Aw man, I like the Royal Family. Some people just like to complain, it seems to me. I'm sure you'd hate whatever President we get just as much as the dear old Queen. There's nothing wrong with enjoying an event like this, something we just wouldn't have otherwise.
Yes, but you can still decide whether if you were British you'd like the Queen, or want to set her on a pyre and murder her children.
I bet you voted for George W. Bush just because he is the son of George Bush Sr. You American monarchist!
I hate this event in particular because it reveals the supreme retardation of our fucking sheep like culture, why is every fucker in the country seemingly wanted to be royally fucked by the queen. Why? Tell me! What fucking purpose does this fucking shitty fucking "celebration" fucking serve. We are celebrating the fact that some bitch, detatched from the rest of society, has survived for 60 fucking years. Woop-de-fucking-doo. I hate them because they serve no fucking purpose yet the entirety of the population love them, for reasons that I can't fathom. It is beyond me.
I don't see it as a sheep like thing. Every country has their own culture and celebrations, it is just that some of our culture revolves around the monarchy. The Royal Family is part of the heritage and culture of this country, why would you want to destroy that?
Because 'Windsor' is a made-up name for the Saxe-Coburg Gotha family, who only married into the royal family less than 200 years ago. They had their own king (Edward VIII) abdicate for doing what Prince Charles was allowed to do only a few years later (marry a divorced woman). I think Prince Philip is Greek (although he refuses to visit the country), which obviously is very British. And if the 'heritage and culture' of this rotten country is how liberal we are compared to those evil continentals (despite us not having a Liberal Party), why do we still have a monarch? Surely we should conclude what started with Charles I. All we have now is a 400 year old truce. So, that's why i'd like to destroy that. Plus I don't like bunting. Edit: Even more historical than the Silver and Golden jubilees (anyone remember the latter?). And the Olympics! And the Royal Wedding! Wow, we hardly ever get to do this bank holiday/street party stuff.
I like to imagine that if Britain threw off the yoke of Monarchist tyranny it would become very much like the Weimar Republic, though hopefully without the ending.
@mansrule56 @UtterlyImpeccable It is not a historical occasion, because it is not historically important. The Battle of Waterloo was a historic occasion. The fall of the Roman Empire was a historic occasion. The end of the First World War and the Second World War was a historic occasion. This is merely an attempt at diverting the public away from what really matters, not that the public really give a shit about what really matters. They protest over a pasty tax, but the fact that fuel prices are at an all time high, and that for a considerable amount of people in this country are finding it hard to live, doesn't matter at all. Then the queen has been on the throne for 60 years, and the government uses it as an opportunity to trick the public into thinking that the world is a perfect, wonderful, happy place without any problems, like a pending civil war in Syria, huge societal collapse in Greece, the prospect of a broken European economy and many other problems. This is what I mean when I say the British populace are sheep like, they are actually incapable of viewing the world for what is.
The point is, it's a traditional institution, that holds so much memory and grandeur. I have to admit, I'm fairly sentimental, but the thought that everything we have to do with the monarchy would be destroyed, so much history and the like, is one terrible to behold. You must also admit that the Royals do some good work. I like to think of them as a much nicer way of dealing with things than the uncomfortable world of politics. They can do things they genuinely belive to be right (Princes Trust for example) without the positioning and scramble for votes that is the political world of today. A national figurehead is no bad thing, especially if they are not held by the ties of party politics, and can be stability in times when all else is uncertain. Hooray! God Save the Queen! Rule Brittania! For Queen and Country! etc. etc. @C_G I actually see it more of a way of telling people that it's really not as bad as many people make it out to be. We get so much bad news from the media, it's nice to get good news for a change.
