http://eveningharold.com/...es-389m-refurbishment/

 
 
The time has surely come for us to stop perpetuating this 'fairy-tale' feudal nonsense.
 
 
 
 
 
 

That's a hundred grand a day plus change.  Somebody methinks is making a nice tidy profit.

 
 
I could accept the Royal Family in its present form - i.e. an inherited unelected monarchy - if we needed it and/or it did us any good.
 
The pro-monarchy 'they're good for tourism' argument is ridiculous and disproved. And so what if they were - what price democracy?
 
The "it only costs us 50p each a year" argument is irrelevant and redundant. What price democracy?
 
The "I suppose you'd prefer a 'President Blair'" type argument is desperation to say the least. Whether somebody 'likes' their head of state is a complete non-point. Whether they can vote them in and out is the absolute point. What price democracy?
 
 
 
More to come from me no doubt  
 
... Prince Andrew's freeloading bone-idle work-shy daughters might be a good topic for discussion.
 
 
 
 

 

ston
That's a hundred grand a day plus change.  Somebody methinks is making a nice tidy profit.

I lived and worked as a painter for a year on Nantucket. Some of the houses we worked on were pretty big and my boss would charge upwards of $100-150 grand for the whole job. And that's just for painting, God knows how much some of these people spend on yearly maintenance, often for what is merely a summer house that they spend 2 months of the year in. Mind you it's easy to underestimate just how much work there is on big houses. One of the houses we worked on was I believe the old Coors family property, and it was gigantic. There was so much work painting that house - all the shingles on the outside, endless woodwork to be sanded, sometimes taking off old varnish, all the door frames and baseboards and hundreds of nooks and crannies. And I don't mind saying, sometimes I was left alone to work in that house and I was about as spooked out as I've ever been. Think "The Shining." 

Redrum?

sharke
I lived and worked as a painter for a year on Nantucket.

The sleigh ride?  Did you get to meet Mountain?
 
that's all I know about Nantucket really
 

How the hell is this NOT a thread posted about Black Friday???
 
Flagged ten yards for Unsportsmanlike Misleading Subject Line.
 
 

Speaking of misleading subjects, how's the Royal Family doing?
 
(I should probably read the fred.)