(OT) The Monarchy!

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Status
Not open for further replies.
skalpel said:
I'll just clear this up and post the (full?) list of the monarch's powers as published by Parliament and viewable in that link Donkey Toon posted:



That list doesn't even mention the C of E which is another major hold the monarch has on what happens in the country. The whole thing is pretty much shrouded in mystery because, for the most part, the Queen doesn't exercise these rights too heavily and so everybody assumes she is powerless. The point is though, the monarch can do it, which means it will always be possible in future unless changed.
Click to expand...

Which is why I oppose the monarchy. It is bad enough that the monarch technically has the power to circumvent democracy, but to continue with a system which suggests that somebody has the automatic right to rule a democratic nation because of the notion that they have divine right is both undemocratic and ridiculously outdated. Monarchal succession and divine right are medieval concepts that any right thinking country should have put to bed along with slavery or unequal rights for women.

As for the Head of State also being the Head of a Religion, don't get me started.
 
i think there are bigger problems that need more attention. couldn't care less whether we have a monarchy or we don't.
 
You'veBeenTiote'd said:
Happier.

Seriously though, of all the people, Prince Charles would be the one who would use it best <laugh>

Edit: <doh> Got Princes Charles and Philip mixed up!
Click to expand...

I'd love to go for a drink with Phil!

"Come on PTN, lets go shoot some swans and laugh at foreigners!"

Can imagine this would be somewhere on the agenda of conversation.
 
Not got the time to wade into this debate fully, so...

[video=youtube;ctOHo4RzZEc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctOHo4RzZEc[/video]

Also, he's in town in March....
 
You'veBeenTiote'd said:
That'd almost definitely be his greeting!
Click to expand...

Yeah! Phil doesnt do handshakes, just gets straight down to business. Would hand me a rifle straight away. No questions asked.

Charlie Boy on the other hand would be totally different. I can imagine him being a right depressing bastard.
 
PhilThompsonsNose said:
Yeah! Phil doesnt do handshakes, just gets straight down to business. Would hand me a rifle straight away. No questions asked.

Charlie Boy on the other hand would be totally different. I can imagine him being a right depressing bastard.
Click to expand...

Phil would hand you the gun and point you towards the nearest swan infested lake.

Charles would hand you the gun and dress up as a swan.
 
Calaye said:
Not got the time to wade into this debate fully, so...

[video=youtube;ctOHo4RzZEc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctOHo4RzZEc[/video]

Also, he's in town in March....
Click to expand...

Sums it up pretty well for me. We don't have the right to ridicule GW Bush because our Head of State is in place through an embarrassing dark ages nonsense. Sort of brings it home just how crap being a monarchy is when you put it like that.

Bush might be a twat but at least he was an elected twat.
 
Well because of the Monarchy, my Birthday falls on the double bank holiday days in June so they're still good in my book.

Bank holidays probably aren't important to some of the lazy unemployed ****ers (including students <laugh>) but I love them <ok>
 
You'veBeenTiote'd said:
<laugh> good point!

What's your avatar by the way, it just comes up as the broken picture symbol for me. Or is that what it actually is? <laugh>
Click to expand...

Poor old Charlie. He will never be King. I bet he's the only person in the world to despise his Wife (I say this because she looks like a ****ing crow), Mother and Son.

It was supposed to be the lead singer of A Place To Bury Strangers. But, it obviously isnt working. I just can't be arsed going to the effort of changing it haha
 
PhilThompsonsNose said:
Poor old Charlie. He will never be King. I bet he's the only person in the world to despise his Wife (I say this because she looks like a ****ing crow), Mother and Son.

It was supposed to be the lead singer of A Place To Bury Strangers. But, it obviously isnt working. I just can't be arsed going to the effort of changing it haha
Click to expand...

I have no idea what he was thinking with Camilla! She looks like she was run over by a bus and then shat on by a passing pigeon; a real train wreck of a human being. (But then again i can hardly talk, i look like a soggy football sock)

I'll look them up. I'm always up for finding out about new music (well new to me). <ok>
 
You'veBeenTiote'd said:
I have no idea what he was thinking with Camilla! She looks like she was run over by a bus and then shat on by a passing pigeon; a real train wreck of a human being. (But then again i can hardly talk, i look like a soggy football sock)

I'll look them up. I'm always up for finding out about new music (well new to me). <ok>
Click to expand...

Aye, she certainly isnt blessed in the looks department.

Yeah, give em a listen pal. They're quite loud like. I was deaf for about two hours after I went to watch em in Manchester. Incredibly distorted shoegaze ftw!
 
God i extremely dislike the majority of Americans.

any country that values it right to have guns more highly than the poor to have a chance at life with a little help from free health care is idiotic.

****ing america... there president is basically decided by who can get the most billionaires to support them.

one of the richest countries in the world with one of the poorest populations.

think any different to the "american way" and you are labeled a communist and enemy of the country.

they are ****ed up
 
PhilThompsonsNose said:
Aye, she certainly isnt blessed in the looks department.

Yeah, give em a listen pal. They're quite loud like. I was deaf for about two hours after I went to watch em in Manchester. Incredibly distorted shoegaze ftw!
Click to expand...

You're not bloody wrong! They're properly loud, i've got my speakers on 2 and they're still blocking out all other noise <laugh> Great band though from the few songs i've just listened to, my sort of thing!
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom
Back