Very impressive cock range on old mate, here. Who can't he get it up for?
At the risk of belaboring the obvious, my comment was meant to be clinical not carnal. She really is a beautiful woman and that outfit, although would not work for everyday, is phenomenal for formal occasions.
Brighton Council’s new Labour leader responds to Brighton’s Green MP:
Thanks for the congratulations. But your Party has been a disaster for our City. An unmitigated disaster. And they needed to be kindly shown the door. A relief for us all.
First majority Labour council in nearly a quarter of a century…
For once I agree with a Labour politician....
There has been some grumbling among the local Corbynista wing that she was imposed by the Starmer machine….which may be why they won so convincingly - although the Greens may have had some successes elsewhere Brighton was bloody and brutal.
Greens were a disaster for Brighton. It's an awful place to go to. I worked there for 25 yrs. Now I wouldn't go unless it was to the Theatre Royal but even that is long overdue for an complete refurbishment V Tacky now. Those who like Brighton can enjoy the 20mph speed limits and the appalling queues it brings. Dont get even a wheel in a bus lane or you will be ticketed Ghastly Anywhere but Brighton really.
Oh... and don't swin in the sea either... you might meet your ablutions. the beach is dangerous too so I am told..drug ephemera...
The Theatre Royal is being refurbished at least. The Greens seemed more keen to impose more cycle lanes and a ULEZ. In fairness the bus service is pretty good - but the roads are a mess. I doubt the Greens will be back - they were reduced to their student vote core, with both their leader and deputy leader (my ward) were voted out.
Was she as gloriously aloof and frosty as you'd imagine?
Quite, quite the opposite, with caveats.
Before we met her, my Aussie GF was a republican, and asked me to do all the talking. When we met her, I could hardly get a word in edgeways as they chatted. Funnily, the conversation turned onto whether things are nature versus nurture - she said something like one of her earliest memories was riding a pony, and asked me about walking. To which I replied that my grandfather had been a keen walker and cyclist. We then chatted about places we knew on and around the coast, and she mentioned memories of HMY Britannia.
My GF ended up a firm monarchist - and she still is.
It must be quite hard having to meet so many people, and to find common things to chat about. It made a lifelong memory for the two of us, but I bet she forgot about us within ten minutes...
God, is it starting already? I’ve only just dropped off daughter to ballet before doing some shopping. I assumed the action would wait until lunchtime at least.
Not much coronation regalia around Brockley this morning. Zero sign of it in either of the rain soaked coffee shops by the station (which are interesting social signifiers for the area: Browns is comfortable centrist London Labour remainer vibe, The Broca is more Green / Corbyn f*** the patriarchy type of place.)
For the second time in my lifetime I awake on coronation day and while being ambivalent to the monarchy there are many millions for whom today is historic and very special and I hope they have a wonderful day
Turning to politics the conservatives had a terrible day and it should not have surprised anyone after the debacle of the Johnson/ Truss time, and they need to unite behind Sunak and not listen to the siren voices bemoaning the eviction from office of Johnson
As for labour a good result but seemingly confirmation that Starmer has not yet sealed the deal with
It would be churlish not to recognise the spectacular success of the lib dems and greens which should provide red flag warnings for both the conservatives and labour
I am content with yesterday's result and would suggest that next year's GE , now almost certainly in October, could spin out any result but I would predict a labour government in coalition with the lib dems as a very real possibility and perfectly acceptable to me
I would just like to send my sincere congratulations to @NickPalmer on winning yesterday, and while we are not on the same page politically, he is a credit to politics, is a really nice person, and made a hilarious admission on here some weeks ago that has gone down in PB history
“… most commentators suggesting he may well become PM leading a minority government…”
Can you point me to a few? I think I’ve found one so far.
It was the impression I had after catching up on the news after being involved all day with my son in law in a DIY project
Certainly I did not hear or read an endorsement that Starmer will win a majority
That’s not what you said. You said most commentators are suggesting Sunak could well become PM leading a minority government. Can you point me to a few?
He said 'most commentators are suggesting Starmer could well become PM leading a minority government', not Sunak.
God, is it starting already? I’ve only just dropped off daughter to ballet before doing some shopping. I assumed the action would wait until lunchtime at least.
