The UK Monarchy Explained

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4 жыл бұрын

Queen Elizabeth II, distant cousin of her own husband, is head of state not only of the UK but many other countries. How does this fit in with the idea of meritocratic equality? Rue Britannia!
Figures sourced from Statistia:
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The music in the titles is Mozart's Lacrimosa (Requiem)
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@KMHill 4 жыл бұрын

Welcome back. We've missed you.

@stuffandthat157 4 жыл бұрын

Truly. These are unique videos on youtube and I wish there were more of them

@noizetv4240 4 жыл бұрын

Dearly.

@Demigod_3scrub 4 жыл бұрын

Like what I've done with the place?

@volumedealer2716 4 жыл бұрын

Not me

@zetetick395 4 жыл бұрын

Gosh, I only popped to the loo for 2 minutes! But thanks, nevertheless. 💖

@Cunnysmythe 4 жыл бұрын

"Did he diddle the home?" We've missed you Georg

@nehehhdhdhs4574 3 жыл бұрын

🚨 BWEEEEEWEEEM BWEEEEEEEEEEEEM 🚨

@codyw518 4 жыл бұрын

“And where is all the hemophilia coming from?” That made me burst out laughing Georg.

@JasonGodwin69 4 жыл бұрын

The UK queen did nothing to stop Rotherham. Remember the girls of Rotherham.

@givmespace 4 жыл бұрын

wait so phillip and the queen are related?

@lizardlegend42 4 жыл бұрын

@@givmespace If the question is "are these European Royals related" the answer is yes, it's always yes. The lot of em are all almost as inbred as pugs

@SomePotato 4 жыл бұрын

@@givmespace Their family tree is a circle.

@givmespace 4 жыл бұрын

@@lizardlegend42 disgusting they should be jailed.

@spooneater9001 4 жыл бұрын

But where will Ghislane Maxwell's inevitable suicide fit into all this?

@nhmooytis7058 4 жыл бұрын

Present Tense another suicide would be fishy even to eejits. Ghislaine will be shot en route to or from court, assassin will shoot self. They did learn one thing from LHO and Ruby.

@spooneater9001 4 жыл бұрын

@@nhmooytis7058 yeah...the media will say the shooter's family was screwed over by Ghislane years prior or something. Hire a black assassin and he wouldn't even have to commit suicide.

@nhmooytis7058 4 жыл бұрын

Present Tense or a female rape victim there’s a twist.

@calebdehart6651 4 жыл бұрын

Everytime I see royal wedding footage I think of that South Park episode. "And now the scraping off of the pudding. Isn't she beautiful, scraping off the pudding with the grace of a butterfly. She rubs the pudding on her face. The prince now attempting to remove one of the princess's arms. As is of course the tradition. The princess screaming with pain. Everyone watching with anticipation. And the arm is off! Things are back to normal here in Canada. Time-honored traditions are once again-yehhss, the prince is sticking the princess's arm up his ass. There it goes. He's really making a good go of it. What a glorious day for Canada, and therefore of course, the world."

@userJohnSmith 4 жыл бұрын

I have no memory of this episode...

@sdash0 3 жыл бұрын

@@userJohnSmith southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Royal_Pudding

@userJohnSmith 3 жыл бұрын

@@sdash0 Bless you sir.

@beautifulcaramelman 2 жыл бұрын

As is tradition

@mrwevans 4 жыл бұрын

One day in the future, "Charles isn't a paedophile" will be printed on the new king's commemorative coronation tea towel.

@hidden6ix742 4 жыл бұрын

@Anthony England didn't he have massive teeth?

@zetetick395 4 жыл бұрын

@@hidden6ix742 Yes, but none of them were biologically his, their provenance yet remains a mystery at which we can only guess in horror.

@hidden6ix742 4 жыл бұрын

@@zetetick395 i actually find that more disturbing than the necrophilia

@anonb4632 4 жыл бұрын

I don't actually believe Charles is, Andrew on the other hand....

