Here is what I would do if I were king. First, I would be totally smoking hot, because it's easy for rich people with access to personal chefs, trainers, and surgeons to be smoking hot (this is important later). Second, I would demand the abolition of the monarchy, because the monarchy is ridiculous. If they said yes, then hooray!
If they said no, then I would say: "fine. You want your figurehead? Here's your figurehead." Then I would schedule some photo shoots. And I would start releasing the pictures on the internet.
They would not be dignified pictures. They would be embarrassing pictures. You know, the king, kneeling, on a leash, biting suggestively on a scepter. Butt naked on his ermine cloak. Engaging in some homo-erotic abercrombie roughhousing with some dudes dressed as knights. See how long they're willing to keep king softcore.
If they didn't cave? Well, then I would graduate to some truly sick shit. Be prepared to see your king getting goatse'd on top of a giant flag, patriots!
Divine Right has been out the window for quite a while, Regina. You're kind of reaching without anything to back it up if you're saying the royal family still secretly believe that their position was a direct mandate from god.
Who said anything about divine rights?
Regina.
Divine Right is a public sentiment, I was speaking only to Elizabeth's personal sentiments. Which I suspect lean strongly toward that notion.
However, as you pointed out, I cannot prove it, so I dropped it.
Here is what I would do if I were king. First, I would be totally smoking hot, because it's easy for rich people with access to personal chefs, trainers, and surgeons to be smoking hot (this is important later). Second, I would demand the abolition of the monarchy, because the monarchy is ridiculous. If they said yes, then hooray!
If they said no, then I would say: "fine. You want your figurehead? Here's your figurehead." Then I would schedule some photo shoots. And I would start releasing the pictures on the internet.
They would not be dignified pictures. They would be embarrassing pictures. You know, the king, kneeling, on a leash, biting suggestively on a scepter. Butt naked on his ermine cloak. Engaging in some homo-erotic abercrombie roughhousing with some dudes dressed as knights. See how long they're willing to keep king softcore.
If they didn't cave? Well, then I would graduate to some truly sick shit. Be prepared to see your king getting goatse'd on top of a giant flag, patriots!
I have a royalist boner now
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Divine Right has been out the window for quite a while, Regina. You're kind of reaching without anything to back it up if you're saying the royal family still secretly believe that their position was a direct mandate from god.
Who said anything about divine rights?
Regina.
Divine Right is a public sentiment, I was speaking only to Elizabeth's personal sentiments. Which I suspect lean strongly toward that notion.
However, as you pointed out, I cannot prove it, so I dropped it.
But I'm not about to recant my opinion either.
I wasn't having a dig. MrMr was just confused (as I didn't quote you, so it was a bit hard to tell what my original comment was in reference too).
Today is grey and rainy. Boo. And I've three hours before I need to head off to the airport, which puts me in Rush Hour. Balls.
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I stayed up practically all night, now I have to plan my aerobic exercise lesson for tomorrow. What should I make my students do [chat]?
All right. Okay. Here's your lesson, kids. Go get me a mattress and some soft blankets. Yessss. And put on some sounds of the ocean. Okay now fan me with this giant leaf. Great exercise.
Just by virtue of existing they are tremendously political. Anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, conservative and oligarchic. And that's just for starters.
They're awful retrograde things and we'll all be better off when we get rid of them.
I figure I could take a bear.
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
British aristocrats are an odd bunch. Woe betide anyone who gets in the way of a proper British lady intent on organising something. Comets have less motive force.
american "aristocrats" are all of the kind of whom british aristocrats would say "he had to buy his own furniture"
it's not about how much money you have it's about whether or not the money predates hastings
I think that's part of the reason you guys cling to your traditions. You can always look down on a country like the U.S. because we will always be younger.
But when you actually pull back the layers of pretension and address the argument, what you're saying is very empty. Older is not morally superior to new. Accumulated, inherited wealth is vulgar and often destructive, it's nothing laudable.
re: Pliny the Elder trying to convince Rome to unfuck itself before the end, as they gleefully consolidated all their wealth and land into smaller and fewer hereditary fiefdoms.
British aristocrats are an odd bunch. Woe betide anyone who gets in the way of a proper British lady intent on organising something. Comets have less motive force.
Your crazy, old, racist ones are my favorite.
Allegedly a voice of reason.
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american "aristocrats" are all of the kind of whom british aristocrats would say "he had to buy his own furniture"
it's not about how much money you have it's about whether or not the money predates hastings
Yesss, I'm old money.
(My extended family is not rich but has a ton of antique furniture. More comes in all the time when my parents take a job selling off estates for relatively old money people who did a poor job raising their children.)
