prince charles and the moon

severin said:
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I read somewhere that he should be commended for making Duchy Originals a profit-making business (that's the highly overpriced range of organic food he 'sells'). Yeah right, like he doesn't have a whole slew of business and farm managers working for him, doing all the hard work. I'm sure he sits up at night working on business plans, tax returns and distribution logistics.

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Somehow I could be more understanding of his range of food if it was only sold in Cornwall, after all isn’t Prince Charles a big proponent of local produce?

"…. It is also local -- and local cuisine is one of the most important ways we identify with the place and region where we live. It is the same with the buildings in our towns, cities and villages…."

So I take it his shortbread isn’t on the shelves in say Manchester or Aberdeen.
 
Darat said:
Somehow I could be more understanding of his range of food if it was only sold in Cornwall, after all isn’t Prince Charles a big proponent of local produce?

"…. It is also local -- and local cuisine is one of the most important ways we identify with the place and region where we live. It is the same with the buildings in our towns, cities and villages…."

So I take it his shortbread isn’t on the shelves in say Manchester or Aberdeen.
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Manchester is local when your mother owns half the bloody country.
 
At least it's only eight years worth of Bush. Charles is gunna be around for a while....Poor bastards.....
 
clarsct said:
At least it's only eight years worth of Bush. Charles is gunna be around for a while....Poor bastards.....
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Even though Bush can't be re-elected, his party can. Look forward to POTUS Jeb Bush followed by Arnie, King of the World (after a suitable legislation change, of course).
 
DavoMan said:
This also worrys me because of New Zealand's 'Green' image. No GE foods or anything. Everything is 'natural' here. What a crock. It is really annoying that the environmental movement is so strong here. It really seems science is only good when it benefits the wacko's philosophies.
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Is this 'Green' thing big in Australia too? I had lunch yesterday with an Australian who's been living in Europe for the past 6 years and he started to go on about how he only eats free-range chicken and beef because of all the chemicals and hormones. And then he said that a lot of Europe is against GE foods and how Americans have been pushing them in Europe and he even mentioned Monsanto. I didn't really know how to respond to him since I haven't read any literature on the subject, so I kept my mouth shut.
 
supercorgi said:
Is this 'Green' thing big in Australia too? I had lunch yesterday with an Australian who's been living in Europe for the past 6 years and he started to go on about how he only eats free-range chicken and beef because of all the chemicals and hormones. And then he said that a lot of Europe is against GE foods and how Americans have been pushing them in Europe and he even mentioned Monsanto. I didn't really know how to respond to him since I haven't read any literature on the subject, so I kept my mouth shut.
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I suffer from the same syndrome. I don't know enough about it. However I've seen a Penn & Teller episode showing all the hype & hysteria & Greanpeace being incorrect & throwing hype everywhere.

But I'm sick of keeping my mouth shut. I appreciate letting chickens run around a paddock if they're giving us eggs to eat, but the rest sounds like bull$hit. It sounds like fear of science in the name of 'natural'ness. Screw that I say - 'natural' is my new hated word of the month.
 
Dr Adequate said:
So what's going to happen when he becomes head of the Church of England?

* rubs hands *
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A couple of Christian friends I have, staunch Tories, royalists and all went to their younger son's graduation. As they were lustily singing "God save the Queen", it occurred to the husband that they might not be singing the National Anthem much longer when Charlie becomes the last monarch...

I was shocked:eek:
 
You have to notice that the only people turning their noses up at food and being selective are those with..

A) Far too much time on their hands

B)Far too much food on their hands

C) Dolts and the Gullible


I had a grudging respect for Greenpeace and the like until I found out they got African countries to turn down grain shipments and agricultural help because it might be GM and not 'natural'. Nothing is more natural than the way those poor sods farm, and they cant grow squat. With Chuck helping promote weird inventions as natural he only makes the plight of the starving all the worse. If he really wants to make a change to the environment he should sell a palace or a couple of paintings and feed Africa for a year.
 
