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I think the equation of that to any real hardship - to having a choice versus not having a choice - is really quite offensive.
The idea that "its tough at the top", and that it's anything like being at the bottom is seriously misguided.

IWSWHW

Edit: Damn all caps check

I would agree with this, the thing is there is so much of this faux outrage when in 2022 we still have orange walks marching through a city centre spreading hate. Its the pot calling the kettle black

I think that Imo is a very open question one could argue that, but imo I really dont know what they do now and will all the tax avoiding etc it really show its us and them.

I also full agree the qatar thing should have never happened but again money and back handers and fifa are a fucking shambles.

Stout. Good shout ✊

The pallbearers x8 have definitely earned a beer each later.

So how much has this state funeral cost us?

on top of the £102 million this year to keep the royal family housed, fed, serviced

Government modelling currently puts the cost of an extra bank holiday at £1.36 billion ... the Big Four estimated the cost to be closer to £831 million

£1.36bn or £831m that’s alot of warm vomit to swallow .. how much harder do we now need to work?

Yesterday in Sainsbury so many families tussling for yellow stickered food mostly cut sandwiches to feed their families.. makes me wonder how many children in East Ham get a home cooked meal..

Only £41 for every working person. It's what she would have wanted.

I think the equation of that to any real hardship - to having a choice versus not having a choice - is really quite offensive.

I agree, that is why I specifically stated that wasn't the point I was making.

Was more explaining that I doubt all that wealth and privilege leads to a rewarding, full or happy life.

For some perspective, George Bush Snr's funeral was estimated to cost in excess of $500m, doing state stuff, especially giving workers the day off is expensive

Venezuela not invited? Opportunity missed, Maduro was a bus driver in Caracas for many years.

Was more explaining that I doubt all that wealth and privilege leads to a rewarding, full or happy life.

Fuck it all off then.
If not the royal arseholes then your mates who I'm guessing are just regular posh/rich arseholes. I'm not sure I ever said that all their wealth and privilege leads to a rewarding, full or happy life either, just that the "devoting your life to public service" stuff is bollocks and their relatively minor inconveniences are vastly outweighed by undeserved privileges.

Well more just like them.

Funnily enough my original draft included something along the lines of getting a coal miner to go and work for Foxton, but it sounded clunky.

Have you forgot the £12M nonce tax?

Fuck that shit . Getting pulled for being out driving
I'm with you on getting chilli's sorted I made a coldframe/mini hot house frame this morning for mine. Was deadly quiet and could hear the hyms coming from next doors tv.

In relation to the Royals, I don't think I'd describe their life as containing relatively minor inconveniences. Imo they endure a cascade of fucked up shit just to keep people entertained. They've spent their lives living in a Black Mirror episode.

I also don't think recognising that is binary to disagreeing with their existence.

Fuck it all off then.

Fair dos. I didn't say otherwise.

If not the royal arseholes then your mates who I'm guessing are just regular posh/rich arseholes

The main person I am thinking of is rich for sure but her circumstances are due to being the child of a high profile terrorist target. We worked at the same company for a while in the early 00s, where she attended with her armed security detail. She never got to go to school, had 6 armed men with her when she went on her first date with a boyfriend and in her 20s had literally never been shopping, to the cinema or to the park with friends. She didn't really have any friends because its hard to make friends when you can't do anything with your life. ~ 20 years later she still lives in the same circumstances.

^ Anyway, because this is LFGSS I'll have to add my usual reminder that me observing that life behind a security curtain with loads of money sometimes is not like having your own life at all and does not mean I feel sorry for the royals, think they should exist, suffer like the rest of us etc etc. Was just pointing out that what we describe as a privileged life might not actually be a freely lived independent life at all.

Fuck it all off then.
I realise no-one is defending their existence here, but they should all fuck off and their endurances are all brought upon themselves because they're not fucking it all off and feeding the hand that bites.

I'd argue that they have been indoctrinated into a mindset where they believe that their sense of duty is above all else. I.e to abandon your duty is to be disgraced and a failure. Edward VIII got it right I guess.

I went out for a long ride, roads were utterly deserted around lunchtime, it was glorious. Henley town centre had the proceedings live on a big screen, with a crowd of around 50 or so. Sure you can watch it at home, but you just don't have that big match atmosphere.

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That person's life sounds shitty.

I'd argue that they have been indoctrinated into a mindset where they believe that their sense of duty is above all else. I.e to abandon your duty is to be disgraced and a failure. Edward VIII got it right I guess.

They may well have been indoctrinated, seems like half of the country have as well, doesn't mean they're not wrong though.

Yeh, it's basically a cult they are born in to and just as hard to leave