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Poor old Charlie looks bored out of his mind down the bay
Bet he wants to get stuck into the tuck
At least its sunny
God save the Queen
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How did all the politicians get to the Senedd before Charles, when the Royals were first to leave Llandaff?
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Fair play to him speaking Welsh.
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Originally Posted by
The Bloop
How did all the politicians get to the Senedd before Charles, when the Royals were first to leave Llandaff?
Have you seen Charlie's fingers? Probably takes him a couple minutes to get the seatbelt off, never mind open the door.
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Originally Posted by
Wash DC Blue
Fair play to him speaking Welsh.
:thumbup:
Fakeford gets in well with Camilla :wales:
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Canton Kev
Have you seen Charlie's fingers? Probably takes him a couple minutes to get the seatbelt off, never mind open the door.
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TWGL1
Was that from his Bob Bank days?
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Originally Posted by
splott parker
Was that from his Bob Bank days?
Are you saying Charlie was big hands man ?
Fking hell !
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TWGL1
Too much wanking that is. Uses both hands too.
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Fair play, whatever people think, our city is looking brilliant today :ayatollah:
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Originally Posted by
JamesWales
Fair play, whatever people think, our city is looking brilliant today :ayatollah:
And so it should .
I should imagine the distance Charles has travelled approx 1,550 miles since the Queens death at Balmoral last Thursday.
He is in 70's , probably knackered , love or hate him his mum has died , the burden of the role and the commitment to the travel, which has not finished yet with the funeral taking place Monday this will take its toll ..
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Originally Posted by
life on mars
And so it should .
I should imagine the distance Charles has travelled approx 1,550 miles since the Queens death at Balmoral last Thursday.
He is in 70's , probably knackered , love or hate him his mum has died , the burden of the role and the commitment to the travel, which has not finished yet with the funeral taking place Monday this will take its toll ..
I thought he was warmly welcomed in Llandaff and Cardiff Bay which was good to see
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Originally Posted by
life on mars
And so it should .
I should imagine the distance Charles has travelled approx 1,550 miles since the Queens death at Balmoral last Thursday.
He is in 70's , probably knackered , love or hate him his mum has died , the burden of the role and the commitment to the travel, which has not finished yet with the funeral taking place Monday this will take its toll ..
No problem, king Willy to the rescue if Charlie croaks it 👍
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Ninja
No problem, king Willy to the rescue if Charlie croaks it 👍
Ideally he does it during the summer break and not mid season like his mum.
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Originally Posted by
JamesWales
Fair play, whatever people think, our city is looking brilliant today :ayatollah:
Apart from the boardwalk beside the water-front immediately in front of the synod which has been ripped up and left for months with thousands of rusting nails protruding from them......Presumably screened off from thw royal gaze with some tasteful Banksie artwork.
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Originally Posted by
life on mars
And so it should .
I should imagine the distance Charles has travelled approx 1,550 miles since the Queens death at Balmoral last Thursday.
He is in 70's , probably knackered , love or hate him his mum has died , the burden of the role and the commitment to the travel, which has not finished yet with the funeral taking place Monday this will take its toll ..
And he's back in that London later aswell standing guard in Westminster Hall.
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JamesWales
Fair play, whatever people think, our city is looking brilliant today :ayatollah:
Paid for by us, while our services crumble.
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Originally Posted by
life on mars
And so it should .
I should imagine the distance Charles has travelled approx 1,550 miles since the Queens death at Balmoral last Thursday.
He is in 70's , probably knackered , love or hate him his mum has died , the burden of the role and the commitment to the travel, which has not finished yet with the funeral taking place Monday this will take its toll ..
People's loved ones die every day and if they're lucky they get family support and can afford the funeral costs. That's not the case for millions of his subjects.
When my mother died, I had to sort everything out. Everything. Go and register her death, sort the funeral arrangements, notify everybody and sort her home out. I was living 300 miles away and doing 600 miles round trips three times a week as well as working. I had no help from the state. No entourage of thousands of staff to f*cking fill a fountain pen and chopper me into the freshly-painted areas of cities around the UK.
This isn't a feel-sorry-for-myself post. Far from it.
He doesn't see the needles in Grangetown or the kids on scooters delivering smack. The fly-tipping. The rats. The poverty.
I've been very restrained about my feelings regarding the death of Queen Elizabeth II and now the ascension of King Charles III, but some of this stuff really makes me angry. It makes me feel sick. I feel a huge sense of injustice and inequality. I am having my face rubbed into the sycophancy, of the absurdity of how being pushed out into the world from a very specific vagina will automatically mean I never have to wait for a hip replacement, worry what happens to my wife when I die or scrimp and save to deal with a cost of living crisis that, would you believe, is still very much part of millions of Britons lives. I live around people who can only afford to put a couple of quid on the electric. People who have terminal cancer, people who will die young because of a lack of adequate healthcare. People who rely on and volunteer at food banks.
