Long to Reign over Us.

[Anchorman]

No, Rhi.
The steam engine that will pull auld Lizzie is
"The Union of South Africa"
(Thankfully the real thing ditched her....after she was 'queen' of that nice colony in which her great great granny's government invented the concentration camp)

The station in the borders only opened for passengers on Sunday.
Apparantly, some of the rails, kerb stones, garden edging etc, were touched up with paint - YESTERDAY - less than six weeks after the whole place was completed, paintwork and all, in the first place!
 

[Gonnagle]

Dear Jim,

Auld Lizzie, my Father's affectionate name for the Queen and my Ma was Auld Tin Lizzie, just googled it and found it was a name given to a old ford car.

Gonnagle.

[Shaker]

I agree, but I think once the media has 'built' someone up, they will eventually 'tear them down' unless the person is unassailable, and that really only applies to the Queen but not the heirs.

I'm not convinced that the Queen is unassailable. Certainly in very recent history - the last twenty-odd years or so - there has been severe media scrutiny and criticism of the Queen directly and personally, partially in relation to having to pay a bit of tax (eventually) but especially with what was deemed to be a catastrophic misstep in failing to catch what was at the time deemed to be the "national mood" of grief at Diana's death. It's neither here nor there if you believe, as I do, (a) that it never was a "national mood" and only applied to a certain minority sector of the population, and (b) that it was a hysterically mawkish outpouring of sentimental quasi-piety by those with nothing else in their lives; the point is that the Queen was deemed to be running on a separate set of rails to everybody else, who got it badly wrong.

The rest of the time the Queen, like the royals generally, are, I should say, viewed by most people as being like Nuneaton: yes, we know it exists, yes, we know where it is, but we wouldn't want to go there. For the vast majority of people she's only somebody who fetches up on the news now and again at the opening of something wearing the same interchangeable hat and coat distinguishable only by colour and carrying a handbag.

[Anchorman]

Dear Jim,

Auld Lizzie, my Father's affectionate name for the Queen and my Ma was Auld Tin Lizzie, just googled it and found it was a name given to a old ford car.

Gonnagle.

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We used to call Brenda's mother "Auld Lizzie" - remember the sainted Queen Mum, patron of those charities for people wiyth learning disabilities, who never once lowered herself to visit her own close relatives, confined to institutions by her 'loving' family?
And we were taught to respect THAT?

[jeremyp]

Problem is that of course Charles was popular in his youth, similar to William - don't you remember that lovely couple in the 80s with their 2 sweet kids.

I don't remember him ever being popular.  In fact, I seem to remember personally being a bit resentful that he got into Cambridge on substandard A-level grades.

But decades of kicking his heels waiting for a job he was 'born' to but unlikely to actually attain until he is over 70 has corroded the public's view. Not least because it is difficult to retain good news stories when you effectively spend decades at tax payer expense without a job.

He does have a job. He has to go round visiting places and shaking people by the hand and pretending to be interested in what they do.  Granted it is not the same as cleaning sick up off the floor of a care home, but I bet it is more tedious than my job.

Honestly, I think we should just miss him out when the Queen pops her clogs, but I don't see it happening.

[Owlswing]

Dear Mrs Windsor.
I wish you a long life filled with health, but hope that the smell of paint that assaults your nostrils everywhere the traffic is held up for you to plant your unelected little tootsies, isn't to irritating.

Why not open a food bank in celebration - or instead of being a super0-scrounger, live on benefits instead?

STFU - just remember it was Elizabeth 1 that allowed a Scotsman to plonk his fat arse on the English throne and thus establish the Union that you and the SNP are now trying so hard to undo!

I'd even rather have Charles as ruler (in name only though it may be) than Nichola Sturgeon as PM!

[Gonnagle]

Dearest Forum,

Ah well! Here was me thinking, a wee chance to cheer up the forum, silly Auld me.

[Rhiannon]

You need videos of dogs falling off things for that, Gonners.

[Shaker]

And kittens.

[Rhiannon]

The one with the kitten and the lizard's good.

[floo]

I think they have forgotten what the media did to Diana also. I feel very sorry for Kate.

The little b*tch Diana played to the gallery always upstaging her husband, whilst her death was tragic for her kids, no doubt, she is no loss, imo!

[Gonnagle]

Dear Rhiannon and Shaker,

Videos!! I would settle for old Vlad telling us his get on stage before the funny turn wears off joke.

Simple things please simple...............

Gonnagle.

[Rhiannon]

What's brown and sticky?

A stick.

[ProfessorDavey]

Problem is that of course Charles was popular in his youth, similar to William - don't you remember that lovely couple in the 80s with their 2 sweet kids.

