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Loads of us unfortunately, Mrs Q hates beards and has always flatly refused to contemplate me growing one. Eldest's husband was clean shaven when they got married but grew a beard for charity after Eldest agreed he could if he shaved it off when finished. Once he had she apparently decided it was a massive turn-on and demanded he keep it. I have pointed out to Mrs Q that she might come to a similar revelation but she refuses to re-consider.


Was going to make a really tasteless quip about younger couples being more in to cunnilingus than olds, but held back. Maybe I is finally growning up?
 
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The conversation went thus. RSM 'Your hair is a bit long Sir' Maj M 'Fuck off RSM' and continued along the corridor. This left me coming towards the RSM desperately trying not to laugh... it was difficult.

Bizarre, isn't it? If you'd discovered this as an anthropologist coming across a previously unknown people, you'd think that their hair regulations were some arcane religious stipulation. The length of cardiologists' hair has been shown to have no effect on patient safety.
 
As an oddity of history, monarchy has survived in Europe mostly in the northwest. So here, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark. It was reintroduced in Spain of course, but it's gone everywhere else, save for tiny statelets.

They're not a terrible group of countries to live in, but I don't think there's a causal link. It's simply (Spain excepted) a reflection of a certain continuity of regime without either revolution of some kind or devastating defeat in war. Aside possibly from Spain, I think the UK's monarchy is probably the worst in terms of its deleterious effects on the country.

Monarchies can last a long time just out of inertia. Without a significant jolt of some kind, they don't tend to go. Being pessimistic here, excepting former colonies gaining independence, I can't think of a single instance in which a country has gone from monarchy to republic without some form of (usually violent) rupture.
Are such jolts likely to happen nowadays in the UK which I’d think could be reasonably termed a mature nation state?
 
Far be it
Bizarre, isn't it? If you'd discovered this as an anthropologist coming across a previously unknown people, you'd think that their hair regulations were some arcane religious stipulation. The length of cardiologists' hair has been shown to have no effect on patient safety.
Far be it from me to dissect military etiquette and tradition. :)

I think that tradition can be best described in this joke.

A new CO took over a regiment. On his first tour round, he came across two armed soldiers guarding a bench, on asking why, he was told it was always thus, the grizzliest of old soldiers had guarded the bench in their youth. He contacted the previous CO, to be told, I took over the tradition from my predecessor.

Our man didn't give up, he tracked down every predecessor, until at last, he came to the man who had given the order.

He went to his nursing home, the hoary old warrior, tremulous of limb now, but still sharp as a tack asked what he could do for our man.

The officer explained the situation, and asked what made the bench so special?

In his rasping feeble voice, the old man said 'Good Lord, isn't the paint dry yet?'. :)
 
I think...Harry is looking for a "divorce " from the institution. And a pay out for the divorce.
He wants his family but wants nothing to do with the institution.

They should have paid him off and settled this shit when he left and let him sort out his own life. But the royal correspondents were being fed stories still by some twatty family members so he decided
"Fuck this lark" and turned tables on them all..got his story out there and is probably laughing his head off now knowing he will make more than the tabloids and at the same time having shown a glimse of how dysfunctional the royals are despite their lovely public manners and "genteel ways".

They're tough and rough people. They'd have your guts for garters before breakfast. Shaming bullying hazing is all in their familial relationship artillary. We know this from Diana..and even Charles who was teased til he cried as a little child..by Philip.

Harry is naive though if he thinks the US will embrace him if he becomes a laughing stock.
I can't see anyone with a brain wanting to listen to him giving a speech on any stage...his frozen penis would just pop into minds and distract people.
 
It's true that Chucky may have no formal power but he does have influence. He strikes me that as a person he is something of an amiable if ineffectual old duffer and it might very be that he has told Rishi Rich that he doesn't think much of forced deportations to Rwanda or trying to crush the nurses strike. However even when telling Chucky to take a hike, Rishi will still be polite and deferential about it in a way he wouldn't be with most anyone else.
However in many other ways the Royals have greatly benefited from this influence, just how many laws have got 'special' exemptions to the Royal Family in them? There seems to be loads and of course the special treatment meted out to He Who Cannot Sweat. I'm not a hater of them as individuals but the whole institution really has no place in a modern western society.
The idea that one family is special and important purely because of preceding generations is just plain ridiculous. The only place we should hear about kings and princes these days is in fairy stories and Kdrama's on Netflix (which are mostly fairy stories anyway)

This is exactly the point. The PM tells the monarch'No', and awkward as it is, there is nothing the monarch can do.