Not much coronation regalia around Brockley this morning. Zero sign of it in either of the rain soaked coffee shops by the station (which are interesting social signifiers for the area: Browns is comfortable centrist London Labour remainer vibe, The Broca is more Green / Corbyn f*** the patriarchy type of place.)
Though my neighbouring table at Browns today (I alternate weekly) are discussing the “3 natural wine bars in Deptford”, so the groups do mingle a little.
Was she as gloriously aloof and frosty as you'd imagine?
Quite, quite the opposite, with caveats.
Before we met her, my Aussie GF was a republican, and asked me to do all the talking. When we met her, I could hardly get a word in edgeways as they chatted. Funnily, the conversation turned onto whether things are nature versus nurture - she said something like one of her earliest memories was riding a pony, and asked me about walking. To which I replied that my grandfather had been a keen walker and cyclist. We then chatted about places we knew on and around the coast, and she mentioned memories of HMY Britannia.
My GF ended up a firm monarchist - and she still is.
It must be quite hard having to meet so many people, and to find common things to chat about. It made a lifelong memory for the two of us, but I bet she forgot about us within ten minutes...
Oh what a nice memory. That's the one thing the the Royals do have going for them. I bet it wouldn't have made anywhere near the same impression if you'd met a middle ranking government official or minister...
Was she as gloriously aloof and frosty as you'd imagine?
Quite, quite the opposite, with caveats.
Before we met her, my Aussie GF was a republican, and asked me to do all the talking. When we met her, I could hardly get a word in edgeways as they chatted. Funnily, the conversation turned onto whether things are nature versus nurture - she said something like one of her earliest memories was riding a pony, and asked me about walking. To which I replied that my grandfather had been a keen walker and cyclist. We then chatted about places we knew on and around the coast, and she mentioned memories of HMY Britannia.
My GF ended up a firm monarchist - and she still is.
It must be quite hard having to meet so many people, and to find common things to chat about. It made a lifelong memory for the two of us, but I bet she forgot about us within ten minutes...
Oh what a nice memory. That's the one thing the the Royals do have going for them. I bet it wouldn't have made anywhere near the same impression if you'd met a middle ranking government official or minister...
Most of us think we’re cool as cucumbers and unmoved by celebrity or power until we find ourselves having a conversation with someone famous and treasuring it. I’ve not conversed with any of the royals (though I did sing at a wedding in Hereford cathedral where Charles, Di and Camilla were all guests and Will was a page boy) but I do recall being ridiculously starstruck when Curtly Ambrose exchanged a few words with me in a beer tent once.
Occurs to me that Aleister Crowley would be revelling in the coronation. He knew the overwhelming psychic importance of apparently pointless ritual. The older the better
It is ritual magic. It is athames and sacred orbs and incomprehensible unguents from Jerusalem
Much of this stretches back to the Anglo-Saxon Kings in the 8th Century. Some of it even has its roots in the Old Testament.
It is truly humbling.
Today is going to be a show the likes of which we've never seen in our lifetimes. Almost every country in the world has sent either their Head of State or a very senior representative. Billions will tune in.
Those who miss it will later regret it.
Yes, you must have ZERO interest in history, religion, politics, music, architecture, pageantry to be determined to miss this. Even if you utterly loathe the monarchy it’s simply fascinating
Sounds like an absolute yawnfest. And the coverage is guaranteed be unwatchably obsequious to anyone with any sense of decency.
Even Der Spiegel has a live stream of the coronation.
What a remarkable and amazing story that Charles only got two A-levels - a B in History, and a C in French, and yet still got into Cambridge and then later became the actual Head of State.
What a remarkable and amazing story that Charles only got two A-levels - a B in History, and a C in French, and yet still got into Cambridge and then later became the actual Head of State.
Obviously referencing the coronation of King Eadwig:
"According to the anonymous author of this saint’s life, the teenage Eadwig suddenly rushed out of his coronation ceremony after he had been anointed and crowned. Archbishop Oda ordered for Eadwig to be found, and he was discovered by Abbot Dunstan cavorting with two women, a mother and her adult daughter, ‘as if they were wallowing in a revolting pigsty’. His crown had been tossed on the ground, and after Dunstan had told the women off, he picked up the crown and placed it back on Eadwig’s head, and marched him back to his coronation feast."
So raining heavily now in Ilford North, hopefully the faithful in Westminster have brought their Union Jack umbrellas
One advantage you have (or would have, since I suspect the weather will see it cancelled) is that the flypast comes in over Fairlop plain and then over South Woodford on the direct line into the palace.
