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#181
07-09-2008, 08:59 AM
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 I researched a wonderful anglo-saxon expletive that more than covers such infringements. . . . . . . Bollocks! 
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#182
07-10-2008, 08:54 AM
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The thing about the gollywog is that it's one of those 1950s symbols that was hijacked by the political correctness brigade with the justification that if they didn't, the white supremacists would. What they failed to realise is that they actually set about making a racist symbol out of something that wasn't. Gollywogs were as much a part of my childhood as they were Camilla's despite the 40 years between us and at no point in my kinder days did I ever register the idea that gollywogs were at all racist. They appeared in Enid Blyton and they were on the jam jars, as far as I could see they were simply strange little men. To say Camilla is now a racist because she's got a gollywog keyring is actually as offensive to me as a Briton as those who say that the Union Flag is a racist symbol and shouldn't be used. Political Correctness is responsible for alot of silly and stupid laws and to be honest, I don't think I need a faceless blue-rinse brigade telling me what offends me and what doesn't. That sort of thing should have died with Mary Whitehouse.
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#183
07-10-2008, 10:33 AM
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In my personal opinion ...
As for the doll, the bag is all right, whereas the doll looks childish. I can see such dolls dangling from little/young girls' bags. However, this dangling doll does not mean racial offense. The stable European democracies and monarchies sink into political correctness, which often runs to the extremes.
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#184
07-10-2008, 02:52 PM
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#185
07-10-2008, 02:54 PM
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lol. You're probably right actually. But I feel I've touched a nerve - have you got a blue rinse Skydragon? You can tell me. I'm a gay.
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#186
07-10-2008, 03:00 PM
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To be conservative means that you admire special values in your life like generations before you did. Something bad about it? I can´t see. The Prince and the Duchess are not only doing a job or act... or can somebody really believe that the Prince doesn´t do his environmental work with all of his heart or that the Duchess doesn´t support the NOS with her power, her heart and her love?? ( only two examples) If someone like a keyring is everybody´s choice ( i´m old and i like it to have some) and to make a big story of this doll is only good for another bad newspaper story.
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#187
07-10-2008, 03:16 PM
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I stand by my opinion. I do not have a truly open mind due to my background and up-bringing. Thus, I do not pretend having this so-called open mind. Prince Charles and his wife can not afford to show that they do not have an open mind due to the position they occupy in the stable European monarchy. Prince Charles does play good or bad roles depending on circumstances. Duchess of Cornwall is more or less the same.
It seems to me that you have misinterpreted my words about conservatism. As for the doll, I have pointed the post is my personal opinion.
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#188
07-10-2008, 03:24 PM
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I totally understand where Al_Bina is coming from. I have alot of friends in and from the former USSR and its hard for them to adapt to modern ways of thinking by Western standards.
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#189
07-10-2008, 03:28 PM
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with a little help from a bottle. I have no intention of growing grey gracefully!
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#190
07-10-2008, 07:25 PM
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 Does anybody use blue rinse anymore? I thought that went out with Auntie Mame.  I had to look up gollywogs, I hadn't a clue as to what it was.  Learn something new everyday at TRF! |
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#191
07-14-2008, 03:20 PM
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The Duchess of Cornwall, who is Royal Colonel of the 4th Battalion, visits 'The Rifles' at the Kiwi Barracks, Bulford, Wiltshire, UK, July 14 2008
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#192
07-14-2008, 04:54 PM
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Thank you for the pics, giov!
 __________________________ Camilla meets her troops July 14 The Duchess of Cornwall donned a camouflage jacket during an outing with an army battalion. The Press Association: Camilla meets her troops
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#193
07-14-2008, 05:12 PM
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She wore an elegant peppermint green suit in honour of the occasion.
But the Duchess of Cornwall didn't bat an eyelid when she was asked to don a combat jacket to take part in army wargames yesterday Camilla in combats: Duchess climbs aboard tank for army wargames | Mail Online
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#194
07-14-2008, 05:42 PM
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The photos are beautiful. It's always hilarious how they manage to sneak Diana into everything. And they even tried to polish over the absurdity of the comparison with a nod to Lady Thatcher. As if those two dames were Camilla's only predecessors in regimental inspections.
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#195
07-14-2008, 06:51 PM
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07-14-2008, 09:01 PM
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#197
07-15-2008, 12:35 AM
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I'm so happy for her. She truly seems to be happy in this way of life she has chosen. She has all that radiance of a person who is surprised to find that she has achieved or been blessed with a happiness she never dared to expect.
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Chewster Castle * Peace & blessings * “... in the same way that landscape painters station themselves in the valleys in order to draw mountains... so it’s necessary to be a prince to know thoroughly the nature of the people, and one of the populus to know the nature of princes.” Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince |
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#198
07-15-2008, 04:19 AM
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