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  • #16
    I never grasped why some people get such a kick out of making fun of and spawning myths about royal persons. Some seem to live and breathe for the opportunity to attempt to "humble" royalty.

    If you don't like the constitutional monarchy as part of society, that's one thing, but get over it already. The only people who are going to look goofy from anecdotal and malicious slander about royalty (who they know aren't going to counter anything) are the people who keep bringing it up and believing it to be of even the slightest importance.

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    • #17
      Originally posted by KrazyHorse
      Does the monarch still have to personally sign all legislation into law? Her representative does that for her here.
      Since the 16th century they simply sign a form, and the form says which legislation acts are law. The acts themselves are not signed.
      One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by Giancarlo


        At least the Spanish Royalty has some sense....
        Sense? Where?
        "An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike"
        - Spiro T. Agnew

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        • #19
          I rated this one with 1

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          • #20
            It's no big deal. Every country has its stupid high profile families. Lord knows the US has its share.

            I see yet another rate post. Those things are so lame. Is it that much of a thrill to see your handle???

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            • #21
              I replied to PH, you literal piece of crap

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Bas


                Hmmm... Didn't one of the Spanish princes end his relation with a model just because she posed in lingerie in the past?
                I didn't know about that... and quite frankly it doesn't surprise me at all. I mainly know what Aznar is doing to run the country.
                For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                • #23
                  *bump* you bastards
                  Speaking of Erith:

                  "It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith

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                  • #24
                    Rather, I thought it was an excellent piece of dry wit.

                    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                    • #25
                      Well the good thing about being royalty is- no matter how boffed a job you do, and no matter what idiotic things you say, you can never really be fired.

                      Not like elected offices.

                      Wait...? Ahh! That's right: elected officers have real power though!

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                      • #26
                        It's always a treat when Prince Phillip visits

                        When he was here last year, he refused to wear a cap during a tour of a cheese factory, and by doing so he contaminated every piece of cheese in the place
                        'Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be - or to be indistinguishable from - self-righteous sixteen year olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.'
                        - Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Winston
                          I never grasped why some people get such a kick out of making fun of and spawning myths about royal persons. Some seem to live and breathe for the opportunity to attempt to "humble" royalty.

                          If you don't like the constitutional monarchy as part of society, that's one thing, but get over it already. The only people who are going to look goofy from anecdotal and malicious slander about royalty (who they know aren't going to counter anything) are the people who keep bringing it up and believing it to be of even the slightest importance.

                          The truth is usually far more entertaining than myths can ever be- and it's only slander if it's untrue.

                          Giancarlo, in the early years of the 20th century wasn't the Spanish royal family about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit?
                          The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland

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                          • #28
                            As a relic of a bygone age, the royal family should be scrapped.

                            Alternatively, cameras should be installed in every room of every palace, and the government can make money from them, with pay per view television, and product placement.

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Bugs ****ing Bunny

                              Giancarlo, in the early years of the 20th century wasn't the Spanish royal family about as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit?
                              They were hated because they left my country to decline... it was only until the 1960s when Spain started to rise again.
                              For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)

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                              • #30
                                Prince Philip has said and done a lot of stupid things in the past, but this one doesn't seem that out of line.

                                According to the BBC story, Buckingham Palace officials say this is what happened.

                                [palace officials] claim "the prince asked two men if the tribes had fought each other in the past.

                                When they replied yes, he asked "Do they still fight each other?

                                This was greeted with laughter.

                                The Aboriginal park owner was apparently unfazed by Prince Philip's question.

                                "I don't mind, it was quite funny. I found it amusing, but I was rather surprised," he said. "

                                He probably did say "Do you still throw spears at each other", but within the context, it is understandable.
                                Golfing since 67

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