One would of course hope that the monarch would have the nous not to put themselves in that situation. If they are, their advisors should be heading to Tower Green. :D
 
I thought the singing with seals on the Scottish coast episode was a bit yuck. I can’t decide whether it was cruel or appropriate for the chef to have pointed out, when told by Meghan that she’d serenaded them, that they’d probably all died after killer whales heard and homed in on the area for dinner.
 
Everyone in a relationship, I’m imagining. (I hope I’m not saying too much here!)
No. Although I do think it’s a bit odd. If anyone tried to tell me how I could have my hair or what I should do about waxing or not waxing to their satisfaction, I’d tell them to go fuck themselves. It would be the end of the relationship. But as you say, men seem to take it as one of those things. I never did it to my ex husband, because I wouldn’t put up with it being done to me. Seems to verge on controlling.
 

Prince Harry was high on laughing gas and ate Nando's chicken at the birth of his son Archie, he reveals in his new book​

I'm sure Chris Morris has started working on a script, but as soon as he gets a few lines down he sees something like this and shakes his head in disgust.
 
I had it at the dentist as a kid.

So did I -- or at least I assume that what the dentist called the 'magic carpet' was nitrous oxide. All the kids absolutely loved going to the dentist. Is it particularly dangerous, or is there a reason why it isn't generally used any more?
 
A friend had lots and ended up throwing up as he'd been eating a load of biscuits. His partner (who was in labour) was extremely unimpressed, especially as the nurses etc kept asking him how he was doing, was he feeling better etc. :rolleyes:
I bet that never gets mentioned these days by your friend.
 
I read that article about the furnishings.

Apparently Meghan was absolutely furious when she saw the furnishings in Kate's apartment. Her PA had to use sofa.com to purchase their stuff. For free. For their free flat. In a palace. I mean, it's fucking outrageous the pain they must have gone through.
To play devil’s advocate for a moment, it’s not necessarily about the furniture but the perception of being treated differently, and of being seen as less accepted and valued. Which presumably (moving to Harry) is all related to this idea of bring spare parts. Favoured son - disfavoured son is a trope as old as time surely. On one level because of the financial privilege it all seems ridiculous and pretty to us, but change that setting and the dramas and family dynamics are more basic.
If you only knew the full truth
He can’t handle the truth!!!

😉
This appears to be attempting to be on the level with the common man. Except I doubt many common men take laughing gas in hospitals.
I think any common man with a passing interest in taking substances and a quiet moment with his birthing partner has probably had at least one good huff.
 
The Times reckons some revenge briefings might start soon:

'Harry’s disloyalty in spilling the beans has staggered lifelong friends of the brothers, who thought they would always have each other’s backs, no matter how distant they grew. While fisticuffs in the Nottingham Cottage kitchen in 2019 have long been known about in their tight-knit group, nobody thought Harry would go there. Why? Because of how much “shit” on Harry friends and family have kept under wraps for years, much of which has so far not emerged in the book’s leaked extracts.

“I don’t know how you can do that to your brother, even if you don’t like or get on with him any more,” says a friend of the royal family. “William was always there to pick up the pieces for Harry, he was his mum [after Diana]. There’s so much stuff over the years that Harry has rung friends up about and said, ‘throw away that photo, promise you won’t speak about this’. You could have a f***ing field day with shit on Harry. So could William, who (in comparison) is as clean as a whistle

Another close friend of the brothers says: “It’s strategically not clever. Harry is good at getting his narrative out there but we know so much, we’ve cleaned up so many messes over the years, there is so much we could say.” Several friends of Harry, once loyal to him, say they are considering whether to go on the record to debunk some of his claims as “bollocks” and drop counter-bombshells of their own. “Loyalty works both ways,” warns one.'
 
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