The Royal Family

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Re: The Royal Family

Postby fat cherry » Tue Apr 24, 2018 12:55 pm

Ah, tres kind - and I see what you did there. Its all a welcome distraction at the mo, not to mention educational (see BFs soul patch thread) - trying to do my company accounts (my company being me) since I had to sack the accountant since I knew I couldn't afford his bill (for seemingly filling in a few numbers here and there, haha). Also getting distracted by references to all sorts of legislation I expect the accountant knows the meaning of.
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Re: The Royal Family

Postby black francis » Tue Apr 24, 2018 11:47 pm

I can assure you all that despite this thread Mr. Brian is actually fun at parties.
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Re: The Royal Family

Postby Kounelaki » Wed Apr 25, 2018 12:51 am

The French had the right idea in the 18th century.
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Re: The Royal Family

Postby TenNewPence » Wed Apr 25, 2018 4:10 am

Kounelaki wrote:The French had the right idea in the 18th century.


Be careful for what you wish for Robespierre and the Reign of Terror, over 16,000 who lost their heads.
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Re: The Royal Family

Postby Dr Cheese » Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:42 pm

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Royal Family my arse!
And you know that I'll pick up
Every time you call
Just to thank you one more time
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Re: The Royal Family

Postby Mr. Brian » Thu Apr 26, 2018 5:54 pm

TenNewPence wrote:
Kounelaki wrote:The French had the right idea in the 18th century.


Be careful for what you wish for Robespierre and the Reign of Terror, over 16,000 who lost their heads.


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Re: The Royal Family

Postby fat cherry » Fri Apr 27, 2018 6:18 am

Kounelaki wrote:The French had the right idea in the 18th century.


And they've called him Louis........

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43922335


That'll please the leavers no end. :biggrin:
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Re: The Royal Family

Postby Kounelaki » Fri Apr 27, 2018 9:19 am

fat cherry wrote:That'll please the leavers no end. :biggrin:


That and the fact that their blue passports will be made by a French company. :razz:
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Re: The Royal Family

Postby fat cherry » Sat Apr 28, 2018 8:59 am

That is really funny - because they tried to sell it as a great big positive about leaving - there was an 'item' about it on the Jeremy Vine show and they had all these tossers on going 'its a disgrace' etc and then this french woman who was openly laughing and pointed out that it was the conservative government's own fault for flogging off the right to make them, becaus ethen it comes under european law and has to be put out to tender, whereas the french keep it in house so make their own. And if they'd just left it a couple of years. Whole thing's a complete fuck up.
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Re: The Royal Family

Postby fat cherry » Sat Apr 28, 2018 9:01 am

And there only has to be one small family tragedy (dodgy salmon mousse anyone?) and its King Louis. Brill.
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Re: The Royal Family

Postby fat cherry » Fri May 18, 2018 4:03 am

fat cherry wrote: the government (both elected and unelected mandarin types) is still made up of privately educated nobs, even on the left. We still have an unelected second chamber of apparently zero consequence (the lords to you Mr B) and subsidised public (as in private - don't ask me about the nomenclature) education system that feeds the top universities who then feed the government/civil service. I think thats the rough view from the left anyways.


Just come across an example of what I mean by this in the news this morning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44155130

This old bird was a deputy governor at the bank of england - which amongst other things sets interest rates and handles all our cash, and had to resign due to an oversight in which she failed to declare a potential conflict of interests - that her brother is high up in Barclays Bank. Now apart from how, when you've worked in the financial industry all your life you'd forget a thing like that........ A year later she's back as Chief Executive of Visa Europe (which is owned by the banks, one presumably being barclays).
Is she a working class upstart from the north country? Nope. Her dad is 3rd Viscount Hailsham, one of the remaining hereditary peers and also has a life peerage (not sure how this all works) sits in the Lords at 300 quid a day plus (or so the oapers say). Before that he was an MP for a while when the press fund out he had claimed 2000 quid in parliamentary expenses to 'clean the moat of his castle' - though after the event it was 'more complicated than that'. Anyways, who cares, his old man carked it and he got the peerage, and after the commons went to the Lords. Her mother is a baroness in her own right (economist and big business cheese), and her dad (i.e. gramps) was a conservative MP and Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General. His dad before him was also an MP and all the lot went to private (or public as they call them here) and Oxford.

Oh and its the happy day tomorrow!!!
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Re: The Royal Family

Postby Kounelaki » Fri May 18, 2018 6:30 am

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Re: The Royal Family

Postby fat cherry » Fri May 18, 2018 6:51 am

he might have one of those beardy things but his voice could still get me off my death bed to turn it off. Trying to find something frenchy but only came up with this - not sure its actually about anything french



they have that drum thing going on though I suppose
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Re: The Royal Family

Postby Kounelaki » Fri May 18, 2018 12:02 pm

The title of this one is kind of appropriate. Better vocals than our Geddy.

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Re: The Royal Family

Postby fat cherry » Fri May 18, 2018 12:50 pm

next door's cat has better vocals than our Geddy. Though others differ i =n this opinion I wholly accept. Good choice though.
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