hxtr Posted July 23, 2013 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.17 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted July 23, 2013 @ Boy George. Janey, codpiece, mikepaz666 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TecHnOBoY Posted July 23, 2013 Member ID: 755 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 21 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2191 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 961 Achievement Points: 14309 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18, 2019 Birthday: 01/14/1982 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Prince Prism-Tempora Sniffing you All Aloha! lol Why Boy George? hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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hxtr Posted July 23, 2013 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.17 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Author Share Posted July 23, 2013 Prince Prism-Tempora Sniffing you All Aloha! lol Why Boy George? My dad made this joke up... or was sent to him. hahahaha but he sued to have this album in the 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TecHnOBoY Posted July 23, 2013 Member ID: 755 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 21 Topic Count: 120 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2191 Content Per Day: 0.42 Reputation: 961 Achievement Points: 14309 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 18, 2019 Birthday: 01/14/1982 Share Posted July 23, 2013 lolbut @@hxtr isn't prince the wrong word? hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
GhostfaceJim Posted July 23, 2013 Member ID: 2314 Group: ++ Conan Exiles Admin Followers: 32 Topic Count: 112 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 20717 Content Per Day: 4.33 Reputation: 5314 Achievement Points: 113891 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 50 Joined: 03/19/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: 21 hours ago Birthday: 04/22/1975 Device: Windows Share Posted July 23, 2013 Haha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Caper Posted July 23, 2013 Member ID: 102 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 10 Topic Count: 201 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 1776 Content Per Day: 0.33 Reputation: 82 Achievement Points: 10986 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 20, 2014 Birthday: 05/06/1969 Share Posted July 23, 2013 I am not sure a hell of a lot of people really care for the royals. My big question is, why in this day in age do we still have them around. they serve no use. NickTheGrip 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted July 23, 2013 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.17 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Author Share Posted July 23, 2013 Hope I did not offend anyone from the UK.. it was just a joke or my further comments. Caper.. I have no idea. Probably why we admire people like the Kardashians or Paris Hilton. If they dont do anything why so much attention. For them money has to buy the fame. I guess the same for the K's and H'es. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted July 23, 2013 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.17 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Author Share Posted July 23, 2013 Found this... I think this helps answer the question. Best Answer - Chosen by AskerYou're broadly right. The British Royal family generally have few legal roles apart from the Queen herself, although they are immune from various laws like planning permission (local government has to authorise that any building work is safe, but the royal family can do what they like).The Queen is in name the Head of State, the head of the armed forces and the head of the Church of England. In practice she is not allowed to actually exercise any authority or even display any preferences. The cost of keeping the whole royal family is estimated as £41.5m (about $70m?) per year, although this is not all as cash paid directly to them (only £7.9m) - a lot of it goes as money spent upkeeping the various estates. In addition there is the cost of security provided by the police and the army, which is not published. However, this money is offset against money paid to the treasury in income tax, capital gains tax (in the UK, if you buy property cheap, and it goes up in value and you sell it expensively, this difference is subject to capital gains tax), and in earnings from various estates they own - these earnings are paid to the state in exchange for the £7.9m mentioned above. The Royal family own an enormous amount of land. One set of land alone, the Crown Estates, is worth £6.2 billion, and makes profits of around £200m per year which are paid to the state, which alone heavily outweighs the cost of the Royal family. In addition there are the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster which are probably worth another £1bn. From our point of view, financially, it benefits us to have these holdings associated with the state rather than a private business, as a lot more money flows back into the state than it would do otherwise. Most of their wealth is based on stuff they inherited, or proceeds from the estates, or businesses based on the estates. Prince Charles owns a company that makes biscuits (Duchy Originals). They're quite nice!Politically, the point of keeping the Queen as Head of state is to provide some sort of counterbalance, albeit even only theoretical, to the Prime Minister. Most countries have two houses of government and a Head of State; the US has the House, the Senate and the President. The British Prime Minister controls the House of Commons (roughly equivalent to the House); the House of Lords (even more roughly equivalent to the Senate) is much weaker than the Commons; so he actually has much more direct authority than the President of the US, so it's important that there is some counterbalance. The British PM cannot actually seize power as a dictator because technically the army belongs to the Queen and she has the authority to dissolve parliament. The Queen cannot seize power because it would cause a revolution.This situation has basically evolved over the last 350 years or so because, as revolutions happened all across Europe and various Kings and Queens were beheaded, the British Monarchy looked at it and thought, we would rather give power back a bit at a time, than suffer a revolution and lose it all. The ball was started by our own Civil War, 1642-1651, followed mainly by a period of dictatorship, until we re-established a monarchy that had to listen to parliament in 1660. This gradual constraining of the monarchy has continued right up until 1992 when they started paying income tax.So - what's the benefit of keeping them? People have different opinions and it kind of comes down to taste. From my point of view the finances are pretty even or actually profitable for the country. For me it's a matter of style. For me, there is no other person in the world whose title is as impressive as the King or Queen of England. For sheer grandeur and symbolism nothing can touch it. The President of the United Stated comes second - but to be honest, he's only going to be there for eight years, and there is a reasonable prospect that one day Sarah Palin could have that title. I think history and symbolism are important, especially in trying to create a nation; trying to make millions of people who don't know each other unite under the same banner. That is why America has worked so hard to elevate the idea of the President to an almost religious status. If you have something that's richly symbolic and you throw it away it's hard to build it up again.I'm not especially into these particular people. I'm sure they're no better or worse than a lot of other people. But the idea of the monarchy is so central to the idea of what it means to be British, that, at a time when we're struggling for an idea of national identity as it is, it would be too destructive to rip it out. And they don't actually do any harm or cost any money. Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finances_of_the_British_Royal_Familyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Estatehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_Warhttp://www.duchyoriginals.com/ coolmd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janey Posted July 24, 2013 Member ID: 434 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 58 Topic Count: 272 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 1289 Content Per Day: 0.24 Reputation: 1448 Achievement Points: 12930 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 21 Device: Windows Share Posted July 24, 2013 I love the Queen. She has always displayed the most polite demeanor and from what I know seems to be a generally nice person. I'm sorry if it offends any UK people, but I've never really liked Charles that much. It seems like she is going to rule as long as possible, Charles will rule briefly then pass it to William... at least that's what I'm hoping. coolmd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
kswift420 Posted July 24, 2013 Member ID: 1071 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 22 Topic Count: 30 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 879 Content Per Day: 0.17 Reputation: 261 Achievement Points: 5414 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 5, 2017 Birthday: 12/29/1974 Share Posted July 24, 2013 obama??? hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sonovabich Posted July 25, 2013 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.29 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.94 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Saturday at 09:38 AM Device: Windows Share Posted July 25, 2013 Hxtr you have a gift hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEEJAYKEG Posted July 25, 2013 Member ID: 1238 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.23 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 4984 Achievement Points: 50727 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11 Device: Kindle Fire Share Posted July 25, 2013 I am not sure a hell of a lot of people really care for the royals. My big question is, why in this day in age do we still have them around. they serve no use. I think that if one looks at countries that lack a monarchy, the question pretty much answers itself... Monarchy in these isles predates even a unified England so has stood the test of time, I think! coolmd and hxtr 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
JohnnyDos Posted July 25, 2013 Member ID: 77 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 111 Topic Count: 1018 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 7527 Content Per Day: 1.41 Reputation: 9175 Achievement Points: 69486 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 47 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2013 (edited) I am not sure a hell of a lot of people really care for the royals. My big question is, why in this day in age do we still have them around. they serve no use. Just like our Canadian Senate,they serve no purpose or use.Why are they still around Caper? Edited July 25, 2013 by JohnnyDos hxtr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryWeezer Posted July 25, 2013 Member ID: 20166 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 7652 Content Per Day: 1.98 Reputation: 7228 Achievement Points: 53663 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Share Posted July 25, 2013 This does not bode well for the U.S. We fought a war against King George of England and they're going to put another one on the throne at some future point? Looks to me like this is part of a long-range plan by the Brits to retake America. Only - if things keep going the way they are - this time we won't fight back! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Sonovabich Posted July 25, 2013 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1534 Topics Per Day: 0.29 Content Count: 5020 Content Per Day: 0.94 Reputation: 5171 Achievement Points: 131490 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Saturday at 09:38 AM Device: Windows Share Posted July 25, 2013 (edited) This does not bode well for the U.S. We fought a war against King George of England and they're going to put another one on the throne at some future point? Looks to me like this is part of a long-range plan by the Brits to retake America. Only - if things keep going the way they are - this time we won't fight back! Don't worry Harry we will be attacking you in our borrowed French aircraft carriers but of course we won't have any planes left by then, too expensive, so we will be sending airships, but beware if we do make a landing on your shores our 2000+ Territorials (weekend soldiers) will probably drink all your beer, as long as it's warm of course. Edited July 25, 2013 by Sonovabich TheCheeseyCrusader and hxtr 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyDos Posted July 25, 2013 Member ID: 77 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 111 Topic Count: 1018 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 7527 Content Per Day: 1.41 Reputation: 9175 Achievement Points: 69486 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 47 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 8, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2013 By the time George gets to be King,I'll be KAPUT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted July 25, 2013 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.17 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Author Share Posted July 25, 2013 This does not bode well for the U.S. We fought a war against King George of England and they're going to put another one on the throne at some future point? Looks to me like this is part of a long-range plan by the Brits to retake America. Only - if things keep going the way they are - this time we won't fight back! Don't worry Harry we will be attacking you in our borrowed French aircraft carriers but of course we won't have any planes left by then, too expensive, so we will be sending airships, but beware if we do make a landing on your shores our 2000+ Territorials (weekend soldiers) will probably drink all your beer, as long as it's warm of course. We will be using spit wads ourselves. We are out of money as well but we keep spending. NWO is alive and well. Break the bank so a world bank can be created. Im going to start making my stash of spit wads and buy a bunch of straws before they make them illegal. lol Sonovabich 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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