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Wait, which Fergie is the Fergalicious one?

Orkeosaurus wrote:Wait, which Fergie is the Fergalicious one?

this one?

There can be only one...



OK, maybe two...

Both broken links

Hmmm... conspiracy theory? Broken link... odd how that happens whenever something wants to stay off the news involving the Royals, or their American counterparts... just a thought, but I'll go check it out due to morbid curiosity....

Links now unbroken, just as well I wasnt waiting with baited breath. Alpharius, is that an ad' for Tucows.com?


This sums up my contempt for that Fergie and Black Eyed Peas in general:

It does my heart good to see other monarchists on Dakka. Constitutional Monarchy is one reason that I adore the UK.

JEB_Stuart wrote:It does my heart good to see other monarchists on Dakka. Constitutional Monarchy is one reason that I adore the UK.

What about us? We're only keeping the thing so that you'll like us and then you go and ignore us. Harumph.



Oh, and I have pretty much no opinion on any Fergie or Fergie related product. I just completely and utterly do not care.

sebster wrote:

JEB_Stuart wrote:It does my heart good to see other monarchists on Dakka. Constitutional Monarchy is one reason that I adore the UK.

What about us? We're only keeping the thing so that you'll like us and then you go and ignore us. Harumph.

Well until you fix the whole, "Everything here will kill you" bit, I am fine HM is wise to rule via Skype.


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sebster wrote:Oh, and I have pretty much no opinion on any Fergie or Fergie related product. I just completely and utterly do not care.

Sebster doesn't have an opinion on something even tangentially related to politics!?!?! The Mayans were off by just a bit!

Hey Jeb

You are welcome to them mate
free to a good home

JEB_Stuart wrote:Sebster doesn't have an opinion on something even tangentially related to politics!?!?! The Mayans were off by just a bit!

Well... it's... damn. Good one

Orkeosaurus wrote:Wait, which Fergie is the Fergalicious one?

You'd think he'd have enough money to not involved with something like this.

Enough with the Black Eyed Peas Fergie pics people! She is such a ropey old boiler! I dread to think of the money she has spent on surgery; I read somewhere it was verging on $250,000.

Its easy to tell Fergi from Fergie.

One is a well worn money grabbing boot and the other was married to Prince Andrew. Simples!

Of course there are these other Fergies if you really want to confuse matters.



Good Ol' Whiskey Face!

Monster Rain wrote:The "r-word" is now verboten on message boards?

I weep for mankind.

That makes you weep? Somalia, Sudan, terrorism, the second Great Recession is on NOW, Barney the Dinosaur still lives, and this makes you weep?

Fergie and Fergi... hmmm.... how to tell them apart?
Well... It's like Corgi and Corvette

One may be fun until you realize it has no class whatsoever and makes too much noise, the other one is a car that costs too much?

Okay I'm just getting silly.

Frazzled wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:The "r-word" is now verboten on message boards?

I weep for mankind.

That makes you weep? Somalia, Sudan, terrorism, the second Great Recession is on NOW, Barney the Dinosaur still lives, and this makes you weep?

It was the straw that broke the camel's back, Fraz. It's also indicative of one of my least favorite aspects life i.e. how PC everything has to be anymore.

With Ronnie James Dio and Phill Harris dead, I'm on a hair trigger these days.

Also:

A pic with a thousand words.

Are we done here now then?

I think we should be!

1N B3f0r3 d4 L0ck!11!!!!!!1!!


EDIT: Fail In before the lock post. Darn..

Jeb, despite what the class warriors on dakka say, the overwhelming majority of the UK support the monarchy.

And their knockers are just ridiculously short sighted anyway.

I find the argument very easily settled. Do YOU like politicians?! Would we really rather have a slimy toady "president" Brown over a nice dignified old lady?

There will always be a ruling class, its just that in America you have a much worse one, people like Paris Hilton and her wretched family, or Bob Dylan and his kids, or Brad Pitt and his irritating wife, and look at the way they go on about the bloody Kennedys, and they are awful people on the whole (like most politicians) especially Ted "hand brake" Kennedy.

They get their kids and family members to be famous too, they get adored and screeched over by the public, they stick their noses into every business there is.

