Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Yeah.
I know it used to be impolite (and illegal) to talk about the death of a monarch but there's plenty of evidence out there when one half of a long standing couple dies the other one goes not so long afterwards.
There was a story in The Sunday Times saying for future events the Queen will be accompanied by one of her children or the Duke of Cambridge so if she has to cancel at the last moment there will be a senior royal on hand to ensure the event happens and the attendees aren't left disappointed.
That's a great big red flag for me.
She will still be joining by videolink.
She is also 95, already 14 years older than the average UK life expectancy.
Hopefully she will go on as long as possible but realistically Charles will become King and William Prince of Wales within 5-10 years
Its use as a nickname for Queen Elizabeth II originated in Private Eye in reaction to a perceived attempt by the royals to appear less distant and upper class.
Its use as a nickname for Queen Elizabeth II originated in Private Eye in reaction to a perceived attempt by the royals to appear less distant and upper class.
There's nothing worse than a member of the upper/upper middle classes pretending to be working class.
National news has a piece on sewage water discharges going on. Have to say labour have played an absolute blinder on this. Cheap but of politics, synthetic anger, few social media posts and the Tories have been given a battering on the issue.
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Yes
It was always bound to start this way - precautionary hospitalisations, ordered to rest by doctors, etc. Plus I dunno what the stats are but there's a strong folk belief the demise of one of a long marriage happens the demise of the other.
That is common but I've never been able to reconcile that fact with the fact women live longer than men and women tend (on average) to marry men older than them.
I'm not sure if the latter fact is still true though but it has been historically.
Oops, it was in the Sunday Telegraph, but here's the story that was the great big red flag for me,.
The Queen will be accompanied by one of her children or grandchildren when she appears in public in the future, to avoid letting the public down at the last minute in the event of future health scares.
The Queen, who cancelled a trip to Northern Ireland this week under doctors’ orders, will be joined by another member of the Royal Family who can step into the breach should she need company or assistance.
It’s almost as if the huge increases in positive tests in the SW was entirely due to retests after the problems came out. Who’d have thought it? Well me obviously, but clearly not the local news who seemed to think we had suddenly increased cases to more than twice the national average, despite being under it in the lead up to the erroneous tests.
Its use as a nickname for Queen Elizabeth II originated in Private Eye in reaction to a perceived attempt by the royals to appear less distant and upper class.
There's nothing worse than a member of the upper/upper middle classes pretending to be working class.
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Yes
It was always bound to start this way - precautionary hospitalisations, ordered to rest by doctors, etc. Plus I dunno what the stats are but there's a strong folk belief the demise of one of a long marriage happens the demise of the other.
That is common but I've never been able to reconcile that fact with the fact women live longer than men and women tend (on average) to marry men older than them.
I'm not sure if the latter fact is still true though but it has been historically.
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family "spaghetti tree". At the time spaghetti was relatively unknown in the UK, so many British people were unaware that it is made from wheat flour and water; a number of viewers afterwards contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own spaghetti trees. Decades later, CNN called this broadcast "the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax
I tried growing vegetable spaghetti on the allotment once.
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
National news has a piece on sewage water discharges going on. Have to say labour have played an absolute blinder on this. Cheap but of politics, synthetic anger, few social media posts and the Tories have been given a battering on the issue.
It really isn't synthetic anger. I don't really do anger, but it's made me mildly livid. Civilised, prosperous countries such as ours shouldn't be dumping raw sewage into the sea or rivers. The fact we've been doing so for donkeys' years doesn't make it justifiable, and anyway the scale of it has increased recently. Yes, an easy win for Labour, but stupidity from the Tories, who should have seen how it would play out. Some did but they weren't listened to.
Its use as a nickname for Queen Elizabeth II originated in Private Eye in reaction to a perceived attempt by the royals to appear less distant and upper class.
There's nothing worse than a member of the upper/upper middle classes pretending to be working class.
Makes them look like complete tossers.
Wait til you get to Chaz3.0 and then Will.V.Am
I can't wait for the Queen's speech:
"My mandem’s priority is to deliver bare policies to make the UK peng. To achieve this, my mandem will level up your ends, innit."
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
And, naturally, these things matter.
If I was meeting her I might have checked...
I wouldn't. I'd called her Liz.
Here's a question. Is there anyone left alive who calls her by her first name?
Her children won't. Her godchildren presumably don't. Her friends of the same generation are now all dead. Everyone else calls her by a title.
National news has a piece on sewage water discharges going on. Have to say labour have played an absolute blinder on this. Cheap but of politics, synthetic anger, few social media posts and the Tories have been given a battering on the issue.
