davidm Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 Dry your eyes, the whole thing made a heap of money for shops and stuff so I can't really see how it's such a bad thing. The public splashed out on bunting, coronation chicken and silly plastic bowler hats with union jacks on them. The monarchy isn't as bad as you think you know. Would you rather have foreigners think we all live like the Queen or we are all a bunch of tracksuit wearing scallys who can't handle supermarket cider?Mon the Queen!..dry... dry my eyes? why didn't I think of that before? I feel a lot better now, thanks so much! I'm so glad that I know that it was all OK because the public bought lots of bunting. I will definitely take a far more positive view of the monarchy now that I know they encourage lots of people to buy plastic hats with union jacks on them. God bless the Queen, what a lady she is. What a gal. I'm going to celebrate my new found Britishness tonight by reading about the Empire! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 What the cunting fuck is bunting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 What the bunting fuck is cunting? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidm Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 What the cunting fuck is bunting?http://www.theflagshop.co.uk/ekmps/shops/speed/images/union-jack-great-britain-bunting-6-metres-20-flags--879-p.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 What the bunting fuck is cunting?What you dream about doing to Slutbags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 What you dream about doing to Slutbags.sharing a flat with her and milnerD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 http://www.theflagshop.co.uk/ekmps/shops/speed/images/union-jack-great-britain-bunting-6-metres-20-flags--879-p.jpgI see. I should have known that. But I grew up in Abu Dhabi, where whenever they celebrated anything to do with Sheikh Zayed they gave everyone in the city a free Porsche, a helicopter and £2,000,000. They don't give no fucks about some fucking bunting. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/04/jubilee-pageant-unemployednot to mention the fact that the whole celebration is a total waste of money that could be used to benefit, you know, people who actually deserve some help. instead of celebrating a family for what, exactly? continuing to exist? waaaaaaaaaay, the queen's still alive! let's celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the death of a woman's father! yaaaaaaaaay! ISN'T IT ALL SUCH FUN.If you think the same money used for the jubilee would have been used to save homeless people your dillusional. Its easy to have a go at the Monarch especially when you have no idea what they do for the country. I'm no Royalist, not at all, but this is just being used as another easy excuse for idiots to post pics of homeless people with stupid captions about saving them with the money that has been spent. Its all a bit pathetic really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidm Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 Its easy to have a go at the Monarch especially when you have no idea what they do for the country. I'm no Royalist, not at all, but this is just being used as another easy excuse for idiots to post pics of homeless people with stupid captions about saving them with the money that has been spent. Its all a bit pathetic really.ok then, tell me, what exactly do they do for the country? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 What's the next port of call for the professional protestor bandwagon? The Olympics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 Oh not this again... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 The fact you have to ask that backs up my point completely, do a bit of research on something before you start criticising it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 Yeah but there's that then bussing in unemployed people to work as stewards without pay while sleeping under a bridge. Not exactly very fucking regal is it? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skacel Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 What's the next port of call for the professional protestor bandwagon? The Olympics?Just wait until the torch comes through Aberdeen next week... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidm Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 The fact you have to ask that backs up my point completely, do a bit of research on something before you start criticising it.please don't be so patronising. i know the pro-monarchist arguments. if you can show me what benefits having a royal family brings to the UK then tell me. how much money do they bring in from tourism? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 What's the next port of call for the professional protestor bandwagon? The Olympics?Of course, im looking forward to a summer of pics of junkies in a doorway with the caption "Look what the money spent on the Olyimpics could have been used for" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 Surely any reasonably intelligent person knows that it wasn’t the Queen who personally oversaw the bussing in of unemployed people to work for free? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skacel Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 Surely any reasonably intelligent person knows that it wasn’t the Queen who personally oversaw the bussing in of unemployed people to work for free? Because she does fuck all.Amirite? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 Yeah but there's that then bussing in unemployed people to work as stewards without pay while sleeping under a bridge. Not exactly very fucking regal is it?I'd be wary about how much of that is strictly true, no where else has reported that at all, and on Radio 2 this morning they were talking about how they had to wait for a few hours under a bridge, nothing about having to spend the night sleeping under a bridge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoonie Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 They bring in £200m to the treasury from the royal lands, set off against the £40m they cost the taxpayer. Plus tourist income but that's far more difficult to quantify because you can't tell who's here directly as a result of the royals.http://cgpgrey.squarespace.com/blog/the-true-cost-of-the-royal-family-explained.htmlI don't really care either way about the royals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 Don't you see? She has the BBC in her pockets! AND HER AND MURDOCH ARE IN CAHOOTS. PLUS SHE'S GOT GERMAN BLOOD WHICH MEANS SHE'S A RACIST TOO. duuuhhhhhhhhh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Milner Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 please don't be so patronising. i know the pro-monarchist arguments. if you can show me what benefits having a royal family brings to the UK then tell me. how much money do they bring in from tourism?Outwith the International relations that exsist purely because of the Royal family and continue to exsist because of them, they generate billions for this country every year, have you ever been to London? Ever been near the Royal Palace? The place is fucking hoaching with tourists from all over the world every single day of the week, people travelled from every corner of the world to be in the UK this week, the money generated from this Jubilee will out weight the costs. Bunting aside, your talking about millions of people spending a lot of money in our country on everything Monarch related. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirsten Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 If you think the same money used for the jubilee would have been used to save homeless people your dillusional.You're right, the money would never be used for anything as worthwhile as that, but isn't that fact alone pretty disgusting? There's all this money apparently going spare to pay for this unnecessary spectacle, yet we're living in an economically fucked country where all the means of helping those who need it, the NHS for example, are under threat. Are you criticising someone for daring to think that it's horrendous that we're essentially having a party and sticking our fingers in our ears instead of sorting out important things that could be salvaged?Enough of that, I'm annoyed at myself for being sucked into this. When in doubt, Doug Stanhope... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 Maybe doctors on £100-odd grand a year threatening to strike for losing a bit of their pension pot could rethink and help out the NHS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted June 6, 2012 Report Share Posted June 6, 2012 It's weird, I agree with spoonie's post, but I also agree with Kirsten's post. But which one's better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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