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Hi jb, ground him where exactly, somewhere damp and underground I hope, he won't need any pocket money out there. Any idea how he goes down in America when he crosses the pond with wifey these days?

have to say thea - now that i have read your intro properly it is really puzzling indeed. i know you are referring to philip and not the shrub but it is really hard to tell that at first glance....

I know, it's fun though, Hatley wants me to cast my vote, wish I could. Been back to brocoli for you.

hi pikey, whatever name he chooses to go under I'm sure its Mr Windsor on his enormous dole card. I thought the G V B thing might lure a few from across the pond in here as quite interested in their views. As you point out he may say he's Greek but he doesn't resemble any Greek I've ever seen, so I presume more in the line of mutation of something. Of course the Brits are far too sensible to be politcally correct about his little gaffes but I rather felt that some other nations which seem to fawm upon the concept of royals would feel the need to speak up here, if they can be lured in of course.

I presume that you are not a monarchist or royalist Thea. I am the former but not the latter, too many hangers on for my liking. Having met the gentleman in question - whilst his wife spoke to mine - I can assure you that he is not shallow - but he does have one of the dullest jobs on earth. Glad handing the great unwashed isn't my idea of fun. I have met several "Royals" and they are not the sharpest tools in the shed - but they don't need to be. The fact is that they represent unbroken tradition and still have a pull that no Republic has ever managed. I'd sooner HM the Queen as an icon for this country than an elected President who represents only those that voted for him. People think that the Queen does nothing and only represents the toffs. That's not the case at all. She embodies Britain and the Commonwealth good or bad. Sorry I am ranting. I'd throw Prince Andrew to the lions though and his younger brother!

Hi Pikey, I tried to respond but lost my connection here for a bit. Why apologise for a difference of opinion, at least you have one and can state a reason for being in favour beyond the celebrity which seems to be the main thing these days. Indeed I am not a monarchist or royalist as am of firm belief that it is old fashioned feudal concept in a modern age, and should have stayed buried when Britain had the chance with Cromwell.
I just chose this one as an example of them all because they all are kept at the expense of the taxpaper, no matter how creative the accountants get. The security costs alone are a disgrace. I think that it is enough to have a prime mnister alone as figurehead of a country, no need for royals or presidents in the UK case. In that way there is possibly more chance of choosing a suitable representative.

The problem was that after Cromwell the country couldn't agree on a probable successor other than Cromwell's own son who didn't really want the job. So they asked Charles back to reign and then waited another 30 years to properly clip the Monarch's wings. I'm going to stop now because we will never agree. But just to give you a flavour of where monarchy "works" - Norway, Sweden and Holland. Why not Britain and the Commonwealth. The cost of running the monarchy is low compared to the cost of running the infrastructure of monarchy - i.e. the castles and palaces - that's money that would be spent whoever runs the country.

Of course we will never agree and it's perfectly fine to agree to disagree. And I would never become confrontational about this. Interesting last note though, when I think of comparing monarchies which still exist I'm more drawn by the Saudi model.

Now that is true feudalism! LOL. Not good on women's issues either. LOL.

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But Grandpa it couldn't have possibly been a royal saudi man.

Good morning Hatley, I was not quoting or belittling the George W Bush of America but the escort of the current monarch of the UK, and unfortuntaly we are stuck with him without a vote in the matter as it is an old feudal system. I agree with you totally that voting for or against him is the most sensible option but no choice is given so all that is left to do is complain.

Hi Shirley, I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, if you are referring to the American Bush or the English escort. My tactic here has perhaps been a little misundestood below. However I shall work on the assumption that you are playing on the both of them having 'occular rectitis' and 'verbal diarrheea'.

I think they all could be tarred with that brush! As there seems to be an epidemic amongst politicians....royals...Name it! Cheers!

Excellent point Jellymonty but I don't actually know that George V Bush ever actually stepped anywhere near the Whitehouse, last I heard he was living in a converted donkey sty somewhere around Messinias and lost his job at the paper for stealing old copies to bed down the donkeys on.

Hi Irish, but the fact that he's not a politician but a consort living at the taxpayers expense raises the main issue of should we be allowed to vote him out as we could do with an actual politician. He's got away with it for years after all, if it was one of your presidents he'd only be allowed to spout such drivel for eight years.

This is a sore subject with me. How many "ex presidents" are we now supporting? What kind of lifestyle are they living? Better...much better than many of us. I bet you my bottom dollar that they aren't living on less than $50k a year. ffttttt...politician...ex politician...they still all got their hands in OUR cookie jar. They're a disease...all over the world and no way to get rid of them. Greed talks and money walks!

You really believe only 50K

Ok the chap I was actually complaining about is not and never has been, a politician, he's far too gaffe prone to ever get the job in the first place. He's a royal who got his life of luxury through marriage, and the UK taxpayers support his luxurous lifestyle. He never ever got elected to any kind of position.

Nope..I'm saying they sure ain't living on only 50k!

If I recall it was back under the unmemorable days of Major as Prime minister when they got to vote for how much in pensions they could award themselves. I'm sure the actual amount that Major got was more for being retired than for actually doing the job, so a real incentive there to keep working hard.

Hi EOE, actually when you put it like that there's an awful lot of his DNA floating around out there, another two generatons of it. If you really want to send him off on a nice cosy gig like that then I must insist he takes all offspring with him, plus offsprings offspring. I wonder at what other point other offsprings will start to appear, after all the first offspring did declare that all royals have the tradition of mistresses.

