Current favourite jokes

[Nick Armstrong]

Anyone got past 42 metres?

251m

[vinteuil]

A German friend the other day joked that we have the German Royal Family Living in England in mouth watering luxury and all paid for by the British taxpayer. Some joke, but it's true!

... of course we've never had an English royal family - the Aelfred and the other anglosaxons were German, Canute Danish, the Normans and Angevins and Plantagenets variously Norwegian and French, the Tudors Welsh, the Stuarts Scotch, williamanmary etc Dutch, and from Geo: I onwards variously German.

Bring back Cromwell some say. I'm not so sure...

[vinteuil]

251m

... 330m

[... but that's coz I'm putting orf some work I orta do ]


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[Nick Armstrong]

... 330m

[... but that's coz I'm putting orf some work I orta do ]


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Ah... retirement, eh vinny?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... of course we've never had an English royal family - the Aelfred and the other anglosaxons were German

But, by that standard, the "English" are German!

Bring back Cromwell some say. I'm not so sure...

Lordy, no - psychotic megalomaniac (and dead for 450 years, which might be a handicap. Still possibly a better bet than CharlesIII/George VII). Bring forward, rather ... oh, I dunno ... Billy Connolly, perhaps?

[vinteuil]

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... per-haps a Triumvirate : J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock; Dave Spart; Eric Pode (of Croydon).

[Alain Maréchal]

A German friend the other day joked that we have the German Royal Family Living in England in mouth watering luxury and all paid for by the British taxpayer.

You have overlooked Salic Law, which barred Victoria or her descendants from the throne of Hanover, so Her Britannic Majesty cannot succeed to any of the many German thrones*. The pretender to the Bavarian crown is also pretender to the throne of the U.K.**, as a descendant of James II. In any case, surely HMQ is rather less than 50% German, and the rest even more watered down.

* except that the it has never been clear whether Salic Law bars descendants of a woman as well as the woman herself. Wars have been fought about it.
** perhaps separately to England and Wales, and Scotland, dependant*** upon the date of the Act of Union - I am underinformed about it.
*** or dependent. feel free to correct.

If you find this fascinating, as I am sure you do, then consider the matter of the French crown, to which there are three valid pretenders.

p.s., I was thinking of adding, for your friend's benefit, a joke about the last German Emperor, but decided there was nothing remotely amusing about him.

[P. G. Tipps]

A German friend the other day joked that we have the German Royal Family Living in England in mouth watering luxury and all paid for by the British taxpayer. Some joke, but it's true!

They do not, of course, only live in 'England' ...

The 'mouth watering luxury' is arguably rather scant reward for virtual slavery to the State and the constant prying eyes of the world's press and media.

Also, the 'cost' to the British taxpayer ... a generally unconvincing argument from some who normally have little concern for same .... may be greatly outweighed by the benefits gained by the Exchequer from Royal tourism, including monies hard-earned in the German Republic!

[Alain Maréchal]

the benefits gained by the Exchequer from Royal tourism

The Duke of Edinburgh’s hospital stay made the lunchtime news on TF1.

[Nick Armstrong]

The Duke of Edinburgh’s hospital stay made the lunchtime news on TF1.

I awoke this morning to a message from one of my French family: "Your King is in hospital..." !!!

[johncorrigan]

I awoke this morning to a message from one of my French family: "Your King is in hospital..." !!!

What's the connection between Duke of Edinburgh and Sultan of Brunei?
Same middle name.

[MrGongGong]

. may be greatly outweighed by the benefits gained by the Exchequer from Royal tourism, including monies hard-earned in the German Republic!

Wot Jonny said you mean ?

Or may not

https://www.republic.org.uk/what-we-do/news-and-updates/monarchy-costs-taxpayer-£334m-year-8-times-official-figure-new-report

[Richard Barrett]

greatly outweighed by the benefits gained by the Exchequer from Royal tourism

Yes, the French must be kicking themselves for decapitating their royals now that nobody ever goes there on holiday.

[Alain Maréchal]

Yes, the French must be kicking themselves for decapitating their royals now that nobody ever goes there on holiday.

Was that ironic? (Recognition of irony is not something at which I am good, I think it's a British speciality).

a. France is overrun with British visitors: at lunchtime yesterday I heard the familiar sound of English voices complaining about the prices, which in view of the current exchange rate, is entirely their own fault. I have some sympathy - I receive some income from the U.K, and am also poorer as a result.

b. Most of those visitors want to visit the legacy of the Monarchy, even though it has gone.

c. I have just quickly calculated that those figures from Republic mean an annual cost to each Briton of about 5 GBP. Is it not worth that for the entertainment value?

d. You could fund all those extra nurses, police officers and teachers by raising income tax by a modest amount, possibly only one penny in the pound.

[Richard Barrett]

Was that ironic?

Very.