The Ranting Room

I actually hold some pride in our royal family...............but I would object STRONGLY and vote for republicanisation if Chazza ever became King.
Hypocrasy of the highest order..............
Q.)How can a divorced man be the Defender Of The Faith (i.e. the CofE) when the C of E does not recognise divorce????...........

A.) EASY get your wife killed off to enable you to become a widdower!!!

i think he showed his true colours in the Klosters interview.............nasty man.

Having said all that, if he decided to do the decent thing and abdicate, I would support his eldest son. Top bloke...........I think he is a young man that has had a lot to deal with, and has dealt with it always with decorum and sensibility.
and of course he would make a better stamp than his old Dad!

P-C

LOL!!!


Yes, Harry has definitley got second son syndrome!!!

I forgive him, as I remember the awful pictures of him at his mother's funeral.............poor kid, what these people do to kids is disgusting, they should have let him stay home cuddling something of his mum's and have a blinking good cry..........not parade the poor little s*d in the streets like a freak show.
I know these boys are priviledged, but heck, it cost them their Mum..............way too big a price to pay! and I bet they didn't get any grief counselling............just some flippin stiff upper lip boarding school cr*p!

You are right tho, if anything should happen to William, we will have an interesting ride with Harry on the throne!!!!

P-C

Geck0 wrote: Oh and if Charles does become King, he won't be called King Charles, he'll probably choice another name.

Yeah, my son Charles is gutted about that..........he was looking forward to being king!
     

Geck0 wrote: I think Harry's cool, but he's not the son of old Charlie!  He's definitely the son of James Hewitt and Diana.  It's been speculated but never proven.  People keep trying to get a lock of his hair, so they can get DNA, but they've yet to do so.  I am sure he knows he's not the son of Charlie, I hope so!Oh and of Charles does become King, he won't be called King Charles, he'll probably choice another name.

Harry Hewitt. Yes, I think so too.
    

Men don't curtsie, Jim!

Maybe you'd like to dosie-do your partner?

TheProgtologist wrote: Here in Baltimore I live 1 block away from the Inner Harbor and have an excellent view of Fort McHenry from our upstairs windows.

One of my bachelor parties was hitting the bars in Fells Point...good times.

Well it's grim up north, as they say.

It's just a rivalry.  Being Northern is a bit like being from Texas, but I'd saying being from Gloucestershire is more akin to being Texan.

Geck0 wrote: Well it's grim up north, as they say. It's just a rivalry.  Being Northern is a bit like being from Texas, but I'd saying being from Gloucestershire is more akin to being Texan.

Ah.  It's probably like Northern/Southern in the US, or more recently, this "red state"/"blue state" crap.

Rant:

Here's a list of all the taxes I have to pay:

Federal Income Tax
State Income Tax (Pennsylvania)
Township Income Tax
Property Tax (again to Township/school system)
Social Security Tax
Medicare Tax

Sometimes it's a wonder that I have anything left at the end of the day!
Stuff on the local level isn't so bad because our public school system is among the better ones in southeastern PA (even though American public education is, on the whole, a disaster).  It's the federal taxes that irk me because almost everything is wasted.  Sometimes I think our country is just too damn big, or at least the federal bureaucracy has grown to such a size as to be utterly useless.  It's clear the Congress has no concern other than shuttling off revenue to their particular states for pork projects in order to get re-elected.  They allow the administration to run amok and just sit idle.  Our entitlement programs are threatening to bankrupt us but no one cares because they don't want to upset grandma, making her think her check won't come, except wer'e not talking about current beneficiaries - it's not her that's going to get shafted in the end, it's my generation.

Ah, got that off my chest.  This room is helpful!

Texans do marry their aunts, uncles and cousins!  That was what I was alluding to.