Prince Harry

[Magnus McGinty]

((Alive))

It was a nod to your earlier response to Sue

 

[Tanya1982]

It was a nod to your earlier response to Sue

I know, I got it. You don’t need to explain a joke to me - not if I was present for any part of it. It made sense. There was no riddle to solve.

 

[ElizabethofYork]

More misogyny. Joanna the Mad (Hapsburg linked Trastamara) sounds entirely sane to me, while everyone around her seems to have been criminally insane and/or a total cunt. She has known descendants all over Europe, including all the royal families.

Joanna of Castile - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

She was Katherine of Aragon's sister. Another very capable and clever woman who was treated terribly by the powerful vile men around her.

 

[Pickman's model]

You're definitely a glass half empty kind of guy aren't you? and perhaps you're right. Personally I don't think civilization is going to collapse and whilst there will be crises we will weather them (as a species at least, I suspect quite a few individuals won't) Looking at the crises of the 20th century, the Spanish Flu Pandemic, the World Wars they may have reshaped civilization but they didn't end it.

yeh. the problem is that for centuries if not millennia the way that birds, insects, plants and animals have arranged their year has required certain things to happen at certain times. for example, for the cold winter to be followed by a warmer spring. but what has happened the past few years is that a warm winter is followed by a warm spring, with a sudden cold snap wrecking everything. the seasons have become dislocated. the warmer ocean means that storms can assume a ferocity they didn't 30, 40, 50 years ago. calamitous declines in pollenating insects are already having an impact. it's not like the world wars or the spanish flu in that those were not permanent fixtures. at a time when global stability is needed, the world has never been more unstable - another consequence, imo, of global warming.

and everything's coming to a head quite quickly. the chinese under their bellicose leader xi jinping hope to be america's military equal by the middle of the century. but their demographics mean that they have a vast issue with their aging population. it is in part because of this that i have for some years now suggested a great war between china and america (and of course other countries too) will occur in 2025. the russian adventure in ukraine has shown what global effects a regional war can have. the coming conflagration will be, i expect, much more destructive of lives, cities, and prospects than putin's war.

and the instability and conflict to come will be unkinder to institutions, some of which though beloved will topple. possible the eu. maybe nato. and there's a fair chance that the monarchy will be affected too. its fate will be something to look forward to, perhaps.

 

[Tanya1982]

She was Katherine of Aragon's sister. Another very capable and clever woman who was treated terribly by the powerful vile men around her.

Even just in that Wikipedia page, they admit that she showed no sign of being anything other than happy and intelligent before marriage - ’It was only after her marriage that the first suspicions of mental illness arose’.

 

[MickiQ]

yeh. the problem is that for centuries if not millennia the way that birds, insects, plants and animals have arranged their year has required certain things to happen at certain times. for example, for the cold winter to be followed by a warmer spring. but what has happened the past few years is that a warm winter is followed by a warm spring, with a sudden cold snap wrecking everything. the seasons have become dislocated. the warmer ocean means that storms can assume a ferocity they didn't 30, 40, 50 years ago. calamitous declines in pollenating insects are already having an impact. it's not like the world wars or the spanish flu in that those were not permanent fixtures. at a time when global stability is needed, the world has never been more unstable - another consequence, imo, of global warming.

and everything's coming to a head quite quickly. the chinese under their bellicose leader xi jinping hope to be america's military equal by the middle of the century. but their demographics mean that they have a vast issue with their aging population. it is in part because of this that i have for some years now suggested a great war between china and america (and of course other countries too) will occur in 2025. the russian adventure in ukraine has shown what global effects a regional war can have. the coming conflagration will be, i expect, much more destructive of lives, cities, and prospects than putin's war.

and the instability and conflict to come will be unkinder to institutions, some of which though beloved will topple. possible the eu. maybe nato. and there's a fair chance that the monarchy will be affected too. its fate will be something to look forward to, perhaps.

Nope glass quarter full at best. It's usually me that's the pessimist who hopes he's wrong. Let's all hope it's the other way round this time eh? Agree with you getting rid of the monarchy sooner rather than later would be a positive but not if we all have to eat rats as a consequence.

 

[Pickman's model]

Nope glass quarter full at best. It's usually me that's the pessimist who hopes he's wrong. Let's all hope it's the other way round this time eh? Agree with you getting rid of the monarchy sooner rather than later would be a positive but not if we all have to eat rats as a consequence.

let us eat cake

 

[moochedit]

of the monarchy sooner rather than later would be a positive but not if we all have to eat rats as a consequence.

We get rats? the french got cake when they got rid of theirs

 

[moochedit]

let us eat cake

Bah you beat me to it

 

[ElizabethofYork]

let us eat cake

Slice of Battenberg?

 

[Pickman's model]

Slice of Battenberg?

 

[moochedit]

Slice of Battenberg?

The guilotine tends to do that

 

[Yossarian]

At the rate this thread is covering new topics it will soon make all the other threads obsolete.

"Why are you starting a thread about medieval candlemakers' guilds when they were discussed so extensively in the Prince Harry thread?"

 

[danny la rouge]

I’m jealous when I get likes from scores of pages ago. I think “if you’re reading this is order, you’ve got so many treats ahead”.

 

[moochedit]

At the rate this thread is covering new topics it will soon make all the other threads obsolete.

"Why are you starting a thread about medieval candlemakers' guilds when they were discussed so extensively in the Prince Harry thread?"

All other threads should be merged with this one.

 

[moochedit]

I’m jealous when I get likes from scores of pages ago. I think “if you’re reading this is order, you’ve got so many treats ahead”.

Have we caught up with the sofa yet?

 

[Magnus McGinty]

I think this is the only mega thread I’ve managed to keep up with. Yet paradoxically I bloody hate it.

 

[ouirdeaux]

All other threads should be merged with this one.

Please, not the football. The way it stands, I can nuke any footy thread as soon as it shows up. Except it doesn't, so I must have nuked a subforum at some point.

 

[moochedit]

Please, not the football. The way it stands, I can nuke any footy thread as soon as it shows up.

Yeah, not a footy fan either although i believe william and the fa has already been discussed

 

[Pickman's model]

Please, not the football. The way it stands, I can nuke any footy thread as soon as it shows up. Except it doesn't, so I must have nuked a subforum at some point.

there's that subforum about the boring spellcaster from a small village, have you done that one?

 

[T & P]

Please, not the football. The way it stands, I can nuke any footy thread as soon as it shows up. Except it doesn't, so I must have nuked a subforum at some point.

(By the way, anything about the above in the book? He looks as if he's just creamed his pants )

 

[Wilf]

Deffo a troll.

Yep, troll, royal correspondent, promoter of simple good manners in shoe shoe shopping and if not quite boat happy, then mildly boat grumpy.

 

[andysays]

I’m sorry to have upset you.

For future reference you should also avoid using the names ninja, firky and Derek.

Who the fuck is/was Derek?

I've been posting here since 2014 and I've never heard of Derek

 

[Pickman's model]

.

 

[danny la rouge]

Who the fuck is/was Derek?

I've been posting here since 2014 and I've never heard of Derek

Derek Steelgate. Before your time, n00b.

 

[savoloysam]

The guilotine tends to do that

Funny Bast...

 

[ouirdeaux]

I've been here since 2004 and haven't heard of any of them.

 

[andysays]

Derek Steelgate. Before your time, n00b.

I've heard of Steelgate, but never with the Derek attached.

#n00bandproudofit

 

[Agent Sparrow]

All other threads should be merged with this one.

It’s globalisation in action

 

[Agent Sparrow]

Have we caught up with the sofa yet?

Needs 151k more posts.

Get cracking then…