The True Cost of the Royal Family has been added as a related post - related requested by RFlagg.

Right back at ya dude, welcome to "the royal family"

This really shows how the royal family are treated as a protected species out of reach of public criticism or ridicule, & in some respects are also in many Australian media circles. i think that if this story shows anything it is the pressure placed upon citizens such as the nurse who would go on to take her own life to revere dutchesses, dukes, kings etc. as above the mere commoner, if entitlement wasn't placed on this birth then there would've been no prank call & the woman would not have felt as though she made a national mistake by not screening a simple phone call.

When a child's every move is scrutinised in utero and seen as of national importance, then how much has the media really changed since the time of Diana?.

I think she was an ordinary member of the public, by her own words a "very shy person", who was made to look an incompetent fool in front of the worlds media, put in a position where she quite reasonably felt she had embarrassed the royal family, her employers and damaged the reputation of the hospital.

It sounds like the royals and hospital managers were understanding that it wasnt her fault but that probably came as no comfort in the night hours when she was wracked by guilt and shame.

When someone suicides its often difficult to see their problems as serious enough to die over but for the person in the middle of that turmoil thats the only way out.

While I dont think they bear any criminal responsibility for her death at the very least they shouldnt have done a prank like this for fear of getting some nurses fired.

Your comment; "use this to finally disband the royal family. Fuck them, and Fuck Britain," shows who the douche bag is my friend. You sound like an ignorant, attention seeking, troll.

Why In The Living Fuck would you kill yourself over something sooo Fucking Stupid!??!

Look the people who pulled the prank are assholes, and there's not gonna be many pranks occurring by them or any radio people for awhile because of this. I say good because they're never funny. Anyways I can't blame them for her killing herself, I have no idea why she would go there. If you're a nurse and you see pain and suffering and death daily, why would fucking Royal Douchebag children make you want to commit suicide?

If anything I say we use this to finally disband the royal family. Fuck them, and Fuck Britain.

Who Cares! Kill the entire Royal Family and nothing will change, fuck off and die.

>> ^Yogi:

Really? That's what you're paid for? Totalitarian herding of children? I hope he was trying to be funny because if he was serious they shouldn't even bother with those guards.
And while they're at it as long as the Royal Family exists Britain shouldn't be in control of anything. The US should invade Britain tomorrow...our fat tourists will roll over your dumb guards any day!
Also what gun is he carrying, that thing ain't to be fucked with, looks like a FAMAS.


Blah blah blah. You'd get off the fence though wouldn't you!

Don't fuck with the queen Yogi.

(There's one kid who's been given a headstart in not growing up to be a twat)

Really? That's what you're paid for? Totalitarian herding of children? I hope he was trying to be funny because if he was serious they shouldn't even bother with those guards.

And while they're at it as long as the Royal Family exists Britain shouldn't be in control of anything. The US should invade Britain tomorrow...our fat tourists will roll over your dumb guards any day!

Also what gun is he carrying, that thing ain't to be fucked with, looks like a FAMAS.

Right on.
except for the part where he says America has a democracy. we don't. In a figurative sense yes, but "democracy for sale" isn't democracy.

Plus the Bush's are as much Royal Family as the next, and we're pretty retarded if we don't understand that.

America' royalty are the 1#, and they ain't going anywhere either

I can see how it would look ironic, but TYT clips are all cuts from their show. This particular episode had quite a bit about SOPA - including this segment.
>> ^wormwood:

Ironically, this video itself spends fully half of its time reporting news about the royal family, and provides almost no details at all about SOPA. Illustration?

Ironically, this video itself spends fully half of its time reporting news about the royal family, and provides almost no details at all about SOPA. Illustration?

Re making it more Swedish, kymbos made a relevant comment with a link to an article comparing the welfare systems of various countries, which will probably interest you, as might this BBC article asking why the U.S. has a lower life expectancy than Britain - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14070090

As for our constitutional monarchy... it's quite cost effective, and generally works quite well. I think we'd be mad to change it, particularly since the last proposed change was to let our current politicians choose one of their mates to be "President".... right... what a great idea... NOT. I think people realised it was just going to be a huge waste of money, and risked wrecking a perfectly good (if unfashionable) system.

Someone suggested, apparently seriously, that if the U.K. becomes a republic we should import the royal family!
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Yes, quite possible. I'd love to make it more sweden-y, but i don't know enough. And what I was missing were options to increase spending for education, for example.

What's your opinion about Australia's remnants of monarchy?

How do we know that people come for the Royal Family? I think that's BS, just get rid of them the castles will be more interesting without all the restrictions.

EDIT: Yeah this guy has no fucking evidence backing up his shit claims...we don't go to France because we're conditioned from birth that they're smelly and gay and awful. Give me one statistic that says Americans give a shit about the Queen when they go over there...because with all my traveling experience I haven't met one fucking person who does.

Thanks for the quality

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*quality