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Brits, how do you feel about the monarchy?

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:34 am
by Cool Blue
Worth havin' around?

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europ ... index.html

Those blokes don't think so. So are you in support of the Royals, or in support of letting them go?

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:38 am
by sys0p
Americans seem to care more about the monarchy more than any English person.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:42 am
by PhoeniX
Yea, I don't really care for them.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:43 am
by losCHUNK
dun give 2 shits tbh

they bring tourism to the UK which means its good for the coutnry i suppose :shrug:

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:44 am
by Guest
I watched a show the other day on History that was really interesting it was about finding the real monarch of Brittain since queen victorias line actualy doesn't belong ont he throne. So this guy tracked down the guy that SHOULD be king of england. Some Australian chap. Pretty interesting watch.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:49 am
by Maiden
sys0p wrote:Americans seem to care more about the monarchy more than any English person.
lol, so true.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:15 am
by DooMer
Nobody does, but the press seems to think we do.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:41 am
by Scourge
DooMer wrote:Nobody does, but the press seems to think we do.
:icon14: Exactly.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:50 am
by Massive Quasars
PhoeniX wrote:Yea, I don't really care for them.
That's the problem, if you could muster enough hatred to give them the collective boot we wouldn't have to hear about their boring british lives in North America.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:52 am
by losCHUNK
thats why we keep them there

DUH :P

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:57 am
by Cool Blue
DooMer wrote:Nobody does, but the press seems to think we do.
Really, why do American magazines and newspapers detailing the sorted affairs of the Royals sell record amounts then?

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:38 am
by stocktroll
who cares, they are just bunch of cunts who get one hell of a welfair check and a free house to live in

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:39 am
by SplishSplash
I don't understand why Americans hate the monarchy so much.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:59 am
by ajerara
Cause we got fucked by them in the beginning, but we took care of that situation.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:17 am
by Mat Linnett
I don't really care for them, but it was funny seeing Gee Dubya's body language when he came to see the Queen.
Usually he tries to be quite dominant with his body language; watch him with Blair for example.
But in the presence of the Queen, he didn't know what to do with himself.
Most powerful man in the world, intimidated by a little old lady.
Class.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:06 am
by 4days
don't mind them. as long as they don't bollocks up too badly then they're good PR for the country.

over here, it's mainly the more idle bits of the middle class that slag the royals off, people that have never really known hardship or poverty complaining about those born into riches and saying they're a waste of money - but the country receives 3 or 4 times the amount of cash it spends on the royals from the royal estate, so an argument about them being a waste of money is on iffy ground.

there's also a fear that without the royals and the vestiges of a class system that we'd end up with a similar social order to the states, which is too horrible to contemplate. it'll probably happen sooner or later, but hopefully when it does, our time with a monarchy will have shaped us enough to remain civilised.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:25 am
by blood.angel
Kracus wrote:I watched a show the other day on History that was really interesting it was about finding the real monarch of Brittain since queen victorias line actualy doesn't belong ont he throne. So this guy tracked down the guy that SHOULD be king of england. Some Australian chap. Pretty interesting watch.
It was much earlier than victoria.
It came from the tudor line, or just after it. And that was the 1600s.

King Stevo has quite a ring though.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:33 am
by sys0p
stocktroll wrote:who cares, they are just bunch of cunts who get one hell of a welfair check and a free house to live in
Yeah, they're all on income support and they all live in the same house.

They aren't fucking pakis, you dipshit.

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 11:34 am
by Pauly
Henry VIII was the man

Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:36 pm
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF
"I don't like Camilla. She's an adulteress and a Catholic," said Sandra Talbot, 64, visiting from London for the day with her husband.

Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:34 pm
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:43 pm
by Geebs
blood.angel wrote:
Kracus wrote:I watched a show the other day on History that was really interesting it was about finding the real monarch of Brittain since queen victorias line actualy doesn't belong ont he throne. So this guy tracked down the guy that SHOULD be king of england. Some Australian chap. Pretty interesting watch.
It was much earlier than victoria.
It came from the tudor line, or just after it. And that was the 1600s.

King Stevo has quite a ring though.
Bugger that, why don't they look for Ehthelred the Unready's missing bastard offspring? Obviously THEY should be in line for succession.