Less than 24 hours after the announcement....the commercial opportunities have started.... :ugh:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/image...550117_mug.jpg

Great end to super year for the Sov
 

What a fantastic end for her Maj's great year

Best wishes Mam and thanks for the watch and the pension and the training and the mates and the many happy memories

You got a watch? I never got a watch - had to hand mine in :*

Fantastic news. Lovely people and a great end to the Jubilee year.

As most people here are anonymous, it can hardly be called fawning. You also mistake genuine happiness for something else. It is possible to be happy for other people, you know.

Watch
 

Couldn't find the watch when it was time to leave, thought I had given back years before hadn't used it or seen it in yonks.

They said I still had it so paid up and looked cheerful, well somewhat

Years later found it in a box of bits. Can't find the receipt, unit long closed and gone, what to do?

Spose I'll have to keep it pending any good ideas or being charged for illegal possession

Not Fawning
 

Behave servilely, show cringing affection (OED)

You are wrong; I am not servile to my great lady sovereign. I am her proud follower, she has granted me the favour of two commisions, I am hers but she is also mine.

I worked some years for her, mostly happy, she will work a lifetime for me.
I was sometimes at risk in her service but history indicates she is at much greater risk over a lifetime

My affection for her and hers is not cringing, how could it be when we have met but once. I want only the satisfaction of being truly loyal.

The beauty of a monarchy is that it blocks the place others less able might usurp. In general good monarchs prosper and the bad fail. This is not true of politicians or dictators.

If we are to have a functional monarchy those within should be happy if they are to spend a lifetime of service. Being happy generally involves a contented family life

Congrats to both. A future Prince of Wales to be born in Wales, pehaps?

(I doubt it, though!)

Duncs:ok:

well said Tinrib's

Please, have some sensitivity, the wife's in hospital as it is....... Ooohhhheeer, that's given the game away :p

I see they're already predicting with the aid of digital composites what the poor kid will look like, wouldn't it be nice if they could be left alone to grow up with their parents far from the limelight and give them the chance of a proper life before getting stuck with burden their position will entail in later life..

Just as bad as "Kate Middleton pregnant: Is this what the baby will look like?" http://uk.news.yahoo.com/photos/kate...XBhZ2U-;_ylv=3
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If that's the size of the baby, no wonder Catherine is in hospital feeling sick.http://uk.news.yahoo.com/photos/kate...XBhZ2U-;_ylv=3

To the OP - DON'T SHOUT.
 

Hang the bunting, blow the trumpets and bang the tambourines! Jubilation and serendipitous joy. A royal sprog (actually, yet one more to join the unwholesome cluster) is about to claw its way down the royal birth canal to be rewarded by life-long feeding at the trough of tax-payer largess - even as the country enters a decade or more of austerity.

We had the right idea in 1649.

Tinribs: grow a set and stop being so horribly obsequious. It doesn't matter how much you fawn and grovel, as far as royalty is concerned you can go and eat cake.

RPGS ...

You are entitled to your opinion but please don't mock those of us who are Loyal Royalists.

Regards ...

Coff.

rpgs, would you sooner serve some pratt such as President Bliar?

King Edward 1 knew how to deal with those who would not recognise the English monarchy.....

Dutchess?
 

Since when has there been a letter T in Dutchess? Eh Beags, and LM?:rolleyes:
I hope the pair of you haven't thrown away your ISS notes....

Dutchess (sic) indeed.... Those clog-wearing, cheese-munching (non-surrender types) and wacky-baccy types have nothing to do with it! :=

Politically, that would be an excellent idea. It would pull the rug from under both the Welsh and the Scottish nationists.

Though again??????

RPGS,

You are clearly entitled to your opinions on the Monarchy, but please show some respect to a fellow serviceman (if, indeed, you do serve/have served) who has a demanding day job (obtained on merit), a lifetime of service ahead of him (not by his choosing), and his wife has just been rather ill, early on in their first pregnancy - have have been forced becasue of medja pressure to announce the pregnancy before the usual safe period of 12 weeks.

I suspect that he's got a bit on his mind at the moment and monarchist or no monarchist, I am sure that we all wish them both well in what must be a worrying time. He is a decent bloke, a good pilot and a fine member of our Royal Air Force and, frankly, could do without your purile invective.

To be fair Whenurhappy, this thread wasn't started because "a fellow serviceman" is having a baby, but because that baby will be born in to the royal family.

As republicanism isn't illegal this country I would say that RPGS' is entitled to his "invective", whether you or others agree with it or not.

Of course, this could all have been avoided if the original poster had stuck to remit of this forum - military aviation.

Meanwhile, on ARRSE

• Crab knocks up missus

Jack

Point taken,

But I don't beleive that any young and expectant couple should come in for undeserved and pretty repugnant comments.

My thoughts exactly - so dark blue agrees with light blue about green.:ok:

Jack