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54 minutes ago, dutch said:

There are going to be some gun salutes fired today. 

I always prefer to be warned of this beforehand.

As opposed to the unofficial one's in Pitsmoor and Sharrow - lol.

 

 

Keep safe.

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9 hours ago, butlers said:

None needed think we posted within couple of seconds.

Be interesting what the moderation team make if the other post.

 

What 'rule' have I broken? Having a different opinion to someone else is at the very heart of a debate

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4 hours ago, Rockers rule said:

RIP the Duke of Edinburgh 

 

A part of our history & one of those 'where were you moments'

JFK,

First moon landing,

Death of Princess Di,

Sheffield's two towers demolished,

Corovirus deadly appearance.

 

or the day you couldn't watch Coronation St,

Emerdale, East Enders, Gardeners world, or Master Chef

because the Patriarch of the Royal family died.

 

what a sad indictment on society. 

 

Keep Safe & long live the Queen.

 

 

 

 

 

Why should everything else stop because one person dies?

News reports and obituary programmes are perfectly fine, but rolling out talking head after talking head to say what they thought about him to keep the coverage going non-stop?  Isn't that getting a little over the top?

 

Lets face it, one of the few certainties of life is that it will come to an end eventually...

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1 hour ago, MJ01 said:

What 'rule' have I broken? Having a different opinion to someone else is at the very heart of a debate

Hi @MJ01 and all -  keep it respectful on here please. 

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Prince Phillip officially opened the Tinsley Park Steel Works in 1963.  When the multi-union committee fighting its closure in 1985 wrote to him for support, it received a reply wishing it well.  Naturally he couldn't get involved in the politics of the closure but it said a lot that he bothered to respond.  Being a Republican I have no further comment to make other than his passing is a sad loss for his family.

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Be interesting to see what the viewing figures were like yesterday on the tele ,usually the beeb crush ITV when it's a national event.

 

 

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Royalist or Republican,people die every day which is of great sadness to their family and friends.

There seem to be those who feel the need to associate themselves more closely by intruding on private grief,such as those assembling at Buckingham Palace when expressly requested not to.

Contrast this with the treatment of those who attended a vigil on Clapham Common for a young woman who was murdered as opposed to a gentleman who had a long and privileged life and has a reportedly peaceful death.

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The media attention and the crowd scenes remind me of the funeral scenes from Lioyd Webber's Evita .

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People seemed more shocked and upset when Diana died.

There were piles of unsold papers at my local newsagent and they told me most regular paper customer were not buying them today.

This will all peacefully blow over soon and calm down again.

When Diana died people spoke about that for a long time.

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11 minutes ago, dutch said:

 

People seemed more shocked and upset when Diana died.

There were piles of unsold papers at my local newsagent and they told me most regular paper customer were not buying them today.

This will all peacefully blow over soon and calm down again.

When Diana died people spoke about that for a long time.

Her death was more spectacular and not expected.  He was 99 and in bad health 

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5 hours ago, Rockers rule said:

RIP the Duke of Edinburgh 

 

A part of our history & one of those 'where were you moments'

JFK,

First moon landing,

Death of Princess Di,

Sheffield's two towers demolished,

Corovirus deadly appearance.

 

or the day you couldn't watch Coronation St,

Emerdale, East Enders, Gardeners world, or Master Chef

because the Patriarch of the Royal family died.

 

what a sad indictment on society. 

 

Keep Safe & long live the Queen.

 

 

 

 

 

Think a bit of perspective is needed.

36 minutes ago, RJRB said:

Royalist or Republican,people die every day which is of great sadness to their family and friends.

There seem to be those who feel the need to associate themselves more closely by intruding on private grief,such as those assembling at Buckingham Palace when expressly requested not to.

Contrast this with the treatment of those who attended a vigil on Clapham Common for a young woman who was murdered as opposed to a gentleman who had a long and privileged life and has a reportedly peaceful death.

Absolutely- didn’t see any batons being pulled out.

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BBC1 was 6 percent down on the previous Friday.

ITV was 60 percent down.

In the 7pm to 11pm time range.

 

In this multichannel age I guess this was entirely likely.

 

Never watched a royal wedding  but caught some of yesterday's stuff and was very informative 

 

 

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