>>>>>>>>>>>>>The only way I'd drive thru [sic] one of that plastic-food-serving, rainforest-destroying company's restaurants [sic] would be at the controls of an Abrams!
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>>>>>>>>>>>>Must be a British thing. Even Prince Charles agrees that McDonalds should be banned. Well, there are folks across the pond that agree! :)
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>>>>>>>>>>>>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1447319.ece
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>>>>>>>>>>>Although I abhor the chain, I'd say that Chaz had no right to say that publically. It's almost tantamount to libel.
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>>>>>>>>>>He says lots of things publicly. I think waiting his whole life to become king has made him grumpy. And he will probably never be king.
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>>>>>>>>>His most infamous being the speech in 1984 when he referred to the proposed National Gallery extension as a "monstrous carbuncle".
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>>>>>>>>>And the extension was stopped!
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>>>>>>>>>You're right about the grumpy bit - wouldn't YOU be waking up next to that!? :-)
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>>>>>>>>>I think Liz is going for her great grandma's record.
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>>>>>>>She must be getting close to the record for longevity, isn't she?
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>>>>>>Longevity of reign or life? Reign-wise, yes, but Queen Vic reigned 64 years and died at 82
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>>>>>>ER's getting close: 54 years at, presentloley, 80.
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>>>>>>So she's 2 years younger than Vic was when she died, but has another 10 years to go to match her reign. But given the longevity of her mother, 100, she might just do it. Of course, this means that Charles will never be able to aspire to the record.
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>>>>>>>Charles and Camilla do seem to be in love. It isn't all about looks. If it were he never would have let Diana get away.
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>>>>>>I know. Dianna was just there to provide "an heir and a spare"
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>>>>>I remember Stuart Somerville of the old FoxForum saying he met her at a charity function and became literally weak in the knees in her presence. That came back to me watching "The Queen" a few weeks ago. Even in old news footage she jumped off the screen.
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>>>>I don't know if you guys watched the funeral day live as we did, but there were the points where even I got a little choked up.
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>>>>OTOH I do have serious reservations about her sainthood, to put it delicately.
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>>>I felt very uncomfortable with that whole national grief thing. I don't know anyone who felt that way. Most people I know felt like me that it was sad for the family but thats all. I felt the media presentation was a complete distortion. Even my parents (right wing tories) felt that way.
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>>>Nick
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>>There was more to it than that. Do you think all the people who bought flowers and took them down to Buckingham Palace were acting out of some sense of duty? One of the main points of "The Queen" IMO was that she was loved in a way the royal family was not.
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>I could see some people felt that way but the media played it up to a ridiculous degree. It was a salutary reminder that somtimes the news as reported in the media can be basically b____cks and that the media can whip up a storm over anything they choose. I know many people and I don't know one who reacted the way the media portrayed the whole nation as reacting.

Yeah, our next-door neighbour was out with a circular saw cutting up counters for their new kitchen all through the processions and stuff. "And now as Diana's Corte ..." - BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! lol