Quote: Stylee TingTing @ June 6 2012, 7:03 PM BSTThe Brits? Any excuse for a piss-up.
Yep, we even had the most half-hearted, disinterested and apathetic rendition of 'God Save The Queen' imaginable. Of course, it didn't help that at the end of the national anthem, I yelled out 'Happy New Year!' and crashed into a table of drinks.*
*I didn't really, but it would have funny if I did.
Quote: Stylee TingTing @ June 6 2012, 6:52 PM BSTBy Jove he's got it! And if we legalise handguns, create hunting theme parks and supersize deep-fried Mars bars, we might get extra tourism from other countries too!
Legalizing handguns would be for your benefit, not ours, but we'd pat you on the back and congratulate you on taking a step in the right direction.
As for deep-fried Mars bars, I believe they were invented in the UK. Nice one, McFatties! 
Quote: Kenneth @ June 6 2012, 7:02 PM BSTA shame we won't be around to see what happens when China rises to global supremacy.
Mushroom clouds, mostly.
Quote: DaButt @ June 6 2012, 7:03 PM BSTHe's too busy sending out résumés for his upcoming unemployment which is only 7 months away.
Yeh he's getting his ass act kicked by; the Mormon fundamentalist homophobe, I mean pants off shagnasty, oh wait Mr Robot.
Which one of those mental patients actually got to lead the Republican party?
Was it Sara Palin? I hope so she'll destroy the planet but I'll be able to watch the news with my pants off.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 6 2012, 6:57 PM BSTTrust them with what? I suppose there's no real reason not to trust them as we're not really having to trust them with much. We don't have to think about them, or worry about them, at all. They're just there.
In fairness that is pretty much all you want from a head of state. The advantage of hereditary wealth and public subsidy is that they do not have the same incentive to milk the office for seedy backhanders.
Hey, this The Diamond Jubilee thread, not the Obama thread, try and stay on topic.
At the Flotilla, I was so worried about not being able to see the Queen, I put postage stamps under my eyelids.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 6 2012, 1:32 PM BSTStill hard to believe they broadcast three hours of crappy boats moving slowly up a river, and that ten million people tuned in. Who knew that would be such a ratings winner? They should put it on every Saturday against X Factor.
Erm, check your geography.
The went DOWN the river 
Tee Hee
Most Royal families are inter related anyway. The Danish royals are related to ours.
Not so much inter-related as in-bred. If it was not for the occasional instance of dubious parentage (William I, Edward IV, Prince Harry) they would all have haemophilia, porphyria, six toes, extra appendages etc.
Quote: Tursiops @ June 7 2012, 10:47 AM BSTIf it was not for the occasional instance of dubious parentage (William I, Edward IV, Prince Harry)..
..and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, or "Cookie" as she was allegedly known.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ June 6 2012, 7:17 PM BSTAt the Flotilla, I was so worried about not being able to see the Queen, I put postage stamps under my eyelids.
Don't think the parentage of William 1 was ever "dubious", it was certainly the case! He was know as William the Bastard before 1066
Though possibly not to his face. I seem to recall that he had the inhabitants of one besieged town flayed alive for taunting him with being the illegitimate child of a tanner's daughter. He was very much a man who lived up to his name.
Not to mention the Harrying on the North. Reducing the north of England to a wasteland for refusing to pay taxes and killing tax collectors...