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(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:28, archived)
# Haha! Well said, yer maj.
(BTW, Mr Toast, did you see John Wagner's comments on the Dredd film?)
(I helped save b3ta! Skotzmun Blah blah secret passage blah blah diamonds., Mon 28 May 2012, 15:32, archived)
# yes
also saw the Cannes report that said it looked cheap
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:34, archived)
# Oh dear - I managed to miss that.
Dunno about a rollercoaster of a film - it's proving a rollercoaster of a frickin' build-up, this is. :-/
(I helped save b3ta! Skotzmun Blah blah secret passage blah blah diamonds., Mon 28 May 2012, 15:37, archived)
# Where did you see these comments then?
And what were they?
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:53, archived)
# John Wagner's FB page...
...as linked by 2000AD
(I helped save b3ta! Skotzmun Blah blah secret passage blah blah diamonds., Mon 28 May 2012, 16:05, archived)
# Ah right.
The only other word I've heard on it is from an investor and he's not likely to say it's shit, even if it is. Going off the plot details, it was never meant to be a mega epic anyway. So long as they get Dredd right and it doesn't look bobbins. I hope they do something with that bike, maybe CGI some Firerock tyres on it!
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:17, archived)
# Well
it was made on considerably less budget than your average Hollywood comic book movie.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:37, archived)
# wish I had £54million to make something look cheap :D
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:45, archived)
# Yeah, me too.
I'd make some Ferraris look cheap outside my cheap-looking mansion, whilst eating cheap smoked salmon and drinking cheap champagne and entertaining cheap women.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:48, archived)
#
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(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:49, archived)
# Haha
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 28 May 2012, 17:06, archived)
# I'd wear a tracksuit and pocket the remaining £53,999,999
(I helped save b3ta! Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Mon 28 May 2012, 17:37, archived)
# man, you really bought the finest tracksuit primark has to offer
(I helped save b3ta! discomeats This canoe, Mon 28 May 2012, 17:39, archived)
# With the biggest pockets
(I helped save b3ta! the wub - guide onion for the blind, Mon 28 May 2012, 21:24, archived)
# Well, it worked for Dolly Parton.
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:11, archived)
# Have your own fucking street party then, curmudgeon.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:33, archived)
# some of us don't have state funding to afford one
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:34, archived)
# I meant her, not you.
I will be celebrating in my own way*

*by doing nothing out of the ordinary, though possibly a bit of Minecraft if it's raining. Got a nice tower and some farmland, looking to build a railway to connect my various estates.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:40, archived)
# I thought the crown no longer got state funding, and is now surviving off the proceeds made from managing the land it owns?
Which is about 3x more than what the Government was giving them in the first place.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:41, archived)
# There's still the civil list
www.royal.gov.uk/TheRoyalHousehold/Royalfinances/Sourcesoffunding/TheCivilList.aspx
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:46, archived)
#
For example, the Crown Estate produced £200 million for the Treasury in the financial year 2007–8, whereas reported parliamentary funding for the monarch was £40 million during the same period,[102] and republicans estimate that the real cost of the monarchy including security is between £134 and 184 million a year.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:48, archived)
# I suppose it's like any big business
they get grants and tax breaks. It's not like they can go and be royal anywhere else though, is it? Not like the good old days.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:56, archived)
# I just find it odd people complain about us paying for the Monarchy.
The Crown Estate covers that and does a hell of a lot more paying for us.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:00, archived)
# I'm not complaining about the cost (as long as it can be proved they aren't a drain)
I assume tourism alone makes them worthwhile.
I just have a problem about them being where/who they are because they were "chosen by god"
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:03, archived)
# For 'chosen by God'
read 'ancestors best at swords'.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:19, archived)
# ^ This
But not quite right. "Ancestors being in the right place when other people were being really good with swords" is probably more accurate.
(I helped save b3ta! Doctor When May your wife shat and chipper, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:40, archived)
# That
sounds about right.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:52, archived)
# ^this
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 28 May 2012, 17:03, archived)
# Although I take your point,
rather them than me. Whatever money they get, you would have to give me more to live their lifestyle. Imagine beng told what, where and when you eat, sleep, live, travel, drive, say, date, marry and believe from the day you are born to the day you die. And no posting drfivel on B3ta either.
They can keep the money.
(I helped save b3ta! TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:23, archived)
# My thoughts exactly, what price freedom.
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 28 May 2012, 17:19, archived)
# you just need to go a bit mental and they let you do whatever the fuck you want
see prince andrew, edward, etc etc etc
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 28 May 2012, 17:35, archived)
# This is why I'm posting here...
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 28 May 2012, 17:40, archived)
# The fact that they are apolitical makes them much more endearing to other nations
I think tourism is the tip of the iceberg in terms of benefit. It's the fact that -- from other nations' perspective, not from our cynical selves -- they impart our failing little country a perceived air of decency and status which we don't deserve.

