iPod Gets The Royal Nod

frostilicus2 writes "Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England seems to have taken quite an interest in technology recently. She's now getting hip and funky with an Apple iPod." From the article: "If the thought of the Queen trolling through Apple's online jukebox, iTunes looking for 'hits' is a little too much for the frontal lobes, the Sun assures its readers that, like most things, she probably has a footman to do it for her."

ok?

[Osmosis_Garett (712648)]

How is this news? Where's the page 3 girl?

Re:ok?

[njcoder (657816)]

" How is this news?

Dude, didn't you see it said Apple in the story? Geez.

Re:ok?

[by Anonymous Coward]

Lizzy does if for me!

Luv
John Howard (PM)
xxx

here

[by Anonymous Coward]

http://page3.co.uk/ [page3.co.uk]
More interesting anyway.

Re:ok?

[by Anonymous Coward]

I guess you're sorry you bought that Nomad, huh?

Oh God we are one step away from

[nihilistcanada (698105)]

I dub thee Sir Jobs. The Royal Reality Distortion Field will be something to truly fear.

Re:Oh God we are one step away from

[Darvin (878219)]

It would never be Sir Jobs.

Rather Sir Steven, or Sir Steven Jobs. But since he's not a member of the commonwealth, it would only ever be Steven Jobs KBE.

Re:Oh God we are one step away from

[Ohreally_factor (593551)]

Or Steven Jobs KTHNXBYE

Re:Oh God we are one step away from

[RichardX (457979)]

We laugh at Daikatana because it took approximately 400 years to develop, and was hyped the entire time as "It's gonna be the best game ever! So good it'll redefine the whole concept of what a 'game' is!"
And then, of course, it just turned out to be an utter load of pants.

The Reality Distorition Field thing, I have slightly less of a firm grasp on, but it seems to be related to the fact that any time Jobs is involved in.. well.. anything, really.. all logic, reason, and common sense shoot straight out of t

I've always said...

[WFFS (694717)]

That there should be more Queen on iPods.

"I'm just a poor boy... nobody loves me..."

Executive iPod

[uberjoe (726765)]

That kind of reminds me of this http://www.whitehouse.org/kids/ipod.asp/ [whitehouse.org]

Re:Executive iPod

[rekenner (849871)]

404

Re:Executive iPod - Working Link

[NitsujTPU (19263)]

Here's a working link [whitehouse.org]

Sex Pistols

[ari_j (90255)]

Can any of you guys hack the iTunes Music Store so every listed song is actually God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols, just for a day or two?

Re:Sex Pistols

[DarkHelmet (120004)]

Anarchy in the UK would work just as well, I think.

Re:Sex Pistols

[biglig2 (89374)]

Well, thing is, it's 2005 now and while she is still the Queen, he's appearing on I'm a Celebrity get me out of here....

special edition?

[moz25 (262020)]

I wonder if she got a special edition like a gold-plated one?

I wonder...

[Zimok (893058)]

I wonder what the queen listens to?

Re:I wonder...

[slarshdot (211836)]

smack my bitch up?

Re:I wonder...

[slashdot.org (321932)]

I wonder what the queen listens to?

Yeah, there aren't many things that I wonder about less...

onepod?

[job0 (134689)]

shouldn't that be a onepod or maybe a wepod

pfft...

[pswayze (893054)]

It only costs me ten bucks and a bit of self-respect to get the royal nod in a back alley. And it's certainly pleasing to all of my lobes.

Awkward

[NilObject (522433)]

This would make for the most awkward iPod commercial, ever.

I mean, I'm listening to The White Stripe' "Seven Nation Army", and now I have this image of the Queen rocking out in some sort of a shuffle-type fashion in my head.

"Back and forth, through my mind!"

Re:Awkward

[NilObject (522433)]

The White Stripe

Which is kinda like The White Stripes without Meg.

I've got to start proofreading my posts...

Re:Awkward

[mj_1903 (570130)]

and now I have this image of the Queen rocking out in some sort of a shuffle-type fashion in my head

Don't imagine it, live it [thesun.co.uk].

Re:Awkward

[killjoe (766577)]

Lots of people are making jokes but to me it's kind of profound. People speak of music as being universal and stories like this drive it home for me. Ok she is probably not listening to White Stripe but she is most certainly listening to Bach and maybe even some modern music from her youth. I even imagine she might listen to steely dan or joni mitchell.

Anyway the point is that she might very well be listening the same music as you are and that says something about the power of music to reach people of all ages, cultures, or strata in the society.

For our Police Force also....

[Boss, Pointy Haired (537010)]

They're going to do a special model combined with the police radio - the iPlod.

By Royal Appointment

[rollerbob (739079)]

Maybe Apple can now put the Royal Coat of Arms on their UK iPods, just like HP Sauce and Branston Pickle.

Re: The Queens iPod

[Eh-Wire (858693)]

I understand the Queen has let it be known that she intends to purchase a matching air-guitar for her newly acquired iPod.

Royal iPod

[ndansmith (582590)]

First we have the U2 iPod. Now Apple can launch the HRH Queen Elizabeth II iPod. It will be royal blue. To cater to British sensibilities, the HRH QE2 iPod featuers and extra long queue.

The Queen on iTunes?

[91degrees (207121)]

She pirates. She's a regular on warez sites and IRC.

