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iPod Gets The Royal Nod
frostilicus2 writes "Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England seems to have taken quite an interest in technology recently. She's now getting hip and funky with an Apple iPod." From the article: "If the thought of the Queen trolling through Apple's online jukebox, iTunes looking for 'hits' is a little too much for the frontal lobes, the Sun assures its readers that, like most things, she probably has a footman to do it for her."
How is this news? Where's the page 3 girl?
I dub thee Sir Jobs. The Royal Reality Distortion Field will be something to truly fear.
That there should be more Queen on iPods.
"I'm just a poor boy... nobody loves me..."
Can any of you guys hack the iTunes Music Store so every listed song is actually God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols, just for a day or two?
shouldn't that be a onepod or maybe a wepod
It only costs me ten bucks and a bit of self-respect to get the royal nod in a back alley. And it's certainly pleasing to all of my lobes.
"Mom, I want an i-Pod" "WHAT?!" "Come on mom...all the world leaders got one!" "Oh really now...*scornful*" "G.W and the Queen got one!" "I suppose if the USA and England went to war you would follow?" "Well o'course, if all the cool countries were doing it."
This would make for the most awkward iPod commercial, ever.
I mean, I'm listening to The White Stripe' "Seven Nation Army", and now I have this image of the Queen rocking out in some sort of a shuffle-type fashion in my head.
"Back and forth, through my mind!"
She's probably too embarassed to have everyone hear Her Robbie Williams and Duran Duran collection out loud. Say, when is Her Highness' silhouette-dancing ad going to be released? Maybe she'll sell out to Sir Gates and appear at a conference screaming "Commoners, Commoners, Commoners!"
... and then they built the supercollider.
It's Her Majesty. Not Her Royal Majesty. She is the Sovereign and does not need the Royal tag added because she IS Royal. Yanks have some difficulty with this, no doubt, but that's the way it is.
I hate it when people get her forms of address wrong. Kinda like calling Mr. Bush The Honorable President.
I were thinking of posting an amusing reply but I will have my footman do it for me instead.
Ah, but the Queen is technically above the law. If they try to sue, then she can just declare herself immune from the law.
Normally such irresponsible behaviour would cause a constitutional crisis, and probably require imediate abdication or abolision of the monarchy, but if it was against the record industry, I think a lot of people would see her point.
I wonder if she pays royalties.
Direct away from face when opening.
I think its probably about time to point out that The Sun is a brand of toilet paper with funny pictures and words printed on it to entertain while you take a dump. To quote it in with any seriousness outside the bathroom just isn't done.
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The only thing wrong is expecting any kind of journalism from The Sun, let alone 'top quality' journalism.
This is the sort of paper that uses bold and italics in its editorials, just to make sure you get the point.
Enough said, I think.
http://page3.co.uk/
More interesting anyway.
The official title is Her Royal Highness in the third person or Your Royal Highness in the second person.
However being a republican I would address her as 'Yo Beth' just to see the reaction on the faces of all the sycophants.
We assume she is not searching the royalty free or pirated stuff.
The Queen does not need to engage in Piracy, She could simply issue Letters of Marque authorizing a Privateer to undertake the mission on Her behalf.
The Sun is knowingly, amusingly and mostly-harmlessly lowbrow. Sure, it prints a load of rubbish, but it knows that just as well as we do, and nobody takes it too seriously. The Mail is poisonous, self-important and comes damn near to inciting hate crime imho.