And now, Multiplication Table for Today...
One times two equals BABY
Two times two equals BABY!
Three times two equals BABY!
Four times two equals BABY!!
Five times two equals BABY!!!
Six times two equals BABY!!!
Seven blablabablababla BABY!!!
Babababababababa BABY!!!
Babababababababababaproudtobebritish!!!
Boobybabablabababablahgodsavethequeen.
Also, anyone from another country who wouldn't like to have a monarch themselves but finds it cute to look at from a nice exoticising distance 'cos it's "just like a fairy tale" can go fuck themselves.
- Every Fucking Programme on the Radio (and I expect the TV's worse)
I have been spoiled by Twitter and the flexibility of muting keywords, hashtags and the like - I need this facility to be available for my radio.
I am the sole Republican in this office - a lone voice in the Royalist wilderness crying "B*ll*cks!"
Vive la sodding guillotine.
I've managed to avoid it entirely today thus far- the issue will be the next ten or fifteen years though :o(
A bas les aristos! Les aristos a la lanterne!
And you became independent when, exactly? :oS
I lived in Belgium for some years as you know and they manage to have a royal familiy without all this ludicrous nonsense every time one of 'em breaks wind! You'd meet 'em in the supermarket !
We get media frenzies still, but the royal family still comprises lesser beings when compared to Sporting Heroes, so even that kinda works.
Not that it isn't annoying. It hasn't been anywhere near this intense, depending on exactly what media you're looking at, but over a dozen years of gushing over Peter Jackson and his hackwork has made me pretty cross.
If people want to gush, let them gush to like-minded friends - but I don't see why the BBC has to join in, as if everyone in the country were of one mind.
But I don't think there's anything neutral about the royal family. It's true they're not party political (though I'd be amazed if the queen weren't a Tory), but they're the lynchpin of a whole political system. If it weren't for the monarchy, the absurdity of the constitutional arrangements for the upper chamber would be far more apparent, for a start; and the incredible proportion of the country that's in private (mostly aristocratic) hands might actually appear on the radar. Here, the so-called cousinhood, comprising 0.3% of the population, owns around 66% of the land; and while I know there are similar disproportions in the US, at least people there are aware of the fact and talking about it, rather than accepting it as some kind of natural/divine dispensation. Then there's the general culture of deference, which wastes talent on such a colossal scale and has turned the cabinet is a kind of finishing school for Eton, Harrow and Westminster.
Not that getting rid of the monarchy would change all this at a stroke, but its disposal would make reform of the rest far more possible. (It would also bestow on this poor child the slim possibility of not having its life totally screwed up.)
Go figure..................
The royal birth isn't bothering me much, to be honest, but we only have the radio on at certain times of day and scarcely watch TV live, preferring to video series and then watch as and when convenient.
Their headline?
'Woman gives birth' :o)