So much for grammar schoolsAnd your grammar does you.
So much for grammar schoolsAnd your grammar does you.
Don’t be too harsh on them. It’s hard to polish a turd.So much for grammar schools
You’ll get to 50,000 posts on this thread alone, carry on bud.Don’t be too harsh on them. It’s hard to polish a turd,
Britishness is whatever you want it to be. Just don't let people tell you you aren't British because you don't go along with the idea that the whole country was grieving. For many, it's just an accident of birth, and recognising the good and bad and idiosyncrasies of every "nation". Just be a British "citizen of nowhere".Don't think I've ever felt less British than these last 10 days - not since brexit (although back then I felt more disgusted, whereas this time it's feelings of frustration and fascination).
Seeing the majority of the country genuinely mourn a person they've never met and who didn't know them, with some happy to queue for 14 hours just to pay their respects.
The insistence that she led a hard life when in fact she's had it easier than 99.9% of anyone who ever lived.
The attacking of anyone who doesn't show the same deference or 'respect'.
All of this with the need to pat ourselves on the back for 'doing pomp and ceremony better than anyone in the world' , at a time of financial crisis, as if it's something envied by every other country.
I genuinely can't understand the mentality behind it all. She was no better or worse than any of us, so why are so many happy to elevate her and her family above them? Is the idea of being a peasant so drilled into our national identity? It blows my tiny little mind
That would be a great start.Depends what you think they’re there for. Without the monarchy, somewhere like Buckingham Palace would probably get more visitors as they open more of it up.
You wouldn’t get days like yesterday though.
Can we delay the coronation till the railways are renationalised?Trains.
Your logic is a bit random fella.You’ll get to 50,000 posts on this thread alone, carry on bud.
I'm sure you'd want me to point out the misuse of empirical instead of imperial.Are you saying you’d rather we still be an empirical force?
I don’t think many other monarchs would have led us through that change and ended up with an entity that countries are still applying to join.
Lots of great Brits don't or didn't believe in the monarchy.Britishness is whatever you want it to be. Just don't let people tell you you aren't British because you don't go along with the idea that the whole country was grieving. For many, it's just an accident of birth, and recognising the good and bad and idiosyncrasies of every "nation". Just be a British "citizen of nowhere".
Yet another archaic system that’s in desperate need of reform.The fact I’m very well rewarded to argue for a living suggest otherwise.