The Queen

[moggyonspeed]

Very good, mate. You're perhaps showing your age, but still very good.

[wetkingcanute]

The Headless Man.

[moggyonspeed]

Didn't it turn out to be men?

Duncan Sandys was named as one, but I forget who the other was purported to have been.

[perrykneeham]

Sept 21, 2022 11:26:03 GMT moggyonspeed said:

Didn't it turn out to be men?

Duncan Sandys was named as one, but I forget who the other was purported to have been.

The Duke of Bukaccleuch?

[flatandy]

This is actually quite a good article what it was like to be in the queue

www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/the-queue-queen-elizabeth

[mids]

You seem to have accidentally posted a load of guff by Laurie Penny instead of the brilliant and insightful article by Jacob Rees Mogg that you meant to post.

[ootlg]

Sept 19, 2022 17:19:12 GMT perrykneeham said:

Sept 19, 2022 16:56:50 GMT ootlg said:

The royal family perpetuates the class system in the UK. The 'us and them' mentality will last as long as they do, which is unfortunate for the country as the potential of many of its people is never realised.

I genuinely don't buy that. How many French presidents haven't been from Estabiishment families?

There's a slight difference between establishment families and Monarchy, non?

[perrykneeham]

Sept 21, 2022 15:59:07 GMT ootlg said:

Sept 19, 2022 17:19:12 GMT perrykneeham said:

I genuinely don't buy that. How many French presidents haven't been from Estabiishment families?

There's a slight difference between establishment families and Monarchy, non?

Not inasmuch as they perpetuate class systems.

[flatandy]

Well, there isn't an explicit constitutional requirement in France to perpetuate it, unlike in Britain. There may be de facto actions in the US and France that retain hereditary privilege and class, but it's not absolutely utterly baked in.

[Repat Van]

Sept 21, 2022 13:43:11 GMT flatandy said:

This is actually quite a good article what it was like to be in the queue

www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/the-queue-queen-elizabeth

That’s a great piece!

I am still amazed at the fact Britons queued for so long to look at a coffin!

[mids]

We know. And we also know that's why you're destined to always be on the losing side, politically.

[Repat Van]

Sept 21, 2022 17:46:18 GMT mids said:

We know. And we also know that's why you're destined to always be on the losing side, politically.

Touched a nerve I see! “Losing side” - dude you’re a pensioner, time to stop acting like a teenaged boy.

Did you queue?

[mids]

Although it's probably good that you've finally accepted you're forever destined to be disappointed.

[Repat Van]

Did you queue then?

[Repat Van]

“Disappointed” and “amazed” are actually two different words with different meanings.

[mids]

Sept 21, 2022 18:18:17 GMT Repat Van said:

Did you queue then?

In my head I did.

[Repat Van]

So you clearly did not see any value in queuing for 12 hours to see a closed box.

Interesting.

[bertruss2]

It gives a strange picture of Britain when people can spare the time to travel to London to stand in a queue for hours.

[mids]

Made us the (even greater) envy of the world is what you mean.

[perrykneeham]

Sept 21, 2022 21:37:03 GMT bertruss2 said:

It gives a strange picture of Britain when people can spare the time to travel to London to stand in a queue for hours.

"A poor life this,
If, full of care,
We have no time,
To stand and stare ...."

Typical Spart. No soul.