Prince Philip dies at age 99

[Salus Maior]

She is though. She is Queen of those countries.

By virtue of 500 years of violence, yes

All governments are established on violence. Republicans are certainly no exception to that rule, although they are particularly bloody when they come to power.

[Western Fardelshufflestein]

They're not fully independent, MUAHAHAHA...
*Insert American cackling here*

Aside from disingenuous financial comparisons to Ireland (a much, much smaller country,* much, much closer to anywhere one wants to visit), it's their main argument.
Totally want to go to 'Straya and NZ, tho.
Also, the sheep thing? Completely old hat. Been dairy cow country for years. So much so you only have sheep if you couldn't switch to dairying.

*268,021 square kilometres > 70,273 km2

[The New California Republic]

Whatever, this is a waste of time, if you don't understand it you don't understand it, I'm not posting here anymore.

Fine. Most of what you have been posting has consisted of very verbose versions of "I don't care" anyway, so nothing is lost.

[Levroux]

By virtue of 500 years of violence, yes

Only insofar as all states as a whole are exercises in violence, in which case your point is irrelevant. And, of course, not everyone agrees with this. And they really, really shouldn't. But that's neither here nor there.

Good thing I dont support any states

[Old Tyrannia]

She is though. She is Queen of those countries.

That makes her head of state. She'd probably be an absolute monarch if she was their head of government. I get what you mean though

Eh, not necessarily. English monarchs effectively acted as head of state and government up to at least the death of William III, but they were still restricted by constitutional law and had been to some extent since the Tudor period; consequently, England was still a constitutional monarchy despite having a monarch who exercised executive authority.

[Borderlands of Rojava]

Ah yes, Prince Charles... the 'Red Prince' whose revolutionary march down Whitehall to set up the barricades to initiate the London Commune has been an inspiration to all Marxist-Leninists seeking to overthrow capitalism in the name of the urban proletariat. None of us can forget those amazing days.


What are you smoking?

lol, I am not smoking anything, I don't like to smoke. I am the only person in the world who believes Bill Clinton when he said he did not inhale, because I did not inhale either. I am strongly against any illegal drug use.

Weed is legal in my state. Guess who inhaled Wednesday night.

[The Archregimancy]

She is though. She is Queen of those countries.

She's head of state, rather than head of government. The position of head of government in the commonwealth realms is fulfilled by that country's prime minister.

For quick reference for other posters (you already know this, of course), the full list of Commonwealth realms where Elizabeth II remains the ceremonial head of state:

Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
The Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Canada
Grenada
Jamaica
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
the Solomon Islands
Tuvalu
The United Kingdom

..that is many countries the UK invaded, yes, I know. But the UK invaded Iran as well.

Lol we invaded Australia? When? When did the UK invade the nation of Australia?

January 1788.

Though if we're being pedantic it was the Kingdom of Great Britain rather than the United Kingdom.

[Aeritai]

You know I'm starting to see a pattern when it comes to these memories threads.... There are posters who are paying respect to the dead person and other posters coming into the thread saying "lol don't care."

[San Lumen]

https://newsthump.com/2021/04/09/prince-charles-in-foul-mood-after-wrong-parent-dies/

is there a point to this? why are you writing such nasty disrespectful things?

[Jarvikan]

lol, I am not smoking anything, I don't like to smoke. I am the only person in the world who believes Bill Clinton when he said he did not inhale, because I did not inhale either. I am strongly against any illegal drug use.

Weed is legal in my state. Guess who inhaled Wednesday night.

That's nothing.It is illegal in my country and I inhaled some on Monday night

[Vassenor]

So why was he shuffled off to Bermuda at the start of the War?

He was the governor there.I read his biography,and the writer says of how he knows more than anyone else about him,and there is no sign he was a Nazi

Partying with Hitler at the Berghof says otherwise.

[Western Fardelshufflestein]

She's head of state, rather than head of government. The position of head of government in the commonwealth realms is fulfilled by that country's prime minister.

For quick reference for other posters (you already know this, of course), the full list of Commonwealth realms where Elizabeth II remains the ceremonial head of state:

Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
The Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Canada
Grenada
Jamaica
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
the Solomon Islands
Tuvalu
The United Kingdom

Lol we invaded Australia? When? When did the UK invade the nation of Australia?

January 1788.

Though if we're being pedantic it was the Kingdom of Great Britain rather than the United Kingdom.

This...includes more islands than I expected.

Hang on, Papua New Guinea?

[Levroux]

https://newsthump.com/2021/04/09/prince-charles-in-foul-mood-after-wrong-parent-dies/

is there a point to this? why are you writing such nasty disrespectful things?

Hate monarchs and their ilk, simple as

[Austria-Bohemia-Hungary]

is there a point to this? why are you writing such nasty disrespectful things?

Hate monarchs and their ilk, simple as

To such extent you think a British Donald Trump is an "improvement" over status quo.

