Sunday 29 May 2022

Notes from a lefty monarchist


Yesterday, H.I. surprised me by telling me that there is going to be two Bank Holidays this week - I had not even remembered the standard Monday one, let alone the Jubilee on ... Wednesday is it? Despite my affection for the Queen and all that she represents, I plan to work through both.

Years ago, we were on holiday in Southern Turkey at a place which was infested with the worst sort of Brit who represent our country by getting horribly drunk at 10 in the morning and urinating in the streets - half naked - as the temperature rises into the 100s.

We used to go to the same place for breakfast every morning and cringe as we watched red-faced, shaven-headed yobs walking around with beer cans shouting at the locals. The proprietor of the cafe had obviously had enough of Great Britain as it appeared to him, and became more and more belligerent toward us as time went on.

On the last morning, he asked what 'Lovely Jubbly' meant (he had obviously heard it as many times as I had) and I honestly replied that I did not know. He did not believe me and said that I MUST know what it meant. I was English, after all. I insisted I did not.

He had his revenge when he represented his country by short-changing us by about £40 when I paid for a £9 breakfast with a high denomination note and was given the change from £10. There was no redress. The police were as fed up with the Brits as he was.

I could have saved that money by explaining - as I have come to believe - that 'Jubbly' is a Cockney rendition of the word, Jubilee. 

Somebody said the other day that anyone who has the burning ambition to become Prime Minister should be precluded from ever holding the office on the grounds that they would not have the right attitude to do the job properly from the outset. The latest one actually had the ambition of being a king when he was a boy.

This is why I am a monarchist who approves of hereditary peers.

24 comments:

  1. The bank holidays this week are Thursday and Friday giving a long 4 day weekend.

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    1. Oh right. H.I. must have been thinking of the half-term. She does not teach on Monday.

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  2. By the way, Luvvly Jubbly was what Del boy always said in Only Fools and Horses and I thought that was where it came from. Everything going alright, a few simple things, and it was "luvvly jubbly".

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    1. I said what it means, simple things going well and everything is Luvvly jubbly. Substitute hunky dory if you want.

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    2. I have just looked up Hunky Dory. Hunky comes from the Dutch word honk meaning home or base (it says here) and nobody knows where Dory comes from. Now I need to find out how the Jubilee Clip got its name.

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    3. I was meaning hunky dory is a synonym for luvvly jubbly. The reason for the inventor of the Jubilee clip calling it that is unknown.

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    4. Have the report on my desk by lunchtime tomorrow please.

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  3. I wrote my comment three times and it wouldn't publish and it was the same as what Rachel said !! It comes from the triangular orange drink slogan ..... ' lovely Jubbly, lovely Jubbly orange drink ..... and only 4d ' ..... then taken up by John Sullivan , the writer of Only Fools. It was also said to mean a nice pair of jiggling breasts .... ' a great pair of lovely jubbly's ' !!! XXXX

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    1. Holes are being put through my beautiful theory. I may have to re-write the whole thesis. My life's work lies in ruins.

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    2. I have given you an explanation of the Eurovision controversy over at Rachels .... that's how sad I am !!! XXXX

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    3. And much appreciated it was. It's a good thing that somebody attempts to follow this crap, otherwise where would we be in this world of fake news?

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    4. I suspect that the drinks ad used an existing expression it didn't create it.

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    5. That's what I hoped, Mrs C., but having done a bit of trawling I cannot prove it. I am just going to have to accept that my theory was a creation of my own arse.

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  4. Interpretations can be varying and very broad. I've grown to expect it. Some wrong, some right and everything in between.

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  5. Frankly I try to never let his name pass my lips - I just despise him and everything he stands for.

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  6. We have a street party in the village on the bank holiday . I’ve been working so have not got involved in the planning but I will turn up like a sad sack on the day

    I like the Queen , she’s a tough old broad

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    1. I like the Queen too, especially having watched a lot of her home movies tonight on BBC 1.

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  7. That's a nice thread to come down to. I like the Queen, too.

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    1. Only evil socialists don't like the Queen...

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  8. To be honest I'm happy enough with the holidays (not that it makes much difference to self employed) but entirely uninterested to the whole royalist shenanigans - I guess I can't get past the preposterousness of it all and just don't get all the forelock tugging and vicarious affection. My wife says I'm too 'logical' to be a royalist - she's probably right.... but then how can you be 'too' logical???

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    1. Your comment was put into spam for some reason. I suppose I just like tradition and don't like change. I don't like republicans who care enough about it to demand the end of the monarchy either, but I am equally baffled by the forelock-tugging members of the lower orders. I mean, what happened after the death of Diana? That was mass hysteria, but also a low point for the Royal Family - for all the wrong reasons.

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