The Queen's Jubilee

[JU_88]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

I recorded the event as it was televised here in the US all day, I found it interesting but sad at the same time.I believe a story on subsim pointed it out, there is no grand fleet for her to review as there was last time such an event occured in 1897, it is sad that instead of reviewing a line of impressive warships demonstrating the pride and power of their country, she was looking over a fleet of small pleasure craft and barges lol. Really should be a wake up call for the country. Ah, Socialism

yeah all true to some extent, though we are still along way from full blown socialism - even though the bank bailouts were blatantly 'socialism to save capitalism' as Ron Paul so rightly put it.
Going back to ships, we must remember that apart from Aircraft carriers, large surface warships pretty much became obsolete not long after WW2.
I wouldnt be suprised to see the tank phased out in a few decades. They've been talking about it since the 80's, I guess its only a matter of time.

[Jimbuna]

Well I've had my own jubilee over the last couple of days...no disrespect intended HRH

[Egan]

And of course the ability to maintain a fleet that was kept twice the size of every other major fleet in the world combined was curtailed somewhat when we dismantled the empire that paid for it. I'm sure if Bubblehead would like to lend us a few quid, the PM would be happy to name a pedalo armed with a rolled up newspaper after him.

[Tribesman]

And of course the ability to maintain a fleet that was kept twice the size of every other major fleet in the world combined was curtailed somewhat when we dismantled the empire that paid for it.

The double edged sword of empire, increasing costs of keeping and diminishing returns from keeping it coupled with the natural expansion of nationalism which further tipped the bank balance leading to the inevitable conclusion which empires always head to.

[Platapus]

Prince Phillip is in the hospital and is missing some of the celebration.

It appears he has a bladder infection. Perhaps he and the queen were doing some celebrating on their own?

Lame jokes aside, hope he gets better soon.

[Egan]

I don't think there is anything wrong with him. I think he just found a way to escape that bloody awful, cloyingly bad concert they had to attend last night. From the look on the queen's face, I think she would have done it too if she could have got away with it.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by Egan

I don't think there is anything wrong with him. I think he just found a way to escape that bloody awful, cloyingly bad concert they had to attend last night. From the look on the queen's face, I think she would have done it too if she could have got away with it.

So you are saying its nice to be 90+?

[Egan]

No, what I'm saying is, if i was him, having myself checked into an ultra expensive private hospital to be fussed over by nubile 21 year old nurses might be a little more pleasant and dignified that being hauled onto a stage by buffoonish soft-lad Garry Barlow and forced to share a space with D-list gonks like Cheryl Cole, Ed Sheeran and Miranda Hart whilst they all sing 'The Lambeth Walk' and 'Knees up Muvver Brown' and pretend how utterly, fabulously peachy everything is in Cool Britannia. *

Honestly, Bring back Cromwell. Right wing religious nut-job with a cosmic sized grudge against fun he might have been, but he would have started a war before sharing his personal space with Peter Kaye dressed as a Beef-eater.

And I'm sure it is far nicer being a 90 year old senior royal than one of the poor sods who were bussed in to work as unpaid stewards and told to sleep under London Bridge, according to the article in the guardian here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/04/jubilee-pageant-unemployed

Still, we are all in this together, right?


* Disclaimer, I did not actually witness anyone singing cock-er-nee knees up anthems. Truth be told, I couldn't reliably say what songs were sung at the end. I skipped most of it and only turned over in time to become mesmerized by Sir Paul McCartney's amazingly hypnotic jowls as they swung in time with the beat. Still, better than having to watch Brian May's performing hair yet again. I bet her Majesty was about ready to kill for some Dubstep by the end of all that.

[BossMark]

And I'm sure it is far nicer being a 90 year old senior royal than one of the poor sods who were bussed in to work as unpaid stewards and told to sleep under London Bridge, according to the article in the guardian here:

Typical rotten evil Tories
Arbeit macht frei

[Tribesman]

And I'm sure it is far nicer being a 90 year old senior royal than one of the poor sods who were bussed in to work as unpaid stewards and told to sleep under London Bridge, according to the article in the guardian here:

Now that is outrageous.
I wonder if this company when pricing for the tax payer funded contract was charging to have staff being paid bank holiday rates and london weighing plus unsociable hours for the 14 hour stretch adding in travel time from the west country plus hotel accomodation for the overnight...then while getting paid by the tax payer for all that "expense" got the tax payer to supply it to them for free.

What are the chances that like the very dodgy A4E scammers already exposed the directors of Close Protection also just happen to be personal friends of dodgy dave?

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

Only Bubbles can take a celebration of monarchy and somehow come up with socialism

No, just pointing out it's a bit sad to see what has happened, which was evident in the review.Sure, you will try to make this an issue, I was just making an observation, calm down.

[Tribesman]

No, just pointing out it's a bit sad to see what has happened

Thats OK, just surrender your country back to the crown if you want to reverse the natural decline of empire. Surrender America to beat the march of errrr....socialism against the monarchy