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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    my Mom sent out invitations to her friends to make sure to nap in the afternoon, then go to her place in their jammies and watch it at 2am.

    I'm sure my dad's thrilled. :lol:
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    I'll get up at 1am, put on a tiara, and spark one up. Happy wedding day Will and Kate. *wondering if I should get some English Breakfast tea or Earl Grey to make it all authentic* (yes I do realize that British folk think American English Breakfast/Earl Grey tea is disgusting)
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    threefish10 wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    It shits me to tears that Aussies pay these pigs through taxes.
    Money that could be better spent on education, hospitals, medical research, infrastructure etc etc


    Really? What part of our tax revenue goes to them???

    But even if we did have extra money the government wouldn't spend it on those things listed above. Like the new carbon tax were over 50% of it goes back to the people who pay the tax to help with the increase in living costs the tax will create. Well, that doesn't make any sense to me at all.

    Not sure but all Commonwealth nations give the royal family money from our taxes.
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Who-gives ... 8409348659

    :D
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  • Hugh Freaking Dillon
    Hugh Freaking Dillon Posts: 14,010
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Not sure but all Commonwealth nations give the royal family money from our taxes.

    we do? AARRGGHHH.
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  • threefish10
    threefish10 Posts: 7,392
    Paul David wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Not sure but all Commonwealth nations give the royal family money from our taxes.

    we do? AARRGGHHH.


    Not true. When ever they are in our country on official business yes we foot the bill. But it's the same for most world leaders. We even payed millions to get Oprah here. But we don't give them money annually from our taxes. I think that was one of the propaganda things brought up by the republican movement to help their cause.

    Search on wiki "monarchy of Australia" there is a section there about finance.
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  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    threefish10 wrote:
    Paul David wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Not sure but all Commonwealth nations give the royal family money from our taxes.

    we do? AARRGGHHH.


    Not true. When ever they are in our country on official business yes we foot the bill. But it's the same for most world leaders. We even payed millions to get Oprah here. But we don't give them money annually from our taxes. I think that was one of the propaganda things brought up by the republican movement to help their cause.

    Search on wiki "monarchy of Australia" there is a section there about finance.

    Even in the UK the royal family actually makes more money than it costs. Basically most, if not all of the property that the queen owns, is signed over to the UK government in trust. Most of that property is revenue generating meaning it brings in a ton of money for the government. In exchange the government gives the royal family money to pay for things like living expenses, palace staff and maintenance. But what the government gives is only like 10 percent of what they make of the Royal Family. And that doesn't even include how much the government makes off tourism. I was in London a few years ago and we went to buckhingham palace to watch the changing of the guard. It was a weekday in the summer and it was raining but there was still a ton of people out there watching it.
  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Starting- ... 2544333196

    :lol:
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
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  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    I still want to know where I can get my commemorative William and Kate Pez dispensers.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    unlost dogs wrote:
    I still want to know where I can get my commemorative William and Kate Pez dispensers.

    maybe she has one

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-a ... he-century

    i want the slippers :lol::lol:
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    unlost dogs wrote:
    I still want to know where I can get my commemorative William and Kate Pez dispensers.

    If you had $14,000, you may be able to buy them off this guy:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110418/od_ ... edding_pez
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  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    RKCNDY wrote:
    unlost dogs wrote:
    I still want to know where I can get my commemorative William and Kate Pez dispensers.

    If you had $14,000, you may be able to buy them off this guy:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110418/od_ ... edding_pez

    Dammit, I'm just $13,992 dollars short...
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    btw speaking of this waste of time, i heard that only champagne will be served...no beer

    really willie? whipped already? :P :lol::lol:
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    norm wrote:
    btw speaking of this waste of time, i heard that only champagne will be served...no beer

    really willie? whipped already? :P :lol::lol:

    that champange is something like $400 a bottle...
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    - Christopher McCandless
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    RKCNDY wrote:
    norm wrote:
    btw speaking of this waste of time, i heard that only champagne will be served...no beer

    really willie? whipped already? :P :lol::lol:

    that champange is something like $400 a bottle...

    but that's it...no beer or any other alcohol from what i heard...and that's why i'm not going! :P
  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    norm wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:
    norm wrote:
    btw speaking of this waste of time, i heard that only champagne will be served...no beer

    really willie? whipped already? :P :lol::lol:

    that champange is something like $400 a bottle...

    but that's it...no beer or any other alcohol from what i heard...and that's why i'm not going! :P

    A wedding without beer?!? Well geez, what's the point???

    *rips beplumed hat off head, stomps away sulking*
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  • tremors
    tremors Posts: 8,051
    I must be getting naive, but it hadn't crossed my mind that anyone outside the UK would be watching this - until I heard the grunge chick guests on last night's Sirius show saying there were staying up to watch it. I was planning to spend my free day off work in the pub or something - but I think I'm gonna watch it now to see some of the fuss. It will certainly be a spectacular - but no doubt make us Brits look like some backwards Medieval freak show nation. Is probably worth watching just to see the media circus and all the ceremony. I remember watching his mother's wedding live as a kid (and didn't that marriage go well!)
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/specia ... 6046669901

    Yeah because Charles really wanted one of these, gee our PM is a dumbass :roll:
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  • threefish10
    threefish10 Posts: 7,392
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/special-reports/prince-charles-given-mansfield-eagles-footy-jumper-as-wedding-gift-after-late-dash-involving-julia-gillard/story-fn888sz0-1226046669901

    Yeah because Charles really wanted one of these, gee our PM is a dumbass :roll:


    can i ask why? not even the club can figure out why she wanted that particular teams guernsey.
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