IT chiefs in cloaks and sashes gets Queen's mark of approval

The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists received its Royal Charter yesterday - its mark of approval from the Queen. The Livery Companies were originally proto-trade unions or professional standards bodies, depending which you look at it, based in the City of London. The first, the Worshipful Company of Mercers, got …

[Anonymous Coward]

Great news

Now the BCS seems to have gone tits up where do I sign?

[Ralph B]

Sounds like something out of a Terry Pratchett book ...

I hope and expect the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists to tell Black Rod exactly where to stick it - employing appropriate open standard - and have a nice sounding electronic doorbell fitted to the Houses of Parliament.

[Anonymous Coward]

No, really?

It's almost as if pterry satirises real events and institutions.

Also, I think "Fearsome fellows" was a bit bitchy. I'm assuming their decorations mean they've done scary stuff. And by scary I don't mean wearing a uniform for 60 years.

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't criticise BCS! They donate hundreds of secondhand anoraks a year to the third world.

I thought XANSA was now Steria.

I got an unusual response to an application from them the other day. (Well, a response, and that's unusual.) and he told me he'd not been Xansa for years.

[steward]

"Worshipful Company of Information Technologists"?

Sounds like something American steampunk enthusiasts would come up with for roleplay. The Society for Creative Anachronism figures out how to make iPads "in-period".

[John Whitehead]

Vile toadies should be ashamed

Dressing up daft, going to church and grovelling to royalty -- these people have clearly taken leave of their senses. Have they no pride in current achievements? Must they look back to a fictionalised mediaeval past to validate today's success? It makes me feel sick and I despair of ever seeing grown up people acting rationally and intelligently in combination to improve the lot of others. Disgusting.

[gimbal]

Hear, hear

@John Whitehead: You know, I think you've hit it straight on the mark, friend.

[Graham Marsden]

Sorry...

... this is El Reg, not the Socialist Worker...

[M7S]

@AC 14:08

You're quite right about members of the Company of Pikemen and Musketeers (part of the Honourable Artillery Company). Many of them have an impressive CV in, um, particular fields.

[Anonymous Coward]

BOFH

Did I spot the BOFH there?

The one where, if you look carefully, you can just make out that the ceremonial spear is actually a disguised cattle prod.

[John Whitehead]

Socialist Worker? More romantic nonsense

Don't confuse republicanism with socialism. There's no need to fantasise about a utopian future of smiling proles selflessly aiding the oppressed in order to oppose the nonsense of monarchy and state-sponsored religion. Let's just be grown up about politics and put away childish things like crowns and mitres.

[Cortland Richmond]

Oh goody!

And do the Worshipful Company enjoy the right to carry swords in the City of London? Brings new... intensity to Net Neutrality! Nine dead after committee meeting, etc. Equal THAT,BOFH!