I hadn't thought about mistresses, frightening, because I don't suppose we'd get to know about them would we. But hopefully old jughead is past all that stuff now. He's the one we ought to get rid of first before liz pops her clogs. Isn't there an uninhabited island off the Scottish coast where they tested out anthrax years ago and nothing lives there? Can we send them there or is that not far enough away?

Uninhabited sounds interesting. They can't even dress themselves without having the taxpayer pay someone to get their longjohns in place, so watching them foraging for food would be amusing. How long do you think before they start to eat the corgis?

I just found the place, it's called Gruinard island. The corgis wouldn't last 5 mins, the place is too small (2km x 1km) and only a mile from the mainland, which is within swimming distance; too close for my liking. I'd say send them to the South Pole but the penguins have done nothing to me.

I suppose our choices are limited really. We could make them earn their living, but I think that's unrealistic as they don't appear to be able to do anything. Circuses spring to mind but useless eddie couldn't even get the It's a Knockout thing right. So unless anyone's got any better ideas then it's either the block or give them all a one way ticket on the next space shuttle.

So there's mo where on the planet isolated enough for them not to annoy someone. My first choice has always been the block for the lot of them, I think they'd appreciate the tradition there. I'd even learn the deathly art of knitting if it would guaranttee a front row seat. I hope they'll let me bring one of the severed heads home with me to nail on the outsdide of the house in true Mani tradtion.

It doesn't look like there's anywhere, unless you let then sign on down at the job centre and give them a little high rise flat In Moss Side, Manchester. That might be amusing. It's always been the block for me too but we'd need a revolution and the declaration of a republic first. I tried knitting recently, deceptively easy but devilishly difficult. But I'm sure I'd master it very quickly under different circumstances.

Mani? Would that be the Mani Peninsula over there? Sounds like a good tradition to me.

It is indeed the Mani peninsular, though the most famous place for nailing the severed heads to the walls was right down in Vathia, a wonderful place within easy driving distance. I actually put a discussion up about said severed heads but mistakently entitled it somethin fripperish like 'What would you decorate the outside of your house with' and had some nice responses about plants and decorative plates but the point of the severed heads seemed to be interepted as a joke rather than the stark reality it was. Persoanny I think it was an excellent idea but I've had to resort to plaster ones.

Faux severed heads? No, nothing quite like the real thing. There's probably some really good preserving methods out there now as well, without having to boil them down and stink the kitchen out for weeks.

I never read that they boiled them down first, just cut and nail. The stink wouldn't have been so bad when the bottom of the house was inhabited by goats anyway and bathrooms hadn't been invented.

That's the trouble with the world today, it's so sanitised that we appear to be losing touch with all things natural, severed heads and all. They were probably a good burglar deterrent in their day. My paternal line goes back to the Riding Families or Border Reivers of the Scottish border country in the 13th -16th century. Bloodthirsty bunch of outlaws and cattle raiders. When a rival family killed one of our lot once, my family killed 17 of them the following day in reprisal. I'm not sure what they did with the heads. Oh happy days.

Interesting. The Mani lot mainly stuck to the neighbours and the pirates, there wasn't much of anyone else around to sever as so isolated.

Hi suzzy3, bit of a trick question here I'm afraid, George V Bush said in his report about old Philip, George W Bush as far as I know never quite made that blunder.
Yes, the gaffes of Philip are legendary but maybe when he represents the UK abroad and comes out with his nonsense it is more than likely construed as insulting arrogance and he really shouldn't be representing the UK at the expense of the taxpayers.

Hi Artistry, a deliberately misleading question on my part I'm afraid in yet another attempt to lure the American politicoes into a discussion on representatives of ones country who don't happen to be American. No bites yet though.

Now I'm sure if ex President George Bush had actually said those words they would have been headline news around the whole world for weeks so no wonder you didn't actually miss them. A careful reading of the opening reveals the quote was from the freeloader who is married to the UK queen and whose luxury lifestyle is supported by the British tax payer. Over the years he has made many many such gaffe like remarks but as he's royal it's apparently acceptable for him to go round insulting whomever he chooses.
I enjoyed your description there of your ex.

Hi Malpoa, I like to read up on conspiracy theories too but I'm not convinced at all that the swine flu was intentional. I do agree that it certainly makes one wonder how the previous president of the US mangaged to get himself elected but never forget he was just someones puppet reading lines.

My introduction here has tricked you though along with others - it was actually intended to make people to respond with their views on the English royals being allowed to represent the UK abroad and the gaffe in question related to the husband of the german queen. Take another look for amusement.

I actually didnt understand the thing you described over there hi hi. I had read it then and now again still ...I totally feel out of contxt there...
ha ha today i read this joke on paper which was related to the news about obama winning the noble prize. It says why has obama got a nobel prize? For not being a bush??? I liked it so much that the moment I read it I felt like coming to mylot to type it to you...Considering all the rubbish bush did, obama deserves the nobel ha ha ha

I'm honoured that you left your remarks about the noble peace prize here Malpoa as there must have been at least 15 discussions up about it. I didn't bother looking in as presumed they'd all be the usual political slanging matches.

Excellent joke though, peace prize for not being a bush.