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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #125 on: September 19, 2022, 09:44:32 AM »
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #126 on: September 19, 2022, 11:21:16 AM »
Is it wrong to be watching for a cringe moment from Joe?
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #127 on: September 19, 2022, 11:27:48 AM »
Is it wrong to be watching for a cringe moment from Joe?

To be expected.

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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #128 on: September 19, 2022, 11:34:52 AM »
a) He'll fall asleep
b) He'll think he's here for the funeral of Queen Victoria
c) He'll wander the grounds aimlessly thinking he's in Marta's Vineyard
d) Will start going on about how he's lowered prices.
e) He'll walk around with toilet paper hanging out of his pants
f) He'll start knocking on the casket expecting the queen to get up and fight him.
g) All the above
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #129 on: September 19, 2022, 11:57:16 AM »
On a more serious note when they started singing God Save The King Charles looked like he was about to break.
Outside he appears to be much more relaxed now that's it's over.
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #130 on: September 19, 2022, 12:01:42 PM »
a) He'll fall asleep
b) He'll think he's here for the funeral of Queen Victoria
c) He'll wander the grounds aimlessly thinking he's in Marta's Vineyard
d) Will start going on about how he's lowered prices.
e) He'll walk around with toilet paper hanging out of his pants
f) He'll start knocking on the casket expecting the queen to get up and fight him.
g) All the above

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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #131 on: September 19, 2022, 12:02:19 PM »
With the way the government is treating us, "peasant hunting" is STILL a "thing".  :facepalm:

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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #132 on: September 19, 2022, 12:03:54 PM »
William has to be hearing a voice in the back of his mind saying that'll be him in his dad's place in 10-15 years.
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #133 on: September 19, 2022, 12:14:49 PM »
William has to be hearing a voice in the back of his mind saying that'll be him in his dad's place in 10-15 years.

There will not be anywhere near the national (and international) sorrow when Charles III passes.
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #134 on: September 19, 2022, 12:15:53 PM »
There will not be anywhere near the national (and international) sorrow when Charles III passes.

Yep
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #135 on: September 19, 2022, 12:16:41 PM »
Think how much the world has changed since 1952
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #136 on: September 19, 2022, 01:00:27 PM »
I wondered who'd catch that . . . in days of yore, peasant hunting really WAS the sport of kings.   ;)

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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #137 on: September 19, 2022, 04:22:38 PM »
There will not be anywhere near the national (and international) sorrow when Charles III passes.

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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #138 on: September 19, 2022, 04:56:14 PM »
A plan is just a list of things that doesn't happen.
Is defenestration possible through the overton window?

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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #139 on: September 19, 2022, 04:57:29 PM »
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #140 on: September 19, 2022, 06:32:44 PM »
They stuck Biden 14 rows back.
Try to tell me it doesn't look like he's nodding off in the photo and that the woman behind and to his left hasn't noticed.

Photo ~half way down  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62890879
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #141 on: September 19, 2022, 06:35:44 PM »
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #142 on: September 19, 2022, 07:17:07 PM »
They stuck Biden 14 rows back.
Try to tell me it doesn't look like he's nodding off in the photo and that the woman behind and to his left hasn't noticed.

Photo ~half way down  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62890879
He's probably wishing he had a window seat instead of an aisle seat.
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #143 on: September 19, 2022, 08:17:27 PM »
Is King Charles III as much of a jackass as he seems to be?

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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #144 on: September 19, 2022, 08:31:08 PM »
Is King Charles III as much of a jackass as he seems to be?

On a scale of 1 to 10 a 7 or 8.
Much of that is due to the spoiled nose up in the clouds attitude he has compare to the more down to earth of his mother's and the shittly way he treated Diana.
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #145 on: September 19, 2022, 08:48:58 PM »
Speaking of Charles
Been doing a little reading and one of the many women Edward VII (while he was still Prince of Wales) fooled around with was Camilla's great great grandmother. Possibility, though debated, that both Charles's and Camilla's great great grandfather was Edward VII.
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #147 on: September 20, 2022, 01:08:55 AM »
Question:



Why do the two people at the left use what I think of as a British salute -- hand vertical, palm forward, thumb down, but King Charles, Princess Anne, and the other uniformed person at the extreme left-rear use the style of salute that we Americans use?
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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #148 on: September 20, 2022, 01:43:23 AM »
Question:



Why do the two people at the lest use what I think of as a British salute -- hand vertical, palm forward, thumb down, but King Charles, Princess Anne, and the other uniformed person at the extreme left-rear use the style of salute that we Americans use?

The three are Navy. The forehead smackers are army and air force.  Might be significant.

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Re: Long Live The Queen
« Reply #149 on: September 20, 2022, 08:13:54 AM »
The three are Navy. The forehead smackers are army and air force.  Might be significant.

Closest is a Marine.

RN - Palm down.
Army & Marines - Palm forward, fingers almost touching cap.
RAF - Palm forward, fingers to the side and behind the right eye.

Story is, according to wiki, is that Queen Victoria was saluted by a sailor with a dirty palm and ordered it changed to palm down for the RN.
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