Has the Queen died?

[pbsmooth]

Inbred genes being notoriously superior, of course...

I think there's just a big peg on the back of her neck.

 

[MrCurry]

Inbred genes being notoriously superior, of course...

I think there's just a big peg on the back of her neck.

No they’re not, but if they are inbred from within a gene pool which benefits from better nutrition and healthcare over 30+ generations then you might not be surprised to see an advantage in longevity vs the rest of us, whose ancestors were eating gruel and floor sweepings.

 

[William of Walworth]

From pages ago (#138!) --sorry!

Just seen this. But I don't think too many other people have been really bothered.
FWIW, I've posted like that on here for ever --only the currently departed Orang, and you, have ever made much of a thing about it.
And I wouldn't even know how to compose a post in @danny la rouge style!
For your benefit anyway, I've omitted any smiles and underlinings and boldings from this post. Hope that helps. but it may well have to be a one-off
(I do a lot of hyphens too, BTW!).
My suggestion is : focus any pissed-off-ness you have onto the Monarchy!

I found that really difficult to follow.

I have my severe doubts that that's true, Kevbad!

(ETA later to include actual Kevbad the Bad quote!! )

 

[William of Walworth]

The thread definitely needs more textual diversity.

As I said earlier, I'd need lessons to reach that advfanced level!

Couuld you please offer me a few?

 

[William of Walworth]

I rekon she's good for another 10 years and will outlive sausage fingers.

This. She looked prettty damned healthy in that Horse Show picture, too well to be near death's door anyway.

Any chance of a surprise re-appearance, at least once, at at least one of "her" Jubilee events?

I won't be present, but I could, contrary to the above, be hoping for a surprise announcement from Suggs in Brockwell Park on Friday 3rd June!

Long odds against with that one though, I'd say.

 

[Kaka Tim]

gruel and floor sweepings.

Luxury! my ancestors dreamed of gruel and floor sweepings ... (etc)

 

[danny la rouge]

As I said earlier, I'd need lessons to reach that advfanced level!

Couuld you please offer me a few?

There’s no magic. It’s in the posting tools. Click the three dots next to the italic symbol and it all appears.

 

[danny la rouge]

She looked prettty damned healthy in that Horse Show picture, too well to be near death's door anyway.

My guess is that she’s not physically infirm, but is becoming demented and that’s why she’s being excused talking duties.

 

[William of Walworth]

There’s no magic. It’s in the posting tools. Click the three dots next to the italic symbol and it all appears.

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I'm too bloody lazy to bother, I think!

 

[Pickman's model]

My guess is that she’s not physically infirm, but is becoming demented and that’s why she’s being excused talking duties.

it's because downing street think she'll pipe up and tell the world the fact that that she's being held captive by the foul johnson creature that they've barred her from anywhere where she might let slip the truth and start a royalist rebellion that'd see johnson locked in a fridge. permanently.

 

[UrbaneFox]

is that zoe lyons she's talking to?

I thought was Shirley Williams, on a brief visit from the other side.

 

[Aladdin]

Why hasn't she got any wrinkles for fuck sake? It's totally bizarre.

She has a chubby face...
A little bit of fat goes a long way to keeping a youthful face.
Look at Ann...she's got enough wrinkles for both of them ...thin face.

 

[bellaozzydog]

I’ve missed every single royal cultural event (deaths weddings) since the peoples princess head punted the Pont de l'Alma due to always being somewhere faintly ridiculous and remote for work, negative TV or Radio

Having scrutinised my work schedule the Queens death and burial will be between 29 July and 4 October, after that all bets are off and she’ll live longer than a Greenland shark

 

[Pickman's model]

I’ve missed every single royal cultural event (deaths weddings) since the peoples princess head punted the Pont de l'Alma due to always being somewhere faintly ridiculous and remote for work, negative TV or Radio

Having scrutinised my work schedule the Queens death and burial will be between 29 July and 4 October, after that all bets are off and she’ll live longer than a Greenland shark

Could you not arrange a work trip for say Tuesday to hurry her along a bit?

 

[Pickman's model]

She has a chubby face...
A little bit of fat goes a long way to keeping a youthful face.
Look at Ann...she's got enough wrinkles for both of them ...thin face.

Yeh where did Anne's formerly chubby face go, if not to her vampire ma?

 

[bellaozzydog]

Inbred genes being notoriously superior, of course...

I think there's just a big peg on the back of her neck.

