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Nish Sivakumar wrote: LeBron broke protocol and put his arms around Kate when they met with him yesterday.
As an American like LeBron, I wouldn't have known that was protocol. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well, now you know what to do if you happen to pose for a photo with British royalty.
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You don't need to know, so you weren't informed.
The wanker in question did need to know, so his "peeps" informed him ... that he could get a lot of publicity by acting like a wanker.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd willingly take 60 millions Brits in exchange for a (former) Prime Minister that pulls pranks on the Prime Minister of another country (a too big and too near one and with a known record of belligerancy plus a lot of (t)reasons to hate mine).
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When visiting other countries, expect the local protocol to be followed.
modified 9-Dec-14 9:49am.
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The CP spam detection does not like your message.
It was shown as 'Need moderation' on the home page.
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Interesting. I did not know forum posts had this feature.
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It was the first time I saw the link on the home page and did not know about it before. Looking up the privileges shows "Approve/Disapprove a pending Forum Message".
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Must be a new feature. Thanks.
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She wasn't visiting another country - just touring the colonies ... 
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When dealing with anachronistic toffs expect unusual protocols
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Some "white" brits didn't like a black guy putting his arm around "their" white woman.
I had to go there.
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Slacker007 wrote: Some "white" brits didn't like a black guy putting his arm around "their" white woman.
I had to go there.
Well, as a brown guy I didn't want to intrude into your white-black joke territory.
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Nish Sivakumar wrote: Well, as a brown guy I didn't want to intrude into your white-black joke territory.
Well, as a white Yankee, I don't really care who put their arm around Kate. She is hot, and seems like a nice person. Best of luck to the royal family.
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Slacker007 wrote: She is hot, and seems like a nice person
Well, I am not sure you'd be popular in England with that kinda talk 
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I'm not sure I am popular here in America, whether I talk or not.
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Not sure where the 'some Brits are unhappy' part comes from. I'm sure there are some Royalist nuts that are, but there are a lot of Americans Royalist too that I assume will be equally unhappy. It's an antiquated protocol anyway so I don't think most people care.
I searched this story, as I hadn't heard it or even know who LeBron was till I see your post and the British Press seem to be reporting Kates awkwardness[^], but I see no outrage from the press and if there was any it would definitely be them orchestrating it.
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Oh I am sure some of it is media hype
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Well that was sort of my point, if there was outrage then I would have expected to see the article I linked to 'hyping' that, but there was nothing. Just saying that Kate looked awkward. And if the Press aren't even mildly outraged then the Public aren't going to be.
Perhaps all the outrage is on Facebook, I hear the phrase "Everbody's outraged on Facebook" quite a lot.
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Yeah, I see your point. I am not going to edit my post, too late to do that now, but perhaps I could have worded it better.
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Why would you edit it? I was just pointing out I don't think it's a big deal over here. I remember a few years back George W Bush put his arm around the Queen - A thing was made of it then and I remember thinking it was strange, although I probably wouldn't touch the Queen if I met her out of a weird respect thing.
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Oh alright, I assumed you were implying that I was assuming that some Brits were upset and that I was wrong in that. Either way, I understand what you are saying. And I am sure most Brits don't care. That said, I am surprised at the list of people they are meeting. I understand LeBron, he's the best basketball player in this country. But apparently they also met Jay Z and Beyoncé - I can't see a single reason why they'd have wanted to do that.
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I can't see why Jay Z and Beyonce met them? What would they talk about?
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He´s not Chuck Norris you know...
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... but most of us couldn't give a hoot.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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