Harry and Meghan to resign

dowie said:
Yeah, you can, tests for pilot selection are more about hand/eye coordination, not failing the medical, having good eyesight, having limbs the correct size etc.. You don't actually need to be an officer to fly in the Army either.

He went to one of the best and most expensive schools in the country and came away with just two A-levels; a B in Art and D in Geography, so he met the bare minimum education requirements to become an officer it's pretty obvious why he didn't go to university!

There is also the allegation that he cheated, officially he didn't and was cleared by an exam board but it certainly seems like a lot of help was given to the point that the art teacher referred to it in an employment tribunal against Eton:

www.theguardian.com

£45,000 damages for Prince Harry teacher

· Eton agrees compensation for former art teacher · College decides 'to bring matter to a close'
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Would he have got that B if not for the extra help? Would he have got anything if he'd gone to a bog standard school/6th form?

IIRC while on his commissioning course he managed to get caught on tape referring to a Pakistani officer cadet by an ethnic slur (ironically though he won an anti-racism award this year).

The regiment he initially got into was, realistically, 100% down to who he was also getting a secondment as a pilot in the first place is quite blatantly likely to be down to who he was too (in part because his previous operational tour was cut short and that offered a different means).

The published reasons for him not staying on were things like him not wanting a desk job, always planning to quit to look after family etc.. but realistically promotion to Captain is almost automatic and doesn't require a board... beyond that though mid-career officers are expected to attend things like intermediate staff college etc.. and that's getting a bit like attending a university.
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You are talking out of your **** dowie and clearly know nothing about flying. Maybe you play computer games and think it makes you a pilot :rolleyes: it doesn't. You think you can fly attack helicopters and be thick. Get a grip, your obvious bias is clearly on show

As for him leaving, they all leave. Charles did 5 years, Andrew served the longest, William only did 7.5 years. So Harry did better than his brother and his father.
 
I agree, you don't become a pilot without having a decent amount of intelligence. That said you can be academically smart, and well-trained within your field but still be a colossal retard when it comes to other things. Not saying he is mind you.

I can think of lots of people who are academically smart but socially retarded, plenty of conservative grifters fit this description :p
 
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imtoooldforthis said:
I agree, you don't become a pilot without having a decent amount of intelligence. That said you can be academically smart, and well-trained within your field but still be a colossal retard when it comes to other things. Not saying he is mind you.

I can think of lots of people who are academically smart but socially retarded, plenty of conservative grifters fit this description :p
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Exactly. I'm not saying he is a genius, but he isn't thick either.
 
more amusing than any of the xmas tv - from the Times, their personal xmas messages (Elon twitter account style)

From Meghan Sussex
Whenever the Christmas story is told I find myself thinking about J&M. What was Mary’s truth? What was Joseph’s truth?
They too were hounded by the press, even when Mary was pregnant: you’ve seen all the pictures. When the baby was born a host of angels told some shepherds, who rushed to surround the stable.
More pictures! The accommodation they’d been given was appalling. Low ceilings.
Then came the briefings. Sources close to the Three Kings leaked the story to Herod. Everyone knew where they were.
That’s when Joseph said: “We’ve got to get out of here!” So they took the first flight into Egypt.
Fortunately, the kings gave J&M plenty of gold and fabulously expensive essential oils.
My message to you all is even if others’ recollections vary, stick to your own truth: it might be worth a lot of money. (sent by Margaret Attlee)

From Paddington Bear
Dear Aunt Lucy, Christmas greetings from Buckingham Palace! I wasn’t sure what the Christmas message actually was so I asked a Lady called Susan Hussey, who asked me where I was from. “Paddington,” I replied. “No, where are you really from? Originally,” she said. “Oh, that would be darkest Peru,” I said. “Knew you were one of them,” she cried. “Better not say ‘darkest’ any more, dear. The people in lightest Peru may be upset.”
Looking to next year, the King, whose lovely mother shared our taste for marmalade sandwiches, has asked me to get him out of another sticky situation by writing my own truth, as they call it, and take the attention away from someone else’s book. Always eager to please, I agreed. It’s called Bear and it will be out on January 9. You’ll be able to get it on the Amazon, of course. (sent by Bill Mouland)
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
You are talking out of your **** dowie and clearly know nothing about flying. Maybe you play computer games and think it makes you a pilot :rolleyes: it doesn't. You think you can fly attack helicopters and be thick. Get a grip, your obvious bias is clearly on show

