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It was a right good run.
Elizabeth II departed, age 96.
Elizabeth II departed, age 96.
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Get StartedI just announced that on the thread about the sports reporter from New York who isn't dead. I guess I should have checked for this first.
I just announced that on the thread about the sports reporter from New York who isn't dead. I guess I should have checked for this first.
As an Irish American, I assume you're pretty happy she's dead and all, given the suffering the British monarchy has caused your people for hundreds of years.
I?m at least 5th generation American and have no relatives from Northern Ireland. I don?t hold her any more responsible for oppressing my ancestors than I feel responsible for slavery here in America. While I think the whole royal family thing is ridiculous and a waste of British taxpayers time and money, I don?t wish death on anyone - not even her dumbass social justice warrior loser grandson and his second rate celebrity wife. The royals are the British people?s problem, not anything I?m too concerned about.
Jemele Hill said all that?
Wow.
I?m a little surprised at the shade being thrown - not by many, but a few - at the old girl, under the circumstances.
The thing is, seems all the shade throwers keep referring to shit that happened 150 to 200 years ago.
Your Sparty gal pal Jemele Hill predictively has offered up some nuggets of wisdom.
At around the same time Elizabeth became the de facto Princess of Wales, both of my parents were serving over there in the employ of the United States Armed Services, alternatively in both theaters. My mother was in the US Civil Services and my father was enlisted and later in the civil service. They met in Okinawa working for Army Intelligence, spying on Tokyo Rose.
I will remember Elizabeth, historically, as the young woman - more a little girl, really - thrust onto the center stage of a tumultuous world, a circumstance she neither sought nor expected, who would become one of the symbols of resolve and resilience in the allied rescue of humankind from Hitler and Nazism.
Can?t stand Jamele Hill - and I think she is full of shit. She was born in 1975. If her parents were adults during WWII, they would have been at least 50 when she was born and more likely 60+.
Jemele has become a character of herself. She used to annoy me, anymore I can?t help but be a little amused. I looked it up - because that?s just what I do. Her dad was born within a couple years after WWII ended, and her mother about ten years later.
So her dad was around 30 when Jemele was born, and her mother around 20.
Wow.
I?m a little surprised at the shade being thrown - not by many, but a few - at the old girl, under the circumstances.
The thing is, seems all the shade throwers keep referring to shit that happened 150 to 200 years ago.
Your Sparty gal pal Jemele Hill predictively has offered up some nuggets of wisdom.
At around the same time Elizabeth became the de facto Princess of Wales, both of my parents were serving over there in the employ of the United States Armed Services, alternatively in both theaters. My mother was in the US Civil Services and my father was enlisted and later in the civil service. They met in Okinawa working for Army Intelligence, spying on Tokyo Rose.
I will remember Elizabeth, historically, as the young woman - more a little girl, really - thrust onto the center stage of a tumultuous world, a circumstance she neither sought nor expected, who would become one of the symbols of resolve and resilience in the allied rescue of humankind from Hitler and Nazism.
Nice.
I loved both those old girls.
Maybe they?re having a tea together somewhere, who knows?
Or maybe a cocktail, both famously liked their white liquor.
Queen Liz was a gin gal, Betty was more vodka.
Is there a reason to drink alcohol in Heaven?
I guess we?ll all find one day.
My view of the Royal Family and England in general isn't so favorable. Once you delve past the veneer of the tabloids and the MSM, the solid wood underneath is not so well-preserved.
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