Do not lock your knees.
I love how they are trained to not help. Good job, braindead drones.
Except they do.
You’re still defending a public display for a monarch who doesn’t have to do any real work even once in their life and gets everything handed to them on a silver platter
A bootlicker is a bootlicker
We need somebody to be our head of state
Elect that person, maybe?
Wonder what happened to that guy. I don’t think he didn’t face any consequences for embarassing them.
I don’t see why he would have? Fainting is a natural human biological function. And if you think that someone - who put their life on the line for our country - succumbing to that is an “embarrassment”, then you are an embarrassment.
He most likely locked his knees standing at attention too long. It’s not an uncommon occurrence in training. I saw one guy do it during a locker inspection and whack his head hard on a bench on the way down. The fall itself is the real danger.
I think the point is powerful people with money don’t give a shit about the peasants. I don’t think that’s the case here, but I’m using my context clues to understand the point, given that OP used this language: “living decorations”.
There are dedicated stretcher bearers to take them away.
you do realize that there being dedicated stretcher bearers makes it about a hundred times worse, right?
Dedicated medical personnel is bad?
that ain’t my argument, and you know it, you twatwaffle.
Intentionally putting a large number of people in a position that they are likely to pass out from heat exhaustion isn’t normally considered a good thing…
Especially, when it’s because it “looks cool”. And your response to this knowledge, isn’t to change putting them in that situation, but dedicate people to picking them up and getting them out of sight.
if they knew what they were signing up for, why shouldn’t the employer be allowed to use harm mitigation rather than improve safety ?
This is exactly the capitalist excuse a lot of employers use until someone gets seriously hurt or dies.
When was this? Any context?
It looks like it’s from June 1970 during the Trooping the Colour, which was the Queen’s birthday celebration.
1970?! That photo looks so good for being half a century old.
That’s the power of film-based photography. It’s why some old movies look good even at 4K
That’s why the Star Trek TNG remaster looks so good. Yay film!
It’s why some old movies look good even at 4K
Couple other good examples of this: the original Tremors and the music video for “Last Christmas” by Wham. Both look shockingly good for their age.