As for him leaving, they all leave. Charles did 5 years, Andrew served the longest, William only did 7.5 years. So Harry did better than his brother and his father.
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Perhaps you're easily impressed (OMG do they learn some technical stuff?), no one claimed flying was easy or without complication nor that it doesn't need skill but to use it as evidence of someone being smart is rather dumb especially given the other (more objective) evidence to the contrary.
 
imtoooldforthis said:
I agree, you don't become a pilot without having a decent amount of intelligence. That said you can be academically smart, and well-trained within your field but still be a colossal retard when it comes to other things. Not saying he is mind you.
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My soon to be ex Brother In Law was a Professor at a University and the worlds leading expert on a couple of historical subjects.
Out of that discipline he is truly useless.
He also has no idea how to talk to people unless it's in that subject.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
Wow our royal family gets handed everything on a plater. What a surprise. Maybe just 1 more reason why having a bunch of inbreds sponging off the nation isn't a good thing in 2022.
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Not one to shirk from mentioning immigrants when you hand me such an opportunity on a plate, I only withold my tongue in the spirit of Christmas... ;)
 
rumple9 said:
The royal family are immigrants. They are German and changed their name from Saxe-Coburg to Windsor during the war to try and sound more English
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I am aware of that, but they are economically positive to England, don't figure disproportionately in violent crime and prison statistics, nor feature prominently in Crown Court defendant cases.
 
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dowie said:
Perhaps you're easily impressed (OMG do they learn some technical stuff?), no one claimed flying was easy or without complication nor that it doesn't need skill but to use it as evidence of someone being smart is rather dumb especially given the other (more objective) evidence to the contrary.
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No I'm just not making a stupid statement like someone who was qualified to fly our best attack chopper is thick. I'm sure the Army was happy to risk a £20m aircraft, the 3rd in line to the throne and the absolute **** show of a PR disaster if he'd crashed it, on someone who is thick :rolleyes:
 
Training someone not mentally subnormal to fly a helicopter is probably easier than instilling nous in a relationship none savvy member of the British Royal family, who is in the constant public eye, as to the potential long term issues of marrying a black American actress.

Situations like this again reinforce my openness to the possible advantages of arranged marriages for the extremely wealthy, or the aristocracy. Or at least parental banning of those they deem generally extremely unsuitable, be that through being potentially mainly avaricious, to them being from the perceived "wrong side of the tracks" ;)

The only member of the aristocracy whose estate and reputation seems to have recently survived a life of flagrant immorality was the late Marquis of Bath, Alexander George Thynn, with his harem of "wifelets". No doubt some solicitor's firm has made a killing out of sorting the somewhat Bohemian situation out, but the estate seems to have survived his rampant excesses, and the media were relatively inert upon his passing :)
 
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doodah said:
Sums up my feelings when it comes to Andrew 'let bygones be bygones'.
But she clearly lied about not being able to courtesy - so there's that.
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You might have had a point if that article actually described Meghan and Andrew instead of just Andrew so you're agreeing with the voices in your head when you post that.

Isn't he regularly insulted as being a paedophile (which is odd considering logic and our laws), if it's ok to say that in some totally different article Meghan was being insulted then surely it's ok to bring up all the bad press on Andrew... in other totally different articles.
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
They are just scum. Horrible human beings but the general public give them their mandate to do what they do by buying the rags and visiting their websites.
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True, the Queen gave her royal assent to democracy and civil liberty shattering legislation, from detention without charge to the Orwellian hate speech laws. The Royal Family would have Britain like something out of the 1984 Novel if they could. They are a scourge on the UK.
 
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