Kolya on 18/11/2009 at 08:03
The Brits keep their Royals to have someone to be embarrassed about.
Koki on 18/11/2009 at 08:22
The fact they're not embarassed about themselves is the core of the problem
Brian The Dog on 18/11/2009 at 09:24
As Stronts says, we Brits have a constitutional monarchy, the monarch has democratically elected politicians to govern the country for her. It's been like this for ages, the last time the monarch refused to sign something in the Queen's Speech was 1730-ish, and the last time they came to the Commons was 1641. The only time the queen has anything practically to do with the ruling of the country is when there is a hung parliament, in which case she helps arrange the governing coalition.
It will be interesting to see what happens when Elizabeth dies/abdicates, as she's generally regarded more highly than Charles who would then become king. Rather perversely, the MP Expenses scandel made the Royal Family appear better than a lot of MPs :o
Fragony on 18/11/2009 at 09:43
Most Brits are just sane, global warming is a religion.
Aerothorn on 18/11/2009 at 09:59
Citation needed.
D'Juhn Keep on 18/11/2009 at 10:42
Quote Posted by Brian The Dog
It will be interesting to see what happens when Elizabeth dies/abdicates, as she's generally regarded more highly than Charles who would then become king. Rather perversely, the MP Expenses scandel made the Royal Family appear better than a lot of MPs :o
I really don't get why everyone is so hard on Charles, he seems like a really good person. Into organic foods and sustainable communities and growth. What a nutball! I suppose I was quite young and may have missed the backlash against him regarding the PEOPLE'S PRINCESS (not jade)
Kolya on 19/11/2009 at 07:05
It's hard to keep track of how the world changes when you have everyday problems to consider. All that complicated talk might be science, religion, philosophy or just idiots. But if someone asks me I'll have an opinion about it anyway, I don't want to seem ignorant of what is apparently a big thing.
Thief13x on 21/11/2009 at 06:36
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Most Brits don't believe humans cause climate change:
No shit, they have an advantage:p
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/climate-hack/)
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Unknown hacker broke into the e-mail server at a prominent, British climate-research center, stole more than a thousand e-mails about global warming research and posted them online
The center confirmed the hack occurred in an e-mail statement to Threat Level.
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The bloggers highlight a statement in one 1999 e-mail from Phil Jones, director of the research center:
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.
This article is an interesting read at least and probably just the beginning from the sound of it. The beginning of a shit load of bickering if nothing else:p
belboz on 21/11/2009 at 06:42
I was told be someone that global warming was caused by the superpowers doing high altitude nuclear bomb testing, these test actually raised the temperature of the earth by 7.386 degrees, and we're being fobbed off with its being caused by co2. But the oceans of the world release more co2 each day due to dead rotting animals and general deep ocean volcanic events than the whole human race has produced in the last hundred years. We keep get fobbed of by scientist in the uk government who dont even have a qualification in science. I did some work for a research company that found out that more co2 is produced durring earths cool periods, like ice ages, less plants to turn co2 into o2, than durring warm periods, but the uk government suppressed the document.
