Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Sky News Australia" channel.

  1.  @RedWaveGraphics  Actually, it was. 'The monarch broke with centuries-old tradition following the 9/11 attacks, directing the Coldstream Guards to play the American national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," during the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace as a show of solidarity.'
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  2. Quite why two prominent politicians feel the need to shove their respective oars in is a mystery. It rather reminds me of a cartoon in a UK newspaper after the 2005 Ashes, which has Cherie Blair saying to Andrew Flintoff ' My Tony is a great fan of yours. He has a video of every one of your goals.' The reality is that, within the laws, Carey was quite entitled to do what he did. The argument, which really serves no purpose, is whether this idea of the 'Spirit of Cricket' applies. People who debate that should experience a grudge match in local league cricket!
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  3.  @robnunurbiznezz7618  Thank you for, as we say over here, 'Explainin' the bleedin' obvious!!!' Sarcasm does seem to have evaded the grasp of some people, alas.
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  4. Meghan's 'The Bench' was an excellent book. My dining table is no longer wobbly as it fitted perfectly under the short leg. Best charity shop 25 pence I ever spent.
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  5. Perhaps the Chinese will retaliate by concluding a mutual defence pact with their New Zealand friends?
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  6. I assume the Markles are hoping for a few quid from the will.
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  7.  @artstocker60  I'm sure that I read that, in the early years of the United States, the vice-president was actually the losing candidate in the Presidential election. Now wouldn't that have been entertaining?
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  8. At least part of Macron's statement was true. The one where he said 'I don't think.'
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  9. A 4th term for hubby! Isn't she wealthy enough already?
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  10.  @BeautifullyMixed72  Please promise me that you will keep the pair of them, together with their progeny. Believe me, they are not wanted back in Britain.
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  11. 'Disaffected Tory Voters?' After Sunak's antics, isn't that every one of them?
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  12. Her comment, on fleeing her office, that she wanted to be remembered as someone who was 'kind' was comparable in unconscious irony with hitler, in his bunker in April. 1945, telling his staff that he hoped to go down in history as 'ein pacifist'.
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  13. Ever heard the phrase 'Roi fainéant, or"do-nothing king"?' It is a French term primarily used to refer to the later kings of the Merovingian dynasty after they seemed to have lost their initial powers of dominion. It is usually applied to those Frankish rulers approximately from the death of Dagobert I in AD 639 (or, alternatively, from the accession of Theuderic III in 673) until the deposition of Childeric III in favour of Pepin the Short in 751. It appears to have been first used by the historian Einhard. 'There was nothing left for the King to do but to be content with his name of King, his flowing hair, and long beard, to sit on his throne and play the ruler, to give ear to the ambassadors that came from all quarters, and to dismiss them, as if on his own responsibility, in words that were, in fact, suggested to him, or even imposed upon him. He had nothing that he could call his own beyond this vain title of King and the precarious support allowed by the Mayor of the Palace in his discretion, except a single country seat, that brought him but a very small income.' The Mayors of the Palace, who really governed the Frankish state, were the ancestors of Charlemagne, by the way. Although, of course, Biden's income is anything but 'small'.
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  14. I remember seeing that 'revelation' and Winfrey's reaction to it. This Oprah person is not really much use at acting, is she?
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  15.  @goldfish2379  Likewise. We have been buying Australian and South African wine instead of French or German for years. How, however, will we cope with the glories of French cheese? In point of fact, quite easily.
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  16. I know people who can, and have, done all three. Some of them I would not trust to remember to feed my cat. The problem with Biden is not physical fitness, but his obvious mental deterioration.
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  17.  @simongross3122  'I don't like your opinion. Therefore it should not be permitted.' Is that really what you are saying? Musk did not create the disturbances in Britain.
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  18.  @paulsara9694  'We people' didn't vote for him. Only less than one in five of the UK electorate, 19%, actually voted Labour. The last election was the result of our outdated first past the post system. This worked when there were two major parties, initially Tory/Liberal and then Tory/Labour, but it cannot cope when there are four or five parties, as there are now. What was in essence a protest vote ended up putting the equivalent of a high school debating society into power. In addition, I wonder how many of those who voted Labour would have done so if they had known that the Labour Election Manifesto was a complete pack of lies?
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  19.  @lukemckean6155  'Weird question.' Not really. Isn't that what these demonstrators are actually saying?
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  20. There's bin a muhder!
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  21. Ever heard of Napoleon Bonaparte! One of his maxims was 'never interrupt your enemy when he is in the process of making a mistake.' I suspect that Trump's team are following the same route. Kamala Harris can destroy her credibility without outside help.
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  22. He isn't the only Charles who needs to keep out of politics.
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  23.  @Malik16-mk6ty  Have you ever heard of metaphor? Looks like I'm going to give you a lesson about metaphor.' Had you actually used a metaphor, you post would perhaps have made some slight sense. As you didn't, then alas it doesn't. If it helps, this is what a metaphor actually is :- 'A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.' You should really stop digging, as the hole you have made for yourself is already rather deep.
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  24.  @paulmccloud9395  Ah, but modern slavery is needed, to produce the smartphones, cheap clothes, and trainers these people like. Far easier to virtue-signal relentlessly about something which ended around 200 years ago, and which can't possible inconvenience them.
