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There’s A Reason It’s Pronounced “Maudlin…”
Telegraph breaking news: Queen becomes latest victim of cancel culture as portrait is removed from Oxford college.
The Queen has become the latest victim of cancel culture after students at an Oxford College voted to remove her portrait.
The Queen’s likeness hung in the middle common room (MCR) of Magdalen College, which has a long association with members of the Royal family.
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MCR president Matthew Katzman told The Telegraph: “It has been taken down. It was decided [emphasis mine, and note: typical passive-(voice)-aggressive] to leave the common room neutral. That was what this was about.”
“The college will have plenty of depictions of various things, but the common room is meant to be a space for all to feel welcome.” [LOL. Unless you’re a fan of the Queen, apparently.]
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The vote was called in the interest of domestic and international students who might object to the imagery.
Several of my relatives are British taxpayers who contribute to the foolishness that embodies 21st-century Oxford University. Where do they go to get their money* back?
Magdalen has indicated it will not intervene to reverse the decision, despite the long association between
the British taxpayerroyalty and the college, which the Queen herself visited in 1948 to receive an Honorary Degree from Oxford University, and again in 2008 to mark its 550th anniversary.Sir John Hayes, chairman of the Common Sense Group of Conservative MPs, said: “The sad thing is that you would think that the people of Magdalen College Oxford are reasonably bright, and this decision would suggest that they are not.
Of course, they’re not. As Mr. She was fond of saying, “they’re students. They don’t know very much, and they’re here to learn. It’s our job to educate them, not to celebrate the immature and childish ideas they brought with them.”
Crimenutely.
How maudlin. Not to say, moronic. Or, even, dare I say, idiotic.
*Millions and billions of British pounds. At what point should those taxpayers expect a grateful note of appreciation from those whose paths, from all parts of the world, they’ve greased in the furtherance of an academic degree from one of the most prestigious universities in the world? (Pro Tip: British taxpayers; don’t hold your breath.)
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The first mistake was allowing students to vote on this.
Almost sixty years ago, the Oxford Union said they wouldn’t defend King and Country. More of the same.
I think that vote was in the ’30’s.
The 2nd was actually listening to these idiots.
Yep. 1933. So almost 90 years ago. Time flies, etc.
So when Oxford students look up at a portrait of the queen these days, they shudder and say, “I just don’t feel welcome here. Not welcome at all. No, not at all.”
What twits!
Where are the adults in charge these days? Cowering in the hall closets like a bunch of fearful children? Grow a pair, you fools, and then grow up.
Long live the Queen. Now for some good news, Macron gets slapped in face: https://nypost.com/2021/06/08/emmanuel-macron-slapped-in-face-on-visit-to-french-village/
So why is it pronounced “Maudlin”? Now don’t make me feel dumb like my wife does.
Oh, I know. I bet Magdalen College is pronounced “Maudlin.”
Never mind.
Wait, that doesn’t make sense. Maudlin?
Shameful.
College students are so…tiresome. This is true worldwide, apparently.
Is that really how it’s pronounced? It’s not “Mag-duh-lin”?
That’s right up there with Woolfardisworthy.
It really is pronounced maudlin.
Because: The English.
English people are unable to correctly pronounce many words in the English language; for example, Leichestershire. I have a friend from there, and he insists upon calling it “Lester.”
Um, about that.
Also, Dinah Rose, the president of Magdalen College:
Ought to be “moe-ron.”
Though all this shock from the nation that gave us ‘sup? is a bit….
It is notable that the Oxford student body isn’t any brighter now than they were in 1933.
Worcestershire sauce.
Yeah. I always thought it was pretty stupid, too.
It will be enough to remove all vestiges of the past and wall it off, so everyone knows that things on the other side of the high brick wall are Bad, and one need no more than that.
LOL. Reminds me of that Mark Twain story:
At Oxford though, time, and smarts, seem to be running backwards…
From the college website:
Meh. Were they wise when they put the picture up? I doubt it.
Perhaps, ma’am, you could explain Southwark and High Holburn?
Unlikely. I couldn’t really explain “maudlin” either, till I looked it up…
One either absorbs such things by osmosis, or one doesn’t. Trying to find the way, or the rules, is an exercise in frustration, and one should never make assumptions. (See Leicester vs. Cirencester. Or the fact that people from Manchester are called Mancunians, whereas people from Lancaster are called Lancastrians.) Most of the time, I think that if there’s any logic anywhere in the story, it lies in the history of English and its roots in so many other languages.
It is a good, and quick, means of identifying Outlanders, though.
Just as, around here, anyone who doesn’t pronounce the local towns of Versailles, Charleroi and Dubois, as “Ver-sails,” “Sharle-roy” and “Du-boys,” immediately marks himself as Not One Of Us.
Just like “Cholmondeley” is pronounced “Chumley.” Or Leicester = Lester.
Matthew Katzman, who is the epitome of the American privileged elite, is behind this.
Are you in Pennsylvania?