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Think this sums up the British 'royal' family.

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  • #32
    problemchimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    It's one of them there "stick it to the Brits" threads that we've all come to know and love.
    I think Tiochaid Armani has a point in starting a thread on this subject as there is a documentary about to be shown on the subject. If you don't like the thread, go somewhere else.


  • #33
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Tiocfaidh Armani wrote: »
    Care? Not so much care but I take an interest in a lot of current affairs and the concept of royalty I find repulsive, especially the collection of inbreds who the Irish press fawn over.
    And you hate the Brits.


  • #34
    problemchimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    Moises Teeny Photo wrote: »
    And you hate the Brits.
    And you don't, what's your point caller.


  • #35
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    problemchimp wrote: »
    I think Tiochaid Armani has a point in starting a thread on this subject as there is a documentary about to be shown on the subject. If you don't like the thread, go somewhere else.

    If that's the case then there's a forum for that sort of thing.


  • #36
    hangon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 374 ✭✭hangon


    K-9 wrote: »
    Ah, hangon got there first!

    K-9 i resent you suggesting i have had a lobotomy!:)

    on topic nobody can be sure what efforts people may have made for their loved ones or how much it may have broken their hearts.


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  • #37
    problemchimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    If that's the case then there's a forum for that sort of thing.
    ?


  • #38
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    problemchimp wrote: »
    And you don't, what's your point caller.

    Yeh yeh yeh yeh yeh go on yeh yeh


  • #39
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    problemchimp wrote: »
    I think Tiochaid Armani has a point in starting a thread on this subject as there is a documentary about to be shown on the subject. If you don't like the thread, go somewhere else.

    I think it's a brilliant thread, perhaps the greatest thread that's ever been.


  • #40
    al28283
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    Tiocfaidh Armani wrote: »
    My bone is these people are shown as a higher brand of person to the rest of us mere mortals and they left their relatives to rot for decades because they had special needs. It's appalling. Here's hoping one day the places around the world who employ these sort of parasites to be unelected benefit spongers give them all the boot!

    Your bone is that she's the Queen of England


  • #41
    latenia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,996 ✭✭✭latenia


    Lollipops23 wrote: »

    Also, you may want to look into how much tourism revenue the royals generate for the UK before you say boot em out.

    France, Italy, China and the USA all get more tourists despite their lack of a royal family and I've never heard anyone mention the Spanish royal family as a factor in choosing their holiday. If anything, a bloody coup would help tourism. I know I'd visit the queen's private art collection (the largest, most valuable in the world) if it was put on display and the various palaces and castles would attract millions more visitors if they were opened up properly.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tourism_rankings
    Lollipops23 wrote: »
    I just think they're pretty banal- they don't hold much sway in the running of the country or anything and they're not hurting anyone.

    Prince Charles has the right to veto any act of parliament which might interfere with his business empire-his powers are actually greater than the queen's in this regard.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/31/prince-charles-legislation-veto-duchy-of-cornwall?INTCMP=SRCH


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  • #42
    Tiocfaidh Armani
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Tiocfaidh Armani


    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    I avoid the press that fawn over the royals and celebrity, maybe you should as well, or are you a secret Hello! Reader?

    Independent and Irish Times my dear boy;)


  • #43
    Adyx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    Tiocfaidh Armani wrote: »
    Care? Not so much care but I take an interest in a lot of current affairs and the concept of royalty I find repulsive, especially the collection of inbreds who the Irish press fawn over.

    By who? Do you not read the press?
    I notice you haven't mentioned any of the other European royal families.


  • #44
    problemchimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    I think it's a brilliant thread, perhaps the greatest thread that's ever been.
    Well done


  • #45
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,305 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    hangon wrote: »
    K-9 i resent you suggesting i have had a lobotomy!:)

    :D

    @Tiocfaidh Armani, I know somebody who just talked to her natural mother for the first time recently. The mother never told her brothers and sisters to this day that she had a baby. I don't blame her tbh, that's the grip the church had on the minds of people.

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #46
    Tiocfaidh Armani
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Tiocfaidh Armani


    Moises Teeny Photo wrote: »
    And you hate the Brits.

    British people are great, sorry but don't make stupid accusations. I know it gets peoples backs up when you show anything critical of your beloved royals. Sensitive little souls and all...


