UK The Queen

[Gethelred]

This thread is actively moderated, let's behave like adults, shall we?

For conversation on an Australian Republic:

Who wants a Republic?

I am just curious in the figure as it has been over 10 years since we had a referendum for it. Personally, I think we should become a Republic.

www.bigfooty.com

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Todays memes have been quite good.

That is about the only feeling I felt about lizzies death.

 

[Festerz]

Todays memes have been quite good.

That is about the only feeling I felt about lizzies death.

The ones from Ireland in particular. .

And yes I meant the Island of Ireland - comprising both the Republic of Ireland and the counties of Northern Ireland.

 

[BruceFromBalnarring]

Guarantees stability and a steady source of wealth and privilege for the Royal Family based solely on birthlines.

Peak Nepotism.

What’s more stable though?

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Take your own advice. You're the one that started the borefest with your incorrect definition of Ireland, after someone else brought it up. And you were wrong anyway.

See, I read that as there is an island of Ireland, as well as two political constructs that occupy it. One a colonial remnant and the other an independent yet incomplete nation. Even the colonial remnant they call Ulster isn't complete - they jettisoned Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan in order to preserve a Unionist majority.

The dream is a 32 county Republic of Ireland. It's not there yet but it will get there in the end.

EDIT: Spelt Ulster wrong. Duh, Sicko. Get off the beers!

 

[Gethelred]

The complicated history of Ireland is not the subject of this thread. Should you be interested in discussing it further, feel free to start a thread on the subject.

It's time for this thread to move on.

 

[kranky al]

How can you fit those ears on a banknote?

 

[Aristotle Pickett the3rd]

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Superb.

 

[kranky al]

Superb.

Nearly as good as the look on levers face when the ump called free kick….then 50

 

[Ice-Wolf]

You want an Englishman to be our head of state. Do you barrack for England in the cricket or Australia?

He's really more German than anything.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Absolutely NO LOVE for Lizzie from the Shamrock Rovers crowd in Tallaght, Dublin earlier today...

 

[Better Loosen Up]

Absolutely NO LOVE for Lizzie from the Shamrock Rovers crowd in Tallaght, Dublin earlier today...

Just goes to show the lack of respect we have in societies these days.
If you don't like the queen or the monarchy, that's fine, just shut up about it.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Just goes to show the lack of respect we have in societies these days.
If you don't like the queen or the monarchy, that's fine, just shut up about it.

Bit of history there though, in Ireland.

 

[Ohitsthatguy]

I don't understand why people celebrate her death when she's just being replaced by someone else.

Shouldn't you only celebrate if the monarchy is abolished?

 

[Festerz]

 

[Festerz]

I don't understand why people celebrate her death when she's just being replaced by someone else.

Shouldn't you only celebrate if the monarchy is abolished?

Yep. Celebrating the death of the Queen, especially knowing who will replace her, is definitely idiotic in the scheme of things.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

I don't understand why people celebrate her death when she's just being replaced by someone else.

Shouldn't you only celebrate if the monarchy is abolished?

I suppose the death of the Reigning Monarch of a union of nations that still grasps a little part of yours is always cause to celebrate. To someone without a dog in the fight it seems totally useless not to mention disrespectful, but to an Irish person it's a bit of a "F*ck you, pal!" and it's totally deserved.

 

[Roylion]

He's really more German than anything.

The Queen, her children and grand-children are no more than half German by descent.

Of the late Queen's eight great grandparents, three were German (Edward VII, Francis Duke of Teck and Mary Adelaide of Hanover), one was Danish, (Alexandra of Denmark), one was Scottish (Claude Bowes-Lyon Earl of Strathmore) and three were Anglo-Scot (Frances Smith of Blendon Hall, Charles Cavendish-Bentick and Carolina Burnaby of Baggrave Hall). So Queen Elizabeth II had just over 37% Germanic descent and 50% Anglo-Celtic descent.

King Charles III is slightly more German (50%), through his father Prince Philip. Charles III's grandparents were King George VI, Elizabeth Bowes Lyons, Prince Andrew of Greece (a Dane) and Alice of Battenberg. Charles great-grandparents consist of a Dane, 2 Anglo-Celts, four Germans and a Russian. Charles was born in England, as was his mother Queen Elizabeth and three of his four grandparents. Does that make him more English than German?

Prince William's great-grandparents consist of two Germans (George VI of England and Alice of Battenberg) one Dane (Prince Andrew of Greece) and six Anglo-Celts (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the 7th Earl Spencer, Lady Cynthia Elinor Hamilton, Edmund Maurice Burke Roche, 4th Baron Fermoy and Ruth Gill). In fact William can trace his line of descent from a number of famous Anglo-Norman lines including the Spencers, the Howards, the Dudleys, the Devereuxs, the Staffords, the Percys and so on. William is also descended from a number of Anglo-Celtic clans such as the Campbells, the Hamiltons, the Douglases, the Murrays and so on.

As is King Charles.

 

[Festerz]

This from Emmanuel Macron:

 

[Ohitsthatguy]

I suppose the death of the Reigning Monarch of a union of nations that still grasps a little part of yours is always cause to celebrate. To someone without a dog in the fight it looks totally disrespectful, but to an Irish person it's a bit of a "F*ck you, pal!" and it's totally deserved.

Now you have Charles, nothing changes?

 

[Better Loosen Up]

Bit of history there though, in Ireland.

I'm well aware of that. It's still poor taste regardless.

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

Now you have Charles, nothing changes?

True the status-quo has not changed. But it's still a bit of fun isn't it?

 

[Geelong_Sicko]

I'm well aware of that. It's still poor taste regardless.

I get why you see it that way.

 

[Ohitsthatguy]

True the status-quo has not changed. But it's still a bit of fun isn't it?

So many awful people around the world to direct anger at...

Nah I don't get it

 

[Festerz]

I suppose the death of the Reigning Monarch of a union of nations that still grasps a little part of yours is always cause to celebrate. To someone without a dog in the fight it seems totally useless not to mention disrespectful, but to an Irish person it's a bit of a "F*ck you, pal!" and it's totally deserved.

Here is the response of Sinn Fein:

Irish nationalists Sinn Fein offer 'sincere sympathies' upon Queen's death

The Northern Irish leader of Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein offered her sincere condolences to the family of Britain's Queen, whom she said made a significant contribution to advancing peace and reconciliation between the two islands.

www.reuters.com

 

[Ice-Wolf]

The Queen, her children and grand-children are no more than half German by descent.

Which makes them more German than anything else. Not as German as Queen Victoria and her Children but still pretty German.