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the white hand
Nov 12, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

gonadic io posted:

> Adeshine is said to have jumped into the River Thames in an attempt to evade police officers before coming out and being arrested.

if he'd made it to the other side he'd have been created a duke

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90s Cringe Rock
Nov 29, 2006
:gay:

90s Cringe Rock has issued a correction as of 17:20 on Sep 16, 2022

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005
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Do not queue. Do not queue.

Oglethorpe
Aug 8, 2005
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I'm gonna queue!

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Welcome to the queue, we take it day by day
If you want it you're going to bleed
but it's the price you pay
And she was a very royal queen, it's very hard to please
You can taste the bright lights but you won't get there for free

Maya Fey
Jan 22, 2017


gonadic io posted:

> Adeshine is said to have jumped into the River Thames in an attempt to evade police officers before coming out and being arrested.

they just waited for him to wash up on wet wipe island

Maya Fey
Jan 22, 2017



i thought all that poo poo was supposed to be a net + for uk economy because of tourism etc.

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!

Why was the Duke of York in the queue?

Valko
Sep 18, 2015

Pryor on Fire posted:

Decades of jokes about the Poles being fit only undesirable job of the moment then have them surpass the island in standard of living is pretty funny. The slow decline into irrelevance while grasping at faded monarchic symbols is unimaginably pathetic. Children of Men assumed the island would maintain some superior status and remain desirable through ruthless exploitation and plunder, but it seems that portrayal of the British was far too rosy.

I've always suspected in that film that much of the rest of the western world was on a par with the UK. Yeah I know, there were scenes of refugees but most of them were probably from what we now call the third world.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Valko posted:

I've always suspected in that film that much of the rest of the western world was on a par with the UK. Yeah I know, there were scenes of refugees but most of them were probably from what we now call the third world.

i actually thought it was an unreliable narrator and europe was fine

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

i say swears online posted:

i actually thought it was an unreliable narrator and europe was fine
just like 28 days later

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.

New Found Power posted:

Including the cost of things like eventually updating the money in this is some real black book of communism poo poo

You know you dont' have to put Charles' face on the money, right? That's a decision you're making. You could simply not do it.

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.

Maya Fey posted:

i thought all that poo poo was supposed to be a net + for uk economy because of tourism etc.

The Louvre is a significantly more profitable tourist attraction than Buckingham palace.

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018
Women are wonderful animals, they should be making music and writing novels about having a complex relationship with your mother.

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat


Queueanon

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:
this would save the monarchy for another thousand years

ro5s
Dec 27, 2012

A happy little mouse!

Maya Fey posted:

i thought all that poo poo was supposed to be a net + for uk economy because of tourism etc.

the monarchy is only a + if you count all tourism money for the whole country as coming from them, that stat is a lie

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

Gripweed posted:

The Louvre is a significantly more profitable tourist attraction than Buckingham palace.

The Palace of Versailles is likely a more profitable tourist attraction than Buckingham Palace :guillotine:

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
the bad news is you have to buy a new tape measure with the new inch on it. the good news is business for tape measure manufacturers has never been better.

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

The Palace of Versailles is likely a more profitable tourist attraction than Buckingham Palace :guillotine:

Well yeah, Versailles is cool and has amazing art and huge landscaped gardens whereas Buck House just sucks.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

ro5s posted:

the monarchy is only a + if you count all tourism money for the whole country as coming from them, that stat is a lie

lol i had no idea, always figured it was just ticket sales for crown-owned properties or w/e the gently caress

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

i spent like seven pounds on a chocolate bar at the tower of london and gave it to a girl who would later break up with me so i'd like that back thanks

Maya Fey
Jan 22, 2017


ro5s posted:

the monarchy is only a + if you count all tourism money for the whole country as coming from them, that stat is a lie

oh lol i thought there was One upside

Maya Fey
Jan 22, 2017


Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

i say swears online posted:

lol i had no idea, always figured it was just ticket sales for crown-owned properties or w/e the gently caress

All the stuff people go to see would still be there without the Royal Family. Nobody visits Buckingham Palace expecting the queenking to blow them a kiss from an upstairs window. Anything royalty-related is just another checkmark on the list of things tourists do. All the other things people spend money on - hotels, restaurants, tours, museums and on and on - vastly outweigh anything directly attributable to the royal family.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

All the stuff people go to see would still be there without the Royal Family. Nobody visits Buckingham Palace expecting the queenking to blow them a kiss from an upstairs window. Anything royalty-related is just another checkmark on the list of things tourists do. All the other things people spend money on - hotels, restaurants, tours, museums and on and on - vastly outweigh anything directly attributable to the royal family.
I think you're underselling the experience of getting your last warning that you're about to get bayoneted, and I just don't think it could be replicated if the guards weren't protecting their spiritual grandma.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1570843678872317953?t=XATlTBdHc7d7FtNmyqe2NQ&s=19

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008


"while we struggle to heat our homes, we have to pay for your parade"

Yes, that is the point. Do these people not understand this?

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

bedpan posted:

"while we struggle to heat our homes, we have to pay for your parade"

Yes, that is the point. Do these people not understand this?
Not the people he's saying that to (the king and the people watching).

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat
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A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:
charles has just uninvited the future queen of denmark from the funeral. she is a native australian of scottish descent. hopefully the people of scotland and australia will rise up in defiance and install her as their new queen.

Pryor on Fire
May 14, 2013

they don't know all alien abduction experiences can be explained by people thinking saving private ryan was a documentary

i say swears online posted:

i actually thought it was an unreliable narrator and europe was fine

Yeah I may be reading too much into this scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrALRx95mHs

It would be funnier if Europe was relatively fine in that universe.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

Maya Fey posted:

i thought all that poo poo was supposed to be a net + for uk economy because of tourism etc.

Looked at the figures.
2021 only had £6 billion in tourism, but that had restrictions.
2020 not worth looking looking at.
2019 before the plague, was £30 billion.

But 2019 was also pre-brexit too. And these figures are for entire UK, London seems to be a good quarter chunk of that.

So going forward, they won't be much of a money spinner.
Who wants to see King Chuck and Camilla.

Maya Fey
Jan 22, 2017


Pryor on Fire posted:

Yeah I may be reading too much into this scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrALRx95mHs

It would be funnier if Europe was relatively fine in that universe.

wow this movie was so prescient

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=

Pryor on Fire posted:

Yeah I may be reading too much into this scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrALRx95mHs

It would be funnier if Europe was relatively fine in that universe.

this scene is so unbelievably good. i'm the autistic kid with the rubik's cube.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/WelshSocialism/status/1570727362547044354?s=19

Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment

lol. thinking about how people keep telling me how the royals earn england way more in tourism money than what the cost the public.

Bear Retrieval Unit
Nov 5, 2009

Mudslide Experiment
queue anon

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

what happened to the political cartoonist who drew Cameron as a condom ?

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Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

euphronius posted:

what happened to the political cartoonist who drew Cameron as a condom ?

he was cancelled.

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