  • #47
    Snakeblood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,461 ✭✭✭Snakeblood


    latenia wrote: »
    France, Italy, China and the USA all get more tourists despite their lack of a royal family and I've never heard anyone mention the Spanish royal family as a factor in choosing their holiday. If anything, a bloody coup would help tourism. I know I'd visit the queen's private art collection (the largest, most valuable in the world) if it was put on display and the various palaces and castles would attract millions more visitors if they were opened up properly.

    Totally against the notion of a royal family, but are you seriously arguing that because other places have other things (the grand canyon, sun, Yellowstone, haute cuisine, the Louvre, the Eiffel tower), the Royal Family aren't important for tourism?

    And bloody coups generally don't help tourism. tourist don't like the blood for some reason.


  • #48
    al28283
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    Tiocfaidh Armani wrote: »
    British people are great, sorry but don't make stupid accusations. I know it gets peoples backs up when you show anything critical of your beloved royals. Sensitive little souls and all...

    Well your criticism of them is quite silly


  • #49
    Tiocfaidh Armani
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Tiocfaidh Armani


    Adyx wrote: »
    I notice you haven't mentioned any of the other European royal families.

    The Irish public don't care about other 'royal' familes though, why would anyone start a thread on them? Did they disown special needs relatives of theirs? If not why even ask?


  • #50
    problemchimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    al28283 wrote: »
    Well your criticism of them is quite silly
    I take it you have seen the documentary so.


  • #51
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    Tiocfaidh Armani wrote: »
    British people are great, sorry but don't make stupid accusations. I know it gets peoples backs up when you show anything critical of your beloved royals. Sensitive little souls and all...

    There seems to be more interest here in the royals, than there is in the UK.


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  • #52
    al28283
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    Tiocfaidh Armani wrote: »
    The Irish public don't care about other 'royal' familes though, why would anyone start a thread on them? Did they disown special needs relatives of theirs? If not why even ask?


    Ummm, all the European royal families are related so if one of them disowned these relatives, then they all did. But that doesn't interest you, only the British Royals interest you right? ;)


  • #53
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    al28283 wrote: »
    Ummm, all the European royal families are related so if one of them disowned these relatives, then they all did. But that doesn't interest you, only the British Royals interest you right? ;)

    He's looking for a knighthood.


  • #54
    Tiocfaidh Armani
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Tiocfaidh Armani


    al28283 wrote: »
    Well your criticism of them is quite silly

    Why? My family would never abandon someone because they were special needs. Why should the 'cream of society' get away with it without criticism.


  • #55
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    al28283 wrote: »
    Ummm, all the European royal families are related so if one of them disowned these relatives, then they all did. But that doesn't interest you, only the British Royals interest you right? ;)

    In the same way closet gays are usually the most vocally homophobic, closet royalists often spout this sort of thing to cover their own secret desires.


  • #56
    Tiocfaidh Armani
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Tiocfaidh Armani


    al28283 wrote: »
    Ummm, all the European royal families are related so if one of them disowned these relatives, then they all did. But that doesn't interest you, only the British Royals interest you right? ;)

    No, only the British royal interest the Irish public. That hard for you to understand?


  • #57
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Tiocfaidh Armani wrote: »
    Why? My family would never abandon someone because they were special needs. Why should the 'cream of society' get away with it without criticism.

    Trace back your family far enough and you may be suprised.


  • #58
    Tiocfaidh Armani
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Tiocfaidh Armani


    prinz wrote: »
    Trace back your family far enough and you may be suprised.

    Oh dear. Go away.


  • #59
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,291 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Tiocfaidh Armani wrote: »
    No, only the British royal interest the Irish public. That hard for you to understand?

    Seeing as you started the thread, is it fair to say that the only Royals who interest you are the British ones?


  • #60
    problemchimp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    al28283 wrote: »
    Ummm, all the European royal families are related so if one of them disowned these relatives, then they all did. But that doesn't interest you, only the British Royals interest you right? ;)
    Maybe because the the documentary to be shown on Ch4 is about the "British" royal family, after all that is what this thread is about. If there is a documentary made about the Dutch royal family, we shall discuss it. Watch this space.


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  • #61
    al28283
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    Tiocfaidh Armani wrote: »
    No, only the British royal interest the Irish public. That hard for you to understand?

    The Irish public don't care about this, just you. You realize you are the one who started this thread right?


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