Reposted by The Visual Raconteur
I feel terribly sad for all those old-school Economy 7 teleswitch meters still out there, listening for a radio signal to switch them into off-peak mode that will never ever come now that they've switched off BBC Long Wave. Like V'Ger in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
![[Scene: exterior of Buckingham Palace. A voice comes from inside] Hello and welcome to the media training session!
[Scene moves to Interior, a room in the palace. THE QUEEN stands before a screen, hosting a workforce MEDIA TRAINING session for the Royal Family, who are all seated on chairs.]
THE QUEEN: As you know we had to cut the PR budget, so I thought I’d do it myself
Now then: today’s topic is a common PR danger:
‘Avoiding Association with Sex Traffickers’.
So - Question 1.
What is the best way to avoid association with sex traffickers?
Is it:
(a), Don’t associate with sex traffickers.
(b) Travel 3,500 miles to stay in a sex trafficker’s house to tell them you don’t like them.
(c) Something else?
[The Royal family all raise hands, apart from Andrew]
THE QUEEN: Ooh what a lot of hands!
THE QUEEN: Andrew?
ANDREW: Um
ANDREW: Is it (c)… Release detailed records of your sweating history to Newsnight…?
[The Queen stares at Andrew for a beat]
THE QUEEN: [Same image as last panel, her face unchanged]: Let’s do the picture round.
THE QUEEN: Which face says, “I had nothing to do with the sex trafficker?”
[on the screen behind her are two faces labelled (a) and (b), one depicting a normal smiley face, the other depicting Andrew’s massively guilty expression from the BBC interview]
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