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| Cal451 |
on Fri 29 Apr 11, 9:11 PM to Cal451's blog.
I believe in celebrating a countrys great achievements and it's great achievers. In Britains case that would be people like Brunel, Churchill, Babbage and many others from the fields of science, engineering and even politics. Also sport, literature and the arts. We have had great British inventors and medical break throughs made. Yet who do we turn out in our droves to wave the flag for ? A strange family with an extremely tenuous claim to the throne of Great Britain. Who as far as I can see have never achieved anything except throw the odd lavish wedding every now and then. Also the odd gaffe when they let their guard down and we see what they're really like.
| 29 Apr 11, 10:21 PM syndeetoo UK(WC), 6 yrs |
I imagine that most of the flag waving was not done by 'we', but by tourists and provincials. Certainly everyone I know made plans to be out of town a while back as soon as the date was set. Me? I missed it. Can't think how. in ipso vita erat et vita erat lux hominum | |
| 29 Apr 11, 10:47 PM wonderer UK, 5 yrs |
Out of curiosity, I switched over to BBC1 during the mid session interval in the snooker. I'm no real fan of military dress uniforms - seems like the glorification of slaughter; lots of them looked like something off a Gilbert and Sullivan set. I'm afraid I soon lost interest. I'm guessing we the public are paying for all those uniforms, and horses and so on. Why on earth do we still have a cavalry? No-one rides into battle nowadays. "Wisdom begins in wonder” (Socrates) Edited 29 Apr 11, 10:49 PM by wonderer | |
| 30 Apr 11, 9:41 AM Insistor UK(PL), 7 yrs |
And they don't even have to get the peasantry pissed any more (a la "fountains running with wine") or touch us for scrofula. Since they've given up their part of the bargain, I think we should insist on ours, namely the right to sacrifice one of the buggers every now and then and scatter scraps of the body on our fields in order to improve crop yeild. I'm sure they'd agree on the desirability of upholding these ancient traditions. BDSM: Boring, Dumb, Sad, Motherfuckers. | |
| 30 Apr 11, 11:47 AM syndeetoo UK(WC), 6 yrs |
That's a good one. A colleague suggested that we corral them, all of them, make them wear tartan and dump them on the Isle of Man. Tourists could be shipped in and allowed to stroke and touch them. Easy to ensure they never come back to the mainland and the perfect place for them to carry on with the inbreeding.You kill two lots of pretentious horse shitte with one stone then, as the Isle of Man is outrageous. in ipso vita erat et vita erat lux hominum | |
| 30 Apr 11, 12:41 PM whaplodedave UK(PE), 6 yrs |
you are just grumpy as you didnt get any wedding cake :P | |
| 30 Apr 11, 1:20 PM Cal451 UK(NN), 3 yrs |
That's right and Mc Vities made them a chocolate digestive cake too.
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