Reports of one's death have been greatly exaggerated: French radio station splurges obituary bank over interwebs It's one of the industry's worst-kept secrets that media orgs write obituaries for prominent figures ahead of time, and premature publication can seem like a fate worse than death for a humiliated newsroom. Oh, it happens. A lot actually. The latest victim is Radio France Internationale (RFI), which spaffed a bunch of pre- …
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"Scroungers"?
The Royal Family is the only entity in the UK who/which pays more than 90% "tax". That is, they pay 100% of their income to the government, and receive a stipend in return (most of which goes on building&grounds maintenance).
That's over £500m a year in net _profit_ for the UK taxpayers.
Probably more now; that's as of about 5yrs ago, and the %ge "tax" keeps going up.
Plus then there's the profits from tourism. In the 90s I saw that calculated as £4bn/yr attributable specifically to the royals. Again, it'd be more today.
Put it this way: if they did a Harry and resigned en masse, even at 50% tax they'd quintuple their money. And never have to open another bloody shopping centre in their lives.
4 billion per year? You got that from Nicholas Witchell or Penny Junor or some other professional butt kisser.
People don't come to the UK to see the royal family. They come to see the buildings, the places and the history. The history does not depend on whether you have a royal family or not.
Just look at Paris. France topped their royals couple of hundred years ago, and they still get more tourists than the UK. And I am pretty sure they aren't there in the slim hope of seeing President Macron gurning from a palace balcony or shooting past in a motorcade.
As well as for the 68M subjects in the British Isles, Her Madge is also Head of State for 38M Canadian citizens, 25M Aussies, 5M Kiwis and numerous other nationalities. So for every day that you put a Michael or Judi on the throne, you could put one of us there, to balance the books for two and a half centuries of colonial imperialism.
Taika Waititi day alone would make it worthwhile.
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Nah, it was some official report from some government department or QANGO, rattling through the where&why&£££ of UK tourism. I didn't read the actual report, just the newspaper version of it, which means I read it in The Times or the FT. I just noticed that number in the middle of the table ; not long in the UK as an Aussie so the wild mismatch between simple data/facts and what a lot of Brits around me were saying was still quite the novelty and the number stuck in my head.
Sycophants galore on here !
Sounds worse than that other butt sucking newsreader, Alistair Burnet (or whatever).
How about opening up 100 odd rooms of Buckingham palace for our frontline NHS staff and nurses from nearby hospitals to stay in, for the duration of tackling covid in London?
you probably need more BOFH education.
last time I saw a $COW-ORKER was last thursday when I brought back a company car in the office... actually it was a $COW-ORKER and a former $COW-ORKER ( he's a honey producer now, so I suspect he was delivering some honey to $COW-ORKEER )
my cause of the problem is : We're out of slots on the server
Appropriate since I've started working with equipment that handled timeslots.
"Evil dogs hypnotised the night shift to eat the ether on the cables and that's why all the wire is missing."
"But what about the premature obituaries?"
"That was caused by the date being accidentally reset to April fools day on the server due to Apple fuck up with their last Os upgrade."
Used to develop bespoke CMS stuff myself for a rather boring couple of years.
Eventually learned the value of "needs double independent signoff before publishing" functionality, after similar but less publicly embarassing unwanted info splurges onto public websites. Though this is a migration issue, and getting the draft / published indicator wrong is a major boo boo that testing definitely should have trapped.
There was some fiction of Cyril Connolly's--a short story that perhaps formed part of a novel--in which a noted author collapses and dies when presented with his own obituary, which an incautious guest has brought along to a country house weekend. As far as I know, this has never actually happened. The famous do sometimes sit for interviews with their obituarists.
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