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It's The Queens Birthday Day.

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  • 21-04-2016 7:28am
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    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,419 ✭✭✭✭


    Ninety today God love her,not looking bad whatever she's on.
    Happy birthday day The Queen.


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    gerrybbadd
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    *grabs popcorn


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    #3
    Mr.Crinklewood
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    Happy Birthday Ma'am.


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    Frogscotch
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    Who's going to send her a telegram in 10 years?


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    OldMrBrennan83
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    Edward Hopper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 713 ✭✭✭Edward Hopper


    "Work" for Royals is going to grand dinners and having expensive holidays, getting waited on 24 hours a day. Not hard to see how they tend to live to a ripe old age.

    An English Republic can't come soon enough (the realist in me knows it'll probably never come).


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    monkeysnapper
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    Frogscotch wrote: »
    Who's going to send her a telegram in 10 years?

    I could see her stand down over next year or so so Charles would be sending it .

    She's some lady , saw a bit of a documentary of her before she was queen and a car herself and the king were in had broken down and she got out and rolled her sleeves up and fixed it . very old footage granted .

    Happy birthday Queen Elizabeth.

    **** I forgot to send card , I'll get straight onto moonpig


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    Panthro
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    Aww Queen...Thinking about it, its a Miracle really isn't it.
    It's a kind a magic (magic!)


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    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,521 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Yet, there was no thread yesterday for Hitler Day. It would have been Adolf's 127th birthday.


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    Nekarsulm
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    Edward Hopper wrote: »

    An English Republic can't come soon enough (the realist in me knows it'll probably never come).

    They had one once, but we Irish resisted it royally.


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    Jawgap
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    Christ, not another thread about Panti Bliss :rolleyes:


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    seamus
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    monkeysnapper wrote: »
    Frogscotch wrote: »
    Who's going to send her a telegram in 10 years?

    She's some lady , saw a bit of a documentary of her before she was queen and a car herself and the king were in had broken down and she got out and rolled her sleeves up and fixed it . very old footage granted .
    She was a mechanic in the British Army IIRC.

    As someone else said, it's not hard to live to 90 years of age when you have everything looked after by the most expensive people money can buy. She's had to deal with plenty of big stresses in her life, but all of the small ones are taken care of by her staff. And it's the small stresses that kill you, not the big ones.


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    diomed
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    Happy Birthday.
    She waved to me at Epsom very year, and I waved back. :)


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    beertons
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    You'd be wrecked giving her 90 bumps.


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    Jawgap
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    beertons wrote: »
    You'd be wrecked giving her 90 bumps.

    I doubt she's that heavy :)


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    Eugene Norman
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    Edward Hopper wrote: »
    "Work" for Royals is going to grand dinners and having expensive holidays, getting waited on 24 hours a day. Not hard to see how they tend to live to a ripe old age.

    An English Republic can't come soon enough (the realist in me knows it'll probably never come).

    She's probably been working harder than most octogenarians.


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    Jawgap
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    monkeysnapper wrote: »
    I could see her stand down over next year or so so Charles would be sending it .

    She's some lady , saw a bit of a documentary of her before she was queen and a car herself and the king were in had broken down and she got out and rolled her sleeves up and fixed it . very old footage granted .

    Happy birthday Queen Elizabeth.

    **** I forgot to send card , I'll get straight onto moonpig

    There's more recent footage of her parachuting.......

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AS-dCdYZbo


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    jester77
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    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Yet, there was no thread yesterday for Hitler Day. It would have been Adolf's 127th birthday.

    Well, he's already with the angels so you can't exactly send him a card


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    Edward Hopper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 713 ✭✭✭Edward Hopper


    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    She's probably been working harder than most octogenarians.

    I don't see much work involved in her life, or the rest of the hanger on spongers. If the "work" was paid on an hour by hour basis she'd need to sign on to cover her corgi food bill.

    Old people go on holiday, just most use Saga or the like, their holidays don't come courtesy of tax payers.


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    seamus
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    Edward Hopper wrote: »
    I don't see much work involved in her life, or the rest of the hanger on spongers. If the "work" was paid on an hour by hour basis she'd need to sign on to cover her corgi food bill.
    To be fair, if you asked me whether I'd prefer my life or hers, I'd pick mine. And I think most people would be the same.

    No, she doesn't do a lot of work really. But at the same time I imagine she hasn't had a single day where she just said "**** it", got out of bed and spent six hours wandering between the couch and the kitchen before even thinking about getting dressed or having a shower.

    How many times do you think she's sat in front of the telly with no pants on, a roaring fire, a dirty chinese in front of her and a vegged out watching sh1te TV.

    I mention she's had no small stresses in her life. But she probably has very few of the small pleasures either. She still has to get dressed in her finery just to go see her grandchildren and great grandchildren.


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    BBDBB
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    I doubt the uk economy could afford to pay the Queen on an hourly rate for the job she does, an endless round of travelling to 3 or 4 venues every day to meet a load of obsequious strangers, having to feign interest in their new factory/ bandstand/ basket weaving community centre and ask them questions before hearing yet another school choir murder a medley of beige classics. Trying to ensure her husband doesn't say something offensive again as they wander down some dreary high street accepting bunches of flowers from snot nosed children before getting back in the car to do the same again 30 miles down the road. And then at the end of the day she can't kick her shoes off and put on her sweat pants she has to get dolled up and meet some visiting dignitaries and exchange polite small talk so that they will trade with her country.

    **** job


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    corner of hells
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    Nobody's drunk yet , not a chance of any outrage.
    No to foreign games etc.


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    Eugene Norman
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    Edward Hopper wrote: »
    I don't see much work involved in her life, or the rest of the hanger on spongers. If the "work" was paid on an hour by hour basis she'd need to sign on to cover her corgi food bill.

    Old people go on holiday, just most use Saga or the like, their holidays don't come courtesy of tax payers.

    A dinner isn't necessarily time off if you have to make a speech. Speaking is work in fact. It has to be prepared for.

    And all those engagements are work. Sure she travels but so do businessmen.

    I'd get rid of royalty but they do work.


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    Permabear
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    conorhal
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    Permabear wrote: »
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    Well I firmy believe that those in free social housing living off the state's teat should have to contribute some form of comunity service until the find a real job....


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    The Young Wan
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    The original Lizard Queen


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    maudgonner
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    conorhal wrote: »
    Well I firmy believe that those in free social housing living off the state's teat should have to contribute some form of comunity service until the find a real job....

    I believe she was offered a 3-bed semi in Hounslow but she turned it down. Said there wasn't enough room in the garden for a trampoline, so she held out for better and eventually got offered Buck Palace.

    It's scandalous.


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    La_Gordy
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    I work in London and there's a larger-than-life size (unless she is 6'2) cardboard Queen in the lunchroom today.


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    stimpson
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    BBDBB wrote: »
    I doubt the uk economy could afford to pay the Queen on an hourly rate for the job she does

    Well the "Soverign Grant" is 40 million. There are 8760 hours in a year, so that's about 4.5 grand an hour (including sleepytime). Get someone off Jobbridge to do it. Be grand.


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    xabi
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    La_Gordy wrote: »
    I work in London and there's a larger-than-life size (unless she is 6'2) cardboard Queen in the lunchroom today.

    Thats crying out for a cock&balls to be drawn on it.


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    FTA69
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    The whole concept of a monarchy in this day and age is ridiculous and outdated; similarly forking out millions of actual working people's money to fund a shower of parasites is a joke considering the austerity the rest of the country is being subjected to.

    The Royal Family embodies the worst of British society to be honest; undemocratic, militaristic and hereditary privilege.


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