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Should the English monarchy be deposed? Tax dollars withdrawn? Chased through the streets by torch-bearing ruffians in a Malcolm McLarenesque Tale of Two Cities scene?

Do monarchies serve any purpose in the 21st century?

― fritz, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and, which member of the Royal family would you most like to do a line of coke with?

― fritz, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i owuld suck a line of anthrax from willie's butt if he let me near it...ah, the price of love.

― Geoff, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sure! Just don't send them over here -- we've got enough problems with the Bushes to want more imbecilic descendants of German warlords, thank you.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i think they all should die , the monarchy is an expensive leech . But i would like to get drunk with Princess MArgaret

― anthony, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the monarchy - I think it should stay. I find the whole concept of having a Queen and Princes and Princesses etc. really appealing. I think the Queen should have to wear fairy-tale dresses though - if you're going to be a Queen then you should do it properly.

By the way, I'm not joking. I really think this. I even voted to retain the monarchy in the referendum.

The only thing that shits me about the monarchy is that Willie is far to young for me. He is so beautiful.

― toraneko, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

willie is NOT beautiful. i have told geoff before and now i'm telling you toraneko.

like the stuff about the fairy tale dresses though :)

― katie, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tax DOLLARS? That explains a lot.

― Graham, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Australian & Canadian dollars, that is. The commonwealth still pays for royal visits, etc. But pounds too, of course.

― fritz, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

God save our gracious Queen!...I'm down with the whole monarchy thing. Presidency also = tax dollars. You get rid of the Royal family, wow big whoppie. President Blair or some other buffon.

― james, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Down with the whole monarchy thing. Off with their heads and charge admission. Actually I recon we should ship em off to Diego Garcia when the Americans have finished with it and they can rule that.

― Ed, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't mind living in a monarchy - i much prefer the head of state to be a powerless person on the other side of the world than an elected president with way too much power.

― hamish, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

MONARCHY IN THE U.S.A.

― Brian MacDonald, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i wanna snort with fergie.

― di, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i wanna ride ponies with princess anne

― duane, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

she's reputed to be a really mean person tho

― duane, Friday, 2 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

why does the British monarchy look so equine?

― di, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

because they're descended from a legendary race of centaurs

― duane, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

if i remember correctly

― duane, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Prince William is hideous, he copped the family teeth ears and general hosiness. I would do a line of coke with:

the queen mother Fergie The Queens younger sister Definitely Prince Philip and if I was feeling accepting maybe even Princess Anne.

I'd feel envious because they all have such large nostrils.

― Menelaus Darcy, Saturday, 3 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i want to be Prince Andrew's faghag, so yeah i'd probbly do a line with him.

― di, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

did anyone from New Zealand (or elsewhere) see the programme "Who Wants to Be a Princess?" It was a whole bunch of desperate women competing to win the chance to 'go on holiday' with a dashing prince they knew nothing about. They all blethered on about the wonderful opportunity they were getting and the fairy tale aspect which I think is fairly demeaning to women. their greatest day was going to be getting married in a poofy dress? the stupid questions they had to answer and autoatic deference to some tinpot little upstart from rome with too much hair product and a leathery face? fuck off or rewrite fairy tales thanks

― Menelaus Darcy, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

whats with the crystal slippers anyway?

― Menelaus Darcy, Sunday, 4 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

No, the monarchy shouldn't be deposed. But this sin't coz they are good at anything or that retaining them would be a good thing in itself, but rather coz the type of Presidency that would have to be brought in to replace them would almost certainly be on the American model rather than the German or Irish model, as I can't see the British standing for a Heda of State with little or no grandeur.

someone at work asked "why can't the PM simply be Head of State?" I didn't have a ready answer. I suppose if they were they would effectively become president by default?

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 12 February 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

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