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@momentaryloss wrote:
. . . . . . All the more reason to love those close to you and get whatever meaning you can from this existence. You never know when you will lose everything. 8)
Too darn right, you never know when your time’s up, live the moment as you’d like it to be remembered. plan the future so it will last, remember the past so it can teach you.
Better get up off my fundamental orifice then . . . . .
When I was at school, the Jehovah’s Witnesses were telling everyone the world was going to end in 1975 (well strictly speaking Jesus was going to return, so more the World Order would end rather than the actual planet).
They’d already got it wrong about 1914, (but said he’d returned “in the clouds”), 1918 and 1925. I’ve raised it with JWs on the doorstep and had reactions ranging from flat denial to a comment from one guy that he knew others who had taken out huge mortgages on properties on the basis they’d never have to pay them back.
I don’t think they’re any worse than any other harbingers of rapture, but in my Sunday School they told us no one could know the hour or the day (“Ah! The JWs would say, that doesn’t mean you can’t know the year . . . . . “). And that if someone said “look he’s there” you could be sure he wasn’t. But then they were nice ladies in sober hats, so it probably wasn’t exciting enough . . . . . .
@jen_jen wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@jen_jen wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@jen_jen wrote:
voluptuous…I love that word, it just fills your mouth as you say it.
*faints!
* waves the smelling salts under Words’ nose…daren’t say what a sensual and sexy word she thinks it is…waves smelling salts under Words’ nose again…
sits in a comfy chair,
fixes jen_jen with a stare
and softly whispers
“Say it again for me baby, sloooowly . . . . . .”looks words in the eye
moistens her lips
says softly “watch my lips…vooolllll….uppppp….tuuuuuous…” ends with cheekily sexy smile and a wink ;)Sensuous
@battywoman wrote:
Martins not running the ads to keep this place open and free for us!! He’s doing it to line his own pockets……kerching!!!
He couldn’t care less about the people in chat and on the boards, unless his pockets get a hole in them that is.
Nothing wrong with making profit is there?
@mrs_teapot wrote:
Im sure that both DJs will be upset and full of self loathing about what happened. . . . . .
I really hope the DJs get over any self-loathing asap, the hoaxers didn’t even think they’d get through, making it illegal to pretend to be the queen could put the kybosh on a few jokes made at the Royal Variety Performance and technically even the stunt person at the Olympics.
No-one thought there would be a tragic outcome to this until it happened. Lessons to be learned? Make the Royal security people do their job!!!!
@rusty trawler wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
Im sure that both DJs will be upset and full of self loathing about what happened. It should not have happened and no one disputes that, but it has, and I for one would prefer to learn by the mistakes possibly by making this sort of hoax call illegal.
There is nothing to be learnt or gained by baying for the blood of two young people who truly had no concept of the harm they were doing.
Its easy to be wise after the event, the best lesson is to ensure the event doesn’t happen again or ruin two young people’s lives to boot. I dont for one minute think they meant harm by the call. Its tragic and they should not get off scot free but I hate the sort of headlines papers like the mail think is acceptable.
I agree, Mrs T. But the DJs were inept. They knew it was an invasion of privacy, and i maintain my initial thoughts about it being an ill-conceived joke.
That doesn’t mean I think they should be hung and quartered. No doubt they will be full of regret and they themselves are probably experiencing some unenviable media intrusion now.
The radio station is the real guilty party here, though, as they have a record of doing this sort of thing and have got into trouble about even worse pranks than this one on many occasions.
Haven’t seen the headline in The Mail but I can I guess that I would find it exaggerated.
. . . . get into a tizzy when confronted by someone who ‘appears’ to be a representative of the Royal Household?
Not that staunch a republican then! Must remember to wear my tiara if we ever meet . . . .
But seriously, the DJs were paid to entertain, they tried, they succeeded right up until the tragic suicide which no-one, even people who found the original prank offensive, foresaw.
There are people paid to prevent unauthorised access to the Royal Family. Not only did they fail, but they didn’t even try. They are to blame.
@tintin wrote:
Taffy asked if someone could post this pic ( click for full size ) for her on here as it rather tickled her lol, I can see why xxx
I think I might just pi ss Santa off this year, she looks like fun!
@j_in_france wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@j_in_france wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
The prank was the most artless of bluffs.
Am I the only person who thinks that if a member of the Royal Family is in hospital, there should be some kind of password/keyphrase/pin number without which no-one gets information?
