Royal Ascot.

Quite honestly their lives are so pre ordained it goes with the territory I don't envy them, expensive clothes or not.

Me neither.

I bet the K and Q cant wait for Sunday in their garden. Jeans and tee shirts and secateurs

HelterSkelter1

I bet the K and Q cant wait for Sunday in their garden. Jeans and tee shirts and secateurs

A bit of beheading!!

Sorry - deadheading.

"Wm Shakespeare, ""Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"
I totally agree with the above. Ascot gives to charity and creates jobs.
I am offended that people think that because you don't have alot of money, you don't enjoy seeing the hats, don't enjoy the racing. Not all people who are financially disadvantaged think like that, they enjoy Ascot.
I agree with the Shakespeare post written upthread which I quoted.

👏👏👏 rafichagran

Usedtobeblonde

For goodness sake I never criticised anyone for enjoying themselves.
I pointed out that the Royal Family and their guests turned up each and every day in different clothes which cost thousands and thousands of pounds.
The “ordinary mortals” going one day, probably saving to go, I have no problem with , and I hope they enjoyed their day out, even if they didn’t enjoy champagne at at a few hundred pounds.
I am so tired of having my posts misread and jumped on.
It isn’t the first time.
I shall now get on with my sad, twisted life so full of envy and bitterness I don’t know how I can cope.

I should have pointed out that my comment was in reply to rocknroll5me

Connections of the last winner are giving the £85,000 prize money to pancreatic cancer research…

Message deleted by Gransnet. Here's a link to our Talk guidelines.

What an exceptionally condescending post.
I do know my history thank you and do not need you to point it out.
I expressed personal thoughts about personal views and do not need a “reality check “.
I am not disgusted by my country and quite frankly your post was so far off the mark about me and how you perceive me that I am shocked that you can judge anyone by a single post.

Well that's you told usedtobeblonde! I bet you wish you hadn't bothered to post what must have been a quick impression. I'm not interested in Ascot at all but just wanted to say that I knew a person who's brother made famous hats for Lady Di. His little business grew enormously and created lots of good jobs. I'm sure the finery on display at Royal Ascot has done the same for many other minor industries which otherwise might not exist.

Did you enjoy Ascot, DrWatson?

Just logged on again after my post in the night.
I certainly was told , I didn’t report that post as it isn’t something I do unless it is spam.
Perhaps I shouldn’t have replied but it was so surprising that I had to.
Does anyone else sometimes feel GN is no longer for them?
No longer the friendly, helpful, comforting forum it was when I joined just after it started.
At its best it is so good, just occasionally not.

Usedtobeblonde

I don't agree with the views expressed in your original post, but I can understand where you're coming from.

The most appropriate answer, I think, is the post with the quote from Shakespeare who always had it spot-on.

vegansrock

If Donald Trump declared himself king of the USA there'd be a revolution. I guess those who think the monarchy is the best system would approve.

He’s acting rather like a mediaeval monarch already.

BlueBelle

Well I hate horse racing whether rich or poor I m very anti
I think the horses should sit on the riders backs for a change

Pam Ayres wrote a very poignant poem about a racehorse making his will before a race. Wish I could find it, but it’s not in the PA book I have.
I’ve heard her recite it live, though, and particularly remember the bit about him leaving his packet of Polos to his stable-mate - and referring to his jockey as the ‘nasty? ….little short-arsed bastard!’

Witzend

vegansrock

If Donald Trump declared himself king of the USA there'd be a revolution. I guess those who think the monarchy is the best system would approve.

He’s acting rather like a mediaeval monarch already.

Mr Trump's image of a monarchy is based in past ages when a monarch was a rebellious powerful ex-subject who had deposed or assassinated the previous absolute monarch and taken over as an identically dictatorial tyrant.

The first thing a lion does when he has defeated the previous pride leader is to get rid of potential resistance by driving out any adult males who sided with his predecessor and showed signs of resisting him, killing all juvenile males who had "royal" blood and could grow up to challenge him as a usurper, and make sure all the females were soon pregnant with HIS genes, building up a community who would be loyal to HIM.

All dictators follow more or less this pattern - remove existing opposition, kill off (or indoctrinate by controlling and restricting education) up-and-coming potential opposition, use propaganda against outsiders and non-mainstreamers, and increase the birth rate to provide a good supply of disciples and peasants (in peace) and cannon fodder (in war)

Does this sound familiar?

Elegran

Witzend

vegansrock

If Donald Trump declared himself king of the USA there'd be a revolution. I guess those who think the monarchy is the best system would approve.

He’s acting rather like a mediaeval monarch already.

Mr Trump's image of a monarchy is based in past ages when a monarch was a rebellious powerful ex-subject who had deposed or assassinated the previous absolute monarch and taken over as an identically dictatorial tyrant.

👍

Anyone who thinks our present-day Monarch has the power of a President is living in an alternative universe to the one I'm in.

I suspect half of the US think there is no difference between the surviving monarchs of Europe and King Herod.

I agree wholeheartedly with Usedtobeblonde. It is obscene that those royals have 34 homes from which to choose, and clothes that cost many thousands. It is an outdated
institution which should go, irrelevant these days.

There were four female working members of the royal
family at Ascot, three live in their own homes , that’s obscene!

Sorry meant 2 live in their own homes

For UsedtobeBlonde --- You may have re-read your original, but the wording is quite clear, even if you're now trying to excuse it.

I see my text got deleted, as being too caustic, but inequality - as quite a few have pointed out - has been with us for a very long time. IF the OP wants a Communist world where we are all 'equal' (which seems the gist of the sentiment, that "food banks" "one hat would pay" etc), then that is just cloud-cuckoo land. Almost everything could be seen as a waste of money if you try hard enough, ordinary folk should not go to Glasto, or Wimbledon, or Ascot, (etc many times over!), or even buy a box of chocs, but should instead buy something basic and donate the rest to a good cause.

Is the Royal Family a pointless extravagance, or do they do a passable job, maybe even make a small profit for the country? I don't pretend to know, but anyone wanting a more democratic figurehead should perhaps look at the likes of Chump, Mugabe, Cromwell and a few hundred of similar ilk and try to devise a better way?!

For TheWeirdoAgain, quoting 'AnimalAid' re the deaths of racehorses, their position - I'm informed -- omits to point out that tens of thousands of horses round the world are specifically bred, every year, for racing.

Animal Aid, and like campaigners, seem to think all those horses just got born and are waiting in fields?

The vast majority live cosseted lives, and all those waiting for an NHS appointment, or operation, can look with envy at the speed with which a vet gets summoned to a racehorse with a limp or a runny nose?!

If animal cruelty campaigners want to ACTUALLY do some good, instead of pointless posturing, then they need to take aim at the lives of chickens, cattle, pigs and sheep, where the 100% (or very close) casualty rate is massively higher than it is for racehorses?

Haha. I bet you wish you had never opened this post.
We are all different thank goodness!
I’ve had my head bitten off before.