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Derek Smith said:
As for what appears to be a suggestion that what someone’s distant relatives do somehow reflects on that person is rather odd. We have a TV programme where people trace their ancestors and bathe in the reflected glory, but it shows them as rather shallow I think. I also think it rather shallow to suggest it works the other way.
‘Unearned status’ is arguable on the first word. But let’s let that go. It is not the monarch who is saluted but the position.
Not shallow when that distant relative gives you the job of HoS. UNearned status goes for the person but also the office, right of conquest as valid was dispensed with a long time ago.‘Unearned status’ is arguable on the first word. But let’s let that go. It is not the monarch who is saluted but the position.
TheRealNoNeedy said:
Halb said:
TheRealNoNeedy said:
The TV and radio would be off if true
Why do you think that?Autonomy said:
Due to science and technology, the Queen will live to approximately 120 years of age, so this is b
ks.
I should think she'd be having stem cells up the wazooks.For people stuck in traffic, or with Heart FM on in the background, there will only be the subtlest of indications, at first, that something is going on. Britain’s commercial radio stations have a network of blue “obit lights”, which is tested once a week and supposed to light up in the event of a national catastrophe. When the news breaks, these lights will start flashing, to alert DJs to switch to the news in the next few minutes and to play inoffensive music in the meantime. Every station, down to hospital radio, has prepared music lists made up of “Mood 2” (sad) or “Mood 1” (saddest) songs to reach for in times of sudden mourning. “If you ever hear Haunted Dancehall (Nursery Remix) by Sabres of Paradise on daytime Radio 1, turn the TV on,” wrote Chris Price, a BBC radio producer, for the Huffington Post in 2011. “Something terrible has just happened.”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/wh...
Hopefully Brenda will shuffle off this mortal coil on the first day of a two week holiday abroad so that we'll be spared as much of the ensuing media overkill as possible.
just realised I posted these in the ytube thread a while back
Morphine and cocaine...nice.
The Secret Protocol for When the Queen Dies
Half as Interesting
https://youtu.be/8-u5nd2GqNE
The Elaborate Secret Plan for When the Queen Dies
SideNote
https://youtu.be/CC5hzJNWIrY
Morphine and cocaine...nice.
The Secret Protocol for When the Queen Dies
Half as Interesting
https://youtu.be/8-u5nd2GqNE
The Elaborate Secret Plan for When the Queen Dies
SideNote
https://youtu.be/CC5hzJNWIrY
I always find it a bit odd when people say she's an inspiration or a role model. How exactly?
She is the supreme leader by divine right. She didn't choose it and despite the wealth I wouldn't really want the job. She does it well, but she has been raised to do it well since before birth.
With a clean sheet of paper a hereditary monarchy is an absolutely ludicrous way to appoint a leader but we don't have a clean sheet of paper and we won't get one by overthrowing the monarchy.
We would get something like Brexit. An almighty constitutional mess where nobody could quite agree who was meant to do what but with would be Presidents Johnson, Corbyn, Sturgeon and Farage vying for a stint as elected monarch and making absurd claims and promises which hundreds of other aspiring presidents would block.
The monarchy is a bit like the internal combustion engine. It's so highly evolved that it's inbuilt inefficiencies don't stop it being far better for most applications than any of the more advanced alternatives which might replace it.
She is the supreme leader by divine right. She didn't choose it and despite the wealth I wouldn't really want the job. She does it well, but she has been raised to do it well since before birth.
With a clean sheet of paper a hereditary monarchy is an absolutely ludicrous way to appoint a leader but we don't have a clean sheet of paper and we won't get one by overthrowing the monarchy.
We would get something like Brexit. An almighty constitutional mess where nobody could quite agree who was meant to do what but with would be Presidents Johnson, Corbyn, Sturgeon and Farage vying for a stint as elected monarch and making absurd claims and promises which hundreds of other aspiring presidents would block.
The monarchy is a bit like the internal combustion engine. It's so highly evolved that it's inbuilt inefficiencies don't stop it being far better for most applications than any of the more advanced alternatives which might replace it.
JuanCarlosFandango said:
I always find it a bit odd when people say she's an inspiration or a role model. How exactly?
She is the supreme leader by divine right. She didn't choose it and despite the wealth I wouldn't really want the job. She does it well, but she has been raised to do it well since before birth.
Slight exaggeration surelyShe is the supreme leader by divine right. She didn't choose it and despite the wealth I wouldn't really want the job. She does it well, but she has been raised to do it well since before birth.
JuanCarlosFandango said:
With a clean sheet of paper a hereditary monarchy is an absolutely ludicrous way to appoint a leader but we don't have a clean sheet of paper and we won't get one by overthrowing the monarchy.
Not absolutely ludicrous. It removes uncertainty as to who is in charge so makes a fight over the question less likely.
Dr Jekyll said:
JuanCarlosFandango said:
I always find it a bit odd when people say she's an inspiration or a role model. How exactly?
She is the supreme leader by divine right. She didn't choose it and despite the wealth I wouldn't really want the job. She does it well, but she has been raised to do it well since before birth.
Slight exaggeration surelyShe is the supreme leader by divine right. She didn't choose it and despite the wealth I wouldn't really want the job. She does it well, but she has been raised to do it well since before birth.
JuanCarlosFandango said:
With a clean sheet of paper a hereditary monarchy is an absolutely ludicrous way to appoint a leader but we don't have a clean sheet of paper and we won't get one by overthrowing the monarchy.
Not absolutely ludicrous. It removes uncertainty as to who is in charge so makes a fight over the question less likely.For the first 10 years of Elizabeth's life, she was not to be Queen. The same applies when she was a fetus.
jsf said:
Dr Jekyll said:
JuanCarlosFandango said:
I always find it a bit odd when people say she's an inspiration or a role model. How exactly?
She is the supreme leader by divine right. She didn't choose it and despite the wealth I wouldn't really want the job. She does it well, but she has been raised to do it well since before birth.
Slight exaggeration surelyShe is the supreme leader by divine right. She didn't choose it and despite the wealth I wouldn't really want the job. She does it well, but she has been raised to do it well since before birth.
JuanCarlosFandango said:
With a clean sheet of paper a hereditary monarchy is an absolutely ludicrous way to appoint a leader but we don't have a clean sheet of paper and we won't get one by overthrowing the monarchy.
Not absolutely ludicrous. It removes uncertainty as to who is in charge so makes a fight over the question less likely.For the first 10 years of Elizabeth's life, she was not to be Queen. The same applies when she was a fetus.
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