{"id":71695,"date":"2022-02-12T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=71695"},"modified":"2022-02-11T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T15:49:42","slug":"from-the-it-could-actually-be-worse-file-royal-succession-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2022\/02\/12\/from-the-it-could-actually-be-worse-file-royal-succession-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"From the &#8220;it could actually be worse&#8221; file &mdash; royal succession alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Selley and Colby Cosh had an exchange on Twitter where Colby actually somehow made me appreciate Prince Charles a tiny bit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cselley\/status\/1492007664410558472\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-12-at-10-40-33-Chris-Selley-on-Twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"725\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-12-at-10-40-33-Chris-Selley-on-Twitter.png 598w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-12-at-10-40-33-Chris-Selley-on-Twitter-480x582.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-12-at-10-40-33-Chris-Selley-on-Twitter-528x640.png 528w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-12-at-10-40-33-Chris-Selley-on-Twitter-124x150.png 124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For some reason, the Twitter UI is only showing a portion of the exchange here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-11-at-10-42-41-Chris-Selley-on-Twitter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-11-at-10-42-41-Chris-Selley-on-Twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"641\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-11-at-10-42-41-Chris-Selley-on-Twitter.png 650w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-11-at-10-42-41-Chris-Selley-on-Twitter-480x473.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-11-at-10-42-41-Chris-Selley-on-Twitter-150x148.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-11-at-10-42-41-Chris-Selley-on-Twitter-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the part that ever-so-slightly improved my opinion of Charles, not for his own sake, but for succession reasons:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colbycosh\/status\/1492012617027571714\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-12-at-10-46-56-Colby-Cosh-on-Twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"345\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-71699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-12-at-10-46-56-Colby-Cosh-on-Twitter.png 598w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-12-at-10-46-56-Colby-Cosh-on-Twitter-480x277.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screenshot-2022-02-12-at-10-46-56-Colby-Cosh-on-Twitter-150x87.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Selley and Colby Cosh had an exchange on Twitter where Colby actually somehow made me appreciate Prince Charles a tiny bit: For some reason, the Twitter UI is only showing a portion of the exchange here: And here&#8217;s the part that ever-so-slightly improved my opinion of Charles, not for his own sake, but for 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