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Post by ponto on Oct 14, 2021 7:39:34 GMT 10
Orf with their heads....its the democratic thing to do in it.
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Post by pim on Oct 14, 2021 13:12:29 GMT 10
That used to be the fashionable “left republican-chic” thing to say … until the advent of the Trumpista phenomenon made constitutional monarchy look good. Strewth even the bloody Russians managed a royal wedding just this month when a Romanov leftover got married in St Petersburg. Apparently it was all glitz and glitter and tsarist nostalgia. Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov and his Italian bride, Victoria Romanovna Bettarini, exit St. Isaac's Cathedral following their wedding in St. Petersburg, Russia.I’m telling ya, monarchy is enjoying a revival. Off to the Tower with ya!
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Post by caskur on Oct 14, 2021 14:15:13 GMT 10
I think Amalia is a knock-out beauty... I think she is even better looking than her parents.
Maxima is beautiful too. Sth American woman are very lovely. Very nice family.
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Post by Stellar on Oct 14, 2021 14:28:23 GMT 10
Hideous bridesmaids outfits though!
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Post by pim on Oct 14, 2021 14:35:42 GMT 10
They’re …. different! They look like wingless angels with halos. But get a load of the headgear of the woman in the far background on the right. Looks like headgear I’ve seen on pictures of orthodox Jewish men!
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Post by caskur on Oct 14, 2021 14:56:00 GMT 10
The only thing I don't like is the bridal train.
I love the colourful bridesmaid but their white shoes are wrong...bone coloured would have been better.
The brides happy face looks lovely.
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Post by Gort on Oct 16, 2021 17:36:10 GMT 10
Love this piece ... Our green royals – saving the planet one helicopter ride at a timeMarina Hyde Sat 16 Oct 2021 00.19 AEDT The Queen, Charles and William have hit out at those who are all talk on the climate crisis. One has to wonder who they mean‘The Prince of Wales revealed, somewhat alienatingly, that he’d had his Aston Martin converted to run on ‘surplus English white wine and whey from the cheese process’.’ Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images I understand why they go out, “but it isn’t helpful to do it in a way that alienates people,” explained Prince Charles of Insulate Britain, in an interview this week in which he also revealed, somewhat alienatingly, that he’d had his Aston Martin converted to run on “surplus English white wine and whey from the cheese process”.At long last, a line to eclipse Ed Begley Jr’s from an old episode of The Simpsons, in which the actor explains that his preferred vehicle is “a go-kart, powered by my own sense of self-satisfaction”. A deeply committed environmental activist, Begley has always been able to take the piss out of himself – a pastime you sense has never been top or even bottom of Prince Charles’s to-do list. Or, in fact, of the to-do list of the many, many servants who do for him in his many, many residences. Still, 16 days out from Cop26, it seems to be House of Windsor week for making helpful interventions on climate. In terms of truly selfless good deeds, I’m holding out for Prince Andrew pledging never again to fly to America, or indeed to any US jurisdictions. When you consider the Duke of York once gas-guzzled his way to New York simply to see a paedo and tell him he couldn’t be buddies any more – hey, we’ve all done it – you get a sense of the meaningful lifestyle compromises this family is prepared to make in the course of causing ordinary subjects to explode at the Marie Antoinettishness of it all. Admittedly, these explosions are not at all good for the cause, but you can’t have everything. Anyway, we’ve had Prince Charles’s interview on Monday, then a withering assessment from Prince William on the various billionaire space programmes on Thursday – and more on both of those shortly. Friday’s big news, however, is that the Queen has been overheard at the opening of the Welsh parliament yesterday expressing frustration with the pace of concrete action on climate change. According to Her Maj, who is still in the dark about which world leaders are going to show up to next month’s big conference in Glasgow, “It’s really irritating when they talk, but they don’t DO.”Totally. The trouble is, even when politicians do manage to get climate action on the statute book, there will always be some people who think these sorts of rules don’t apply to them. Or to put it another way: is this the same Queen whose lawyers very recently lobbied the Scottish government in secret to change a draft law to exempt her private estates from a major carbon-cutting initiative ? Yes. Yes, it is the same Queen. As a result of this, the sovereign is the only landowner in the whole of Scotland who doesn’t have to facilitate renewable energy pipelines on her various estates in the country. Which feels, hand on heart, “really irritating”.But back to Prince Charles, who never lets an interviewer forget that he has been banging the environmental drum for a long time now. As he put it in one self-effacing segment in his interview: “Extinction Rebellion came and did a sit-in on my driveway in Highgrove when I was on a tour … they left a letter saying … ‘Back in such a time you said such and such, you were right. Then you said something else, you were right. You were right, you were right.’ That was marvellous, that was the right kind of demonstration as far as I’m concerned.” Well, quite. Unfortunately, he couldn’t pass on his approval to XR in person because he was in the Caribbean, in a year in which the royal family’s travel-related carbon footprint doubled.Alas, self-righteousness is not a recessive gene in HRH’s somewhat limited pool, with both of his sons feeling uniquely placed to offer prescriptions for how we, meaning others, might live better. Thus Prince William could be found this week chiding the billionaire space race currently occupying the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson. According to William, “We need some of the world’s greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet, not trying to find the next place to go and live … [It] really is quite crucial to be focusing on this [planet] rather than giving up and heading out into space to try and think of solutions for the future.” If indeed that is solely what the different individuals are up to. We can’t speak for the ludicrous Branson, of course, though given he was one of William and Kate’s wedding guests he could presumably be reached more directly for berating by William. But various space experts have been on hand since the latter’s interview to explain that Musk’s ventures in particular offer hope for climate-saving advances, and suggesting that the prince is perhaps under-read on the subject. As indicated in this column before, I have a lot of sympathy for critiques of billionaire dick-waving via the space race, but maybe both I and William have to concede that as an intellectual point, questioning the fact that any of it is happening at all ranks alongside inquiries such as, “Why is there homelessness yet some people have multiple palaces?”Spared such philosophical puzzles, Prince William had time to push the “fundamental question” of the carbon cost of space flights. An interesting point, and not limited to space flights. As it happens, I live very near the London spot from which many royal helicopters take off for the various visits/weekend-trips to other estates, and on those days often wonder whether it would sound slightly less like a Vietnam movie if fewer choppers were regarded as essential. As one of the boarders of, and alighters from, these flights, perhaps William could shed greater light?Then again, maybe none of it matters if your papa has offset by planting Prince George’s Wood, as Charles has at one or other of the Scotland estates. Much nicer than a horrid renewable energy pipeline, of course, and presumably a scalable solution for all Scottish citizens. As for things Charles and other family members might contemplate while walking through this private arboretum, are suggestions permitted? If so – and I appreciate this is a far-out theory – I do wonder whether, in all the years of bemusement that people weren’t listening to him, Charles ever considered the possibility that the problem might not be so much with the message, as with the messenger.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/15/green-royals-saving-the-planet-helicopter-queen-charles-william-climate
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Post by caskur on Oct 16, 2021 17:58:19 GMT 10
They're all full of it.
I have to switch off.
Pilots need to keep their hours up and really, unless they periodically do trips like this, there isn't much work for them. view it that way.
Our nephew is a pilot. He does the FIFO stuff. He hasn't been unemployed in the covid crisis.
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Post by caskur on Oct 21, 2021 18:54:54 GMT 10
The Queen is sick. I bet she has covid.
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Post by caskur on Oct 21, 2021 19:15:44 GMT 10
The news said, "not covid," hmmmm, we'll see.
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Post by Stellar on Oct 21, 2021 19:55:16 GMT 10
Love this piece ... Our green royals – saving the planet one helicopter ride at a timeMarina Hyde Sat 16 Oct 2021 00.19 AEDT The Queen, Charles and William have hit out at those who are all talk on the climate crisis. One has to wonder who they mean‘The Prince of Wales revealed, somewhat alienatingly, that he’d had his Aston Martin converted to run on ‘surplus English white wine and whey from the cheese process’.’ Photograph: Chris Jackson/Getty Images Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/15/green-royals-saving-the-planet-helicopter-queen-charles-william-climateI would give this article half a dozen "likes" if I could.
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Post by Stellar on Oct 21, 2021 20:02:23 GMT 10
The Queen is sick. I bet she has covid. They said she is resting up for the climate summit in Glasgow and that she hasn't got covid. I hope they ask her why she is the only landowner in Scotland who will not have to have renewable energy pipelines on all her estates. Now I agree that is really irritating. It is also hypercritical. You'd think she'd be totally embarrassed fronting up after that disclosure.
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Post by caskur on Oct 21, 2021 20:41:12 GMT 10
Yeah, they're starting to look stupid.
On a side note, I am so glad people are being told not to go out and buy new clothes but to wear what they already have at home, for attending different events.
After seeing that Ghana thing on the ABC about recycled clothes, just proves we're over producing.
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Post by Stellar on Oct 21, 2021 20:48:33 GMT 10
I made a sort of pledge during the lockdown not to buy any new clothes or shoes but to use up what I have. I've got a massive wardrobe full of clothes - many I have only worn once and some never! And about 27 pairs of shoes and that's way too much. So I'm not buying anything unless I absolutely have to. I actually lost about 6 or 7 kilos during the lockdown so now everything fits well again. And also I'm not buying anything made in China as most clothes are these days so that's an extra bonus!
I also saw that programme about recycling clothes and it was horrifying.
