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And if you truly believe that, then you are welcome to your "enlightened" opinion. Ignorance is bliss, as they say, so you'll be happy for many years to come no doubt.

What's it got to do with us? She's your Queen, if you don't like her get rid of her. The fact is most Australians seem to want to keep her, which is a shame for you. That's my point entirely. With her/her representative as head of state, there's no way to get rid of her. If we vote to put a government in that's got the guts to put legislature in to get her out, she has the political power to sack the lot of them and throw the legislation out. The last time it was put to a referendum, the wording was such that it was a no-win situation. It was something along the lines of do you want to replace the current system with this particular model? (One that was deeply unpopular and totally unworkable.) No other options were offered. Some of the alternatives being discussd at the time were much better but not allowed. Of course the wording and option offered was decided upon by the PM who is a staunch monarchist and vetted and approved by the Governor General. If the wording was couched in terms of something like do you want the Queen of England or an Australian as your head of state? It would have stormed in.

I saw my first grey pubic hair the other day!! I was shocked to say the least. It was in a kebab I was eating.

I'd gladly have an Australian as the head of state rather than the Queen of England and her duly appointed lacky, the Governor General. And back to Josco's point... It certainly does wield political power here in Australia. In 1975, the Queen's duly appointed lacky, John Kerr, decided to solve a bit of a wrangle between the senate and the government, by dismissing the Whitlam Labor government, who still had a year of their term left. The Queen and the Governor General do still have, and have previously wielded, enormous political power in Australia by dismissing the legally elected goverment of the Australian people. And Poms wonder why Australians don't seem to like them much. Duh.

At least the politicians are voted in (and out) by the people. If you don't like them you can get rid of them. Similarly, if you really don't like them, you can stand for election yourself. What better system is there than that? Brilliant! You, on the other hand, appear to be suggesting that inheritence* and/or nepotism* by the family that, by some quirk of history, just happens to have one of their bums on the throne, is a better and fairer system all round than one of the tenets of modern western civilisation? * (used to be through conquering, imprisonment or bloody murder in the days past)

I thought this was pretty funny from OMJ in the Corrie the Corrado thread...

Sorry to disagree old chap, but I couldn't disagree more on all counts. The sooner the monarchy is done away with the better as far as I'm concerned. The only possible excuse to keep them on in the job is the amount of money they bring in from the tourists, which sort of puts them in right in their correct context: They're nothing but a circus freak show. I just hope that this particular monarch is the last. Bring on the Republic, the sooner the better I reckon.

There's only a few ANZAC soldiers left that served in the Great War (that's WWI for the youngsters) and they're all looking like they've marched in their last parade. See the line up at the Last ANZACs Not sure who's keen to be next over the side, but they're a bunch that's definitely worth keeping tabs on for 2005.

untrue there's still a couple left here in Australia. Not too many though.

Nice one. Good to see Buster's still got a sense of humour and can take this site with the grain of salt it's meant to be taken with. Not like some self righteous ranters I can think of. I am personally glad that BB doesn't plan on featuring here for many years, but if and when he does, I'm sure he'll be glad to know we'll be thinking of him.

Our family fave was a Vauxhall Ventora 3.3L straight 6. My dad still raves about it.

Oh no! I hope it wasn't serious. Were you hurt? Phew! Okay then. Oh no, it was serious after all. And now you're going to die. It's never too late to turn to Buddhism, you realise? Because if you did, then you could come back as often as you like.

Depends on how far you want to go back and what your definition of "full list" is. I believe there were quite a few of 'em back in 1914 and it's been downhill ever since.

I wouldn't be too sure of that, apparently he likes the thought of being inside. [allegedly]

Definition 10 Too much information.

Walk? Have you seen his legs? Just take a look at his avatar. It might look like he's getting plenty of exercise, but he seriously needs some physio on those chicken legs.

Forgive my ignorance, I don't think I was here when this happened but how did this joke begin? It was back when Arafat was on his way out, for some reason or other, the press kept quoting the PM of Luxembourg. The first mention of it in DL is in this thread but if you look at some of the links to newspaper stories from that thread, I'm sure you'll see the references in context.

The word you are looking for to describe a man-hater is "misandrist."

Barking. I never did get where this thread was going. Even the thread's description has me stumped. Anyone care to paraphrase what lion was trying to communicate, despite their obvious handicap?... Poor thing. It must be difficult for 'em, y'know.

Well done Mr Notapotato, you've worked it out. You may look like a potato but most of the people on this site seem to have the intelligence of a potato! Hardly rocket science. I'd even add that the odds are good you're public servants. Something in Health springs to mind.

So do I. Personally, I do as little as possible, for as long as possible.

Australian cricketer Scott Mason died at the age of 28, two days after suffering a heart attack while batting in the nets This would have been a cracker for the DDP. He had open heart surgery last year to have a new aortic valve attached. Shame I never do any research.

Trying to decode your little .sig; are you bragging that large ones don't make you gag?

Ah, so One-man-Jury is really twelve good men and true, all in the one cranium. Now I truly see the irony behind the moniker.

Yes, I think a funeral is usually a fairly good barometer of the state someone's health.