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Title: lol wtf
Post by: Ford Prefect on February 22, 2007, 09:56:25 pm
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/22/harry.iraq/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/22/harry.iraq/index.html)

What is this, the sixteenth century?
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Post by: Sarafan on February 22, 2007, 10:15:26 pm
Whats the problem? Maybe it'll show him how great the war is.
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Post by: Bobboau on February 22, 2007, 10:32:27 pm
"bullet magnet"
:lol:
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Post by: Mefustae on February 22, 2007, 11:14:35 pm
Damn, they'll do anything to escape the tabloids.
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Post by: Ace on February 22, 2007, 11:55:29 pm
...and having European royalty involved makes this not appear as Crusade 2.0 how?
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Post by: neoterran on February 22, 2007, 11:59:34 pm
they're not trying to avoid it, the whole thing is a crusade 2.0
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Post by: NGTM-1R on February 23, 2007, 01:33:55 am
What is this, the sixteenth century?

There was a prince involved in the Falklands too, and another somewhere between then and now too IIRC. You're military, you get the call, you go.

Trivia: last English king to accompany his troops into battle?

(Further trivia: it was only by a relatively small margin not George VI. Churchill had wanted to tag along aboard HMS Black Prince on D-Day; Eisenhower was dead set against it but could not dissuade him. George VI said if Churchill went, he would go as well. Churchill backed down.)
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Post by: aldo_14 on February 23, 2007, 03:19:30 am
What is this, the sixteenth century?

There was a prince involved in the Falklands too, and another somewhere between then and now too IIRC. You're military, you get the call, you go.

Trivia: last English king to accompany his troops into battle?

(Further trivia: it was only by a relatively small margin not George VI. Churchill had wanted to tag along aboard HMS Black Prince on D-Day; Eisenhower was dead set against it but could not dissuade him. George VI said if Churchill went, he would go as well. Churchill backed down.)

Harry is only the dimwit third-in-line anyways (he's the dumbest of the family, which is a bit like being the smelliest bit of dung in a dungpile).  He'll draw out the nutters in the same was as David Blaine hanging over the Thames in a clear plastic box.

Oh, and not English king.  The last English monarch died in 1603 and was suceeded by the Scottish King James.
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Post by: Killfrenzy on February 23, 2007, 07:04:50 am
The last ENGLISH king was Harold. :)

Since then they've been French, then Welsh, then Scots, then German. :)
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Post by: Flipside on February 23, 2007, 07:12:11 am
And that's not even taking into account the migrations in mainland Europe that means that just about everywhere was once populated by someone else ;)
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Post by: Janos on February 23, 2007, 08:11:48 am
yes
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Post by: Rictor on February 23, 2007, 08:47:39 am
Harry is only the dimwit third-in-line anyways (he's the dumbest of the family, which is a bit like being the smelliest bit of dung in a dungpile).  He'll draw out the nutters in the same was as David Blaine hanging over the Thames in a clear plastic box.

I though he was the well-liked one. Wasn't there talk of skipping over Charles to make Harry king once the Queen dies?
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Post by: aldo_14 on February 23, 2007, 08:56:21 am
Harry is only the dimwit third-in-line anyways (he's the dumbest of the family, which is a bit like being the smelliest bit of dung in a dungpile).  He'll draw out the nutters in the same was as David Blaine hanging over the Thames in a clear plastic box.

I though he was the well-liked one. Wasn't there talk of skipping over Charles to make Harry king once the Queen dies?

Diana was a 'well liked' one - it didn't stop her being a vacuous tart.

And that was William, really.  Who is also a twat.
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Post by: Wild Fragaria on February 23, 2007, 10:03:14 am
Don't know them :P
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Post by: Zuljin on February 23, 2007, 10:06:47 am
Don't know them :P

Probably just as well :P
The media coverage spent on them could be better spent elsewhere.
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Post by: Hippo on February 23, 2007, 10:13:18 am
"You're a soldier, Harry."
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Post by: NGTM-1R on February 23, 2007, 04:11:53 pm
Oh, and not English king.  The last English monarch died in 1603 and was suceeded by the Scottish King James.

Well, if you want to be like that, last king of the English. :p
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Post by: IceFire on February 23, 2007, 04:40:03 pm
they're not trying to avoid it, the whole thing is a crusade 2.0
Yep, its just like a regular Crusade but just with more linear gradients (web developer joke).
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Post by: neoterran on February 23, 2007, 08:27:20 pm
don't forget the rounded corners. But !! I've just found out how to create the fabled Square Corners using CSS !!

http://www.drivl.com/posts/view/700