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Post by caskur on Oct 21, 2021 21:39:53 GMT 10
I made a sort of pledge during the lockdown not to buy any new clothes or shoes but to use up what I have. I've got a massive wardrobe full of clothes - many I have only worn once and some never! And about 27 pairs of shoes and that's way too much. So I'm not buying anything unless I absolutely have to. I actually lost about 6 or 7 kilos during the lockdown so now everything fits well again. And also I'm not buying anything made in China as most clothes are these days so that's an extra bonus! I also saw that programme about recycling clothes and it was horrifying. Yes, we have to change our thinking...start doing things a bit differently... This is good on the environment.. Watch the beginning. It's good about wasting things.
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Post by pim on Oct 21, 2021 23:13:29 GMT 10
You can never have too much underwear or too many socks.
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Post by caskur on Oct 21, 2021 23:50:26 GMT 10
You can never have too much underwear or too many socks. tis true.
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Post by Stellar on Nov 15, 2021 9:35:26 GMT 10
Wow! Did anyone see 7's Spotlight programme last night on Prince Andrew? Proved him to be an absolute lying arsehole. They said the new witness Steve Scully's evidence could send Randy Andy to gaol. Not that Mummy will allow that! But honestly, she's been a stupid woman pampering him all his life. No wonder he has the attitude he can do whatever he likes. An entitled, arrogant arsehole with the intellect of a flea. I hope he gets his day - make that a month - in court!
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Post by Gort on Nov 15, 2021 10:20:58 GMT 10
Wow! Did anyone see 7's Spotlight programme last night on Prince Andrew? Proved him to be an absolute lying arsehole. They said the new witness Steve Scully's evidence could send Randy Andy to gaol. Not that Mummy will allow that! But honestly, she's been a stupid woman pampering him all his life. No wonder he has the attitude he can do whatever he likes. An entitled, arrogant arsehole with the intellect of a flea. I hope he gets his day - make that a month - in court! Loved the remarks by Christina Oxenberg ... about Andrew being "a bit of a dimwit". 7plus.com.au/7news-spotlight-sex-lies-and-audiotape
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Post by caskur on Nov 15, 2021 18:02:35 GMT 10
Giuffre was a drug taking prostitute who lived with older men. She is a liar and she, on the stand admitted IN COURT she procured young girls for Epstein...that means she trafficked minors.
you know, I find it amazing you 2 believe the anti-royal propaganda show on 7.... ya know I've got this neat little property on an iceberg down in Antarctica for sale... Are any of you interested?
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Post by pim on Nov 15, 2021 18:08:57 GMT 10
No but I have heard of a bridge in Sydney that looks like a coat hanger that you might be interested in
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Post by caskur on Nov 15, 2021 18:51:37 GMT 10
No but I have heard of a bridge in Sydney that looks like a coat hanger that you might be interested in Giuffre, the self-confessed child trafficking druggie moved to Perth last December. I can't believe that trash migrated to Perth.
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Post by ponto on Nov 15, 2021 20:55:53 GMT 10
Cannot be certain I would say Randy Andy wouldn't have thought twice about Guiffre or age, just a willing participant until she woke up to the fact she was being used like a prostitute, where young rich pretty girls gallivanting around the world perhaps looking for rich husbands simply churned over as a dime a dozen fodder for the rich.
Which isn't right, such were the times when it was common practice, Guiffre felt used when she felt she became to old for Epstein who was after new pretty young girls, perhaps she was naïve at the time and upset when realising that was just fodder and now wanting to sue these international playboy sleaze bags...for money....well the whole thing is sleazy.
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Post by caskur on Nov 16, 2021 2:56:29 GMT 10
Cannot be certain I would say Randy Andy wouldn't have thought twice about Guiffre or age, just a willing participant until she woke up to the fact she was being used like a prostitute, where young rich pretty girls gallivanting around the world perhaps looking for rich husbands simply churned over as a dime a dozen fodder for the rich. Which isn't right, such were the times when it was common practice, Guiffre felt used when she felt she became to old for Epstein who was after new pretty young girls, perhaps she was naïve at the time and upset when realising that was just fodder and now wanting to sue these international playboy sleaze bags...for money....well the whole thing is sleazy. Giuffre came from a good family. The little whore got herself hooked on drugs and started being a hotshot call girl. She was in 2 separate long term defacto relationships with much older men and she trafficked young girls to Epstein at the same time. She confessed to bringing girls to Epstein in court. She is a slag of the highest order and SHE IS NO VICTIM. She was paid by Epstein MANY THOUSANDS of $$$ to have sex with older men. She went to Thailand to pick up Thai girl/s for Epstein, met an Aussie guy, married him within a day and came to Australia. Andrew is being exploited by her, not the other way around.
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Post by ponto on Nov 16, 2021 5:50:21 GMT 10
It s all a sleazy affair....and Andy should have kept his sleazy dick in his pants at elite parties in the first place.
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