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Post by peterba on May 6, 2023 10:04:24 GMT
Our TV has developed a fault.  The Mrs switched it on this morning to watch something (apparently) important, but the TV seems to be stuck on showing a lot of people standing around, doing nothing. Worse still, the audio is affected too. There are people talking complete bollocks, in silly reverential tones. I'll have to call the TV repair shop. |
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Post by zou on May 6, 2023 10:06:34 GMT
The TikTok is priceless.  |
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Post by willien on May 6, 2023 12:50:36 GMT
Anyone got any idea how long it will be till it is safe to switch on the telly?
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Post by steveandthedogs on May 6, 2023 13:08:52 GMT
Anyone got any idea how long it will be till it is safe to switch on the telly? About three weeks Thursday. S |
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Post by willien on May 6, 2023 16:46:51 GMT
Is it my imagination or as he gets older is Chuck looking more and more like Tim Brooke Taylor?
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Post by zou on May 6, 2023 20:45:44 GMT
Seen on social media.  |
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Post by lesleysm2 on May 6, 2023 20:57:43 GMT
More or less dodged the whole thing I don't have a telly and even if I had, I had zero urge to watch it and when I popped in the Bell's the fuss had died down there was some sort of big soccer game on instead another thing I has zero urge to watch but in the Bell's there is a particular corner where you can't see the telly, which was populated by the usual suspects who like me simply wanted to have a quiet beer and read for a bit
Few morons posting on FB "Not my queen" etc with pictures of Saint Diana resisted urge to point out if "queen" is defined as "married to the king" then Camilla is your queen and if Saint Diana were still around she still wouldn't be your queen as they got divorced
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Post by John Farrell on May 6, 2023 21:17:24 GMT
A view of the coronation, (complete with spelling mistakes) from a local leftwing forum.
"Watched a bit of the coronation last night. Here is the thing – English choral music from the late rennaissance is widely acknowedged as the top of the game, and "Zadok the Priest" is a total banger. You would go a long way to hear better arrangements and of course to see and hear it done in context for probably the last time in history was lovely. Of course, you could fund a lot of cultural stuff like early English and orchestral music for a long time with 250 million pounds…
I remember reading – it may have been in John Julius Norwich's three volume history -about the Byzantine empires final days. Reduced to the city of Constantinople and it's immediate surrounds plus a few scraps of land here and there nonetheless imperial ceremony continued as if nothing had changed. The Hagia Sophia gleamed, the diadems and sceptres shone, the voices raised in tedious and interminable religious cant rang as beautifully as ever. Except on closer inspection, the jewels were glass and precioud metals just paint and tinsel. In the corners the paint was peeling and streets beyond the imperial quarters were unkempt and run down. I got strong Byzantium vibes from Westminster abbey.
The whole exercise to me was a ghastly, self-important exercise in hypernormality for the British ruling elite. You know the whole thing was cos-playing fantasy. They know the whole thing was a cos playing fantasy. You could see on everyone faces they knew it was a cos playing fantasy. Charles clearly really, really wanted it. He's waited his enite life for the moment I guess. But no one knows what to do instead, so they pretend it was all perfectly normal.
The whole thing – the imperial regalia, the swearing to uphold the Protestant settlement, the sumptuous yet ridiculous clothing – was an expedition into never-never land, larping for a long dead empire. It was ymbolic of the UKs wider struggle with reality in an era of seemingly irreversible national decline."
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Post by willien on May 6, 2023 21:21:31 GMT
I really liked the Hagia Sophia. Empty of all cant and symbolism it was a nice, quiete, peacefull space in a bustling noisy city.
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Post by neilt3 on May 7, 2023 7:31:42 GMT
I read somewhere that Charlie has a net worth of Billions so maybe he’ll step up and pay the tab Yeah right ! That's why his worth billions ! I'd be worth more too if I were a freeloader. |
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Post by spinno on May 7, 2023 9:30:47 GMT
I liked the idea of Penny Mordaunt auditioning to be Xena Princess Warrior...she knows how to hold a weapon upright...
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Post by gray1720 on May 7, 2023 10:04:20 GMT
I liked the idea of Penny Mordaunt auditioning to be Xena Princess Warrior...she knows how to hold a weapon upright... Fnarr fnarr! |
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Post by geoffr on May 7, 2023 10:29:22 GMT
What a week I have coming - drop off laundry on Wednesday, local elections Thursday, shingles jab Friday and Chas getting coronated Saturday. Will I be able to take all this excitement? Coronated? where was you brung up? |
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Post by aitch on May 7, 2023 12:06:53 GMT
What a week I have coming - drop off laundry on Wednesday, local elections Thursday, shingles jab Friday and Chas getting coronated Saturday. Will I be able to take all this excitement? Coronated? where was you brung up?
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Post by willien on May 7, 2023 12:25:42 GMT
The Beeb's headline - "Charlses and Camilla crowned in historic coronation". Does that mean they were actually transported back a few centuries for the event?
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The Mrs switched it on this morning to watch something (apparently) important, but the TV seems to be stuck on showing a lot of people standing around, doing nothing. Worse still, the audio is affected too. There are people talking complete bollocks, in silly reverential tones. I'll have to call the TV repair shop.