@zetetick395 4 жыл бұрын

@@hidden6ix742 Well, I suppose at least the raped dead people are already *dead* - so they really don't mind being fiddled with at all at all. (Such is the optimistic perspective) ...I mean, if it was MY corpse then: 10.34am Gets a strangers erection rubbed against my cold, inert body for 7 minutes. 2.17pm Get an autopsy chest-saw opening up my thorax and my internal organs roughly thrown into a butchers scales while I lay naked & leaking on a hard metal table. I may have gained a fresh sense of perspective about the whole ' erection' thing come teatime.

@Captain1nsaneo 4 жыл бұрын

Quick point about the paintings/buildings/illiquid assets. The Vatican has similar artworks but lists them as being worth 1 dollar because they can never be actually sold as no one wants to go down as the pontiff who got rid of mutli-hundred years old sculptures.

@phoebexxlouise 4 жыл бұрын

i think conversely, listing their value as one dollar prevents them from being sold or stolen.

@Captain1nsaneo 4 жыл бұрын

@@phoebexxlouise Eh, not so much prevents as discourages I'd say. If their sellable value is uncertain it's less attractive to unsophisticated thieves as there's no hard number to grab attention.

@christophermerlot3366 3 жыл бұрын

It's also a result of some of those works as being uninsurable as they are literally listed as priceless.

@bigidiotdumbstupidguy9329 3 жыл бұрын

And you get into the issue most art thieves run into. The age old question of “who would buy the Mona Lisa?” Even if they did steal, say, that Mesopotamian sculpture of the fertility goddess, no sane person would ever buy it from them.

@doctordarkness100 3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, stealing any of those artworks would make you shunned, to say the least. If not outright beaten to a pulp.

@RainBird88x 4 жыл бұрын

Bring back the Plantagenets. We haven't had a war with France for a while.

@malikialgeriankabyleswag4200 3 жыл бұрын

Bring back Thomas Paine fuck slavery and authoritarianism fuck all your politics nigga u will never take our Freedom

@KingAgniKai 3 жыл бұрын

Isnt the current royal family related to the Plantagenets

@slyseal2091 3 жыл бұрын

@@KingAgniKai I'm pretty sure all of the major european countries former monarchs were related.

@KingAgniKai 3 жыл бұрын

@@slyseal2091 they are

@EagleSix52 3 жыл бұрын

Their coat of arms were far more cooler War of the roses 2.0 when?

@macacofrito 4 жыл бұрын

"Where is all this hemophilia coming from" should be on a shirt with their genealogical tree

@TheRedNaxelaYouTube 4 жыл бұрын

Genealogical wreath*

@brianjohnson9802 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRedNaxelaKZfaq Perfect.

@zetetick395 4 жыл бұрын

I would wear that. Sign me up.

@anonb4632 4 жыл бұрын

* haemophilia

@malikialgeriankabyleswag4200 3 жыл бұрын

They fuckin they cuzins boy

@orangelighting5633 4 жыл бұрын

My mans gonna be in a "car crash" soon for that thumbnail XD

@nicanornunez9787 4 жыл бұрын

@m riggs also Malcom X..., wait a second, I'm starting to see a some pattern here, Chomsky is an anarchist and the others are more Marxist.

@Jaws-zb1cg 4 жыл бұрын

Nicanor Núñez or people are just dicks and kill people

@Red__Law 4 жыл бұрын

Nah my money would be on Meghan Markle getting into an unfortunate accident sooner than anyone...

@moorederodeo 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I see he's been silent for a couple of weeks, is he ok?

@flannel_punk 2 жыл бұрын

who's in the thumbnail? I'm not British sorry

@munkyzzb7504 4 жыл бұрын

9:43 "Whose Children?" 😂😂😂

@SlapstickGenius23 4 жыл бұрын

Queen Elizabeth’s awful son Andrew.

