Prince Charles: 100 months to save the world

[CapelDodger]

Canute (or whatever the current spelling is) ...

Knut.

* though, in fairness to said nobles, he probably would have personally disembowelled anyone else who had suggested such a thing. Well, he was a man of his age after all.

It wasn't as easy as that. Knut wasn't an absolute monarch, he was more of an executive chairman. If he arbitrarily took out a noble he'd rouse his family, his friends, and anybody else who decided "This guy's out-of-control and dangerous".

He could probably have got away with killing one of his own sons. Everybody understands that sometimes you have to do that.


eta : I wonder if the Queen's considered that option? Remove the embarrassment, go straight that more charismatic William chap, and save the monarchy.

 

[RationalVetMed]

Knut.

Well pardon me for asking .

Yuri

 

[Roadtoad]

Knut.



It wasn't as easy as that. Knut wasn't an absolute monarch, he was more of an executive chairman. If he arbitrarily took out a noble he'd rouse his family, his friends, and anybody else who decided "This guy's out-of-control and dangerous".

He could probably have got away with killing one of his own sons. Everybody understands that sometimes you have to do that.


eta : I wonder if the Queen's considered that option? Remove the embarrassment, go straight that more charismatic William chap, and save the monarchy.

Nah. It didn't work out too good for Richard the Third.

Besides, why waste good wine?

 

[Ivor the Engineer]

Isn't this the Royal who once spoke of wanting to be a Tampon?

Impresses me.

I think he's over that period in his life.

 

[dudalb]

This Bonnie Prince Charlie needs his Culloden, fast.

 

[Roadtoad]

The biggest problem with this is not simply that Charles knows so little about science. It's that he doesn't WANT to know about science. He CHOOSES to be ignorant. And then he seems to think that because he's a royal, that gives him license to be abusive and rude to actual scientists when they can demonstrate that not only is he wrong, but because he's so willfully ignorant, he's created a very dangerous environment. In the end, that kind of willful folly doesn't simply make people look silly, it gets them killed.

 

[Herzblut]

Well thank goodness he's flown all the way to Rio to tell us how important it is to combat global warming.

Yuri

It's psychological. Many people who strand in their professional career go for strange endeavors.

 

[CapelDodger]

Nah. It didn't work out too good for Richard the Third.

Besides, why waste good wine?

It was Richard's brother, the Duke of Clarence, who was drowned in a barrel of Malmsey wine, Richard's eldest brother Edward IV was king at the time, and everybody applauded (Clarence really was an unbearable $*** and had long had it coming). Richard (allegedly) had his nephews killed, and that's a very different matter. Sons were essentially a man's chattels; his brother's sons, not so much.

Of course the Windsors are so inbred by now it's hard to tell who's whose.

 

[Roadtoad]

It was Richard's brother, the Duke of Clarence, who was drowned in a barrel of Malmsey wine, Richard's eldest brother Edward IV was king at the time, and everybody applauded (Clarence really was an unbearable $*** and had long had it coming). Richard (allegedly) had his nephews killed, and that's a very different matter. Sons were essentially a man's chattels; his brother's sons, not so much.

Of course the Windsors are so inbred by now it's hard to tell who's whose.

Well, damn. You would have to go and ruin our fun by injecting FACTS!

 

[CapelDodger]

Well, damn. You would have to go and ruin our fun by injecting FACTS!

It's compulsive . Without facts I am lost in the dark, alone and afraid ...

 

[Blue Wode]

Today’s the day, and you can be certain that HRH won’t be mentioning this:

It looks as though Prince Charles’s efforts to tell us about using the earth’s resources wisely have just been a waste of energy.

For one of the worst offenders for leaking heat is his mother’s main home, Buckingham Palace.

The sovereign’s official London residence topped a list of the environmentally-damaging buildings on the day Prince Charles arrived in Brazil to urge the world to do more to combat global warming.

Thermal imaging shows heat pouring through the windows, roof and even wall cracks of the 775-room palace, built in 1703.

