Hey, Brits! Guillotine your Queen!

[Andy9o8 3]

That's what the French did to Marie Antoinette over this kind of shit. Don't you people have any self-respect? At least we piss our money away on aircraft carriers so we can do stuff like fight the brown people and save Guam for democracy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/queen-of-england-raise_n_3005974.html

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Queen Of England Gets Raise As UK Considers Cutting Minimum Wage
Posted: 04/03/2013 10:03 am EDT

In case you had any doubt, it's good to be the Queen.

British taxpayers just gave the Queen of England a boost of 5 million pounds, or $7.56 million, in the amount of money available to her to carry out her duties, the Guardian reports.

Meanwhile, the UK is considering freezing or even cutting its minimum wage at the same time, the Financial Times reports. In addition, the British government is embarking on a dramatic pullback of its famed welfare state, which includes cuts to subsidized housing, caps on welfare benefits and changes to the system so that benefits and tax credits no longer rise with inflation, according to a separate Guardian report.

[ryoder 1,590]

And I thought this was going to be about Eddie Izzard.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[babz 0]

The queen offers a none political envoy to countless nations, the royals do a variety of charity work and are a pretty big attraction for foreign visitors.

Personally, I like the monarchy - the powers they theoretically hold are too much, but as good old Liz has demonstrated over the 70 years there is a difference between having power and using it.

In British politics we've seen the unelected bodies standing more for the rights of the everyday person than the parliment elected by the people (esp regarding detention without trial legislation attempted post 911 which would allow 3months + detention without warrent which was repeatedly pushed back by the house of lords).


£5million quid? it's a drop in the ocean in the grand scheme of government spending.. and sod the french.. why would we want to cppy them?!

[jakee 1,610]

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Don't you people have any self-respect?

Royalists are kind of our equivalent of creationists and Tea Partiers with the unbreakable strength of conviction of one and the emotion driven political logic of the other. The level of devotion and adoration some people lavish on the woman simply for being who she is is embarrassing to witness.

Luckily Charles is such a meddling, bumbling, outrageously out of touch buffoon that if he gets a decent crack of the whip the whole edifice may well crumble around him. OTOH, if he snuffs it early and "Wills"* is given the big chair and funny hat then we'll be stuck with this shit for another 50 years.



* 'Cos we know so much about them through the tabloids that we're all like their bloody good chums and can use their nicknames without it sounding stupid and pretentious.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[lawrocket 3]

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the royals do a variety of charity work and are a pretty big attraction for foreign visitors

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British taxpayers just gave the Queen of England a boost of 5 million pounds, or $7.56 million, in the amount of money available to her to carry out her duties

So she gets paid $7.5 million for charity work and to be an international sideshow. Where do I sign up for that?

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[Andy9o8 3]

That's not the pay; that's the raise. As in: over & above.

[lawrocket 3]

I'd love to get paid that much for doing charity work.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[Stumpy 284]

I actually think the idea of the queen getting paid is quite an odd one, I have never seen her down the shops in Windsor.

As the article says, this is money that is used for her to "carry out her duties." This covers a multitude of things including official engagements, etc. I suspect she brings an awful lot more tourism money and more to the UK economy than she spends. Also, she needs jump money after the olympics.

Besides - its all about tradition and culture which you wouldn't understand because there isn't any in the US.

Never try to eat more than you can lift

[Andy9o8 3]

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its all about tradition and culture which you wouldn't understand because there isn't any in the US.

We traded those in for dentistry and orthodontics.

[Stumpy 284]

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its all about tradition and culture which you wouldn't understand because there isn't any in the US.

We traded those in for dentistry and orthodontics.

Touche sir - Touche (can't be bothered to find the accent)

Never try to eat more than you can lift

[Niki1 2]

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I'd love to get paid that much for doing charity work.

All you have to do is pick the right 6 numbers. Or get born to the right parents. The odds are better pinking the right 6 numbers I think.

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done.
Louis D Brandeis

Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

[sfzombie 3]

i'd have to say you're spot on on this one, since presumably since you're reading this, you've been born already. unless reincarnation is real.

http://kitswv.com

[mr2mk1g 10]

Guillotine? Pah - that's for those cheese eating surrender monkeys. We use a good old fashioned AXE when we slot our monarchs!

