Nice one jph. Today new's was a live coverage outside the hospital. If they could, they would even enter Kate's room and see the baby birth to get viewing. And that's why media are a shitty business.
issoisso wrote:
What exactly does the british royal family do? (other than cause most people around here to make fun of the british for living in a stone age where they still have unelected leeches)
Head of state (and of 15 other nations), and, wonderfully, head of the state religion too.
Government's can only form with the permission of the reigning monarch, the monarch can dissolve parliament, the country can only go to war with the monarch's permission, the Prime Minister must have weekly meetings with the reigning monarch.
Those are the main ones. And to call us stone age is incorrect. We're not barbarians! We've progressed to round about this. Luckily:
jseadog1 wrote:
Wow that looks pretty insane with all the twists and turns.
It wasnt as thrilling as I thought it would be. The climb up is fun, as well as going back down, but after that its not as great as you'd think. I thought the loop would be scary too, but if you were to blink you wouldn't have even noticed you just did the loop because theres hardly any G's.
Big Thunder Mountain at Tokyo Disney was better (I did it at night so it was pretty much impossible to see most of the time)
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Edit: The fact it was nighttime when I rode it, probably made it better...
More like this, but I remember it being even darker. Still worth the 2 hour line too
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Just got home, Phantom's Revenge is insane as the second drop is actually the one that gets you too top speed, and if you are not sitting up front you can't even see it coming, it just shakes your body around.
@547984 - I used to feel that way too, but now I want MORE!
@admirschleck - Aren't there any intense ones over there? I thought the most insane roller coaster in the world was Kingda Ka, where is that at?
@britishbabytalk - Who cares what it is, but if I may offer my irrelevant opinion, I am glad it was a boy rather than a girl.
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jph27 wrote:
The way people are going on about it, you'd think it was the second coming of cross. Next door put a Union Jack up, so I got out a huge Irish tricolore. Two can play at this game.
sutty68 wrote:
The baby will have ginger hair and all the fingers will point at Harry
doddy13 wrote:
I've had Sky News on in the background this afternoon after I heard their OTT coverage.
It's been, quite simply, hilarious. In the build up we had full analysis on how a baby is delivered, now we've had horoscope discussions.
Hilarious.
I agree, the coverage has been waaaay OTT - I turned on the news yesterday to see this huge screen-dominating red banner turn up saying 'BREAKING NEWS' so I wonder what's happened. It then pops up to say: 'Breaking news, Duchess awaiting baby'. Yes well we've known that for 6 months or so
Though the stupid media coverage cannot mask the fact that it is an important event; and in response to someone's question about what do the Royal Family actually do, well the Queen could theoretically take over about half the world and half the world's religion, with a little bit of support, if she wanted to, she just can't be bothered
jseadog1 wrote: @admirschleck - Aren't there any intense ones over there? I thought the most insane roller coaster in the world was Kingda Ka, where is that at?
(Christ that is as close to spam as I like to get)
Got vague wifi now, having borrowed a mates laptop. Been in a bubble for a week, and even avoided all the baby hype, thank god! Had a mammoth TDF catch up session last night of about 10hours of near straight highlights. Fing epic even if the race wasn't what it could have been.
UK having it's hottest summer since 2006 so most days are down on a beach playing with kids (its my job, not a creepy thing) so have an awesome tan and a new appreciation for quiet times.
Spent about an hour now trying to catch up and frankly I admit defeat. You all chat way too much
In other "Daily related" news, my new project is 75% complete and should be great. Also done some more work on Project Orange so that can keep running as well. Expect many many posts in early September.
Jesleyh wrote:
Oh damn.
Will it cool down in England soon? As in 2 weeks?
Being on a citytrip in London isn't a pleasure if it's 30+ degrees Celsius, I think.
Met Office saaaayyyysss....
UK Outlook for Sunday 28 Jul 2013 to Tuesday 6 Aug 2013:
Remaining mainly unsettled with a mixture of sunny spells and showers, heavy and perhaps thundery at times. Also a risk of southern and eastern parts of the UK seeing some more persistent heavy rain or thunderstorms early Sunday. Northern and western parts may also become cloudier with more persistent rain during the first part of next week. The unsettled theme continues for most through into August, with showers or longer spells of rain and also breezy at times, particularly across northern and western parts. Some drier, brighter interludes likely too, especially in southern and eastern areas. Compared to the last couple of weeks temperatures will be lower and mainly near or a little above average. As such conditions will feel fresher, especially at night, but still pleasantly warm in sunshine.
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Jesleyh wrote:
Oh damn.
Will it cool down in England soon? As in 2 weeks?
Being on a citytrip in London isn't a pleasure if it's 30+ degrees Celsius, I think.
Met Office saaaayyyysss....
UK Outlook for Sunday 28 Jul 2013 to Tuesday 6 Aug 2013:
Remaining mainly unsettled with a mixture of sunny spells and showers, heavy and perhaps thundery at times. Also a risk of southern and eastern parts of the UK seeing some more persistent heavy rain or thunderstorms early Sunday. Northern and western parts may also become cloudier with more persistent rain during the first part of next week. The unsettled theme continues for most through into August, with showers or longer spells of rain and also breezy at times, particularly across northern and western parts. Some drier, brighter interludes likely too, especially in southern and eastern areas. Compared to the last couple of weeks temperatures will be lower and mainly near or a little above average. As such conditions will feel fresher, especially at night, but still pleasantly warm in sunshine.
The weather here has been atrocious. Three days back was 46 degrees centigrade, and it cooled to 37 by today after 3 cold fronts. I'm tired of this rainy heat...
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