"gin-san - shitpost specialist" (gin-san-)
12/02/2016 at 16:54 • Filed to: THE CROWN, NETFLIX
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"gin-san - shitpost specialist" (gin-san-)
12/02/2016 at 16:54 • Filed to: THE CROWN, NETFLIX | 1
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I enjoyed it. I really didn’t think something based on a monarchy I couldn’t care less about would be something I’d binge watch on Netflix, but here I am.
I think I’m actually heartbroken. I wonder if the royal family is as miserable in real life as they were in the show.
Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
> gin-san - shitpost specialist
12/02/2016 at 16:58 |
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Yeah, but I heard that somebody drives an MG TD in that, so there’s some happiness, at least.
CaptDale - is secretly British
> gin-san - shitpost specialist
12/02/2016 at 17:09 |
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I need to watch that. I love stuff about the Royal family. It’s on my list. Glad to hear it is good.
Svend
> gin-san - shitpost specialist
12/02/2016 at 17:23 |
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I could understand if they were.
The royal family is always under scrutiny and some people drone on about how much the royal family cost (50p per person in the U.K. per year yet generate 100s of millions in tourism and inward investment from overseas).
People think being a royal is easy but I couldn’t think of something more strenuous if I tried.
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gin-san - shitpost specialist
> CaptDale - is secretly British
12/02/2016 at 17:23 |
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You become sympathetic to each person’s struggle, even if they are opposing one another - I think that’s what makes a great show. Then again, I don’t know about accuracy - the only person I really knew about going into this show was Winston Churchill, and all I really knew about him was that he loves drinking and smoking.
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gin-san - shitpost specialist
> Svend
12/02/2016 at 17:26 |
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I think for some people it would fit their character very well.
For people like me who find that putting up appearances at work for eight hours a day is too much, it would be a constant hell. A lavishly adorned hell.
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gin-san - shitpost specialist
> Andy Sheehan, StreetsideStig
12/02/2016 at 17:27 |
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I think it was that model. There’s definitely MGs, plenty of Land Rovers, and some Rolls Royces.
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CaptDale - is secretly British
> gin-san - shitpost specialist
12/02/2016 at 17:29 |
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Sounds like most of it is fiction, based heavily on the truth. So that is pretty cool. Makes sense since they would have no idea what was really said behind closed doors.
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Svend
> gin-san - shitpost specialist
12/02/2016 at 17:38 |
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It irks me sometimes. Several have accused the Duke of Cambridge of being lazy to his royal duties. When many events are planned weeks or months in advance. But people have to bare in mind he is a father of two children and has a full time job flying an air ambulance. So planning an event for him to attend isn’t easy.
ranwhenparked
> Svend
12/02/2016 at 19:19 |
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The royal family basically costs Britain nothing, when you think about it. The Queen technically owns the Crown Estate outright as her personal property, but all the profits generated from it go straight to the UK Treasury instead of her, and she gets a relatively puny amount back to fund the operations of the entire monarchy. The British government makes out very well on the deal.
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Svend
> ranwhenparked
12/02/2016 at 21:41 |
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Try telling that to some whiny ones who rant about getting rid of the monarchy. It does my head in. Many of those will argue that the Crown Estate belongs to the people and so on. They are never happy because they have it in their heads that the monarchy looks down on the people and no matter how hard you try to tell them that they don’t, they can’t get it into their heads.
Especially when it’s a foreigner saying to get rid of the monarchy because it costs the tax payer too much. I’m like, wow just a second, when did you pay tax in the U.K.? What part of the U.K. is your country in?
I’m a royalist and always will be.
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ranwhenparked
> Svend
12/03/2016 at 12:02 |
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I’m an American, but whenever I run into a Canadian or British republican, I point to us and kind of ask really? This is better? You want this?
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Svend
> ranwhenparked
12/03/2016 at 12:11 |
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Ye’, people are stupid.
Some are anti monarchy because they feel inferior to them. Hell a lot of people don’t like most politicians not because of their policies but because they have money and a private school education.
It’s ridiculous.