Comments on: Must… keep… smiling…

By: Dr Oh-No

Dr Oh-No — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:47:04 +0000

That’s 1898 at the earliest. Well before that you’d have to direct your ire at British Prime Ministers much moreso than British monarchs. The last of the really important Kings/Queens was (*leap of interpretation*) William the 3rd, 300 years ago.

By: sunny

sunny — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:13:50 +0000

hahahhahahaha black ass

By: Naughtyhorse

Naughtyhorse — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:59:46 +0000

The pic was taken outside of the US, and not in the presence of 50 squillion US troops so of course shrub wasn’t there!

Duhh!

and of course HM the Q is cool with sitting in front of a batshit crazy racist, hell she’s been married to one for over 1/2 a century.

By: DaffySaffy

DaffySaffy — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:46:40 +0000

I remember being hugely confused as a kid when I learned that it was the German DEMOCRATIC Republic that was behind the Iron Curtain and therefore a Communist country. No wonder I was useless at Geography. . .

By: viking gal

viking gal — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:11:40 +0000

Burrrn the witch!

By: viking gal

viking gal — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:10:23 +0000

I gather that bat guano is…memorable. And voluminous.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:08:14 +0000

They were State Capitalists. The difference is that, in a true Communist society, the people own everything in common, whereas in State Capitalism the state owns everthing.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:25:48 +0000

Bah. That didn’t come out as obvious in a post as it did in my head.

Words mean very different things to different people. As per one definition of communism, there have been no communist countries. As per another definition, there have and are.

(Much like calling your nation “the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” and then being … antyhing but.)

By: Danbala

Danbala — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:22:28 +0000

I’m a republican. :p

By: Freyja

Freyja — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:17:28 +0000

I grew up in Zimbabwe – when I was a kid the general concensus was that he had a bad case of cerebral siphylis

By: slaggingham

slaggingham — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:01:31 +0000

Right, those guys calling themselves Communists weren’t “real” Communists. Just like the Inquisitioners and other people who burned witches weren’t “real” Christians, and those guys who sent people to Dachau weren’t “real” Germans.

Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.

By: NR

NR — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:51:09 +0000

They have, plenty.

None of these are excuses for being a flat-out hater. Reasons maybe, but not excuses.

By: Comedy-blog.net

Comedy-blog.net — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:20:07 +0000

Now there’s a racist thought xD

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:10:55 +0000

Communism can’t have won at anything. It is, thus far, a utopian socio-political/economic theory/idea. It has never existed on a mass scale (larger than farming communes). If you mean Soviet Socialism and Moaist China than that’s a different story.

By: The Armagh Sniper

The Armagh Sniper — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:03:48 +0000

She wakes up next to one too

By: Squid

Squid — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:53:44 +0000

I almost did, but I put my time machine away thinking about the consequences of turning up out of thin air in front of a bunch of Medevil Screw-heads. I don’t want to be tried as a witch and weighed against a duck with a carrot tied to my face.

By: BAW

BAW — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:47:42 +0000

I still think she should take a cue from Cousin Juan Carlos’ book.

(At a conference of leaders of Spanish-speaking countries he told Hugo Chavez to sit down and shut up; a monarch, even a modern constitutional monarch with little real power, can sometimes accomplish things that a politician cannot.)

By: mehmeh

mehmeh — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:23:04 +0000

Samzimm I live in nearby Zambia and we visited Zimbabwe often when I was younger. I used to love it!I say he really snapped around 1999. So he was sorta sane for the first 19 years of his reign….

By: baldrick

baldrick — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:17:12 +0000

Big green blob of sneeze on hat in…
1 – 2 – 3…

By: Samzimm

Samzimm — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:41:06 +0000

Sorry, but when was he ever sane? You must have him confused with someone else. He started killing people (oppostition party members) from day 1.

By: bitter clown

bitter clown — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:31:40 +0000

I think he’s laughing at her hat.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:40:05 +0000

Yes, but it doesn’t make it any less funny. Well, funny in the horrifying, uncomfortable way.

By: BAW

BAW — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:15:27 +0000

I think that due to his age and his insulated-from-social-change lifestyle, we can give Phillip a pass for some of the things he says. When he was a young man they would have been considered clever. Had Charles or Andrew or Edward–much less William or Harry–said such a thing, that would be another matter entirely.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:29:47 +0000

Yes, you’re right. Thanks.

By: deadinfrance

deadinfrance — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:59:29 +0000

She looks like such a dear little woman with that hat….

By: slaggingham

slaggingham — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:55:14 +0000

In those glasses, he looks like a black version of my grandpaw… who coincidentally was also a batshit crazy racist. But not a murderer, to my knowledge.

By: slaggingham

slaggingham — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:53:59 +0000

NR forgot Communism, which wins ever over Nazi Germany for “biggest mass kills.”

Wonder why the US-bashers always forget that?

Oh, yeah. They were on that side during the wars. Communist Imperialists.

By: No1askedme

No1askedme — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:35:12 +0000

In war the ends justify the means, as long as you clean up your mess afterwards.

