Discussion about Prince Philip (from Random Raves)

I just imagine everything Prince Phillip says in the voice of Hugh Dennis.
 
Lemon Merchant said:
:vomit:

Oh my god! He didn't really say that did he?

On the bright side, we would only have to put up with him for about 4 to 6 hours.
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Yeah, he did say that. :ack:

Neither Charles nor Diana came out of that whole taped-conversation scandal very well.
 
Valka D'Ur said:
Neither Charles nor Diana came out of that whole taped-conversation scandal very well.
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People being recorded talking in private don't tend to come out well at all. :)
 
Arakhor said:
It's pretty hard to have a fixed head of state who doesn't appear somewhere on the currency. That was the idea forever, basically.
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The monarch doesn't appear on Scottish or Northern Irish banknotes, although that might just because we also use Bank of England notes. And she's still on all the coins, of course.
 
Valka D'Ur said:
That will only happen if we sever ties with the British Monarchy. Some people are adamant that this happen after the Queen dies.
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Leaving the monarchy would be expensive, take up a lot of time and resources, we'd have to rewrite a whole bunch of legal documents, there's a ton of bureaucracy involved.. and we have far better things to worry about right now than that, so I don't think it will happen for a while.

Our money changes designs all the time though, they seem to be able to push through new designs relatively quickly. Would be relatively easy to update all the non-Canadians on it and make them into Canadians

Arakhor said:
It's pretty hard to have a fixed head of state who doesn't appear somewhere on the currency.
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Pretty easy to do actually. Logistically speaking. Everyone in Canada views the Prime minister as the head of the state and government here anyway. It's not like we'd be removing a public figure who frequently is presented in the media as the head of Canada. She just doesn't come up, and when she does it's in a British/foreign context.
 
Traitorfish said:
The monarch doesn't appear on Scottish or Northern Irish banknotes, although that might just because we also use Bank of England notes. And she's still on all the coins, of course.
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Yes, but those notes are only for internal consumption. Getting them exchanged for other currencies outside the UK is a complete pain in the arse.
 
Takhisis said:
Yes, but those notes are only for internal consumption. Getting them exchanged for other currencies outside the UK is a complete pain in the arse.
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If you ask me, we should look to tradition, and just steal everything we want from the English.
 
Including the lands north of the border, beyond which they dare rarely venture.
 
Takhisis said:
Yes, but those notes are only for internal consumption. Getting them exchanged for other currencies outside the UK is a complete pain in the arse.
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Never mind outside the UK. Many machines in England refuse to recognise them.
So their primary value is in annoying irritating shop assistants which can be fun.
 
I take it you keep a small set of Scottish/Northern Irish notes in a special pocket for shop assistants who behave like numpties?
 
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