These kind of antics seem common place in Australian radio, there is a particularly odious man called Kyle Sandilands who is known for sexist remarks, and also a not very nice segment of putting a lie detector test to a 14 year old girl in front of her mother which didn't end nice!

Anyway this story is horrible

Any civvy, and particularly civil servant, who tries to introduce themselves as their rank equivalent, is a complete and utter turd.

Most of these people probably wouldn't get past the initial filter interview for armed service, let alone get through selection or complete basic training.

Except, perhaps, if they were to apply to be an admin clerk. All 3 services seem to have their share of grossly overweight admin clerks. It seems to be the thing you do when you can't get into any other trade. That, and the military police.

Careful, you'll damage ligaments jerking that hard.

Looks like the outrage bus has just done a 10 second quarter mile from a standing start.

At the moment it has not been confirmed that it was a suicide.

Even if it was, we are not sure the 2 are linked.

The media are lapping this up, which is ironic, because IF the 2 are linked, it is the media which created the very set of circumstances that led to the suicide.

Indeed.

Cue the conspiracy theorists and the D of E and MI6

Was seen leaving the scene of the crime.



I've never been in a private hospital (hardly ever been in a NHS one) but I'm quite surprised a nurse would take an initial call from random member(s) of the public.
Thought they'd have a nice plush comfy reception, with a receptionist(s) to take calls?

The nurse was also the first thing I thought about as well. Never mind disturbing the privacy of a troubled pregnancy, those giggling idiots placed the nurse in an impossible situation - does she challenge someone when there's the possibility it might be the Queen?? No, of course she bloody doesn't. She's clearly terrified, you can hear the nerves in her voice, and she's made a mistake which hit global headlines and embarrassed the hospital.

She probably spent the last day terrified, confused and overwhelmed, fearful of what it may mean to her employment (though it appears the hospital weren't taking any action), and highly embarrassed.

I like a good prank as much as anyone but this was extremely ill-advised from the start and the consequences have turned tragic, resulting in family losing a wife and mother. A terribly sad chain of events.

That is the nature of pranks. You are making your judgement with the benefit of hindsight.

Most people me included felt at the time it was quite funny and ridiculous.

If we could judge everything with the benefit of hindsight the world would be a much better place.

Funny?.....It was about as funny as the clap - I can't believe that tinpot radio stations still do the 'prank call' routine. Even in the 80's, when this sort of thing was at its peak, it was never particularly amusing, unless your idea of funny is the tedious Jeremy Beadle-style of comedy.

Hopefully, this episode will finish it off, once and for all.

Just by looking at her Facebook page,I,d rule out suicide. Nice little distraction from the Max Clifford saga.

Any theories?

So pranks are not funny, Trigger happy TV, Dom Joly, Dennis Pennis , Mark Dolan, Balls of Steel, Sacha Baron Cohen have all being doing Prankster humour since the 1980s etc etc are not funny.


That is the thing about humour some people like it some dont.

You are probably so far up your own being superior you can just write off a whole comedy Genre.

Bllocks. Just a moment's thought and a hint of common sense would have told them this 'prank' was a bad idea. It's excruciatingly obvious that ringing a hospital ward at 5am and duping hospital staff with the intention of disturbing a sick woman going through a troubled pregnancy and obtaining private medical information is NOT a good idea. At what point did someone think, 'yes, what an inspired concept, let's do it'.

Never mind the potential for causing stress to the sick patient and their baby, what about the nurses they placed in an impossible situation? Perhaps they might have considered these things for a moment?

A prank call is the likes of Steve Penk answering a classified ad for a moped and trying to buy a mop head (still makes me crack up). Not this. You prank call friends, pizza shops, supermarkets, etc - not a hospital ffs.

But you thought it was funny? What was funny about it?

And a glance at most social media sites yesterday would have told you most people didn't find it funny at all, probably because most people have brains. It was pretty poorly received in general.