It really isn't synthetic anger. I don't really do anger, but it's made me mildly livid. Civilised, prosperous countries such as ours shouldn't be dumping raw sewage into the sea or rivers. The fact we've been doing so for donkey's years doesn't make it justifiable, and anyway the scale of it has increased recently. Yes, an easy win for Labour, but stupidity from the Tories, who should have seen how it would play out. Some did but they weren't listened to.
Especially when holidaying in the UK is a *big* thing this year and will probably be next.
Its use as a nickname for Queen Elizabeth II originated in Private Eye in reaction to a perceived attempt by the royals to appear less distant and upper class.
There's nothing worse than a member of the upper/upper middle classes pretending to be working class.
Makes them look like complete tossers.
Wait til you get to Chaz3.0 and then Will.V.Am
I can't wait for the Queen's speech:
"My mandem’s priority is to deliver bare policies to make the UK peng. To achieve this, my mandem will level up your ends, innit."
And that still better English than the platitudes Blair made her spout.
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
And, naturally, these things matter.
If I was meeting her I might have checked...
I wouldn't. I'd called her Liz.
Here's a question. Is there anyone left alive who calls her by her first name?
Her children won't. Her godchildren presumably don't. Her friends of the same generation are now all dead. Everyone else calls her by a title.
Quite a thought.
That's up to her really, isn't it? I'm sure it's within her power to ask people to call her Betty or whatever. Either way, I don't recommend anyone addresses anyone else by their title, unless it's heavily in your own interests like if you're the defendant addressing the judge. People are the same, deep down. Brenda is no better a person than HYUFD or ismaelZ or Northern_Al.
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
And, naturally, these things matter.
If I was meeting her I might have checked...
I wouldn't. I'd called her Liz.
Here's a question. Is there anyone left alive who calls her by her first name?
Her children won't. Her godchildren presumably don't. Her friends of the same generation are now all dead. Everyone else calls her by a title.
Quite a thought.
That's up to her really, isn't it? I'm sure it's within her power to ask people to call her Betty or whatever. Either way, I don't recommend anyone addresses anyone else by their title, unless it's heavily in your own interests like if you're the defendant addressing the judge. People are the same, deep down. Brenda is no better a person than HYUFD or ismaelZ or Northern_Al.
Are you seriously suggesting she would muddle up the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz?
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
Yawn. Who cares.
I do. I was heavily burned on pb by someone I’ve never met, and so it’s dominating my evening. Or not.
Re the discussion earlier about electric car charging.
Electric cars have near 100kWhr capacity. So if we get to 10 or more million cars that is an amazing amount of storage capacitу, say 1000 GWhr connected to the grid.. that does away with the need for gas power plants for peak power usage. You can already get a very cheap tariff with octopus if you let them use your Tesla for distributed storage, so you plug it in and they charge it, or take power from the car to the grid at other times.
Of course you do need the overall supply to be sufficient for the amount of travel, plus to cope with millions of new heat pumps in the winter.
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
Re the discussion earlier about electric car charging.
Electric cars have near 100kWhr capacity. So if we get to 10 or more million cars that is an amazing amount of storage capacitу, say 1000 GWhr connected to the grid.. that does away with the need for gas power plants for peak power usage. You can already get a very cheap tariff with octopus if you let them use your Tesla for distributed storage, so you plug it in and they charge it, or take power from the car to the grid at other times.
Of course you do need the overall supply to be sufficient for the amount of travel, plus to cope with millions of new heat pumps in the winter.
Imagine what we could do if we all had (separately from cars) 100kWh batteries in our homes. Think what a difference that would make to storage capacity.
Truly remarkable. We can pinpoint the exact moments when iSage called for greater restrictions.
Is it too early to offer our thoughts and prayers to Christina?
So she has posted today that of course we should expect a plateau because of reduced testing at half term. Q. Why didn’t you say this last week then? It’s not like half term was a surprise...
National news has a piece on sewage water discharges going on. Have to say labour have played an absolute blinder on this. Cheap but of politics, synthetic anger, few social media posts and the Tories have been given a battering on the issue.
It really isn't synthetic anger. I don't really do anger, but it's made me mildly livid. Civilised, prosperous countries such as ours shouldn't be dumping raw sewage into the sea or rivers. The fact we've been doing so for donkeys' years doesn't make it justifiable, and anyway the scale of it has increased recently. Yes, an easy win for Labour, but stupidity from the Tories, who should have seen how it would play out. Some did but they weren't listened to.
