Poll: Will you be putting up the Bunting next month?

Will you be putting up the Bunting next month?

  • Yes

    Votes: 35 8.5%

  • No

    Votes: 330 79.7%

  • Pancake

    Votes: 49 11.8%
  • Total voters
    414
  • Poll closed .
Mumsnet is going bat**** crazy at the moment.

"I feel sick"
"We are not subjects"
"It's 2023" / "[It's the current year]"
"AIBU to think it feels very weird and drab?"
"Welcome the new King Boris"

Yet I'm sure they're happy to have the extra bank holiday and won't give that up.
 
Participant said:
Princess Anne looking ready for war. I'm sure she'd be very useful.

Never got this almost automatic affiliation the royals have with the military. I mean I get why they'd want to be perceived that way, but they're plastered with so many medals and they're mostly just "honorary", which is fancy language for not having done anything to earn them.

Must be a bit galling for those that risk life and limb for a single medal.
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I always find it ironic that about the only "Senior" Royal / Partner who actually earned the medal's he has on is her husband Admiral Lawrence
 
sigma said:
I read something questioning how an adulterer can be head of the Church. I guess rules don't apply to the rule makers.
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Freddie1980 said:
Fair point but if that rule was actually enforced from day 1 we would be getting through Kings like Russians get through conscripts.
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Indeed. The biblical rules for selecting clergy and heads of churches are quite strict so I did wonder if the Queen might force his abdication and the succession onto William for that reason. However, the counter argument goes that you also have to temper expectations against the reality that no one is perfect, and then hold that to the biblical precedent of repentence and grace to which he is prescribing to uphold. He is at the present married to his queen and one assumes not in other relationships. If King David, an adulterer and murderer, is held as the epitomy of biblical kings, with Jesus being of David's line, then you kind of get on a sticky wicket if you say the biblical king who earnestly repented could be forgiven in Christ but today's people cannot. Or to water it down to the pithy flim flam of too many modern clergy: "we all have to love and forgive." [vomit] Of course if he relapses or continues to get up to no good - that's where the problem is and he would need to step down. Though some of the clergy are so weak and compromised themselves they probably wouldn't even make him step down even then.
 
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200sols said:
Not really to be honest and also hot sunlight presents its own issues for the parade and those in heavy hot uniforms. A cooler day is far better for most people.
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Trooping the colour is always held end of june - start july so never could have fit it in then anyway
 
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