Guess who's getting Prince Harry & Megan as neighbours?
May 6th, 2018, 12:54 PM
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 17,268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Guess who's getting Prince Harry & Megan as neighbours?
It's bad enough having to go past the building site the bloody Beckhams have put up to get to the cinema.
Now the neighourhood's going even further downhill.
Fortunately, it's only for a year. But how much worse could it get?
Trump?
Now the neighourhood's going even further downhill.
Fortunately, it's only for a year. But how much worse could it get?
Trump?
May 6th, 2018, 10:28 PM
#7
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 17,268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
xcountry: Nicest thing anyone's ever said about me here. Thanks
Never heard "humblebragging" before, but if we're honest everyone does it round here. In a very Cotswold way, of course.
In fact the "exclusive retreat" the clip yammers on about builds its entire business around it: It pretends to be exclusive, so slebs do actually pay £2,000 to join. Then it whispers to us all it's so exclusive no-one's allowed in, but you O Flanneruk (or anyone else) are so exceptionally talented/famous/utterly obscure we'll make an exception. So we fork out, can't get in at weekends because all the London mob crowd the place out, but come along on weekdays for its (seriously excellent, almost empty and free) cinema and a less than excellent, absurdly overpriced, plate of food we're reasonably confident won't poison us. So they make a mint out of the gawping London weekenders and a slightly smaller mint out of us - who really DON't notice the slebs because none of us could tell the diff between Megan and a flying rhinoceros. Even if we had our glasses on - but we're all so gaga we've forgotten them anyway.
PalQ: No idea whether Trump's more or less unpopular. FWIW, I'd say about half the US loathes him more. But ALL of us think he's a pillock, and about half of us (a group that doesn't include me) think he's a dangerous pillock. My half think he's an even bigger pillock, but the US Constitution stops him from being truly dangerous and every now and again (like dealing with the Fat Korean) he tweets himself into achieving something no-one else could.
Either way, Trump's state visit here is turning into the social event of the decade. Even those of us who started off supporting the Iraq invasion are rejigging our diaries to take the piss out of him when he comes. If they ever announce where he'll actually be going, we'll be chartering cattle waggons to come and giggle.
Patrick: The Camerons. Thing is: the paps were really never THAT interested in a mere prime minister, and Cameron's dying child made the area off limits for even the vilest. The intended move to Sandringham presumably means the mini-Harries and Harriets won't pop out till then - but H&M really ARE pap target no 1 and our way of life is fundamentally incompatible with having paps around: it's even more incompatible with procedures for deterring paps. H&M aren't going to be living in gated and code of conduct-controlled SFH, and the Beckhams are never here anyway.
H&M are going to live almost full time on an open road, their nearest pub is so tourist-choked they'll never be in there either, so we're the closest approximation to normality. Seriously: the real A list (like monarchs or foreign presidents) doesn't need security here because the average Cotswold pensioner's handbag is enough to deter the bombers. I've no idea how to control the paps, except to pray we're too obscure or to hope they've got a code of ethics.
The latter clearly beggars belief. So we can only hope so many editors have got houses here they'll blacklist anyone fouling their doorsteps. And, whether they live here or not, spike everything from anyone doing so.
The one constant in an ever- changing world, of course, being the utter self-centredness of British media barons. But even that doesn't stop paps wanting to sell pics to the French and Italian glossies. Maybe we might move to Mar a Lago for a year.
But that'd REALLY upset the pooches.
Never heard "humblebragging" before, but if we're honest everyone does it round here. In a very Cotswold way, of course.
In fact the "exclusive retreat" the clip yammers on about builds its entire business around it: It pretends to be exclusive, so slebs do actually pay £2,000 to join. Then it whispers to us all it's so exclusive no-one's allowed in, but you O Flanneruk (or anyone else) are so exceptionally talented/famous/utterly obscure we'll make an exception. So we fork out, can't get in at weekends because all the London mob crowd the place out, but come along on weekdays for its (seriously excellent, almost empty and free) cinema and a less than excellent, absurdly overpriced, plate of food we're reasonably confident won't poison us. So they make a mint out of the gawping London weekenders and a slightly smaller mint out of us - who really DON't notice the slebs because none of us could tell the diff between Megan and a flying rhinoceros. Even if we had our glasses on - but we're all so gaga we've forgotten them anyway.