Humour like that depends massively on the target, which is why Dom Joly, Dennis Pennis and Sasha Baron Cohen were often funny, but could also be painfully unfunny.

Two tinpot dj's targeting a nurse doing a honest day's work, and a nurse who didn't seem to have English as a first language at that, was not humourous in the slightest.....It actually came across as almost patronising bullying in the manner they tried to demean those they spoke to.

You must've listened to a whole different "prank call" to the one I heard being broadcast

I listened to the one where they rang up in the early hours and asked to "speak to Kate, my granddaughter".

Perhaps you're hearing what you want to hear.

What a massive over reaction. How were they to know that the person answering the phone apparently didn't have English as their first language? Also, this nurse did not give any information out, that was someone else. In the clip I heard they did not sound patronising or bullying at all (of course you may think that the Queen sounds patronising and bullying), not funny I'll give you.

What was funny was the ridiculousness of it all.
The two Aussies using the most ridiculous impersonation of the queen, them laughing at each other that they got through, them taking the out of the establishment, them taking the mickey out of the press for conflating such a non story.
All those things had comedic merit to them whether youy like it or not is irrelevant. Those in authority are a legitimate target to poke fun at.

All this crap about targeting an bullying the nurse is ridiculous.

And as for Cronus saying most people did not find it funny does that really surprise when you look at British media sites to find British people dont like johhny Foreigner taking the mickey out of a British monarchy. That is because the monarchy are set up as being above us.
I see you have already fallen for the poor saintly little Kate.

No doubt you have her picture sat next to your one of Saint Diana.

Just sounds like you found it funny because you're anti-Royal tbh!

As it happens i found the whole thing was weird and painful to listen to.

You're confusing 'ridiculous' with 'squirmingly awful'. It wasn't funny or ridiculous, it was car crash radio, awful from the outset, schoolyard 'humour' ill-conceived and ill-advised. There was no 'comedy' as far as I could tell.

I agree those in authority are legitimate targets of fun, but really, you call someone in the middle of the night in hospital, in the delicate early stages of pregnancy when you know she has a serious condition? You can't see how inappropriate and over the line that is, even through your anti-royal specs?

And I'm dismayed that you found the discomfort of the nurses 'comedic'. You can hear the panic in their voices - "Sh*t, is that really the Queen, do I dare challenge her? Do I hell. Sh*t, what do I do? Sh*t." As it happens that has backfired in the worst possible way, but you carry on ridiculing them, it clearly gives you a hard-on.




Waaaaay wide of the mark. Making things up to support your argument again?

I'm not hugely 'pro'-royal, neither am I anti-royal. They exist and they're part of our nation. Couldn't care less for Diana, I know a few people who knew her personally, including a few Horseguards who definitely knew her personally. Wills & Kate seem decent enough and the majority of intelligent people can see past Kate's status when she's pregnant and fairly seriously ill.

And your excuse for people not finding the 'prank' funny is because it wuz forenners wot dun it? What about the hundreds of comments from Australians and other nationalities condemning the call. What's their reason? Methinks you're drowning lad.

You miss the point - If they had somehow got through to somebody of authority, or even managed to get through to William or Kate, then there would have been the potential for some real humour, but simply putting on supposedly funny voices and talking to two lowly nurses really isn't cutting edge comedy.

Glad we've solved that one then Quincy

And who are people on a message board to decide upon her cause of death?!
This whole thread doesn't sit right with me. There's some weird folk who go to the rugby.

Thanks.

You've just answered your own question. This sort of stuff is infantilised bølløcks.



Darling, I can "write off" the entire tabloid section of the UK press, plus much of the rest of it, plus all the 'reality TV', plus lots of other stuff. I wish I could be a right-on as you.

But, much more generally, I repeat what I said much earlier: we do not, as yet, know what caused her to end her life (and probably never will, fully). There may have been other factors that were involved. Possibly not. Possibly. So just keep polishing the cyber pitchforks.