For the Americans out there, does it bother any of you that you don’t have traditions like this or a monarchy?? [/quote]
I SRSLY think you need to start limiting your threads.
Unless your getting paid to post as many times as possible about mostly pointless stuff.
SRSLY.[/quote]
if you didn’t wana read pointless stuff you wouldn’t come to GAL?
I didn’t post for 2 weeks, and made 3 threads within a few days?
This one is unrelated to anything,
1 of them was about an all you can eat meat place which might interest some people, and the other about a protein shaker bottle, whats your problem?
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Never said I had a problem my man. Just didn’t know you were the type of dude that focused on celebrity weddings.
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Nha i’m not usually, but the missus was watching on tv and i ended up sitting through it, been in Egypt for 18 months and watching it kinda makes me miss the traditions and sentiment of home.
I couldn’t really care about the royal family but i was interested in what a mainly American community’s thoughts were on it.
I suppose I didn’t really have a problem with it until I found out that most of the expense comes out of the taxpayers’ wallet… that idea just seems ridiculous to me. What did the total expense billed to the people come out to? Wasn’t the grand total something like 30 million pounds?
Honestly, I feel pretty bad for those of you over the pond for this tradition.
Edit: and in relation to presidential campaigns, this isn’t “on par.” Campaigns are not funded by taxpayer dollars.
Interesting fact: it only costs each British taxpaper 65p (under a dollar) per year to fund the Royal Family. A very large proportion of their wealth comes from land rents etc…
Back when Charles and Di got married I was in school in England and won the Royal Hat contest that our school put on.
My hat was one of those goofy umbrellas that you can wear right on your head that was red white and blue and I had pictures of Charles and Di pasted on it.
[quote]Nards wrote:
Back when Charles and Di got married I was in school in England and won the Royal Hat contest that our school put on.
My hat was one of those goofy umbrellas that you can wear right on your head that was red white and blue and I had pictures of Charles and Di pasted on it.[/quote]
[quote]Nards wrote:
Back when Charles and Di got married I was in school in England and won the Royal Hat contest that our school put on.
My hat was one of those goofy umbrellas that you can wear right on your head that was red white and blue and I had pictures of Charles and Di pasted on it.[/quote]
Bragging or complaining?[/quote]
I guess bragging, or reminiscing. It felt silly that day ( I was 7) but now it’s a good memory.
[quote]glasgow_rangers wrote:
Interesting fact: it only costs each British taxpaper 65p (under a dollar) per year to fund the Royal Family. A very large proportion of their wealth comes from land rents etc…[/quote]
I was wondering where their money came from. I’m surprised the UK keeps up with that king and queen tradition when they have almost no say in legislation.
I think it’s cool that England goes all out for a royal wedding.
I like seeing the Military in all their traditional uniforms, the horses are, the intricacies of the carriages, all of it.
I give props to a country that choses instead of dressing to the 9’s they dress to the 20’s. If we don’t stop to celebrate and take note of events like this, we’ll lose them. Some folks think that’d be ok, but I don’t.
I think the American media did a good job of not making it too much of a shitshow. We had some bad fucking storms here this week where people lost their lives and property, in my mind that was the focus of this weeks news with the Royal wedding being a side note rather than the main event.
[quote]glasgow_rangers wrote:
Interesting fact: it only costs each British taxpaper 65p (under a dollar) per year to fund the Royal Family. A very large proportion of their wealth comes from land rents etc…[/quote]
I was wondering where their money came from. I’m surprised the UK keeps up with that king and queen tradition when they have almost no say in legislation.
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the people vote for the political party they want in power, the party chose which individual from within the party who should be leader, (would become the Prime Minister if that party win the election). once a political party wins the election, the leader of that party asks the Queen if they can form the next Government. The Queen has the right to say no to that request.
so the monarchy have quite a lot of say in legislation.
[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
“For as in absolute governments the king is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king and there ought to be no other.”
I wasnt bothered about it in the slightest, but as it drew closer I LOVED watching all the fuss about it. As I type, my street are having a party to celebrate. It’s great to see nearly every community coming together, what with the media over here always so negative and so much shit going on in the world, its nice to celebrate something. She is beautiful and he seems like a nice bloke. Good on em.
Quite a few were watching mate. I think our monarchy is loved by most and we take it for granted. Over 2 billion people watched it. Second most viewed tv event in history, the first being princess Dianas funeral.
Days like this make me love this country and the people in it… but in a few days most will go back to not giving a shit about the royals, including me.
[quote]glasgow_rangers wrote:
Interesting fact: it only costs each British taxpaper 65p (under a dollar) per year to fund the Royal Family. A very large proportion of their wealth comes from land rents etc…[/quote]
I was wondering where their money came from. I’m surprised the UK keeps up with that king and queen tradition when they have almost no say in legislation.
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the people vote for the political party they want in power, the party chose which individual from within the party who should be leader, (would become the Prime Minister if that party win the election). once a political party wins the election, the leader of that party asks the Queen if they can form the next Government. The Queen has the right to say no to that request.
so the monarchy have quite a lot of say in legislation. [/quote]
Damn, I honestly didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.
As an aside, can I say that I think English broads have some of the plumpest natural tits in the world? Sweet, plump, juicy tits.
There must be something in the Tea, or horrible weather.
Im fucking bitter, I want to wake up in the morning and know how much fucking traffic I will be sitting in today, the local news and the weather but instead I got this shit show.
I remember the Charles and Lady Di one I was in Florida, first and only time I’ve ever been to Disneyworld, it was all over the TV. Didn’t care then don’t care now, happy for the couple hope they live happily ever after
I cannot understand the mentality of the people who go down central london and crowd the streets out just so that they can get a glance of some elitist, inbreeding twats waving at them.
Sometimes I think people like being subservient bitches.
[quote]krebcycle wrote:
I cannot understand the mentality of the people who go down central london and crowd the streets out just so that they can get a glance of some elitist, inbreeding twats waving at them.
Sometimes I think people like being subservient bitches.[/quote]
How are the happy couple inbred?
It’s every little girls dream - to find their prince, and this girl has done it. Fair enough, she hunted him down and her and her mum basically gave him no choice, but you do what you gotta do.
[quote]Sharp4850 wrote:
I suppose I didn’t really have a problem with it until I found out that most of the expense comes out of the taxpayers’ wallet… that idea just seems ridiculous to me. What did the total expense billed to the people come out to? Wasn’t the grand total something like 30 million pounds?
Honestly, I feel pretty bad for those of you over the pond for this tradition. Edit: and in relation to presidential campaigns, this isn’t “on par.” Campaigns are not funded by taxpayer dollars.[/quote]
Not true. Campaigns are funded in part by private donations and PACs, but federally provided matching funds make up a significant percentage.
Also, my understanding is that the royal family paid for the wedding, the taxpayer expense was for security.
