London's streets predict the future
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I haven't seen this posted elsewhere and can't be bothered to search:
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@no_1 Interesting… it all leads to King Street…
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@dkf said in London's streets predict the future:
@no_1 Interesting… it all leads to King Street…
Nice spot. I was focused on the double meaning of Row.
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@dkf said in London's streets predict the future:
@no_1 Interesting… it all leads to King Street…
at this point i might be willing to entertain that, depending of course on which king we'd end up with.
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@accalia said in London's streets predict the future:
@dkf said in London's streets predict the future:
@no_1 Interesting… it all leads to King Street…
at this point i might be willing to entertain that, depending of course on which king we'd end up with.
If ol' Charlie boy becomes king, my guess is he won't be there for long. He may even abdicate in advance, in which case we'll get Will instead.
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Belgium without doubt
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@raceprouk said in London's streets predict the future:
we'll get Will
Edit: emoji on mobile is hard
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@dkf said in London's streets predict the future:
@no_1 Interesting… it all leads to King Street…
As soon as it passes Lawrence...
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@raceprouk said in London's streets predict the future:
If ol' Charlie boy becomes king, my guess is he won't be there for long. He may even abdicate in advance, in which case we'll get Will instead.
Why don't you join the rest of us here in the 21st century and get (nobody), because who the FUCK has a KING? Jesus. Maybe scrape-up a tiny bit of dignity for the British people for once.
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@blakeyrat Yes, let's give up the hundreds of millions of direct profit the Treasury makes and the billions made by tourism every year off the Royal Family, and raise taxes for everyone to make up the resultant shortfall, all to remove people from a position of no power. That'll go down well.
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@raceprouk said in London's streets predict the future:
@blakeyrat Yes, let's give up the hundreds of millions of direct profit the Treasury makes and the billions made by tourism every year off the Royal Family, and raise taxes for everyone to make up the resultant shortfall, all to remove people from a position of no power.
Even if it cost a trillion dollars, isn't your fucking dignity worth it? Don't you want to, just once in your goddamned British-ass lifetime, want to stand up tall and proud and say "fuck you" to those assholes who are rich and powerful only because their ancestors murdered a lot of people? Where's a good guillotine when you need one!
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@blakeyrat I don't hear Canada, New Zealand, Australia etc. campaigning either for this...
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@arantor I'd wager the Commonwealth as a whole would go apeshit if we got rid of the Royals.
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@arantor said in London's streets predict the future:
@blakeyrat I don't hear Canada, New Zealand, Australia etc. campaigning either for this...
It's ok to be stupid clowns because there's a bunch of other stupid clowns out there.
Good philosophy. I love it. Let's lower the bar to zero, baby!
Obviously we crazy Americans are wrong, we should also encourage, as a society, promote murdering people as a way to gain wealth and power for your family for centuries. What could be more morally-correct than that?
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@blakeyrat Glad you approve of something at least.
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Nobody misses lucas' drunk rants, blakey. You don't have to try and replace him.
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@blakeyrat said in London's streets predict the future:
Don't you want to, just once in your goddamned British-ass lifetime, want to stand up tall and proud and say "fuck you" to those assholes who are rich and powerful only because their ancestors murdered a lot of people?
They did, which is why they now have a Parliament making the laws. The British royal family is rich, but they aren't any more powerful than any other family with that amount of money. The British monarch gets to keep their governmental authority only as long as they don't use it.
And it's not like the United States population is doing a very good job of "stand up tall and proud and say "fuck you" to those assholes who are rich and powerful only because their ancestors murdered a lot of people".
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@blakeyrat said in London's streets predict the future:
Don't you want to, just once in your goddamned British-ass lifetime, want to stand up tall and proud and say "fuck you" to those assholes who are rich and powerful only because their ancestors murdered a lot of people?
We started the process in 1215 when we stripped the king of his rights to set taxes. And now, for all intents and purposes, the empty bottle on my desk has more political power than the reigning monarch.
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@blakeyrat said in London's streets predict the future:
@raceprouk said in London's streets predict the future:
If ol' Charlie boy becomes king, my guess is he won't be there for long. He may even abdicate in advance, in which case we'll get Will instead.
Why don't you join the rest of us here in the 21st century and get (nobody), because who the FUCK has a KING? Jesus. Maybe scrape-up a tiny bit of dignity for the British people for once.
Why are you jealous? There will be a king here in the US too. Didn't you see the prediction in those London's streets?
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@dse The title will be God Emperor, as the Oracle predicted. And @blakeyrat is going to be very embarassed about his posts when it happens.
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@blek said in London's streets predict the future:
@dse The title will be God Emperor, as the Oracle predicted. And @blakeyrat is going to be very embarassed about his posts when it happens.
He will be executed for insulting His Yugeness
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@blek said in London's streets predict the future:
The title will be God Emperor
prepares for the coming of the Eldar
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@raceprouk SUFFER NOT THE XENOS TO LIVE
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@blek Those pauldrons rather restrict lateral visibility. For all his talents, the God-Emperor is still human.
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@raceprouk I don't really know much about WH40k lore, I just read some stuff on 1d4chan, but I was under the impression that he wasn't quite human. Wasn't he something like a combined being of a bunch of ancient shamans?
