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Say something nice about the Queen and /or the Royal family

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    #32
    EICVD
    Registered Users Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭EICVD


    I suppose we wouldn’t have Royal Ascot without them, a nice sporting occasion in mid June where usually the Irish dominate


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    #33
    js35
    Registered Users Posts: 397 ✭✭js35


    Ah I like the royal family cause Ricky Tomlinson is the image of me da :D:D


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    #34
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,436 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Rick Shaw wrote: »
    Dunno, but they discuss the American one on this site.

    There's a big wide world beyond Ireland, the royal family are a pretty well known monarchy.

    I don't see the problem in Irish people discussing them tbh. Especially as we live in an island that has a sizable enough amount of people that are "loyal" to them.

    Well the American presidency has a lot more political impact on the world than a royal family.

    As somebody who is very much anti monarchy and pro-republican I just don't understand what people would find interesting about a family put into a position of power by an elitist system.

    It's more to do with celeb culture with weddings, affairs etc. rather than achieving anything of note.


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    #35
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,436 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    EICVD wrote: »
    I suppose we wouldn’t have Royal Ascot without them, a nice sporting occasion in mid June where usually the Irish dominate

    Then it would just be Ascot. Simple.
    js35 wrote: »
    Ah I like the royal family cause Ricky Tomlinson is the image of me da :D:D

    That's "The Royle Family".:pac:


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    #36
    FTA69
    Registered Users Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Nothing positive to say about them the archaic horrible bunch of parasitic bastards. The Bolsheviks had the right idea with royalty, and the French before them.

    If you seriously believe in democracy then you could have no truck with monarchy.


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    #37
    Jordoo
    Registered Users Posts: 26 ✭Jordoo


    Nazi sympathisers


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    #38
    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Well the American presidency has a lot more political impact on the world than a royal family.

    As somebody who is very much anti monarchy and pro-republican I just don't understand what people would find interesting about a family put into a position of power by an elitist system.

    It's more to do with celeb culture with weddings, affairs etc. rather than achieving anything of note.

    I hear ya, and meet your brother, but they're great to poke fun at.


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    #39
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    Prince Harry seems reasonably well adjusted and normalish given his circumstances. I felt fairly sorry for him (if that's the right word - it certainly was a gilded cage he was in after all) growing up as a teenager with everything he did or said scrutinized by tabloid scum. I always got the feeling that he just wanted to be left alone and let be himself.


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    #40
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    FTA69 wrote: »
    The Bolsheviks had the right idea with royalty

    Yeah... it seems like the Kim family in the DPRK missed the memo though.


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    #41
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    I was well impressed with the Queen's visit to Ireland a few years back.

    William and Kate, and Harry seem like nice people.

    The system of monarchy seems to work well for the Brits.

    The way their detractors get so bent out of shape in reaction to any news on them is hilarious.


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    #42
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    They are quite clever around branding. The switch from Saxe-Coburg Gotha to Windsor in 1917 was very clever.


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    #43
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    c_man wrote: »
    I was well impressed with the Queen's visit to Ireland a few years back.

    William and Kate, and Harry seem like nice people.

    The system of monarchy seems to work well for the Brits.

    The way their detractors get so bent out of shape in reaction to any news on them is hilarious.
    It's because Irish people have been brought up on lies on the Royal Family. Long live the Parliamentary constitutional Monarchy, the greatest form of Government ever invented.


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    #44
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    Ah here, in fairness a good chunk of the Brits love them, so who are we to judge? It works for them.

    And don't give me that, 'why are people interested in them.' They are probably the most famous family in the world, a world where vacuous Kim Kardashian is a goddess. FFS!


    Oh, as for the thread. They have lovely faces for tea-towels


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    #45
    FrancieBrady
    Registered Users Posts: 67,104 ✭✭✭✭FrancieBrady


    Having done what one wishes one's army and government hadn't done one time too many, she has been the best thing ever for our independence movement. A royal Ian Paisley so to speak.


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    #46
    [Deleted User]
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    The Queen is a figure of stability and familiarity in a turbulent time of constant change. People like that.


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    #47
    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,021 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    They don't eat human flesh, afaik.


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    #48
    Kimbot
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    Odhinn wrote: »
    They don't eat human flesh, afaik.

    I need proof before I believe it.......


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    #49
    riffmongous
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,632 Mod ✭✭✭✭riffmongous


    Odhinn wrote: »
    They don't eat human flesh, afaik.

    That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard


    Everyone knows they bathe in infant blood, nothing to do with eating


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    #50
    c_man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Oh oh, and if you're in the UK you'll get a day off for the big events involving them.


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    #51
    SuperSean11
    Registered Users Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭SuperSean11


    I liked her appearance on Cribbs


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    #52
    Strazdas
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    She was brilliant during the state visit to Ireland. Her trips to the Garden of Remembrance and Croke Park were her idea (or her advisers at least) and didn't come from the Irish side.

    She showed us real respect too, speaking in Irish when addressing the President, wearing a harp emblem on her dress the same night etc.


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    #53
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    She's still alive


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    #54
    diomed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    Any time I went to the Derby the Queen waved to me.


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    #55
    Floki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭Floki


    The Prince's Trust helps a lot of people. Maybe government should be doing more but there you go.

    He's mad into the oul organics too.

    I still wouldn't be in favour of the concept of royalty in any country.


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    #56
    housetypeb
    Registered Users Posts: 1,184 ✭✭✭housetypeb


    "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"


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    #57
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    Incest is ok when you're royal!
    http://bangordailynews.com/2014/03/09/living/family-ties/queen-elizabeth-prince-philip-are-3rd-cousins-through-victoria/


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    #58
    BuboBubo
    Registered Users Posts: 927 ✭✭✭BuboBubo


    They don't rule us.

    That's nice isn't it

    :D


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    #59
    RayM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,973 ✭✭✭RayM


    They're not our problem. Also, they never asked to be born into such a weird system, so it seems sort of unfair to attack them as individuals.


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    #60
    NollagShona
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,360 ✭✭✭NollagShona


    Harry's a ride


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    #61
    server down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,613 ✭✭✭server down


    housetypeb wrote: »
    "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest"

    By the next dictator.


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