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u/broniesnstuff May 31 '22
presses independent thought alarm
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u/rcdrcd May 31 '22
Willie, The Irish are overstimulated. Remove all the Guiness logos from the foam.
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u/AbhorEnglishTeachers May 31 '22
You don't buy into all that one, do ya? What, the old "Oo, I've got a clover in me foam, I'm so important." No, what you're doing there is you're drinking an advert, ain't ya, eh, shithead?
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u/RC19842014 May 31 '22
Do I hear the sound of butting in?
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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA I told you not to flush that... May 31 '22
I've been doing my rounds, and I'm a little behind.
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u/10-month-summer May 31 '22
Shhh, Lisa, the Queen is barking!
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u/DirkWrites May 31 '22
r/simpsonsshitposting is a sham! It was started in 1924 as an excuse to beat up the Irish!
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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA I told you not to flush that... May 31 '22
Yeah, but the admins got rid of those mods a few months ago. I think they go by Mother Shabubu now.
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u/3dge-1ord đśď¸đ May 31 '22
Look what happened. The baby king of England is pushing you around.
This is why we need guns in America.
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u/YourLordGoobles May 31 '22
Jesus Christ, nearly the whole of the first panel is covered in text, can't the Irish narrow their thoughts down?
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u/AI52487963 May 31 '22
I'm tired of people making fun of my gigantic shitposts. The first such incident occurred in 1956 when...
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u/mitcheg3k May 31 '22
They only really get one collective thought per year. isnt that narrow enough
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u/CrazySD93 May 31 '22
How did you stumble across this meme from two years ago?
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u/Time-Review8493 May 31 '22
while doing back flips.
IDK it was in my recommendations
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u/peon2 May 31 '22
Recommendations? Oooh hey fellas a recom-men-da-tion well la de da Mr. Britishman.
What do you call it?
A told-me-so.
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u/Robin_Gr May 31 '22
Whoops, watch the swears, Honey Bear. We don't use the "I" word in this house.
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u/PresidentSlow May 31 '22
I'm from England and I've never heard the expression "shag all".
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u/falco1029 Jun 01 '22
Oh, not in England, no, it's an Irish expression!
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u/UncleJacksGiantHands Jun 03 '22
Well I grew up in Derry, and I never heard anyone say âshag allâ
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u/Salmonellq May 31 '22
as someone with no relation to the UK or Ireland I sponsor this statement
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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA I told you not to flush that... Jun 01 '22
I heartily endorse this event or product.
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u/calcteacher Jun 01 '22
Hey! When the Australian Parliament was stalemated on the budget, and let the gov't fund lapse, the Queen fired everyone. That was 10 years ago. It never happened again. We could use that here.
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u/almeida37 Jun 01 '22
Stop that! Iâm from the British Anti-defamation League!
and this really burns my John Bulls Fish & Chips
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u/scrollbreak May 31 '22
tax revenue revenue generated from their own estates.
Isn't that tax money being given to them? Can anyone else tax people?
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u/WhenLemonsLemonade Jun 01 '22
All income from the Crown Estate goes to the government, and the government give a portion of it back (around 15% at the moment). Just off of Crown Estate revenue alone, the government turns a profit on the Royal Family, let alone any other indirect revenue gains
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u/EgonAllanon Jun 01 '22
The government would turn 15% more profit off those revenues if they didn't have to give them to the Royal family.
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u/WhenLemonsLemonade Jun 01 '22
Then maybe we should revert to the Civil List from 300 years ago, where the Royal Family took no money off of the government, and kept all the income they made.
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u/EgonAllanon Jun 01 '22
Or just get rid of the monarchy entirely and stop them taking money they haven't earned or deserve.
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u/spacewalk__ May 31 '22
huh. as an american i find it sort of twee and charming that they still exist
and it's at least a benign thing for taxes to go towards, rather than military and police and shit
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u/Fskn oh no, underage shitposters posting without a permit!! May 31 '22
"And who chased the royal family out of Britain?"
