Even without Cilantro … which I can’t tolerate, I’m still not a guac fan. It’s an avocado thing. I used to love them and now the texture really puts me off. Not sure why. The older I get more things are becoming less appealing to me it seems.
I guess I could do without a burger too if I had easy access to Prime Rib 
As for the resurrection, no spam … just a member reply it appears 
btw … ALL our ancestors did terrible things and some probably still do 
You can’t lump everyone into the same bag … it gets messy.
Look at who they are now and what they do.
They bring lots of money into the economy. So they may be dressed up in fur and jewels… basically adorned like fancy zoo animals in a cage. From what I read folks were hysterical that William and Kate’s wedding was something like 30 million dollars. When broken down the average tax pay contributed less than a dollar and the majority of the money was for security. What that caused was over 2 BILLION in return to the UK economy.
Could the UK do without them? Probably … but they seem to serve their purpose. The Queen can unite people with a single appearance and they all contribute back to their subjects in many ways. They also have something like 3000 personal engagements annually.
Why do people like to point out the obvious.
Most of our ancestors in the past in Britiain did their most terrible things in the name of king and country, and didn’t have much of a choice in the matter either. Thats the documented stuff, anything else is hard to prove and as such is pure speculation, but i hear you.
Super rich, overly privilieged snobs, who never did a hard days work in their lives most of them. Poor, poor zoo animals, my heart bleeds for them.
I’m well aware of the money they bring in this country as I stated in my original post.
If by unite you mean get old people to sit around a telly eating bourbon biscuits and sipping tea, whilst gushing over how amazing the stolen jewels are then yeah. Thing is the same thing happens when they watch family fortunes, or Eastenders (rubbish TV shows).
I never said we should get rid of them.
Spread amongst the entire family, sure that wouldn’t surprise me. Not exactly hard graft though is it. Swan about not doing very much. The average factory worker works harder in a week than any of them do, and for not very much in return.
Cheers
I just noticed the thread, but it wasn’t until after I had posted that I realised how long it had been since anyone had replied to it.
It’s mostly the slimy, oily texture of the stuff I don’t like. I don’t care for the taste or the cilantro either, but the texture is what makes it a no-go. Mayonnaise has a similar effect on me.
LOL Cheers right back.
I can see you have no use for them. You’ve made it crystal clear. I’ll take my opinion and go home now
I do see the use in them, they bring money into the country which is why I don’t have a problem with keeping the monarchy intact. I just find it ridiculous that people (a minority in Britain thankfully) view them as being something special when they are not, but each to their own.
Tbf most of the people getting excited about the royal wedding were women, and lets face it women just like weddings in general.
Mayonnaise I love Mayo
Again, the polls seemingly disagree with you on that with about 70-75 percent in the UK supporting the continuation of the monarchy. I was surprised, but that’s what a few Google searches consistently came up with. Of course, I guess it’s possible that the majority don’t especially like them or dislike the idea of a royal class, but still see a reason to keep them around for various reasons.
Similarly, I detest our current president, Donald Trump who, in my opinion is utterly unqualified and unfit for office. Once he’s gone, though, I think I’ll go into a news junky withdrawal. I’ve gotten hooked on looking forward to whatever asinine thing he manages to do and say almost every day. Despite that, I’m still looking forward to his departure or removal from office.
Ditto
If the Democrats don’t float something better than the current communistic choices, and if Mueller doesn’t do better than convictions on decade old charges, and if the independent candidates can’t do better than 2%, it may be an unfortunate fact of life for another 4 years after. There’s a whole section of independent swing voters out there that are totally unimpressed with all of it. I for one am really tired of taxes on everything. I’m not paying for your “free” mass transit, your “free” college, or your “free” healthcare. And until our supposed “I’m not running for President” senator puts her money where her mouth is and stops jetting around the country touting “Green” whatever rather than offering solutions to the crisis du jour, I’m not buying that either.
You need to not focus so much on the news. Trump is an expert at leading people around by the nose. I don’t, for one minute, believe he isn’t using those tweets of his to distract from other things going on. Read outside the lines.
Disagree with me on what? I also think we should keep the monarchy intact as I have stated previously on this thread.
Exactly. The main reason being they bring money into the country via tourism.
Obviously.
The polls don’t seem to differentiate between those who dislike them, but want to keep them anyway and those who dislike them and wish the whole thing was abolished. Just a hunch, but I suspect most of that 70–75 percent who want to keep the monarchy actually likes the whole things more than they dislike it, even when they’re conflicted about the particulars.
If the whole royal thing brings in a few hundred million pounds to the British economy each year, that’s great. But that’s a drop in the bucket in an economy with an annual GDP of £2 trillion. The economics don’t make for an especially compelling reason to keep them around if the whole institution is so widely disliked.
As an outside observer with British friends and family living in the UK, I’ve noticed the relationship with British royalty seems complicated. People, to vary extents, tend to resent the notion of a privileged class, yet are seemingly fascinated by it down to the point of Megan closing her own car door or Prince Phillip not wearing his seat belt being something important enough to be newsworthy.
Not that we’re immune from being fascinated by equally silly things over here, we’re certainly not.
Just a hunch huh…
I dislike them myself, but I still think we should keep them, so…
If you really think 75% of British people LIKE the royals then that just shows you how little you know of the British people.
Spending by overseas visitors to the UK is forecast to reach £26.9 billion in 2018 You think people are here for our beaches?
£20 billion is worth having I reckon…
All your clever words and research cannot disguise the fact that you know very little of British culture and the people. Also the fact you take 30 minutes to post a response (yes I see you typing)
speaks volumes of how much you actually know.
Of course not. It’s gotta be the food. 
I don’t think that, nor did I say that. I said that my observation is that lots of people have conflicted feelings but that I suspect the majority like them more than dislike them, despite those conflicts.
I’m in a meeting and busy paying attention to a whole lot of things and using this conversation with you as a distraction to keep me from falling asleep.
We both know it’s neither.
Although, the Americans don’t really have much to offer in the way of gourmet cuisine either do they. well they do, but nothing they actually came up with themselves.
ummm…
Oh, I wouldn’t pretend to impugn any country’s cuisine from higher ground.
I watch Fox News. I think common sense evades us all.