I was under the illusion that those around key members of the royal family were briefed and protected by skilled security and media advisers. but it seems their privacy can be accessed with nothing more sophisticated than a silly voice.
The nurses were failed by those who are paid to protect the Royal Family from intrusion.
I agree Words but also I have to ask what did the hospital management do to brief the nurse’s in the first place given the current stance now of the hospital blaming the Aussie DJ’s.
Apparently the nurse who was found dead moved to the UK nine years ago so you have to ask whether she would have even understood the difference between the accents that could have been Australian or British. We moved to France nine years ago and I can not tell the difference between French accents though they are significantly less regional than UK accents.
So imagine a nurse from a foreign country answering a phone call from someone saying they were the Queen, how intimidated would you feel and what would your reaction be to being told to pass you through to Kate?
Final question – why was it left to a nurse to have to answer the phone at 5:30 in the morning – skeleton staff at night?
If it all it takes to get through to the Royal Family is an English accent, maybe I’ll ring up in the morning.
Reality check, especially coming off the end of a huge scandal and enquiry about unscrupulous media tactics, no one, but no one should be getting through to the Duchess’s ward without some proof of identity – and I’m betting this wouldn’t be the first time Her Majesty would have had to verify her identity to one of her subjects.
What briefing was she given? Clearly not enough. And remember the barrier between the DJs and the Duchess’s personal information was not one, but two nurses thick, so it appears neither had any idea of what precautions they should take.
The DJs did, what DJs do, trying to entertain, we had our own spat with Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand last year. There’s no point in punishing them – for what? putting on a fake accent? They didn’t give away any information, it was freely divulged.
In my mind, the fault lies primarily with the Royal security/privacy people whether police, secret service or equerries. Interestingly there seems to be no mention of them in the media, just the hospital and the radio station. Bonkers.
So why were two Australian DJ’s able to ring a hospital in the UK and to be able to get through any Royal security measures (if any) and any hospital security measures (if any).
What it appears to boil down to is that two nurse’s trying to do the job they were trained to do were left in the early hours of the morning to become media consultants receiving a phone call that should never have reached them
Exactly!
@j_in_france wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
The prank was the most artless of bluffs.
Am I the only person who thinks that if a member of the Royal Family is in hospital, there should be some kind of password/keyphrase/pin number without which no-one gets information?
I was under the illusion that those around key members of the royal family were briefed and protected by skilled security and media advisers. but it seems their privacy can be accessed with nothing more sophisticated than a silly voice.
The nurses were failed by those who are paid to protect the Royal Family from intrusion.
I agree Words but also I have to ask what did the hospital management do to brief the nurse’s in the first place given the current stance now of the hospital blaming the Aussie DJ’s.
Apparently the nurse who was found dead moved to the UK nine years ago so you have to ask whether she would have even understood the difference between the accents that could have been Australian or British. We moved to France nine years ago and I can not tell the difference between French accents though they are significantly less regional than UK accents.
So imagine a nurse from a foreign country answering a phone call from someone saying they were the Queen, how intimidated would you feel and what would your reaction be to being told to pass you through to Kate?
Final question – why was it left to a nurse to have to answer the phone at 5:30 in the morning – skeleton staff at night?
If it all it takes to get through to the Royal Family is an English accent, maybe I’ll ring up in the morning.
Reality check, especially coming off the end of a huge scandal and enquiry about unscrupulous media tactics, no one, but no one should be getting through to the Duchess’s ward without some proof of identity – and I’m betting this wouldn’t be the first time Her Majesty would have had to verify her identity to one of her subjects.
What briefing was she given? Clearly not enough. And remember the barrier between the DJs and the Duchess’s personal information was not one, but two nurses thick, so it appears neither had any idea of what precautions they should take.
The DJs did, what DJs do, trying to entertain, we had our own spat with Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand last year. There’s no point in punishing them – for what? putting on a fake accent? They didn’t give away any information, it was freely divulged.
In my mind, the fault lies primarily with the Royal security/privacy people whether police, secret service or equerries. Interestingly there seems to be no mention of them in the media, just the hospital and the radio station. Bonkers.
@jen_jen wrote:
@wordsworth60 wrote:
@jen_jen wrote:
voluptuous…I love that word, it just fills your mouth as you say it.
*faints!
* waves the smelling salts under Words’ nose…daren’t say what a sensual and sexy word she thinks it is…waves smelling salts under Words’ nose again…
sits in a comfy chair,
fixes jen_jen with a stare
and softly whispers
“Say it again for me baby, sloooowly . . . . . .”
