Queen under medical supervision at Balmoral

Post by krapp » Thu, Sep 08, 2022, 1:40 PM UTC

BeenChilling wrote: post #41

krapp wrote: post #32

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 commun…

"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.

Post by klyrs » Thu, Sep 08, 2022, 2:56 PM UTC

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.

Post by InitialLastName » Thu, Sep 08, 2022, 3:12 PM UTC

jleyank wrote: post #45

krapp wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats, you've mastered copy and paste.

Well, she’s the head of state of a number of countries and the commonwealth. Represents political and social continuity. This has historical significance, which might be of interest to some of the readership. She was trained as a mechanic and is one of the few old enough to have been an adult in the war. Her death might, maybe will, be responsible for a number of commonwealth states changing their structure of govern…

Post by pigtailgirl » Thu, Sep 08, 2022, 3:22 PM UTC

silicon2401 wrote: post #35

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.

Post by pledg » Thu, Sep 08, 2022, 3:48 PM UTC

cja wrote: post #8

Operation London Bridge https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens...