Prezzies for Choss
Extremely rich man who pays no taxes gets extremely expensive new sword paid for by people not as rich as he is.
A new sword will be presented to King Charles when he receives Scotland’s crown jewels at a ceremony in Edinburgh.
The King will be presented with the Honours of Scotland at a service in St Giles’ Cathedral on 5 July.
Named after his late mother, the Elizabeth sword was commissioned because the existing 16th Century sword is too fragile to handle.
So don’t handle it then. Skip the sword-handling, or use another sword from the cupboard.
The Elizabeth Sword cost £22,000 to make and was designed by Mark Dennis and worked on by a number of expert Scottish craftspeople.
A bargain, am I right?! And worth every penny.
I’m not sure how even an ancient sword can be too fragile to handle, what are they trying to do with it, have make believe battles in the rose garden?
That is a very tacky sword.
The original sword was fragile, because by tradition it was ritually flung at each new sovereign from a lake by a moistened bint.
@Twiliter,
It’s for cutting the shortbread.
Once Charles has had his use of it, I’m sure it will be turned over to the people of Scotland, to be put to tilling fields or whatever it is swords do in modern society. Such a good use of public funds.
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And now that I’ve looked at a photo of the thing, holy shit, it’s so heavily ornamented it isn’t even useful as a sword. It’s an item of bling and nothing more.
Bling. Damn, I should have called it bling. Opportunity missed!
Yeah, the blade’s not bad, but that pommel makes it completely useless and purely ornamental–kinda like Choss, really.
If that pommel doesn’t light up I think someone should be asking for their money back.
OK, it’s certainly over the top and a complete waste of money for something so intrinsically useless, but it is a fine example of top quality silversmithing (-smithery?) and if anything even remotely like it was uncovered in an archeological dig it would be the showpiece of any museum collection.
I don’t like what the sword stands for, but the sword itself can’t be blamed for that.
It looks like a sword from a bad re-do of The Lord of the Rings.