Kenny 10 Bellys said:
You have to notice that the only people turning their noses up at food and being selective are those with..

A) Far too much time on their hands

B)Far too much food on their hands

C) Dolts and the Gullible


I had a grudging respect for Greenpeace and the like until I found out they got African countries to turn down grain shipments and agricultural help because it might be GM and not 'natural'. Nothing is more natural than the way those poor sods farm, and they cant grow squat. With Chuck helping promote weird inventions as natural he only makes the plight of the starving all the worse. If he really wants to make a change to the environment he should sell a palace or a couple of paintings and feed Africa for a year.
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Indeed, when you think about it, there is nothing "natural" about agriculture at all. For most of the millions of years of vegiation on the planet, it was "wild" and grew without direction or human tending...it is only in the last 20,000 years that agriculture has developed and specialization of crops spicies, etc. been enforced by human farmers. Agriculture by its very nature, if you will, is a human intervention in the natural...not unlike royals marrying cousins to keep the blood line blue (or at least aqua).
 
I still think he must have had done something right by having a son that smokes pot & dresses up at a Nazi.
 
How? Ya cant just say something like that & then not say why. He even looks like the prince. Ugly. His older brother seems to have done alright though. Harry still gets the chicks though. You seen his girlfriend? Geezuz.
 
Kenny 10 Bellys said:
I think you'll find that's probably not technically his son. And a good thing too.
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I think you'll find that the lad looks very like his father, particularly across the eyes -- the spitting image of Prince Charles.

Just where did you get this mis-information from?
 
ChrisH said:
I think you'll find that the lad looks very like his father
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Indeed. It's just that his father isn't Chuck.


There’s something not right about Harry
Can Charles even tell him from Larry?
If you mention James Hewitt,
All of us say “We knew it!
Not all of the Royals intermarry.”

They say that a DNA test
has been sent from a hair on his vest.
The result is not known
’cause it might rock the throne-
and the Royals think that’s “All for the best”

So which one is he, blessed or cursed?
The public all hope for the worst.
But the Windsor blood line
Sadly will not decline-
Since “in line” for the throne, he’s not first.
 
Prince Charles is a grade A nutcase and an irritating one to boot. And I think that if the monarchy intends to survive up to the next century, the Queen needs to do all in her power to remain on the throne until he's dead. Even if that has to involve animatronics.

I don't have a problem believing that Harry is his son, by the way - he does look like him if you squint a bit, and contrary to common belief there is red hair in the five or six genes that the Royals share, so no Hewitts required. You may recall that a few years ago the tabloids were scrambling all over the place trying to get some DNA to confirm this one way or the other. Now that Harry has had more than one girlfriend I'm sure that DNA would have been forthcoming by now. Since it hasn't...

I mean, like a hair left on an armchair or something.

From his head. You are all disgusting.

At the risk of derailing the thread...

Kenny 10 Bellys said:
I had a grudging respect for Greenpeace and the like until I found out they got African countries to turn down grain shipments and agricultural help because it might be GM and not 'natural'.
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I don't agree with everything Greenpeace says and does by a long chalk, but have to defend them a bit here. Their objection to the grain was based on some quite reasonable thinking. It's not so much because there's something "unnatural" about the GM crops, but because unlike the current "natural" grains they require constant money to keep them sustained.

For example, many African farmers retain a proportion of their crop to replant next year. Some of the GM grains being offered were good croppers but sterile. This would leave the farmers dependent on buying new grain year after year. Other GM grains rely on being resistant to weedkillers, to guarantee a good yield you need to sploosh weedkiller about to keep the other weeds at bay. This again requires annual dosh to support.

Unlike Greenpeace I have nothing whatsoever against GM crops, but some of the ones being offered to the poorest farmers in the world did seem to be some of the most inappropriate.
 
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