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Post by shoes on Sept 8, 2022 17:40:18 GMT -5
No matter what might think of the monarchy in general, as someone who has observed her long reign, I think she served with great dignity and care.
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Post by 1hooper on Sept 9, 2022 8:46:01 GMT -5
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Post by tc on Sept 11, 2022 8:14:00 GMT -5
the comments below are made in the spirit of swap ideas day which was yesterday...
all this public mourning is a bit much!
especially for the head of an antiquated institution that has been responsible for many atrocities throughout the world over centuries.
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Post by 1hooper on Sept 11, 2022 8:45:52 GMT -5
An excerpt from The New Yorker in April 2022.
The Queen’s favorite subject, bar none, is the breeding of horses. Her closest male friend was the Seventh Earl of Carnarvon—known as Porchey, from an earlier aristocratic title—who served as her racing manager from 1969 until he died of a heart attack while watching the coverage of 9/11. Her wedding present to Charles, when he finally married Camilla, in 2005, was a broodmare. As it happened, the timing of the wedding clashed with the Grand National, Britain’s biggest steeplechase. The organizers delayed the race by twenty-five minutes. Shortly after the ceremony, the Queen stepped into a side room in Windsor Castle, with Andrew Parker Bowles, Camilla’s previous husband, to watch the race. (“One of those inbred social details that baffle royal outsiders,” Brown writes.) During the reception, the Queen slipped out and watched the race again.
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Post by tc on Sept 11, 2022 8:50:17 GMT -5
An excerpt from The New Yorker in April 2022. The Queen’s favorite subject, bar none, is the breeding of horses. Her closest male friend was the Seventh Earl of Carnarvon—known as Porchey, from an earlier aristocratic title—who served as her racing manager from 1969 until he died of a heart attack while watching the coverage of 9/11. Her wedding present to Charles, when he finally married Camilla, in 2005, was a broodmare. As it happened, the timing of the wedding clashed with the Grand National, Britain’s biggest steeplechase. The organizers delayed the race by twenty-five minutes. Shortly after the ceremony, the Queen stepped into a side room in Windsor Castle, with Andrew Parker Bowles, Camilla’s previous husband, to watch the race. (“One of those inbred social details that baffle royal outsiders,” Brown writes.) During the reception, the Queen slipped out and watched the race again. yes, hoop, I have no doubt she cared deeply for horses. my problem is with the institution she represented and the harm done to humans in the name of empire. |
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Post by 1hooper on Sept 11, 2022 9:09:48 GMT -5
We New Englanders took care of that shit in the 1700's.
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Post by phlierfreak on Sept 11, 2022 13:45:53 GMT -5
and they all lived happily ever after.
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Post by tc on Sept 11, 2022 14:24:26 GMT -5
and they all lived happily ever after. one of the funniest posts on this board, ever!  |
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Post by spanky on Sept 12, 2022 13:30:25 GMT -5
I just wish they would't show the funeral progression all day. Stick her in the ground already! We need to be watching those boys from Ukraine kicking Putins ass!
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Post by spiderjohn on Sept 12, 2022 16:15:54 GMT -5
tough bunch here lol.......
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Post by tc on Sept 12, 2022 17:45:01 GMT -5
tough bunch here lol....... most surprisingly Spanky's return talking this way after the concern shown towards his family and him for the last few months... Don't think anyone/anything has gone in to the ground faster and uglier than the Cowboys' season did yesterday, still not as traumatic as watching young Russians and Ukraineans destroy each other for  70 years on the throne with a degree of upclass dignity, as compared to less than two years of the NO POLITICS/Harris/Pelosi/Schumer complete disaster is a telling comparison as far as global/social destruction R u on board with Beto, Spank? Imagine the thought of Abbott sending migrants to actual sanctuary cities/states? But we have real nfl/college football now + Kee and the BC as a distraction....... "harm done in the name of the Empire" as a eulogy, tc? I can think of no better eulogy, spider! maybe a little history lesson is in order... www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2022/09/10/dark-side-queen-elizabeths-legacy-matters-heres-why/historycollection.com/10-atrocities-committed-by-the-british-empire-that-they-would-like-to-erase-from-history-books/Got to call it as I see it. Anybody want to give my eulogy? |
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Post by eye123 on Sept 12, 2022 18:16:42 GMT -5
"70 years on the throne with a degree of upclass dignity, as compared to less than two years of the NO POLITICS/Harris/Pelosi/Schumer complete disaster is a telling comparison as far as global/social destruction" lol ! Calm down old boy,concentrate on those nasty FBI agents retrieving classified documents from old orange face.  The indignity of it all. PS...I love Nancy Pelosi ...and what patriotic American doesn't.... truth and the American way.... |
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Post by eye123 on Sept 12, 2022 18:19:14 GMT -5
Spanky getting feisty, I like it.
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Post by spiderjohn on Sept 14, 2022 8:58:22 GMT -5
a lot of ugly history in the past from every side/angle---learn from it, change and correct it. Move forward to become better......always interesting and telling to see where sensitivities lie
we think differently for many reasons, and that is fine
hope to see a few of you in Lexington during the next two months!
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Post by shoes on Sept 17, 2022 8:06:21 GMT -5
I get some of the animosity, sort of, but I don't know how many people would inspire others to wait between 14 and 25 hours overnight and in the cold for the chance to file past their coffin. I don't think we have any thing to compare to the shared experience and the continuity that she represented. Charles and William especially, were remarkable I thought in the time they spent personally greeting and shaking hands with an amazing number of people waiting in the line. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/17/king-and-prince-of-wales-greet-mourners-queueing-to-see-queen-lying-in-state |
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Post by 1hooper on Sept 17, 2022 8:57:05 GMT -5
The Monarchy is probably outdated but I was ok with Elizabeth. The two are separate for me.
Similar to how I believe in our presidency but not every president.
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The indignity of it all.