PalQ: No idea whether Trump's more or less unpopular. FWIW, I'd say about half the US loathes him more. But ALL of us think he's a pillock, and about half of us (a group that doesn't include me) think he's a dangerous pillock. My half think he's an even bigger pillock, but the US Constitution stops him from being truly dangerous and every now and again (like dealing with the Fat Korean) he tweets himself into achieving something no-one else could.
Either way, Trump's state visit here is turning into the social event of the decade. Even those of us who started off supporting the Iraq invasion are rejigging our diaries to take the piss out of him when he comes. If they ever announce where he'll actually be going, we'll be chartering cattle waggons to come and giggle.
Patrick: The Camerons. Thing is: the paps were really never THAT interested in a mere prime minister, and Cameron's dying child made the area off limits for even the vilest. The intended move to Sandringham presumably means the mini-Harries and Harriets won't pop out till then - but H&M really ARE pap target no 1 and our way of life is fundamentally incompatible with having paps around: it's even more incompatible with procedures for deterring paps. H&M aren't going to be living in gated and code of conduct-controlled SFH, and the Beckhams are never here anyway.
H&M are going to live almost full time on an open road, their nearest pub is so tourist-choked they'll never be in there either, so we're the closest approximation to normality. Seriously: the real A list (like monarchs or foreign presidents) doesn't need security here because the average Cotswold pensioner's handbag is enough to deter the bombers. I've no idea how to control the paps, except to pray we're too obscure or to hope they've got a code of ethics.
The latter clearly beggars belief. So we can only hope so many editors have got houses here they'll blacklist anyone fouling their doorsteps. And, whether they live here or not, spike everything from anyone doing so.
The one constant in an ever- changing world, of course, being the utter self-centredness of British media barons. But even that doesn't stop paps wanting to sell pics to the French and Italian glossies. Maybe we might move to Mar a Lago for a year.
But that'd REALLY upset the pooches.
Last edited by flanneruk; May 6th, 2018 at 10:38 PM.
Trending Topics
May 6th, 2018, 10:31 PM
#8
Join Date: Sep 2011
Posts: 18,308
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Better learn to spell her name correctly (even if it is wrong) - Meghan - for the Christmas cards. Not quite sure why there is a superfluous H in it but there you go.
Pegontheroad, do Americans realise how unpopular Trump is in Britain/Europe? What's that got to do with Flanner's new neighbours anyway - he's hardly likey to be calling round for tea, unlike his predecessor.
Pegontheroad, do Americans realise how unpopular Trump is in Britain/Europe? What's that got to do with Flanner's new neighbours anyway - he's hardly likey to be calling round for tea, unlike his predecessor.
May 6th, 2018, 10:35 PM
#9
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 17,268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
xcountry: Nicest thing anyone's ever said about me here. Thanks
Never heard "humblebragging" before, but if we're honest everyone does it round here. In a very Cotswold way, of course.
In fact the "exclusive retreat" the clip yammers on about builds its entire business around it: It pretends to be exclusive, so slebs do actually pay £2,000 to join. Then it whispers to us all it's so exclusive no-one's not allowed in, but you O Flanneruk (or anyone else) are so exceptionally talented/famous/utterly obscure we'll make an exception. So we fork out, can't get in at weekends because all the London mob crowd the place out, but come along on weekdays for its (seriously excellent, almost empty and free) cinema and a less than excellent, absurdly overpriced, plate of food we're reasonably confident won't poison us. So they make a mint out of the gawping London weekenders and a slightly smaller mint out of us - who really DON't notice the slebs because none of us could tell the diff between Megan and a flying rhinoceros. Even if we had our glasses on - but we're all so gaga we've forgotten them anyway.