HRH ER2:Y0 d00dz, 0n3 r00lz. n0 really. 1 roolz over all of 9R3ET 8R17ain

Re:The Queen on iTunes?

[91degrees (207121)]

Ah, but the Queen is technically above the law. If they try to sue, then she can just declare herself immune from the law.

Normally such irresponsible behaviour would cause a constitutional crisis, and probably require imediate abdication or abolision of the monarchy, but if it was against the record industry, I think a lot of people would see her point.

Proper address

[reformhead (17180)]

It's Her Majesty. Not Her Royal Majesty. She is the Sovereign and does not need the Royal tag added because she IS Royal. Yanks have some difficulty with this, no doubt, but that's the way it is.

I hate it when people get her forms of address wrong. Kinda like calling Mr. Bush The Honorable President.

Re:Proper address

[debugdave (153189)]

yeah I totally hate it when they call the president the "honorable" president. Absolutely ridiculous.

Wrong

[Martin Spamer (244245)]

The official title is Her Royal Highness in the third person or Your Royal Highness in the second person.

However being a republican I would address her as 'Yo Beth' just to see the reaction on the faces of all the sycophants.

Re:Proper address

[by Anonymous Coward]

"... U.S. dignitary"

Ladies and Gentlemen, we have found the winner of "Oxymoron of the Year 2005". Congratulations.

Amusing reply

[Conch (52381)]

I were thinking of posting an amusing reply but I will have my footman do it for me instead.

interesting.

[St. Arbirix (218306)]

I wonder if she pays royalties.

The Sun

[t_allardyce (48447)]

I think its probably about time to point out that The Sun is a brand of toilet paper with funny pictures and words printed on it to entertain while you take a dump. To quote it in with any seriousness outside the bathroom just isn't done.

Re:The Sun

[Tim Browse (9263)]

"You're Sun Readers, aren't you?"
"How did you know that?"
"You've sawn the wrong ends off your shotguns."

Incredible to imagine it, because of her age?

[haggar (72771)]

I guess the reason it's so hard to imagine Queen Elisabeth II browsing iTunes is her age. Because our civilization has this prejudice that old folks don't do youthy stuff.
I had a relative, 15 or 20 years ago (he is now deceased) who was an octagenarian (80+ years) and was enthusiastically programming on his ZX Spectrum [old-computers.com]
He developed a rather sophisticated geodesy program (he was a retired geodesist), which he even sold to a handful of companies. All this didn't look strange to me, as I was still a kid, void of preconceptions. It is only now, that I am grown up, that I see how extraordinary this was. It's the mentality of today's world that makes it sound so incredible. It's also the reason why many of us will have problems finding a job at 50+, in software or hardware development.

When the Crown does it, it's not piracy. :)

[argent (18001)]

We assume she is not searching the royalty free or pirated stuff.

The Queen does not need to engage in Piracy, She could simply issue Letters of Marque authorizing a Privateer to undertake the mission on Her behalf.

When I visited her...

[epeus (84683)]

...she had the band of the Coldstream Guards playing a medley of show tunes and oldies.
There was something very surreal about sitting in Buckingham Palace in the presence of Her Majesty while a gaggle of beefy soldiers in red and gold uniforms play 'Let me take you by the hand and show you the streets of London' on brass instruments.

Re:Does She Need It?

[Minced (871651)]

"Mom, I want an i-Pod" "WHAT?!" "Come on mom...all the world leaders got one!" "Oh really now...*scornful*" "G.W and the Queen got one!" "I suppose if the USA and England went to war you would follow?" "Well o'course, if all the cool countries were doing it."

Re:Does She Need It?

[ozmanjusri (601766)]

Did Johnnie Howard's nagging pay off in the end?

Yeah, I bought a nice new iPod and left it at Cheviot Bay for him.

Re:Who is John Howard?

[Bertie (87778)]

And what a success it's been. Whole army divisions guided by surveillance equipment which could read the time off your watch from outer space has failed to find Immanuel Goldstein, I mean Osama bin Laden, and nobody actually seems interested in finding him either, presumably bebause if they do, they won't have a bogeyman any more. Meanwhile, farmers are producing bumper opium crops, and Kabul's full of Western "consultants" getting rich off money that's meant to be rebuilding the place. Outside their gat

Re:Does She Need It?

[dangitman (862676)]

When I'm queen I want the footman to carry the whole stereo around for me.

She's probably too embarassed to have everyone hear Her Robbie Williams and Duran Duran collection out loud. Say, when is Her Highness' silhouette-dancing ad going to be released? Maybe she'll sell out to Sir Gates and appear at a conference screaming "Commoners, Commoners, Commoners!"

Re:The Inquirer?

[benna (614220)]

Not THAT Inquirer, though admittedly I thought the same thing a while back.

Re:Top quality journalism here...

[Tim Browse (9263)]

The only thing wrong is expecting any kind of journalism from The Sun, let alone 'top quality' journalism.

This is the sort of paper that uses bold and italics in its editorials, just to make sure you get the point.

Enough said, I think.

Re:Top quality journalism here...

[soliptic (665417)]

Better the Sun than the Mail.

The Sun is knowingly, amusingly and mostly-harmlessly lowbrow. Sure, it prints a load of rubbish, but it knows that just as well as we do, and nobody takes it too seriously. The Mail is poisonous, self-important and comes damn near to inciting hate crime imho.