Should the British monarchy be abolished?

[Machtergreifung]

Just a thing for all these angry anti-monarchy scots. Would you be happy to see the Aristocracy die??? Yes i assume. Would you be happy to see all the scottish clan chiefs be abolished as they are technically part of the aristocracy?? No i assume

Yes, because they're just landowners with pretensions to titles. That, and an excuse to attract wealthy American tourists on the basis of "We're returning to our ancestral home of clan X".

Seriously, an American couple asked me on a Glasgow street the way to the lands of Clan Douglas...

[Pesda]

Do we?
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definitio ... n?q=nation


The Welsh people are united by common descent, history, culture, and just under 20% share the Welsh language. We inhabit a particular territory. Says nothing about a sovereign state.
Now I could argue that it excludes me from being British, because I could have little of the above in common with the rest of the British people, but I'm not going to cause I don't mind Britishness.

Since you have been attached to us so long that we share the same history for quite a long while, and your ethnic heritage is kind of, I dunno, mixed with us, as well as most of youse speaking the same language as us here (example, the thing you just typed), does that make the Welsh and the English one nation? Why don't we just end this since we are mostly in agreement- you are Welsh, you are also a Briton.

Well I have some different descent, history, culture, and language too. Also I should point out that about half my blood is English.
But I agree, we should end this pointless off topic discussion.

[The UK in Exile]

Just a thing for all these angry anti-monarchy scots. Would you be happy to see the Aristocracy die??? Yes i assume. Would you be happy to see all the scottish clan chiefs be abolished as they are technically part of the aristocracy?? No i assume

Yes, because they're just landowners with pretensions to titles. That, and an excuse to attract wealthy American tourists on the basis of "We're returning to our ancestral home of clan X".

Seriously, an American couple asked me on a Glasgow street the way to the lands of Clan Douglas...

weren't they on an island?

[Pesda]

That's different, the Welsh people do have ties to Wales; but you could be a Swede, I suppose, but I don't know why you'd want to be.

But you said I can be anything.

Caan I be every nationality?

It would be hard for you to justify that.

[Ostroeuropa]

But you said I can be anything.

Caan I be every nationality?

It would be hard for you to justify that.

I share a common history with all mankind. (Excellent video series on this on youtube is world history)
I share a common culture, the human culture, which is obviously quite distinct from animals.
We are all related.
All languages are essentially dialects of our lost mother tongue.

[Kilgrammie]

A turnip mibbies???

What?

Guess the joke was too subtle.... A Swede...... Turnip? not the best one i'll admit

[Pesda]

It would be hard for you to justify that.

I share a common history with all mankind. (Excellent video series on this on youtube is world history)
I share a common culture, the human culture, which is obviously quite distinct from animals.
We are all related.
All languages are essentially dialects of our lost mother tongue.

If you want to say that it's fine with me.

[Renegade Babylonian Kings]

That's different, the Welsh people do have ties to Wales; but you could be a Swede, I suppose, but I don't know why you'd want to be.

But you said I can be anything.

Caan I be every nationality?

If this is too far off topic, please ignore:

In the US, we (I'm told) recognize an array of indigenous Nations (such as the Pequot or the Lakota, I think?) but they are not treated as independent States (either in the US sense or the broader sense of a State as viewed by the world).

For some, the issue of membership is sometimes intensely contentious, in come cases including a formal establishment of blood quanta.

But I believe all member of First Peoples Nations within the US are also conferred US citizenship.

I somehow imagine an insurgency of Welshmen most principally involving 450kg basket loads of leaks made airborne via catapult, and show-stopping dance numbers.

[Machtergreifung]

What?

Guess the joke was too subtle.... A Swede...... Turnip? not the best one i'll admit

B+ for effort

[Pesda]

What?

Guess the joke was too subtle.... A Swede...... Turnip? not the best one i'll admit

Oh...... yes. Should've got that one.

[Kilgrammie]

Yes, because they're just landowners with pretensions to titles. That, and an excuse to attract wealthy American tourists on the basis of "We're returning to our ancestral home of clan X".

Seriously, an American couple asked me on a Glasgow street the way to the lands of Clan Douglas...

weren't they on an island?

