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Prince Charles to marry his slag

 
 
kelticwizard
 
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Reply Wed 6 Apr, 2005 10:20 pm
Intrepid wrote:

Nope. Your metaphorical example has nothing to do with the royal lineage. I am not saying that this is either right or wrong. I am only saying hat is how it is.
:-)


And the fact that the royal lineage gets passed from older brother to younger brother, then to oldest sister, is clealy discriminatory against women.

Sure, that 's how it is. But that doesn't make it any less discriminatory.

Just as the traditions that said women cannot be hired for certain jobs. Sure, that was just the way it always was. But of course, that was discrimination.

Just because discrimination comes not from written law but from tradition does not make it any less discriminatory.

To be honest, I made the comment tongue-in-cheek. Of course the laws of succession were discriminatory, because up until recently, gender discrimination was the norm. The rules of succession simply was part of a gender discriminatory society. Women weren't even allowed to vote in America until 1919. That's over a thousand years after England established it's monarchy.

I am a little surprised, though, that you used the reason, "that's just the way it is" to try to argue that the rules of succession were not discriminatory. About all you can argue is that they were no more discriminatory than just about every institution at the time the tradition came into existence-sometime before 1066.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Thu 7 Apr, 2005 05:48 am
Monarchy doesn't just discriminate against women, it discriminates against all those who would aspire to become Head of State, but can't because they are not royal.
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kelticwizard
 
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Reply Thu 7 Apr, 2005 07:16 am
Well, you're right Steve. As I recall, America and England had a little spat back in 1776 pretty much over this whole issue. Very Happy

I intended the "anti-discrimination" remark as a joke, since the English monarchy is clearly a carryover from a time that the population at large had very, very few rights at all. As DLowan pointed out, equal rights for women is a much more modern idea, mostly the product of the twentieth century. So of course such things got no consideration in the rules of a succession for an institution formed before civil rights, as we understand them, were ever formulated.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Thu 7 Apr, 2005 07:28 am
"As I recall, America and England had a little spat back in 1776 pretty much over this whole issue."

....and you've gone from King George III backwards to George II.

Smile
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Intrepid
 
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Reply Thu 7 Apr, 2005 07:41 am
JLNobody wrote:
I agree. Chauvinistic patriotism and nationalism are dangerous.


Now that I think about it, I have to agree with you and Dlowan. That is probably what now keeps Canada out of wars. Our maturity places us more in a peacekeeping roll.

Very Happy
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ConstitutionalGirl
 
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Reply Fri 8 Apr, 2005 06:04 am
ehBeth wrote:
Andy doesn't know Mr. Bean?
That'd be like not knowing Monty Python.

<thud>
I like Mr. Bean, "but whose Monty Python?"
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Ticomaya
 
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Reply Fri 8 Apr, 2005 09:04 am
ConstitutionalGirl wrote:
ehBeth wrote:
Andy doesn't know Mr. Bean?
That'd be like not knowing Monty Python.

<thud>
I like Mr. Bean, "but whose Monty Python?"


http://www.intriguing.com/mp/

http://www.intriguing.com/mp/images/title.jpg
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hamburger
 
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Reply Fri 8 Apr, 2005 01:40 pm
prince charles to marry ...
JOAN RIVERS ( FAMOUS ??? COMEDIAN ) has also been invited to the weddding reception. she sure has made a good living from skewering the 'royals". on another thread the question of who was being invited to the pope's funeral was being discussed. i think i'd rather mingle with joan rivers and mr. bean - much more fun. hbg
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Bella Dea
 
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Reply Fri 8 Apr, 2005 02:22 pm
ConstitutionalGirl wrote:
ehBeth wrote:
Andy doesn't know Mr. Bean?
That'd be like not knowing Monty Python.

<thud>
I like Mr. Bean, "but whose Monty Python?"


Who is Monty Python???? Shocked Oh NO!!!
___________________________________________________

"Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam...."~~ The Spam Song

"....now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"~~ French taunter, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

"Ni! "~~ The Dreaded Knights that say Ni!, Monty Python and the Holy Grail


And one of my all time favorites....

Bright Side of Life
------------------------------------
Always look on the bright side of life.
[whistling]
Always look on the light side of life.
[whistling]

If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten,
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps.
Just purse your lips and whistle. That's the thing.
And...

Always look on the bright side of life.
[whistling]
Always look on the right side of life,
[whistling]

For life is quite absurd
And death's the final word.
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin.
Give the audience a grin.
Enjoy it. It's your last chance, anyhow.
So,...

Always look on the bright side of death,
[whistling]
Just before you draw your terminal breath.
[whistling]

Life's a piece of ****,
When you look at it.
Life's a laugh and death's a joke. It's true.
You'll see it's all a show.
Keep 'em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
And...

Always look on the bright side of life.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Fri 8 Apr, 2005 02:25 pm
and the latest Broadway hit ...


Spamalot!


http://www.montypythonsspamalot.com/HighBand/homepage.html
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Bella Dea
 
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Reply Fri 8 Apr, 2005 02:27 pm
Quips from the French Taunter....

I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent,
you silly king!

You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your
bottoms, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you,
so-called Arthur-king, you and all your silly English kaniggets.
Thppppt!

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed
animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! You
mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a!

'Allo, daffy English kaniggets and Monsieur Arthur-King,
who is afraid of a duck, you know! So, we French fellows out-wit
you a second time!

How you English say, I one more time-a unclog my nose in
your direction, sons of a window-dresser! So, you think you could
out-clever us French folk with your silly knees-bent running about
advancing behavior! I wave my private parts at your aunties, you
heaving lot of second hand electric donkey bottom biters.

No chance, English bedwetting types. I burst my pimples
at you and call your door opening request a silly thing. You
tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms!


Laughing Laughing Laughing How can you not love Monty Python? It's so ridiculous!
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Fri 8 Apr, 2005 02:40 pm
I thought it was "food-trough wiper."
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Bella Dea
 
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Reply Fri 8 Apr, 2005 02:41 pm
I think you are right.......I got those off a website.....let me correct...I didn't read them throughly....
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hamburger
 
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Reply Fri 8 Apr, 2005 03:41 pm
drewdad trying to teach the french proper english ? ha, i say ! ze french vill teach you a ting or two . hbg
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Fri 8 Apr, 2005 04:12 pm
Sacre bleu! I go avay for a little and wot hoppen? Dees thread she is degenerate into the insultings macabre, the mud-slinging diabolique and the manglings of the two tongues. It is to roll one's eyes, certainly...er...certainment...whatever.
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ConstitutionalGirl
 
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Reply Sat 9 Apr, 2005 02:23 am
Will the Wedding be Televised? I heard Prince Charles is a Harry Potter Fan, "has he invited JK Rowling?" Does anybody know what time the Wedding will be?
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 9 Apr, 2005 06:24 am
It's on to the reception now.

<only 28 invited to the wedding proper - read all about it in Hello magazine online - all the best royals news there>
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Walter Hinteler
 
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Reply Sat 9 Apr, 2005 06:30 am
ConstitutionalGirl wrote:
Will the Wedding be Televised?


Mrs. Walter is watching it since one hour already (here, in Germany, they broadcast only the church ceremony = since nearly two hours, you can see one by one entering the chapel, .... ehem .... nearly 200 persons in there now, as far as I'm aware :wink: )
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 9 Apr, 2005 06:38 am
You must be getting a time delay feed, Walter.

I heard the end of the wedding a while ago.
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 9 Apr, 2005 06:41 am
http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2005/04/09/weddingceremony/

the outfits and stuff

http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2005/04/09/weddingceremony/imgs/camilla-dop2b.jpg
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