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2004-12-26 Britain

In Christmas message, Queen Elizabeth urges ~~dhimmitude~~ tolerance

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Posted by Seafarious 2004-12-26 10:53:45 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm not much of a Royalist, as recently there's been so few decent role models (unless you count Prince Philip - he comes out with some excellent quotes). I don't listen to the Queens message for example. Lucky I didn't this year, or I'd have been in a foul mood yesterday.

To my mind, the powers that be have had a word with her - "remind them of tolerance, and where their currys come from", because they know they can't be lucky all the time, and a Madrid level attack is all but inevitable (our coppers have been saying that for a while - although they say they've stopped at least one). Once the first boomer goes off in the centre of London, or at a football match, I think people will be stunned more than anything else - and then they'll get angry. I've read stories where they're looking at multiple simultaneous booms up and down the country. God only knows what will happen after that.

To end on an upbeat note, here's two quotes from Prince Philip...

(1995 To a Scottish driving instructor in Oban) "How do you keep the natives off the booze for long enough to pass their test?.."

(1998 To a student who'd trekked in Papua New Guinea) "You managed not to get eaten then?.."

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-12-26 5:10:38 AM|| 2004-12-26 5:10:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Happy Boxing Day Tony! It was always my British buds favorite day of the year.

Posted by Shipman 2004-12-26 9:46:30 AM|| 2004-12-26 9:46:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 That's because there's loads of footie and other sports on, you can legitimately escape from the house (and dreadful rellys), and the pubs are open normal hours.

(Says he, who has had a nice quiet day at home, encoding DVDs for said rellys, and been munching on Toblerone - now onto a *rather large* glass of red wine! :)

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-12-26 12:28:29 PM|| 2004-12-26 12:28:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Let's all try to remember that these words are coming from the world's richest woman while she sits ensconced in a highly secure and luxurious residence. She faces not one whit of the danger and suffering that loom as a result of her blithe and entirely misguided notions.

Far too many of the British Royals continue to display insular and roseate attitudes that can result in the rest of us unwashed plebians getting blown to bits or worse. This sort of poisonous treacle is merely one more splendid reason to abolish royalism in all of its manifestations.

Posted by Zenster 2004-12-26 3:47:18 PM|| 2004-12-26 3:47:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "It is a timeless story of a victim of a mugging who was ignored by his own countrymen but helped by a foreigner"

That would be Iraqis; mugged by Saddam; ignored or worse by their neighbors the Iranians, Saudis, and Syrians; but helped by the U.S. and the U.K.

That would be Afghans; mugged by the Taliban; ignored or worse by their neighbors the Pakistanis and Iranians; but helped by the U.S. and the U.K.

It would be France in 1945, Germany in 1945, Italy in 1945, Japan in 1945, South Korea in 1953...

Her majesty would do well to note that diversity is BOTH a strength and a threat. The monarchy has descended from power to symbolism to futility.

Posted by Tom 2004-12-26 4:58:06 PM|| 2004-12-26 4:58:06 PM|| Front Page Top

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