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
The current king and his father are both olympic-class sailors
when the current king was crown prince it became tradition for his crew to throw him in the sea if they won
The only shocking part about that is that the words sailing can exist in the same sentence as "olympics".
not if you've ever been in a regatta
shit is tough man
Never said it isn't. However, we don't have moto sports in the olympics, but it's suddenly ok to put a fucking boat in there? Fuck that. Canoe & Kayak is the furthest that shit should be allowed to go!
I stayed up practically all night, now I have to plan my aerobic exercise lesson for tomorrow. What should I make my students do [chat]?
All right. Okay. Here's your lesson, kids. Go get me a mattress and some soft blankets. Yessss. And put on some sounds of the ocean. Okay now fan me with this giant leaf. Great exercise.
Faster! Work those arm muscles! That's it. Good going class. Now continue to do 10 sets of 20 fan waves with the leaf, I'm going to close my eyes. We're working on the honor system.
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MrMisterJesus dying on the cross in pain? Morally better than us. One has to go "all in".Registered Userregular
The upside to having princes is that some people are lucky enough to get to fuck honest-to-god princes, which has gotta be pretty hot.
British aristocrats are an odd bunch. Woe betide anyone who gets in the way of a proper British lady intent on organising something. Comets have less motive force.
Because our Royal Succession rules prevent the Royalty from speaking on any politically touchy subject at all, it is a struggle to find decent jobs for them.
Our crown prince did do the "Elfstedentocht" (A really long iceskating event) under a pseudonym, is a certified pilot. His main specialisation is on 'Surface water management.'
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But when you actually pull back the layers of pretension and address the argument, what you're saying is very empty. Older is not morally superior to new. Accumulated, inherited wealth is vulgar and often destructive, it's nothing laudable.
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Just by virtue of existing they are tremendously political. Anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, conservative and oligarchic. And that's just for starters.
They're awful retrograde things and we'll all be better off when we get rid of them.
How will we be better off with them gone?
Sure, they cost a couple of extra million to the government every year but there's probably other areas of waste more pertinent to cut off.
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The current king and his father are both olympic-class sailors
when the current king was crown prince it became tradition for his crew to throw him in the sea if they won
The only shocking part about that is that the words sailing can exist in the same sentence as "olympics".
not if you've ever been in a regatta
shit is tough man
Never said it isn't. However, we don't have moto sports in the olympics, but it's suddenly ok to put a fucking boat in there? Fuck that. Canoe & Kayak is the furthest that shit should be allowed to go!
It's not like the boats have motors.
Thousands of hot, local singles are waiting to play at bubbulon.com.
Just by virtue of existing they are tremendously political. Anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, conservative and oligarchic. And that's just for starters.
They're awful retrograde things and we'll all be better off when we get rid of them.
our royalty is pro-democratic (the king technically has powers he does not use - he never refuses to ratify and all the places in the law it says "king" that means the government ("the king in council of state") in practice)
so that's not strictly apolitical, no
but I don't like the idea of an overly political head of state.
British aristocrats are an odd bunch. Woe betide anyone who gets in the way of a proper British lady intent on organising something. Comets have less motive force.
Your crazy, old, racist ones are my favorite.
I don't know why people think that. He's rude and stupid and racist. None of these are rare qualities. Charles is funnier - he's a little bit mad.
Also, real British aristos often dress like mud-spattered farmhands 95% of the time.You think they're s stablehand and then suddenly out comes the voice made of cut glass and woah.
Sure, they cost a couple of extra million to the government every year but there's probably other areas of waste more pertinent to cut off.
The US government calculates the cost of a life at around 5 million (this is how much they are willing to spend per life on, e.g., safety regulations). That figure comes from the US, but as far as I know all countries do this sort of calculation. So, what I'm hearing is that every couple years someone dies so you can have a king. Gratz!
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I did say comparatively.
Comparatively, America is babby country. Perhaps just entering its teens.
Anyhow you can quite easily compare the monarchy to just living, breathing versions of a flag.
Flags are hella backwards - why would you need a piece of cloth to denote where you're from? That's stupid.
The current king and his father are both olympic-class sailors
when the current king was crown prince it became tradition for his crew to throw him in the sea if they won
Here is what I would do if I were king. First, I would be totally smoking hot, because it's easy for rich people with access to personal chefs, trainers, and surgeons to be smoking hot (this is important later). Second, I would demand the abolition of the monarchy, because the monarchy is ridiculous. If they said yes, then hooray!
