So who snipped the brakes in Diana's car then?

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Charles? Was it?

I really hate the Monarchy, I hope this is their downfall.

― C-Man (C-Man), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

They say good things about you, though

― arf, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

oh my i am shocked!

oh no wait, it's 2004...

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

but the windsors love you

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

besides, we americans don't love the windsors very much either ... WHICH MEANS YER ONE OF US COCKSUCKER!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It was one of the lizards. Alternatively, the driver might have been pissed and she wasn't wearing a seatbelt. Buckle up, kids. You know it makes sense.

Am pissed off that it took 6 years for an inquest - this is the truth of the monarchy - that despite the wanky faux populism, they are actually treated as a different type of human being under the law and customs of this fucking all-too-often ridiculously backward country.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, they say there wont be any official findings released for a year yet.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 09:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I still find the butler trial hysterical: the Queen mentions offhand in her royal chariot one day that "Oh, he did say something to me about taking some of Di's stuff...." and the whole trial just comes to a grinding halt. Like she couldn't get around to saying something for the two years this thing was going on and wasting the public funds of her loyal subjects?

I love the monarchy. It's history's longest-running soap opera.

― Catty (Catty), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 09:52 (twenty-one years ago)

So they've started murdering each other? Fine. I look forward to Liz awkwardly positioning roller skates along the route of Phil's morning constitutional.

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave B: if an official inquest six years after the fact is how distant traffic accidents get handled in this country for everyday humans then my respect for the British criminal justice system has diminished even further.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Generally the police don't investigate every car crash as suspect. Driver was pished. Isn't it for the French police anyway?

Anyone knows it was Anne's dog wot done it.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracer - nah - normal inquests would be convened very quickly in most cases.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 10:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't this inquest basically to shut up Mohammed Al Fayed who has been wanting justice for his son for all this time, despite the fact that the official French enquiry said there was nothing dodgy going on.

In what parallel universe will the British establishment blame the monarchy when outsiders (i.e. the French) won't or can't?

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Alternatively, the driver might have been pissed and she wasn't wearing a seatbelt. Buckle up, kids. You know it makes sense.

Good point I read in a newspaper once: the bodyguards and chauffeurs used by the royal family wouldn't hesitate to insist that their employers put on their seatbelts whilst travelling. A bodyguard employed by al Fayed wouldn't dare to, for fear of getting fired on the spot.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Today's newspaper said it took 6 years because the French police were investigating the accident for that time. So, unless the French police have a secret love for British monarchy, I see no favourism here. It probably took so long because it wasn't a high-priority investigation, since the cause of the accident was quite clear from the beginning. This new rumours seem like silly conspiracy theories to sell more papers, nothing more.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

it's well timed to detract from the Hutton Report no?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

On the Jeremy Vine show yesterday on Radio 2, someone was saying that the Hutton Enquiry has shown that you can point out the failings of the establishment, and this means that the Diana inquest can be honest too.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

did you know that Williams are facing yet another (third now i think) enquiry into Ayrton Senna's death? TEN YEARS AGO. not sure what this says, if anything, about Italian law and government.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in Bologna when he was taken to hospital there. As a matter of interest, who wins if the team is found guilty? Bloody Italians.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Well it wasn't me!
I was nowhere near there.

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Mei protests too much! String 'im up!

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

topical revive

― That one guy that quit, Friday, 6 July 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

http://www.totalfilm.com/news/cannes-2011-unlawful-killing-sparks-controversy

the whole idea of this film and everything about it is hilarious. what are chances of it getting leaked onto the internet if it's not going to get a release?

― DISPLAY NAMING RIGHTS (Upt0eleven), Saturday, 14 May 2011 16:21 (fourteen years ago)

four years pass...

I know for a fact we never sorted this

― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Monday, 30 November 2015 22:57 (nine years ago)

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