[mik 2]

Extract of a magazine for the institute of chartered accountants in England and Wales

Note the final paragraph where an independent report suggests she brings over £26 billion to the UK economy.

http://economia.icaew.com/finance/the-accounts-of-the-queen

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I'm NOT totally useless... I can be used as a bad example

[babz 0]

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Guillotine? Pah - that's for those cheese eating surrender monkeys. We use a good old fashioned AXE when we slot our monarchs!

Despite the fact the french nicked (popularised at least) the idea of the Halifax Gibbet - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Gibbet

It does bemuse me the vitriol that the Americans have for the royal family - which seems to cost the British taxpayer about £ 36 million according to google..

Thats about 3 days in Afghanistan.. I know where I'd rather send my funding..

[Andy9o8 3]

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the vitriol that the Americans have for the royal family

Not at all - we got that out of our systems generations ago.

Our attitude is amazement that more self-respecting Brit citizens don't tell Princess Katie: "Hey, lady! We pay you how much? For doing what? Pffft! Show us your tits!"

[mr2mk1g 10]

According to the figures posted above in this thread we pay about £36 million and get back £26 billion in return. Not a bad investment... in fact it's about the best investment going in the world at the moment.

Still, wouldn't mind a look at Kate's tits anyhoo...

[Andy9o8 3]

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Still, wouldn't mind a look at Kate's tits anyhoo...

Attaboy. We'll turn you into a colonist yet.

Anyhoo, the point of the thread is how the royals get their rise while their grimy subjects get the shaft. If I was a Brit I'd be pretty pissed. Then again, you can all just eat cake...

[BillyVance 35]

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I'd love to get paid that much for doing charity work.

There is a way in.... via marriage... oh wait...

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[jakee 1,610]

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According to the figures posted above in this thread we pay about £36 million and get back £26 billion in return. Not a bad investment... in fact it's about the best investment going in the world at the moment.

Except, just like every other investment that's too good to be true, it isn't true.

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[Andy9o8 3]

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According to the figures posted above in this thread we pay about £36 million and get back £26 billion in return. Not a bad investment... in fact it's about the best investment going in the world at the moment.

Except, just like every other investment that's too good to be true, it isn't true.

Yeah. So basically the distillation of their argument is that the institution of the Royalty should be kept on in the 21st Century because... wait for it... it's good for the tourism industry.

How very dignified. Elizabeth I would be proud.
Not.

[jakee 1,610]

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Yeah. So basically the distillation of their argument is that the institution of the Royalty should be kept on in the 21st Century because... wait for it... it's good for the tourism industry.

Conveniently ignoring the fact that the majority of "Royal" attractions are either only tenuously linked to the royal family and/or would continue to hold most, if not all, of their cultural, historical and aesthetic interest if there was no monarch (or if the monarch's duties and priviliges were severely downgraded).

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[Andy9o8 3]

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Yeah. So basically the distillation of their argument is that the institution of the Royalty should be kept on in the 21st Century because... wait for it... it's good for the tourism industry.

Conveniently ignoring the fact that the majority of "Royal" attractions are either only tenuously linked to the royal family and/or would continue to hold most, if not all, of their cultural, historical and aesthetic interest if there was no monarch (or if the monarch's duties and priviliges were severely downgraded).

Really. Take France. (Please!) They slotted their royals, too; they had a Reign of Terror; they're utterly ungrateful for the sacrifices of the foreigners buried on their soil; they produced de Gaulle; they eat fucking snails; and they hate everybody. And still the tourists flock there in droves.

So, slot the Brit Royals.
But first, show us their tits!

[Remster 30]

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Yeah. So basically the distillation of their argument is that the institution of the Royalty should be kept on in the 21st Century because... wait for it... it's good for the tourism industry.

Conveniently ignoring the fact that the majority of "Royal" attractions are either only tenuously linked to the royal family and/or would continue to hold most, if not all, of their cultural, historical and aesthetic interest if there was no monarch (or if the monarch's duties and priviliges were severely downgraded).

Really. Take France. (Please!) They slotted their royals, too; they had a Reign of Terror; they're utterly ungrateful for the sacrifices of the foreigners buried on their soil; they produced de Gaulle; they eat fucking snails; and they hate everybody. And still the tourists flock there in droves.

So, slot the Brit Royals.
But first, show us their tits!

Va te faire voir par ton proctologue, espèce de porc-épic mal embouché!


(Doing my bit to help the french tourism industry)

Remster

[jakee 1,610]

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But first, show us their tits!

So, which one first?




(And you've just reminded me of the worst thing about them: they're all bloody Germans anyway! Is this what we fought a war for?)

Do you want to have an ideagasm?