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Is there a modern equivalent he'd have a job for life on here with Fordys posts .

 

Ever have one of those moments when you think you're good, and then life just gives you a good solid attitude-adjusting slap?

Amongst other things I have been occupying myself with the gentlemanly pursuit of genealogical research. Thanks to the efforts of many family members over many years, we can trace some of our lines back 400 years, into the 1600s. Not bad, I think smugly to myself, as I look at the 500+ page book I have compiled of these lines.

Then I am reminded of the Queen's (and by extension, her descendants') ancestry. We can go back to Robert the Bruce in the 1200s, admittedly not directly, but still with the blood, given that George I and Anne were 2nd cousins. Or we can follow another line, and go directly back to Alfred the Great in the later 800s. But he was descended from a king of Kent, who married the sister of the Jutish King Alward, of the Isle of Wight, who died in AD 686.

I know there are families who can traces their lines back to the times of William the Conqueror, but to go back so many hundreds of years further -- there can't be many.

The mind boggles, to think of this kind of history, and tradition.

Slap! No, rather, SLAP!

RCB

 

ABSOLUTELY!!!
Enough is Enough let the queen rest in peace
And her family greave
Fear it's only going to get worse up to and including Monday tho
BBC have a dedicated news channel they should restrict any coverage to that

 

I just can not work out how those making the decision thought it would work without people complaining

 

Virtue signal first, think later

 

Celtic are away to St Mirren on Sunday, based on the banner they had for yesterdays game and their previous record for minutes silence it's a shame St Mirren's efforts to hold a minute silence will be in vain.

 

I think school children, education, retail and working establishments should follow the US and have our national anthem sung loud and proud every morning, stood up with our hands on our hearts.

Imagine how much more motivated we would be for the day and the unity we would all feel, if we all sung God save our King.

 

As a kid in school back in the 50s/60s there was always a moring assembly, I can't remember if we sung the National Anthem but there certainly was prayers.
IMO the Americans are far more patriotic than us Brits, many homes flying the Stars and Stripes.

 

Americans love that jingoistic shite. When i was in the states they even had the national anthem for local car shows, it was bizarre seeing someone grab their shirt by the heart and belt out the start spangled banner while watching some old cars drive round a town square.

 

Phillip Schofield - Whiny, self indulgent piece of scum.

 

You do know how a message board works don't you, posters have different opinions, from what I've seen in America they are proud of the flag and far more buildings and houses fly it, maybe over here were worried about upsetting some.

 

I’m a Britain-hating extremist, then.

 

Bullshit.
It's possible to be anti-monarchy and against all the jingoistic crap you're proposing without being either extremist or 'Britain-hating'. There's nowhere I'd rather live than Britain, but that doesn't mean I want all that flag waving hoo ha nonsense all the time.

 

Yeah, but the 2 misfits are in civvies...

 

What?

 

Bootlicker in chief that one

 

Only in your head.

 

Doesn't give us mere subjects much hope for the future
Best not to criticise or draw attention to any short comings tho
They've had a hard life after all
Agree fair play to the Queen things will be much different now

 

Playing in costume, Cosplay. Pretty apt.

 

Are you a Sun journalist?