(Also does he actually need visibility at all? He's an extraordinarily powerful psyker, isn't he?)
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@blek said in London's streets predict the future:
Wasn't he something like a combined being of a bunch of ancient shamans?
Not that I'm aware of, though it's true he does have powers far beyond mortal man, and is the most powerful psyker in the galaxy.
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@dragnslcr said in London's streets predict the future:
The British royal family is rich, but they aren't any more powerful than any other family with that amount of money.
Oh so of course they pay for their own security, right? No kind of government support whatsoever, uh huh?
The problem isn't that they ARE rich, the problem is how they GOT rich.
@dragnslcr said in London's streets predict the future:
The British monarch gets to keep their governmental authority only as long as they don't use it.
Then why bother keeping that arrangement? Just so your country looks like a zoo of medieval primitives? It's working!
@dragnslcr said in London's streets predict the future:
And it's not like the United States population is doing a very good job of "stand up tall and proud and say "fuck you" to those assholes who are rich and powerful only because their ancestors murdered a lot of people".
Referring to what exactly?
@raceprouk said in London's streets predict the future:
And now, for all intents and purposes, the empty bottle on my desk has more political power than the reigning monarch.
Then why are they "reigning"? Goddamned, listen to yourselves.
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@blakeyrat said in London's streets predict the future:
Then why bother keeping that arrangement? Just so your country looks like a zoo of medieval primitives?
The 300% direct profit the UK government on the Royal Family clearly has nothing to do with it, nor the billions made off tourists every year. Still confused why they're kept around?
@blakeyrat said in London's streets predict the future:
Then why are they "reigning"?
It's called 'keeping up appearances'. And given how many Americans flock to London to spend all their money looking at old buildings and jewels, it's working out pretty nicely.
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@raceprouk said in London's streets predict the future:
The 300% direct profit the UK government on the Royal Family clearly has nothing to do with it, nor the billions made off tourists every year. Still confused why they're kept around?
"We bow down to kings because we're greedy".
So... yes, yes I am confused. I never stereotyped British people as greedy before, but now you're changing my mind.
@raceprouk said in London's streets predict the future:
It's called 'keeping up appearances'.
The appearances of medieval goobers, yes. Is that really what you want? Here in the US we have no royalty, and we build shit like this:
I can tell you which I prefer.
Also, I really love how the best response you have to my morally-based opinion is, "we're greedy and we want all the money." Seriously, I'm LOLing at that.
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@blakeyrat said in London's streets predict the future:
@dragnslcr said in London's streets predict the future:
And it's not like the United States population is doing a very good job of "stand up tall and proud and say "fuck you" to those assholes who are rich and powerful only because their ancestors murdered a lot of people".
Referring to what exactly?
To the fact that the United States is effectively ruled by a small, wealthy class of individuals whose grandparents, while perhaps not being guilty of first-degree murder, for the most part earned their money by exploiting large numbers of people and causing a large number of deaths.
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@dragnslcr Oh good! Conspiracy theories! I love it. Give me more.
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@blakeyrat said in London's streets predict the future:
The appearances of medieval goobers, yes. Is that really what you want? Here in the US we have no royalty, and we build shit like this:
I can tell you which I prefer.
Pfft, nothing compared to the flying behemoths that Airbus can build:
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@blakeyrat said in London's streets predict the future:
So... yes, yes I am confused. I never stereotyped British people as greedy before, but now you're changing my mind.
I guessed you missed their Empire and colonizing the world bit? The British used to be extraordinarily good at making money (they're still pretty good, but not the best any more). Not that that's a bad thing.
I think modern royalty is ridiculous, too, of course.
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@dragnslcr said in London's streets predict the future:
To the fact that the United States is effectively ruled by a small, wealthy class of individuals whose grandparents, while perhaps not being guilty of first-degree murder, for the most part earned their money by exploiting large numbers of people and causing a large number of deaths.
It's true, Ted Kennedy was never convicted.
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@blakeyrat said in London's streets predict the future:
Here in the US we have no royalty, and we build shit like this:
I can tell you which I prefer.
That's a nice pair of Trent 1000s, very decidedly British engines. Maybe they ain't just useless wankers.
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@maciejasjmj said in London's streets predict the future:
That's a nice pair of Trent 1000s, very decidedly British engines.
And what are you going to do with them without the rest of the airframe? Stir your tea? Not to mention Boeing could switch to GE engines at a moment's notice.
@maciejasjmj said in London's streets predict the future:
Maybe they ain't just useless wankers.
Nope. Wankers.
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@no_1 I assume this was the "grab 'em by the pussy" debacle...
...but did Lois Lane get the sex change yet?
(Still trying to figure out the significance of Russia Row going directly past Pizza Express.)
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@boomzilla said in London's streets predict the future:
The British used to be extraordinarily good at making money
Yes, raping and pillaging native civilizations for their gold will do that.
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@anotherusername As will revolutionizing industry.
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@raceprouk I think he's actually right about that one. To the best of my knowledge, a long time ago, a huge number of shamans combined their psychic energy, all died, and good ol' Emps was born. Then he spent several millennia being all the most interesting and influential people in history, before deciding to ascend as the Emperor of Mankind.