Lordpendragon
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uncut said:A lesson for one and all about inbreeding!!!
Are you referring to the British Royal Family or your own comment?
uncut said:A lesson for one and all about inbreeding!!!
Lordpendragon said:Are you referring to the British Royal Family or your own comment?
Hey it happens here in the states too Just look at the kennedys:wink:Lordpendragon said:Are you referring to the British Royal Family or your own comment?
uncut said:A lesson for one and all about inbreeding!!!
BigPoppaFury said:The Queen as an independent head of state is laughable, she's entirely void for that purpose no matter what power she's supposed to have. Likewise, the monarchy itself is meaningless and I resent that my tax money goes towards keeping these people in helicopter rides and caviar. The only purpose they serve is to attract tourism, especially from the US where there seems to be a great interest in history.
For me this begs two questions:
1) Would these tourists be less interested if we no longer had a royal family?
2) Do they bring in any more money than they cost anyway?
To me they are only useful if they are good for the welfare of our economy, otherwise they should get jobs and make thier own damn food.
I feel England has to move forward in so many ways and it's disappointing to look at Scandanavia not far across the waters and see how clean the streets are, how low the crime rate is and how intelligent the average Joe is. God Save The Queen? No thanks, if there was a god I'd rather it saved my friends and family. I'd love to have a national anthem that I could sing and really mean, I never feel right asking a higher being to save someone I couldn't care less about.
We do have much to be thankful for (and this IS home, there's nowhere I'd rather live) but the royal family represents to me everything that is holding us back from making ourselves somewhere to be truly proud of once again. We're creating nothing that future generations will thank us for (perhaps aside from cities like London where for the most part cultural ignorance is very slowly starting to ebb away). There is a church where I live that has stood for over eight hundred years, which is still fully functional. I find the fact that one of the sights of home was also that for someone who lived in the 13th century far more capturing of the imagination than some old lady living on her family tree and giving us a speech every Christmas day.
hypolimnas said:Well perhaps breeding in general.
Human nature, huh?
Stronzo said:I understand entirely Dave.
I beg you not to think we all have such a limited knowledge of things generally here on this side of the Atlantic.
"eddyabs" and his assumption that I, as an American, could know nothing of the background of the Princess Diana debacle and her boyfriend Fayed's background (unless instructed by him) is equally moronic to me.
That's why I said that I thought it best not to make generalizations based on groups per se.
In many ways Bostonian culture is more indellibly connected to English culture than it is American. We have a direct connection genealogically and sociologically to you British and most of those who travel in my circle are extremely well read when it comes to world events (and particularly so when it comes to things going on in the UK).
For the love of Christ I was in school there for four years. I guess it counts for some cognizance eh?
Daverock said:As an aside I have heard it quoted many times that only 6% of the American population have passports. Please feel free to correct me if you know otherwise. Perhaps if more of you travelled and experienced other parts of the world and their cultures you would be a bit less judgemental and introspective.
BigPoppaFury said:The only purpose they serve is to attract tourism, especially from the US where there seems to be a great interest in history.
BigPoppaFury said:For me this begs two questions:
1) Would these tourists be less interested if we no longer had a royal family?
2) Do they bring in any more money than they cost anyway?
Stronzo said:We'll all recall certainly that French Fries (what you folks call "chips") were forever more to be known as "Freedom Fries"...
novice_btm said:I feel the same way about people who refuse to take down their fake pix. :tongue: