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you would pretty much have to commit the equivalent of an ethic minority genocide to overthrow the Saudi Kingdom at this point
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Just want to add that even as a member of the SNP (Scottish Nationalist Party for the ignorant and/or American) I and many others in the party really like the Queen.
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Lichy posted:you would pretty much have to commit the equivalent of an ethic minority genocide to overthrow the Saudi Kingdom at this point Luckily genocide is well outside the purview of the Secret Service.
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Jan 3, 2015 21:12
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I'd take the dumb monarchy and NHS over an elected president and the US private healthcare system any day of the loving week.
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A Tartan Tory posted:Just want to add that even as a member of the SNP (Scottish Nationalist Party for the ignorant and/or American) I and many others in the party really like the Queen. sorry about your stockholm syndrome
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OP, you've missed the trick. By using up all our pageantry on a bunch of clearly ridiculous bullshit with no powers or consequences we free up our actual politicians to be the subject of complete and open derision. We find the level of reverence Americans have for their senators or whatever in general, and their presidents in particular, to be really loving creepy. (Also the way you seem to think of your laws and constitution as magic)
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Dzhay posted:OP, you've missed the trick. By using up all our pageantry on a bunch of clearly ridiculous bullshit with no powers or consequences we free up our actual politicians to be the subject of complete and open derision. We find the level of reverence Americans have for their senators or whatever in general, and their presidents in particular, to be really loving creepy. (Also the way you seem to think of your laws and constitution as magic) yeah we sure revere our congress with their 6% approval rating
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Lichy posted:see what you don't know is that abdullah is a member of a royal family numbering around 7 000 that occupy all the senior posts in government, so beheading a hydra won't really do much Good to see that someone beat rurik's high score.
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I'd have a beer with the queen
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The UK isn't a monarchy, it is a theocracy, since the head of state is also the head of the official religion. I've actually had this conversation with a lot of Canadians (also a theocracy) "So by law, every member of your government and civil servant has to swear a loyalty oath to a religious leader to have a job? Doesn't that seem a bit odd." "Well, it doesn't really count!" "So why take the oath? What about Jews, Muslims, Quakers, atheists, or any other person who doesn't want to have to swear an oath to a church leader?" "Uh...we have free health care! Because we
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plain blue jacket posted:I'd have a beer with the queen she wouldnt have a beer with you
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Lawman 0 posted:Good to see that someone beat rurik's high score. are you saying rurik was a sex machine
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:sorry about your stockholm syndrome What about the Swedish monarchy?
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glowing-fish posted:The UK isn't a monarchy, it is a theocracy, since the head of state is also the head of the official religion.
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glowing-fish posted:"So by law, every member of your government and civil servant has to swear a loyalty oath to a religious leader to have a job? Doesn't that seem a bit odd." It's also worth pointing out that the Queen is not in any real sense at the centre of the Church of England, that's the Archbishop of Canterbury, currently Justin Welby. She doesn't normally go to its Synod, and is maybe even less involved in its everyday running than she is in Parliament.
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Kitchner posted:As someone who's actually worked with MPs I can honestly say it's not the same in the slightest. yeah ok pal, say hi to the City remembrancer for me he seems like a swell chap
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glowing-fish posted:The UK isn't a monarchy, it is a theocracy, since the head of state is also the head of the official religion. Doesn't the American President take his oath of office while placing his hand on a Bible? Isn't "..under God" plastered all over the place in DC? If I, as a Canadian, were to be elected Prime Minister as an open atheist, there would be less hullabaloo when I declined to swear an oath of fealty to The Queen (do our PM's even have to do this anyway), than if an athiest American President declined to swear his oath of office on a Bible or didn't say "...and may God bless America" after every speech. And that's if the athiest could even get elected to Bumfuck County dog catcher in the US, which he almost certainly couldn't.
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The best thing to come out of the UK is the United States.
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Andorra has two Co-Princes who are whoever happens to be the President of France and the Bishop of Urgell. They're paid in hams and live chickens. Makes being ruled by German weirdos look almost normal.
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Sheng-ji Yang posted:she wouldnt have a beer with you She strikes me as a Pimm's kind of person. Old ladies like that kind of poo poo and she's hella old.
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"Yeah we pride ourselves on our individualism and limited government" *children are forced to swear allgience to the state every day*
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the united states is just as, if not more evil, but at least our leaders arent larping
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Lol americants are so salty about us lately. I wonder what happened.
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proof of concept posted:yeah ok pal, say hi to the City remembrancer for me he seems like a swell chap Sure no worries, I mean it's not like he does poo poo: quote:
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proof of concept posted:yeah ok pal, say hi to the City remembrancer for me he seems like a swell chap If I had the job of remembrancer I'd be overjoyed so I wouldn't give a poo poo
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Bozza posted:I'd take the dumb monarchy and NHS over an elected president and the US private healthcare system any day of the loving week. Except that the NHS is being destroyed, so there's no more advantage...? 
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ThirdPartyView posted:Except that the NHS is being destroyed, so there's no more advantage...? Not living in America
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Kitchner posted:Sure no worries, I mean it's not like he does poo poo: lol if you think the city corporation has no power
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Sombrerotron posted:This would be an interesting point if it weren't for the fact that, like any other European country with an official state church, it's all just remnants of earlier times that are little more than ceremonial in nature today. Do you ever hear of queen Elizabeth deciding important questions within the Anglican church, or even expressing her opinion on such matters? The UK might technically be a theocracy, but to actually characterise it as such is so far removed from the reality of it all that it just comes across as being excessively pedantic (and even a bit juvenile). "Well, it doesn't really count..." If the Queen doesn't have any real power over the church, why is she the head of it?
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glowing-fish posted:"Well, it doesn't really count..." because of history you pig-ignorant yank cretin
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glowing-fish posted:"Well, it doesn't really count..." wait till that oval office Charles or whatever his name was succeeds her and declares equality and tolerance abolished and institutes homeopathy as primary NHS treatment
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When the Queen dies, the funeral will near-definitely be a national holiday. Then Charles will become King and he'll likely die in my lifetime too, meaning another day off. I don't like monarchy, but I'm willing to support it for as long as I get two extra days off work. Possibly three if William takes a dirt nap before his time.
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glowing-fish posted:"Well, it doesn't really count..." Sombrerotron posted:it's all just remnants of earlier times that are little more than ceremonial in nature today
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Sombrerotron posted:Welcome to marx referred to this as "the muck of ages"
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Lol that video is retarded, it actually costs the UK money to maintain those inbred Germans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2IO5ifWKdw
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TEAYCHES posted:"hello i am the queen" Some men can say that with utter seriousness as well.
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TEAYCHES posted:marx referred to this as "the muck of ages"
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Axetrain posted:Lol that video is retarded, it actually costs the UK money to maintain those inbred Germans. this owns
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TEAYCHES posted:marx referred to this as "the muck of ages" Lol if the queen deigned to even acknowledge you you'd been on the floor licking her bodyguard's boots. You protest way too much to not have some twisted submive fetish going on.
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opus111 posted:Lol if the queen deigned to even acknowledge you you'd been on the floor licking her bodyguard's boots. You protest way too much to not have some twisted submive fetish going on. sorry, top
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