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No Austerity for Spanish nobility

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  • #2
    smash
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Is this about Austerity or Elephants now?


  • #3
    John Doe1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    Bring back franco


  • #4
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    No Austerity for Spanish nobility... well of course not, they are better than us ya big stupid head


  • #5
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Can we ban daily mail links please. :mad:


  • #6
    Sappa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Sappa


    I guess its how could he do that to these great animals and the fact that he is out hunting paying crazy money while Spain verges on economic collapse.


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  • #7
    Pupito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭Pupito


    I'd have thought someone who may well have accidentally shot his brother dead would be agin' guns, but there you go.


  • #8
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Sappa wrote: »
    I guess its how could he do that to these great animals .

    An elephant would kill you and everyone you care about given half the chance, ya ungrateful bastard :mad:


  • #9
    I Heart Internet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,678 ✭✭✭I Heart Internet


    I suspect, to be fair to the man (although he probably doesn't deserve it) that these elephants were killed as part of a carefully controlled culling which is deemed necessary in some areas of the elephant's range. It is not simply, to fulfill a bloodlust.....although I guess he must get some enjoyment out of partaking in the cull.

    It is of course and absolute and utter political fail on his part......hunting while his people are up the ****ter. Eejit.


  • #10
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    To be fair to them, they're the only royals I've seen who use budget airlines.
    The 70-year-old flew with low-cost airline Ryanair to Stansted to visit her brother Constantine, the former king of Greece, who is recovering from heart surgery in London.

    'Members of the royal family regularly travel on regular scheduled flights both nationally and internationally,' said a source at the Spanish royal palace.

    http://www.metro.co.uk/news/677392-queen-sofia-on-13-ryanair-flight

    QE II could take a few lessons in cost control!

    However, killing elephants is just barbaric!
    Is that even legal?!


  • #11
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Sappa wrote: »
    So after hours besides your opinions whether you agree with a monarchy or not,whats your opinion on killing big game animals or any animals for sport.

    If you kill it, you should eat it. That's my philosophy *munches on spider*


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  • #12
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    I'd say the fail has a nice blind spot for the lavish lifestyle of their own go- I mean royaly.

    however, Juan, I'm disappoint. Time to gtfo of the WWF.


  • #13
    Sappa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Sappa


    davet82 wrote: »
    An elephant would kill you and everyone you care about given half the chance, ya ungrateful bastard :mad:

    great contribution david


  • #14
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    £27,000 isn't bad, to be fair. Certain Irish charities have spent far, far more on frivolous parties in recent months.


  • #15
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    well, i guess we found someone who would do this
    Tribesmen wrote: »
    ... Would you shoot an elephant in the face in front of its children for 5000 euros?
    also, he may be a king, but he's no Cnut


  • #16
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Sappa wrote: »
    great contribution david

    you are welcome sap


  • #17
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    why would you want to kill an elephant anyway? birds, i understand. they're shit but elephants are sound.


  • #18
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Die elephants die.


  • #19
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    FatherLen wrote: »
    why would you want to kill an elephant anyway? birds, i understand. they're shit but elephants are sound.

    what ya got against birds?


  • #20
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Confab wrote: »
    £27,000 isn't bad, to be fair. Certain Irish charities have spent far, far more on frivolous parties in recent months.

    Roughly twice the average spanish wage. yea it's a real ****ing deal.


  • #21
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    davet82 wrote: »
    what ya got against birds?

    a bird killed my wife...


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  • #22
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    FatherLen wrote: »
    a bird killed my wife...

    you have licence to kill my friend, i hope you avenge her :pac:


  • #23
    not yet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭not yet


    Sure efelants would be forgetting their being hunted so no harm done..

    Oh and king one car loss is a cnut


  • #24
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Solair wrote: »
    To be fair to them, they're the only royals I've seen who use budget airlines.



    http://www.metro.co.uk/news/677392-queen-sofia-on-13-ryanair-flight

    QE II could take a few lessons in cost control!

    However, killing elephants is just barbaric!
    Is that even legal?!

    They actually cull elephant numbers now and again, so if charging a few nobs exorbitant fees keeps the population under control and goes towards the others upkeep and protection, its perfectly sensible.

    Wouldn't be into it meself, however.


  • #25
    Sappa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Sappa


    Nodin wrote: »
    They actually cull elephant numbers now and again, so if charging a few nobs exorbitant fees keeps the population under control and goes towards the others upkeep and protection, its perfectly sensible.

    Wouldn't be into it meself, however.

    Sure by your logic we may as well start culling the local black population if it keeps growing in these countries as it is,its perfectly natural as you say.


  • #26
    sheesh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,081 ✭✭✭sheesh


    biko wrote: »
    Die elephants die.

    wow with a dry cool wit like that you could be an action hero!!:D


    also

    charging rich people loads of money to kill animals that you would have to kill anyway and using the money for conservation is pretty acceptable I think.

    although I do like elephants.


  • #27
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    Sappa wrote: »
    Sure by your logic we may as well start culling the local black population if it keeps growing in these countries as it is,its perfectly natural as you say.

    Huh?


  • #28
    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    Sappa wrote: »
    Sure by your logic we may as well start culling the local black population if it keeps growing in these countries as it is,its perfectly natural as you say.

    :eek::eek::eek:


  • #29
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    Sappa wrote: »
    Sure by your logic we may as well start culling the local black population if it keeps growing in these countries as it is,its perfectly natural as you say.

    you might be a bit mad :confused:


  • #30
    Sappa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Sappa


    its after hours were all a bit mad I guess.


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  • #31
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Sappa wrote: »
    Sure by your logic we may as well start culling the local black population if it keeps growing in these countries as it is,its perfectly natural as you say.

    Do you have a t-shirt that says "The Price Of Lisbon Is Dead Irish Babies"?


  • #32
    Sappa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Sappa


    Nodin wrote: »
    Do you have a t-shirt that says "The Price Of Lisbon Is Dead Irish Babies"?
    No they were sold out,I was too busy protesting for asylum seekers rights and free Palestine.


  • #33
    Nodin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Sappa wrote: »
    No they were sold out,I was too busy protesting for asylum seekers rights and free Palestine.

    Good for you.


  • #34
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    John Doe1 wrote: »
    Bring back franco

    QFT.
    Loved him in Pineapple express.


  • #35
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Nothing wrong with hunting. Nothing wrong with big game hunting. Yes, it's legal. No, elephants are not endangered. Yes, they're stunning, and a very poor imitation of the animals they were a century ago, sadly. Yes, it's expensive. No, there's no reason someone shouldn't do it if they have the money, regardless of their position. Hunting and conservation go hand in hand, so suggesting he shouldn't patronise the WWF while he hunts big game is nonsensical (Also, you'd really bite your nose off to spite your face in that fashion? Principles achieve little).


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