(September 10, 2022 at 12:36 am)AFTT47 Wrote: It's like us glamorizing pirates in some parts of the U.S. We know they were very bad people but it's hard for some of us to not to get caught up in the romanticism of sailing the Caribbean on the lam, drinking rum and bedding wenches.
I've never been able to get into the royal thing, myself. The stuffiness, inbreeding and enforced formality was never my thing. I just cringe at how it was the worst form of government ever conceived and am very grateful we have largely evolved out of it.
The capitalist in me can appreciate the fact that the silly royals in GB apparently have managed to bring in more tourist money than has been expended on them. They have turned a profit. I don't begrudge the Brits that. Good for them. Just don't pretend any of the royals are any more special than Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian.
I'm always really skeptical about the maths on how people work out they have made more money than is spent on them.
Some of the ways people calculate it are ridiculous. I viewed one website which said the royals generated 150 million for places that sell food during the royal wedding. They calculated this because 40 percent of a poll said they were interested in the royal wedding and if 40 percent of the population of Britain was inspired to spend 10 pounds this must mean they spent 150 million.
I think Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian are more trust worthy in the sense you can't argue people definitely get what they pay for when buying their products. With the royals they're already paid for and some statistics show they might be worth it.
When it comes to spending sums of money to restore and maintain palaces, top of the range education for everyone, all year around security, I find it hard to believe it can all be payed for by royal fanatics.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
