Think Tank Situation Vacant

[FurTheWin]

Loyal flogs of the Bay:

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second of England and Stuff is a popular figure in these pages, and this weekend sees another opportunity to celebrate (a day off work) the glorious Royal heritage.

However, we must face the harsh reality that the old girl won't be around much longer, and alternative arrangements will have to be made for the Queen's Birthday game, possibly as soon as next year.

My view of it is that Melbourne and Geelong are the two oldest teams, and Old Chas will be the oldest king when he finally gets the gig, so:
Out- Collingwood
In - Geelong
Venue to remain the MCG

Post your Royal tributes and suggestions for the marquee game here

 

[HAPPY CHEFFY]

English empire was one of the most brutal but also the most encompassing of lands. Even the Romans couldn’t match it.

They were conquering everything.

Give the old girl her time reigning over such an empire. William will be king soon enough so save up all the hate for him, unless of course he invades Eastern Europe and America again.

 

[Dinsdale]

maybe we should just have a Republic Day tribute match on the same day, pay respect to the old monarchy, and move on.

 

[Laphroaig]

maybe we should just have a Republic Day tribute match on the same day, pay respect to the old monarchy, and move on.

I think we should replace it with a national day of Identity Tolerance.

We could have one person from every stated gender or sexual orientation marching in line, which has the bonus that the parade is certain to get bigger every year. (I originally thought marching two by two in the historic way that goes all the back to Noah's Ark, but I understand there are an increasing proportion of identities where you might struggle to find more than one).

We must of course honour the First Nation on the day (lest the inner city latte' left get their panties in a bunch and demand cancellation). Why not recruit those two blue eyed blond indigenous chicks who were dancing in the welcome to country at the G last week? Turn identity tolerance right up to 11.

 

[FurTheWin]

English empire was one of the most brutal but also the most encompassing of lands. Even the Romans couldn’t match it.

They were conquering everything.

Give the old girl her time reigning over such an empire. William will be king soon enough so save up all the hate for him, unless of course he invades Eastern Europe and America again.

Well yes, there was a certain amount of unpleasantness, but they did bring great things to the primitive peoples they visited, like guns, and bibles, and bagpipes.
Let's not dwell on the past
What kind of June blockbuster would you like to see in the future?

 

[FurTheWin]

the historic way that goes all the back to Noah's Ark

History is stuff that actually happened, old son

Now, Carlton is a grand old club, and all you really have at the moment is giving it to the Tuggers on the opening day
Can you make a case for another primetime fixture for the Blues?

 

[Laphroaig]

History is stuff that actually happened, old son

On the contrary. History is what the winners of any conflict, conquest, revolution or internal power struggle say it is.

The assumption that history is a narrative of what actually happened is a dicey proposition at best.

The recent methodology, much loved by the make a wish generation, is the assumption that the "correct" version is the one told today by the losers of yesteryear; well that one is even sillier.

 

[Mofra]

On the contrary. History is what the winners of any conflict, conquest, revolution or internal power struggle say it is.

The assumption that history is a narrative of what actually happened is a dicey proposition at best.

The recent methodology, much loved by the make a wish generation, is the assumption that the "correct" version is the one told today by the losers of yesteryear; well that one is even sillier.

By that logic, St Kilda are the rightful keepers of VFL/AFL history

 

[Bont2Bruce]

On the contrary. History is what the winners of any conflict, conquest, revolution or internal power struggle say it is.

And what exactly has that got to do with the biblical myths such as Noah and his ark?

 

[Mesc]

The British royal family are inbred. This is the perfect time to introduce a Tasmanian team. Imagine the head count at matches !

 

[Laphroaig]

And what exactly has that got to do with the biblical myths such as Noah and his ark?

To any rational person, one myth is as believable as another.

Not to mention that the contents of the Bible were considered to be the literal truth by a sizeable chunk of the people on the planet for close to 2,000 years. (Excepting, of course, those who subscribed to a different literal truth with no more nor no less basis).

Compared, for example, with the myth that it is an absolute truth that having a dick and still being a woman is an unarguable fact. That one only has 1990 years to go to become even a minority truth.

In fact separating myth from reality is a passtime human beings are notoriously shit at. Without breaking a sweat I could name a dozen "well known facts" which have emerged in my lifetime, and then been thoroughly discarded in my lifetime.

So 2,000 odd years is looking fairly impressive.

Thanks for playing though.

At least you gave it the good old college try.

Now **** off.

 

[FurTheWin]

Geez, all I asked was " should Carlton be considered for a big game next June?"