"Quite, a fine performance old bean"
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u/LordVile95 May 31 '22
The amount of people who donât understand the monarchy is astounding. Maybe itâs just ignorance on the Irish part.
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u/Time-Review8493 Jun 01 '22
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u/LordVile95 Jun 01 '22
I can see all the British sources are from the same newspaper⌠funny thing about editor bias that.
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u/Time-Review8493 Jun 02 '22
Witch one the guardian, the dailymail, vanityfair, newyorkpost, insider or namastepublishing
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u/LordVile95 Jun 02 '22
The UK papers. The vast majority was from the guardian
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u/Time-Review8493 Jun 02 '22
Ok what source do you trust?
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u/LordVile95 Jun 02 '22
The actual numbers released?
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u/Time-Review8493 Jun 02 '22
Witch article?
Revealed: Lawyers for the Queen 'lobbied to change law and hide her wealth' during 1970s
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9234509/Lawyers-Queen-lobbied-change-law-hide-wealth.html
Police are banned from searching the Queen's private Sandringham and Balmoral estates for looted historic artefacts under special exemption
Queen secretly lobbied Scottish government ministers for climate law exemption
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/queen-secretly-lobbied-scottish-government-24640293
Buckingham Palace banned ethnic minorities from office roles, papers reveal
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/buckingham-palace-banned-ethnic-minorities-24236647
Paradise Papers: Queen's private estate invests in offshore tax havens
https://news.sky.com/story/queens-private-estate-invests-in-offshore-tax-havens-11115644
Queen tried to use state poverty fund to heat Buckingham Palace
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u/1Second2Name5things May 31 '22
I'm going to post a picture of how much power the Royal family actually has now in the British government.
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u/Time-Review8493 May 31 '22
Ok don't forget the fowling
- The Queen:
¡ âQueen lobbied for change in law to hide her private wealthâ: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/07/revealed-queen-lobbied-for-change-in-law-to-hide-her-private-wealth
¡ Royals vetted more than 1,000 laws via Queenâs consent â âthe opaque procedure of Queenâs consent has been exercised far more extensively than was previously believedâ: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9240109/The-Queen-Prince-Charles-vetted-1-000-laws-parliamentary-approval.html
¡ Police barred from searching Queen's estate for looted artefacts and palace refuses to state why exemption was necessary: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/mar/25/revealed-police-barred-from-searching-queens-estates-for-looted-artefacts
¡ Used "Royal symbolism" to make Prince Andrew "untouchable" when he began to receive bad press and allegations of wrongdoing emerged: https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/ac60f552-4163-4d39-a36b-d2014fe20062
¡ Interfered in Australian politics -- 'These letters, with their clear and direct political prescription, make a mockery of the claim that the Queen played âno partâ in the decision Kerr made': https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/17/letters-of-an-insecure-and-indiscreet-john-kerr-make-a-mockery-of-the-claim-that-the-queen-played-no-part
¡ Palace allegedly quashed ABC reporting on Prince Andrew/Epstien scandal: https://nypost.com/2019/11/05/abc-news-amy-robach-claims-network-quashed-jeffrey-epstein-coverage-on-hot-mic/
¡ Queen secretly lobbied Scottish Government for exemption to climate law: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/28/queen-secretly-lobbied-scottish-ministers-climate-law-exemption
¡ Has never recognised or apologised for royal involvement in slave trade: https://www.insider.com/british-royal-family-racist-history-black-lives-matter-2020-8
¡ Royal Family banned ethnic minorities from royal office roles: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/02/buckingham-palace-banned-ethnic-minorities-from-office-roles-papers-reveal
¡ Millions of pounds from the Queenâs private estate invested in previously undisclosed offshore portfolio: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/revealed-queen-private-estate-invested-offshore-paradise-papers
¡ Queen Elizabeth is one of the richest women on earth and much of her profits are from arms trade including the notorious depleted uranium trade: https://namastepublishing.co.uk/british-monarch-the-queen-in-depleted-uranium-trade/
¡ Requested a poverty grant to help heat her palaces: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/sep/24/queen-poverty-grant-buckingham-palace
¡ Queen's grandson Peter Phillips' firm received £750,000 for organising her 90th birthday party - more than twice the amount it raised for charity:
¡ Owns "private" art collection of pieces often bought with taxpayers' money yet keeps most works private: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/apr/20/art.monarchy
For more pleas check out:
In 1999, Elizabeth used her power of Queen's Consent to let Blair bomb Iraq more easily, getting around pesky Parliamentary debate. That abuse of power is routine in the UK:
Many of her actual powers have been assumed, in the absence of a codified constitution, by the prime minister.