[Forsher]

Lol we invaded Australia? When? When did the UK invade the nation of Australia?

As for Iran, it should be patently obvious why Iran doesn't give a shit any more.

You could make an argument for the First Fleet being an invasion of Australia and the subsequent Australian frontier wars. Though it's probably not the best comparison to the invasion of Iran in 1941.

It's... difficult to know what the exact geopolitical situation was like at the time, but it's extraordinarily unlikely that the groups the First Fleet encountered conceptualised an Australia that we'd recognise. Possibly they thought of Australia in more or less the same way that we'd think about Europe, Africa or Asia. Indeed, Australia kind of doesn't exist until 1901.

Frontier war or, at least, warfare is definitely an appropriate way of thinking about contact/the frontier in Australia. And it was, in large part, justified on the doctrine of terra nullius, i.e. that Australia was more like Antarctica.

[San Lumen]

is there a point to this? why are you writing such nasty disrespectful things?

Hate monarchs and their ilk, simple as

Prince Phillip was a not a monarch. If you don't like them fine but don't disrespect or disparage a man who did far more did make the world better than you ever could.

why are you coming to memorial thread to write nasty things? what are you hoping to gain?

[Salus Maior]

He was the governor there.I read his biography,and the writer says of how he knows more than anyone else about him,and there is no sign he was a Nazi

Partying with Hitler at the Berghof says otherwise.

Well, that doesn’t mean he’s a Nazi. It’s not as if he were a member of the party.

Sympathetic? Definitely. He would have been a disaster for the monarchy if he were in charge during WWII

[Whitemore]

Hate monarchs and their ilk, simple as

Prince Phillip was a not a monarch. If you don't like them fine but don't disrespect or disparage a man who did far more did make the world better than you ever could.

why are you coming to memorial thread to write nasty things? what are you hoping to gain?

Attention and making people paying simple respect upset, classic trolling.

[Jarvikan]

He was the governor there.I read his biography,and the writer says of how he knows more than anyone else about him,and there is no sign he was a Nazi

Partying with Hitler at the Berghof says otherwise.

He went to Germany as he was interested in Social housing,something the Nazis were good at.There is no proof he was a Nazi

[Vallermoore]

I never thought that I would ever feel sorry for the Queen of England, but I do now as she lost the love of her life to death.

[Cokoland]

is there a point to this? why are you writing such nasty disrespectful things?

Hate monarchs and their ilk, simple as

Ok then go to a thread with that as a topic, simple as.

[The New California Republic]

Lol we invaded Australia? When? When did the UK invade the nation of Australia?

January 1788.

Though if we're being pedantic it was the Kingdom of Great Britain rather than the United Kingdom.

I mean technically if we are splitting hairs we could say that the nation of Australia only existed from 1901 onwards when the constitution came into force.

[Alvecia]

You know I'm starting to see a pattern when it comes to these memories threads.... There are posters who are paying respect to the dead person and other posters coming into the thread saying "lol don't care."

To be fair, if there's anywhere to dispassionately yet heatedly discuss the life and works of the recently dead, it's here on an anonymous internet discussion forum.

I wouldn't go say it to the face of the recently bereaved, but if a dead dood was previously a dick and did dickish things, I wouldn't want to gloss over that behaviour or pretend as if they were better than they were, just because they're now dead.

That said, I really didn't follow Phil's goings on to really say either way.

[Jarvikan]

Partying with Hitler at the Berghof says otherwise.

Well, that doesn’t mean he’s a Nazi. It’s not as if he were a member of the party.

Sympathetic? Definitely. He would have been a disaster for the monarchy if he were in charge during WWII

Also no proof of that

[Heloin]

For quick reference for other posters (you already know this, of course), the full list of Commonwealth realms where Elizabeth II remains the ceremonial head of state:

Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
The Bahamas
Barbados
Belize
Canada
Grenada
Jamaica
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
the Solomon Islands
Tuvalu
The United Kingdom





January 1788.

Though if we're being pedantic it was the Kingdom of Great Britain rather than the United Kingdom.

This...includes more islands than I expected.

Hang on, Papua New Guinea?

Papua Old Guinea didn't get the memo.

You could make an argument for the First Fleet being an invasion of Australia and the subsequent Australian frontier wars. Though it's probably not the best comparison to the invasion of Iran in 1941.

It's... difficult to know what the exact geopolitical situation was like at the time, but it's extraordinarily unlikely that the groups the First Fleet encountered conceptualised an Australia that we'd recognise. Possibly they thought of Australia in more or less the same way that we'd think about Europe, Africa or Asia. Indeed, Australia kind of doesn't exist until 1901.

Frontier war or, at least, warfare is definitely an appropriate way of thinking about contact/the frontier in Australia. And it was, in large part, justified on the doctrine of terra nullius, i.e. that Australia was more like Antarctica.

It's a complicated topic that I will fully state I am not knowledgeable enough to talk with any authority on the matter.