Who owns the crown jewels?

[screenman]

Tell me C, what are some of the nice points of her job? I cannot see many of them.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

This week the queen's got a lunch do for the worshipful company of drapers on Monday and she's opening Reading railway station on Wednesday, don't know how she fits it all in.

 

[screenman]

I think you may have missed a few bits of her work out.

 

[Pale Rider]

She doesn't bloody well have to do it so I have no sympathy whatsoever. Most people who are in a position the cannot bear would change it if they could. I doubt that she hates it that much.

How do you know she has't made a mistake? Just none we have heard of and I suppose that's enough is it. I absolutely and utterly resent the fact that she is the head of a class of people who are deemed better than the rest of us. I resent being subject to anybody and would rather be a citizen. It is all kinds of wrong in my opinion and has no place whatsoever in a modern democracy.

Oh dear, the green-eyed monster strikes again.

All that resentment and envy means your mind will never be open on this topic, so there's no point in arguing about it.

The only hope I can offer is if you can persuade enough people to think - if that's the word - as you do, then you will get your way and the monarchy will go the journey.

 

[theclaud]

It doesn't really matter whether you call it a job, a duty or any other term of your choosing. It's not a role I would want for twice the dosh.

Of course it matters. People pretend it's a "job" in order to normalize it and to suggest that the royals are "just like us", when their sole and only function is to be different from, and superior to, "us". What doesn't matter is whether you (or I) would want the role or not. We can't have it.

 

[CopperBrompton]

What doesn't matter is whether you (or I) would want the role or not. We can't have it.

The job/role/function is making polite conversation with countless strangers a day in over 400 engagements per year.

You couldn't pay me enough to do it, and you'd be rubbish at it, so the fact that we can't have it is rather academic. I can't get a job as an Ewok in Star Wars either, but I cope as best I can.

 

[theclaud]

The job/role/function is making polite conversation with countless strangers a day in over 400 engagements per year.

You couldn't pay me enough to do it, and you'd be rubbish at it, so the fact that we can't have it is rather academic. I can't get a job as an Ewok in Star Wars either, but I cope as best I can.

Yes speaking to ordinary folk is rather a chore, isn't it?

 

[CopperBrompton]

Yes speaking to ordinary folk is rather a chore, isn't it?

It's way worse than that: it's speaking to the type of people who go stand around for hours to see the Queen.

 

[CopperBrompton]

Every year I try to nominate the most unsuitable people to attend garden parties in the hope it might redress the balance.

Please nominate TC next year.

 

[theclaud]

Please nominate TC next year.

There are few social situations I can't deal with, given enough gin.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Oh dear, the green-eyed monster strikes again.

All that resentment and envy means your mind will never be open on this topic, so there's no point in arguing about it.

The only hope I can offer is if you can persuade enough people to think - if that's the word - as you do, then you will get your way and the monarchy will go the journey.

Not jealousy at all, not that I expect you to believe that. The word is resentment. I don't want what the queen has. I am not envious of her wealth and possessions. I resent that there are by definition a group of people who are deemed better than everybody else and I do not think it has any place in our society. I find it unwholesome and distasteful.

 

[Cyclopathic]

Tell me C, what are some of the nice points of her job? I cannot see many of them.

It certainly beats working shifts in a factory or warehouse with no windows and several big clocks lined up all around the place.

The nice points of the queens job would be all the nice grub and some of the social aspects of swanning around in a big hat.
I feel very sure that should I happen to find myself the King of England that I could squeeze more fun out of it than I could working on a production line or down a pit or loads of other hard, monotonous jobs. Just before I dissolved the Monarchy for good that is.

Do you really, honestly think her life is soooooo bad that no one else would or could possibly stick it?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Do a Queen Muth, you turn up for a photo op on a pile of rubble in 1940 and that's it, you then spend the next 120 years guzzling gin and having yellow teeth.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I could give you a nice pearl necklace too ma'am.

 

[screenman]

It certainly beats working shifts in a factory or warehouse with no windows and several big clocks lined up all around the place.

The nice points of the queens job would be all the nice grub and some of the social aspects of swanning around in a big hat.
I feel very sure that should I happen to find myself the King of England that I could squeeze more fun out of it than I could working on a production line or down a pit or loads of other hard, monotonous jobs. Just before I dissolved the Monarchy for good that is.

Do you really, honestly think her life is soooooo bad that no one else would or could possibly stick it?

No privacy, long hours, lots of horrible traveling, lots of meeting and greeting, being the top target in the universe, I can see a lot more in the position that you seem to be able to.

What do you do for a living? not that people normally answer this question.