The Royal Family

[Guest worth_the_wait]

Went to London yesterday.
 
Interesting looking around the Jubilee crowd.
 
As diverse a bunch as you're likely to see (every age, nationality, creed, sex, and anything else you can think of).
 
A few eccentrics ... which you would expect being a British thing ... but a really peaceful, polite, happy, jolly occasion.   
 
Sort of really harmless fluffy patriotism ... none of the dangerous nationalistic stuff, you might get somewhere else.
 
The other thing that strikes you, is the difference between TV and real life.   All the fancy dress, horses, carriages, pretty colours, marching bands and the like, looks tame on TV ... but in the flesh, it's a bit lively and colourful.   
 
(I suppose like the difference between being in a football crowd, compared to sitting at home watching it on TV.)
 
All good harmless fun, and free.
 
PS: And the fly-past was incredible.  (unless you hate planes, of course).

 

[The Year Of The Fox]

1 minute ago, worth_the_wait said:

Went to London yesterday.
 
Interesting looking around the Jubilee crowd.
 
As diverse a bunch as you're likely to see (every age, nationality, creed, sex, and anything else you can think of).
 
A few eccentrics ... which you would expect being a British thing ... but a really peaceful, polite, happy, jolly occasion.   
 
Sort of really harmless fluffy patriotism ... none of the dangerous nationalistic stuff, you might get somewhere else.
 
The other thing that strikes you, is the difference between TV and real life.   All the fancy dress, horses, carriages, pretty colours, marching bands and the like, looks tame on TV ... but in the flesh, it's a bit lively and colourful.   
 
(I suppose like the difference between being in a football crowd, compared to sitting at home watching it on TV.)
 
All good harmless fun, and free.
 
PS: And the fly-past was incredible.  (unless you hate planes, of course).

 

I’m kicking myself for not putting in more effort in going. Still, had a great time locally

 

 

[foxile5]

12 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Calls out a show for being racist in one thread, moments later makes an anti ginger comment in another 

I didn't at all discriminate based on his gingerness. If anything you did conflating his cheesy smell and hair colour.

[Jimothy]

1 minute ago, foxile5 said:

I didn't at all discriminate based on his gingerness. If anything you did conflating his cheesy smell and hair colour.

Tbf you said he looks like a wotsit 

[foxile5]

Just now, Facecloth said:

Tbf you said he looks like a wotsit 

Looks like he SMELLS of wotsits. 

 

I mean he does look like one but I'm not about say so. 

[st albans fox]

20 hours ago, Lionator said:

I’m neither a monarchist or Republican. I couldn’t give a flying toss about the royal family but overthrowing them seems like an equally ridiculous idea. For what it’s worth Prince William and Harry have done some excellent work on mental health, far better than any of our political parties ever have. 
 

I’ll be using this bank holiday to catch up on jobs and work I’m behind with and to have a well earned rest while watching the test match. 
 

Watching the test match won’t be good for your mental health! 
 

the royals will become slowly less relevant as the years pass

 

they are constitutionally symbolic to all intents and purposes in any case.  Whilst they drive tourism and positive national income, why change It ??.

 

[weller54]

Bozo and the creature Carrie booed heavily by the crowd when entering St Pauls Cathedral!!..

😂😂..

Our beloved PM🤬🤬

[The Year Of The Fox]

24 minutes ago, weller54 said:

Bozo and the creature Carrie booed heavily by the crowd when entering St Pauls Cathedral!!..

😂😂..

Our beloved PM🤬🤬

Sounded like he was being cheered 

[The Year Of The Fox]

The Guardsmen are struggling to hear the drill commands over those bells

Edited 3 June 2022 by The Year Of The Fox

[Jimothy]

1 hour ago, weller54 said:

Bozo and the creature Carrie booed heavily by the crowd when entering St Pauls Cathedral!!..

😂😂..

Our beloved PM🤬🤬

And Harry and Meghan got a few cheers. Wonder how the tabloids will play that tomorrow 

[weller54]

1 hour ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Sounded like he was being cheered 

Hi Nadine, you ok?

[The Year Of The Fox]

Lancaster Bomber or something very similar just went over Loughborough heading towards Coalville 

[Nick]

5 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Lancaster Bomber or something very similar just went over Loughborough heading towards Coalville 

Kamikaze? 

[Nick]

Even the telegraph reporting Johnson being boo’d as well as a whole host of left wing media… He’s in more trouble than he reckons.

[The Syrup]

8 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

Lancaster Bomber or something very similar just went over Loughborough heading towards Coalville 

It was the Lancaster. Did a few low level loops over Melton as well like yesterday

[The Year Of The Fox]

7 minutes ago, Nick said:

Even the telegraph reporting Johnson being boo’d as well as a whole host of left wing media… He’s in more trouble than he reckons.

I was being serious about the cheers. But I was talking about the cheers as he walked up the steps of the cathedral

 

Hadnt seen the Twitter clip at that point of when they got out the vehicle

 

The cheers were louder though I think 

 

 

[Guest worth_the_wait]

56 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

And Harry and Meghan got a few cheers. Wonder how the tabloids will play that tomorrow 

The crowd pretty much cheers anything that moves.

 

The horse poo cleaning wagon got loads of cheers yesterday!

[Jimothy]

3 minutes ago, worth_the_wait said:

The crowd pretty much cheers anything that moves.

 

The horse poo cleaning wagon got loads of cheers yesterday!

Yet they didn't cheer Boris and Carrie, they booed.

 

So if the sense of ill feeling to Harry and Meghan was a big as the tabloids would have you believe, they'd have booed them too.

 

Also i watched plenty walk in earlier who got no reaction, so its not true they cheer everything.

[Unabomber]

22 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

I was being serious about the cheers. But I was talking about the cheers as he walked up the steps of the cathedral

 

Hadnt seen the Twitter clip at that point of when they got out the vehicle

 

The cheers were louder though I think 

 

 

They clearly were not louder unless you’re joking. 

[Jimothy]

26 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

I was being serious about the cheers. But I was talking about the cheers as he walked up the steps of the cathedral

 

Hadnt seen the Twitter clip at that point of when they got out the vehicle

 

The cheers were louder though I think 

 

 

Clearly being booed.

 

 

[Nick]

45 minutes ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

I was being serious about the cheers. But I was talking about the cheers as he walked up the steps of the cathedral

 

Hadnt seen the Twitter clip at that point of when they got out the vehicle

 

The cheers were louder though I think 

 

 

They really weren’t. The people think he’s a lying disgrace. And a few more Tory MP’s will be convinced now to write a few more letters.

[Samilktray]

We’re about to get a screenshot of a text from someone who is actually there telling us the cheers were Infact louder 

[weller54]

1 hour ago, The Year Of The Fox said:

I was being serious about the cheers. But I was talking about the cheers as he walked up the steps of the cathedral

 

Hadnt seen the Twitter clip at that point of when they got out the vehicle

 

The cheers were louder though I think 

 

 

 

[weller54]

42 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Clearly being booed.

 

 

If you listen very carefully you can actually just about pick out Dorries singing 'it should have been me.....'😂

[The Horse's Mouth]

15 minutes ago, Samilktray said:

We’re about to get a screenshot of a text from someone who is actually there telling us the cheers were Infact louder 

It's clear they mic'd the away end more than the home end imo