palace earlier of Chaz and Cam doing some glad handing.....I know he's been waiting for this day pretty much all his life but, wasn't he a bit too bit smiley/upbeat? Queen is dead, long live the King and all that, but his smiles didn't kind of fit with the morning after general mood.
Theresa May really is the most boring person on the planet isn't she? First it was running through fields of wheat, now it's dropping cheese on the ground and putting it back on the table. She really knows how to party!
but his smiles didn’t kind of fit with the morning after general mood.
Maybe he was laughing at the person who shouted 'Guillotine!' at them?
I am going to wear all black for 3 days at my office full of Republicans.
