Club Penguin Royal - the intricacies of the monarchy etc

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Have taken the liberty of starting a new fred if no one else has?

pierpenguin!!

That’s my intelligent analysis done for the night

@47AlexaAmbidextra, this one?
"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed"! 😁
Shakespeare I believe

Oh and I delurked momentarily just to post that^^

Lovely picture of Carole and baby Kate - did anyone else think there was a striking resemblance between Carole and grown up Kate, especially around the mouth?

I've dug my laptop out and feel like wittering on here so excuse me, I may do a few posts. Some thoughts and things I've been meaning to comment on about HaM for a while but haven't go round to doing so.

The hoax and Boris not being tricked -

Something that struck me at the time on reading the transcript is that they gave Harry the opportunity to work out they were pranking him.

This is from the transcript.

'Now we are dealing with an issue of moving penguins from Belarus to their native land, the North Pole.About 50 penguins were stuck at customs in Belarus. That's terrible. And we are searching for some ship maybe to transport these poor penguins to their native land.'

Greta's fake father then said: 'North Pole...perhaps you have some contacts for people who can help us?'

Harry replies: 'I do have a man who deals with the North Pole ...'

Note the repetition of 'North Pole' by Greta's fake father. I do think they were feeding him clues. (Which does lead me to believe they were doing it for a joke as they say - however funny people find it.) Repeating 'North Pole' meant that they were making it register with him so he had no occasion to say I wasn't really paying attention.

No occasion = no excuse

Like you Dandy I've been musing about the hoax.

How on earth did they get through to him? Did no one do any checking?

I wonder if it's part of making themselves available for paid work, that they never say no to anything without exploring the possibilities. Maybe they are trying to manage everything themselves and haven't considered how they might screen approaches. Big mistake I think.

Oh it's been published how they got through.

They sent through an email to someone who managed their foundation or worked with them. She passed it on their email which contained contact details. Harry then emailed them using his private email address.

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I think this is very much on Harry.

He didn't check them out, and he didn't pick up on the clues that they weren't legit like penguins stuck in customs at Belarus, and them wanting to get to the North Pole.

To be fair to him, I had forgetten which Pole the penguins are near, I probably would have worked it out had I thought about it, but bells would have been ringing for me as soon as they said the penguins were in Belarus. Or when Greta talked about wanting to hook up with a royal.

Or when Greta talked about wanting to hook up with a royal.
That was possibly the most cringe part of the whole hoax.

Hook up is such a Markle expression.

Penguins hugs and flippery waves to all the poorly pretty penguins. 🐧

Penguin hugs

Grrrr

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To be fair I’m not sure if “Greta” used the phrase “hook up”, that was my expression. And I am not Meghan, as you’ve probably worked out by now, but just in case you were thinking it was all some elaborate triple bluff ...

I love the penguin videos so much!

I had fish pie for dinner by the way.

@yoloPenguinsEatfish - the dog has thoroughly cleansed his colonic system, shall we say. He seems very pleased with himself. I on the other hand, am quite traumatised.
Wishing all regular and lurking penguins a good night’s sleep in these strange and stressful times.
Was thinking today that M&H probably only have to post something a bit authentic and real- with a million quid (nothing to them) donation to NHS for extra PPE kits (I work in mental health and can categorically say there is no protection to be had for community teams and woefully inadequate kit for wards). Everyone would shut up and they’d win many people over in an instant. Even the cynical ones (like moi) would be quiet. Stopped clocks telling correct times once a day n all that.

oh Brainfloglightson that made me laugh, you poor, poor thing.

Oh dear Brainfog, shouldn't laugh...

Goodnight penguins

Hoping for a comfortable night's sleep for everybody and a "feeling better" day tomorrow.

Wishing penguins better

I'm still going with my catch up. A few pages back a PP said that wondered whether a Private Eye writer was a poster here or came here for inspiration. I said I recognised a point made in an excerpt of a Camilla London article she wrote as being similar to something I'd said on here. I've now looked for and found it.

It's not as similar as I remember and it's not quite the same point. Nor is it staggeringly original.

But as I said before, I hadn't seen anyone else make it in that or a similar way, which is to refer to putting in service in order to receive benefits and more specifically, referencing national insurance contributions Anyway see what you think.

Me first. I didn't actually say the word 'pension' but I was certainly thinking of them, which is why I talked about National Insurance contributions.

DandyAF Wed 04-Mar-20 15:12:25

Regardless of who specifically Harry's wife is, the role itself has only existed for under two years. It equates to about 1.5 years 'service'. Any benefits or support we as normal tax payers get from the government is dependent on our citizenship and how long we've been paying NI contributions (for example). You have to put in some form of 'service' before receiving. Anyone who is not a UK citizen who uses the NHS is, in theory, required to pay back the NHS for their treatment.

It is currently filled by someone who - correct me if I'm wrong - has never been a UK tax payer, and if she has, then it will only have been in the last 2-3 years.
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Then 4 days later on the 8th March, Camilla Long wrote in The Times:

In fact, when you receive anything in life it comes with responsibilities. When we get paid it comes on the understanding that we have done our job properly. If we want to get a pension, it comes as a result of paying national insurance for most of our lives. When you have 24-hour security paid for at vast expense by the taxpayer because you’re royal, you don’t engage in a public slanging match with the Queen or get nasty when she tries to take your titles away, having spent ages pretending that you’re not bothered about the trappings of royal life when you are. It has been awful.

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@47AlexaAmbidextra, this one?
"I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed"! 😁
Shakespeare I believe

AmIbeingreasonable. That's a very good one but no. It was something like better to let people think you’re a fool rather than opening your mouth and confirming it. I’m sure someone will be along with the correct version.

Alexa From memory I think it was Dennis Thatcher!!

Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt

There we are. Apparently Abraham Lincoln.

Dandy. Cross posted. 😄. I think there are several versions of the same sentiment ascribed to various people. I do like it though. Very appropriate in so many settings.