But he only got the colloquial reference to cattle correct-Half credit-Alex Trebek would have snapped that shit away!

The real question here would be HOW can a grown man smile when is recently informed on national television that there are not 6 but 4 sides to a square knowing that when he arrives home in Essex (Har, har), even friends with lower IQ may shun him?

Ewwww-This ones gonna breed too, probably with some airhead bimbo...FROM ESSEX!
This is how royalty happens....

I'm 5 months too late for this conversation, but whatever. @renatojj the problem here is you're misquoting @dag. Let's go with the phrase he actually used, "big earners like mining companies. "

Your comment assumes that he's proposing taxing individuals. @dag did not say that. He referred to the mining companies themselves. By squirreling the argument into an issue of personal taxation (and the incentives/disincentives to work based on tax), that's an unfair twist to the topic.

Mining companies are the topic in this case. The companies are extracting a national resource. They are benefiting from the country's own assets, therefore the country has every moral and economic right to demand its fair share. If the company can still make a profit, and heavens know they do, then you can't in any seriousness find fault with that.

Unlike individuals, who one may argue have a disincentive to work past a certain marginal tax rate, companies will keep operating in a given industry if they're still achieving profits.

The idea that taxes on mining profits (i.e. resource royalties) are *holding back* Australia is just a head-shaker. Where's evidence of that? How exactly would Australia be in a stronger position if it had less royalty revenues, and instead the cash was sprinted out of the country to whatever offshore haven allowed the company to retain profits for its shareholders, who may or may not even be Australian? How would that help?

WTF was that? Who was the jackass that started playing music in the middle of Obama's toast, and why did no one else stop it? I would have stopped and asked them to shut that racket off...fuckers. If they want to refuse, revamp the toast to "Well then, Fuck the queen, that disrespectful bitch".
The next time their royalty is here making a speech or toast, we need to interrupt it in the middle with our national anthem and just crank it up if they keep talking, with the crowd joining in!

Congrats to you sir, welcome to Royalty

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Great job PHP - enjoy the secret perks of Sift royalty - and thanks for all your contributions.

I had a sneaking suspicion that you were royalty! Go with your gut I always say ... congratulations B-seps, you wear it well

Yeah but it's a fake uniting to me. So check this out, when a new government is formed the controlling party writes a speech for the queen and she reads it and yippie new government. Nobody asks her if she understood what she said or if she believes it, rightly because it's utterly fake. This is along the same lines as Ronald Reagan. He grew up reading what rich guys would tell him to say, so he did the same thing as president. He was credited with this big surge of the Republican party, everyone all ecstatic about the whole thing but after his presidency no reporter bothered to go ask him about anything. No one interviewed him about this stuff because it was known that he doesn't know anything about it, he's not in charge.

It's basically the same with Bush, president for 8 years, big republican gains under his presidency, world shaking effects. You have to struggle to find an interview with him, or something he's written about that means anything. So we've turned our presidency into a sort of Royalty, and that's why it's completely pathetic.

Mike was on today's NPR rap royalty with some others: http://www.npr.org/event/music/161474312/new-rap-royalty-killer-mike-el-p-mr-mfn-exquire-despot?sc=nl&cc=mn-20121004

It doesn't matter how horrible it is, but it's fun to talk about I suppose...

There is no way she can claim royalties. If she had done an amazing job, and restored it to perfection, would she have wanted royalties then? No. If so, she would have had an arrangement with the painting's owner before hand. Baring such an arrangement, she has no basis for a claim to proceeds, IMHO. Internet meme status is totally irrelevant to the claim.

Racist or not, Sadly, It's true that Whitney was a whore to the drugs. Unfortunate for all of us to have lost such a talented singer. However, I believe even Dolly commended Whitney on the amazing rendition of her song. Dolly herself is very talented but I'm sure she never begrudged Whitney for the complement of performing her song.

>> ^shang:

>> ^Yogi:
>> ^shang:
Nice cover of Dolly Parton's I will always love you...
I don't recognize crack whore houston.. it's Dolly's song and always will be this girl in video owns it.

What a clever way to reveal that you're a racist.


How did you get to that conclusion?
Bobby Brown/Whitney Houston are equivalent of white trash if you want to get racial with it, I didn't
Houston killed herself and Bobby helped her 2 drug addicted trash, stuck on crack up to her own death she was on drugs.
She was spending 6 grand per week on crack and other drugs.
she deserves no accolades and plus saying houston did a cover of Dolly Parton is not racist.
Dolly Parton wrote the song and sung it years before Whitney begged to Dolly to sing it.
and everytime Whitney's version sold she had to pay royalty to Dolly.
it's not racism it's truth, go ahead and defend a crack whore if ya want, but calling someone a crack whore is not racism. And for your own information I am black.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^shang:
Nice cover of Dolly Parton's I will always love you...
I don't recognize crack whore houston.. it's Dolly's song and always will be this girl in video owns it.

What a clever way to reveal that you're a racist.



How did you get to that conclusion?

Bobby Brown/Whitney Houston are equivalent of white trash if you want to get racial with it, I didn't

Houston killed herself and Bobby helped her 2 drug addicted trash, stuck on crack up to her own death she was on drugs.

She was spending 6 grand per week on crack and other drugs.

she deserves no accolades and plus saying houston did a cover of Dolly Parton is not racist.

Dolly Parton wrote the song and sung it years before Whitney begged to Dolly to sing it.
and everytime Whitney's version sold she had to pay royalty to Dolly.

it's not racism it's truth, go ahead and defend a crack whore if ya want, but calling someone a crack whore is not racism. And for your own information I am black.

>> ^chingalera:

Personally.....I believe they should pay the woman some royalties-
Go and watch Orson Welle's,"F for Fake" then revisit this so-called-and-so-claimed travesty of restoration and decide the intrinsic value of the woman's act.
What she did was inadvertent high-art on par with other great "masters" which to the untrained eye (or trained for that matter) are obvious brush-cleanings or Gesso-jobs.
This woman's act is for me a statement of the reality of just how full of themselves "experts" have become.
Simple fact for me is, is that the fresco has been reborn in this dynamic soup unfolding called the human experience and granny's attitude about the whole thing is not only hilarious but utterly commendable!!


Well said!

Personally.....I believe they should pay the woman some royalties-

Go and watch Orson Welle's,"F for Fake" then revisit this so-called-and-so-claimed travesty of restoration and decide the intrinsic value of the woman's act.

What she did was inadvertent high-art on par with other great "masters" which to the untrained eye (or trained for that matter) are obvious brush-cleanings or Gesso-jobs.

This woman's act is for me a statement of the reality of just how full of themselves "experts" have become.
Simple fact for me is, is that the fresco has been reborn in this dynamic soup unfolding called the human experience and granny's attitude about the whole thing is not only hilarious but utterly commendable!!

I was sad to see this as I had recently re-watched several of his classics. The opening music when he walked on was a rip off of the Morricone theme to avoid paying royalties for a song. Sad and cheap too.