What a remarkable and amazing story that Charles only got two A-levels - a B in History, and a C in French, and yet still got into Cambridge and then later became the actual Head of State.
What a remarkable and amazing story that Charles only got two A-levels - a B in History, and a C in French, and yet still got into Cambridge and then later became the actual Head of State.
1. Prince Andrew was booed by crowds outside Buckingham Palace. Funny that. Rumours that Gary Glitter was asked to play "I'm the Leader of the Gang" have been denied.
2. That bint in the Mike Pence role will be anointed publicly.
3. That Line of Jesse/David tree image on the anointment screen! We all know it doesn't really represent the Commonwealth.
4. I hope Harry Egalité does something. From "Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!" in 1793 to "Diana Spencer, thou art avenged" in 2023? Make your most of your 5 seconds in the Abbey on the world's TV screens, Hazzer!
So raining heavily now in Ilford North, hopefully the faithful in Westminster have brought their Union Jack umbrellas
One advantage you have (or would have, since I suspect the weather will see it cancelled) is that the flypast comes in over Fairlop plain and then over South Woodford on the direct line into the palace.
Yes. This. Hopefully they'll fly in from the same direction today, weather permitting! Got a decent enough view from my west-facing bedroom window on previous occasions (eg. 2012).
MHAIRI Black has said the SNP would "drag the Labour Party to the left" in a hung parliament - as analysis suggests the SNP could hold the balance of power at the next election.
Was she as gloriously aloof and frosty as you'd imagine?
Quite, quite the opposite, with caveats.
Before we met her, my Aussie GF was a republican, and asked me to do all the talking. When we met her, I could hardly get a word in edgeways as they chatted. Funnily, the conversation turned onto whether things are nature versus nurture - she said something like one of her earliest memories was riding a pony, and asked me about walking. To which I replied that my grandfather had been a keen walker and cyclist. We then chatted about places we knew on and around the coast, and she mentioned memories of HMY Britannia.
My GF ended up a firm monarchist - and she still is.
It must be quite hard having to meet so many people, and to find common things to chat about. It made a lifelong memory for the two of us, but I bet she forgot about us within ten minutes...
Oh what a nice memory. That's the one thing the the Royals do have going for them. I bet it wouldn't have made anywhere near the same impression if you'd met a middle ranking government official or minister...
Most of us think we’re cool as cucumbers and unmoved by celebrity or power until we find ourselves having a conversation with someone famous and treasuring it. I’ve not conversed with any of the royals (though I did sing at a wedding in Hereford cathedral where Charles, Di and Camilla were all guests and Will was a page boy) but I do recall being ridiculously starstruck when Curtly Ambrose exchanged a few words with me in a beer tent once.
I have never spoken to anyone famous (unless you can count Adam Heppinstall) but I can imagine what an effect it must have.
The Tory party playing dressup. And we all know what that great Welshman Nye Bevan said the Tories were lower than.
"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."
MHAIRI Black has said the SNP would "drag the Labour Party to the left" in a hung parliament - as analysis suggests the SNP could hold the balance of power at the next election.
MHAIRI Black has said the SNP would "drag the Labour Party to the left" in a hung parliament - as analysis suggests the SNP could hold the balance of power at the next election.
So raining heavily now in Ilford North, hopefully the faithful in Westminster have brought their Union Jack umbrellas
One advantage you have (or would have, since I suspect the weather will see it cancelled) is that the flypast comes in over Fairlop plain and then over South Woodford on the direct line into the palace.
Yes. This. Hopefully they'll fly in from the same direction today, weather permitting! Got a decent enough view from my west-facing bedroom window on previous occasions (eg. 2012).
I was looking at the flight preparation arrangements yesterday, and it's the usual gather north of the wash, transit Fairlop, direct line into the palace over my old house in South Woodford, then peel off to the north west toward Brize. But this weather will probably scupper it.
Was she as gloriously aloof and frosty as you'd imagine?
Quite, quite the opposite, with caveats.
Before we met her, my Aussie GF was a republican, and asked me to do all the talking. When we met her, I could hardly get a word in edgeways as they chatted. Funnily, the conversation turned onto whether things are nature versus nurture - she said something like one of her earliest memories was riding a pony, and asked me about walking. To which I replied that my grandfather had been a keen walker and cyclist. We then chatted about places we knew on and around the coast, and she mentioned memories of HMY Britannia.
