2012 is definitely the year of Great Britain! The Queen's Diamond Jubilee kicked off yesterday marking her accession to the throne 60 years ago upon the death of George VI, with more formal celebrations in the summer. Regardless of one's opinion about royalty, I think most of us can agree that she's a great lady who's done a very dignified job these last six decades, and she remains popular throughout the Commonwealth.

And lets not forget its the London Olympics, where Britain is apparently determined to come no. 3 in the medals table behind China and the USA. Fingers crossed for that one!

And finally, its also the 30th anniversary of Britain's victory in the Falklands War, when we still had enough balls to go it alone without the Yanks telling us what to do! The Argies can sabre rattle as much as they like - the oil is all ours! Hussah! That is unless they want to cross swords with a Type 45 destroyer and a nuclear sub! Now we just need our government to grow a pair and start standing up to the EUSSR in the same manner.

I think I'll eat bangers and mash for dinner to celebrate.

rickettyrabbit wrote:I think I'll eat bangers and mash for dinner to celebrate.

Just eat a chip.

custer wrote:Regardless of one's opinion about royalty, I think most of us can agree that she's a great lady who's done a very dignified job these last six decades, and she remains popular throughout the Commonwealth.

I concur.

Excellent - the Chinese trolls haven't found this post yet - just true blue Britishers (and our Commonwealth cousins perhaps)! Better get ready chaps - the cry of "Trolls, thousands of 'em" will shortly be heard from the perimeter. There is nothing I enjoy more than a verbal tussle with lefties, commies and republicans (which are in fact the same species of plant life!). In their fevered minds everything should be torn down, shat upon or denigrated (except the benefits system and foreign aid of course).

I'm off to wax my moustache, and possibly polish my knobkerrie (I will leave you to look that one up, SA excluded)!

look2me4guidance wrote:

rickettyrabbit wrote:I think I'll eat bangers and mash for dinner to celebrate.

Just eat a chip.

I'll 'ave me a chip butty cheers

democracy with english characteristics

btb wrote:democracy with english characteristics

Democracy is British my friend! All other systems are simply cheap and often shoddy and unreliable copies!

Everyone in the world recognises The Queen, but who the hell could pick the King of Belgium or Queen of the Netherlands out of a lineup (if they got off their bicycles for long enough)? As with democracy, all other monarchies are pale imitations by comparison, and most of them spring from the DNA of Queen Victoria of GREAT BRITAIN. Nuff said!

custer wrote:

btb wrote:democracy with english characteristics

Democracy is British my friend! All other systems are simply cheap and often shoddy and unreliable copies!

Everyone in the world recognises The Queen, but who the hell could pick the King of Belgium or Queen of the Netherlands out of a lineup (if they got off their bicycles for long enough)? As with democracy, all other monarchies are pale imitations by comparison, and most of them spring from the DNA of Queen Victoria of GREAT BRITAIN. Nuff said!

sounds like another version of 5000 thousand years of history touting

look2me4guidance wrote:

rickettyrabbit wrote:I think I'll eat bangers and mash for dinner to celebrate.

Just eat a chip.

Do you mean a chip or a crisp?

custer wrote:[As with democracy, all other monarchies are pale imitations by comparison, and most of them spring from the DNA of Queen Victoria of GREAT BRITAIN. Nuff said!

Let's peer (pun intended) at her DNA just a little closer.



http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/978019959 ... bres/ch12/

Hmm. Yes. Frightfully British, from top to bottom, isn't it, old man?

rickettyrabbit wrote:

custer wrote:[As with democracy, all other monarchies are pale imitations by comparison, and most of them spring from the DNA of Queen Victoria of GREAT BRITAIN. Nuff said!

Let's peer (pun intended) at her DNA just a little closer.

Queen Victoria's Family Tree.gif

http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/978019959 ... bres/ch12/

Hmm. Yes. Frightfully British, from top to bottom, isn't it, old man?

Uh...wabbit, that's showing who had haemophilia, the black squares

js.2011.04 wrote:

custer wrote:Regardless of one's opinion about royalty, I think most of us can agree that she's a great lady who's done a very dignified job these last six decades, and she remains popular throughout the Commonwealth.

I concur.

+1

custer wrote:

btb wrote:democracy with english characteristics

Democracy is British my friend! All other systems are simply cheap and often shoddy and unreliable copies!