 

[FurTheWin]

The British royal family are inbred. This is the perfect time to introduce a Tasmanian team. Imagine the head count at matches !

Melbourne Vs Tasmania
The old Vs the new
The big city Vs the enchanted island
It's an option

 

[Saveloy Rockstar]

Geelong are certainly the oldest team...

Meanwhile in London, thousands of crawling sycophants lined the streets of today in order to celebrate one woman's seventy long years of living off public funds, along with her degenerate family of inherited-wealth grifters, who were enamoured with the fascist ideology in the 1930s, hence the notorious footage of Edward VIII encouraging Elizabeth and Margaret to do Nazi salutes in the garden of Balmoral. Royals are obviously inclined towards the sick eugenicist ideology that underpins fascism, because it aligns so closely with their own ideology of genetically inherited superiority.



The royal family raked in an astonishing £86 million in public cash this year via the "sovereign grant", and they're set to avoid paying a whopping £7.6 billion in inheritance tax when Lizzy finally kicks the bucket (equivalent to £109 million for every single year of her reign). These grifters are raking in the best part of two hundred million quid a year at the public expense, in exchange for one paltry extra day off work, during which we're told to celebrate the existence of this embarrassing and expensive anachronism.


Photo: the next generation of scumbags, practicing sneering at the commoners

It's somewhat dispiriting that loads of people are so lacking in self-respect that they actually like to think of themselves as inherently inferior to this bunch of inherited-wealth degenerates, and so downtrodden that they'd rather have one single, solitary extra day to celebrate an arbitrary royal number.

God save the queen indeed

 

[Laphroaig]

Nice milt.

 

[carltonchelsea]

To any rational person, one myth is as believable as another.

Not to mention that the contents of the Bible were considered to be the literal truth by a sizeable chunk of the people on the planet for close to 2,000 years. (Excepting, of course, those who subscribed to a different literal truth with no more nor no less basis).

Compared, for example, with the myth that it is an absolute truth that having a dick and still being a woman is an unarguable fact. That one only has 1990 years to go to become even a minority truth.

In fact separating myth from reality is a passtime human beings are notoriously shit at. Without breaking a sweat I could name a dozen "well known facts" which have emerged in my lifetime, and then been thoroughly discarded in my lifetime.

So 2,000 odd years is looking fairly impressive.

Thanks for playing though.

At least you gave it the good old college try.

Now duck off.

I’d like to hear about these facts that were not?!

 

[Saveloy Rockstar]

Not as good as your Boomer melt earlier, laflog

 

[zackah]

I shall bequeath everyone in this fred with the much admired and sought after Lizzie react.

You're welcome flogs.

 

[Saveloy Rockstar]

 

[Crabapplepittard]

That picture of the kids. Imagine if one of those kids says their trans or non binary in a few years. Be a flipping great laugh innit!!

 

[Mesc]

That picture of the kids. Imagine if one of those kids says their trans or non binary in a few years. Be a f*n great laugh innit!!

I feel sorry for the little buggers. Imagine growing up trapped in that enviroment.

 

[Saveloy Rockstar]

I feel sorry for the little buggers. Imagine growing up trapped in that enviroment.

Prince Andrew's hotel suite?

 

[Laphroaig]

I’d like to hear about these facts that were not?!

Number One. Albert Einstein and the "Universal Constant" in the General Theory of Relativity. Nobody dared question the great man, who legend has it could only discuss physics with two or three people in the world. Because the rest of us dumb campaigners were too dimwitted to understand what he was saying.

But back to the Universal Constant. It was a number Einstein invented out of thin air. With no reason at all to justify the number. Except that if that number was plugged into his relativity equation then the maths said what Einstein wanted the maths to say. Without it, the equation was gibberish.

The greatest scientific mind of the 20th century invented a "fact".

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

English empire was one of the most brutal but also the most encompassing of lands. Even the Romans couldn’t match it.

They were conquering everything.

Give the old girl her time reigning over such an empire. William will be king soon enough so save up all the hate for him, unless of course he invades Eastern Europe and America again.

I am not into capital punishment but surely there is a garden wall somewhere in Pomgolia that could do with redecoration by all the Royal numpties..

 

[Elmer_Hauser]

Anyone see the melts from historicallu ignorant plebs after a Queensland Town removed a statue of Captain Cook the other week?

Anyhow we all know History in the past has been written by the winners, otherwise Winny Churchill would be more universally regarded as a War Criminal and bigoted fanatic (who actually did not care for people of colour at all)