Fair enough… I was just putting in a bit of background information…
Two generations of “common” blood will have reduced the likelyhood of the problems generally associated with the limited gene pool which may have been a factor in the examples I cited.
Would we have a Down’s syndrome heir to the throne?
I don’t know. My guess is that, if scans showed it, there would be a ‘miscarriage’.
Like I said, I hope this stays hypothetical.
OMG TERRORISTS! Get a grip, it was just a switchboard operator and a nurse who were a bit nervous, thinking they were talking to the Queen. You know that William and Catherine paraded slowly through London in an open-topped coach on their wedding day? Not everyone needs or wants the kind of security arrangements that the US President has (for obvious reasons).
It was just a switchboard operator and a nurse who got a bit nervous, thinking they were talking to the Queen. You know that William and Catherine paraded slowly through London in an open-topped coach on their wedding day? Not everyone needs or wants the kind of security arrangements that the US President has (for obvious reasons).
Just listened to the audio.
How did that prank possibly work? The radio dj never even identified herself. She just asked for my daughter in law Kate in an old lady voice. The hospital didn’t even ask Kate who? There’s more than one person named Kate after all.
Embarrassing for the hospital to say the least.
Thank you for letting me know that! What a relief that the threat of terrorism or fear of nutcase assassins has been eradicated in the UK. I guess that is why there was only one friendly Bobby greeting everyone at the Olympics and not any stupid army of security prepping for months, hanging around every square inch of venue, or something so typically over-the-top, paranoid American-style precautions. Carry on…pip pip.
Of course it’s not eradicated. Where did I say that? It’s just that not everyone needs a full-blown Secret Service operation 24/7.
Jesus wept.
Yeah, great prank - they just cost some innocent their job for being flustered when talking to the Queen.
Har, har! Sad commentary that this passes for humour. Even if you think they have a right to zero privacy, fer Christ’s sake she’s pregnant and in hospital! Don’t these prankster/assholes have sisters and mothers? Would they want them treated this way while in hospital? How will they feel if she should lose the child? They should be ashamed of themselves, I think.
I wonder if Aussies are proud or disgusted. I’m the latter.
The bit that the BBC broadcast had the woman impersonating the Queen in not just an old lady voice but a very posh old lady voice. Nonetheless it didn’t sound that much like the Queen. Then when the switchboard operator was putting her through the two presenters were just incredulous. I don’t think they actually expected the prank to work and just expected to get a bit of fun out of pretending to be Liz and Charles to the switchboard operator. Can’t really blame them for running with it.
I just hope the kid doesn’t inherit his father’s teeth, which he got from his mum.
Do they not teach proper history in English schools?
I shall ask you one simple question. What was the symbol of the Jacobites, and which area does this denote in England?
By answering that maybe, just maybe, i can persuade yet another ill educated person that the Jacobite movement WAS NOT just a Scottish thing.
As for the prank, for the record I too think it was in poor taste, especially since some poor worker may get canned for it (although maybe that person doesn’t need to be there when you think about it, if she’s going to let just anyone through).
I do, however, think the corgis were a nice touch.
The point is that there was no security. It was just the regular hospital switchboard operator.
Very weak tea, in my opinion. And yes, I can blame them for lacking any sensitivity for a young mother hospitalized with her first pregnancy. Were your sister ill in hospital, her privacy invaded, would you still be okay with them “running with it”? Just for shits and giggles and no worries who’s job it costs. 'Cause, y’know, it’s just a prank! Makes them look like a country of obnoxious 10yr olds with no regard for anyone’s privacy, even in illness.
Worse still they don’t even have the good sense to be embarrassed by the behaviour. They’d rather defend their countrymen. Makes them all look like boors.
I’ve been hospitalized for HG here in the US, and last I checked, despite my efforts to convince my my SO otherwise, I am not a princess. However, in order to get through to my hospital room or to get updates on my condition, my family had to have a tracking number that the hospital gave to me to pass on to my family. I’m surprised that’s not something used with a more high- profile patient, for sure.
Well, the US and UK do have different laws regarding privacy.
That’s her out of hospital now - Royal pregnancy: Duchess leaves hospital - BBC News
(for someone who isn’t really into the monarchy, I’m spending way too much time in this thread)
Oh ffs. What is there to be embarrassed about? That two idiots were stupid enough to believe the Queen was calling?
And privacy? What fucking privacy? If there was any privacy, Kate’s hospitalisation wouldn’t be splattered all over worldwide media.
There was no expectation that the prank call would work. It did. That’s what makes it funny.
Since it’ll be 7 months of minute-by-minute reports on this oh-so-private (:rolleyes:) event, I just want to see the headline ‘Royal Baby’s Head Crowns’.
Fair dinkum elbows. Lighten up.
Yeah, yeah I get it. They didn’t mean to cost someone a job, that’s what makes it funny.
And ‘Lighten up!’ is the birdsong of the juvenile asshole, we’re all familiar with it. The second verse goes, ‘It was only a joke!’
And really, ‘her privacy is already trashed by the fact of her being in hospital, being world reported news’ and we are thereby entitled to be juvenile and boorish, (and treat a young woman like prey, as though we didn’t have mothers and sisters ourselves.) This seems the very definition of weak tea, in the reasoning department.
You got anything else? Besides lacking the grace to be ashamed, or the maturity to own it as bad behaviour?
Yeah, but we don’t know if anyone actually lost their job. Letting someone have info they shouldn’t have based on their accent is a warning offence, not firing - we do have laws about why you can be fired.