The British Crown is a useless anachronism.

http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/denominations/anglican_history.htm
Singing the song "Tradition" from Fiddler On the Roof, I believe that the Royals add a certain historical stability to the British society. Plus, if the Pope can be the Head of State of the Vatican, then the Queen/King of England can be the titular head of Britain. Both have priceless treasures that might ethically belong to their respective flock/citizens. What's good for a Catholic goose, might be good for the Anglican gander, in my opinion.

Plus, again in my opinion, with the Royals being Anglican (that can change) I sort of value others knowing their place in the British society. We wouldn't want anyone starting to act uppity, now would we? It is bad enough so many folks are acting like "they arrived" in society here in the States. A mockery is being made of the Social Register here in the States.

The bottom line, in my opinion, is that money/education/land ownership is not a social deodorant for the masses. That is why they are called the masses, or commoners in Britain. Please wake up, and know your place in society. What ever happened to Christian humility? I wonder if there are Christians that really want to covet what others have? Shame on them, if that be true!

"If eggs are white, then surely peaches are keen" Your point high;ighted above doesntmake sense. I think the Vatican was only stblished in maybe 1925 or so. I recll the "Lateran Treaty" that set it up . Britain sharess nothing in its sovereign tradition with the VAtican (Which is set up Primarily as a city state of the Roman Catholic REligion and thats all)
Englands history goes back a few more weeks than the VAtican.

I won't even remark the head of state above partisan politics thing, as it is so redundant is not worth mention...
"Being the source of all honours" pretty much nearly matches "being wanted" in my book...so I suppose you were addressing the usefulness of being wanted, because they are the source of all honours... a dam top quality informative statement you reason, but I just qualify it as an exercise in sterile pseudo irony from a freak that has nothing to do in the afternoon except pissing in every corner he finds...

oh by the way duchebag...my English posts are "ambidextrous" even without their right arm when compared to your squary formal ****...90% of your comments are about giving crap to everybody else mostly without the advantage of at least making a point as just shown above...

You're only ever marginally coherent, and rarely have any point to make at all, other than "giving creap to everybody." Have a lousy day, Bubba.

It just shows that you shouldn't post in such a highly emotional state. Take a deep breath, count to ten, check things over, then press reply.

Do they can it there, or is that done off the premises?

That's one of the most common, puerile tricks online, to suggest the person who has just shown what a fool you are is emotional. You made a comment about cheeses from America which demonstrated your ignorance. You'd rather talk about a typographical error, or react hysterically like this than face up to your ignorance, and admit it.

I thought it was a reference (for some reason) to this



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England

I've had American cheese, I'm talking from experience.

Oh, Jaysus, don't start talking about the Royals changing from Anglican to (godforbidit) Catholicism, there'll be busted blood vessels in several English necks just at the thought it.
Besides, every time the Royals do switch from Anglican to Papist to something or vice versus,,,,, hundreds have to be killed, heads stuck on posts, thumbscrews employed and various other symbols of Christ's Merciful Offices on Earth are burned to the ground.

It could put off the crowds at the Olympics more then the rains.

The British do not do changes in Royal religion very easily, although all a British Monarch has to whisper is :"Who shall rid me of this meddlesome priest?" and he'll get several volunteers at the ready.

Joe(It's a tradition. )Nation

How many of the hundreds of varieties of American cheeses have you tried?

Perhaps some of the gold medal winners from the World Cheese Awards in London?

Really, you're being as silly as fman here.

hmm

mebbe that's it

it's a BMOC championship bout

I think you'll find all the religious nutters live in your neck of the woods.

Obviously none of those which won prizes in London. But i'm sure you're right Bubba, you're always right, no?

Too true, that.

This place is crawling with them.

If only one holy sect were able to wipe out all the other holy sects...... .

Joe(there'd be peace in the valley again)Nation

I tried some 'top class,' American cheeses when I was in a plush hotel in Mexico. The Americans liked them, I didn't.

You can't really get American cheese over here anyway, there's no demand.

From the Telegraph--apparently not all the "religious nutters" are over here.

There are very good cheeses made on the U S west coast, Humboldt Fog being one of them (I slightly know the woman who started the company) and there are a few good ones out of the SF Bay area. Also, some artisan (the new overused word that does apply in some cases) in Oregon and Washington State. I rarely run across cheese from Vermont so I've no sense on if they have a lot of good small cheese making farms. I also love a lot of european (by that I don't mean euro zone) cheese which I learned about from restaurants and specialty cheese stores in California - back as early as the seventies. They'd break my wallet now, but I remember how delicious they were.

You, Izzie, have probably only had the routine commercial cheese you ran across in Texas grocery stores. Pah!

Yeah, but apparently their methods and tactics are American exports.

Joe(Yea! We're fixing the balance of trade.)Nation

Well, we're a more tolerant nation, which is why we took in all the religious nut cases the Europeans drove out. We're just getting a little of our own back.

I don't doubt there are some good cheeses in America, unfortunately the overriding impression is of this.