BS: Duchess of Cambridge

Subject: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 08:51 AM

Just thought you might like to know that Kate has just had a baby boy, 8lb 7oz.
(I bet you were hardly able to contain yourselves while you waited!)

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 09:05 AM

Wonderful news, thank you for that.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 09:07 AM

Wonder what his name will be? Any suggestions?
My husband has just suggested Brian!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: The Sandman
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 09:17 AM

How about BONZO 3 LEGS

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 09:27 AM

I hear he's fifth in line for the throne. You'd think these rich b*ast*ards would be able to afford enough toilets for all of 'em, wouldn't you?

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: banjoman
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 09:34 AM

Yet another to be supported by us as well as us having to call him Your Highness or whatever title he has. From the news coverage, one would think that she was the only woman to give birth today.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 09:49 AM

Arthur would be nice, or Alfred. Then I thought of Albert. But...er.... Prince Albert? No!

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Jeri
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 10:18 AM

George would work.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 11:04 AM

Royal babies look quite human from a distance..

but we are only ever allowed to see their faces and hands..

what are they hiding...!!!???

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: peteglasgow
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 12:12 PM

i doubt i will be the first to suggest that as a third child, the new one will not be eligible for any government funding. unless his mother is able to prove.....no, i'd better not go there. good luck to the poor wee fella


why is it if you are a royal you can't get by on less than half a dozen names? anyone would think they aren't just the same as all the rest of us

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Jos
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 12:59 PM

With most of the babies I see or see pictures of, whether royal or not, their clothes are covering all except their faces and hands (except in advertisements for nappies). One might think that wanting to see more is possibly just a little bit, well, unnecessary.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 01:04 PM

Nothing remotely paedo intended.. just to verify if Royal babies are human all over..

By all means keep their nappies on.. no need to upset public decorum...

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 01:09 PM

The same could be said of Corbo and abbott!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 01:14 PM

Bonz - well let's get 'em all, the Houses of Commons and Lords, lined up in public in their undies for inspection then..

Betcha more tory ministers & MPs show signs of inbreeding deformities than labour...!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 01:42 PM

The couple emerged about an hour ago, with Kate holding their new son. She looked absolutely radiant. Lovely to see.
Amazing how quickly she always gets up and goes home after giving birth. Brave lady!

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: DMcG
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 01:45 PM

Well, yes.

On the other hand she does have rather more support than the average mother.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 02:37 PM

another Royal sprog for the taxpayers to support for the rest of his life.



Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Raggytash
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 03:47 PM

I am aware that some people consider the level of discussions on Mudcat has declined in recent years ....... is this yet another example.

Whilst I do not wish them any harm, do I have to put up with fawning, syncophatic news reports morning, noon and night.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 03:51 PM

The 'level of discussion' on this thread was quite pleasant until you posted Raggytash. If the subject doesn't interest you, then why post?
There are many other threads to get your teeth into.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 03:57 PM

I wonder if the Cambridges do "hand me downs" with their kids?

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Raggytash
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 04:17 PM

Senoufou, I have no desire to cross sword with you but may I suggest you read some of the other comments before you cross swords with me.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 04:56 PM

I thought crossing swords was what we manly types did when it's one lavvy between two...

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: DMcG
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 05:00 PM

Warning: Royalists probably won't like this song


I have to say that while I wish them as well as any new parent, it is a lot of fuss over someone who is most unlikely ever to be monarch.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 05:10 PM

I wish them, parents, baby and his siblings, all the best as I would for any other welcome birth. I don't see what all the fuss is about though but I suppose it makes a change from the gloom and doom caused by the current political climate. I still think Disney should get the royal family franchise. It could make us a fortune -)

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Senoufou
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 05:20 PM

That song is very true DMcG. 'How the other half lives' and all that.

I'm actually not a royalist, and would prefer to see the monarchy
abolished after Queenie goes. I'd never curtsy to anyone except my mother-in-law, but that's African tradition, and I respect her enormously. I suspect the royals probably despise us common folk.

But it was nice to see a new mother looking so well and happy. New life is always uplifting. So are weddings. I'll probably watch Harry and Meghan's do next month on TV.

I agree they have every privilege one could imagine. And I've seen the other side, single mums struggling on benefits and living in squalor, not to mention literally starving Africans. As quite an old lady with a fairly wide experience of some of life's contrasts, I still try to cultivate goodwill in my heart if I possibly can.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: olddude
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 09:54 PM

They are a lovely couple. Congratulations to them. I know nothing of titles or queens or anything like that. Just think they seem warm and genuinely kind

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 23 Apr 18 - 11:22 PM

I expect I'd be consistently a lot kinder and less abrasive if I had their money and privilege...
Though my mum is the kindest person I know
and she had to work hard for every penny just to get our family by..
and earn herself a bare state pension...

funny old world...