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  25.  @Tyronepeader  Indeed. Britain's economy is in almost as much difficulty as that of the EU Member States.
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  26. You mean he shouldn't express an opinion because you don't like it?
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  27.  @matthewdanko4064  Not when the 'look' is a carefully cultivated part of the image.
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  28. Please don't refer to 'Rhodes.' There is a Rhodes in Greece, and one near Manchester, England. She might get confused.
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  29.  @josefhotahi  As I am now past my best as a batsman (sorry, batter, as I must now apparently say) I asked our club's head coach if I might be permitted to self-identify as a thirteen year old girl, in order to open the batting for the under 15's girl's team. I am not as light on my feet as I used to be, but I hope that the bruises will fade with time.
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  30. I must confess I haven't been paying much attention recently. How are you colonists faring on your own? Best regards, Lord North.
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  31. Lord Debden? In an earlier life, wasn't he the celebrated John Seldom-Glummer? I recall that, during the 'Mad Cow Disease' scare of a few years ago, he rammed a burger down the throat of his young daughter in front of cameras. Good to see him still coining it in the House of the Living Dead.
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  32. @Blue Your ignorance is astounding. Where were cultures destroyed, other perhaps than human sacrifice in places like Benin, and Suttee in India? What makes you think that a country with a population of 10.1 million (1801 Census) already at war with the largest military power in Europe, was able, militarily, to invade and conquer a place like India, with a population of around 150 million? By the time of the Raj, around 25,000 British administrators administerered an Indian population which had grown to almost 200 million. How did the evil British manage that without the support of a vast, Indian, civil service and the consent of the existing Indian States? As to the Americas, New Zealand, Australia, and most of Africa, as western settlers in the 17-19th centuries found them in the same sort of condition that Europe had been in in around 4000 B.C., the peoples there hadn't made much progress on their own. What makes you believe that they would have made sudden startling advances? The fact is, the progress they made is due almost entirely to western science, philosophy, engineering, education, and law. Are you actually a troll? You really cannot be as stupid as you pretend?
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  33. I remember Dylan when he played second row forward for London Irish. Oh, wait. I must be thinking of someone else.
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  34. Something similar happens in Britain. I am having a DNA test at the moment. If I am lucky enough to have a bit of Sub Saharan African in me, it could be a nice little earner in the near future. I need to buy a new helmet before April, following an 'incident' in September of 2023, and it could be of considerable assistance. I must learn to duck. Or bat lower down.
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  35.  @snelgrave101  Boney expressed the idea as 'Never interrupt your enemy when he is in the process of making a mistake.'
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  36. Quite the reverse. She will probably end up with a peerage.
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  37. You are missing the point. In HarryMarkleWorld, he is the only person ever, in the history of the planet, to have lost a parent.
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  38. I wonder what he was a 'Professor' of?
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  39.  @fredsmith5473  The essence of the problem seems to be that he hasn't yet grasped that he is no longer Leader of the Opposition, where his comments didn't really matter, but is now Prime Minister, where they most certainly do. If ever there was a time to call for unity & calm, this was that time. Instead, he called for division and violence by labelling vast numbers of ordinary people as 'right wing racist thugs.'
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  40. Much as the US & British/Commonwealth referred to the German & Japanese populations in WW2 as rge enemy. With equal justification.
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  41. Sorry, but I stopped reading at the point where you suggested that Harry should read something. Far too far-fetched a concept.
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  42. Perhaps when they commit some?
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  43. Please, please! Have Prince William's bestest chum Dame Jacinda Ardern taken back to NZ.
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  44. Only 19% of British voters voted for the Dear Leader. 81% either did not vote, or voted for other parties. Labour benefitted fron the vagaries of the British political system, and a massive rejection of the useless Tory administration. In isolation, the Labour vote actually dropped by half a million from that of Jazzer's disaster in 2019. Starmer & his lackeys are well aware of the reality, and simply intend to do as much damage as possible, as quickly as possible.
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  45. But as any senior British Civil Servant, about to retire early on a gold-plated pension, will explain to you, 'So what? It is only public money.'
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  46. I bought a new Gunn & Moore bat towards the end of last season. He can have the old one, which is in excellent condition apart from a number of red marks down the outside edge. Dammit!
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  47. In Britain, before our election, consideration was being given to a single-wicket match between Starmer and Sunak. The idea was abandoned when Starmer was advised that Sunak's Indian ancestry probably meant that he would be a skilled leg-break bowler with a cunningly disguised Googly (Bosie). Angela Raynor believed that Starmer's straight up and down medium pacers would not be able to compete, In any case, Angela refused to make the butties for the lunchtime interval. As you are American, I suspect this entire post sounds like gibberish to you!
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  48. Pity the poor child. Imagine learning later in life that that was your great-grandfather.
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  49. Is there anything in the US constitution which requires that a President actually be alive during his/her presidency? If not, I suggest Theodore Roosevelt might make a suitable candidate.
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  50. When I took early retirement from my company, I was shocked to discover that my salary was not paid into my bank the following month. Obviously, I intend to sue.
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