What does Elizabeth II have in common with the GB?

by Las Malvinas son Argentinas 19 Replies latest social humour

  • Las Malvinas son Argentinas
    Las Malvinas son Argentinas

    An aversion to beards, no less! Didn't her grandfather, George V, have one?

  • Londo111
    Londo111

    And she speaks with the royal 'we', just like the GB.

  • sir82
    sir82

    She / they produce no benefit to human society, yet it costs hundreds of millions annually to maintain the system they are the figureheads of?

  • jgnat
    jgnat

    She gives an annual address on the progress of her dominion.

  • cofty
    cofty

    She .. produce no benefit to human society

    I disagree. I believe the monarchy is valuable to British society.

  • snare&racket
    snare&racket

    What a great painting of the young Stephen Fry...

    as for the queen and the GB, they both have lived off state handouts for far too long ;)

  • Apognophos
    Apognophos

    I believe the monarchy is valuable to British society.

    Not to derail the thread, but may I ask why those illegitimate figureheads are of any use to a democratic society?

  • Satanus
    Satanus

    She is head of the hive, like the gb is. Queens are for bugs.

    S

  • Pete Zahut
    Pete Zahut

    The Queen is the figurehead of an empire known as G.B.

    The G.B. are figureheads of an empire near Queens.

  • Hortensia
    Hortensia

    I guess she's a focus for patriotism and part of the national identity.

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