PalQ: No idea whether Trump's more or less unpopular. FWIW, I'd say about half the US loathes him more. But ALL of us think he's a pillock, and about half of us (a group that doesn't include me) think he's a dangerous pillock. My half think he's an even bigger pillock, but the US Constitution stops him from being truly dangerous and every now and again (like dealing with the Fat Korean) he tweets himself into doing something no-one else could.
Either way, Trump's state visit here is turning into the social event of the decade. Even those of us who started off supporting the Iraq invasion are rejigging our diaries to take the piss out of him when he comes. If they ever announce where he'll actually be going, we'll be chartering cattle waggons to come and giggle.
Patrick: The Camerons. Thing is: the paps were really never THAT interested in a mere prime minister, and Cameron's dying child made the area off limits for even the vilest. The intended move to Sandringham presumably means the mini-Harries and Harriets won't pop out till then - but H&M really ARE pap target no 1 and our way of life is fundamentally incompatible with having paps around: it's even more incompatible with procedures for deterring paps. H&M aren't going to be living in gated and code of conduct-controlled SFH, and the Beckhams are never here anyway.
H&M are going to live almost full time on an open road, their nearest pub is so tourist-choked they'll never be in there either, so we're the closest approximation to normality. Seriously: the real A list (like monarchs or foreign presidents) doesn't need security here because the average Cotswold pensioner's handbag is enough to deter the bombers. I've no idea how to control the paps, except to pray we're too obscure or to hope they've got a code of ethics.
The latter clearly beggars belief. So we can only hope so many editors have got houses here they'll blacklist anyone fouling their doorsteps. And, whether they live here or not, spike everything from anyone doing so.
The one constant in an ever- changing world, of course, being the utter self-centredness of British media barons. But even that doesn't stop paps wanting to sell pics to the French and Italian glossies.
Maybe we might move to Mar a Lago for a year. But that'd REALLY upset the pooches.
Never heard "humblebragging" before, but if we're honest everyone does it round here. In a very Cotswold way, of course.
In fact the "exclusive retreat" the clip yammers on about builds its entire business around it: It pretends to be exclusive, so slebs do actually pay £2,000 to join. Then it whispers to us all it's so exclusive no-one's not allowed in, but you O Flanneruk (or anyone else) are so exceptionally talented/famous/utterly obscure we'll make an exception. So we fork out, can't get in at weekends because all the London mob crowd the place out, but come along on weekdays for its (seriously excellent, almost empty and free) cinema and a less than excellent, absurdly overpriced, plate of food we're reasonably confident won't poison us. So they make a mint out of the gawping London weekenders and a slightly smaller mint out of us - who really DON't notice the slebs because none of us could tell the diff between Megan and a flying rhinoceros. Even if we had our glasses on - but we're all so gaga we've forgotten them anyway.
PalQ: No idea whether Trump's more or less unpopular. FWIW, I'd say about half the US loathes him more. But ALL of us think he's a pillock, and about half of us (a group that doesn't include me) think he's a dangerous pillock. My half think he's an even bigger pillock, but the US Constitution stops him from being truly dangerous and every now and again (like dealing with the Fat Korean) he tweets himself into doing something no-one else could.
Either way, Trump's state visit here is turning into the social event of the decade. Even those of us who started off supporting the Iraq invasion are rejigging our diaries to take the piss out of him when he comes. If they ever announce where he'll actually be going, we'll be chartering cattle waggons to come and giggle.
Patrick: The Camerons. Thing is: the paps were really never THAT interested in a mere prime minister, and Cameron's dying child made the area off limits for even the vilest. The intended move to Sandringham presumably means the mini-Harries and Harriets won't pop out till then - but H&M really ARE pap target no 1 and our way of life is fundamentally incompatible with having paps around: it's even more incompatible with procedures for deterring paps. H&M aren't going to be living in gated and code of conduct-controlled SFH, and the Beckhams are never here anyway.
