With Charles now being the King, Camilla is now the Queen Consort. Can any of you Brits explain why the wife of the King becomes the Queen Consort, but the husband of the Queen was only a Prince Consort? Why wasn't Phillip the King Consort?
Whaaa? I had to look it up and damn that makes a weird kind of sense. But apparently he gains all the "unmarked mute swans and sturgeon"?
He wasn't even Prince Consort, he was just a prince. The reason we don't have King Consorts is because "King" is a higher status than "Queen", therefore "King Consort" would still imply a higher status than a Queen Regnant.
No, Philip was the Prince Consort. Apparently I'm not the only person who wonders about this seeming inequality. According to an article I just stumbled across, the answer apparently boils down to "Because that's the way we do it." https://www.the-sun.com/news/81398/why-prince-philip-not-king/?rec_article=true
I'm afraid not. There's only been one Prince Consort, that was Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria. Prince Phillip was made a Prince of the United Kingdom but specifically not titled Prince Consort. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_consort#United_Kingdom It may also have something to do with a consort retaining their title in the event of the death of their husband. Elizabeth's mother remained Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) after death of George VI, and her grandmother remained Queen Mary after George V died. If a male consort outlived his wife and was a King Consort, he would then be titled King even while there was a King Regnant on the throne - and that wouldn't do at all! I wonder if Queen will now change their name to King?
The building looks to be what we call a town house duplex. The issue with the roof isn’t all that uncommon and may just be a separate ridge vent. On occasion plans approved by zoning boards get vetoed by the fire marshal because of something the original review over looked. In this building the original plans as approved might have called for the attic space to cover the entire building, and both units, with vents at the gable ends. Fire marshal or building inspectors may have decided they couldn’t do it that way and a fire wall had to separate the two spaces, and the ridge vent may have been the more cost effective way to vent the one side. It could be a dozen reasons. Usually with construction it comes down to what’s quickest, easiest, and cheapest.
Generally he was known as the Duke of Edinburgh... the reason he wasn't king consort was that he was half German (Mountbatten being an anglisation of Battenburg) and they didn't think that the people would accept a German king only 8 years after ww2 ended.
This reminds me of the scene in Blackadder Goes Forth where Captain Darling is accused of being a German spy, and he protests with "Look, I'm as British as Queen Victoria!" Blackadder: "So you're father's German, you're half-German, and you married a German?"
It would allow us to see if the right half of the building is deeper than the left, thereby explaining the higher ridge.
So... I just discovered Microsoft Word actually has a Reader's View function that basically allows your document to appear like a book. After nearly a quarter-century of me using Word (re: since I was an eight-year-old boy.) I swear, I'm not actually an 83-year-old man still stuck in the mid-20th century where computers were still these giant bulky contraptions that took up half a room, and floppy disks weren't even invented yet.
I've been using Word for at least two decades, and I didn't know that. How is it accessed? Never mind -- I found it. It does what you say -- sort of. But it's very much an imperfect representation of a book. It doesn't display headers and footers, and it just scrolls (horizontally) through pages so, if you always begin new pages on an odd (right-hand) page, it doesn't display the blank page on the left. Nonetheless, it is a somewhat useful (albeit crippled) tool. If anyone wants to experiment with it, it's an option from the "View" tab on the ribbon menu.
Oo, I had a proud moment because I knew about the reader's function and I'm old. What I don't know is: why would I want my document to appear on the screen as a book? Awaiting enlightenment...
Because, if you are using Word to format your manuscript file for upload to a POD (Print-On-Demand) service such as Amazon KDP, you'll probably want to get a sense of what the final product is going to look like before you upload the file. Depending on what you see, you may then decide to adjust margins, change type size, or increase or decrease the line spacing.
Windows 11, on the surface at least, seems like their least complicated OS so far. May be a good thing for many, and I’m not saying it isn’t, but it just feels a little… ‘lite’ compared to previous versions.
I protest the very existence of this thread. Random facts are fine. Useless facts are items of water-cooler wonder. But in this thread we are polluting the meaning of each of those cornerstones of modern conversation. Please hear me out. If a fact is random, it's a delightful manifestation of the unforeseen. In this thread, we offer only a subset of the random. The facts here are random after redacting usefulness. A cryptographer would immediately seize on that weakness. Random AND useless in a strict Boolean interpretation is the intersection of random and useless, not an encompassing summation. That intersection has less entropy than just random and is by rigorous definition not random. If a fact is useless, it must serve no constructive purpose. Yet here, purportedly useless facts serve to cripple the aleatoric purity of randomness, immediately imbuing the useless with constructive functionality. If we were going to be honest, I think "stochastic and low utility thoughts and facts" would be a much better thread title. I defer, of course, to the court of public opinion regarding the fitness of this post in this venue. I rest my case on two pillars. I believe my thoughts here should be recognized as reasonably random. I doubt any prediction even a moron would spout this nonsense. Everything expressed here is completely useless. If the former is debatable, the latter is as inarguable as a law of nature. The jury must acquit.
Ah, an excellent summation from a cryptographic perspective, but I must counter-protest that the thread was not originally intended to exist only at the intersection of random and useless, but is in fact a commingling of two original threads—Random Thoughts and Useless Facts. Therefore it represents not the intersection, but rather the full extent of both ideas combined. Both threads were getting too long for stability's sake, so our favorite Moose decided to combine them into one new thread. In retrospect maybe not the greatest idea, since each of them were always massively poular, so a combination of the two should theoretically be twice as active and run into stability issues twice as fast. But so be it, what is done is done!
The jury is contemplating lunch and quit listening halfway through the argument. Ergo, jurors will be making random decisions that are essentially useless for purposes of justice.
There are only five known species to go through menopause, and four of those are whales—beluga whales, killer whales, short-finned pilot whales, and narwhals. The fifth species is us.