The historic landmark, which scored nought out of 10 in an efficiency report, was described as “the biggest central heating radiator in the capital” as striking infra-red pictures captured the huge amount of energy escaping into the night sky.

Energy expert Ivan Lucas of green energy company Navitron, who helped carry out the survey, was astonished by the scale of the heat leaks.

More...
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/88815/Not-the-right-time-Charles

 

[Roadtoad]

The solution is simple...

VINYL SIDING FROM SEARS!!!

 

[CapelDodger]

Today’s the day, and you can be certain that HRH won’t be mentioning this:

The Batty Prince no longer live with his parents; he moved out at the time of his first mariage and now lives at Highgrove. Do you not keep up with current affairs?

If you think Queenie is going to take his advice on running her household, think again. Rumour has it she thinks he's a dreadful twerp, and there's no doubt at all that Phil the Greek does. Something wrong with a chap that devoted to his grandmother, what? Nice piece of totty he had to distract him, too.

 

[Blue Wode]

The Batty Prince no longer live with his parents; he moved out at the time of his first mariage and now lives at Highgrove. Do you not keep up with current affairs?

Ah, but he’s destined to move back into Buckingham Palace. (Remember, his mother will be 83 next month.)

For anyone who's interested, here’s the full text of his speech today:
http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/spe...wales_titled_less_than_100_mon_946412057.html

 

[Rolfe]

He'd better not hold his breath. Her mother lived to 101, remember....

Rolfe.

 

[CapelDodger]

He'd better not hold his breath. Her mother lived to 101, remember....

Rolfe.

Also I can't see her abdicating before she's seriously debilitated, and she's looking pretty spry.

 

[Roadtoad]

If you were in her position, would YOU abdicate?

 

[CapelDodger]

For anyone who's interested, here’s the full text of his speech today:
http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/spe...wales_titled_less_than_100_mon_946412057.html

This isn't too loopy (put forward by "my" Rainforests Project, I noticed)

"In essence, we are proposing a way to leverage private capital into Rainforest Nations. The idea is simple. Investors (and perhaps most probably pension funds and insurance companies, with which I have been working for some time and which are looking for long-term investment opportunities) would buy a bond that is under-written by developed countries. The proceeds from the sale of the bond would be spent helping Rainforest Nations develop their economies without destroying their forests, mainly through new low carbon development strategies designed to end poverty while keeping the forests standing. The money would be given, rather than lent, and would in effect be a payment to Rainforest Nations for the ecosystem services that the rainforests provide. Like all proper business contracts, it would be paid on the basis of results. This is the crux of the matter. The more forest that is saved, the more countries would be paid. It would be an interim financing mechanism that would provide emergency funding until significant funds start flowing from what we all hope will be the successful climate change negotiations in Copenhagen this year. The developed countries backing the bonds could cover their liabilities for repayment in ten or fifteen years through, for example, the allocation of emissions trading auction receipts or through green investment strategies that simultaneously raise returns from, for example, renewable energy technologies."

Something I else I couldn't hep noticing :

"These proposals seem to be receiving a warm reception from many quarters , including the World Bank, international N.G.O.’s and, I am delighted to say, a number of Governments ..."

Dear sweet prince, what else were you going to hear?!

Damn' straight Lula likes it : see the phrase "payment to Rainforest Nations" in there? Come on, you're oh so familiar with Brazil, see the connection? Rainforest Nation?

 

[CapelDodger]

If you were in her position, would YOU abdicate?

I wouldn't know what to do with myself. More time with that family? No thank you. Twittering? Get quite enough of that from Edward. Reality TV? Constitutional Crisis, and the last one made Daddy and Uncle Edward so unhappy. Best avoided unless there's some purpose to it - like skipping to that rather nice William boy.

Anyway Philip wouldn't wear it. He's determined we should last the bugger out (Philip's words; he was in the Navy, you know) even if, as he puts it in his sailor slang, "It takes another bloody Parisian underpass".

Sailors are so colourful in their ways, don't you think? Dear Margaret simply adored them.

 

[Rolfe]

Rolfe.