Royalty

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Ah, but the tourism.....

We’re always told about how amazing the Queen is, works so hard, doesn’t put a foot wrong (ok, so it’s my family that tells me this).

And then you reflect that she had a racist husband and grandson, oldest son is a thundering hypocrite and favourite son is a nonce/not nonce. And that’s before you get to her meddling in tax law so that she’s exempt.

So, an amazing person with everything swirling around her by coincidence.

I wrote/updated Operation London Bridge/Forth Bridge in relation to my department's role in the run-up to and the funeral itself. We were the counter terrorist search side of the operation in Windsor. I don't think they'll take her to Scotland just to bring her back south again once she's carked it. If she's well enough to travel there then they'd have to instigate the full protection (out of the normal season) of the residence until she dies. Dying in transit would be a very bad thing. As her mother, father and sister are interred at Frogmore House she might prefer to be close to them. Who can say really?

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George Ezra will be playing the Platinum Jubilee Party. Pretty much all you need to know.

Just ordered a commemorative mug:

The latest hot item of Royal Tat celebrating HM's 70 years on benefits, the Platinum Liz Mug is now available at: philosophyfootball.com or email: admin@philosophyfootball.com
Featuring rampant, naked Boz the Builder and Labour leader Sir Kar Boardbox (as advised by Lord Peter 'The Rat' Mandelson) adorning a limited edition, individually numbered bone china mug.

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I'd be interested to know whether at this point in history, if a man went to prison for beating a woman, whether he would be deemed as needing protection from other inmates in the way he would have been a few decades ago. I am sceptical.

Bit of a post dredge, but I'd be surprised if there were very many custodial sentences for domestic violence. Also I'd put money on any of these "code of honour" rules being totally subject to the internal politics and power dynamics within a group.

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I’d like to see a citation with evidence for that origin. It looks like a folk backronym to me, akin to alleging “posh” is derived from port out, starboard home. The OED says (use your library card number to log in):

Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps related to nance n. (see quot. 1984), or perhaps compare English regional nonse good-for-nothing fellow, recorded in Eng. Dial. Dict. Suppl. from Lincolnshire
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1984 Police Rev. 18 May 975/3 Nonce, prison term for a child molester. The very bottom of the prison pecking order, the ‘nonce’ is usually segregated from ordinary prisoners at all times for his own protection. Originally derived from ‘nancy-boy’.

anyone else imagining a really nasty case of piles when hearing about the queens " mobility issues "

and those hard wooden pews in the abbey putting the fear into liz

I wasn't but thanks for the image!

Nonce on her arm apparently . We know where she stands then !

He’s her favourite apparently.

anyone else imagining a really nasty case of piles when hearing about the queens " mobility issues "

She does have Serious nobility issues atm

all those years on the throne...

that'll be all that rich food, she should add some figs and prunes to her diet, she'll be on and off the throne in no time, no grunt stick required

Hope you’re all getting down to Iceland to stock up on these for the upcoming celebrations. You’d be the talk of the road if you pulled these out at your jubilee street party I bet.

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Graham Smith, chief executive officer of the anti-monarchy campaign Republic, wrote this in the Daily Express after football fans booed Prince William at the FA Cup final at the weekend: “[There’s] good reason to boo royals, because they represent something that a lot of people object to. Not Britain, but elitism, unearned wealth, limits on democracy and hereditary privilege… We live in a country that leaves many destitute, while rewarding one family with hundreds of millions of pounds, two dozen luxury homes and a fleet of private jets, helicopters and even their own train. And why? For no reason than that their ancestors stole power and land from everyone else.”

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Yeah but tourism

Could tag on 'and won't give it back'.

Yeah but tourism

The only argument with any legs is "yeah but contributions to the treasury".

On that measure alone, if you don't what-about-ism their tax status, is at least a semi argument for them getting a free pass. At least you can measure the treasury earnings, unlike the tourism thing which has always been vague at best

I personally couldn't give a toss whether the existed or not, as long as they are a large financial net contributor and don't harm anybody which I appreciate is an arguable point to some extent.

Let's face it, the UK will never seize their assets and give them to the people. They're not going anywhere.

https://twitter.com/jonoread/status/1527009789208838144

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Glad you agree

Looks like that expanding foam you put in walls and stuff.

oh it's a blue crocodile that's been stabbed with a mini union jack, eating a large punnet of strawberries

I'm going to be in Germany over the Jubilee holiday, like a naughty little traitor. Sorry, The Queen.