How To Get A Birthday Card From Queen Elizabeth

ER · October 10, 2008, 03:36:16 PM

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24479054-2,00.html

It's easy! Just live to be 105, and never ever have sex!

ghouck · October 10, 2008, 03:38:25 PM

Haaaaa! You're part way there, lol.

Ed, Ego and Superego · October 10, 2008, 03:58:12 PM

Actually, anyone hitting 100+ in Britain gets one. That was my old granny's dream, but she only hit 93.
-Ed

ER · October 10, 2008, 04:00:59 PM

Hmm, then if the Queen makes it to a hundred, I wonder if she'll send herself one? lol

Newt · October 10, 2008, 09:41:25 PM

My Great-Grandmother got one. (Canadians can get them too: you just need to inform the proper offices). It was on the occasion of her 100th birthday - which was actually her 104th, as near as we can figure. (She lied about her age for a few years - yes, in her 90's, she was very vain! - until somebody told her she would receive birthday greetings from the Queen, the Prime Minister and the Governor General when she turned 100.)

Psycho Circus · October 11, 2008, 08:17:50 AM

I'd spit in it and send it back!

Newt · October 13, 2008, 02:09:15 AM

That was completely uncalled for.

Psycho Circus · October 13, 2008, 06:25:58 AM

Quote from: Newt on October 13, 2008, 02:09:15 AM
That was completely uncalled for.

I'm sorry but respecting the "queen" is like respecting Paris Hilton. Actually I respect Paris Hilton more, at least she's now trying to do something positive with her life like charity work and doesn't descend from a family of murderers.

Newt · October 13, 2008, 08:15:10 AM

We *ALL* "descend from a family of murderers": it is called the human race.
Ms Hilton's well-publicised philanthropy is equally meaningless.

Psycho Circus · October 13, 2008, 08:31:10 AM

Quote from: Newt on October 13, 2008, 08:15:10 AM
We *ALL* "descend from a family of murderers": it is called the human race.
Ms Hilton's well-publicised philanthropy is equally meaningless.

I just meant that a vast majority of people here in England wave aload of flags round and cry over a woman who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, is sat on a massive amount of cash and contributes nothing to society, that's all.

As you can tell, there's not a patriotic bone in my body.

Rev. Powell · October 13, 2008, 12:24:25 PM

Quote from: Circus_Circus on October 13, 2008, 08:31:10 AM
Quote from: Newt on October 13, 2008, 08:15:10 AM
We *ALL* "descend from a family of murderers": it is called the human race.
Ms Hilton's well-publicised philanthropy is equally meaningless.

I just meant that a vast majority of people here in England wave aload of flags round and cry over a woman who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, is sat on a massive amount of cash and contributes nothing to society, that's all.

As you can tell, there's not a patriotic bone in my body.

"God save the queen, her fascist regime
it made you a moron, a potential H bomb!

God save the queen, she ain't no human being
there is no future in England's dreams."

"We *ALL* "descend from a family of murderers": it is called the human race." - Great line, Newt!

indianasmith · October 13, 2008, 05:51:13 PM

Circus -

not to turn this rather silly thread into a total downer, but your attitude is sadly typical of the societal illness that is destroying everything that once made Europe great. In England, France, Germany, and throughout the continent, young Europeans have been raised to s**t upon everything that made their nations great in history. God was expelled from Europe after World War One, nationalism bit the dust after World War II, and now there is nothing left in Europe for anyone to believe in - except the resurgent, militant Islam which makes no bones about its intention to destroy everything good and noble that Western Civilization once stood for.

The Europe that once dominated world affairs is dead. Every single European country has a birthrate that has fallen below replacement level. With nothing to believe in and little to live for, Europeans have become too dispirited to even reproduce.

Islam stands waiting to fill the void.

Hope you guys like Sharia law. Its day is coming.

Psycho Circus · October 13, 2008, 06:00:02 PM

Quote from: indianasmith on October 13, 2008, 05:51:13 PM
Circus -

not to turn this rather silly thread into a total downer, but your attitude is sadly typical of the societal illness that is destroying everything that once made Europe great. In England, France, Germany, and throughout the continent, young Europeans have been raised to s**t upon everything that made their nations great in history. God was expelled from Europe after World War One, nationalism bit the dust after World War II, and now there is nothing left in Europe for anyone to believe in - except the resurgent, militant Islam which makes no bones about its intention to destroy everything good and noble that Western Civilization once stood for.

The Europe that once dominated world affairs is dead. Every single European country has a birthrate that has fallen below replacement level. With nothing to believe in and little to live for, Europeans have become too dispirited to even reproduce.

Islam stands waiting to fill the void.

Hope you guys like Sharia law. Its day is coming.

Basically mankind is eating itself, I've chosen to shut off from it.

JJ80 · October 13, 2008, 07:02:42 PM

Perhaps change your name to Charles, William or Harry Windsor?

Rev. Powell · October 13, 2008, 08:15:47 PM

Quote from: indianasmith on October 13, 2008, 05:51:13 PM
Circus -

not to turn this rather silly thread into a total downer, but your attitude is sadly typical of the societal illness that is destroying everything that once made Europe great. In England, France, Germany, and throughout the continent, young Europeans have been raised to s**t upon everything that made their nations great in history. God was expelled from Europe after World War One, nationalism bit the dust after World War II, and now there is nothing left in Europe for anyone to believe in - except the resurgent, militant Islam which makes no bones about its intention to destroy everything good and noble that Western Civilization once stood for.

The Europe that once dominated world affairs is dead. Every single European country has a birthrate that has fallen below replacement level. With nothing to believe in and little to live for, Europeans have become too dispirited to even reproduce.

Islam stands waiting to fill the void.

Hope you guys like Sharia law. Its day is coming.

To turn a silly thread in to even more of a downer--or maybe just sillier--it strikes me as ironic that American conservatives should see reverence for monarchialism as a threat to Western civilization, given that we historically mocked the Europeans (and quite rightly so) for their silly kings and queens. I'm otherwise generally in agreement with what you said, but I don't think the divine right of kings is what made Europe once great. I can understand how a Briton would chafe at the idea of state supported monarchs in a democratic age, and still want to resist Sharia. Still, we can't give up, Circus. We need to preserve what's valuable in our culture, while discarding that which was a mistake.