Eh? What? Sorry?

David

So Kate & Wills are getting it together. Quick run down on a BBC page which says: _"Following the break-up, negative stories about the Middleton family appeared in the press. These included allegations Kate's mother had chewed gum at William's passing-out parade and had used the words "toilet" and "pardon" in front of the Queen."_ I get the gum and toilet thing. But had no idea saying _pardon_ was dissing the old girl. So what is formally correct for not hearing what Liz has just said to you?

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miss annie

@David 'What?' is the correct form. Never sorry unless one is apologising for a faux pas. Prince Philip favours 'Eh?' apparently.

markpack

The story has a large degree of myth about it, or at least that's what Buckingham Palace said when written to:

<a href="http://www.markpack.org.uk/what-should-i-do-if-i-nibble-her-majestys-ankle-by-mistake/">The Prequel</a>
<a href="http://www.markpack.org.uk/the-letter-from-her-majesty-part-1/">Part 1</a>
<a href="http://www.markpack.org.uk/the-letter-from-her-majesty-part-2/">Part 2</a>
<a href="http://www.markpack.org.uk/the-letter-from-her-majesty-part-3/">Part 3</a>
<a href="http://www.markpack.org.uk/the-letter-from-her-majesty-part-4/">Part 4</a>
<a href="http://www.markpack.org.uk/the-finale-the-letter-is-revealed/">The climax</a>

kreuzkav

Who cares! What a bunch of boring toffs!

David

I presume anyone who could afford GPS would either get sent to the Isle of Wight or beheaded in your world, kreuzkav.

andy

Once upon a time, pretending to be a dog who writes letters to The Queen was more than enough to get you sectioned.

miss annie

I think it probably still should be.

markpack

@andy I may well get that turned into a T-shirt

nick_m

Apparently the media doesn't like Kate's Mum, Carole, because she was an air hostess. Coincidentally, my mother-in-law is called Carole and was also an air hostess. It has never been the source of much controversy before, but then I'm not next in line for the throne. Still, on the basis of 'it's good enough for royalty, it's good enough for me'; I now feel justified in my choice of wife.

andy

 Flying used to be cool, once. I would imagine being an air hostess in the sixties marked a woman out as being about as cosmopolitan and adventurous as it was possible to be.

miss annie

I have a pal who is a stewardess on Virgin's Upper Class service, it's still a pretty glamourous life.

tosscat

*Doors to manual.*

ADGS

Whenever I am stood in an airport queue in my socks, clutching my shoes in one hand and my transparent bag of tiny toiletries in the other, I remember those early Bond films where the mere fact that 007 was <i>going on an aeroplane</i> was glamorous enough to merit a play of the Bond theme, and sigh.

topsfield

There's bit in one of the books when he flies to New York and has the best dinner at the fanciest hotel in town, which consists of a prawn cocktail followed by a hamburger and chips with a bottle of liebfraumilch. That always makes me feel a bit nostalgic (and a bit spoilt).

andy

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kreuzkav

Being cabin crew with Virgin Atlantic, especially in Upper class is probably as high as it gets in the industry. But after years of flying with low cost airlines I've got used to the whole grabbing a seat on a bus feeling.

I'm old enough to remember the last dying days of airline travel as being something exotic, but I think easyjet and ryanair etc. opened up the airways to the masses. I know the middle class have taken advantage of it more, but I think from a Irish/Polish etc. emmigrant perspective that many working class people could travel more as a result.

tosscat

I thought home was the UK, sorry, England?

kreuzkav

Yes, home is England but I was also trying to look at it from an emmigrant perspective, not my own. I'm not Polish etc. Please re-read.

tosscat

I did re-read. I didn't think it was clear.

kreuzkav

I was trying to look at it from another point of view. How emmigrants with little money can go backwards and forwards more easily over the last 20 years to their families. Tosscat why are you being so personal about all this? It's a forum and I'm not trying to have a go at you or anyone else but debate certain issues.

tosscat

I think it's the order I read the threads in. I read the 'drunken shouty english yobs' post then this thread and they seemed contradictory. I didn't think I was being personal, just responding to themes you had posted.

kreuzkav

Yes, but in the post about the drunken English I was looking at my own nation from an outside perspective. In the post above I was looking at things from a non English perspective. And I think this is an important thing to be able to do. So many people just think of things from their own point of view.

tosscat

How true. '*but I think from a Irish/Polish etc. emmigrant perspective that*' is ambiguous though.

kreuzkav

I can be ambiguous but I'm not Polish. Surely the sentence suggests that I'm trying to look at it from an outside perspective?

I'm an English man in Stroud Green born of Irish parents though.

sincers

I'm Spartacus!

kreuzkav

I thought he died a long long time ago!

topsfield

There's nothing wrong with being dead, lots of very respectable folks have done it.

Emma

F#ck off Sincers, I'm Spartacus.

Ali

Sincers you should be Sporticus it is healthier