Poll: Platinum Jubilee

[Calabi]

Zebras can run faster on land, crocs can swim faster in water. Each creature has attributes.

So predator and prey are on the same level?

I guess you can classify one as superior to another if you want but it's not really a scientific term as far as I am aware. It would mean a human is pretty low on the tier list as we're prey to a ton of predators.

 

[robfosters]

Thread has taken a rather bizarre turn.

 

[Lysander]

Went out with the wife to Soho tonight. I was extremely against it since I thought it would be rammed, I conceded, but it was dead. Never seen it like that, especially on a Friday night.

This is Waterloo Jubilee Line platform at 11pm on a Friday. Everyone had just abandoned going out for anything unrelated to the festivities. It was great.

 

[dlockers]

Went out with the wife to Soho tonight. I was extremely against it but conceded, but it was dead. Never seen it like that, especially on a Friday night.

This is Waterloo Jubilee Line platform at 11pm on a Friday. Everyone had just abandoned going out for anything unrelated to the festivities. It was great.

Post Covid, Thursday is the new Friday in London. Mondays and Fridays it is like a ghost town

 

[Mrwong]

We aim for equality of opportunity not equality of outcome. Even the supposedly most egalitarian country in the world, the USA, (it isnt), has many poor people in worse housing and schooling than the UK. We do try quite hard to provide safety nets but no country in the world can be fully equal or has ever been.

I am not debating which will derail the thread.

It is an illusion if you think that.

 

[Bassmansam]

Looking forward to the concert today, hanz zimmer in particular

 

[Hagar]

It is an illusion if you think that.

I'll bite, name me your country equal for all citizens.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

I'll bite, name me your country equal for all citizens.

Any country that doesn't financially support an individual via tax revenue, based purely on which vagina that individual emerged from.

The USA for starters.

 

[dlockers]

Any country that doesn't financially support an individual via tax revenue, based purely on which vagina that individual emerged from.

The USA for starters.

Literally Birthright

 

[200sols]

The USA that shining beacon of equality in this world.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

The USA that shining beacon of equality in this world.

Let's not muddy the point by bringing race or gender or capitalism into it. The question specifically relates to the vagina lottery, anything else is another conversation entirely.

 

[jpaul]

This is Waterloo Jubilee Line platform at 11pm on a Friday

thought you were going to show new elizabeth line.


.. seemed churlish that her horses can't go to the races either ... Archbishop's still in the saddle analogy - that was worthy of Boris.

 

[Hagar]

Let's not muddy the point by bringing race or gender or capitalism into it. The question specifically relates to the vagina lottery, anything else is another conversation entirely.

Apart from your desire just to be crude, (I am sure the occasional penis is involved). Being born into the Kennedy clan and other notable American families assures just as much of a birthright.

And what is capitalism except for a modern form of barony and a feudal system. Acquisition of land and property. Living from the sweat on the brow of others.

Prince Harry and his wife seem to have the equality driven American companies queuing up to give the pair money. You may think solely due to his birthright. But this is the egalitarian yanks not the downtrodden subservient Brits knuckling their brows as they pass. Most Brits do not really give a pin for the pair of them.

You can live a life of envy and it not make a difference, you can earn a good living and not worry overmuch what anyone else makes. I prefer the latter.

 

[UTmaniac]

Ships in Southampton Water just got very noisy at midday... Jubilee related?

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Apart from your desire just to be crude, (I am sure the occasional penis is involved).

We can only really be sure about the vagina; the penis involved is often open to debate e.g. Prince Harry.

Being born into the Kennedy clan and other notable American families assures just as much of a birthright.

This is factually incorrect; just because there is a history of nepotism and cronyism it does not constitute a birthright. Lyndon B Johnson was not John F Kennedy's eldest son.

The rest of your post is just an attempt at padding a clearly invalid point to argue.

 

[robfosters]

Such a stupid conversation. People are born into money and privilege in every developed country in the world. Totally foolish to beliEve otherwise

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Such a stupid conversation. People are born into money and privilege in every developed country in the world. Totally foolish to beliEve otherwise

There is a clear difference between being "born into money" and having an actual birth right.

 

[Diddums]

Such a stupid conversation.

Also the same conversation in every single topic about the royals, some people are incapable of learning

 

[Hagar]

This is factually incorrect; just because there is a history of nepotism and cronyism it does not constitute a birthright. Lyndon B Johnson was not John F Kennedy's eldest son.

The rest of your post is just an attempt at padding a clearly invalid point to argue.

You beat me by a ninja edit however if both Jack and Bobby had not been assassinated and Edward not crashed into Chappaquiddick creek, who knows. The old man could have had a rerun, Joe Kennedy, with another son.

The USA is just as driven aristocraticaly as the UK. Rich daughters from American families have married European aristos all through their history to get a name to improve the pedigree.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

You beat me by a ninja edit however if both Jack and Bobby had not been assassinated and Edward not crashed into Chappaquiddick creek, who knows. The old man could have had a rerun, Joe Kennedy, with another son.

And if my gran had balls, she'd be my grandad.