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    Post Royal Wedding Trivia

    Not a royal watcher by any means but if you didn't know Prince Harry got hitched today you must have just woken up from a coma. Here's some figures I ran across for the wedding:

    Bride's gown = $420,000.00
    Champagne for the reception= $225,000.00
    Wedding cake= $76,000.00
    Security= $40,000,000.00

    Pretty spendy affair. Heard Princess Diana's wedding gown cost $13,000.00 back in the day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 1 Patriot-of-many View Post

    +1. I barely cared about my own wedding, let alone some pretentious pricks across the pond.

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    I don't know how this can be that far off but ( I think it was the BBC ) that said the cost was 84 million,
    last week sometime. I also watched 2 cars sell back to back for over 700 k combined at a Mechum event.
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    Quote Originally Posted by raxar View Post
    She's a mulatto (Ginger in the UK), just like obama. The only difference is she's trying to be white, while obama tried to be black.

    As far as the wedding went, what wedding?.....

    p.s. I hope the Brits are happy, after all, they paid the $45,000,000 for all this. (Something about fools and money....)
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    Ginger refers to a redhead here and in Great Britian. Nothing to do with being mulatto.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard Simmons View Post
    Ginger refers to a redhead here and in Great Britian. Nothing to do with being mulatto.
    Well, some Brits must not understand that. On a news interview, where they were talking to people on the street, two of them referred to her as a Ginger. This was about 2 weeks ago.

    I guess Brits have as many ignorant people as we do....

    p.s. I thought a Ginger a was a redhead, everywhere, which is why I was surprised they called her a Ginger when her hair is black.
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    Quote Originally Posted by alismith View Post
    Well, some Brits must not understand that. On a news interview, where they were talking to people on the street, two of them referred to her as a Ginger. This was about 2 weeks ago.

    I guess Brits have as many ignorant people as we do....

    p.s. I thought a Ginger a was a redhead, everywhere, which is why I was surprised they called her a Ginger when her hair is black.
    Perhaps they were referring to her marrying a ginger?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard Simmons View Post
    Perhaps they were referring to her marrying a ginger?
    No idea.

    I just thought it was a different definition for the same word, i.e., we use "fag" to represent a queer; the Brits use "fag" for a cigarette; however the real meaning is a stick, as in "a faggot" of wood, meaning a pile of sticks.

    Oh well, either way, the wedding is of no interest to me, anyway.
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    If they said mulatto they would probably locked up.
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    Study Reveals Queen Elizabeth II Is A Descendant Of Prophet Muhammad
    ENGLAND – According to a study in 1986 by Burke Peerage, one of the top genealogical publishers of the world, Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom – the world’s oldest living monarch – is a descendant of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, specifically, the 43rd great-granddaughter of the Prophet. Burke Peerage has provided authoritative genealogical records of historical families for more than 190 years.
    https://observer.news/world/study-re...phet-muhammad/

    explains a lot about what is going on in the uk
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    Study Reveals Queen Elizabeth II Is A Descendant Of Prophet Muhammad
    ENGLAND – According to a study in 1986 by Burke Peerage, one of the top genealogical publishers of the world, Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom – the world’s oldest living monarch – is a descendant of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, specifically, the 43rd great-granddaughter of the Prophet. Burke Peerage has provided authoritative genealogical records of historical families for more than 190 years.
    https://observer.news/world/study-re...phet-muhammad/

    explains a lot about what is going on in the uk
    You actually think that the fact the queen is the great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great granddaughter of Muhammad has significantly affected her views on Islam and in turn she has somehow influenced laws and policies to favor Muslims at the exclusion of all others?
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    Here is an intriguing thought.
    For over 200 years, European aristocracy has suffered from hemophilia, the "bleeder's disease". The reason for this was because of the close familial relationships between the various families, otherwise known as "inbreeding". When Charles married Diana 38 (?) years ago, she was the first infusion of "new blood", albeit a small one as her family was barely outside the aristocracy. Several years ago, Kate Middleton added even more genetic diversity to the British royal family. With Markle comes the question of what her genetics might add. Being half African-American, what are the possibilities that the trait of many people of African descent for "sickle cell anemia" has now been added to the royals genetic make-up?
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    This is an event for women & homosexuals, so this begs the question, which one are you ?

    Because as far as I'm concerned AMERICA told the royals to go fuck themselves in 1776.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard Simmons View Post
    You actually think that the fact the queen is the great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great granddaughter of Muhammad has significantly affected her views on Islam and in turn she has somehow influenced laws and policies to favor Muslims at the exclusion of all others?
    Yes.
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    Speaking of 1776

    A principal in New Jersey reportedly faced complaints from students over prom tickets urging the class to “party like it’s 1776,” and apologized to those offended.
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/21...ts-report.html
    He continued, “I especially apologize to our African American students, who I have let down by not initially recognizing the inappropriateness of this wording.”
    ........

    What a load of shit
    Makes me want to get one of these

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