The Queen

[Unknown user]

11 minutes ago, Smithee said:

£8bn, and the same again for the coronation

That £8bn was for the day of the funeral btw.

[dobmisterdobster]

1 hour ago, The Mighty Thor said:

I'll help you out.

 

The extra jubilee Bank Holiday cost approx £2.6 billion to the UK economy. 

 

How many days was UK plc closed or hampered for this? 12? 

 

Billions. Billions more than the imaginary contribution to the UK economy the Royals allegedly bring. 

 

£30 million my hairy hoop. 

 

 

Lost money to the economy because of a bank holiday is such an arbitrary number. I'm talking about quantifiable money spent by the taxpayer

Edited September 21, 2022 by dobmisterdobster

[No Idle Talk]

Having had some time to reflect on everything, I am putting myself in the 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone' camp. I never much appreciated the Queen while she was alive and I now feel very sorry about that. I watched all the coverage of her funeral, all 9 hours or so, and I found it quite an emotional thing. That woman did a lot for our country. She basically devoted her life to it. It's easy to say she had a privileged life, which she undoubtedly did, but along with that privilege came many costs. Anyone who hated the Queen should look themselves in the mirror and honestly ask themselves the question 'Would I want to have lived her life?'. I am guessing most people would say no. It is not a normal life. You can't just go down the pub with your mates for a quiet pint. You can't just go to Tynecastle and watch the Jambos as an average Joe. It's easy to forget how important and how great anonymity can be. The Queen never ever had that.

 

That woman has my complete respect now. For everything she did. I just wish I had realised these things while she was alive.

 

This may or may not affect how I vote in any upcoming IndyRef2. We shall see. I know that referendum shouldn't be about personalities, it should be about Scotland. And I will try very hard to hold on to that thought. But my feelings towards Nicola Sturgeon and towards the Queen could not be more polar opposite right now. And it's hard not to let that bleed into your thoughts about any upcoming referendum.

 

Anyway. Plenty of time to cogitate on things yet.

 

Thank you, Elizabeth. For all that you did. 

[The Real Maroonblood]

3 hours ago, No Idle Talk said:

Having had some time to reflect on everything, I am putting myself in the 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone' camp. I never much appreciated the Queen while she was alive and I now feel very sorry about that. I watched all the coverage of her funeral, all 9 hours or so, and I found it quite an emotional thing. That woman did a lot for our country. She basically devoted her life to it. It's easy to say she had a privileged life, which she undoubtedly did, but along with that privilege came many costs. Anyone who hated the Queen should look themselves in the mirror and honestly ask themselves the question 'Would I want to have lived her life?'. I am guessing most people would say no. It is not a normal life. You can't just go down the pub with your mates for a quiet pint. You can't just go to Tynecastle and watch the Jambos as an average Joe. It's easy to forget how important and how great anonymity can be. The Queen never ever had that.

 

That woman has my complete respect now. For everything she did. I just wish I had realised these things while she was alive.

 

This may or may not affect how I vote in any upcoming IndyRef2. We shall see. I know that referendum shouldn't be about personalities, it should be about Scotland. And I will try very hard to hold on to that thought. But my feelings towards Nicola Sturgeon and towards the Queen could not be more polar opposite right now. And it's hard not to let that bleed into your thoughts about any upcoming referendum.

 

Anyway. Plenty of time to cogitate on things yet.

 

Thank you, Elizabeth. For all that you did. 

Edited September 22, 2022 by The Real Maroonblood

[been here before]

3 hours ago, No Idle Talk said:

Having had some time to reflect on everything, I am putting myself in the 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone' camp. I never much appreciated the Queen while she was alive and I now feel very sorry about that. I watched all the coverage of her funeral, all 9 hours or so, and I found it quite an emotional thing. That woman did a lot for our country. She basically devoted her life to it. It's easy to say she had a privileged life, which she undoubtedly did, but along with that privilege came many costs. Anyone who hated the Queen should look themselves in the mirror and honestly ask themselves the question 'Would I want to have lived her life?'. I am guessing most people would say no. It is not a normal life. You can't just go down the pub with your mates for a quiet pint. You can't just go to Tynecastle and watch the Jambos as an average Joe. It's easy to forget how important and how great anonymity can be. The Queen never ever had that.

 

That woman has my complete respect now. For everything she did. I just wish I had realised these things while she was alive.

 

This may or may not affect how I vote in any upcoming IndyRef2. We shall see. I know that referendum shouldn't be about personalities, it should be about Scotland. And I will try very hard to hold on to that thought. But my feelings towards Nicola Sturgeon and towards the Queen could not be more polar opposite right now. And it's hard not to let that bleed into your thoughts about any upcoming referendum.