I meant synthetic anger from labour and it’s supporters
Re the discussion earlier about electric car charging.
Electric cars have near 100kWhr capacity. So if we get to 10 or more million cars that is an amazing amount of storage capacitу, say 1000 GWhr connected to the grid.. that does away with the need for gas power plants for peak power usage. You can already get a very cheap tariff with octopus if you let them use your Tesla for distributed storage, so you plug it in and they charge it, or take power from the car to the grid at other times.
Of course you do need the overall supply to be sufficient for the amount of travel, plus to cope with millions of new heat pumps in the winter.
Imagine what we could do if we all had (separately from cars) 100kWh batteries in our homes. Think what a difference that would make to storage capacity.
And it's the way we're headed, isn't it?
If that’s where we’re heading then at some point we need to discuss moving the home and office from AC to DC for efficiency reasons.
National news has a piece on sewage water discharges going on. Have to say labour have played an absolute blinder on this. Cheap but of politics, synthetic anger, few social media posts and the Tories have been given a battering on the issue.
It really isn't synthetic anger. I don't really do anger, but it's made me mildly livid. Civilised, prosperous countries such as ours shouldn't be dumping raw sewage into the sea or rivers. The fact we've been doing so for donkeys' years doesn't make it justifiable, and anyway the scale of it has increased recently. Yes, an easy win for Labour, but stupidity from the Tories, who should have seen how it would play out. Some did but they weren't listened to.
I meant synthetic anger from labour and it’s supporters
Irregular verb time!
I have genuine concerns You are in a temper They have synthetic anger
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
Yawn. Who cares.
I do. I was heavily burned on pb by someone I’ve never met, and so it’s dominating my evening. Or not.
Just courteously corrected, really, and you started it. You could've just said the Queen, it's not like there's more than one of them and we have to distinguish by honorific.
Dunno if Queens consort get called her Maj, or if therpeople are prepared for Queen Camilla. Expecting to find out soonish.
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
And, naturally, these things matter.
If I was meeting her I might have checked...
I wouldn't. I'd called her Liz.
Here's a question. Is there anyone left alive who calls her by her first name?
Her children won't. Her godchildren presumably don't. Her friends of the same generation are now all dead. Everyone else calls her by a title.
Quite a thought.
The Archbishops of Canterbury should call her Governor or Guv.
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
Yawn. Who cares.
I do. I was heavily burned on pb by someone I’ve never met, and so it’s dominating my evening. Or not.
Just courteously corrected, really, and you started it. You could've just said the Queen, it's not like there's more than one of them and we have to distinguish by honorific.
Dunno if Queens consort get called her Maj, or if therpeople are prepared for Queen Camilla. Expecting to find out soonish.
They do, yes. Exhibit A - HM Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Famously, when one of them rang the other the switchboard operator had to say: 'Your Majesty? Her majesty, your majesty.'
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
And, naturally, these things matter.
If I was meeting her I might have checked...
I wouldn't. I'd called her Liz.
Here's a question. Is there anyone left alive who calls her by her first name?
Her children won't. Her godchildren presumably don't. Her friends of the same generation are now all dead. Everyone else calls her by a title.
Quite a thought.
The Archbishops of Canterbury should call her Governor or Guv.
And I am pretty confident any freeholder of English land can properly call her Squire.
As a good Lancastrian I address her as Duke when I bump into her.
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
And, naturally, these things matter.
If I was meeting her I might have checked...
I wouldn't. I'd called her Liz.
Here's a question. Is there anyone left alive who calls her by her first name?
Her children won't. Her godchildren presumably don't. Her friends of the same generation are now all dead. Everyone else calls her by a title.
Quite a thought.
The Archbishops of Canterbury should call her Governor or Guv.
And I am pretty confident any freeholder of English land can properly call her Squire.
As a good Lancastrian I address her as Duke when I bump into her.
Re the discussion earlier about electric car charging.
Electric cars have near 100kWhr capacity. So if we get to 10 or more million cars that is an amazing amount of storage capacitу, say 1000 GWhr connected to the grid.. that does away with the need for gas power plants for peak power usage. You can already get a very cheap tariff with octopus if you let them use your Tesla for distributed storage, so you plug it in and they charge it, or take power from the car to the grid at other times.
Of course you do need the overall supply to be sufficient for the amount of travel, plus to cope with millions of new heat pumps in the winter.
Imagine what we could do if we all had (separately from cars) 100kWh batteries in our homes. Think what a difference that would make to storage capacity.
And it's the way we're headed, isn't it?
