Rule Britannia

mbev51 · 24th August 2020, 06:59

Just read that bbc is considering cancelling Rule Britannia from last night at the Proms. I for one would miss it, I feel so proud when I hear it. Is it not correctness gone mad?

baxlin · 24th August 2020, 13:29

Rule Britannia possibly being dropped is bad enough, Land of Hope and Glory, also mentioned, is worse, imo.

(It’s a conductor from Finland on the ‘last night’ apparently, who has let her opinion be known)

I’d rather they cancel the whole shebang, with there being no audience.

wraymond · 24th August 2020, 14:13

The missing audience is the reason this is being suggested. There will be no everso-bitterly-disappointed demonstrators to create a fuss on the night. The practice will then be absorbed as the new normal. And the Cancellers will be full of glib joy. Another plank of English Oak removed from Victory's deck. Somehow, I don't think Jerusalem was builded here after all.

mh007 · 24th August 2020, 14:57

Read about yesterday.....what is it all coming to I wonder!

This country just seems to bend over & take it up the a**e.

So frustrating when I hear things like this

BoroRover · 24th August 2020, 15:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by mh007

Read about yesterday.....what is it all coming to I wonder!

This country just seems to bend over & take it up the a**e.

So frustrating when I hear things like this

It's going completely Ga-ga. On LBC Ian Dale was talking to a doctor who was stating that " people of a pale skin shade turning blue" was racist, as" people of darker skin colour", ...didn't.
Further stating that yellowing of the skin of " people of a paler skin shade", was also racist.

The interview is on YouTube.

Despite Ian stating over and over again that cold causes " paler shade of skin", to lead to a blueness occurring, and that Jaundice was the cause of skin yellowing, she just wasn't having it.

That, is one scary doctor I hope I never meet. She should not be in practice, anywhere.

wraymond · 24th August 2020, 15:43

I can see Procol Harum being deleted from BBC playlists then. And poor old Rudolph, he'll be for the chop.

stocktake · 24th August 2020, 15:46

It's just madness, you cannot erase history and also I suspect people jumping on the bandwagon.
I'm going to lock my self away and watch my copy of "Blazing Saddles" until the world comes to it's senses

MissMoppet · 24th August 2020, 15:47

Well . . . I aways cringed when I heard/watched it. Nelson's been dead for 215 years. Isn't it about time we took a realistic look at Our Place in The World? We've virtually no industry left, our utilities have been sold off to Forriners, even before Covid we had a massive balance of trade deficit - what it's going to be now heaven only knows. Yet, and yet - we're still presumably going to renew Trident (with US missiles) and we have two aircraft carriers with no planes and just six destroyers and 13 frigates. Last I read a fair few of those were immobile due to faulty propulsion systems: they can't fire their armaments and sail at the same time. Rule Britannia?

PS Twenty odd years ago I had a friend who worked in Naval Procurement who said that the Navy didn't want Trident as they said we won't have enough surface ships: we can't have both. I think he was right, don't you?

wraymond · 24th August 2020, 16:07

So why watch it if it makes you cringe? Personally, I can't get enough of that youngster Katie Dereham.

steve-45 · 24th August 2020, 18:02

I am beginning to wonder more and more why I bother paying the BBC TV license!

24th August 2020, 06:59	#1
mbev51 Banned Removed Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Removed Posts: 1,343 Thanks: 171 Thanked 315 Times in 223 Posts	Rule Britannia Just read that bbc is considering cancelling Rule Britannia from last night at the Proms. I for one would miss it, I feel so proud when I hear it. Is it not correctness gone mad?

24th August 2020, 13:29	#2
baxlin This is my second home Volvo C70 Convertible and JZR 3 wheeler Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tring, Herts Posts: 3,960 Thanks: 124 Thanked 173 Times in 124 Posts	Rule Britannia possibly being dropped is bad enough, Land of Hope and Glory, also mentioned, is worse, imo. (It’s a conductor from Finland on the ‘last night’ apparently, who has let her opinion be known) I’d rather they cancel the whole shebang, with there being no audience. __________________ Only my opinion, obviously, so please don’t shoot me if it doesn’t match yours!

24th August 2020, 14:13	#3
wraymond This is my second home 75 Auto 2.5 SE Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Westcliff on Sea Posts: 5,185 Thanks: 423 Thanked 1,680 Times in 1,014 Posts	The missing audience is the reason this is being suggested. There will be no everso-bitterly-disappointed demonstrators to create a fuss on the night. The practice will then be absorbed as the new normal. And the Cancellers will be full of glib joy. Another plank of English Oak removed from Victory's deck. Somehow, I don't think Jerusalem was builded here after all. __________________ member no. 235 Last edited by wraymond; 24th August 2020 at 14:15..

24th August 2020, 15:43	#6
wraymond This is my second home 75 Auto 2.5 SE Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Westcliff on Sea Posts: 5,185 Thanks: 423 Thanked 1,680 Times in 1,014 Posts	I can see Procol Harum being deleted from BBC playlists then. And poor old Rudolph, he'll be for the chop. __________________ member no. 235

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stocktake Vis Whiz Rover 75 2.5 auto Saloon Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: LEEDS Posts: 20,587 Thanks: 2,057 Thanked 3,056 Times in 1,621 Posts	It's just madness, you cannot erase history and also I suspect people jumping on the bandwagon. I'm going to lock my self away and watch my copy of "Blazing Saddles" until the world comes to it's senses __________________ Dave... Lost a few stones and a Gall Bladder and part of a bile duct and all of my dignity in the suppository incident

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MissMoppet Posted a thing or two R 75 Tourer diesel Conny 2002, V6 Conny saloon petrol 2003 Join Date: Mar 2013 Location: Taunton Posts: 1,125 Thanks: 212 Thanked 406 Times in 223 Posts	Well . . . I aways cringed when I heard/watched it. Nelson's been dead for 215 years. Isn't it about time we took a realistic look at Our Place in The World? We've virtually no industry left, our utilities have been sold off to Forriners, even before Covid we had a massive balance of trade deficit - what it's going to be now heaven only knows. Yet, and yet - we're still presumably going to renew Trident (with US missiles) and we have two aircraft carriers with no planes and just six destroyers and 13 frigates. Last I read a fair few of those were immobile due to faulty propulsion systems: they can't fire their armaments and sail at the same time. Rule Britannia? PS Twenty odd years ago I had a friend who worked in Naval Procurement who said that the Navy didn't want Trident as they said we won't have enough surface ships: we can't have both. I think he was right, don't you? __________________ Rover 75 Tourer Conny 2002 remapped 160 auto, R75 V6 2.5L auto Connoisseur 2003

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wraymond This is my second home 75 Auto 2.5 SE Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Westcliff on Sea Posts: 5,185 Thanks: 423 Thanked 1,680 Times in 1,014 Posts	So why watch it if it makes you cringe? Personally, I can't get enough of that youngster Katie Dereham. __________________ member no. 235

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steve-45 This is my second home Rover 75 Saloon CDTi Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: Belvedere Posts: 4,076 Thanks: 108 Thanked 1,089 Times in 774 Posts	I am beginning to wonder more and more why I bother paying the BBC TV license!