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trentsim t1_ja3oam4 wrote

Reply to comment by Landlubber77 in TIL in 1975 King Charles III (then a Prince) was the British monarchy's first qualified scuba Diver and first to dive under the Arctic ice. by mitchanium

Authoritarian of what?

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Landlubber77 t1_ja3ooxw wrote

Because of the monarchy. It was a King joke.

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trentsim t1_ja3r60e wrote

All good, I was just pointing out it isn't an authoritarian office anymore, powers significanty diminished and so forth

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Landlubber77 t1_ja41ko5 wrote

I gotcha, but my comment was clearly a joke. Being a pedant is annoying under normal circumstances, doing so in response to what was very clearly a facetious jocular comment is moreso. But it's all good, it was sorta forced to begin with, tried coming up with a better one but I'm not that clever.

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