tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post8354798667250638495..comments2023-12-20T19:39:29.865+00:00Comments on Munguin's Republic: ANOTHER COSTLY PANTOMIME IN LONDON PARTLY PAID FOR BY USMunguinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16475165830302054002noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-13910213825270053202014-06-07T00:29:40.931+01:002014-06-07T00:29:40.931+01:00Ha ha ha... Heavens yes, he would be an aristocrat...Ha ha ha... Heavens yes, he would be an aristocratic kid... I mean ordinary people don't get to be pageboys to the Queen. <br /><br />Well, that said, they'll do anything for money in Britain so maybe if someone paid Cameron a lot of money, he'd make them an earl so their kid could do that.<br /><br />They do, the lot of them, seem to be absolutely stuck to some sort of formality which is way out of line with what normal people recognise as reasonable.<br /><br />If she couldn't find it in her heart to show some sort of pity to the president of the USA, from whose backside her prime minister rarely removes his head, then some poor child, even an aristo, has little chance of receiving any humanity.<br /><br />I remember hearing that when Diana was killed, and Elizabeth failed to leave her Scottish holiday home and go to the centre of the universe that is London (because even in the age of electricity , telegraphs, telephones and even the internet, being in Scotland didn;t count as BEING at all). Anyway, the excuse given was that she had to stay with her grandchildren Harry and Willie, to comfort them.<br /><br />I remember thinking ...oh poleeeezeeeeee.<br /><br />You don't expect us to believe that. I mean they might as well have said that she'd come down with bubonic plague.<br /><br />I should imagine that life went on as normal with a stiff upper lip. Philip probably took the children out to kill some poor unsuspecting Scottish wildlife. "No use crying over spilt milk; she dead, can't bring her back...let's go bag some deer."<br /><br />Pity?? Humanity? The British Royals????/<br /><br />... My arse.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-2979446631509592942014-06-06T08:28:57.454+01:002014-06-06T08:28:57.454+01:00Oh gee.....I missed the show. I'll have to go ...Oh gee.....I missed the show. I'll have to go to YouTube to see Black Rod get the door slammed in his face and find out what Dennis Skinner said to him this year. I can't seem to find a good picture of the fainting though. <br /><br />The Queen's indifference to the matter simply reinforces the fact that the royals are incapable of the slightest spontaneous human response to any situation that's unscripted and unrehearsed. It brings to mind President Obama's state visit in which, at the state dinner, a misplaced music cue resulted in his making the toast to the Queen as the orchestra played the Anthem. It was awkward and embarrassing beyond measure......and yet the Queen and an entire table full of royals were frozen in place. A simple word and a bit of humor from the Queen or one of her disgusting brood would have defused the situation wonderfully. The royals were either being deliberately insulting and hostile, or they were simply incapable of the slightest human courtesy and spontaneity. In any event, they let the American President finish the toast, raise his glass, and watch the Queen stare straight ahead and ignore him and the egg on his face. Every time I see it, it pisses me off all over again. One thing that the royals might try to remember is the events of 1776-1781 and reflect on the fact that the American President is a very dangerous person to piss off. ;-)<br /><br />As for the poor kid who fainted, I felt sorry for him. On the other hand, I now understand that he's Viscount Aithrie, son of the Earl of Hopetoun. So he's aristocracy, and as a simple humble "citizen" of the American Republic, I think maybe I'll just say screw him. As an aristo, he deserves whatever he gets from the damn royals. ;-) Dannyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14450203101640592230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-45736971982867446422014-06-04T21:46:21.704+01:002014-06-04T21:46:21.704+01:00You won't get me to disagree with that. This w...You won't get me to disagree with that. This whole cuircus of bowing and calling people "Majesty" and Royal Highness" is beyond imagination absurd in the 21st century.<br /><br />So is spending money on horse drawn carriages, crowns and long frocks, and having black rod and blue rod and gold rod all dressed in tights, walking backwards and this woman reading a pile of lies that Cameron had written for him by some peon...<br /><br />What is it Ruritania. You keep on expecting someone to burst into a song from the Student Prince or The Grand Duchess Gloriana to give a speech about the pig breeders.<br /><br />I wouldn't mind them playing silly games with themselves if we could afford it, but we can't. People are starving and cold and ill and this bunch of tossers is worrying about a new coach.<br /><br />Pile of pillocks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-43454799154288602572014-06-04T20:28:36.855+01:002014-06-04T20:28:36.855+01:00Of course the kid as that is an affront to democra...Of course the kid as that is an affront to democracy where people are supposed to bow in reverence to an unelected head of state that is what true democracy is having a vote like Syria or North Korea. Think that's right!cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-44237763566505621282014-06-04T16:23:57.741+01:002014-06-04T16:23:57.741+01:00Is that for the poor kid that fainted... or is it ...Is that for the poor kid that fainted... or is it for Munguin for failing to do due obedience to HM the Q?<br /><br />He says he's not really bothered as the money he has made from his media empire will mean buying a seat in the Lords will be a piece of cake for him. He says he might even buy two!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-3912738331853345862014-06-04T16:21:59.257+01:002014-06-04T16:21:59.257+01:00I've not heard PP.
Elizabeth's devotion t...I've not heard PP.<br /><br />Elizabeth's devotion to duty is rightly recognised and acknowledged as a strong feature of her reign. She has put her duty before everything.<br /><br />Unfortunately in doing so she has managed to produce 4 weird children who turned into weird adults and finally weird old people adn she seems to be practically inhuman.<br /><br />I'm sure that the Queen of Denmark would have stopped gibbering her idiot prime minister's trash and gone over to see if the kid was OK.<br /><br />There are some things more important that protocol.<br /><br />And yes, if it was one of her family, you do scratch your head in wonder at her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-37728090979237849182014-06-04T15:57:56.482+01:002014-06-04T15:57:56.482+01:00Bread and saps for a week by that insult to royalt...Bread and saps for a week by that insult to royalty for that scallywag then.cynicalHighlanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06034325908473006163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092475090824666694.post-12637725346966194812014-06-04T15:43:33.966+01:002014-06-04T15:43:33.966+01:00Any word on which one of the four keeled over? It&...Any word on which one of the four keeled over? It's just 2 of them are great nephews of Betty (Maggie's grandchildren) and you'd like to think she'd give a monkey's about family.panda pawsnoreply@blogger.com