I don't remember him ever being popular.  In fact, I seem to remember personally being a bit resentful that he got into Cambridge on substandard A-level grades.

But decades of kicking his heels waiting for a job he was 'born' to but unlikely to actually attain until he is over 70 has corroded the public's view. Not least because it is difficult to retain good news stories when you effectively spend decades at tax payer expense without a job.

He does have a job. He has to go round visiting places and shaking people by the hand and pretending to be interested in what they do.  Granted it is not the same as cleaning sick up off the floor of a care home, but I bet it is more tedious than my job.

Honestly, I think we should just miss him out when the Queen pops her clogs, but I don't see it happening.

There have always been some who have been negative about the Royals - indeed even though William seems to be the most popular at the moment there are people who similarly criticise the amount we paid to get him qualified as a RAF helicopter pilot only for him to quit within months of being fully qualified etc.

But I think you aren't right. If you go back to the period from the late 60s (investiture of Prince of Wales) through the 1970s 'career' in the Navy and RAF (including qualifying as a helicopter pilot just like William) through the early period of his marriage he, alone, and later with Diana and the children, was extremely popular. The rot began to set in through the late 80s with the marital problems and also the perception of a meddling, tinkering force in the background of public life.

[Gordon]

Just watched a few seconds of our fawning PM expounding nauseatingly about the anachronistic, undemocratic and that generally offensive institution that is the monarchy and (its associated toadies).

So, I shouted 'get rid' loudly at the screen, along with few sweary words, and turned off the telly - feel better for that, so I'm off to the bookies!

[Shaker]

The little b*tch Diana played to the gallery always upstaging her husband

That's not much of a stretch, is it?

whilst her death was tragic for her kids, no doubt, she is no loss, imo!

Did you lend her a tenner you never got back or something?

[Anchorman]

Dear Mrs Windsor.
I wish you a long life filled with health, but hope that the smell of paint that assaults your nostrils everywhere the traffic is held up for you to plant your unelected little tootsies, isn't to irritating.

Why not open a food bank in celebration - or instead of being a super0-scrounger, live on benefits instead?

STFU - just remember it was Elizabeth 1 that allowed a Scotsman to plonk his fat arse on the English throne and thus establish the Union that you and the SNP are now trying so hard to undo!

I'd even rather have Charles as ruler (in name only though it may be) than Nichola Sturgeon as PM!

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Hey!
Since Jamie the saxt was a reasonable governor of those rebellious Scots...,.unlike the cretinn who succeeded him, I',m not to bothered.
As for Nicola as 'prime minister'?
Since I'm allmost certain that we both agree that will never happen, I'm quite happy with that.
Although I know Nicola personally -and she will make a grand prime miniister of Scotland cum indyref 2!

[Anchorman]

I think they have forgotten what the media did to Diana also. I feel very sorry for Kate.

The little b*tch Diana played to the gallery always upstaging her husband, whilst her death was tragic for her kids, no doubt, she is no loss, imo!

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What did you expect?
This bunch of parasits' only reason to exist was to produce more parasites.
Diana was the brood mare.
Lizzie Windsor knows about stuff like that.

[Rhiannon]

Oh and I thought we were going to have a happy afternoon of YouTube vids and schoolboy jokes. 

[Anchorman]

Just watched a few seconds of our fawning PM expounding nauseatingly about the anachronistic, undemocratic and that generally offensive institution that is the monarchy and (its associated toadies).

So, I shouted 'get rid' loudly at the screen, along with few sweary words, and turned off the telly - feel better for that, so I'm off to the bookies!

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Ah, yes....I heard this vomit from the 'Palace of Westminster' AKA Faawning- trashmongers-r-us.
It made me turn off as well.
So, no bad thing, really.

[Anchorman]

What's brown and sticky?

A stick.

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Lizzie?

[Gonnagle]

Dear Gordon,

Doncaster 2.30, tomorrow, Majestic Queen, its prophetic man!!

Gonnagle.

[Gordon]

The one with the kitten and the lizard's good.

Is this a recipe? If so, can you post it: it sounds delicious 

[Anchorman]

Dear Gordon,

Doncaster 2.30, tomorrow, Majestic Queen, its prophetic man!!

Gonnagle.

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The auld nag is running in a gee gee race?
Well, at least she'll be useful as a tail end charlie.

[Anchorman]

Well done Newton grange brass band!
I just tuned into BBC radio Scotland AKA sycophants-r-us, to find Auld Lizzie doing a stopover on the way to the borders (doesn't the ;royal train' have a WC?)
Anyhow, as Brenda was leaving, the aforesaid band struck up "Will ye no come back again"......
A song written by Lady Nairn urging Bonnie Prince Charlie to return and get rid of the pestilence of the Hanoverian.....Lizzie's ancestors!
Nice one!