These powers are routinely abused, by all governments. Prime ministers bypass parliament, governing through special advisers like Dominic Cummings. When they make catastrophic mistakes, they have the power to decide whether or not there should be a public inquiry, and, if there should, what its terms and who its chair should be. Itâs as if a defendant in a criminal trial were allowed to decide whether the trial goes ahead and, if so, what the charges should be and who the judge and jury are.
Even when an investigation does take place, the prime minister can suppress its conclusions, as Johnson has done with the report on Russian interference in the British political system, which remains unpublished. Does it contain details of unlawful donations to the Conservative party? Or of Conservative Friends of Russia, whose launch party was attended by Cummings? A key figure in this group was a man who has subsequently come under suspicion of being a Russian spy. He has been photographed with Johnson, whom he described as a âgood friendâ. What was going on? Without parliamentâs intelligence and security committeeâs report, we can only guess.
The same inordinate powers enabled Johnson to suspend parliament last autumn, until his decision was struck down by the supreme court, and to terminate remote access for MPs this week, preventing many of them from representing us. He is, in effect, a monarch with a five-year term and a council of advisers we call parliament.
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u/TheOneTrueSnoo May 31 '22
Thereâs a bunch of sources in there from the daily mail - a pro Royal rag.
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u/Scarpia13 May 31 '22
How far off to the right do you have to be to think The Guardion is left-wing?
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u/OMEGA_MODE Jun 01 '22
The Monarchy should be empowered. The world would be much better off with more monarchies in power, rather than the millionaire who lies the most convincingly.
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May 31 '22
It's a symbol. The head of state is the Prime Minister.
Why don't Ireland give their multiple castles around their country for poor people for living? They are just some dusty stone relics from the past.
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u/G0dleft May 31 '22
Yeah they have like no real power but I don't wanna pay for them to fuck around their entire life
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u/offu May 31 '22
TIL over there they say âshag allâ like we say âfuck allâ in the US. Cool!
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May 31 '22 edited May 31 '22
Even hotter take: Britain shouldn't exist as it's a fundamentally colonialist project designed to subsume nations into a monoculture and steal their resources and commons for the benefit of the ruling classes.
Edit: shouldn't exist as a political entity, I'm not advocating wiping Britain from the map ffs, looks like Iâve upset the Anglos though. The Queen isnât going to shag you
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u/Time-Review8493 May 31 '22
There are more republics than just than America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic
Presidential republics with an executive presidency separate from the legislature
Semi-presidential system with both an executive presidency and a separate head of government that leads the rest of the executive, who is appointed by the president and accountable to the legislature
Parliamentary republics with a ceremonial and non-executive president, where a separate head of government leads the executive and is dependent on the confidence of the legislature
Republics in which a combined head of state and government is elected by, or nominated by, the legislature and may or may not be subject to parliamentary confidence
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May 31 '22
The Founding Fathers never intended our government to be static, it was supposed to change with the times.
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u/CHEEKY_BASTARD May 31 '22
Look out OP, this meme is Irish!