Would this not shorten the longevity of the car battery through additional charges compared to what you’d use driving?
Re the discussion earlier about electric car charging.
Electric cars have near 100kWhr capacity. So if we get to 10 or more million cars that is an amazing amount of storage capacitу, say 1000 GWhr connected to the grid.. that does away with the need for gas power plants for peak power usage. You can already get a very cheap tariff with octopus if you let them use your Tesla for distributed storage, so you plug it in and they charge it, or take power from the car to the grid at other times.
Of course you do need the overall supply to be sufficient for the amount of travel, plus to cope with millions of new heat pumps in the winter.
Imagine what we could do if we all had (separately from cars) 100kWh batteries in our homes. Think what a difference that would make to storage capacity.
And it's the way we're headed, isn't it?
Would this not shorten the longevity of the car battery through additional charges compared to what you’d use driving?
Umph. There’s something we’re not being told, isn’t there?
Hope we still get the holiday next year.
Excuse my ignorance but who is Brenda
HRH the Queen.
No such person.
Please correct my lack of understanding of royal etiquette.
It's HM the Queen. HRH is for a lesser royal (I believe up to second generation male line descent from a reigning sovereign, although I'm not sure of that).
Yawn. Who cares.
I do. I was heavily burned on pb by someone I’ve never met, and so it’s dominating my evening. Or not.
Yes some people are so sad as to take these things seriously.
Its use as a nickname for Queen Elizabeth II originated in Private Eye in reaction to a perceived attempt by the royals to appear less distant and upper class.
There's nothing worse than a member of the upper/upper middle classes pretending to be working class.
Makes them look like complete tossers.
Wait til you get to Chaz3.0 and then Will.V.Am
I can't wait for the Queen's speech:
"My mandem’s priority is to deliver bare policies to make the UK peng. To achieve this, my mandem will level up your ends, innit."
And that still better English than the platitudes Blair made her spout.
Wow!! I really have been out of the UK for too long. I had to google mandem, bare, peng AND ends.
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She is also 95, already 14 years older than the average UK life expectancy.
Hopefully she will go on as long as possible but realistically Charles will become King and William Prince of Wales within 5-10 years
Seems to have peaked on the 16th
I think it was on a school trip to Heidelberg in 1996.
Makes them look like complete tossers.
I'm not sure if the latter fact is still true though but it has been historically.
The Queen will be accompanied by one of her children or grandchildren when she appears in public in the future, to avoid letting the public down at the last minute in the event of future health scares.
The Queen, who cancelled a trip to Northern Ireland this week under doctors’ orders, will be joined by another member of the Royal Family who can step into the breach should she need company or assistance.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2021/10/23/queen-joined-public-visits-royals-case-future-health-scares/
Strongest in the first 3 months, it says.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/maps-and-data/uk-actual-and-anomaly-maps
"My mandem’s priority is to deliver bare policies to make the UK peng. To achieve this, my mandem will level up your ends, innit."
Her children won't. Her godchildren presumably don't. Her friends of the same generation are now all dead. Everyone else calls her by a title.
Quite a thought.
Not that I would have gone, but I wanted to have the opportunity to refuse properly.
Either way, I don't recommend anyone addresses anyone else by their title, unless it's heavily in your own interests like if you're the defendant addressing the judge. People are the same, deep down. Brenda is no better a person than HYUFD or ismaelZ or Northern_Al.
That seems to me to be bordering on treason...
Electric cars have near 100kWhr capacity. So if we get to 10 or more million cars that is an amazing amount of storage capacitу, say 1000 GWhr connected to the grid.. that does away with the need for gas power plants for peak power usage. You can already get a very cheap tariff with octopus if you let them use your Tesla for distributed storage, so you plug it in and they charge it, or take power from the car to the grid at other times.
Of course you do need the overall supply to be sufficient for the amount of travel, plus to cope with millions of new heat pumps in the winter.
And it's the way we're headed, isn't it?
Q. Why didn’t you say this last week then? It’s not like half term was a surprise...
I have genuine concerns
You are in a temper
They have synthetic anger
Dunno if Queens consort get called her Maj, or if therpeople are prepared for Queen Camilla. Expecting to find out soonish.
Famously, when one of them rang the other the switchboard operator had to say: 'Your Majesty? Her majesty, your majesty.'
As a good Lancastrian I address her as Duke when I bump into her.
NEW THREAD
The thread is dead. Long live the thread!
It’s a potentially very large hidden cost.
She looks amazing for her age. But maybe she's just tired.
And Charles can open COP. It's his thing after all.