Yes please! me too, don't even mind sloppy seconds!
The Queen ccsts me 66p a day! Far too much.
- Thread starter DexterTCN
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No. They find the monarchy gawp-worthy and find it quaint that we have a monarchy. That doesn't mean they want one. Most Yanks are rightly proud of their republican constitution born of revolt against the British crown.
They would be if they knew what it meant.
Only joking of course, I'm not suggesting for a minute that the average American is 'stoopid' Some of my best friends are American...
Anyway, I still reckon I'm right. They love all that olde worlde stuff and wish they had some heritage of their own. They'd do it bigger and better than us though, obviously. Windsor Castle wouldn't have been built underneath the approach to a major airport if it was in the States...
So it has been worked out that it costs each of us 67 pence a year to keep the Queen. Some of us object to the existence of royalty in this country. Others are happy to pay the money.
The solution to this is to set up a Royal Charity. Minor Royals and Royalist supporters could stand in the streets with collecting boxes on the Queen's birthday. We could then choose whether to contribute or not. The Royals would have to live on the money that came in.
However a more fun idea perhaps might be if they sold a magazine called The Royal Issue.
The solution to this is to set up a Royal Charity. Minor Royals and Royalist supporters could stand in the streets with collecting boxes on the Queen's birthday. We could then choose whether to contribute or not. The Royals would have to live on the money that came in.
However a more fun idea perhaps might be if they sold a magazine called The Royal Issue.
Urbanblues
Was that it, life?
The queen could stand outside St James' Tube Station; and, for effect have a corgi on the end of a piece of string.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Bugger that, take all their assets off them and send them down the jobcentre in borrowed tracky bottoms and smelly t-shirts. Spend everyone's 66p on producing a reality TV show that follows them as they try to explain to the jobsearch advisers why they've gone decades without working and have no qualifications for anything. The nation can laugh as they go hungry on the streets waiting out the 6 week period for processing new dole claims before they get a single penny. Then there's the joy of watching them wrangle with the housing association that owns half the neighbourhood but has no vacant homes for anyone, royalty or otherwise, because they've been cutting corners on their upkeep costs for the last ten years and now none of their flats are remotely fit for human occupation. And then of course there's the minimum wage jobs, crooked employment agencies, evil benefits contractors, social exclusion and victimisation; there's a 5-disc best of DVD box set right there
I think that would actually be more fun than hanging them. And far more appropriate.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Aye, right.
Guardian link
There are only 26 million income tax payers in the UK so fuck knows what taxpayers this royal spin is talking about.
Secondly...a 4p rise from 2007? That's about 7% innit (very badly calculated top-of-my-head) It's a fucking lot, actually.
Never mind...at least it's 3% lower, in (cough) real terms than 2001. Is it only cynics who wonder about 02, 03, 04, 05, 06 and 07?
Oh...and 07...that brings us to....'we are not including the security costs of £100 million fucking quid...that would be silly and quadruple the cost'.
A hundred million fucking quid for security is quite a lot, really when you consider....
SHE LIVES IN A FUCKING PALACE AND A CASTLE, THERE'S ONLY ONE FUCKING WAY IN!
So we have to wonder How much is fucking insurance? We have fucking spares, you know, if something happens!
And lastly...if I was gonna give someone 2 pints (imperial measurements of course, right in the face of the fucking education system I was brought up in) of milk to someone...it wouldn't be to someone worth hundreds of fucking millions....frankly there's an argument to say the milk should be going the other way.
Thank you for your time.
Fuck off somewhere else then.
Oooh touched a nerve with Tory boy there!
dylanredefined
Not a house elf a tiger
Great finally get to go to garden party at buck house .And its probably go tesco value corn beef sarnies 
.OH well gave the wife an excuse to buy a hat
.OH well gave the wife an excuse to buy a hat 
scifisam
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Bugger that, take all their assets off them and send them down the jobcentre in borrowed tracky bottoms and smelly t-shirts. Spend everyone's 66p on producing a reality TV show that follows them as they try to explain to the jobsearch advisers why they've gone decades without working and have no qualifications for anything. The nation can laugh as they go hungry on the streets waiting out the 6 week period for processing new dole claims before they get a single penny. Then there's the joy of watching them wrangle with the housing association that owns half the neighbourhood but has no vacant homes for anyone, royalty or otherwise, because they've been cutting corners on their upkeep costs for the last ten years and now none of their flats are remotely fit for human occupation. And then of course there's the minimum wage jobs, crooked employment agencies, evil benefits contractors, social exclusion and victimisation; there's a 5-disc best of DVD box set right there
I think that would actually be more fun than hanging them. And far more appropriate.
Have you read the Queen and I?
Course, the only problem with that scenario is that the Queen is a pensioner, Charles does have qualifications and work experiences, Anne would probably be able to support herself even if you dropped her in the middle of the jungle, and the others are all in the armed forces. Edward might end up on the dole without handouts from Mummy, but he's the only one.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
I won't fuck off any place.
If we're talking about people fucking off to live some place else then I'm all for that..... if we're going by 'amount of time family has been in country' measurements then the Royal family goes and I stay.
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
I don't get this - you bribe them to get you better jobs?
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Some interesting (and possibly apocryphal) facts from my english teaching textbook about Buckingham palace:
It has 300 clocks, and 2 people work full time to look after them.
It has a police station, two post offices, a hostpital, a bar, two sports clubs, a disco, a cinema, and a swimming pool.
When the queen has a proper banquet, it takes 3 days to lay the tables, and 3 days to do the washing up.
It has 300 clocks, and 2 people work full time to look after them.
It has a police station, two post offices, a hostpital, a bar, two sports clubs, a disco, a cinema, and a swimming pool.
When the queen has a proper banquet, it takes 3 days to lay the tables, and 3 days to do the washing up.
It's something like that, they don't just sell you, they rent you out
sometimes takes me a week, that's how regal I am.
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