Kate and William - what are they doing? Thread 2

[Pelleas]

A continuation of the thread discussing the Cambridges' contribution to the pandemic.

• The royal family are protected by RaSP, the Royalty and Specialist Protection Service which is an elite branch of the Metropolitan Police. Officers have to have at least 10-15 years experience before joining the team.

Even worse then. Very highly trained police officers, the elite of the force, rather than used to protect the taxpayers who pay their wages, instead act as babysitters for the most privileged family in Britain. Appalling.

Wolfgirrl

What is meant by vitriolic ranting?

Goodness knows.

I'm fairly sure that if the words "vitriolic", "rant(ing)", "haters" and "bashing" were taken out of the language, posts here would decrease by 50%.
At least.

LaMarschallin, Wolfgirrl - If you don't know what those words mean you should have paid better attention at school.

bluemoon - The RaSP protect politicians, ambassadors and high profile overseas visitors as well as the Royal family. They wouldn't be needed if there weren't fanatics who wished these people harm.

I have a PhD in literature. I still don't see any vitriolic ranting on here.

Politicians and ambassadors have an important role to play in society. I don't begrudge them protection.

LaMarschallin, Wolfgirrl - If you don't know what those words mean you should have paid better attention at school.

Oh dear, oh dear...

Some people have a rapier wit, Mama.

Many others prefer blunter methods of communication.

You're the first person I've come across who holds the rapier by the point and tries to hit people over the head with the handle.

Burney - Vitriolic rantings in the newspaper comments section.

Can you please tell us your interpretation of 'vitriolic'?

They are obviously more recognisable and more likely to be a target for fanatics

They are only recognisable and targeted because they have been put on a pedestal and funded to an obscene degree of privilege. No one targets Mr Joseph Bloggs, extremely rich but self-made hedge-fund manager. No-one targets Lord Joseph Bloggs, aristocrat who might have inherited his millions but at least isn't having even more thrown at him by the taxpayer and has to manage his own life to some degree.

Remove their 'Royal' status and stop funding and publicising them - in a few years they'd just be A.N. Other aristocrats, of minor interest because of their former status - because people move on and the sort of people who follow the Royals with rapture will soon turn their attention to the latest winners of Love Island or Britain's Got Talent.

No one targets Mr Joseph Bloggs, extremely rich but self-made hedge-fund manager. No-one targets Lord Joseph Bloggs, aristocrat who might have inherited his millions but at least isn't having even more thrown at him by the taxpayer and has to manage his own life to some degree.
Not that you know of.
because people move on and the sort of people who follow the Royals with rapture will soon turn their attention to the latest winners of Love Island or Britain's Got Talent. How very snobbish of you

How very snobbish of you

How on earth is it snobbish not to be interested in the rich and famous?

Pelleas - What do you mean "the sort of people who follow the royals"

Wolfgirrl - Same as everyone else's???

It is the same principle. Having an unfounded attachment to people you do not know and assuming they are 'good' people by virtue of where they find themselves, whether that is in Buckingham Palace or a talent show. It's a bit like the grown-up version of believing in Santa or the tooth fairy, these people must have some magic quality because they are royal/famous.

I have a PhD in literature. I still don't see any vitriolic ranting on here

Perhaps someone could explain the relevance of the first sentence to the second because I have an MA in literature and it completely eludes me.

How on earth is it snobbish not to be interested in the rich and famous? You know very well that's not what I meant. You are on some lofty intellectual plane that is above the people who are interested in Love Island or the Royal Family. Yet here you are starting a thread about the Royal Family.

I have an O Level in English Literature. Does that count?

Do you understand how those two sentences are relevant to each other @Eddiemairswife? If so then the “O” level reigns supreme!

You are on some lofty intellectual plane that is above the people who are interested in Love Island or the Royal Family. Yet here you are starting a thread about the Royal Family.

Those are ridiculous extrapolations. It's you who have attached an intellectual/non-intellectual connotation to those interests, not me. I continued the thread because I thought the discussion was interesting and the original thread was nearly full, but I can't claim credit for starting the topic. No threads I start go longer than a page .

What do you mean "the sort of people who follow the royals"

People who are interested in the lives of the rich and/or famous.

What do you mean "the sort of people who follow the royals" People who are interested in the lives of the rich and/or famous.
Oh come off it. Are you typing with a straight face?

Well, how would you define them, Derxa? In socio-economic terms I imagine the spread of such people is quite wide, so the only way to narrow them down is by the sort of things they are interested in.

You lay so many baited traps and I'm not jumping into any of them.

You lay so many baited traps

I really don't! I'm neither clever nor devious enough to lay baited traps on a thread.

I'm neither clever nor devious enough to lay baited traps on a thread. You're too modest my dear.