Quote Originally Posted by Greenbeanz View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Gandalf View Post
If the Queen was a patriotic Brit she would be with the occupy London types, but she isn't. She represents the status quo and readily endorses it. She's probably a nice old lady, but I don't care about that. I'm sure some nice people worked for the SS too.
That is a purile argument which you have clearly spent about two seconds constructing. She does more work in one year than you will probably do over a lifetime. In the real world your ridiculously short amount of hours worked, decent money earnt, whilst having your wife take responsibility for grown up things like bills, aligns you more with the fantasy image of Royalty you are imagining. Quite how being part of the occupy movement makes you Patriotic is beyond me. It is also laughable that you can sit in South Korea and lecture people on being a real Brit. You seem more out of touch than her Maj and come across as a far bigger and more spoilt Queen.
No, it is a perfectly logical argument.

I have done my share of grafting and living hard and have reached a stage where I can sit back and say what is mine is mine. I competed to get my job, the Queen certainly didn't. I pay taxes on my work, I do not take them. Furthermore what I earn is tiny in comparison to someone like the Queen. Her income is more on a par with a banker than an ordinary English person. I align myself with the ordinary Englishman, she can't. Lots of men let the wife organise the bills. It is hardly a Royalist characteristic. I cook my own meals 3 times a day and work. She doesn't.

I seem more spoilt, out of touch etc? What a lot of nonsense. I don't see how I am spoilt. I don't wear poncy crowns or specially designed clothes. I don't live in an assortment of palaces. I am a routine person, worrying about his declining standards of living like every other working man.

I also hate the argument that I cannot lecture on being a real Brit because I live overseas. I was born and raised as an Englishman and am the archetypal Englishman. Unlike the Queen I observe and state what I feel about the society I was raised in and return too sporadically (2 months this year).