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« Reply #40 on: September 08, 2022, 18:58:57 pm » |
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RIP to our Queen.
An example to all who lead.
Indeed. RIP, ma'am.
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guest3494
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« Reply #41 on: September 08, 2022, 19:02:23 pm » |
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RIP boss. It was an absolute honour to serve you as you reigned. A monarch like no other.
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singcobb
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« Reply #42 on: September 08, 2022, 21:34:40 pm » |
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Well that's one of the last Germans left over from the war gone.
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« Reply #43 on: September 08, 2022, 22:17:12 pm » |
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The Queen didn't ask to be born into the life and role she had, but always carried out her duties seriously and was the best she could be. Can't expect or ask for more than that. RIP.
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« Reply #44 on: September 09, 2022, 18:19:43 pm » |
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If Charles and William die as well and Harry takes the throne at least we would have a monarch with two English parents.
Ouch!
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Larry
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« Reply #45 on: September 11, 2022, 20:35:41 pm » |
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The next Queen is a MAN! This is woke nonsense gone too far.
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singcobb
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« Reply #47 on: September 12, 2022, 14:15:05 pm » |
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The next Queen is a MAN! This is woke nonsense gone too far.
Shock news!! 73 year old unemployed man finds work.
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Tabasco Kid
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« Reply #48 on: September 14, 2022, 21:33:05 pm » |
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Thats how you do it. Superb from Rangers.
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Were in the pipe 5 by 5.
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itsme
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« Reply #49 on: September 16, 2022, 23:01:18 pm » |
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Thats how you do it. Superb from Rangers. Amazing well done to all involved in this
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Deepcut Cobbler
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« Reply #50 on: September 20, 2022, 08:06:10 am » |
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If Carlsberg did state funerals.........
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“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
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BackOfTheNet
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« Reply #51 on: September 20, 2022, 09:06:49 am » |
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If Carlsberg did state funerals......... It was an outstanding spectacle, wasn't it? Pure pomp and pageantry that we do better than anyone else in the world. On a related note, while it won't have been cheap, it was broadcast to a global audience and London and Windsor both looked amazing. It will bring in millions in tourist revenue. It even had me, a card carrying atheist, making a mental note to visit Westminster Abbey the next time I'm in London - what a stunning building!
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Winslow Lee
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« Reply #53 on: December 01, 2022, 13:42:28 pm » |
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In a shock to nobody member of the royal household turns out to be massive racist.
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« Reply #54 on: December 01, 2022, 15:23:36 pm » |
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In a shock to nobody member of the royal household turns out to be massive racist.
Is she though, or is it just a massively out of touch 83 year old trying to make a cack-handed attempt to talk to someone she has little in common with? Not excusing it, but I think it's more ignorance than racism.
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Bingers
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« Reply #55 on: December 01, 2022, 18:37:10 pm » |
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Is she though, or is it just a massively out of touch 83 year old trying to make a cack-handed attempt to talk to someone she has little in common with?
Massively out of touch in the Royal household, surely not. I have a foreign surname, but people don't ask me where "my people" come from. Is it because I is white?
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« Reply #56 on: December 02, 2022, 22:03:29 pm » |
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In a shock to nobody member of the royal household turns out to be massive racist.
When is a racist not a racist? I don’t think she is a racist. But then I don’t know her.
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Bingers
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« Reply #57 on: December 03, 2022, 08:14:02 am » |
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When is a racist not a racist?
This quite a good point, but people can be unwittingly racist. I am of an age where the local corner shop was often known as the P*** Shop, not through any malice and bearing in mind what the abbreviation was, incorrectly, as in Wellingborough, the chances were that the owners had come from East Africa of Indian heritage. Nowadays, I would be surprised if any of the people who used the term in the 1970s would use it today as it is undeniably racist. But I am sure people can behave in a racist way even if they don't consider themselves racist. Institutions certainly can.
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BackOfTheNet
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« Reply #58 on: December 03, 2022, 08:43:28 am » |
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There's a very definite generational aspect at play here. An uncle of mine in his early eighties has neighbours of Asian descent. He likes them - they make him food, he helps them with the occasional DIY job in their garden. He still refers to them as "the p***s next door" though. He can't see what he's doing wrong. If you raise it with him he just looks bewildered and says "but they are p***s"
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everbrite
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« Reply #59 on: December 23, 2022, 16:56:46 pm » |
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It was an outstanding spectacle, wasn't it? Pure pomp and pageantry that we do better than anyone else in the world.
On a related note, while it won't have been cheap, it was broadcast to a global audience and London and Windsor both looked amazing. It will bring in millions in tourist revenue. It even had me, a card carrying atheist, making a mental note to visit Westminster Abbey the next time I'm in London - what a stunning building!
Been to the Abbey and passed in awe by Henry Vth Tomb, what a legacy he left.
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