Prince Harry’s engagement

Durham was that about me?

Well soop you can just go back to the kitchen and leave us to it.

Oh don’t be so pathetic Nana childish and unpleasant. I’ve got every right to criticise what I want - I don’t think you understand what a forum is for - it’s perfectly legitimate to post about systems I decry or are we only allowed to post about things we like? And FYI I post about a whole range of other things as well but you don’t want to admit that do you because kicking me is a GN sport amongst some of you.

@ Durhamjen

Not enough people agree with her, though, so she just has to continue to persuade.

Well let’s be honest Maryeliza you’re only here to vent your spleen about pretty much everything so maybe we should wonder why you’re continuing to post about people you dislike, a system you decry etc etc

We heard you the first time

thanks Merlot - yes 50% of newstime and ignoring the big issues re Brexit did seem somewhat disproportionate to many ;)

I noticed quite a few of the presenters were poshing up their accents as the news reports came pouring in.

One of them definitely referred to the Queen's Norfolk estate as Saaaaaaaandringham.

Well soop if you’re bored and fed up with a thread, it’s a bit odd to want to hang around isn’t it?

Thanks for the suggestion, maryeliza54. I'm orf!

Oh dear - my accent has definitely changed over the years and I’m sure I could be accused of “putting it on” by people from “home”. But I, equally definitely, have never tried to change and I love to hear my compatriots. I even trust them more! Geordies the same! Something “real” about them. But all DH’s relatives are plummy and I guess it’s rubbed off.

Well soop you can just go back to the kitchen and leave us to it.

Agreed ann I couldn’t believe how false and stilted she sounded and then Camilla came out with that claptrap about good news in a sea of bad things - yes like freezing benefits yet again announced minutes after the engagement.

Sigh................Yawn...........Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

When interviewed yesterday and asked about the engagement Kate spoke exactly as Baggs said, stiff and precise and certainly less than gushing.
She has some competition at last.

I think everyone expects better from the BBC than we sometimes often get, jura2.

Has nobody else's accent changed a bit during their adulthood? Mine has. So has that of my brother who has spent nearly all his adulthood in the States. I don't think anyone could tell from our accents where my four siblings and I grew up or where we went to school. Education, and living away from where you grew up (being "anywheres") does that.

Kate must mix with a lot of plummy speakers. It's bound to have an effect. Last time I heard her on a recording where she was speaking up for a charity, she sounded stiff and precise (nervous? I would be) rather than plummy.

Those deriding the way she speaks are guilty of reverse snobbery in my opinion.

Of course we are happy for them and wish them all the best. And yes, it is wonderful to have good news and a break from the misery, incuding Brexit...

and yet - 28 minutes of the BBC news were devoted to the engagement - whilst it totally ignored the fact that David Davis is in contempt of our Parliamentary Democracy. So is it really cynical to believe that this is deliberate- and shows that the BBC's strings are being pulled?

We all know about the DM, and its front page- and who pulls the strings there (and increasingly, why) - but yes, some f us do expect better from the BBC.

Blimey I m sure I can see a bubbling black cauldron with lots of bats and cats and cackling going on around it

Bye was for niggly but I rather think you knew that?

It's a well bred snort.

No gilly it’s a harrumph!

Well, who knows? I should think we will all be leaving this thread pretty soon anyway ( or will it run until the wedding?)

What exactly is a "harrumph" lemon? is it a fart?

Oh I thought it was niggly who was leaving not maryeliza