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.

Thank god the weirdos are limited to rugby, eh?

What an unusual and unnecessary way to interpret what I have said.

But that is your OPINION. some people find pranksters funny. Whether you find it funny or not is irrelevant it is a legitimate type of comedy.

I found it funny because it was so bad and so ridiculous that it took up the news for a whole day. It really parodies the press and makes them seem more ridiculous with their fawning over a celebrity and relegating important news off the telly and front pages.


You also seem to find it difficult to separate what happened with what is going on in your head. They talked to two nurses. Not to Kate , not to the patient not to the foetus two nurses. Where you get all this crap about it being upsetting and distressing for the patient is ridiculous.

That is going to be a lot less than than the shiite she will have to put up with from the press for the next 50 years because the press cater for people like you with wall to wall celebrity coverage.

Of course i feel sorry for the nurses caught in the middle of it but a quick i will hand you over to the management should solve the difficulty.

I would guess that when faced with a tricky or delicate situation at work all of us say i will pass you on to the manager, HR, Pr person or whatever

so you dont like some comedy


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You write it off how.

You pretend It doesnt exist, you ignore it, you tell people it is irrelevant.

Unfortunately it is not going away and unfortunately it is important. That is why i think it is OK to take the out of the celebrity culture. To make the tabloids look irrelevant, to make the celebrities less important and to highlight the ridiculousness of it all. An example being that this thread will soon be longer than the one on Palestine and i know which one is more important.







I agree with you on that one.

No probs, glad to help. Another point or 2 would be
1/ suicide by hanging is extremely rare for women, they are more likely to o/d or slit their wrists.
2/ killing yourself on your way to work is very strange.
3/ no mention of a suicide note.

mine is on the wall next to king william

Never a truer post posted

Nope, don't see any of that. Just a childish, ill-conceived call. Methinks you're reading waaaaay to much to into it to suit your anti-royal agenda.


Of course, it helps if you actually read what you're replying to, the key phrase being what I actually wrote: "[ipotential [/ifor causing stress to the sick patient and their baby". We're all fully aware they didn't speak to Kate, doesn't change the fact they tried to.




There we go again, making things up. I utterly detest celebrity culture. That doesn't mean I can't see how despicable this 'prank' was.


Not sure they would have been on duty at 4am or 5am. And I imagine they wouldn't expect people to be pranking hospitals in the early hours with the intention of disturbing a sick and pregnant patient. Only a complete tw@ would think that was a good idea. Or indeed, humorous.

imagine if the info they'd received was 'She's just had a miscarriage'
funny, lol, lmao?

You don't prank hospitals end of

on the other similar programme like Dom Jolly etc, they get their 'victims' to sign forms to say that it's fine to air their particular prank, no signature and it's consigned to the dustbin.

At what point did they thinking making a prank call to a hospital (regardless of who the patient is) was in any way amusing? Are 999 prank calls funny?