The BBC have been overwhelmed with complaints about coverage of Prince Philip

[ArseInTheCoOpWindow]

Showing the same thing on 2 channels simultaneously.

Now you just enter your email to complain as they couldn’t cope with the amount of complaints.

Translation: I like that you agree with me, anyone who doesn't is a pleb

I think you should read MarshaBradyo's post properly (and thank you Marsha).

Nice to have insight more than "can’t you plebs last without [TV] for a day."

It's fairly clear that the "plebs" part of the comment was a [paraphrased] quote from the pro-royalist posters.

In other words, Marsha was saying "it's nice that someone on this thread is making more thoughtful and in-depth responses, and is not simply calling everyone plebs, the way other posters are doing."

If you've interpreted that as Marsha calling anyone a pleb, you evidently didn't bother to read her actual comment, but simply noticed the word "pleb" and shot your mouth off without bothering to look at what context the word was being used in.

Watch something else? Sure, I'll just stage my own version of Masterchef in my kitchen and make up the result hmm

🤯😐Didn’t realise it was either Prince Phillip or Masterchef 😆

• Phillip was, in everything but name, the King (he couldn’t be called as such because King outranks Queen or some such outdated nonsense)

*Philip was not, by any stretch of the imagination, the King.

The King means the Monarch, which means the Ruler of the country.

Philip was a consort. Nothing more, nothing less.*

‘King consort’ then. Its funny how people will happily call a Queen consort, ‘Queen’ though. No one has been saying, when Camilla or Catherine are Queen consort, it’s always Queen, even if in reality we know it’s Queen consort. I’m sure Dianna would’ve been called Queen.

Marie Antoinette is historically never referred to as Queen Consort, always Queen of France.

I’m just trying to point out the difference between how a male consort is referred to compared to a female.

That's due to the inherent sexism of monarchy @The90swereadecadeago. Kings rule and, where there is a king, queens do not.

@Porcupineintherough I agree it’s so outdated. That’s what I was trying (badly?) to say by calling Prince Phillip a King. ☺️

How was anyone surprised by this? Of course there was going to be (deserved) wall to wall coverage when the Duke died.

I dread to think what all these complainers will say when The Queen dies and everything goes off, football matches cancelled and weeks of official mourning.

Well I agree with you that it's sexist, but your earlier post about how he deserves this level of kowtowing because he was the King really didn't come across as making a point about sexism.

He was an official consort, who did not rule, was not in the Line of Accession, and was not a blood royal. IMO that makes him a relatively minor and unimportant royal, and certainly in no way comparable to the actual Ruler of the country.

The comparison with Camilla and Kate I think is a combination of sexism and people being not well educated about these things, and also PR. Kate's PR team in particular have launched a PR campaign to promote what a perfect future queen she'll be, and because most Brits have only ever known a Queen as ruler, when we see the word "queen" we automatically think monarch/ruler. I've seen a few Kate fans in the past crowing about how she'll be the next queen in a way that suggests they believe Kate will actually be ruling the country and will have the same position and status as the actual current queen, which is simply lack of knowledge.

Our perceptions of and associations with the word "queen" are a direct result of having a Queen Regnant for nearly 70 years. I do wonder how that will change given we have (barring tragedy) three future kings lined up, and especially how Charles' reign will affect public opinion, depending on how long it lasts, and whether Camilla is styled as Queen or not. I mean if Kate was crowned queen tomorrow, it would be perceived very differently from 60-year old Kate being crowned after 20 years of substantially less popular Queen Camilla.

Some of the forelock-tugging from certain posters on this thread is as entertaining as anything the TV could ever serve up.

I'd be interested to know how much of the wall-to-wall coverage those berating other posters for 'disrespect' and lacking a sense of 'duty' (and calling them plebs and scum FFS, although I can see those posts have rightly been deleted) actually bothered to watch themselves.

Most of the time I refrain from commenting on the royal threads on here because I try to accept/respect the fact that the monarchy is important to a lot of people (though the reasons why are beyond me personally), but some of what I'm reading on here is just absurd.

@ShesMadeATwatOfMePam

So sad that people couldn’t cope with an afternoon off TV to honour a man who devoted his life to public service.

An incredibly privileged old man who lived a life of luxury in exchange for shaking hands and showing his face at events.

Exactly !

Some of the forelock-tugging from certain posters on this thread is as entertaining as anything the TV could ever serve up

Isn't it

It's also kind of pitiful

100,000 is a lot of complaints.
Cannot believe some said those complaining are selfish. If anyone was selfish it was the beeb airing the same content on the same channels at the same time

@SnoopyOnALude

Some of the forelock-tugging from certain posters on this thread is as entertaining as anything the TV could ever serve up

Isn't it

It's also kind of pitiful

I've cringed myself inside out reading some of the posts on this thread

As an aside, this just popped up on Facebook from someone posting in all seriousness. Lots of care emoji reacts and 'that's lovely hun' type comments.

Oh dear

@TheVampiresWife

As an aside, this just popped up on Facebook from someone posting in all seriousness. Lots of care emoji reacts and 'that's lovely hun' type comments.

Oh dear

Oh good grief

@thatsgotit 'welcome sire' 😂😂😂

Whatever your opinion on Philip, we can all agree that this is batshit, right?

www.thepoke.co.uk/2021/04/12/national-rail-went-grey-in-memory-of-prince-philip-and-didnt-end-well/

You can bet your booty that if 100,000 people bothered their arses complaining, ten or twenty times more were thoroughly ticked off by the coverage. Including my 80 year old mother who bent my ear about it this weekend.

Yes, far more, especially as BBC made the website for complaining 'unavailable' because it was overwhelmed.

That greyscale nonsense and the Wisley closure really pisses me off. Seriously inconveniencing ordinary folk in the name of enforced mourning for an over privileged old racist.

OMG the National Rail grey/black of their website so that visually impaired customers can't even read it?
I honestly think this country has gone mad.

Yes, he was an important member of the RF, but would he have wanted that?
Even the staff said they couldn't read what they're typing!

I think one of the issues, and I say this as someone who is largely ambivalent about the royal family is that the concept of "national mourning" is long gone. It isn't 1952.

Apparently the country is in national mourning until the funeral and then the RF will observe the full two weeks of mourning. Now I have sympathy for the RF but their private grief is not mine to share.

My DM died last year and I wasn't able to hold a funeral. In fact because all the arrangements were done online & by phone, I went to work the day after she had died. Many others will have similar experiences.

We are not all in mourning.