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Post by harsh on Jun 6, 2008 8:04:14 GMT -5
I know it's not really interesting to many people, and even less so since i've went on about all day, but a couple of people asked to see my pictures. Only the one came out very well, but i uploaded anything that wasn't either the pavement, the back of someone's head or empty sky (apparently i'm a shockingly bad photographer, but i'll blame the camera). So i'll just post the one that came out, and if you want to look at the other ones just change the number. They go from 2002 to 2022 before my batteries ran out. :/ www.aoyg32.dsl.pipex.com/pics/q/qe2013.jpg
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Post by thelystia on Jun 6, 2008 8:45:47 GMT -5
That's a fabulous hat she's wearing! She's so little and cute
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Post by lockejv on Jun 6, 2008 9:14:37 GMT -5
Cool! It's very interesting, I'm guessing none of us have seen a real queen in person. What was the event? How tight was security? I resized, one at 100%, the other at 75%.
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Post by Aeri on Jun 6, 2008 9:20:59 GMT -5
she' so adorable!
i want one.
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Post by Markus on Jun 6, 2008 17:59:46 GMT -5
We're still part of the "monarchy"... Mixed feelings about it tbh, silly political shit imo...
On a side note, one of the Princes married someone from Quebec recently. It created quite an interest up here.
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Post by harsh on Jun 7, 2008 6:58:38 GMT -5
Cool! It's very interesting, I'm guessing none of us have seen a real queen in person. What was the event? How tight was security? It was the 300th Anniversary of our harbour's Royal Commission, which made our town very wealthy for a time. They were also celebrating the freedom of our harbour the US Navy was given in 1999 i think (historical reasons), but that happens every year. Security wasn't too tight. The roads from one of the train stations all along the route they took to the harbour were closed to vehicles and there were extra police brought in too. In that pic, the guy in the suit behind her slightly to her left was armed (my sister pointed out his gun to me) and he came in a Land Rover with four others in similar attire, so i assume they were all armed body guards. I don't know if you'd count the military personnel there (including some US Navy men) as security, but yeah, i wouldn't normally see that many police officers here.
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Post by harsh on Jun 7, 2008 7:07:35 GMT -5
We're still part of the "monarchy"... Mixed feelings about it tbh, silly political shit imo... On a side note, one of the Princes married someone from Quebec recently. It created quite an interest up here. Well, i assume you'll get rid of the Monarch as your head of state at some point, i'm not even sure how it affects your country at the moment because it barely affects the governance of even here these days. It's nice to have a head of state who is outside the political pettiness the main parties seem to enjoy. I like the Queen, i'm not too fussed about the rest of them though (Zara Phillips is hot, mind). And yeah, i saw that on the news. I think he's eleventh in line to the throne or something like that, so if something like the events of the film 'King Ralph' happens, we could get a French-Canadian Queen.
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Post by Markus on Jun 7, 2008 7:17:23 GMT -5
Yea it's like purely political or for show or out of respect for the history of the two countries... I believe that we do give money (it has a special word that I can't remember atm ><) once a year to the Monarchy. But non of it really has an impact on the governing of Canada.
I should wiki this later for kicks. Its like grade 9 history and it pisses me off that it's fuzzy.
The Queen has always been very popular up here. Maybe a little less in Quebec because somewhere along the line Quebecers became very pro French... Lady Di being the exception though. She was very liked by everyone.
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Post by lockejv on Jun 7, 2008 7:56:51 GMT -5
she' so adorable! i want one. QILF?
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Post by harsh on Jun 7, 2008 8:33:36 GMT -5
Yea it's like purely political or for show or out of respect for the history of the two countries... I believe that we do give money (it has a special word that I can't remember atm ><) once a year to the Monarchy. But non of it really has an impact on the governing of Canada. I actually looked this up after i typed that, haha. Seems to make sense, though i'm not sure how much more / less you'd be paying should you change your head of state to, for example, a president. The whole article is an interesting read and you could find arguments both for and against the Monarchy in there, but that's not really any of my business.
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Post by McClebby on Jun 8, 2008 1:22:51 GMT -5
she' so adorable! i want one. The queen is not for sale >.>
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