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    She reminds me a bit of dictators or other monarchs like Baschar Hafiz al-Assad.
    Just can't let go



    *It won't be the cough that'll carry her off...it's the coffin that'll carry her off in.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HermantheGerman View Post
    She reminds me a bit of dictators
    It's the German ancestry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by HermantheGerman View Post
    She reminds me a bit of dictators
    It's the German ancestry.
    Meine Führerin

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    My mother used to be friends with Princess Anne and met the DoE numerous times and she always spoke highly of him so that's good enough for me.

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    Lizzie and Phil, figureheads...just like US Presidents.




    The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London[aka Crown Corp.] is ripe for protest (2011)
    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-city-medieval

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    Why the hatred or animosity for the Queen and the Royal family?

    They are harmless.. there are much worse people in the world than them, guys...

    Come on... they didn't ask, or force their way into the position, some would argue it's a curse, not a blessing...

    They do what they can to help unfortunate people, they don't sit around sipping tea and eating scones all day...

    The Queen helped strengthen the resolve of the British people during WW2.

    Diana broke down the stigma of AIDS by holding an HIV victim, etc..

    Quote:

    Top 10 Reasons The British Royal Family Is Awesome - Toptenz.net

    The Royal Family does their best to set a good example, and for some of them charity is almost a full-time job. It’s impossible to determine exactly how much financial benefit their work provides, though one study estimates that the Queen helps bring in 1.4 billion pounds a year, which sure beats the two bucks you gave to the latest office United Way drive.



    Regardless of that figure’s accuracy, nobody disputes that the world has benefited from the Royal Family’s charitable work.
    For starters, there are the charities that members of the Family started, such as Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People which, you guessed it, helps abandoned circus animals find new homes. Royal charities do everything from providing mental health services to military veterans, to teaching dance to juvenile criminals.




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    I was in Ireland when Princess Di was murdered.

    There was hardly a dry eye there when the news came through, the shock and dismay was palpable.

    What was even more amazing was the numbers of young Irishmen that took off to London afterwards to lay flowers for her at Kensington Palace gates, giving up a few days work and then the added expense of travelling from Sligo to London and back.
    “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? John 10:34.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SKkin
    The medieval, unaccountable Corporation of London[aka Crown Corp.] is ripe for protest (2011)
    https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-city-medieval
    Yes.Social media, liberals and do-gooders will be the death of us all.

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    The Harrods owner, the Egyptian that couldn't get a British passport , he hates Phillip , claims Phillip ordered his sons assassination.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT View Post
    I was in Ireland when Princess Di was murdered.
    Idiot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
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    I was in Ireland when Princess Di was murdered.
    Idiot.
    It's his alibi.

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    Royal with the common touch. (R.I.P.) Lady Di.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
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    I was in Ireland when Princess Di was murdered.
    Idiot.
    Are you one of the idiots who think she just had a car accident?

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    Quote Originally Posted by wasabi View Post
    The Harrods owner, the Egyptian that couldn't get a British passport , he hates Phillip , claims Phillip ordered his sons assassination.
    Someone ordered the assassination, it was no accident.

    Di was scared stiff of getting bumped off campaigning against landmines, one of the products her ex Charley boy was flogging off around the world at the time.

    England's royal family have a long history of selling arms.

    Charley boy only recently (2015) regretted doing so, and has tried to move away from the deal, but Prince Andrew then took up the position as Britain's chief arms salesman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NZdick1983 View Post
    Why the hatred or animosity for the Queen and the Royal family?

    They are harmless.. there are much worse people in the world than them, guys...
    Because no human is more important than any other human based on the family they're born into.

    Because they're an outdated throwback, and a truly fair, just and democratic society cannot exist while they continue to.

    Because they symbolise and perpetuate an archaic system of heriditary privelege based on keeping an undeserving minority in the utmost luxury at the expense of the majority.

    Because while they live a life of luxury many of their "subjects" are struggling to put food on the table.

    Because they cost the country money while offering absolutely nothing tangible in return.

    Because the institution of monarchy is fundamentally undemocratic, and utterly unnecessary in this day and age. Their role could be performed just as well by an elected head of state.

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    Quote Originally Posted by khmen
    Their role could be performed just as well by an elected head of state.
    What, like Trump?

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    God save the queen
    ‘Cause tourists are money
    And our figurehead
    Is not what she seems



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    Quote Originally Posted by khmen
    keeping an undeserving minority in the utmost luxury at the expense of the majority.
    If you took the money it costs to run the Royal family and divided it equally among her subjects, the subjects wouldn't even have enough each to buy a bag of chips/crisps

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    I think the Queen should invite Trump to visit. I'd like to hear what Prince Phillip says!

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    Quote Originally Posted by VocalNeal View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by khmen
    keeping an undeserving minority in the utmost luxury at the expense of the majority.
    If you took the money it costs to run the Royal family and divided it equally among her subjects, the subjects wouldn't even have enough each to buy a bag of chips/crisps
    So what? Why should 70million odd people be forced to buy 3/4 of a bag of crisps for one particular family?

    Afaic if the fetlock-tugging, tiny plastic flag waving, commerative plate buying monarchists wish to support an anachronistic irrelevant institution then let them opt into a tax to fund it, and relieve the burden from the rest of the population who disagree with their existence.


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    Much as I like old Phil the Greek, the rest of the clan are a bit more than 'iffy', to say the least.
    Even if it did cost the average tax-payer around 50p each to support them, wouldn't the money be better spent at funding free universities, or on the NHS?

    The mouldering British aristocrats don't get the financial propping up that the royals get, yet still manage to stumble along, and the tourism industry only really got started recently in the last 30 years, so the big excuse of "look what they do for business" is a load of bollix,..except of course for the arms industry, which they partly own anyway.

    They're a total waste of money and time, and Britain would be far better off as a democratic republic than as a constitutional monarchy.

    Devolution of UK into several autonomous regions run by consensus governed assemblies, would get rid of the pan-national bi-polar Labour-Tory schism that divides British society and allow far more local and regionally independent voices to represent the people, again, by consensus, instead of a parliament of a bickering boorish barnyard of government ministers we now have running the country to their and their business and banker friends' benefit.

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    I think they are good/positive role models... sure, they have made mistakes, they are not perfect (no human is)... but I think their heart is in the right place..

    I'm very proud of those 2 boys (Prince William and Harry). They lost their mother very young, but have still stayed on the reasonably straight and narrow - working with charity organizations, doing their bit to help the less fortunate.

    We need more decent people in this fucked up world. Long live the Queen!

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    What does a bloke who has never worked a day in his life retire from ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT
    when Princess Di was murdered
    Mate haven't laughed so hard in weeks.

    She was a dingbat anyway no great loss.Same as all royals,inbred retards and a waste of space.

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