H&M are going to live almost full time on an open road, their nearest pub is so tourist-choked they'll never be in there either, so we're the closest approximation to normality. Seriously: the real A list (like monarchs or foreign presidents) doesn't need security here because the average Cotswold pensioner's handbag is enough to deter the bombers. I've no idea how to control the paps, except to pray we're too obscure or to hope they've got a code of ethics.
The latter clearly beggars belief. So we can only hope so many editors have got houses here they'll blacklist anyone fouling their doorsteps. And, whether they live here or not, spike everything from anyone doing so.
The one constant in an ever- changing world, of course, being the utter self-centredness of British media barons. But even that doesn't stop paps wanting to sell pics to the French and Italian glossies.
Maybe we might move to Mar a Lago for a year. But that'd REALLY upset the pooches.
May 7th, 2018, 12:40 AM
#10
I was planning to join the anti-Trumps riots but I have to go drinking wine in a French chateau that weekend, you would have thought they would have asked. Some people just don't plan ahead. I'll be thinking of you, flanner, as some Plod tries to kettle you and a few QC neighbours, should be amusing.
Harry who?
Harry who?
May 8th, 2018, 01:38 AM
#11
Original Poster
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 17,268
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
"Plod tries to kettle you and a few QC neighbours"
What's QC? The idea of calling me or my neighbours PC is hysterically funny: if QC's a two-letter acronym for being mildly to the right of Attila the Hun, I'd love to hear the decods.
What's QC? The idea of calling me or my neighbours PC is hysterically funny: if QC's a two-letter acronym for being mildly to the right of Attila the Hun, I'd love to hear the decods.
May 8th, 2018, 04:43 AM
#14
Queen's Counsel..
Some years back, when Leeds was improving its train system chaos at the station was the order of the day, the usual 6:30pm train for Ilkley was changed to one to Skipton while the passengers were waiting to depart. The train was packed with lawyers who jambed the doors and refused to get off.
Up stepped two of the Tranport Plods finest to explain the facts of life to these terrible "customers" not doing what the train company wanted
Out stepped three QCs, with the result that the train went to Ilkley ;-) we don't know what was said but it seemed to slow Plod down a lot.
If I was going to be kettled I'd take a neighbourly QC.
Some years back, when Leeds was improving its train system chaos at the station was the order of the day, the usual 6:30pm train for Ilkley was changed to one to Skipton while the passengers were waiting to depart. The train was packed with lawyers who jambed the doors and refused to get off.
Up stepped two of the Tranport Plods finest to explain the facts of life to these terrible "customers" not doing what the train company wanted
Out stepped three QCs, with the result that the train went to Ilkley ;-) we don't know what was said but it seemed to slow Plod down a lot.
If I was going to be kettled I'd take a neighbourly QC.
May 9th, 2018, 06:46 AM
#18
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 20,953
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
>>I couldn’t get past the automated voice on the video<<
Yes, those are distinctly weird. I've noticed several of these in recent weeks. I don't know if it's supposed to be some service for the visually-impaired (but putting up a Youtube video clip would be a rather roundabout way of doing that), or some way of trying to piggyback on someone else's written material to get some Youtube advertising revenue.
Yes, those are distinctly weird. I've noticed several of these in recent weeks. I don't know if it's supposed to be some service for the visually-impaired (but putting up a Youtube video clip would be a rather roundabout way of doing that), or some way of trying to piggyback on someone else's written material to get some Youtube advertising revenue.
May 9th, 2018, 09:40 AM
#20
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,541
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Oh, Flanner! I am sincerely sorry for this irritation to the residents there, but as an American who visited Great Tew, I'm hard-pressed to imagine lovelier places to live than that neck of the woods. Officially envious of Princess Meghan now. But I suppose that's tempered by the fact that she's marrying Harry.
