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Must be a Brit thing. Is there some sort of celebration
going on? |
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I ask because the link is not working. |
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The Queen just piloted a 1000 odd boats down the Thames. |
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This [link] might just make her your new hero [Alterother]. |
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All at once?! That's one talented monarch you have! |
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//All at once?! That's one talented monarch you
have!// |
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You should see her on waterskis. |
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How about Microsoft Pringles ? One in a million isn't a lump of shit (if you're lucky). |
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A fucking L85?! The Queen is officially my new hero, even
if she is shooting it from a vise. |
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In her younger days she was more than just a
fair shot with a 12-bore. During WW2, she was
fully trained in the use of all then-current
British small arms, at a time when female
servie personnel rarely of ever carried or used
weapons. It is rumoured that from time to
time she has carried a personal sidearm,
aapart from the sword; the D of E certainly
has, acting as an extra level of "close
protection"; in his younger days, he was a
damned fine rifle shot, too. |
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Don't be fooled by the gold braid and
uniforms. The boy Charles, along with Andrew,
William and Harry have a thorough practical
knowledge of the use of military weapons.
Gare qui a la touche. |
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I know all of that. When I say I read a lot of history, I don't
just mean American history. But there's a far cry between
a young and fit woman learning how to fire a Lee-Enfield
and a Sten when there's a war on and a lady of 86 blasting
away with an assault rifle. Granted, the L85 has much
gentler recoil than the WWII weapons... still, that picture
made my day. It's definitely going into my screensaver
slideshow. |
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What is much less known is that the Queen Mother
was actually qualified to operate midget submarines,
and also invented the bomb-sights used in night-
time raids during the latter part of WWII. |
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No, that was someone French. |
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The Queen Mother was French. |
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I can't believe that 8th of 7 failed to mention that that photo of Her Maj going ham is an action shot from Goose Green. |
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// Must be a Brit thing. Is there some sort of celebration going on? |
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I am a Brit. Is there some sort of celebration going on? <yawns> |
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At least we had the Sex Pistols the last time around. |
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I watched it on (US) news and was flabbergasted by the statment that the reason the boats were all out was so that photographers could take photos to use for *future rememberance*!! (That is kind of halfbaked in itself!) |
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Who said we were logical? |
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<shades of very old joke in Whoops Apocalypse tv series, president to science advisor "how about England?" science adviser replies "Mr President, if god had wanted man to live in England, he would have given us gills"> |
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Now that it's all (thankfully) over, can we go back to
Pringles stamped with pictures of serial killers? (The
millionth carton contains a real bloodstain and
severed finger). |
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//During WW2, she was fully trained in the use of all
then-current British small arms// |
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As opposed to now-current (or currently permissible)
British small arms. I think you're down to, what, a
golf club or a pointy stick? Or did they finally get the
"Pokey Bits Safety Act" through Parliament? |
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British Military small arms. |
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Strange how the imposition of increasingly
"Not even a pointy stick" legislation in the UK
has somehow completely failed to stem the
rapidly increasing use of firearms by
criminals, and a corresponding increase in
firearms-related fatalities. |
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You'd almost think they didn't care what the
law says … |
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But that would make them… Ohhhh… |
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//British Military small arms.// Makes me think of red-coated bearskin-wearing troops on parade, all proportioned like T-Rexes. |
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You're getting them confused with the staff at
the Ministry of Defence, who are indeed a
bunch of scaly, cold-blooded reptiles reliant
on secondary ganglia part way down their
spine (if any) to permit them to move even a
bit; their most notable characteristic is their
extreme short-sightedness, and their need to
bask in the sun for long periods (at someone
else's expense, preferably on a beach in the
Seychelles or Bermuda) before their brains
can make a decision. |
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However, if you want to view even more
primitive life-forms, primitive cannibalistic
worm-like parasites that live in slime and
survive mostly by sucking blood and eating
one anothers droppings, the Palace of
Westminster is just down the road. There's
even a viewing gallery where it is possible to
watch them thrash each other into a feeding
frenzy at regular intervals. |
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("War is politicians' way of trying to make people think there's things worse than politicians") |
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//At least we had the Sex Pistols the last time
around.// |
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That simply wouldn't happen now. But you might still
be able to book the Sex Dull Butter Knives. |
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//I reckon it would be fairer if we voted for who to
put on the pringles: myself.// |
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[marked-for-deletion] by me. Reason? Too many disrespectful annotations related to the Queen. |
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Well I never!
No really, I never once. |
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I think she's lived an extraordinary life and I do believe I would enjoy her company immensely.
She may not feel the same, but there you have it. |
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[marked-for-deletion -of- deletion]
ad infinitum, no returnzies... |
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// a lady of 86 blasting away with an assault
rifle // |
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It's her rifle. In fact, it's her Army. She is, de
facto and de jure, the Commander in Chief.
She can do anything she damn well wants. |
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An admiral was asked in a BBC Radio
interview, "What would you do if the Prime
Minister ordered a pre-emptive nuclear strike
and you thought it wasn't justified? " |
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His reply was, "Well, actually, we don't
answer to the Prime Minister. Our oath of
loyalty is to the Queen. So we would go and
ask her." |
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The guy in the forward blister, who manages to get all the way through a perfect run on Buckingham Palace without saying "bombs away" at the appropriate moment. |
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Obviously more moral fibre than I'll ever have. |
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