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Lothar inspired rant
Topic Started: Jan 29 2006, 05:16 PM (398 Views)
Djinchao
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Why the hell do we need the monarchy I meen there useless the do nothing but appear on T.V or host high class parties with celebrities. Ok some people will say that they attract a lot of tourism and bring in about 3 maybe 4 billion a year in tourisom this is true but however where does this money go? It certainly doesn’t go to the government or they would have a bigger budjet to play around with and it also doesn’t go to the citizens or then the government will increase taxes. So where does it go, well obviously it goes into the queens pocket and then she spreads it out to her ‘high class’ friends in yet more elaberat parties. I mean they should be stripped of their title and put to work like the rest of us.

Again people would then say the economy will fall because of the drop in tourisom. BULL! England doesn’t just revolve around the royalty it has other things that attract people here:
• Its beautiful countryside in which I am seeing now as I am in the back of my car on my way to Scotland.
• Its famous landmarks. Yes bukingham palace is one but if the royal family weren’t their then people would be able to explore it and see all the beauty and wonderful architecture within it whitch we never see.
• Some and I mean SOME of its bands and music i.e. The Beetles
• The Olympics / Commenwelth games
• The political freedoms i.e. age 18 to drink
• Native animals
• Theme parks
• The people because the british are a naturally good hearted race.
• *shudder* reality T.V i.e. Big Brother *shudder*
• Its Comedyans
The list goes on.

The drawbacks of loosing the queen are that we would have to change the ‘face’ of our currency but that wouldn’t be hard would it because we would just stick the first 3 greatist Britains (This was a T.V show here). The only problem I could think about this is that the government would try to slap something stupid on it. If the queen and her bunch of merry men where to go away overnight I do hope we wouldn’t turn to the Euro because I pride in our country in having its own currency as it aggravates people having to change their currency such as OAPs & drug dealers, this is actually how some are picked up by changing large amounts of currency into another I mean just how stupid do you have to be? It’s like:

Clerk: how much would you like to exchange? 100? 500? 1000?
Dealer: oh not much 50,000
Clerk: err…. I don’t think we have that much in the front. I’ll just err go into the back and see…
Dealer: Ok don’t be to long

After that the clerk phones the police and the dealer is busted and goes to jail for a long time etc… This is why we must keep our currency to weed out the stupid people.

Err… I’ve lost track of what I was going on about so I’ll leave you to your own devices. Oh and if I get any emails saying that I copied lothar you’ll kind of true because this was inspired by one of his rants so don’t bother, only lothar or the rest of EN can collar me if they don’t like it.


Djinchao
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Gibboss28
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well... I just really dont know what to say to that.
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spoonerman
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have you noticed how shops like kwik save and co-op are actualyl raising the drinknig age to 21, it's obvious tony blair just wants to kiss the americans asses, let's face it the people woh are in charge of his country are morons
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Lothar Hex
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The only reason we keep the monarchy is so we don't have to call Tony Blair the President.

Which is a bloody good reason if you ask me.
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Major Maxillary
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Lothar Hex,Jan 29 2006
05:56 PM
The only reason we keep the monarchy is so we don't have to call Tony Blair the President.

Which is a bloody good reason if you ask me.

Seconded.

also, I'd like to say that the Guards at the palace look fucking awesome.
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red demon
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Major Maxillary,Jan 29 2006
07:24 PM
Lothar Hex,Jan 29 2006
05:56 PM
The only reason we keep the monarchy is so we don't have to call Tony Blair the President.

Which is a bloody good reason if you ask me.

Seconded.

also, I'd like to say that the Guards at the palace look fucking awesome.

and the idea that they just stand still all day and won't move isn't true either.

That's just the british women. *Get's a kick to the nuts by riping off family guy/ insulting british women*
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red demon,Jan 29 2006
08:39 PM
and the idea that they just stand still all day and won't move isn't true either.

That's just the british women. *Get's a kick to the nuts by riping off family guy/ insulting british women*


shame on you.
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red demon
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Major Maxillary,Jan 29 2006
09:40 PM
red demon,Jan 29 2006
08:39 PM
and the idea that they just stand still all day and won't move isn't true either.

That's just the british women. *Get's a kick to the nuts by riping off family guy/ insulting british women*


shame on you.

I said I got kicked in the nuts. Isn't that punishment enough?
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Lothar Hex
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I could tell you to FUCK OFF and say if you do another joke like that I'll ban you if you want.
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Rawkko
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Perhaps Britian wants to stay true to it's herritage and traditions Djin?
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Rawkko,Jan 30 2006
02:23 AM
Perhaps Britian wants to stay true to it's herritage and traditions Djin?

Considering that in England in certain cities 'tradition' before stated that one Scotsman is to be killed via Longbow a day....I dont exactly go against the idea of giving some traditions the one fingered salute.
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Rawkko
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*Gulp* I'm Scotish just to tell you, Thats not exactly what I had in mind for traditions but I think you know what I mean. PLUS It keeps Blair from being in full power, thats gotta be a damned good reason to keep it! ;)
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im new here, im a fan of the comic, and through it have been sorta released to the world of web comics, and i like it, ta guys. Any way we keep the monarchy so great britain looks posh and rich,
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Rawkko
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Its so obvious now :P
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Legion
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Rawkko,Jan 30 2006
05:06 PM
PLUS It keeps Blair from being in full power, thats gotta be a damned good reason to keep it! ;)

Well, it would if the monarchy had any power at all apart from the right and duty to open new shopping centres. Otherwise, nope, Blair doesn't have a ridiculous amount of power. I'm pretty sure that in our system the British Prime Minister has more individual power over the country than the US President, though I could be wrong.

Which is, you know, scary.
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Yes, the US President has alot less power than the British Prime Minister, as he/she is heavily scrutinised by both the legislature and judiciary, which are kep independent from the President. In Britain, the PM is actually head of the legislature, affording greater control, especially taking into account Britains voting system (which benefits the winner heavily). The PM also has greater control of the Judiciary. Just one more reason why Britain needs a codified constitution: separation of powers.
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The Royalty are in some ways a useful "buffer" in that a new law needs the current monarchs signature to be made law... Admittedly this is merely a technicality in modern times, it's still law, so theoretically the Queen could block the ID Card bill if she so chose.

Would cause a massive constituional crisis though.
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