By: telefil

telefil — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:31:25 +0000

Slitty-eyed, is what I believe the batty old dear said

By: yogurt

yogurt — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:01:05 +0000

Those glasses make him sort of look like a slightly older Urkel… *waits for “that’s racist” comments*

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:00:56 +0000

Don’t be silly. Bush wasn’t any of those things listed in the caption; Cheney was.

By: Lucy's mom

Lucy's mom — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:50:22 +0000

I just read historian Barbara Tuchman’s take on the social environment and mind set in the period from 1890 to the Great War. She said exactly what you did about the beginning of American Imperialism. She also pointed out that it was America’s fundamental misunderstanding of the colonialist mindset that got us sucked into “French Indo-China” in the first place.
As for the geopolitical chess game that ruled the world for 50 years or so, we paid our attack dogs to die in our stead exactly the way the USSR paid theirs. We depended on Israel et al. and the USSR used Cuba. We did pay them; we bought their lives.

By: Doubts

Doubts — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:47:45 +0000

wow, 30 posts and not one lame
“Where? I don’t see Bush in this picture?” joke. I’m impressed

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:32:10 +0000

Riiiggghhhhttt. It’s called a sense of humor. You should look in to getting one. They’re a lot of fun.

By: EWAdams

EWAdams — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:28:15 +0000

It’s popular in certain circles to compare modern American foreign policy with that of classic European imperialism, but the parallel is not even remotely exact. True American imperialism occurred in the Philippines, Hawaii and the Caribbean, and was largely done and dusted by the 1930s. FDR’s price for assistance to Britain in the Second World War was the breakup of the British Empire — FDR recognized that self-determination was the way of the future, and the Nazis had demonstrated the evil of imperialism once and for all. And America bullied Britain into backing off its intervention in the Suez Crisis, effectively putting the nail in the Empire’s coffin.

The clearest demonstration that postwar American policy was not imperialistic or colonialistic is that money flowed OUT of America and INTO the places that it was supporting in the Cold War. Real empires ravage their colonies, they don’t pay them taxpayers’ cash.

Your anti-Americanism is familiar to me, but it needs to be better-informed.

By: NR

NR — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:14:09 +0000

Riiiihiiiight. Because the British Monarchy has an excellent history.

Classic Imperialism and colonialism didn’t end very long ago (then the US took over as neo-Imperialist, subjugator, and mass murderer), and it left a HUGE legacy that still frames and informs current structures.

By: NR

NR — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:10:33 +0000

Wouldn’t have to go nearly that far. Just until about the time when the US started assuming the Imperialist role.

By: BAW

BAW — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:42:42 +0000

Take a lesson from Cousin Juan Carlos and Hugo Chavez. A monarch, even a modern constitutional monarch, can sometimes get away with something a president or prime minister cannot.

By: d20books

d20books — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:35:26 +0000

Weird. The first thing that popped into my mind was, Seating Chart FAIL.

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:28:40 +0000

Ahahahaha!!!

“Don’t stay here too long or you’ll get all squinty-eyed.” – Prince Philip to a group of British students during his visit to Hong Kong (something along those lines)

By: HelOnWheels

HelOnWheels — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:24:19 +0000

“Perhaps I should go back in time and post this comment on a portrait of an English Monarch a few centuries ago”

Yes, you should.

By: Squid

Squid — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:21:28 +0000

lol, you didn’t know? She also eats babies and hazes the other royals by making them carry a frozen grape in their buttcheeks from one end of Buckingham Palace to the other only to be met with a firm paddling when they reach their destination. Geeze, read a paper.
Perhaps I should go back in time and post this comment on a portrait of an English Monarch a few centuries ago. I was not clear in conveying my point that my comment was more towards the history of the Monarchy rather than the current figurehead. I apologize

By: MsMsBurning

MsMsBurning — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:19:08 +0000

War, was at war! My typing skills are abysmal!

By: MsMsBurning

MsMsBurning — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:18:11 +0000

Exactly! For those of us who remember Saddam as USA’s lil buddy during the 80′s when he was at was with Iran! Picture of him and Rummy shaking hands in the National Archives!

By: UBERGRUE

UBERGRUE — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:13:45 +0000

Philip is behind her!?

By: Gero

Gero — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:57:45 +0000

Yah, they really need some commas up there…

By: Lefty

Lefty — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:50:21 +0000

*puts on the Hat of Sarcasm*
Ah yes. Everyone knows the Queen and all of her mighty legislative power have been killing critics all so she can stay in the role of complete supremacy when it comes to policy making. Nice catch. Well played, sir or madam.
*passes Hat of Sarcasm on to someone else*

By: Lucy's mom

Lucy's mom — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:35:40 +0000

Absolutely true on all counts. Next to Pol Pot, King Leopold is the person I most hope is burning in Hell. Sponsoring the first huge genocide of the 20th century has earned him a place in the bottom rung and Belgium as a nation seemed incapable of learning from their mistakes.

By: angie

angie — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:34:15 +0000

sorry i started the batshit crazy and he is, go on your smack him one

By: brak

brak — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:34:03 +0000

There’s a lot of it.