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Official: Prince Philip is Dead, 9th April 2021

I am American, but stumbled on this forum somehow the last time there was a death rumor. I came to ask if anyone had seen the clip of the bbc that happened today where they cut away from some meeting to old Phillip footage. Possibly for an obit? Video
I used to work in tv broadcast and they always have standby obits on tape on a shelf near or in the broadcast suite. It’s possible they were testing the tape and an engineer pressed the wrong button
 
26 posts into forum membership :hmm:

26 posts into this forum membership. Plus a few months of non-participatory time.

However, I do have a higher post count in other forum memberships where the type of quote etiquette I mentioned is — dare I say it — the norm.

Are we an insular bunch here, then?
 
26 posts into this forum membership. Plus a few months of non-participatory time.

However, I do have a higher post count in other forum memberships where the type of quote etiquette I mentioned is — dare I say it — the norm.

Are we an insular bunch here, then?

Am sure you'll get the hang of it sooner than later.

In the meantime, ill informed guess work might garner some negative responses.
 
If you want to defend him you could spell his name right, it's the least you could do
I didn’t ask you to defend him. I was reacting to your flippant remark that a “massive stroke” was too quick a death for someone. Massive strokes aren’t pleasant, not necessarily quick, and shouldn’t be wished on anyone.
 
Am sure you'll get the hang of it sooner than later.

In the meantime, ill informed guess work might garner some negative responses.
Maybe one day I’ll get to congratulate myself and finally say: “I’ve garnered a positive response from the users of Urban75!”
Until then... :-(
 
Sorry to hear that. Of course strokes aren't a laughing matter, and I'm sure nobody meant that. The royals aren't popular round these parts.

But I reckon you knew that.

Thanks for the human, and humane answer EoY.

You seem nice.

Unfortunately, of course they meant it. I wasn’t born yesterday.

“Unpopularity as a death wish” doesn’t feel like a good policy, does it? I dunno.

Half of the things I see in this place seem hippy and nice, the other half seems borderline serial killer.
 
Maybe one day I’ll get to congratulate myself and finally say: “I’ve garnered a positive response from the users of Urban75!”
Until then... :-(
I've been here 15+ years and still don't fully grasp the dynamics. But it's a very good place overall. My life would be simpler, but less informed without it.

Stick around. You will get there sooner or later. And a positive response isn't everything it's cracked up to be here.
 
None. Borderline (to me) means maybe/maybe not. But the thought is there, nonetheless

Most of the death wish stuff is a kind of.
..wishful thinking.
Thinking and wishing are not actions you know. I mean if they were ... most people would be arrested at some stage in their lives for thinking murderous thoughts.

I suspect you know that already though? If not...then you'll find it uncomfortable being here when the royals / monarchy are mentioned. Cos nobody's going to be fawning all over them.

Personally, I actually quite liked Diana...and the kids are cute and hopefully they might develop a sense of justice and fairness and an understanding of how fucked up the monarchy is.
Unfortunately, I suspect they're in the wrong family firm to think that way.

Surely you know that the royal family and their tag along aristocratic families "earned"/ "garnered" their status, extreme wealth, land ownership and elitism on the backs of slavery, murder, pillage and raping a quarter of the planet...AND they are all in your book, the "friendly face" of a murder machine?

Weird that you don't actually see that?

So ... don't expect people to suddenly start crying and beating their breasts when one of them is about to pop his clogs.
 
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I didn’t ask you to defend him. I was reacting to your flippant remark that a “massive stroke” was too quick a death for someone. Massive strokes aren’t pleasant, not necessarily quick, and shouldn’t be wished on anyone.
i know it's not always a quick death - read the details of Stalin's demise for example. given what Stalin did I'd say he went too quick. I stand by my post altho it would be nice given his interest in wildlife if his body could be made into penguin pellets to help feed the South Georgia penguins in the austral winter
 
26 posts into this forum membership. Plus a few months of non-participatory time.

However, I do have a higher post count in other forum memberships where the type of quote etiquette I mentioned is — dare I say it — the norm.

Are we an insular bunch here, then?
Ah, I see.
So you're a serial forum poster, then? Would these other forums with similar quote etiquette more closely reflect your world view/political beliefs, then?

Casting members of any forum as 'insular' really is to tilt at windmills; any membership group will inevitably only see the posts written by other members...but you'd know that already.
 
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