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Just Finished on BBC1: Gary Barlow gets men women and children living in poverty and slums across the world to record music in the slim hope it will crack a smile on the face of a woman wearing a £400million hat
I don't get the Jubilee
(I helped save b3ta! keo COCKS COCKS COCKS, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 20:46, archived)
I haven't seen this much fuss about a Queen floating on the water since Michael Barrymore's pool party.

(I helped save b3ta! Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 20:49, archived)
you don't seem to get it, this woman has managed to not die for sixty years!

(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 20:51, archived)
she's managed not to die for 86 years actually

(I helped save b3ta! Boris Johnson's Press Secretary, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 20:52, archived)
yer, but before she was the queen she was just a pleb like the rest of us

(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 20:53, archived)
in fact, she hasn't died since the start of the Universe

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:06, archived)
But she's only had an active input into not dying for that past 86 years.

(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:08, archived)
hey don't knock not having an active input,
it's how I roll.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:08, archived)
I hear the boys love it when you just lie there.

(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:11, archived)
LEAVE THE QUEEN ALONE!
After all she's been through.
How could anyone dare make fun of Queenie.
(I helped save b3ta! PooPants, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 22:27, archived)
She's good at spotting all the traps Charles leaves for her nowadays

(I helped save b3ta! keo COCKS COCKS COCKS, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 20:54, archived)
I reckon they should skip charles and just do the hunger games with the younger ones

(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 20:56, archived)
I'm impressed kate didn't push her off the boat

(I helped save b3ta! vladimir, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:01, archived)
I'd pay to watch that

(I helped save b3ta! keo COCKS COCKS COCKS, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:01, archived)
There's Palace mud wrestling later
invitation only.
(betsy Eat the rich., Sun 3 Jun 2012, 22:17, archived)
Basically we're celebrating 60 years of not being the sort of over-emotional imbecilic retards that think having an elected figurehead would be any better
A Smile for the Jubilee is a Smile for Common Sense.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 20:52, archived)
I reckon she's got more sense than anyone in the House of Commons by a long shot,
they should just let her run the show and we'd be alright.

When Charlie takes over, though, it'll be a different kettle of fish altogether.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 20:59, archived)
That is the problem with longer life expectancies (and the lack of wars)
we'll have a series of monarchs who are only coronated when they are 70.
(I helped save b3ta! magnum, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:02, archived)
it's not his age so much as the fact that he's a knob head

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:10, archived)
That is true
Maybe he'll stop spouting his opinions once crowned
(I helped save b3ta! magnum, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:13, archived)
Benevolent Dictatorship all the way
not sure Ma'am is up for it though.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:03, archived)
yeah that's kind of the real problem isn't it,
the "being up for it" criteria tends to select a certain sort of person.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:09, archived)
What are you saying?
I'd be up for it.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:19, archived)
yeah...

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:25, archived)
It'd be a lovely world where he just passes it straight to William
William and the Queen herself are the only slightly sane ones. Phillip is an ancient racist, Edward is a bit drippy but keeps himself to himself, Charles is dopey but recognisable and Andrew is a grinning, smug cunt of a twat.
Harry's a bit of a prat. I'd pay my £1 a year in taxes for a King William.
(I helped save b3ta! fatpoof, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:27, archived)
I suppose there's Anne as well or Margaret whichever the sister is but she's got hair like the back end of a poodle

(I helped save b3ta! fatpoof, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:38, archived)
The way I understand it the vast wealth of the Crown Estate goes entirely to the government and more than pays for the royal family.
They do more paying for us than we do for them.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:42, archived)
'but vey cost da tAxp@yer!!11'
like you said, surely they pay for themselves and significantly over and over again in tourism, crown estates and everything else?
and swan pies, they're doing very well
(I helped save b3ta! fatpoof, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:46, archived)
ima still in the juicer and grrr is right, the queen rocks

(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 20:59, archived)
This may go against the general opinion here
but I respect the queen for what she does, going round shaking hands, watching school kids dance and play shit music and all that bollocks. She's 86 as well, and still gets about. Fair play to her I say. I do think there are a few too many hangers on in the royal family so they could cut back on that.
(I helped save b3ta! magnum, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 20:55, archived)
I don't disagree with this, I like the queen and that more than I like the majority of politicans or celebrities

(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 20:59, archived)
But if Will Smith was king that would be pretty cool right?

(I helped save b3ta! magnum, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:00, archived)
I reckon we could get part way there if charles got the bootpolish out

(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:02, archived)

Now this is a story
all about how my life
worked out quite well till now
I’d like to take a minute
To set the scene
I’ll tell how I totally lucked out
And became the Queen

In the heart of mayfair
Born and raised
Being royal was how I spent
most of my days
Till on safari, I was chilling out
Relaxing up a tree
When I heard a couple of rings; it was the phone don’t you see
The news wasn’t good, pops had kicked the royal bucket
I said to Phil, time to fly back, safari’s ruined, fuck it

They flew me back to blighty I was feeling quite low
I was only twenty-five don’t you know
But getting to be monarch is a chance that’s quite rare
So I thought let’s do it, smack that crown on my hair

I kept going for some decades, then got up to the sixth
On the way I’ve had to deal with problems including one mad bitch
But now I look at my kingdom, I have only one care
I have to stay on my throne, because Charles is my heir
(I helped save b3ta! vladimir, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:25, archived)
Good Internet vlad

(I helped save b3ta! magnum, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:30, archived)
you know, if she's reading

(I helped save b3ta! glued eel /questions/questionsyoudliketoask/post1648081, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:01, archived)
My personal opinion on the queen is that "While I don't think any one family should get all the free crap they do they DO bring in ten times more in tourist money than it costs us to upkeep them so I'm all for them in a 'prize act in a circus' POV"

(I helped save b3ta! keo COCKS COCKS COCKS, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:04, archived)
Is the cost of their upkeep any less than it would be to maintain all their estates via English Heritage
plus the cost of a Presidency and his palace, AND the cost of an election every four fucking years?

I doubt it.
(I helped save b3ta! Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:20, archived)
Royal family annual cost: £40 million a year.
Total Cost of All White House Elements, for fiscal year 2008: $1,592,875,254
apparently
$200M a year just for Air Force One...

I don't think we need to worry too much about how much they cost us. It's like the cost of a first class stamp for everyone in the country.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:31, archived)
The Crown Estate pumps around £300 million a year to the Government.

(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:44, archived)
It wouldn't much worry me if they didn't.
It costs about 2 billion a year just to run the Inland Revenue.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:56, archived)
It's another example of the millennia-old belief
that if you're fortunate enough to have certain genes, individual merit is irrelevant and you'll never have to earn your keep.
(I helped save b3ta! The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 20:59, archived)
individual merit doesn't play much part generally, to be honest,
it's more about being in the right place at the right time.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:02, archived)
Yay the royals
I want a tax-payer funded life and huge fuck off party in my name, how do i apply? (P.S I PAY TAXES, DO I GET A DISCOUNT?)
(Gazelle Wasn't here on, Sun 3 Jun 2012, 21:26, archived)