Royalty

It’s so much more useful to complain on the “I hate” or “rant” threads on an obscure niche bicycle forum because that’ll be taken into account.

More people would probably read it tho.

I thought lufguss was funded via the tv licence anyway?

These are mere nouveau riche fripperies, this is about lineage.

Having a capital warship named after oneself while one is still alive is a bit garish, yes.

You seem like an expert on this so I’ll defer to your insight, but do space serpents bind themselves to tradition, or do they value power and political prowess?

if the all european royals were a mafiosi type family who would be the godfather ?

Are you trying to gaslight us into thinking that they are not?

You voted 'Remain', right?

Get to >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

:)

@greeno I agree its weird, I take that more as a reflection of how much we really care about Phil, ie not much, rather than how mega and important Eastenders and Masterchef are.

I don't care for Phil or the BBC or ITV Friday evening schedule, so am obviously just some sort of outlier heretic.

@Oliver Schick I don't look at is a Remain or Leave, I've always voted more 'get in the sea' when it came to the Royals :)

It’s a difficult one. One or two people making some noise about something so ingrained in society won’t achieve much. I joined republic a couple of years ago. Very little will change without the whole country deciding on mass.

No revolutions today.

Twitter memes have been pretty funny over the last few days, so there is that at least.

I don't think has he ever done what your average person would consider a genuine days work in his entire life.

Enjoyable post. Mostly agree. However his service in the Navy was pretty legit and hard earned.

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/prince-philip-second-world-war-duke-of-edinburgh-ww2-service-military-career-death-892536

@Oliver Schick I don't look at is a Remain or Leave, I've always voted more 'get in the sea' when it came to the Royals :)

I make an exception for Jersey Royals.

That's not work, that's service ;)

BBC article on the tribe that worships Phillip as a god. No one is sure how or why it started and
it suggests they will probably move on to Charles now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-56713953

The BBC then refuse to give details of the numbers of complaints

Looks like they were pretty big - 110,000 complaints making it the most complained about event ever apparently.

Link

Although there's still some people in that number moaning that the presenters weren't wearing enough black...

with hallmark cards opening yesterday went out looking for a " sorry for the loss of your consort " condolence card, sadly lacking

'Sorry for the loss of your lizard' cards are available.

Yo dawg...

116 people wrote to the corporation over the weekend to complain that it was making it too easy to complain about its coverage.

I’m looking forward to reading Prince Edwards biography one day. Looking at his medals those 4 weeks in the Royal Marines must have been epic active service

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Three medals, cos his mum is the queen 👏🏽

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Are medals swappable between the forces? Like when one of them is cosplaying as an Army General, the next week can they wear the same medals when they're dressing up as an Admiral instead?

Also, judging by the second picture of Edward, in that first one it looks like he's wearing the Silver and Golden Jubillee and the NZ one (which was apparently also awarded to recipients at the discretion of his mum.). So... none of them from his service.

none of them from his service.

So a whole month of service to ones country isn’t enough for a medal?? Shocking.

Well, yes. Or in some cases it's apparently enough for five of them. Two of them awarded 35 years apart from each other...

For what it's worth, in the armed forces it's rather poor form to sneer at somebody's lack of medals. Or to sneer at somebody for wearing their participation or campaign medals.

in the armed forces it's rather poor form to sneer at somebody's lack of medals.

They would hate the football thread.

Two of them awarded 35 years apart from each other

incredible public service.. where is his medal for that. or is this indicated in the space between.. no wait the medals in the second photo are overlapping. clearly Prince Edward has been multi tasking / putting in quite a shift

Lol