We can all see that we don't make anything any more, our streets are full of chundering hags and fighting charvers of a Saturday night -- yet if you walk into a Chinese business (as I have done), you will be immediately taken for a decent gentleman if you are British. You get an advantage. I believe that "branding" (horrid word) is due to many subtle factors, and the Royal Family is almost certainly one of them.

When the royal marriage happened last year, newsstands across the globe, from Japan to Alaska, were emblazoned with simple, innocent images of love, tradition and decency (which people do latch on to), from a couple who were not fighting for re-election of hiding an agenda. You just can't put a price on the power of that positive message! My friend Kirby, a Filipino programmer living in Malaysia, says his wife's village held a party and got a big TV out to watch the event, and adorned it with British flags. My colleagues in Singapore -- a city state developing 100 times faster than ours -- all expressed an envy of all things British. Do you think they would they have done that for the wedding of a German statesman or even the US president? I personally doubt it.

I used to be very cynical about the Royal Family, but the more I travel, the more I see how it affects the way the way the world interacts with and regards our failing nation. I believe they bring us value and status it's simply not possible to measure.

If they were't there, we'd have an elected nobody who'd change every four years after politicking his way around the world -- who no-one would give a shite about -- and we would gradually begin a descent until we found our true place in the world's pecking order -- right down at the arse end of it.
(Super Jet Shoes, Wed 30 May 2012, 0:26, archived)
# Yeah, they get 15%, the rest goes to the government.
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:59, archived)
# curmudgeon is a great word that i dont think ive ever said in a conversation
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:19, archived)
# I hear it a lot :(
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 28 May 2012, 17:21, archived)
# Lies!
That's blatantly a gentile belly
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:37, archived)
# Is that today?
Hah, I didn't even know.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:37, archived)
# I think its next week
monday or tuesday
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:42, archived)
# Oh right.
I can see it being like the royal wedding, only less people care about it.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:45, archived)
# i dunno about that - DAY OFF TIEM
I LOVE THE LEADER! *vacant stare*
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:14, archived)
# ALL HAIL OUR BENEFACTORS! SKREEEE! SKREEEE!
(I'll be off anyway. If anything, it's a hindrance, I imagine a lot of shops will be shut.)
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:19, archived)
# I might do what everyone else does and go sit in a park. Victoria park or St James' park
Its nice to do that once in a while when the weather is sunny.
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:20, archived)
# I was sat in Piccadilly Garden the other day.
I always find it weird to see people wearing next to nothing walking about a city like Manchester, even when the weather's as nice as this.
(I helped save b3ta! Bourbon Fox Bourbon is a moron, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:22, archived)
# i suppose its better than if you shat in piccadilly garden the other day
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:52, archived)
# still would.............haunted or not!!!
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Mon 28 May 2012, 15:50, archived)
# Phil thinks "can't do her from behind with that arse"
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 28 May 2012, 17:05, archived)
# HOORAY! THE QUEEN HASN'T DIED YET!
Let's have a party....
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:05, archived)
# Why is she carrying a rabbit with a bag on it's head?
(I helped save b3ta! M o D, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:07, archived)
# you're going to have to draw that, I'm not seeing it
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:11, archived)
# left hand... 2 paws sticking out from under the bag
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:13, archived)
# HAHAHAHAHA
I was staring at the gold bucket :D
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 28 May 2012, 17:13, archived)
# I see it too
(I helped save b3ta! sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 28 May 2012, 17:22, archived)
# Hahaha
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Mon 28 May 2012, 17:21, archived)
# But....how does she smell?
(macroscian (1 like), Mon 28 May 2012, 16:11, archived)
# Its a good job god doesnt exist then!
(I helped save b3ta! taters Bah weep grahnah weep ninibong, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:13, archived)
# Yay! Go Liz!
I've met her, she's a nice lady.
(I helped save b3ta! Doctor When May your wife shat and chipper, Mon 28 May 2012, 16:45, archived)
# :D
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 28 May 2012, 17:14, archived)
# BUMHOLE MOUTH!
(I helped save b3ta! Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Mon 28 May 2012, 18:18, archived)
#
my one's
(I helped save b3ta! mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 28 May 2012, 19:06, archived)
# she won't be celebrating

sucks really.
(I helped save b3ta! ferret -> twitter.com/syfyautocorrect <-, Tue 29 May 2012, 0:28, archived)
# Hahahah

If I could give you the internet to wear as a hat I would sir Mr. Toast :)

(I helped save b3ta! Jimmer still not dead at, Tue 29 May 2012, 1:00, archived)
# Nice pair of puppies there Maam!

(I helped save b3ta! Q4nobody, Wed 30 May 2012, 11:16, archived)