 

Anyway. Plenty of time to cogitate on things yet.

 

Thank you, Elizabeth. For all that you did. 

 

If I were you I'd that into the Sunday Post and probably win a £20 postal order.

[The Mighty Thor]

7 hours ago, dobmisterdobster said:

 

Lost money to the economy because of a bank holiday is such an arbitrary number. I'm talking about quantifiable money spent by the taxpayer

But then you're not as the services and the councils and all the other public organisations feed into that £30 million and start to drop in extra zeros. 

 

You've been mugged off with a number and seeing as you're clearly unable to think about it you parrot it as truth when in fact its utter bollocks. 

[briever]

5 hours ago, No Idle Talk said:

Having had some time to reflect on everything, I am putting myself in the 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone' camp. I never much appreciated the Queen while she was alive and I now feel very sorry about that. I watched all the coverage of her funeral, all 9 hours or so, and I found it quite an emotional thing. That woman did a lot for our country. She basically devoted her life to it. It's easy to say she had a privileged life, which she undoubtedly did, but along with that privilege came many costs. Anyone who hated the Queen should look themselves in the mirror and honestly ask themselves the question 'Would I want to have lived her life?'. I am guessing most people would say no. It is not a normal life. You can't just go down the pub with your mates for a quiet pint. You can't just go to Tynecastle and watch the Jambos as an average Joe. It's easy to forget how important and how great anonymity can be. The Queen never ever had that.

 

That woman has my complete respect now. For everything she did. I just wish I had realised these things while she was alive.

 

This may or may not affect how I vote in any upcoming IndyRef2. We shall see. I know that referendum shouldn't be about personalities, it should be about Scotland. And I will try very hard to hold on to that thought. But my feelings towards Nicola Sturgeon and towards the Queen could not be more polar opposite right now. And it's hard not to let that bleed into your thoughts about any upcoming referendum.

 

Anyway. Plenty of time to cogitate on things yet.

 

Thank you, Elizabeth. For all that you did. 

 

So you're now a fawning monarchist now because, wait for it - you wouldn't have wanted to live her life.

[Unknown user]

5 hours ago, No Idle Talk said:

Having had some time to reflect on everything, I am putting myself in the 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone' camp. I never much appreciated the Queen while she was alive and I now feel very sorry about that. I watched all the coverage of her funeral, all 9 hours or so, and I found it quite an emotional thing. That woman did a lot for our country. She basically devoted her life to it. It's easy to say she had a privileged life, which she undoubtedly did, but along with that privilege came many costs. Anyone who hated the Queen should look themselves in the mirror and honestly ask themselves the question 'Would I want to have lived her life?'. I am guessing most people would say no. It is not a normal life. You can't just go down the pub with your mates for a quiet pint. You can't just go to Tynecastle and watch the Jambos as an average Joe. It's easy to forget how important and how great anonymity can be. The Queen never ever had that.

 

That woman has my complete respect now. For everything she did. I just wish I had realised these things while she was alive.

 

This may or may not affect how I vote in any upcoming IndyRef2. We shall see. I know that referendum shouldn't be about personalities, it should be about Scotland. And I will try very hard to hold on to that thought. But my feelings towards Nicola Sturgeon and towards the Queen could not be more polar opposite right now. And it's hard not to let that bleed into your thoughts about any upcoming referendum.

 

Anyway. Plenty of time to cogitate on things yet.

 

Thank you, Elizabeth. For all that you did. 

Yeah I'd live her life, damn straight.

Would she live mine? Not a ****ing chance.

[ri Alban]

8 hours ago, Smithee said:

£8bn, and the same again for the coronation

It's amazing how the elite loves socialism when it suits them. 

Bank bailout, Covid, Energy prices, Petrol, CoL, weapons to Ukraine, all needs to paid by the wee guy. But let's cut taxes, so the people who it will benefit, can put said benefits in another country. It's the wee guy, if they had better wages who'd boost the economy, because it's the wee guy who spends their money in the UK economy.  

 

 

Woman holds sign up protesting the monarchy.   

 

Russians protest against their president  

 

 

What's that? Iraq you say, Afghanistan you say.

[JudyJudyJudy]

6 hours ago, No Idle Talk said:

Having had some time to reflect on everything, I am putting myself in the 'you don't know what you've got till it's gone' camp. I never much appreciated the Queen while she was alive and I now feel very sorry about that. I watched all the coverage of her funeral, all 9 hours or so, and I found it quite an emotional thing. That woman did a lot for our country. She basically devoted her life to it. It's easy to say she had a privileged life, which she undoubtedly did, but along with that privilege came many costs. Anyone who hated the Queen should look themselves in the mirror and honestly ask themselves the question 'Would I want to have lived her life?'. I am guessing most people would say no. It is not a normal life. You can't just go down the pub with your mates for a quiet pint. You can't just go to Tynecastle and watch the Jambos as an average Joe. It's easy to forget how important and how great anonymity can be. The Queen never ever had that.