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 24 Apr 18 - 02:56 AM

Envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy envy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Jos
Date: 24 Apr 18 - 05:21 AM

Whatever happens, they should NOT be handed over to Disney. Look what Disney did to Winnie the Pooh ! (And they would probably all have to use make-up to produce those big weird almond-shaped eyes, no, no, no ...)

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Apr 18 - 06:05 AM

Pointing to outrageous inequities in society is not envy. When you consider the disastrous state of royal relationships, the exploitations, the backbiting, the marital cheating, the scandals and shady associations brushed under the carpet, the resort to alcohol, the hostile divorces and other negatives including the anus horribilis within that rather dull and dysfunctional family down the decades, I for one consider that I'm a damn sight better off where I am.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 Apr 18 - 07:07 AM

I would absolutely hate to be a royal, or anybody famous for that matter. No freedom to go out whenever one wishes without a retinue of police protection and advance warning, no privacy even at home, because they have servants who see and hear everything. Folk gawping and taking photos/videos, the Press avid for any scandal or deviation from the norm.
Not to mention the formality of their life, the protocol, the dress codes and so on.
It's a straitjacket of obligation.
And as Steve above says, the royals seem to be a very dysfunctional family.

I really love my life, and wouldn't change a thing.
(Well, perhaps more chocolate and buttered crumpets without getting any fatter, but that would need a magic wand)

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 24 Apr 18 - 07:23 AM

The royal health care plan seems quite good for an elderly couple in their 90s...

No NHS waiting lists..
unlike the lot of her mass of loyal subjects,
like my council estate old mum,
after a full long lifetime diligently working hard and paying taxes
on miserly minimum wage caring for old folks in private healthcare...

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Jos
Date: 24 Apr 18 - 08:03 AM

If you bet on the names, is it like horse racing, with a full pay-out for the name that comes first, and smaller payments for second and subsequent names?

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Rob Naylor
Date: 24 Apr 18 - 09:22 AM

REPORTER: And how long have you been waiting outside the hospital?

BYSTANDER: 5 days

REPORTER: Really, that long just to see the Royal Baby?
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BYSTANDER: No, I'm waiting to see a doctor!

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Senoufou
Date: 24 Apr 18 - 09:32 AM

A young couple emerged yesterday from the Lindo Wing carrying their newborn and were met with a phalanx of Press and gawpers. People actually groaned because it wasn't 'Them'. Bless them, their baby is just as important and precious as the little Prince.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 24 Apr 18 - 09:35 AM

"No NHS waiting lists.."

Phil The Greek, I note, was having trouble with his hip for a WHOLE MONTH before he got it seen to!

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 Apr 18 - 09:39 AM

Rob Naylor - Big Grin :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 03:11 AM

"They are a lovely couple. Congratulations to them. I know nothing of titles or queens or anything like that. Just think they seem warm and genuinely kind"

I absolutely agree.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 04:01 AM

The bookies are saying that Arthur is favourite at the moment at odds of 7/4.
Husband says he still likes 'Brian'.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 04:18 AM

Keith.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 04:22 AM

I rather like Leroy, or perhaps Jayden.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 06:08 AM

Well let's get a bit non-binary! After all, the royals took the lead in this: we've had Princess Michael of Kent for yonks. So I'm saying Sue!

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 06:30 AM

There seemed to be a lot of children in Salford called 'Chardonay yer likkle bleedor'

How about that?

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 06:37 AM

I had a neighbour in our last village called Cecil. His wife had an unfortunate lisp and always referred to him as 'Thethil'. So how about 'Printh Thethil'?

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 08:58 AM

How about "Prince".. as a tribute to a recently departed pop funk superstar...

Prince Prince...

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Jos
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 09:16 AM

Since Leroy (I assume) means 'The King' (French: le roi) maybe it's a good suggestion - barring a series of serious accidents or a plague, it's probably the nearest he's likely to get.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 10:02 AM

What about 'Princey McPrinceface'?

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 10:06 AM

Gets my vote, Sen :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: DMcG
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 10:44 AM

I used to know a guy called Steven Prince. He often got HRH as a prefix and special treatment, particularly on those occasions when his surname needed to be written first.

Subject: RE: BS: Duchess of Cambridge
From: Senoufou
Date: 25 Apr 18 - 10:47 AM

It looks as if we won't know the baby's name until tomorrow. How will we contain ourselves?