There's a reason that the queen was able to live so long and died of natural causes at 96 years old.
Enough. Please. Some sense of perspective I implore any of you that is seduced by this vacuous and obscene pomp to try and remember that life is f*cking hard work and they are very, very, fortunate to not have to worry about very much beyond cutting a ribbon to open a new supermarket compared to millions of their subjects.
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Wales-Bales
Paid for by us, while our services crumble.
I kinda meant with the sun shining etc, but yeah..
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Originally Posted by
Citizen's Nephew
People's loved ones die every day and if they're lucky they get family support and can afford the funeral costs. That's not the case for millions of his subjects.
When my mother died, I had to sort everything out. Everything. Go and register her death, sort the funeral arrangements, notify everybody and sort her home out. I was living 300 miles away and doing 600 miles round trips three times a week as well as working. I had no help from the state. No entourage of thousands of staff to f*cking fill a fountain pen and chopper me into the freshly-painted areas of cities around the UK.
This isn't a feel-sorry-for-myself post. Far from it.
He doesn't see the needles in Grangetown or the kids on scooters delivering smack. The fly-tipping. The rats. The poverty.
I've been very restrained about my feelings regarding the death of Queen Elizabeth II and now the ascension of King Charles III, but some of this stuff really makes me angry. It makes me feel sick. I feel a huge sense of injustice and inequality. I am having my face rubbed into the sycophancy, of the absurdity of how being pushed out into the world from a very specific vagina will automatically mean I never have to wait for a hip replacement, worry what happens to my wife when I die or scrimp and save to deal with a cost of living crisis that, would you believe, is still very much part of millions of Britons lives. I live around people who can only afford to put a couple of quid on the electric. People who have terminal cancer, people who will die young because of a lack of adequate healthcare. People who rely on and volunteer at food banks.
There's a reason that the queen was able to live so long and died of natural causes at 96 years old.
Enough. Please. Some sense of perspective I implore any of you that is seduced by this vacuous and obscene pomp to try and remember that life is f*cking hard work and they are very, very, fortunate to not have to worry about very much beyond cutting a ribbon to open a new supermarket compared to millions of their subjects.
Top post.
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Originally Posted by
Wales-Bales
Paid for by us, while our services crumble.
Exactly right.
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Originally Posted by
Citizen's Nephew
People's loved ones die every day and if they're lucky they get family support and can afford the funeral costs. That's not the case for millions of his subjects.
When my mother died, I had to sort everything out. Everything. Go and register her death, sort the funeral arrangements, notify everybody and sort her home out. I was living 300 miles away and doing 600 miles round trips three times a week as well as working. I had no help from the state. No entourage of thousands of staff to f*cking fill a fountain pen and chopper me into the freshly-painted areas of cities around the UK.
This isn't a feel-sorry-for-myself post. Far from it.
He doesn't see the needles in Grangetown or the kids on scooters delivering smack. The fly-tipping. The rats. The poverty.
I've been very restrained about my feelings regarding the death of Queen Elizabeth II and now the ascension of King Charles III, but some of this stuff really makes me angry. It makes me feel sick. I feel a huge sense of injustice and inequality. I am having my face rubbed into the sycophancy, of the absurdity of how being pushed out into the world from a very specific vagina will automatically mean I never have to wait for a hip replacement, worry what happens to my wife when I die or scrimp and save to deal with a cost of living crisis that, would you believe, is still very much part of millions of Britons lives. I live around people who can only afford to put a couple of quid on the electric. People who have terminal cancer, people who will die young because of a lack of adequate healthcare. People who rely on and volunteer at food banks.
There's a reason that the queen was able to live so long and died of natural causes at 96 years old.
Enough. Please. Some sense of perspective I implore any of you that is seduced by this vacuous and obscene pomp to try and remember that life is f*cking hard work and they are very, very, fortunate to not have to worry about very much beyond cutting a ribbon to open a new supermarket compared to millions of their subjects.
From afar, I've watched the unfolding events in Albion after Elizabeth Windsor's death with a sense of horror and disbelief. This one post has restored some belief in me that not everyone has lost their mind. Post of the year IMHO.
Why has this thread been relegated off the main page? That action is ridiculous and smacks of censorship. There is absolutely no justification for more than one board.
