Still more disappointing responses...

It's fun watching IAF getting flamed though: I've run across it before in debates and it's posts are full of inanities.

The disappointing thing is that people are consistently missing the point of the OP, although some people are illustrating it really well, viz:

Originally posted by ItsallCrazy
I'm glad we have her as a representative for this country and we aren't just recognisable by the fat prick at downing street.

My contention is that as a figurehead she allows UK citizens to focus their irrational feelings and therefore we can look at our PMs as the odious lickspittles they are.

Still no-one has come up with any evidence to show that the Royals somehow control the US. And the thread is littered with patent nonsense like:

Originally posted by ItsallCrazy
She's been running this country for 57 years and it should stay that way.

No, she hasn't been running the country. She's been obediently signing bills into law, making speeches at Christmas, and costing each UK citizen about 60p per day, a figure I think could be significantly reduced while still performing what I submit is a far more valuable function than most of us realise.

As for IAF, I find it hilarious that US citizens confer such irrational reverence on their elected head of state, the last of whom could not formulate coherent thought had his life depended on it.

As I said, in the UK those irrational feelings are safely earthed in someone whose powers are entirely ceremonial, a fact for which I'm rather grateful.

Originally posted by ItsallCrazy
Di was not just in charities for photo ops either.. take a real look for yourself at some of the work she did with the sick in africa and walking through open minefields in just a helmet. Would you do that just for a photo op?

I dare say she may have meant well. I personally don't think she was bright enough to have much of a clue, and as I say, the person I knew who was well-placed in the charity field and had many contacts who had met her personally said that the consensus of opinion among those contacts was that she was about as much use as the proverbial choccy teapot.

Can you tell me what she did, apart from photo ops with African children, that counts as "work"? I'm open to being convinced about this, but you'll have to supply more detail and preferably some links.

As for walking through minefields in just a helmet, this is not something I've heard about and I cannot imagine her handlers letting her do something as dangerous as you make it sound.

You mentioned Obama's visit, though, and now I come to think about it, it is interesting that Obama came to visit quite so quickly. Governor Bush (thank you George Carlin) wasn't in such a rush, but perhaps as he was part of the Carlyle group he was already in contact with the Royals. I don't know.

It is possible to interpret that visit in a few different ways: an early thanks to (as has been mentioned) the US' only real ally in the Total War Against Terra; introducing himself to his Royal Masters; an early start to a global equivalent of the Royal Progresses of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries which has continued with many other foreign visits.

I don't know.

[Edit to add: I'm pretty sure Obama must have been dreading meeting Prince Philip and was constantly braced against an inappropriate comment from the UK's leading Comedy Royal.]

I am now, however, reading David Icke's The Biggest Secret which makes the case for the reptilian bloodlines theory. As yet (chapter 3) I haven't come across anything compelling, although I like Icke's honesty and his breadth of source material.



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Love it! All the anti- Brit vs anti- American nonsense, when in fact they both seem to agree that our governments (both governments) are as bad as one another. What makes me laugh even more is the fact that if Britain did vote to become a republic the Windsors and all their servants would pack up and leave and relocate somewhere in America- and the American people would embrace them and make them more than welcome.

Lets face it, when the doors of Buckingham Palace close shut they must be doing something! They don't seem to be the kind of people who would pile around the TV to watch Americas Got Talent. . . Since we only catch a glimpse of them every couple of weeks or so, what on earth are they up to? What do they do with all that free time?

Originally posted by IAF101
To most Americans its quite quaint and utterly ludicrous to be servile to some old woman in a land half the world away!

To most British, and indeed the rest of the world, including Americans, it's quite quaint and utterly 'ludicrous' to be servile for eight years to some old witless Texan who waged war nilly-willy and is responsible for the deaths and maiming of many, many people and at the same time was barely capable of speaking coherently.


One who himself inherited his father's position! And you lecture us about royal succession!


Reminds me of what a former Republican (In the British, not American sense) said about Tony Blair, in that the mere thought of him being the President of a British Republic made her a royalist.


The Royals are not a tourist attraction, their buildings are.



We'll get around to overthrowing the monarchy one day, and we'll overthrow parliament too. And then we'll let off fireworks on both banks of the Thames.


One day.

Why hate the royal family? Isn't it obvious? Why is it that you or I has to work our knuckles to the bone to earn a modest income while if I had been fortunate enough to be born a Windsor I could have sat back and seen out my days playing golf, touring the world and occasionaly appearing in front of the media to applaud some charity that I had no interest in!
Being born into privilige doesn't make you any better than someone born into servitude.

I enjoy reading about the fascinating lives of others, and that has always included England's Royals. I will admit though, when Diana was gone, it lost a lot of spark for me. But I still like to keep up with how her "boys" are doing.

Whoever said if they came to the U.S...? Oh yes, no doubt, we would roll out the red carpet, and the photogs would be all over them every day. They would require body guards to keep them at bay.

They would be major celebrities here, especially the two young princes.

Originally posted by ladyinwaiting
I enjoy reading about the fascinating lives of others, and that has always included England's Royals. I will admit though, when Diana was gone, it lost a lot of spark for me. But I still like to keep up with how her "boys" are doing.

Whoever said if they came to the U.S...? Oh yes, no doubt, we would roll out the red carpet, and the photogs would be all over them every day. They would require body guards to keep them at bay.

They would be major celebrities here, especially the two young princes.

It was me that said Americans would adopt the royal family. A country such as the USA who loves celebrity delights in the whole notion of superstardom, how long would it be before Prince William threw the first ball at a baseball game, or the queen appeared on The Late Show!?
In America they would become a freak show.

look at our great Institution , the universities, colleges, hospitals, museums
botanic gardens, royal estates. etc all wouldn't be there if the pinko left wing liberals would have their way, and in response to anti imperialists.
" What have the ROMANS ever done for us "

Taken from " The life of Brian " Monty python. insert British. if you have seen this British classic, you will know what I'm preaching... lmao