Quote: ajp29 @ October 12, 2007, 7:40 PMStop me if i'm getting treasonous.
As well as boring, ever-more uneducated, and of course the lowest of the low - socialist. 
Quote: ajp29 @ October 12, 2007, 7:40 PMThey're supporting Harry, oh no wait hes not in Iraq hes in the Big Girl's Blouse Military Finishing School for Pansys
Quote: ajp29 @ October 12, 2007, 7:45 PMNazi's!
There's no apostrophe in a plural. 
Quote: Aaron @ October 12, 2007, 8:35 PMThere's no apostrophe in a plural.
Bloody apostrophe deniers! 
Yes, I too hate those f**king poor people...why can't they just....have more money....
Classism is downright silly. I'm not sure that many a toilet cleaner does it out of a demented will to antagonise people. Besides, I'd rather be kicked to death than sit through a meal in an upper class restaurant.
Upper class more like up the arse 
DO they serve Corgi at upper class restaurants?
Upper midddle class commit suicide more then Anyone else...oh well we lower class can still eat the bodies
Quote: Gavin @ October 12, 2007, 11:38 PMUpper midddle class commit suicide more then Anyone else...oh well we lower class can still eat the bodies
But which knife do the use? fish knife?
normally OD on pain killers us normos cant afford
Damn piffle and blast... i've just spilt some Crystel and my diamond encrusted lap top... and the butlers gone into the pantry to fetch one some... more truffels...what the hell i'll use the Burberry comfort blanket... panic over.
Don't posh people just get there butlers to commit suicide for them? Jeeves jump off the East Wing. Very well sir.
Quote: ajp29 @ October 12, 2007, 7:30 PMFrankie I think complaining about this is just stupid. The main argument for this, and may I add the only argument needed, is that the country recognises the sacrifices that the service men and their families have made. Surely thats worth at least £6 million if not more. When you consider we have parades for people who kick balls for our country I think a memorial for those who died for our country is the least we can do.
P.S. The monarchy are a complete waste of money and should be abolished. How'd you like dem apples Aaron
I see that shoepie also agrees with this view from AJP. I really think you guys are looking at this in a very superficial way. I can only say that you are misguided to think this way. Ask soldiers if they want this kind of memorial, better still ask their grieving families.
I am not saying that £6 million shouldn't be spent on "a fitting memorial" what I am saying is that THIS is not it! It's blocks of bleedin' stone. Soldiers that have died since WW2 have already got blocks of bleedin' stone ... their gravestones...
We already have the Cenotaph in Whitehall for all soldiers that have ever died in combat, we don't need another one. We don't need another war. But the good news is that we now have a place where we can record the names of the next 15,000 servicemen who get killed in some pointless war.
Great! Let's get cracking carving up the names then...
As for The Royal Family, Aaron is quite right, the Royal Family, particularly The Queen and the Right Royal Brats "Harry" and "Wills" earn their money in tourism... (tw@ts of course, but they would be wouldn't they? What else are they going to be living in that particular goldfish bowl?)
I just don't think the Queen should have been at this ceremony... she should have seen through the hypocrisy of it and she should have suggested to those folks that did it, that this was misguided and a waste of money and resource. This is the 21st Century... there must be a better way than this! The Queen should know that. Where is her guidance? As a respected World figure, she COULD still do so much without interfering in politics (which she's not allowed to..)
Anyway... 
Er Frankie they did ask the grieving families what they wanted and it was this memorial >_<
As for Royals tourism well lots of people come to London to see Big Ben, maybe we should make that head of state 
The 2 World Wars were good for boosting the tourist trade in Normandy maybe we should have another. As for bringing in as much money as they cost do you know how many assets they are sitting on?
I agree with Frankie, in that the spending on the military is fookin idiotic. Instead of piling spending into new recruits, new missiles - they always seem to be more devastating but less accurate - and especially those bloody parades, they should be properly supporting the wounded and the bereaved.
Quote: ajp29 @ October 13, 2007, 12:35 PMEr Frankie they did ask the grieving families what they wanted and it was this memorial >_<
As for Royals tourism well lots of people come to London to see Big Ben, maybe we should make that head of state
Listen mush, I asked a grieving soldier (he'd had his pint nicked..) and he said they should stuff the memorial up the nearest politicians arse, so my survey was pretty wide-ranging... and I'm always fully informed with as many made up facts as possible (I trained at The Sun..)
I really don't know the cost of the asses they are sitting on, are they up for a bumming then? (No, not you, Ma'am...)
You must take these debates more seriously, AJP...
Quote: Cinnamon @ October 12, 2007, 11:33 PMBesides, I'd rather be kicked to death than sit through a meal in an upper class restaurant.
Well I'm not sure I'd go quite as far as rather being kicked to death, but certainly I wouldn't particularly like a meal in an upper class restaurant. Whatever one is, anyway.
Quote: Gavin @ October 12, 2007, 11:38 PMoh well we lower class can still eat the bodies
And would, 'cos you're that low.
Quote: Reiss Ellesse @ October 12, 2007, 11:48 PMDamn piffle and blast... i've just spilt some Crystel and my diamond encrusted lap top... and the butlers gone into the pantry to fetch one some... more truffels...what the hell i'll use the Burberry comfort blanket... panic over.
What you've just described is a person of lower class making a pathetic immitation of an upper-middle or upper-class personage.
Quote: ajp29 @ October 13, 2007, 12:35 PMAs for Royals tourism well lots of people come to London to see Big Ben, maybe we should make that head of state
rofl
Was it you i saw at Bingo last week...when my marker pen ran out on the National supa duppa 4 line house jackpot...laughing at my lack of felt tip pens