 

That woman has my complete respect now. For everything she did. I just wish I had realised these things while she was alive.

 

This may or may not affect how I vote in any upcoming IndyRef2. We shall see. I know that referendum shouldn't be about personalities, it should be about Scotland. And I will try very hard to hold on to that thought. But my feelings towards Nicola Sturgeon and towards the Queen could not be more polar opposite right now. And it's hard not to let that bleed into your thoughts about any upcoming referendum.

 

Anyway. Plenty of time to cogitate on things yet.

 

Thank you, Elizabeth. For all that you did. 

 

[neilnunb]

Noone knows the actual cost of the funeral yet.

 

The Queen Mother's state funeral cost £5.4m so that's a hell of a jump to £8bn for the Queen's 🤣🤣🤣

 

 

 

[Ray Gin]

7 hours ago, No Idle Talk said:

This may or may not affect how I vote in any upcoming IndyRef2. We shall see. I know that referendum shouldn't be about personalities, it should be about Scotland. And I will try very hard to hold on to that thought. But my feelings towards Nicola Sturgeon and towards the Queen could not be more polar opposite right now.

 

Nicola Sturgeon has done a lot more for this country than the Queen ever has.

[Nucky Thompson]

6 minutes ago, Ray Gin said:

 

Nicola Sturgeon has done a lot more for this country than the Queen ever has.

Do you think there would be the same outpouring of grief in Scotland if Elsie popped her clogs 

 

There might be the same amount of Union flags getting waved about right enough

[Ray Gin]

2 minutes ago, Nucky Thompson said:

Do you think there would be the same outpouring of grief in Scotland if Elsie popped her clogs 

 

There might be the same amount of Union flags getting waved about right enough

 

I have no doubt you'd be waving yours.

[Unknown user]

3 hours ago, neilnunb said:

Noone knows the actual cost of the funeral yet.

 

The Queen Mother's state funeral cost £5.4m so that's a hell of a jump to £8bn for the Queen's 🤣🤣🤣

 

£8bn is the estimated cost to the economy

[Francis Albert]

3 hours ago, jonesy said:

Fair enough, each to their own.

 

I listened to two hours of radio 2 through the night on Sunday/Monday, and they made her death and funeral into a very personal, very emotive thing. The attitude of the media was very much designed to generate such feelings.

 

I was glad to continue my drive into an area with no radio signal.

Bloody annoying those radios with no off button.

[dobmisterdobster]

3 hours ago, neilnunb said:

Noone knows the actual cost of the funeral yet.

 

The Queen Mother's state funeral cost £5.4m so that's a hell of a jump to £8bn for the Queen's 🤣🤣🤣

 

£8bn is around what Disney paid to acquire Pixar.

But yeah a state funeral totally costs that kind of money. Seems legit.

[No Idle Talk]

7 hours ago, been here before said:

 

If I were you I'd that into the Sunday Post and probably win a £20 postal order.

 

Haha

 

Sounds like a plan! 

[Japan Jambo]

13 hours ago, The Maroon Pound said:

It will depend on what day of the week the coronation is on 

 

Monday May 1st would work.

[neilnunb]

29 minutes ago, dobmisterdobster said:

 

£8bn is around what Disney paid to acquire Pixar.

But yeah a state funeral totally costs that kind of money. Seems legit.

 

 

It ain't me making up numbers.

 

🙄

[Unknown user]

1 minute ago, Japan Jambo said:

 

Monday May 1st would work.

 

April 1st is more appropriate.

[Japan Jambo]

Just now, Smithee said:

 

April 1st is more appropriate.

 

Lol, yup but it isn't a bank holiday!

[Howdy Doody Jambo]

29 minutes ago, Japan Jambo said:

 

Monday May 1st would work.

That would make sense or the 29th of May 

[briever]

19 minutes ago, jonesy said:

 

I am sure there were some DAB stations, but I dont have DAB in the car  - but on Monday there was no station not covering it, or at least playing "appropriate" music.

[briever]

It's a completely mental cult.

 

https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1572967706680238081?t=NGitj7bqLqq1KEZNgB01iw&s=19

[Morgan]

6 minutes ago, briever said:

It's a completely mental cult.

 

https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1572967706680238081?t=NGitj7bqLqq1KEZNgB01iw&s=19

Why don’t you find another thread to flog to death?

[Irufushi]

15 minutes ago, briever said:

It's a completely mental cult.