If they said no, then I would say: "fine. You want your figurehead? Here's your figurehead." Then I would schedule some photo shoots. And I would start releasing the pictures on the internet.
They would not be dignified pictures. They would be embarrassing pictures. You know, the king, kneeling, on a leash, biting suggestively on a scepter. Butt naked on his ermine cloak. Engaging in some homo-erotic abercrombie roughhousing with some dudes dressed as knights. See how long they're willing to keep king softcore.
If they didn't cave? Well, then I would graduate to some truly sick shit. Be prepared to see your king getting goatse'd on top of a giant flag, patriots!
Divine Right is a public sentiment, I was speaking only to Elizabeth's personal sentiments. Which I suspect lean strongly toward that notion.
However, as you pointed out, I cannot prove it, so I dropped it.
But I'm not about to recant my opinion either.
I stayed up practically all night, now I have to plan my aerobic exercise lesson for tomorrow. What should I make my students do [chat]?
Once he famously addressed the wrong town and said "Dear Whatevertowners" when he wasn't in Whatevertown.
20 years later he did a speech in the same place and started it the same way. :P
it's not about how much money you have it's about whether or not the money predates hastings
The Kennedys were Irish farmers in the late 1700s. The American Kennedys arrived in Boston in 1850 aboard a mail ship.
The only shocking part about that is that the words sailing can exist in the same sentence as "olympics".
Excited!
Though with the following caveats:
I am all but unfamiliar with the source material except insofar as that those that are think it that cat's sleepwear.
I don't understand the relevance of the question, but am always happy to give my view on any issue.
I have a royalist boner now
I wasn't having a dig. MrMr was just confused (as I didn't quote you, so it was a bit hard to tell what my original comment was in reference too).
Today is grey and rainy. Boo. And I've three hours before I need to head off to the airport, which puts me in Rush Hour. Balls.
Good things. I am going to use your testimonial approval should I ever get the chance to pitch the idea to Warren Ellis.
not if you've ever been in a regatta
shit is tough man
All right. Okay. Here's your lesson, kids. Go get me a mattress and some soft blankets. Yessss. And put on some sounds of the ocean. Okay now fan me with this giant leaf. Great exercise.
Just by virtue of existing they are tremendously political. Anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian, conservative and oligarchic. And that's just for starters.
They're awful retrograde things and we'll all be better off when we get rid of them.
I'm not gonna lie, I pictured your Scandinavian princes while I was typing it.
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I think that's part of the reason you guys cling to your traditions. You can always look down on a country like the U.S. because we will always be younger.
But when you actually pull back the layers of pretension and address the argument, what you're saying is very empty. Older is not morally superior to new. Accumulated, inherited wealth is vulgar and often destructive, it's nothing laudable.
re: Pliny the Elder trying to convince Rome to unfuck itself before the end, as they gleefully consolidated all their wealth and land into smaller and fewer hereditary fiefdoms.
:^::^:
Your crazy, old, racist ones are my favorite.
Yesss, I'm old money.
(My extended family is not rich but has a ton of antique furniture. More comes in all the time when my parents take a job selling off estates for relatively old money people who did a poor job raising their children.)
Never said it isn't. However, we don't have moto sports in the olympics, but it's suddenly ok to put a fucking boat in there? Fuck that. Canoe & Kayak is the furthest that shit should be allowed to go!
Faster! Work those arm muscles! That's it. Good going class. Now continue to do 10 sets of 20 fan waves with the leaf, I'm going to close my eyes. We're working on the honor system.
Not really seeing that as a social policy though.
Prince Philip is hilarious
Our crown prince did do the "Elfstedentocht" (A really long iceskating event) under a pseudonym, is a certified pilot. His main specialisation is on 'Surface water management.'
sir I believe you are a jellyfish!
Hahahah
Indeed you should. I've helped no end of projects get the green light.
How will we be better off with them gone?
Sure, they cost a couple of extra million to the government every year but there's probably other areas of waste more pertinent to cut off.
It's not like the boats have motors.
our royalty is pro-democratic (the king technically has powers he does not use - he never refuses to ratify and all the places in the law it says "king" that means the government ("the king in council of state") in practice)
so that's not strictly apolitical, no
but I don't like the idea of an overly political head of state.
in me
But yes, an aristocracy is not a good thing.
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The US government calculates the cost of a life at around 5 million (this is how much they are willing to spend per life on, e.g., safety regulations). That figure comes from the US, but as far as I know all countries do this sort of calculation. So, what I'm hearing is that every couple years someone dies so you can have a king. Gratz!
Probably on your back, really.
Don't want any lowborn bastards running around.