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Narrowly missed getting a telegram from his wife
by nickkell 5y ago
Narrowly missed getting a telegram from his wife
- DigitalSea 5y agoUnderrated comment.
- spzb 5y agoIt hasn’t been a telegram for at least 20 years. She sends a birthday card these days.
- dalbasal 5y agoDoes this count as a technological regression?
- jermaustin1 5y agoI'm sure they have automated a lot of it, so maybe it has progressed in that less man hours are required per message, and on top of that, they are probably in color, with pictures, which is way more than you get with a telegram.
- dalbasal 5y agoThis comment could literally (literally literal) be an imperial apologist in one of Asimov's books... even the concise, urging, commaed style. You promised us instant messaging. All we got is colour postcards. This is the beginning of a dark age.
- bobthepanda 5y agoI feel like people would appreciate a handwritten physical memento over, say, a short SMS. Most electronic messaging forms are either closed (do you have Telegram? How bout Signal? Or maybe Messenger? Snapchat? Etc.) or basically inundated with electronic spam. If I got an email claiming to be from the Queen of England I’d just think it’d be a more ballsy version of the Nigerian prince scam.
- skinkestek 5y agoActually these days you can send coloured images with Telegram, it is really really smooth although I don't think the Queen will want to depend on it ;-)
- Angostura 5y agoYou also get a card on your 60th wedding anniversary
- atulatul 5y agoYou get the tele-message (not a telegram) from the Queen when you turn 100. But it seems you have to apply for it. https://youtu.be/7Quyte7zN70?list=PLkX9Ba6AAK_2g3Y9Y8MdLbbcTHjk6usH6&t=731 https://youtu.be/7Quyte7zN70?list=PLkX9Ba6AAK_2g3Y9Y8MdLbbcT...
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- toomanybeersies 5y agoYou also get one on your 60th wedding anniversary. I organised one for my grandparents a couple of years back. They also received a card from the Prime Minister [of New Zealand], the Leader of the Opposition, their local MP, and a couple of other random politicians and dignitaries. It's not something that I thought about at the time, but I'm quite happy that it's something you need to apply for. It would be a bit disconcerting if the Queen had access to the birth, death, and marriage records of everybody in New Zealand.
- nicoburns 5y agoAre birth, death and marriage records not public?
- d1str0 5y agoYes but localized and rarely digitized
- skissane 5y agoI don’t know about New Zealand, but nowadays in Australia recent births deaths and marriages records are only available to their subjects and close relatives. Two reasons (a) privacy (b) helps prevent identity theft, since birth certificates (and sometimes also marriage certificates) are often accepted as identity documents
- OldHand2018 5y agoFor people in the states, you can get appropriate cards from the White House for important occasions. I sent Bill Clinton an invitation to my high school graduation party, and got a letter back from the White House telling me to work hard in college. But mailing a birth announcement to the White House is a much better idea. They send a card back to the child welcoming them to the world. You can file it away and then give it to your kid when they are an adult and tell them this is the first letter they ever got.
- 867-5309 5y agopretty sure she gave him a signal
- gumby 5y agoShe sent the card (it’s a card now) to her mother (also Queen Elisabeth) when the latter turned 100. I believe my grandmother waited around for this, at the end. She had never been particularly interested in the monarchy, I’d thought, but when she got older and had trouble reading I noticed that among her large print gardening books were a couple on the monarchy.
- blackshaw 5y agoThe question I want answered is, if she lives to 100 will she send a card to herself?
- gumby 5y agoI have also long wondered about this Bertrand Russell paradox.
- corobo 5y agoHer royal assistant will get stuck in a loop sending thank you for contacting the queen messages
- gumby 5y agoAnd the halting theorem says there is nothing to be done about it!
- Jouvence 5y agoThe UK civil service agrees.
- skinkestek 5y agoThe UK civil service is actually fairly good, isn't it, or is it just the Internet facing side of it that gets great reviews?
- ant6n 5y ago...with only two months to go for the three digits.
- gumby 5y agoBase 10. Nobody so far has gotten to the more interesting 7 digits.
- Erwin 5y agoShe looked at the message she'd crafted and penned - A letter to Philip that she'd never send. From reddit's resident poet, "poem_for_your_sprog": https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/mnerwn/prince_philip_the_duke_of_edinburgh_and_consort/gtx2xtq/ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/mnerwn/prince_ph...
- bgroat 5y agoBy the 2nd line of your comment I had lost my shit. I thought The Sprog had emerged on HN