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Originally Posted by
az city
From afar, I've watched the unfolding events in Albion after Elizabeth Windsor's death with a sense of horror and disbelief. This one post has restored some belief in me that not everyone has lost their mind. Post of the year IMHO.
Why has this thread been relegated off the main page? That action is ridiculous and smacks of censorship. There is absolutely no justification for more than one board.
The thought of you watching in horror and disbelief is quite uplifting actually. Thoughts are with you :hehe::tea:
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JamesWales
The thought of you watching in horror and disbelief is quite uplifting actually. Thoughts are with you :hehe::tea:
You're on the wrong site. You need SycophantsReunited.com.
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az city
You're on the wrong site. You need SycophantsReunited.com.
I just want everyone to get on and have a nice weekend old bean. :-)
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Originally Posted by
az city
From afar, I've watched the unfolding events in Albion after Elizabeth Windsor's death with a sense of horror and disbelief. This one post has restored some belief in me that not everyone has lost their mind. Post of the year IMHO.
Why has this thread been relegated off the main page? That action is ridiculous and smacks of censorship. There is absolutely no justification for more than one board.
I was at Niagara Falls a few days ago (been in Canada a month) and in addition to all the official Canadian flags at half mast I was very surprised to see the American flags on the other side of the river also all at half mast.
Is that just a message of solidarity with their northern neighbours in their time of trauma and inconsolable grief, or some other idiocy?
I thought they had a revolution so they wouldn’t have to muck about with their flag poles when an hereditary monarch shuffled off?
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Originally Posted by
jon1959
I was at Niagara Falls a few days ago (been in Canada a month) and in addition to all the official Canadian flags at half mast I was very surprised to see the American flags on the other side of the river also all at half mast.
Is that just a message of solidarity with their northern neighbours in their time of trauma and inconsolable grief, or some other idiocy?
I thought they had a revolution so they wouldn’t have to muck about with their flag poles when an hereditary monarch shuffled off?
Jon, I know you are a committed old lefty and I get and respect your position on it all, but surely you understand the basic concept of respect and you recognise the global role of the royal family and the fact that Britain's head of state recently passed?
Can you not just recognise it as a form of respect? Surely not everything has to be ideologically aligned to your own outlook for you to do so?
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Originally Posted by
Citizen's Nephew
People's loved ones die every day and if they're lucky they get family support and can afford the funeral costs. That's not the case for millions of his subjects.
When my mother died, I had to sort everything out. Everything. Go and register her death, sort the funeral arrangements, notify everybody and sort her home out. I was living 300 miles away and doing 600 miles round trips three times a week as well as working. I had no help from the state. No entourage of thousands of staff to f*cking fill a fountain pen and chopper me into the freshly-painted areas of cities around the UK.
This isn't a feel-sorry-for-myself post. Far from it.
He doesn't see the needles in Grangetown or the kids on scooters delivering smack. The fly-tipping. The rats. The poverty.
I've been very restrained about my feelings regarding the death of Queen Elizabeth II and now the ascension of King Charles III, but some of this stuff really makes me angry. It makes me feel sick. I feel a huge sense of injustice and inequality. I am having my face rubbed into the sycophancy, of the absurdity of how being pushed out into the world from a very specific vagina will automatically mean I never have to wait for a hip replacement, worry what happens to my wife when I die or scrimp and save to deal with a cost of living crisis that, would you believe, is still very much part of millions of Britons lives. I live around people who can only afford to put a couple of quid on the electric. People who have terminal cancer, people who will die young because of a lack of adequate healthcare. People who rely on and volunteer at food banks.
There's a reason that the queen was able to live so long and died of natural causes at 96 years old.
Enough. Please. Some sense of perspective I implore any of you that is seduced by this vacuous and obscene pomp to try and remember that life is f*cking hard work and they are very, very, fortunate to not have to worry about very much beyond cutting a ribbon to open a new supermarket compared to millions of their subjects.
I agree , it's all nonsense and cobblers
However those of us who want rid of the royals are clearly wasting our time . And so it will be thus .
Because the people blowing smoke up their arses outnumber us completely so no point fighting it
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I notice as has another poster that he wasn't getting down with the locals in North Grangetown or Trowbridge but being shown round Llandaff
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SLUDGE FACTORY
I agree , it's all nonsense and cobblers
However those of us who want rid of the royals are clearly wasting our time . And so it will be thus .