My GF ended up a firm monarchist - and she still is.
It must be quite hard having to meet so many people, and to find common things to chat about. It made a lifelong memory for the two of us, but I bet she forgot about us within ten minutes...
Oh what a nice memory. That's the one thing the the Royals do have going for them. I bet it wouldn't have made anywhere near the same impression if you'd met a middle ranking government official or minister...
Most of us think we’re cool as cucumbers and unmoved by celebrity or power until we find ourselves having a conversation with someone famous and treasuring it. I’ve not conversed with any of the royals (though I did sing at a wedding in Hereford cathedral where Charles, Di and Camilla were all guests and Will was a page boy) but I do recall being ridiculously starstruck when Curtly Ambrose exchanged a few words with me in a beer tent once.
I have never spoken to anyone famous (unless you can count Adam Heppinstall) but I can imagine what an effect it must have.
I met a lot (probably over half) of the F1 drivers of the early 1990s. Mostly the back of the grid ones; not Senna or Prost. Through the same route, I also met Bernie Ecclestone, and chatted to him about concrete, of all things, before I realised who he was.
If I'd wanted, I could probably have swung a meeting with Senna. A very minor regret of my life.
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Before we met her, my Aussie GF was a republican, and asked me to do all the talking. When we met her, I could hardly get a word in edgeways as they chatted. Funnily, the conversation turned onto whether things are nature versus nurture - she said something like one of her earliest memories was riding a pony, and asked me about walking. To which I replied that my grandfather had been a keen walker and cyclist. We then chatted about places we knew on and around the coast, and she mentioned memories of HMY Britannia.
My GF ended up a firm monarchist - and she still is.
It must be quite hard having to meet so many people, and to find common things to chat about. It made a lifelong memory for the two of us, but I bet she forgot about us within ten minutes...
Not much coronation regalia around Brockley this morning. Zero sign of it in either of the rain soaked coffee shops by the station (which are interesting social signifiers for the area: Browns is comfortable centrist London Labour remainer vibe, The Broca is more Green / Corbyn f*** the patriarchy type of place.)
*Wikipedia deep dive*
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/06/world/coronation-king-charles-uk
https://twitter.com/Psythor/status/1654747573976985601
Vivat! Vivat! Vivat!
Obviously referencing the coronation of King Eadwig:
"According to the anonymous author of this saint’s life, the teenage Eadwig suddenly rushed out of his coronation ceremony after he had been anointed and crowned. Archbishop Oda ordered for Eadwig to be found, and he was discovered by Abbot Dunstan cavorting with two women, a mother and her adult daughter, ‘as if they were wallowing in a revolting pigsty’. His crown had been tossed on the ground, and after Dunstan had told the women off, he picked up the crown and placed it back on Eadwig’s head, and marched him back to his coronation feast."
https://florencehrs.substack.com/p/thelgifu-and-lfgifu-a-mother-and#details
Beautiful
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/best-dressed-coronation-king-charles-b2333740.html
Though Mordaunt has changed her shoes.
1. Prince Andrew was booed by crowds outside Buckingham Palace. Funny that. Rumours that Gary Glitter was asked to play "I'm the Leader of the Gang" have been denied.
2. That bint in the Mike Pence role will be anointed publicly.
3. That Line of Jesse/David tree image on the anointment screen! We all know it doesn't really represent the Commonwealth.
4. I hope Harry Egalité does something. From "Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!" in 1793 to "Diana Spencer, thou art avenged" in 2023? Make your most of your 5 seconds in the Abbey on the world's TV screens, Hazzer!
Hope that pen works…
MHAIRI Black has said the SNP would "drag the Labour Party to the left" in a hung parliament - as analysis suggests the SNP could hold the balance of power at the next election.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/23504790.snp-drag-labour-left-hung-parliament/
And we all know what that great Welshman Nye Bevan said the Tories were lower than.
"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin."
(A secret Catholic I think?)
And I'm sure she'd appreciate them, given her particular sense of humour..
Harder to spell, though.
- I beg your pardon?
- Evil old woman, considered frightful or ugly, 12 down.
- Oh... bless you!
😀
If I'd wanted, I could probably have swung a meeting with Senna. A very minor regret of my life.