WARNING; It's too cruel

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11280

Message Posted:
30/04/2011 10:56

The Dutch queen Beatrix celebrates her birthday in Holland (she travels the province of Limburg, where all idiots dressed in orange and wave silly little flags) and Dutch radio is reporting all day long (the same as last year and the same as etc).

The radio reporters are now discussing her hat (probably bought in the same Albanian shop where HM Queen Elisabeth seems to be a customer). It's too much. Two royal families in one week. I give up. I switch off my Internet connection to Radio 1 (Holland). It's going to be Johnny Cash again today. The Man in Black on this sombre Saturday.

P.S. It seems that 'they' bombed Libya again last night. And in Syria the tyrant Assad had his army shoot again at unarmed civilians. Hundreds dead this week. But I can't get it confirmed on the radio, because (see the start of this thread).

Rottolover



Joined: 21/06/2009
Posts: 519

Message Posted:
30/04/2011 11:15

I guess it just goes to show that royalty everywhere is a right royal pain in the a**e.

Clarissa2


Joined: 12/06/2009
Posts: 1476

Message Posted:
30/04/2011 11:50

Re Msg 1,



DC, at least you should be grateful that your monarchy doesn't cost you as much as the British Royal family - Europe’s most expensive - to the British tax payers.

westender


Joined: 14/05/2009
Posts: 328

Message Posted:
30/04/2011 19:12

The President of France costs their taxpayers much more & the Crown estates generate far more income for the British taxpayers than is paid out to the Queen for the Civil List.

rowlo



Joined: 12/10/2008
Posts: 4796

Message Posted:
30/04/2011 20:12

i doubt that very much msg4 ?

Riddles


Joined: 26/04/2011
Posts: 429

Message Posted:
30/04/2011 22:11

The Romans called it 'Bread and Circuses' ....keep the underclasses happy with food and glamorous events and they'll never ask for justice ...it's still working!

AndyR



Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 317

Message Posted:
30/04/2011 23:05

Well said DC.

The day before the royal wedding a bomb exploded in a cafe that I frequently use in Marrakech. I flicked from BBC to SKY news channels and got nothing but interviews with people outside Buck House etc etc. On the BBC 6pm news the first 15 minutes were about the wedding, followed by 30 seconds about the American tornadoes, 30 seconds about the Marrakech bomb then another 14 minutes about the bloody wedding!

News providers need to revisit their definitions iof what 'news' actually is.

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
01/05/2011 00:19

Msg 4. I live in Windsor, surrounded by Crown Estates - all fenced off - acres and acres and acres of land - inaccessible to the public yet we pay for their upkeep - just so the Queen or family members can have a jog around on their horses now and then........Cornwall of course provides some income, but only to Charles.....the never ending upkeep of the royal houses is HUGE, yet when we stood outside the house years ago, and watched Windsor Castle burning down - the Royal family had the nerve to ask us all to contribute to the repairs because it wasn't insured!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You couldn't make it up.....(which I believe is when they started the tours of Buck House to raise some revenue........)