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I was going to suggest this is nonsense but then they said their source was "dead serious" so it definitely isn't.
Now I'm off to watch... squints... NubTV on Ayozat TV channel. Sounds legit and not just random letters.
I was all for dismissing it as nonsense until I realised it was printed in that cornerstone of factual reporting, the Daily Star. Not quite as trustworthy as the Sunday Sport, but I trust their impeccable fact checking and guess it'll be in the Sunday Sport next week anyway.
"The Daily Star: staying one step ahead of the Daily Sport - we report nonsense other people have made up."
Nobody talks shit about the Sunday Sport on my Internet.
Is this marketing for the next series of Doctor Who?
Charlie Three must have been thinking about how to top the Queen's parachuting out of a helicopter for the Olympics, and the RTD's offer arrived...
I thought that this was common knowledge.
To all you dedicated Royal-watchers but the ordinary man-in-the-streer has been oblivious to his behind-the-scenes heroics.
He was riding in the seat behind Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum, which is why you didn't see him.
Ah yes, the dreaded and all too common Tesla coil implosion. Those damn things threaten tens of thousands of lives every few decades.
All they had to do was to reverse the polarity, they would've had a tesla coil implosion which is far less dangerous.
When I ramble mad shit while tripping balls it doesn't make it to the news...
You need to speak to NubTV, they'll clearly broadcast any old tosh.
Optimistic given he has someone to squeeze toothpaste for him
In all fairness, they don't mention toothpaste at all here. He may have had his toothpaste lackey along for the jaunt just in case things got serious.
How soon will AI tech be cheap enough and good enough to generate me a cinematic video of this? It sounds ace.
Six months at this pace.
I think I just had a stroke
Just be careful not to mention this in their assessment of any long-term damage.
"So tell me what you remember of the event."
"Well Prince Charles was in his flying saucer on his way to deal with a Tesla coil implosion in Canada and..."