I dont really see whats the difference between our constitutional monrachy and the ridiculous celebrity worship that seems to prevail in every nation on earth other than the fact that the Royals are just nicer people in general because they are told from a young age that they must do their duty and they are not as pompous and self important as most "celebs"

How many politicians or celebrities kids go and serve in Ganners like Harry did? And most of them help in the armed services. Andrew seems a good guy and went to the Falklands, Edward tried out for my lot but failed miserably!

The Queen is a very dignified and gracious old lady.

If all of the commies slagging them off where in Harrys position they would have sat on a boat and spent mummies money on lap dancers. Harry jumped on a helo and flew to Kandahar. Thats why they hate the Royals, and they do "hate" them, in an entirely irrational way, because they know they have more integrity then them. I met Harry several times and i have to say he was well liked by all of his men and seemed a decent chap all round.

Im not a theist either, but i shall be happy to sing "God save the Queen" when the dear old lady shuffles off the mortal coil!

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

squilverine wrote:Can someone please close this thread, it started as a poorly concealed attempt to insult the Royal family and had devolved into slinging childish insults.

There are people who regularly post on this site, myself included, who have or still do, serve in the armed forces and as such will have sworn an oath of allegiance to the monarch and fought on her behalf. Regardless of personal motives for joining up some of the comments made here are deeply offensive.

Constructive critisism is fine as is lampooning however, I can't see the benefit a thread which involves insulting a nations figureheads has to the site.

The OP was questioning the actions of Her Madge's ex daughter in law.
As to fighting on her behalf, I thought the current conflicts were about safe guarding our freedoms and protecting us from evil terrorists?
So all along 'our boys' are really the queen's own and putting their lives on the line for the monarch and not us plebs?

You missed my point. Members of the armed forces swear allegiance to the Queen and the country. The Queen and many other Royals act as commander in chief of a lot of the regiments in the Army. As such the majority of those serving are staunch Royalists and therefore get offended when people start hurling insults.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:It is also quite a leap from criticising a lesser royal to offending those that have served or are serving.
And yes we know that the queen is head of the armed forces?

Actualy the majority of my coments were directed at the person who refered to Royal family as a bunch of r***rds. Not everyone does know that the Queen is the head of the armed forces, especialy those who don't come from the UK. Also you don't have to directly insult someone to offend them, as you pointed out the Queen is the head of the armed services and we tend to look out for each other.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:I can't see the benefit a thread which involves insulting has to the site either but it goes on aplenty.

Your not wrong there mate, sometimes it is funny and deserved other times it is tedious and offensive.

I'm not a royalist by any stretch; as long as they keep pulling in the tourist money and not making too many public gaffes they can stick around forever.

That said, i shall be sad when the Queen dies/abdicates. She has been a fantastic ambassador for Britain over the years and has even helped our politics from time to time. The thought of her going and that plum-faced moron Charles taking over really is the pits.

@Matt: It seems that the strongest sentiment towards the monarchy that I found during my travels to the UK were in Oxford. That always struck me as a bit strange. I was having a few pints with some of the lads there, and we were all ripping apart some republicans that were at the table with us...*sigh* I was born in the wrong country...

That's a very good point, mattrym. Our 'royalty' in the States are indeed a despicable lot because they were not born into it, and didn't grow up with the sense of duty that one would have engrained from day one if they were. The hangers-on, on the other hand, were not born into it and had no such conditioning in childhood.

When I went to play the Cannes Film Fest a couple years back I met many many movie-star types who we allegedly worship over here and I came back and said to my manager "I cannot BELIEVE how full of themselves these people are! I want to go home..."

You'd think I would be starstruck or excited going to rich extravangent parties and meeting this or that who's who sort of people, but instead I was disgusted and realized that even the ones who are seen as 'modest' or 'humble' or call themselves 'blessed to have this opportunity' to the media... were ALL a contemptable lot.