Because the people blowing smoke up their arses outnumber us completely so no point fighting it
things are slowly changing
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Rjk
things are slowly changing
The King , has actually done a lot of work in Wales with the Princes Trust and he was well received down the docks a few years back.
https://www.princes-trust.org.uk/abo...cardiff-centre
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Originally Posted by
jon1959
I was at Niagara Falls a few days ago (been in Canada a month) and in addition to all the official Canadian flags at half mast I was very surprised to see the American flags on the other side of the river also all at half mast.
Is that just a message of solidarity with their northern neighbours in their time of trauma and inconsolable grief, or some other idiocy?
I thought they had a revolution so they wouldn’t have to muck about with their flag poles when an hereditary monarch shuffled off?
Honestly, I don't know about the folks up in northern NY. In AZ most people are unaware of the events. Despite what Tory apologists might tell you, Elizabeth Windsor and her family is something of a soap opera in the US not a set of revered global icons.
I had to laugh when the NFL season opened with the Rams v Bills game and they asked for a moment of quiet contemplation at SoFi Stadium. Most people just carried on chatting/doing what they were. This ended after 15-20 seconds with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was given the mic to ramp up the atmosphere (for the game). To say it wasn't very reverential would be an understatement.
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Originally Posted by
JamesWales
Jon, I know you are a committed old lefty and I get and respect your position on it all, but surely you understand the basic concept of respect and you recognise the global role of the royal family and the fact that Britain's head of state recently passed?
Can you not just recognise it as a form of respect? Surely not everything has to be ideologically aligned to your own outlook for you to do so?
That's weapons-grade condescension.
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Originally Posted by
life on mars
And so it should .
I should imagine the distance Charles has travelled approx 1,550 miles since the Queens death at Balmoral last Thursday.
He is in 70's , probably knackered , love or hate him his mum has died , the burden of the role and the commitment to the travel, which has not finished yet with the funeral taking place Monday this will take its toll ..
He can abdicate if it's such a slog. Suspect he'll soldier on thou if it means losing his 18 billion inheritance.
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jon1959
Exactly right.
Thank you Jon. I am neither left nor right, and I will always support the exploited. I gave up on the red v blue a long time ago. Divided we fall and united we stand, and all that.
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TWGL1
He hasn't done a lot of work personally. The Trust and its employees do the work. It's also a tad embarrassing when you read just how much funding comes from the European Union and from the carrier bags full of dosh handed to His Majesty King Charles III by an ex Qatar Prime Minister. The three lots of CASH, which totalled €3m, were handed to the prince personally between 2011 and 2015. It claims that on one occasion, Sheikh Hamad, 62, presented the prince with €1m reportedly stuffed into carrier bags from Fortnum & Mason, the luxury food store that has a royal charter to provide the Royal Family with groceries.
https://news.sky.com/story/prince-ch...times-12640561
What's interesting about this though is the part that says 'The cash payments were deposited into the accounts of the Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund (PWCF), an entity that bankrolls the prince's private projects and his country estate in Scotland'
Anyway, there's no denying that the Princes Trust, as a business (which happens to have charitable status) does a lot of splendid things for people. But so do lots of other businesses with charitable status, quite often without the benefit of the carrier bags of cash, help from the European Union (remember, we shot ourselves in the face over that) and the weight of a Royal's title heading up the whole PR department.
Here's the really embarrassing stuff though on the Princes Trust website highlighting the European Structural and Investment Funds role. Just look at all those European Flags next to the projects.
https://www.princes-trust.org.uk/sup...vestment-funds
Please don't take any of this personally. I'm just trying to present a balanced view. There's nothing ideological or disrespectful. I'm just a concerned subject of the crown who lost his European citizenship.
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
I agree , it's all nonsense and cobblers
However those of us who want rid of the royals are clearly wasting our time . And so it will be thus .
Because the people blowing smoke up their arses outnumber us completely so no point fighting it
You're right Sludge. I'm tired of it all tbh. Tired of fighting this stuff for decades. Absolutely f*cking exhausted mate.
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Originally Posted by
JamesWales
Jon, I know you are a committed old lefty and I get and respect your position on it all, but surely you understand the basic concept of respect and you recognise the global role of the royal family and the fact that Britain's head of state recently passed?
Can you not just recognise it as a form of respect? Surely not everything has to be ideologically aligned to your own outlook for you to do so?
Ah…. OK. So it’s just ‘a basic concept of respect’ for USA officials to fly their flag at half mast for a week or longer when a foreign head of state dies?
I hope you are consistent on this and support a bit of union flag lowering in similar circumstances? Maybe just stick to a ‘basic concept of respect’ if the significant death is on the other side of the Channel or Irish Sea? So stick to gestures directed at Ireland, France and Belgium?
Thanks for the advice and guidance on this delicate matter of ceremonial propriety. Cheers!