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Re: The King

Post by plodder » Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:50 pm

Brightonian wrote:
Thu Oct 13, 2022 4:56 am
Charles to Truss, when she comes for her weekly meeting: "So you've come back again", and "Dear oh dear": https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/ ... 8885204992
She’s elected. He should be grovelling to her the doss c.nt

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Re: The King

Post by Tessa K » Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:44 am

plodder wrote:
Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:50 pm
Brightonian wrote:
Thu Oct 13, 2022 4:56 am
Charles to Truss, when she comes for her weekly meeting: "So you've come back again", and "Dear oh dear": https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/ ... 8885204992
She’s elected. He should be grovelling to her the doss c.nt
She's an elected MP. We didn't vote for her as PM.

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Re: The King

Post by plodder » Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:50 am

Tessa K wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:44 am
plodder wrote:
Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:50 pm
Brightonian wrote:
Thu Oct 13, 2022 4:56 am
Charles to Truss, when she comes for her weekly meeting: "So you've come back again", and "Dear oh dear": https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/ ... 8885204992
She’s elected. He should be grovelling to her the doss c.nt
She's an elected MP. We didn't vote for her as PM.
And you're a muck covered pleb hauling away at a sack of turnips to deliver your tythe to the big house if you think that's a coherent response

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Re: The King

Post by Tessa K » Sat Oct 15, 2022 10:52 am

plodder wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:50 am
Tessa K wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:44 am
plodder wrote:
Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:50 pm


She’s elected. He should be grovelling to her the doss c.nt
She's an elected MP. We didn't vote for her as PM.
And you're a muck covered pleb hauling away at a sack of turnips to deliver your tythe to the big house if you think that's a coherent response
A muck covered pleb who knows how to spell tithe.

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Re: The King

Post by tenchboy » Sat Oct 15, 2022 11:35 am

Roun by yere it's Tythe; Tythe Barn, Tythe Barn Road: but it seems in other places there are as many Tithes as there are Tythes.
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Re: The King

Post by Tessa K » Sat Oct 15, 2022 12:07 pm

tenchboy wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 11:35 am
Roun by yere it's Tythe; Tythe Barn, Tythe Barn Road: but it seems in other places there are as many Tithes as there are Tythes.
Fair enough

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Re: The King

Post by Bird on a Fire » Sat Oct 15, 2022 12:24 pm

I suppose it depends on whether Tessa is a muck-covered hauling turnips from before or after than standardisation of English orthography by Samuel Johnson.

Maybe they should grovel to each other.
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Re: The King

Post by dyqik » Sat Oct 15, 2022 12:42 pm

plodder wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:50 am
Tessa K wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:44 am
plodder wrote:
Fri Oct 14, 2022 10:50 pm


She’s elected. He should be grovelling to her the doss c.nt
She's an elected MP. We didn't vote for her as PM.
And you're a muck covered pleb hauling away at a sack of turnips to deliver your tythe to the big house if you think that's a coherent response
Given the opportunity, a lot more people would vote for Charles as King/President than Truss for PM...

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Re: The King

Post by TimW » Sat Oct 15, 2022 2:02 pm

Tessa K wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 12:07 pm
tenchboy wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 11:35 am
Roun by yere it's Tythe; Tythe Barn, Tythe Barn Road: but it seems in other places there are as many Tithes as there are Tythes.
Fair enough
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Re: The King

Post by Tessa K » Sat Oct 15, 2022 2:49 pm

TimW wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 2:02 pm
Tessa K wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 12:07 pm
tenchboy wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 11:35 am
Roun by yere it's Tythe; Tythe Barn, Tythe Barn Road: but it seems in other places there are as many Tithes as there are Tythes.
Fair enough
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To be fayre, I am descended from quite a few mucky peasants.

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Re: The King

Post by plodder » Sat Oct 15, 2022 5:43 pm

As is Truss. As isn’t Lord Gruesome of Sniffyfingers who frankly should be dragged to the tower for daring to condescend any representative of the commons.

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Re: The King

Post by dyqik » Sun Oct 16, 2022 1:08 pm

plodder wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 5:43 pm
As is Truss. As isn’t Lord Gruesome of Sniffyfingers who frankly should be dragged to the tower for daring to condescend any representative of the commons.
Simple stats says that he probably is descended from a few mucky peasants. Might not have been as recently as for Truss though.

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Re: The King

Post by Tessa K » Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:18 pm

dyqik wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 1:08 pm
plodder wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 5:43 pm
As is Truss. As isn’t Lord Gruesome of Sniffyfingers who frankly should be dragged to the tower for daring to condescend any representative of the commons.
Simple stats says that he probably is descended from a few mucky peasants. Might not have been as recently as for Truss though.
Unless they keep the bloodline pure by marrying close relatives, like the Ptolomaic pharoahs or, until fairly recently, European royalty.

