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The British Crown is a useless anachronism.

 
 
Joe Nation
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 11:34 am
@Setanta,
HAH!

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ossobuco
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 11:49 am
@ehBeth,
I so much agree.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 11:54 am
@izzythepush,
So called american cheese is famously oleaginous; I haven't tasted it in decades.
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Foofie
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 06:44 pm
@farmerman,
farmerman wrote:

Quote:
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
"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 thought both have representation in the UN. That makes them both nation states, I thought.
farmerman
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 06:50 pm
@Foofie,
So thats the basis of your parallel?
Check please!
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Foofie
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 06:54 pm
@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:

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


It does allow folks of a similar background to have their own turf, so to speak.

You see Germans arrived, and many went to the midwest. And, Scandanavians too. Both being Lutherans, they mixed and mingled, and got along.

The Anglo-Saxons populated the South and became Baptists oftentimes.

The descendants of the original Pilgrims stayed in New England.

The mid-Atlantic coastal states have a good many Catholics.

In other words, people of a similar religious/nationality clustered in this big country, for purposes of maintaining a level of comfort.

Even where there is greater diversity, housing developments tend to reflect a certain socio-economic class that correlates to one's religious/ethnic background oftentimes.

It is sort of like early medieval England, in my opinion.

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farmerman
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 06:54 pm
@izzythepush,
I am certain that I have a little Polish in my heritage cause I was watching Homer eat his cheese and I waited patiently for a denoument!!

My favorite cheese in the Brie categorie is a totally indusrially composed and admixed softee called dainois. Its made in France and it shows that even they can embrace technology if the product benefits
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Foofie
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 06:56 pm
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:

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.


Are you talking as an American expatriate or Canadian?
farmerman
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 07:01 pm
@ehBeth,
Quote:
Really, you're being as silly as fman here.

Yes bt Im trying to be silly , thats the difference.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 07:33 pm
@Foofie,
Set's a straight old American. Nothing ex-pat about him.
Rockhead
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 08:31 pm
@ehBeth,
having a canadian girlfriend is akin to being a pinko...

do you kids still read pravda?
Foofie
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 08:31 pm
@ehBeth,
ehBeth wrote:

Set's a straight old American. Nothing ex-pat about him.


I thought he is living in Toronto? That is not the USA.
Rockhead
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 08:33 pm
@Foofie,
Toronto is closer to being in the USA than Kansas is, foofster...
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 08:39 pm
@Foofie,
Visiting Canada doesn't turn someone into a Canadian.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 08:40 pm
@Rockhead,
Pravda used to be an awesome nightclub here.
ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 08:41 pm
@Foofie,
oh I get it

kind of like living in New York means you're actually Dutch

awesome reasoning
Rockhead
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 08:41 pm
@ehBeth,
pinko.
ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 19 Jul, 2012 08:42 pm
@Rockhead,
hehehehe


I think I'm going to go buy some pink earrings to celebrate
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Finn dAbuzz
 
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Reply Fri 20 Jul, 2012 12:47 am
@izzythepush,
Because he thought he was going to get all sorts of "atta boys," and now that he hasn't he has to insult the nation that seems to have generated a fairly uniform response of "Why the f*ck do you care?"
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Finn dAbuzz
 
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Reply Fri 20 Jul, 2012 12:56 am
@izzythepush,
By "foreign military bases" you mean "US military bases," unless I missed some other country that saved your collective ass in the face of Hitler's rule of the sea and air.

Oh yes, I forget that you are one who believes England would have beat back the Nazis without any help from America.

In any case, it may surprise you to know that I, essentially, agree with you. There is no reason, that I can think of, for American tax-payers to fund the national defense of the UK. I agree that the bases should be closed and our troops stationed there returned to the US as soon as possible, but on the dime of the British tax-payers who have benefited from these bases, not ours.

Since you so vociferously object to these bases, surely you would be OK with your country picking up the cost of closing them down.
 

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