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delmbox
I agree that the coverage is way over the top and feels at odds with a modern day Britain but it's pretty easy to avoid it in this day and age. I haven't seen a single news report or read a single article, there's plenty of other *wanky word alert* content out there these days.
God help us when the Queen goes though, they'll probably have someone come round the house and shout at us until we cry about it
Your last point has just seen me act preemptively and complain to the BBC about the over the top coverage for when the Queen pops her tiara.
You can but only try.
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Jordi Culé
Your last point has just seen me act preemptively and complain to the BBC about the over the top coverage for when the Queen pops her tiara.
You can but only try.
I've never remotely been a supporter of the monarchy but I think I'll actually be quite upset when she goes. Quite hard to explain. Probably more about me than her! :-)
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Swiss Peter
I've never remotely been a supporter of the monarchy but I think I'll actually be quite upset when she goes. Quite hard to explain. Probably more about me than her! :-)
I'm hardly a monarchist and whatever your views on the parasitical Saxe Coburgs but Queenie has been a significant symbolic emblem in most peoples lives in the UK.
When she pops it'll be a sob fest and I fully expect Nicholas Witchell to request being buried alive with her dead corpse.
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SLUDGE FACTORY
It was the couples hugging each other crying as though their six year old kid had been shot that alarmed me . I couldn't believe my eyes watching these people shed tears over someone who could have been a right bitch for all they knew
The Queen of hearts bollocks spouted by Blair
Groups of people getting their faces on telly outside the Palace, blubbing then turning on the TV cameras saying .......it was you ( the media ) that killed her !
No it was wreckless driving that killed her and it was the insatiable quest for NEWS about the royal family from idiots like YOU lot that meant news teams , cameramen , shitty royal magazines like ok and hello and dreadful people like royal correspondents like witchell, that jenny bond and experts yeah right like that penny junor and that ponce from the daily mail were kept in a pointless job that killed your princess you feck wits
Bunch of clowns
That "Queen of Tarts" nonsense put me off Blair for good and I never voted for him since; he showed me his true colours.
It baffles me that there's people who jump on the back of any poor old benefits scrounger who hasn't got a pot to piss in but hold this load of shysters in complete reverence when they're taking us for a ride big time! The world's gone mad!
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the other bob wilson
Paradoxically years ago when we only had BBC and ITV, no one would have said a word about both available channels showing this sort of programming.
The same would have been true when BBC 2 came on stream.
I think the view then was that effectively respect was being paid to the deceased particularly in the case of the BBC by a public service broadcaster and to show entertainment programs was not the done thing.
I know there is a discussion to be had about whether we should mourn a privileged individual when many more have died on the globe that day but that I'm afraid is the way of the world. You are not going to square the circle there, many will think that it is correct to do so whereas other will think it is a waste of time
Now ,when we have wall to wall TV channel, Netflix Prime Disney+ IPlaetr ITV Hub etc etc etc we grumble when 2 channels (3 if we count ITV) cancel their programs for the day.
I must admit I was initially a bit irritated when I saw that both main BBC channels were being used and I think that they could have had a bit more thought and not both shown the same things at exactly the same time, but then I thought of what I mentioned in my thirded paragraph above and realised why the BBC had done it.
I watched some of the coverage but then I had a wonderful thought. I am on Sky, I have a Sky remote and I could.......
Change channels and not watch the BBC for the day
Watched cricket instead.
I certainly wouldn't bother complaining about it. With respect to those of you who did, I find that rather petty in this day of almost unlimited TV. (Sorry TOBW, Jeepster, Mozzer and any one else who has done it but that is that is the way I feel)
Particularly when I suspect most of us rarely watch the BBC any way.
But its a free world
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Elwood Blues
Paradoxically years ago when we only had BBC and ITV, no one would have said a word about both available channels showing this sort of programming.
The same would have been true when BBC 2 came on stream.
I think the view then was that effectively respect was being paid to the deceased particularly in the case of the BBC by a public service broadcaster and to show entertainment programs was not the done thing.
I know there is a discussion to be had about whether we should mourn a privileged individual when many more have died on the globe that day but that I'm afraid is the way of the world. You are not going to square the circle there, many will think that it is correct to do so whereas other will think it is a waste of time
Now ,when we have wall to wall TV channel, Netflix Prime Disney+ IPlaetr ITV Hub etc etc etc we grumble when 2 channels (3 if we count ITV) cancel their programs for the day.
I must admit I was initially a bit irritated when I saw that both main BBC channels were being used and I think that they could have had a bit more thought and not both shown the same things at exactly the same time, but then I thought of what I mentioned in my thirded paragraph above and realised why the BBC had done it.
I watched some of the coverage but then I had a wonderful thought. I am on Sky, I have a Sky remote and I could.......
Change channels and not watch the BBC for the day
Watched cricket instead.
I certainly wouldn't bother complaining about it. With respect to those of you who did, I find that rather petty in this day of almost unlimited TV. (Sorry TOBW, Jeepster, Mozzer and any one else who has done it but that is that is the way I feel)
Particularly when I suspect most of us rarely watch the BBC any way.
But its a free world
As someone who firmly belongs in the left and right both slag it off, so it must be doing something right, I still watch the BBC a lot, but yesterday set me thinking all of their critics might have a point. The fact it's a public server broadcaster should mean they should try to serve all of the public, including the sizeable minority who are either anti royal or not remotely interested in the Royal family. By all means, have extended coverage and reaction on one of their main channels, but there is no justification at all for it to be on both of them. Even worse though was when I thought I'd listen to some IPL or county cricket on 5 Live extra and found they'd stopped broadcasting it and then when I went on the BBC website to read their rolling coverage on the four day matches, they'd even stopped that!
