what use do they serve?

[Muslimwoman]

Originally Posted by Francis king

Why is the Queen more valuable than Bill Gates? He trumps her in the wealth stakes, and he's more charitable too, yet he is not worth the same.

Because the Queen didn't put us through the pain of years to debug XP, only to introduce Vista which is as buggy as a bug farm. Off with his head.

Originally Posted by Francis king

and, completely offsubject- muslimwoman- is that picture really u? If so, you have lovely eyes...

I wish that it was but alas I was never that lucky. Isn't she stunning. I put the picture up because it is one of my issues with veiling. Within 5 minutes of me changing the picture men were posting comments about the beautiful eyes. To me, the veil creates an air of mystery and 'eastern promise' of certain delights which actually goes against our principle of modesty. Go figure, we are creating the very thing we are trying to avoid by wearing the veil. That said you wouldn't get my head cover off me with a crow bar LOL

The other picture I almost chose was of an arab man taking a photo of 6 ladies, all in full face veils (not even eyes showing). I nearly fell off my chair laughing, imagine after the holiday showing people your holiday snaps "er and which one are you then?"

[cavalier]

Originally Posted by 17th Angel

Cav... Erm, they would still hang traitors It is the law.

Doesn't matter if it's the law or not, in this day and age there is no way it would ever be enforced.

[cavalier]

Originally Posted by Muslimwoman

Agree completely. I wasn't referring to the Royals but the upper class and the wanna be's. I doubt the Royals had anything to do with the constant failure to introduce the law, more the government officials themselves and their 'financial backers'.

Don't get me wrong I love the Royals (in fact one of my favourite pictures of myself is with the Queen Mum, shall see if I can post it in the what you look like thread- as I am so proud of it).

My apologies, I had got you wrong.

[midnightsun]

I completely agree with Francis, the Royal Family can kiss me arse. I especially love your statements on Princess Diana.

The following statement does not regard Princess Diana but if the allegations against her are true, then it does:
Don't you love it when celebrities quit a drug like Crystal Meth for instance, then they become instant inspirational stories and heroes to the masses. While you and I are just straightening up.

Now back to the original post:
The British tabloid are one if not the most biggest of the whores of gossip, which is about the only thing the royal family is good for, good gossip. Here in the US we have thousands of open and a good more 10,000 people perhaps who line up with Nazi emblems marching the street and cursing every other non-Anglo-Christian, yet prince-charming wears a little sign and people are up in arms. A mere child is shown as a sign of hate while thousands with "pitchforks" are idealistic?


For all intensive purposes, when a celebrity does something good but there are no pictures to prove it, did it happen?

[Francis king]

how much power do they have, ooh, none, and yet

Betty has just made the Beeb apologise becuase they inadvertently offended her... oh, and while on the subject of Royal bans; how about not allowing the Diana crash pictures to be shown? not bad going for a powerless figurehead...

lol, muslimwoman, I wondered if it would really be you, and ur right about the eastern promise bit, but I looked at it and thought, aw, she's pretty under that blinking veil... lol... but hey...

[Muslimwoman]

Originally Posted by Francis king

lol, muslimwoman, I wondered if it would really be you, and ur right about the eastern promise bit, but I looked at it and thought, aw, she's pretty under that blinking veil... lol... but hey...

What we are told is that you can't see whether someone is pretty or not under the veil - yeah right, well that doesn't work then. The other one is the baggy tent dress. We are told that you can't tell what shape someone is under it. Okay, so you see a huge blank tent walking down the street next to a thin strip of black material. See, you can't tell which one is fat and which one is thin. No really you can't, honestly. Look, I said you can't right.

[Francis king]

and of course, a thin cotton with the sun behind it... my mother always said- wear an underskirt, and she was right...

[Muslimwoman]

Ah yes, always a bit of a bugger when you want to wear thin clothes due to the heat but instead have to wear thick material just in case anyone realises you have arms or legs

That reminds me, I must go and oil my wheels.

[Tao_Equus]

Originally Posted by Francis king

and of course, a thin cotton with the sun behind it... my mother always said- wear an underskirt, and she was right...

Mothers can be such Killjoys!!