UK Politics - I Protest

[john]

What’s all this “well, my grandpa wasn’t a racist?” Really, nobody else had a racist grandpa?

[Spockydog]

4 minutes ago, john said:

What’s all this “well, my grandpa wasn’t a racist?” Really, nobody else had a racist grandpa?

If my grandad was a racist, he kept it to himself. Which is kind of the point about Philip.

 

[BigFatCoward]

Why is his death top story on BBC sport? 

[Spockydog]

Just now, BigFatCoward said:

Why is his death top story on BBC sport? 

I was listening to Talksport (I know...) when the news dropped. All talk of sport was abandoned.

[Werthead]

2 minutes ago, BigFatCoward said:

Why is his death top story on BBC sport? 

That's odd. He was a sportsman, but in fairly niche areas (carriage driving/racing, polo) and hadn't done anything competitive in decades. He was a big proponent of British industry and business, and was interested in the business size of the UK motor racing industry. Seems fairly tenuous as a link though.

[Spockydog]

The headline is Sport Pays Tribute To Philip, which is fair enough I guess.

[Heartofice]

1 hour ago, HelenaExMachina said:

I don’t think its unreasonable to ask that someone evolves with the times, no. Particularly not if that person is a public figure

Though it rarely happens. I don’t think anyone is going to especially change their behaviour or patterns of thinking when they’ve got into their 80s / 90s. 
 

 

[Maltaran]

Anyone want to take bets on how long before the Mail blames Meghan?

[Soylent Brown]

The radio station I was listening completely abandoned its programming and it's full on Philip stuff now, which sucks.

[Derfel Cadarn]

45 minutes ago, john said:

What’s all this “well, my grandpa wasn’t a racist?” Really, nobody else had a racist grandpa?

One day when I can be bothered I’ll relate my late gran’s reaction (think Bishop Brennan’s reaction being kicked up the arse by Ted) when she learned my wife’s gran lived in Israel (and the obvious implications).

[mormont]

21 minutes ago, Heartofice said:

Though it rarely happens. I don’t think anyone is going to especially change their behaviour or patterns of thinking when they’ve got into their 80s / 90s.

Maybe. But the least we can expect is what my gran told me during her 80s, which was (to paraphrase) that while she hadn't changed her beliefs, she recognised that we younger people had different beliefs and that she could respect our right to hold those. In other words, she didn't necessarily approve of everything I did but she kept her mouth shut about it if she didn't.

I only wish my other gran had felt the same...

[Derfel Cadarn]

Oh and the BBC and ITV have shat the bed and cancelled their schedules for the night. It’s all about Philip until god knows when.

Channel 4 have decided fuck it, and are already back to showing A Place in the Sun

[BigFatCoward]

7 minutes ago, Derfel Cadarn said:

Oh and the BBC and ITV have shat the bed and cancelled their schedules for the night. It’s all about Philip until god knows when.

Channel 4 have decided fuck it, and are already back to showing A Place in the Sun

Pornhubs scheduling is still top notch.

[Morpheus]

30 minutes ago, Maltaran said:

Anyone want to take bets on how long before the Mail blames Meghan?

FOX already went there

 

[Spockydog]

I see the Gammons are turning on their own over his funeral arrangements.

Julia Hartley Hare has questioned whether more than thirty people should be allowed at his funeral. Oooh, they did not like that.

 

[Fragile Bird]

4 minutes ago, Morpheus said:

FOX already went there

 

Honestly? It's not unfair to connect them, is it? There was outrage at the time the interview was scheduled, over the fact that Phillip was in hospital. It was pretty brutal scheduling. Remember I said it was Commonwealth Day, when Elizabeth would address all those nations the Brits had colonized, so it was just too delicious a time slot to pass up.

In fact, didn't a few people make comments about hoping it would knock off Phillip? Am I misremembering? Maybe that was in the comments section to stories on Facebook.

[Derfel Cadarn]

17 minutes ago, BigFatCoward said:

Pornhubs scheduling is still top notch.

Erections at half mast?

Gif embodying Channel 4’s feelings:

 

[HexMachina]

23 minutes ago, Derfel Cadarn said:

Oh and the BBC and ITV have shat the bed and cancelled their schedules for the night. It’s all about Philip until god knows when.

Channel 4 have decided fuck it, and are already back to showing A Place in the Sun

Much like UK Politics Westeros.org  

[Fez]

37 minutes ago, Heartofice said:

Though it rarely happens. I don’t think anyone is going to especially change their behaviour or patterns of thinking when they’ve got into their 80s / 90s. 

I have a great-great-uncle that went from liberal to tea party, and at age 106 is currently a Trump guy (I think, though no one talks about it). Not sure what happened there. Something about Obama broke him. So I guess maybe he was always racist, though I've never heard him say anything racist. When he rants, its exclusively about how socialism is ruining the country now; though he voted for every Democratic nominee from 1936 to 2004.

Regardless of the reason, he significantly changed his thinking at age 94. Unfortunately, he went in the wrong direction.

[Fragile Bird]

I don’t know if it was because of all the horrors she saw during the war, but my mother had an innate ability to see death in the faces of people. I think it’s an ability some doctors and nurses develop. I remember one day we had gone for a drive in the country and stopped off for a quick visit at the house of a friend’s mother, someone my mom had never met and knew nothing about. After we left and we were on the road home, my mother casually said, too bad she’ll be dead in a few weeks. I was rather stunned to hear her say that, and she looked at me like I was an idiot and said ‘death’s written all over her face, can’t you see it?’ I said no, she has been sick but has recovered well. She was dead a short time later.

I just read some of the stories about the Duke’s death and several had recent pictures of him returning from the hospital. That man had death written all over his face, honestly. I hadn’t paid much attention at the time, I figured he didn’t have much time left in any event, but the pictures are pretty awful.