Another Milestone
Jan. 22nd, 2013 09:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloWell that was my birthday- my 62nd. We were snowed in for it. Ailz is afraid of slipping on the ice and I'm afraid of her slipping so we don't go anywhere in these conditions if we can help it. The binmen left the rubbish uncollected so I suppose they must be afraid of slipping too.
Barack Obama got himself re-inaugurated. I saw an estimate of what it cost and you could have made several Hollywood blockbusters for the price. Prince Harry is back from Afghanistan and footage has been released in which he talks all macho and says he's killed people. Finally Michael Winner died. I remember him as a pushy boy wonder. He made over 30 movies and I don't believe I've seen a single one of them.
Barack Obama got himself re-inaugurated. I saw an estimate of what it cost and you could have made several Hollywood blockbusters for the price. Prince Harry is back from Afghanistan and footage has been released in which he talks all macho and says he's killed people. Finally Michael Winner died. I remember him as a pushy boy wonder. He made over 30 movies and I don't believe I've seen a single one of them.
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Date: 2013-01-22 10:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-22 10:42 am (UTC)I do my best to ignore it myself :)
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Date: 2013-01-22 12:53 pm (UTC)It's what military types do- have done for as long as there've been military types.
Why do they think everyone will be surprised at this small factoid?
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Date: 2013-01-22 04:20 pm (UTC)The estimated costs usually include security (can you imagine how many people would gleefully have shot Obama yesterday?), crowd control, cleanup, all that, so the number looks bad but has to cover a lot of things.
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Date: 2013-01-22 05:13 pm (UTC)Yes, I can see why the ceremony costs so much. Even so...
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Date: 2013-01-22 08:19 pm (UTC)Didn't the previous Duke of Kent do some soldiering in WW2?
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Date: 2013-01-23 08:58 am (UTC)Given the attitudes of our print media they'll be wrong whatever they do and I speak as one of a republican tendency.
I'm also a military historian and the daughter of a bootneck and I'd rather see royals at the sharp end doing some real soldiering than standing around in uniforms they're not entitled to, covered with phoney orders and medals as our friend states above.
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Date: 2013-01-23 11:57 am (UTC)... can't say I have either.
We are nearly the same age, I'll be 62 this year too.
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Date: 2013-01-23 02:22 pm (UTC)I also lose patience with former National Servicemen, who parade around wearing medals, when they never came under fire, and spent most of their time drilling, or in offices and kitchens and servicing vehicles
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