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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II passes away. 21st April 1926 - 8th September 2022.


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24 minutes ago, Rafalution said:

Do you think commentators who go in a separate entrance at football grounds are queue jumping because they're going to watch the same match as the fans? 

Have you not watched the advert with Roy Keane?  They clearly go through the turnstiles. 

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53 minutes ago, Rafalution said:

Was it not part of their job given they were reporting on the funeral? Isn't that why they were given access to the press queue?  

Or to go back to the football match analogy, if they were given press seats so they could talk about their experience the next day on this morning, would that still be queue jumping? 

I've not got a clue what they were actually doing. But they didn't need to see a stiff in a box to report on the funeral? That's like the commentator getting on the match bus

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1 hour ago, Bigwig said:

Willoughby seems to be the one taking most of the flak. Could be because she’s a woman but also could be because Schofield has kept his mouth shut while she keeps digging a deeper hole trying to defend herself. 

Phil was taking pelters last week tbf

1 hour ago, Barry Cartman said:

Surely the commentators in this scenario are those broadcasting it live on BBC News, not some random ITV morning show. If there was a 13 hour wait to get into Wembley for the World Cup Final and Phil and Holly got to walk past the crowd and into the stadium to take their seats, then yes i'd say they were queuing jumping, despite no one else behind them losing out because it was a different line

I'm not even arsed about this, but your example is just weak  

They'd be in the VIP section and enter the stadium through a VIP entrance. That's not queue jumping but being given a privilege because of who they are. It's the same in this instance whether people believe they should get that privilege is what's up for debate. 

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8 minutes ago, JJ72 said:

Not sure how going to see the coffin was part of their job though?

Entirely depends on what they were doing

Given what Jags said:

5 minutes ago, The_jagster said:

I was talking about this with my family, apparently they did do a feature for This Morning.

That would be entirely in keeping with work. 

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43 minutes ago, themadsheep2001 said:

Entirely depends on what they were doing

Given what Jags said:

That would be entirely in keeping with work. 

Yes, maybe. Still not convinced that they needed to actually visit the coffin to do a feature on it - I could have just watched the feed and talked about it. Or get someone in who'd queued up to talk about it.

Waste of time doing a feature on it anyway but that's another matter :D

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When it was originally being reported, I thought that they'd actually queued up to go along in procession like everybody else.

If they've been given access to the platform that was used by MPs, foreign dignitaries and the press, then I can understand it tbh.

I didn't see the This Morning piece, because I don't watch the show, but if they were doing a piece on the people who queued and what happened, then I could see why it would be reasonable for them to have experienced it and to have been on that platform.

In doing so, they'd not just have observed the Queen lying in state, but they'd have observed the public too, which would give them the ability to discuss the public's response to it all.

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25 minutes ago, JJ72 said:

Yes, maybe. Still not convinced that they needed to actually visit the coffin to do a feature on it - I could have just watched the feed and talked about it. Or get someone in who'd queued up to talk about it.

Waste of time doing a feature on it anyway but that's another matter :D

That would be a poor way to do an exclusive feature, since everyone has access to that and very few producers would do that if they could get nearby access to the coffin. 

No idea if their work excuse is true but if you were going to create a feature that's how you'd do it. 

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2 hours ago, Lucas said:

Must end with Holly and or Phil leaving the show, it's pretty ridiculous the hole they are digging and it's not reflecting well.

Stupid thing is if they had simply apologised at the start, explained they were offered it and didn't consider how it would look to others and promised to take into account how their actions could be perceived in future, this wouldn't have got so out of hand. But royalists in particular seem incensed about it and every time they open their mouths they dig themselves into a deeper hole.

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13 hours ago, Heartwork said:

I understand why people on the left don't like him but no idea what oche had against him

To answer your questions. I know a few people who have worked in the TV industry and they all say he's the type of person who treats people like they are something off his shoe, Like Richard Keys. I never been a fan of his anyway 

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8 minutes ago, oche balboa said:

To answer your questions. I know a few people who have worked in the TV industry and they all say he's the type of person who treats people like they are something off his shoe, Like Richard Keys. I never been a fan of his anyway 

I’ve heard Gordon the Gopher’s autobiography is going to be explosive. 

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48 minutes ago, m_fenton said:

And we scoffed at those people recording the procession :lol:

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15 minutes ago, Weezer said:

All that expensive pomp and ceremony and now they want it erased from the records?! :D 

Aside from anything else, those events aren't just symbolic. They're public records of the changing of the Head of State, who still signs off on legislation etc. It's like the government ordering that recordings of Parliament get deleted, or vetoing what the public see from them.

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Aren't some of you suggesting something that isn't actually happening? The footage won't be deleted. It will still exist and won't have to be hidden away secretly. But you will have to ask permission to use any of the additional material which wasn't inside the original hour you had submitted to the Royal household.

Not that it makes it much better but it's not quite the same thing as implied above.

 

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55 minutes ago, Tony85 said:

Aren't some of you suggesting something that isn't actually happening? The footage won't be deleted. It will still exist and won't have to be hidden away secretly. But you will have to ask permission to use any of the additional material which wasn't inside the original hour you had submitted to the Royal household.

Not that it makes it much better but it's not quite the same thing as implied above.

They'll only retain an hour of it, so yes the rest will be deleted. Otherwise they'd be retaining more than an hour of it. A copy might exist with the royal family, but so far as the public are concerned it's deleted.

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On 21/09/2022 at 17:40, Confused Clarity said:

What is it specifically that makes Schofield a piece of work in your eyes?

Didn't he groom a 17 year old for years and when it became public knowledge, announced that he was gay, which conveniently meant the nation forgot he was grooming teenagers as an almost-60 year old man? 

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1 minute ago, Confused Clarity said:

That seems like a fairly slanderous comment that you'd better be prepared to back up .

It's a question, not a comment. Not really fairly slanderous when you consider what the public discourse was with the circumstances and details were at the time.

Definitely not slanderous to ask questions. 

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2 minutes ago, decapitated said:

It's still slanderous/libellous to ask it! If you've no actual proof then you have to be careful as such slurs against LGBT celebrities are sadly not unknown. 

You're right, but unfortunately it's come from somewhere, it's a bit unfair to assume and part blame on @JD nawrat tbh

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