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# Things would be better if we didn't have a monarchy
(nicestnihilist saw you do that on, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:45, archived)
# very true
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:47, archived)
# scaramouche scaramouche
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:48, archived)
# Will you appear on the next series of Strictly Come Dancing?
Here is a contract
and lots of money......
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:52, archived)
# I saw Brian May and Anita Dobson leaving the theatre the other day.
I called out "Alright, Brian!" (I was quite pissed), and he waved and smiled.

I can confirm that, contrary to popular belief, they are actually two different people.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:54, archived)
# but you were pissed
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:55, archived)
# ^ this
double-vision

I used to quite fancy her when she was in Up the Elephant and Round the Castle with Jim Davidson in the early 80s
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:56, archived)
# Having a monarchy is ok, but they should work for their money and get swapped over for a different one every year
they would be chosen based on talent and ability, not imbreeding or the idiot masses vote.

Plus every leap year you could have a wildcard like someone dressed on alternate days as a dinosaur or a robot.

This could happen, you just need to wish hard enough
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:51, archived)
# perhaps each year Simon Cowell could hold the M-Factor?
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:53, archived)
# no, no idiot mass vote
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:54, archived)
# Just as well there's not a general election soon, eh?
Oh...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:59, archived)
# This is a reasonable idea
But, I'm wondering how we'd deal with the tourism aspect. The tower of London has a rather nifty display of the Royal familys clothing and furniture. Presumably that will have to be changed every year as well.

I'm a bit dubious about how many Americans will want to take photos of my Mums formica kitchen cabinets, and my Grandads pants.

(I helped save b3ta! Not Pineapple anymore, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 10:04, archived)
# JORDAN FOR QWEEN!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:59, archived)
# Very useful to have a non-partisan head of state.
She's welcome in many places Blair and Brown aren't. The major royals also do an awful lot of functions and events. They're worth it even if only for the dollars they bring in...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:53, archived)
# exactly, and just think how many more coins they'd reap dressed as a T-Rex!
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:55, archived)
# Reginaraptor?
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:56, archived)
# It's true
But as I get older I've started thinking that maybe we should keep them just to upset the hippies.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:52, archived)
# hahaha
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 9:55, archived)
# I don't mind the monarchy much, except for Prince Charles
It did piss me off on the local news the other day:
NEWS: And Prince William visited a local hospital today, to open a new MRI machine that can be used on patients during an operation.
ME: What the hell, that is so cool?! Wow! Seriously?
NEWS: Here's Prince William talking to people
ME: SHOW US THE FUCKING MACHINE!
NEWS: Now we'll discuss what Prince William is wearing...
ME: Cool machine. Now.
NEWS: Blah blah blah, talking to old man about the Prince.

After the intro, not one mention of the damn thing he was there to open
(I helped save b3ta! the wub - guide onion for the blind, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 10:01, archived)
# It's not all that much to look at.
Basically a white plastic tunnel that they slide the patient into. Thn you expose the patient to a big magnetic field from a superconducting magnet and hit them with radio-frequency radiation. Protons in the watery bits of you give out a signal and they build a picture from it.
The method is very neat, but the kit is not that exciting to look at.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 24 Feb 2010, 10:13, archived)
# No, I know about MRI, I was interested in the fact that you can do operations in it
For one thing, such a big magnet is not going to play nicely with metal surgical tools
www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/14006
(I helped save b3ta! the wub - guide onion for the blind, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 10:30, archived)
# Aha!
Should be ok with several types of diamagnetic metals - we use several copper components in the SQUID, which goes up to 5 Tesla. Also, you can make very sharp blades with certain polymers - apparently used by spies and the like as they don't really show on X-rays well.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 24 Feb 2010, 10:43, archived)
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(I helped save b3ta! Captain Howdy, Wed 24 Feb 2010, 10:08, archived)