They all live in a different world from the common man, but at least the Royalty has had that thought very staunchly set in their mind from their childhood. They don't take their position and status for granted like some celebrity person (well the good ones don't anyways). I think it's a matter of class, and I don't mean class like upper/middle/lower I mean having some class. Those people have had (at least in public) poise and respectfulness and a general sense of obligation for the fact that they lead such lavish lives owed entirely to their subjects. Hollywood types just think they earned it so they own the place. You earned it HOW? being the cute face in the Fantastic Four movie?...

Yeah you're right, they come from entirely different backgrounds and were raised with entirely different values.

It is easy to confuse the two because they are both all over the media all the time, but for entirely different reasons. The Royalty doesn't make a big deal about its red carpet walks because it doesn't have to, that sort of thing is a daily standard. Take some movie star from some stupid romantic comedy and they want everyone to know they're all that, worrying about who is the best and worst dressed at the oscars or whatever.

All I have to say is, they will be the second against the wall when the revolution comes. The first will be the guys who got coconut oil popped popcorn banned.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Hey Jeb

You are welcome to them mate
free to a good home

I thought of a better deal, swap you for JEB.


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mattyrm wrote:Edward tried out for my lot but failed miserably!

He tried, give him credit for that. There is a world of difference between someone who say 'I will serve' and it found out to be insufficient quality than one who say 'I will not serve'.
He and I have a lot in common on those grounds, I was really messed up when I was in my late teens - early twenties, the system worked, they didn't give me a commission, thought it was what I wanted to do for many years.
There is no shame in this, given the need or opportunity I would serve this country.

Orlanth wrote:

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Hey Jeb

You are welcome to them mate
free to a good home

I thought of a better deal, swap you for JEB.


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mattyrm wrote:Edward tried out for my lot but failed miserably!

He tried, give him credit for that. There is a world of difference between someone who say 'I will serve' and it found out to be insufficient quality than one who say 'I will not serve'.
He and I have a lot in common on those grounds, I was really messed up when I was in my late teens - early twenties, the system worked, they didn't give me a commission, thought it was what I wanted to do for many years.
There is no shame in this, given the need or opportunity I would serve this country.

Yeah no offence intended Orlanth, i just used to find that funny because when i old my family i was trying out for the Royal Marines my grannie always used to say "eeee well Edward couldnt do it!"

Indeed, im well aware of the harsh reality of demanding physical training, my best mate in training got a stress fracture on his 30 miler and never made it out of the box, some people are the consumate soldiers but their body lets them down. No shame in it, Indeed, it is better to try and fail than to never try at all.

We had a plaque on the wall in my company lines with a quote by Teddy Roosevelt i feel is pertinent to this..

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat"

Good one that isnt it?

Too be honest I'm not a huge fan of the Royals as an institution. Certainly I think they need reform, far to many hangers on currently.

However with regards to the immediate family I would never make personal attacks against them. Though I remain to be convinced that the Queen does an essential job there's no doubt in my mind that she carries out here role with considerable dignity and works very hard. I even have a grudging respect for Charles.

However with regards to the hangers on (of which I include Fergie and Andrew) I'm quite happy to make an exception to this rule. They are a collection of utterly useless scroungers. Fergie for example gets 15K a year straight from the taxpayers pocket as part of her divorce settlement. Not this may not seem like a fortune but considering there are many thousands of people, working their socks off on the minimum wage, who would give their right arm to earn this much in return for their honest work, getting this for doing nothing is a fething disgrace.

As for Andrew yes I'm well aware of his helicopter piloting during the Falklands however can anyone enlighten me as to what he has done in the almost 30 years since the war? Aside of course from playing Golf and Womanising at the taxpayers expense that is.

Guitardian wrote:Fergie and Fergi... hmmm.... how to tell them apart?
Well... It's like Corgi and Corvette

C'mon Guitardian there is a world of difference betwixt them


= corgi (the one on all fours)


=Corvette

The corvette is HMCS West York. Fergie is/was Duchess of York
see how I kept it on topic


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Hi squilverine

missed that
As much as my republican tendencies despise the institution and my cynicism insists that the royals are a bunch of inbreds; retarts? I doubt it.

Even Charles, whose views on architecture I tend to disagree with is obviously an intelligent bod.

Hi Matty
"short sighted knockers"
Are you saying Fergi has myopic boobies?