Did he faint.....

Eloethan, if you had just mentioned that at, say, quarter to seven yesterday evening, you would have saved all this bother.

I didn't notice the second link was written by a sketch writer. I believed it!

Oh dear. I find a lot of the comments on here both sad and bordering on spiteful. While I understand that there is a lot of anti-royal feeling amongst you good people, I think it is worth remembering that this was a young boy (aged 12) who fainted. I fainted in Chapel many moons ago and believe you me it is not something to be trivialised as you do, prior to collapse feel extremely unwell, so perhaps a little less sneering and a bit more sympathy for this 'child' would be more Christian attitude.

Er...yes

Wasn't it meant to be satirical?

But taking a member of Parliament for hostage. I love it. She should have demanded Skinner.

" Performed by a different boy every year since, the Ceremonial Fainting is considered one of the highest honours that can be conferred upon a British child. This year’s passed off beautifully."

That is from the second link. And I have just seen who wrote it.

(I was beginning to wonder if they would really make a small boy drop to the ground every year)

If the newspaper article is true - I think it's a bit sad that a fainting boy is seen as, what? humorous? I just think it's really weird. It would explain the lack of reaction though to a young child fainting.

It's this sort of thing from the so-called elite that I find nauseating.

One person commenting at the bottom of the page wrote:

'We need the Queen to take a stand for the people.
We need the spectacle of the Queen saying "I'm not going to read this drivel, go back to your desks and deal with the real issues facing our nation". '

Now that I agree with.

Depends who gets the short straw?

!!!!!!!

On the first choral society concert I did,which was a bugger of a difficult program, as even the seasoned singers agreed , I came over all woozy by not standing and breathing properly. l decided I had better sit down before I fell. I was just in time but I am told I was as white as a sheet, it's not uncommon in choirs.

Don't lock your knees but do the policeman trick of bending them every so often to send the blood back to your head..

She's on a roll...!

Oh, alright then.

Mind you, you have to love the Telegraph, if anyone can find their coverage a couple or more years ago of the chap from one of the Koreas prosecuted for something to do with a Canada Goose in (I think) Hyde Park, it was the most sublime bit of reporting!

So phoenix, do you think it is a tradition? Or did the boy really faint?

Prosaic....................big word for a Wednesday.(yes, I know, it's only ermm....... 7 letters)

(We always have big words on a Wednesday Colin)

I'm saying nothing.

Well, I did get it straight away, jingl, but didn't think everyone else would be so...prosaic about it.

I suppose their outifts could be designed with hidden airbags so they don't go down with such a 'kerplunk'

Poor lad. I bet he had to be up at the crack of sparrows and didn't have time for a Full English.

Yes, merlot a bit like skiing instructors "ben ze knees" . Bending the knees at the first signs of fainting should enable the faintee to crumple sideways in an unobtrusive manner.

Of course, those who are prone to fainting should wear protective equipment, crash helmets, elbow and knee pads etc. But would look awful with the current outfits.

So, moving forward it leaves 2 options, namely:

Stringent tests to assess the propensity to fainting, this could involve some sort of shock test, how do they react to Prince Philip suddenly shouting "Oh look, there's that midget Bercow!" Or perhaps "Liz, let's hope there's no Johnny Foreigner types here today!"

Or:
Total re-design of outfits, perhaps in the traditional colours (red and gold, although the Queens horse racing colours include a rather jaunty purple) but to incorporate a slightly more modern twist. Perhaps they could be on roller blades?

(The pages that is, not the Royals, she'd never manage them if her glasses were varifocals)

'ooray!!!

Perhaps they draw lots?

The point is though.....

Never mind.

If it was Arthur Chatto or Charles Armstrong Jones they'll be taken quietly to one side and given instructions on how to faint quietly.

Maybe that's why the Queen likes to appoint her own kin for the job.

It's probably like being a little bit pregnant, although I hardly think this story is exactly newsworthy!

I wonder how you "faint slightly".