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Swiss Peter
I've never remotely been a supporter of the monarchy but I think I'll actually be quite upset when she goes. Quite hard to explain. Probably more about me than her! :-)
I was saying yesterday that, at the age of sixty five, the Queen and Prince Philip have been constants in my life and, thinking about it, there are very few around now, I can say that about about - maybe that's a bit to do with it?
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the other bob wilson
The fact it's a public server broadcaster should mean they should try to serve all of the public, including the sizeable minority who are either anti royal or not remotely interested in the Royal family.
I wonder if those of us who are either opposed to the monarchy or have no interest in it are in the minority in the UK in 2021? I don’t suppose there’s a reliable way of measuring that, but I think the percentages would be close.
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The Lone Gunman
I wonder if those of us who are either opposed to the monarchy or have no interest in it are in the minority in the UK in 2021? I don’t suppose there’s a reliable way of measuring that, but I think the percentages would be close.
I wouldn't be surprised if you are right and I feel a lot of the goodwill towards the Royals currently will disappear when the Queen is no longer with us.
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The Lone Gunman
I wonder if those of us who are either opposed to the monarchy or have no interest in it are in the minority in the UK in 2021? I don’t suppose there’s a reliable way of measuring that, but I think the percentages would be close.
Recent opinion Polls by YouGov and Opinium and Survation showed around 55% on average supporting a monarchy with 29% in favour of a republic.
Unsurprisingly the youngest age group (18-24) was slightly in favour of a re favour of a republic.
Perhaps they should put a question on the next Census...........
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Big conservationist was Phillip
BBC have just shown a photo of him with a huge tiger he shot dead
And he enjoyed fox hunting and shooting grouse and pheasant
Jolly good chap
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the other bob wilson
I wouldn't be surprised if you are right and I feel a lot of the goodwill towards the Royals currently will disappear when the Queen is no longer with us.
let's knock her off and find out
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The Lone Gunman
I wonder if those of us who are either opposed to the monarchy or have no interest in it are in the minority in the UK in 2021? I don’t suppose there’s a reliable way of measuring that, but I think the percentages would be close.
I dunno. I suspect a significant majority would have taken an interest and been saddened by him dying. Frankly I couldn’t care a toss. I haven’t complained to the BBC about their totally over the top coverage. It didn’t affect me but two have both stations giving this wall to wall coverage is ridiculous.
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the other bob wilson
I was saying yesterday that, at the age of sixty five, the Queen and Prince Philip have been constants in my life and, thinking about it, there are very few around now, I can say that about about - maybe that's a bit to do with it?
I’ve thought that a few times, with her being the longest reigning monarch there’s millions of Britons who’ve lived and died without knowing any other monarch. In the past people may have been around to witness a few king’s coronations in their lifetime if they lived as long as the likes of you and me have.
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the other bob wilson
I wouldn't be surprised if you are right and I feel a lot of the goodwill towards the Royals currently will disappear when the Queen is no longer with us.
If this MB is anything to go by, goodwill has already started to disappear.
Anyone think she'll abdicate?
I never ever thought she would but with Prince Philip no longer by her side and if he truely was the rock her majesty says he has been during her reign, I think it might be a real possibility.
I can certainly see the Royals becoming even less popular when Charles gets the top job, even to some diehard royalists.
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Taunton Blue Genie
I am a big fan of the BBC but it's always incredibly sycophantic regarding the royal family. I was tuned into Radio 4 while driving to a walk I was leading on the South Devon Coast and as Radio 4 suspended its normal programming to convey the news ad nauseaum, I twiddled the knobs of the car radio and it was a full house. Radio stations 1, 2 and 4 (and probably 3) were all broadcasting the same very long tribute simultaneously in a way that seemed akin to what happens in Russia, China and North Korea. I daren't watch the news on TV tonight....
If you don’t watch your name will be noted for future reference
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delmbox
Stop begging for your own llama, it's unbecoming. You've got to earn 'em
Fixed it! :hehe: :thumbup:
Re: Duke of Edinburgh dies
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the other bob wilson
As someone who firmly belongs in the left and right both slag it off, so it must be doing something right, I still watch the BBC a lot, but yesterday set me thinking all of their critics might have a point. The fact it's a public server broadcaster should mean they should try to serve all of the public, including the sizeable minority who are either anti royal or not remotely interested in the Royal family. By all means, have extended coverage and reaction on one of their main channels, but there is no justification at all for it to be on both of them. Even worse though was when I thought I'd listen to some IPL or county cricket on 5 Live extra and found they'd stopped broadcasting it and then when I went on the BBC website to read their rolling coverage on the four day matches, they'd even stopped that!
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MacAdder
If this MB is anything to go by, goodwill has already started to disappear.
Anyone think she'll abdicate?
I never ever thought she would but with Prince Philip no longer by her side and if he truely was the rock her majesty says he has been during her reign, I think it might be a real possibility.
I can certainly see the Royals becoming even less popular when Charles gets the top job, even to some diehard royalists.
I am not sure the bunch of reprobates on this board are a good guide to anything!!!!!
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Rjk
why was he a great man?
didn't he start writing letters to the future queen when she was 13 and he was 18?
I' not sure what you are suggesting with your last sentence???
Re: Duke of Edinburgh dies
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MacAdder
If this MB is anything to go by, goodwill has already started to disappear.
Anyone think she'll abdicate?
I never ever thought she would but with Prince Philip no longer by her side and if he truely was the rock her majesty says he has been during her reign, I think it might be a real possibility.
I can certainly see the Royals becoming even less popular when Charles gets the top job, even to some diehard royalists.
This MB reads like SWP or Grauniad most of the time, so not a true reflection of the wider public IMO.
Kinder politics indeed.