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Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral

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Re: Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral

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Post by ggambetta »

First of all - I hope the Queen goes back to good health. Seems to have been a good monarch over an extremely long period of time, which also included a ton of technological and societal change.

Second - "London Bridge is down". I can't help but wonder what happens if the actual, physical London Bridge experiences a catastrophic failure falls to the river. What's the codename for that event? "Escape London Bridge is down"? "London Bridge is down, literally, for real, no, I mean it"? "The Queen has climbed to the roof"?

Re: Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral

#32

Post by krapp » 

    Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
"96 year old woman might die soon" is not a new or interesting phenomenon. Unless she wrote a compiler or published a whitepaper I'm unaware of, the Queen isn't relevant to this community, and this isn't even news yet. Flagging.

Re: Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral

#33

Post by LatteLazy »

Ndymium wrote: post #30
LatteLazy wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we (Brits) now draw with Norway for the most Female PMs (3 each). Of course 2 of these in the UK never won general elections...

Finland also has our 3rd woman PM right now. Though one of them was only PM for 68 days.

Nice work! I will see how long our current PM makes it before I condemn anyone for only making 68 days...

Re: Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral

#34

Post by igorkraw »

ggambetta wrote: post #31

First of all - I hope the Queen goes back to good health. Seems to have been a good monarch over an extremely long period of time, which also included a ton of technological and societal change. Second - "London Bridge is down". I can't help but wonder what happens if the actual, physical London Bridge experiences a catastrophic failure falls to the river. What's the codename for that event? "Escape London Bridge is…

"London bridge collapsed/ is broken", "London bridge is down and I don't mean the queen" etc. seem perfectly serviceable.

Although I would like it to be "her majesty has died" for symmetry reasons

Re: Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral

#35

Post by silicon2401 »

noisy_boy wrote: post #13

The article was published on Fri 17 Mar 2017 07.40 GMT when Theresa May was PM: > For Elizabeth II, the plan for what happens next is known as “London Bridge.” The prime minister will be woken, if she is not already awake, and civil servants will say “London Bridge is down” on secure lines. Interestingly, the current PM is also a she.

> The prime minister will be woken,

Totally unrelated but is this correct grammar? I realize I've never seen "woken" without "up", as in "woken up". To avoid using "up" I would've leaned towards some form of awoke, but am not sure I've ever seen something like "she will be awoke" either. Always fun to encounter grammatical edge cases you're unfamiliar with in your native language.

Re: Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral

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Post by InitialLastName »

spaetzleesser wrote: post #16

I don’t understand why people like kings, queens, popes and in the US Supreme Court justices don’t retire when they get old. Instead you see them being dragged out into the public while they are barely alive and certainly can’t perform their tasks in any reasonable manner. Retire in dignity and let younger people do a better job.

> kings, queens

... abdicate regularly [0][1]

> popes

The most recent pope to leave office retired. The current one has said he is considering it.

> Supreme Court justices

By my count [2], 7 of the last 10 justices to leave office retired.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Carlos_I [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_of_the_Netherlands [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_justices_of_the_Suprem...

Re: Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral

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Post by sbuk »

LatteLazy wrote: post #20
noisy_boy wrote: post #13

The article was published on Fri 17 Mar 2017 07.40 GMT when Theresa May was PM: > For Elizabeth II, the plan for what happens next is known as “London Bridge.” The prime minister will be woken, if she is not already awake, and civil servants will say “London Bridge is down” on secure lines. Interestingly, the current PM is also a she.

I think we (Brits) now draw with Norway for the most Female PMs (3 each). Of course 2 of these in the UK never won general elections...

Not true. Amazingly, Teresa May won one in 2017.

Re: Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral

#39

Post by another_another »

mellosouls wrote: post #2

Prince Charles has travelled to Balmoral. The Duchess of Cornwall has also travelled there and the Duke of Cambridge is on his way. This isn't a normal "senior royal is unwell" announcement, especially considering her age and fragility.

Aha, so it's not just for the Balmoral Highland Games then?

Re: Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral

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Post by blibble »

hericium wrote: post #6
jleyank wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look for where prince Harry and the other, lesser, members of the family are.

Quoted post unavailable.

would it be out of place to talk about lesser/lower management in a company hierarchy?

because that's what the royal family is

it is even referred to as The Firm

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