 

https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1572967706680238081?t=NGitj7bqLqq1KEZNgB01iw&s=19

 Saint lizzy. 

[Dusk_Till_Dawn]

24 minutes ago, briever said:

It's a completely mental cult.

 

https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1572967706680238081?t=NGitj7bqLqq1KEZNgB01iw&s=19

****ing hell, that is ludicrous.

 

The Englanders can be very weird. 
 

Mind you, nationalism of all kinds is basically a magnet for people who need their hard drives checked.

[The Mighty Thor]

3 minutes ago, Dusk_Till_Dawn said:

****ing hell, that is ludicrous.

 

The Englanders can be very weird. 

As Carly Simon once beautifully said 'nobody does it better'

[Unknown user]

39 minutes ago, The Mighty Thor said:

As Carly Simon once beautifully said 'nobody does it better'

 

[Morgan]

1 hour ago, The Mighty Thor said:

As Carly Simon once beautifully said 'nobody does it better'

 

Great song.  Good reference. 👍

 

The chap, quoted below, doesn’t ‘get’ that sort of thing.

 

1 hour ago, Irufushi said:

 Saint lizzy. 

 

[John Findlay]

9 hours ago, briever said:

I'm a completely mental cult.

 

https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1572967706680238081?t=NGitj7bqLqq1KEZNgB01iw&s=19

Ftfy

[briever]

3 hours ago, John Findlay said:

Ftfy

 

That is pathetic even for you.

 

At 5am too - couldn't sleep, greetin all night about Lizzie in her box?

Edited September 23, 2022 by briever

[John Findlay]

27 minutes ago, briever said:

 

That is pathetic even for you.

 

At 5am too - couldn't sleep, greetin all night about Lizzie in her box?

Aye, you got it one.

There again I might have had a 04.50 book on this morning.

Some of us do work for a living old chap.

[ri Alban]

I thought proddies don't do saints. Even tho St Giles is the High Kirk. 

[ri Alban]

8 hours ago, briever said:

 

That is pathetic even for you.

 

At 5am too - couldn't sleep, greetin all night about Lizzie in her box?

He was part of the illegal sinking of the General Belgrano. 

 

Weren't you @John Findlay?

[John Findlay]

14 minutes ago, ri Alban said:

He was part of the illegal sinking of the General Belgrano. 

 

Weren't you @John Findlay?

One hundred percent. Very proud of it too.

Next?

[Maple Leaf]

13 minutes ago, John Findlay said:

One hundred percent. Very proud of it too.

 

As you should be. 

 

Sinking an enemy warship in wartime is the right thing to do.

[John Findlay]

8 minutes ago, Maple Leaf said:

As you should be. 

 

Sinking an enemy warship in wartime is the right thing to do.

Them or us. That time it was them.

Kept the Argentine Navy in port, could argue we saved more lives than we killed.

[briever]

1 hour ago, John Findlay said:

One hundred percent. Very proud of it too.

Next?

 

The naval equivalent of shooting a retreating soldier in the back.

 

You're a classy guy Findlay.

[Morgan]

15 minutes ago, briever said:

 

The naval equivalent of shooting a retreating soldier in the back.

 

You're a classy guy Findlay.

Says the gentleman who wrote ‘Lizzy in her box’.

 

 

[Morgan]

1 hour ago, John Findlay said:

One hundred percent. Very proud of it too.

Next?

Damn right.  👍

[John Findlay]

53 minutes ago, briever said:

 

The naval equivalent of shooting a retreating soldier in the back.

 

You're a classy guy Findlay.

More class in my big toe than you have in your whole body.

On the this subject you are pontificating about, like so many others you pontificate about, you are absolutely clueless.

[Roxy Hearts]

2 hours ago, briever said:

 

The naval equivalent of shooting a retreating soldier in the back.

 

You're a classy guy Findlay.

Thatcher has a lot to answer for. Disgusting human being! 

[dobmisterdobster]

2 hours ago, Morgan said:

Damn right.  👍

 

[Unknown user]

2 hours ago, briever said:

 

The naval equivalent of shooting a retreating soldier in the back.

 

You're a classy guy Findlay.

 

I don't reckon it was totally his call to be fair.

[Malinga the Swinga]

1 hour ago, John Findlay said:

More class in my big toe than you have in your whole body.

On the this subject you are pontificating about, like so many others you pontificate about, you are absolutely clueless.

You put that a whole better than I would have. 

[Dawnrazor]

4 hours ago, John Findlay said:

One hundred percent. Very proud of it too.

Next?

👍

[Morgan]

33 minutes ago, Malinga the Swinga said:

You put that a whole better than I would have. 

And me, Mal 👍

[Morgan]

Brieveheart having a bit of a nightmare on this thread.