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Re: The King

Post by EACLucifer » Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:29 pm

Tessa K wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:18 pm
dyqik wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 1:08 pm
plodder wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 5:43 pm
As is Truss. As isn’t Lord Gruesome of Sniffyfingers who frankly should be dragged to the tower for daring to condescend any representative of the commons.
Simple stats says that he probably is descended from a few mucky peasants. Might not have been as recently as for Truss though.
Unless they keep the bloodline pure by marrying close relatives, like the Ptolomaic pharoahs or, until fairly recently, European royalty.
Pretty much all pharaohs, though it isn't until the new kingdom that pharaoh means the king rather than the palace.

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Re: The King

Post by dyqik » Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:29 pm

Tessa K wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:18 pm
dyqik wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 1:08 pm
plodder wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 5:43 pm
As is Truss. As isn’t Lord Gruesome of Sniffyfingers who frankly should be dragged to the tower for daring to condescend any representative of the commons.
Simple stats says that he probably is descended from a few mucky peasants. Might not have been as recently as for Truss though.
Unless they keep the bloodline pure by marrying close relatives, like the Ptolomaic pharoahs or, until fairly recently, European royalty.
The European royalty bloodlines are nothing like that "pure", and there's plenty of noble families that were awarded that status for services rendered at various points in history. And all bets are off if you go back 1000 years or more.

So you would have to go exploring the whole family tree to asset that there were no peasants there ever.
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Re: The King

Post by plodder » Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:33 pm

His family tree is a stump

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Re: The King

Post by EACLucifer » Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:47 pm

plodder wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:33 pm
His family tree is a stump
Not particularly, no. Perhaps you've confused him with Charles II of Spain?

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Re: The King

Post by Tessa K » Sun Oct 16, 2022 4:39 pm

EACLucifer wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:29 pm
Tessa K wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:18 pm
dyqik wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 1:08 pm


Simple stats says that he probably is descended from a few mucky peasants. Might not have been as recently as for Truss though.
Unless they keep the bloodline pure by marrying close relatives, like the Ptolomaic pharoahs or, until fairly recently, European royalty.
Pretty much all pharaohs, though it isn't until the new kingdom that pharaoh means the king rather than the palace.
I couldn't remember so I played safe and stuck to the ones I was sure about.

I'm not convinced JRM is entirely human; I suspect his family are all grown in a vat and his blood is mostly acid.

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Re: The King

Post by plodder » Sun Oct 16, 2022 6:03 pm

EACLucifer wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:47 pm
plodder wrote:
Sun Oct 16, 2022 2:33 pm
His family tree is a stump
Not particularly, no. Perhaps you've confused him with Charles II of Spain?
True, even one of his kids isn’t his

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Re: The King

Post by Tessa K » Tue Oct 18, 2022 9:12 am

I learnt a Latin term today that may come in handy, rex inutilis. It means useless king. Or in modern parlance, crap king.

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Post by basementer » Tue Oct 18, 2022 6:36 pm

Tessa K wrote:
Tue Oct 18, 2022 9:12 am
I learnt a Latin term today that may come in handy, rex inutilis. It means useless king. Or in modern parlance, crap king.
I don't think we can expect the Pope to intervene. The term was discussed (in 2017) here:
https://blog.oup.com/2017/05/simple-min ... -solution/
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Re: The King

Post by TimW » Thu Oct 20, 2022 12:57 pm

Tessa K wrote:
Tue Oct 18, 2022 9:12 am
I learnt a Latin term today that may come in handy, rex inutilis. It means useless king. Or in modern parlance, crap king.
His record on PMs isn't looking good.

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Re: The King

Post by Little waster » Thu Oct 20, 2022 1:02 pm

TimW wrote:
Thu Oct 20, 2022 12:57 pm
Tessa K wrote:
Tue Oct 18, 2022 9:12 am
I learnt a Latin term today that may come in handy, rex inutilis. It means useless king. Or in modern parlance, crap king.
His record on PMs isn't looking good.
His mam saw off 17 so he's making a good start on her record.
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Re: The King

Post by FlammableFlower » Thu Oct 20, 2022 1:58 pm

Given his last comments to Truss, I so hope the mics are on and pick up the opening small talk when he meets the new PM.

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Re: The King

Post by Tessa K » Thu Oct 20, 2022 2:15 pm

FlammableFlower wrote:
Thu Oct 20, 2022 1:58 pm
Given his last comments to Truss, I so hope the mics are on and pick up the opening small talk when he meets the new PM.
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