The Bombadier pub in Chelsea has a clientele so posh i believe it’s the local for the last of the Habsburg line

 

[andysays]

I’ve missed every single royal cultural event (deaths weddings) since the peoples princess head punted the Pont de l'Alma due to always being somewhere faintly ridiculous and remote for work, negative TV or Radio

Having scrutinised my work schedule the Queens death and burial will be between 29 July and 4 October, after that all bets are off and she’ll live longer than a Greenland shark

It's just occurred to me that it's almost 25 years since Diana died (it happened just after I moved into my flat, which is how I remember), so maybe the Queen can do the decent thing and mark the 25th anniversary by dying herself on (or at least close to, I'm not fussy) 31st August (had to check the exact date).

 

[ruffneck23]

Could you not arrange a work trip for say Tuesday to hurry her along a bit?

Cant we please wait until mid June, then we will get the extra bank holidays, it's the only reason I want her to hold on tbh.

 

[pbsmooth]

The Bombadier pub in Chelsea has a clientele so posh i believe it’s the local for the last of the Habsburg line

Where's that

 

[bellaozzydog]

Where's that

Fack Grenadier GRENADIER

18 Wilton Row
Belgravia
SW1X 7NR

I had artillery in my mind for some reason

 

[AmateurAgitator]

 

[krtek a houby]

The Bombadier pub in Chelsea has a clientele so posh i believe it’s the local for the last of the Habsburg line

Allegedly haunted, too

 

[tim]

No they’re not, but if they are inbred from within a gene pool which benefits from better nutrition and healthcare over 30+ generations then you might not be surprised to see an advantage in longevity vs the rest of us, whose ancestors were eating gruel and floor sweepings.

That sounds suspiciously Lamarckian to me. And, anyway, she's old but she's not that old I know several people older than her, admittedly two less than I did this time a fortnight ago.

Previous British monarchs are not particularly noted for their longevity. George III and Victoria made it to 81abd Richard Cromwell who was briefly Lord Protector to 85. I had West Country peasant ancestors who lived as long or longer. Palaces and castles were damp and insanitary to live.

Kings & Queens by Age | Britroyals

 

[two sheds]

That sounds suspiciously Lamarckian to me.

The Midwife Lizard?

 

[tim]

The Midwife Lizard?

The erroneous theory, proposed by Lamarck and superceded by Darwin's theory if Natural Selection, that acquired characteristics could be passed on from parents to offspring.

 

[two sheds]

The erroneous theory,

or was it???

 

[William of Walworth]

Fack Grenadier GRENADIER

18 Wilton Row
Belgravia
SW1X 7NR

I had artillery in my mind for some reason

Back in the day, a small group of us South Kensington workers (V & A) made the mistake of going to The Grenadier as a post-work change from our usual haunts -- the beer was OK-ish, , but yes, the clientele were properly full-on posh!

To the point that we retreated after no more than a pint each! ... one of us was a bit posh, who tended to take the piss out of herself a bit, and even she said afterwards : "they make me sound a bit common!"

 

[MrCurry]

That sounds suspiciously Lamarckian to me.

I have no idea what that means.

And, anyway, she's old but she's not that old I know several people older than her, admittedly two less than I did this time a fortnight ago.

96 not out is a pretty good innings, regardless of whether you know some people who are older or not.

Previous British monarchs are not particularly noted for their longevity. George III and Victoria made it to 81abd Richard Cromwell who was briefly Lord Protector to 85. I had West Country peasant ancestors who lived as long or longer. Palaces and castles were damp and insanitary to live.

Kings & Queens by Age | Britroyals

It doesn’t make much sense to make value judgements on their relative longevity unless you’re comparing to contemporaneous average lifespans. To me, 81 seems quite a long lifespan for the time in which they lived.

 

[MickiQ]

Her Mum made it to a 100 and let's face it Brenda is going to be getting the best care available there is probably someone checking her out every day. She has both genetics and environment on her side. It's like three weeks to the Jubilee they can keep her going till then

 

[Pickman's model]

I have no idea what that means.


96 not out is a pretty good innings, regardless of whether you know some people who are older or not.

It doesn’t make much sense to make value judgements on their relative longevity unless you’re comparing to contemporaneous average lifespans. To me, 81 seems quite a long lifespan for the time in which they lived.

Quite a few rebels out in Ireland in 1798 survived until the 1860s and 1870s when they can't have been younger than between 72-82