Everyone in the world recognises The Queen, but who the hell could pick the King of Belgium or Queen of the Netherlands out of a lineup (if they got off their bicycles for long enough)? As with democracy, all other monarchies are pale imitations by comparison, and most of them spring from the DNA of Queen Victoria of GREAT BRITAIN. Nuff said!

Now don't get fresh there with the Queen of The Netherlands.

After all I served in her Navy.

tihZ_hO wrote:

rickettyrabbit wrote:

custer wrote:[As with democracy, all other monarchies are pale imitations by comparison, and most of them spring from the DNA of Queen Victoria of GREAT BRITAIN. Nuff said!

Let's peer (pun intended) at her DNA just a little closer.

The attachment Queen Victoria's Family Tree.gif is no longer available

http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/978019959 ... bres/ch12/

Hmm. Yes. Frightfully British, from top to bottom, isn't it, old man?

Uh...wabbit, that's showing who had haemophilia, the black squares

OK, here's the more complete version, showing even more cousins with foreign-sounding names. But they were all Brits . . . from Exeter or Bath, I think . . .



Not much difference between the haemophiliac version and the full version, is there.

The OP must be a troll.

If you are proud to be being ruled over by an unelected, undemocratic head of state and her parasite and deeply dsyfunctional family, there is clearly something wrong with you.

The Queen must surely view Royalists as useful idiots.

CK1 wrote:The OP must be a troll.

If you are proud to be being ruled over by an unelected, undemocratic head of state and her parasite and deeply dsyfunctional family, there is clearly something wrong with you.

The Queen must surely view Royalists as useful idiots.

So which 'democracy' do we need then according to you. Just curious, no offense.

We should be a republic.

How on earth can the UK can go about the World preaching about democracy when we still have a freaking Queen and Royal family.

CK1 wrote:We should be a republic.

How on earth can the UK can go about the World preaching about democracy when we still have a freaking Queen and Royal family.

With this prick as President, NO THANKS.

CK1 wrote:We should be a republic.

How on earth can the UK can go about the World preaching about democracy when we still have a freaking Queen and Royal family.

Uk preaching about democracy ?? I thought that's the yank's job, innit ?

She is a remarkable person, 60 years on the throne, she has seen many PM's come and go in her time and is still an icon for many.

Not sure what the Dutch Navy does but in the RN we swore allegiance to the Crown not to the Government.

I doubt there will be a fleet review though as we do not have enough rowing boats left..... I took part in the 1977 Fleet Review and even then we were dragging out laid up ships and submarines to make up the numbers.

What meaningful contribution has she made to British society or to the world?

^^ Debbie downer

look2me4guidance wrote:What meaningful contribution has she made to British society or to the world?

Unlike some other members of the Royal Family and most of our politicians she has actually shown moral leadership.

shanghaiceltic wrote:

look2me4guidance wrote:What meaningful contribution has she made to British society or to the world?

Unlike some other members of the Royal Family and most of our politicians she has actually shown moral leadership.

Quite a cost for "moral leadership" - about 12million pounds a year? I'd also be interested in what "moral leadership" entails. As an outsider she seems to do little other than promote traditional and conservative values of a bygone era.

What meaningful contribution have I made to society or to the world?

^ I can't speak for you, but I've shown immoral leadership. And for a lot less than 12 million pounds a year.

Nice to see that with just a little egging on I've managed to draw out the republicans and anti-British. I think some people can't tell the difference between tongue flapping in the wind and tongue in cheek!

To my mind the alternative to the current system of constitutional monarchy are presidents called Blair, Brown and Cameron, and that scares the living daylights out of me.

Yes, the Royal Family fundamentally are Sausage Munchers, but the British are basically Germans (Anglo-Saxon) with some Nordic (Viking and Norman) blood tossed in for good measure - certainly in my neck of the woods in East Anglia. But if the Stuarts still ruled, the English would be complaining that the Royal Family were Jocks, and therefore less representative of our national bloodstock than the current German, Danish, English mixture currently occupying Buck House. Personally, I can't think of anyone more 'British' than The Queen. Britishness is not a question of race or blood (as with 'Chinese' for example), but of legal nationality.

So, to Elizabeth of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, long may you reign! I'm just happy the Royal Family is not French!

Shinbone wrote:What meaningful contribution have I made to society or to the world?

Without a shinbone I wouldn't be able to walk so I'd say you're one meaningful ole' chap!