You failed there you should have told them it's just round the corner fae Brig o' Doon

Could have offered tae sell them a map tae!!

[Renegade Babylonian Kings]

I share a common history with all mankind. (Excellent video series on this on youtube is world history)
I share a common culture, the human culture, which is obviously quite distinct from animals.
We are all related.
All languages are essentially dialects of our lost mother tongue.

If you want to say that it's fine with me.

I like it because its sounds like something from Battlestar Galactica. It would be cool.

[Kilgrammie]

It would be hard for you to justify that.

I share a common history with all mankind. (Excellent video series on this on youtube is world history)
I share a common culture, the human culture, which is obviously quite distinct from animals.
We are all related.
All languages are essentially dialects of our lost mother tongue.

Aparently we're related to Chimpanzee's does that make us baldy monkees?

[Ostroeuropa]

I share a common history with all mankind. (Excellent video series on this on youtube is world history)
I share a common culture, the human culture, which is obviously quite distinct from animals.
We are all related.
All languages are essentially dialects of our lost mother tongue.

Aparently we're related to Chimpanzee's does that make us baldy monkees?

No, they are foreigners.

[Machtergreifung]

weren't they on an island?

You failed there you should have told them it's just round the corner fae Brig o' Doon

Could have offered tae sell them a map tae!!

It was too early, and I was more concerned about getting rid of the loud American and getting something to eat that I was about fleecing a couple of tourists for kicks.

[Harold I]

I'm all for the monarchy, they give us a sense of identity. They bring us to no harm, not to mention the fact we get holidays because of them
And we get a hell of a lot of tourist money because of queen elizabeth. It doesn't matter with birth rank. One wants to dismiss this issue!

[Renegade Babylonian Kings]

I'm all for the monarchy, they give us a sense of identity. They bring us to no harm, not to mention the fact we get holidays because of them

See, this is exactly the same reason I like the Jewish people in my country.

Frankly, I kind of feel like they could become a lot more insistent on what's a holiday.

Maybe add a couple.

But the point of identity is interesting. We Americans generally choose for the Avatar of our National Identity a vacuous malnourished yet wealthy harridan of some kind, or a large fellow who can throw things well at or to other things.

[Scholencia]

I think the Monarchy should be abolished since it is unfair to other citizens that some bunch of people are living due to money of taxpayers. The royals dont have to go to work nor they dont have to wake up every morning. This is why the Royal family should be abolished.

[The Godly Nations]

I think the Monarchy should be abolished since it is unfair to other citizens that some bunch of people are living due to money of taxpayers. The royals dont have to go to work nor they dont have to wake up every morning. This is why the Royal family should be abolished.

I believe that the Monarch does actually have a function- in fact, it has a governmental function, which is why it is funded with our Tax payer money. They do, despite your claims, wake up in the morning, and they do, in fact, go about their work. The Royal family is a Symbol of the British people and our History, Culture, and Tradition, and are at the centre of the very essense of Britishness.

[The New Sea Territory]

Hands down, monarchies have no place in the modern world.

Either democracy or dictatorship: Don't try to be both!

[The Godly Nations]

Hands down, monarchies have no place in the modern world.

Either democracy or dictatorship: Don't try to be both!

How about an Anarchy?

[Ifreann]

Hands down, monarchies have no place in the modern world.

Either democracy or dictatorship: Don't try to be both!

How about an Anarchy?

Anarchist? No government for you until you cut that nonsense out!

















Wait....shit

[Fedeledland]

I'm all for the monarchy, they give us a sense of identity. They bring us to no harm, not to mention the fact we get holidays because of them
And we get a hell of a lot of tourist money because of queen elizabeth. It doesn't matter with birth rank. One wants to dismiss this issue!

^

Now since I tend to get really frustrated over this sort of threads I leave.

[Grave_n_idle]

Hands down, monarchies have no place in the modern world.

Either democracy or dictatorship: Don't try to be both!

Are you under the impression that the current British monarchy is dictatorial?

[Renegade Babylonian Kings]

Hands down, monarchies have no place in the modern world.

Either democracy or dictatorship: Don't try to be both!

Are you under the impression that the current British monarchy is dictatorial?

One of them is apparently in charge of a helicopter or something.

That's a lot of power for one man.