Grissom Posted June 12, 2011 Share Posted June 12, 2011 Didnt they mention last week that this weeks show would be at a different time ? Trooping the colour was good. They mentioned that last year 1 million people watched it on TV in germany, so definitely a market for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llamatron Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Never heard of this before but i am enjoying it and love the queens hat today! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkey104 Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 If I enjoyed cricket then I would prefer cricket to be on. I do like Saturday kitchen, however being an ex serviceman I love Trooping of the Colour. For me it is the martial music, the uniforms, the enormous pride of the young lads on parade, as an ex drill instructor it is trying to find faults( which I never do) and the pomp and circumstance which only we Brits can do. Saturday kitchen is on every week, cricket, football, rugby are on tv constantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matsalleh Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I doubt that the tourists who attend the Trooping of the Colour are the same each year and I understand that it is a big tourist attraction. Those tourists bring a lot of money with them and spend it in the UK. It was said that a guy comes from Australia every year just to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRESLEY Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 This isn't meant to be an anti-monarchy thread so much, as a rant about coming back from walking my pooch to sit down to my usual fare of Satuday Kitchen, which I didn't see because it had started at 9.00am. so they could put Trooping the Colour on. From what I can see, it is exactly the same as it was last year and the year before so is there a need to show it live and bugger around with the schedules to do this? John X Write to BBC I'm sure they will apologise for changing the schedule and making you miss a big girly cooking programe which is on every sat all year round, whilst just once a year our proud Heroes are parading their well earned Battle honours for which many a person has lost their lives fighting for their country, anyhow if you had looked in a TV book you wouldn't have missed such drivel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan Tamudo Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 It was said that a guy comes from Australia every year just to see it. It's a novelty to the Aussies, the sight of scroungers filling up taxpayer-funded mansions watching aircraft with their children amuses them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matsalleh Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 It's a novelty to the Aussies, the sight of scroungers filling up taxpayer-funded mansions watching aircraft with their children amuses them. Quite a rant for just one Australian coming to London!Maybe he has other reasons to attend this event as well.Such as visiting family or wanting to see for himself how friendly Sheffielders are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastbank Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 It's a novelty to the Aussies, the sight of scroungers filling up taxpayer-funded mansions watching aircraft with their children amuses them. yes tax payer funded...and she can have my tax anytime....god save the queen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
depoix Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 This isn't meant to be an anti-monarchy thread so much, as a rant about coming back from walking my pooch to sit down to my usual fare of Satuday Kitchen, which I didn't see because it had started at 9.00am. so they could put Trooping the Colour on. From what I can see, it is exactly the same as it was last year and the year before so is there a need to show it live and bugger around with the schedules to do this? John X in answer to your question ,it's a very british institution i would say of course its the same each year, its akin to the opening of parliament traditions dont often change and the trooping of the colour goes way back in our history when trooping the regimental colours was a way to show the soldiers where to regroup with their own regiment,and remember the guards are the oldest regiment in the british forces so who better to be on parade with an amazing display of close order drill,after all no one does drill better than the guards regiments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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