@ChrisCVW 4 жыл бұрын

Prince Andrew nailed that interview no sweat.

@frozenbinarystudio 2 жыл бұрын

That's not all he nailed

@ginaluciano9933 6 ай бұрын

Lololol

@lemon1954 4 жыл бұрын

So when is Georg going to talk about Herod Agrippa?

@liaminwales 4 жыл бұрын

always makes me think of the book Agrippa by William Gibson. tad off i know but still, what what

@Johny40Se7en 4 жыл бұрын

😅😂

@zetetick395 4 жыл бұрын

Only when the Reptilians finally threaten to take away his magic bubble lantern.

@robotjox77 4 жыл бұрын

Not sure Georg is going to be on this year's birthday honours list.

@PribPrib 4 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, pizza express just went into administration anyway

@zerovalon6243 4 жыл бұрын

The five most important thing all in one scene. The lamp, the lava lamp, tea, Georg and most importantly of all that glorious robe.

@Amy_Dunn 4 жыл бұрын

"Did he diddle the home?" Brilliant.

@BamBamBigelow.. 4 жыл бұрын

If Ghislain Maxwell has dirt on Prince Andrew, it’ll be amusing how Windsors’ spin that one?!

@thejudgmentalcat 4 жыл бұрын

She'll die in police custody long before that.

@footsoldier857 4 жыл бұрын

Death Cl💀ck: Ghislaine 2 weeks

@spooks196 4 жыл бұрын

She’s a gonna

@HowDeepIsYourJesus 4 жыл бұрын

They'll just kill her like they did Epstein

@RenegadeShepard69 4 жыл бұрын

Apparently she is reportedly ill... In other words, "when she dies, it'll not be suicide this time guys, we're getting better at this xDdd"

@sophiafortyfour 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure Charles’s ties to record breaking peodo Jimmy Saville has more significance than is commonly known

@ozzymandias8137 4 жыл бұрын

“Record breaking peodo” made me laugh way too much

@stevenobrien557 4 жыл бұрын

It is almost like pedos are good at manipulating people to get better access to their prey.

@arthurballs7083 4 жыл бұрын

Savile never escaped prosecution due to police failing to investigate formerly lodged allegations by victims, or by a local CPS "forgetting" to forward a file to London. Former Labour MP Greville Janner escaped prosecution 3 times (one being for having abused an 8 or 9 year old boy with the notorious paeophile Frank Beck) due to suspicious 'incompetence' from the police or CPS, before he died when a "trial of the facts" had just begun, over 30 men had submitted formal complaints to the police about being abused by Janner, most of them whilst they were in children's care homes. The media, particular the Times, Telegraph, and BBC, have frequently ran propaganda pieces claiming he is a victim of false allegations by either antisemitic or money hungry liars. It's disgusting. Janner should be the default example of the elite getting away with the most hideous crimes, but most people don't know just how damning the evidence against him is.

@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive 4 жыл бұрын

Doesn’t every Brit have ties to Saville?

@ozzymandias8137 4 жыл бұрын

Mild Misanthrope heyyyy I’m a Brit and I’m not a nonce😔

@chucky187 4 жыл бұрын

I believe that the French have a solution to all of these "Royal" problems. A cutting edge solution.

@user-sz3ie5gl1h 3 жыл бұрын

off with the heads

@alexanderbarnes8991 2 жыл бұрын

they're on their 5th republic. removing monarchy didn't fix the turmoil its still there and always will be.

@TititoDeBologay 2 жыл бұрын

@@alexanderbarnes8991 Democracy is an ever evolving and engaging concept. England,Spain,Sweden France are all so called Democracy yet are very different, in laws and applications. For all intent and purposes, a people that stay alert about the state of their country affairs, is a healthy one. Status quo is lethal.

@alexanderbarnes8991 2 жыл бұрын

@IIWII any time a government system is removed you will have a power vacuum that will result in consolidated power. ie (Germany removes Kaiser, Reichstrag, you have an all powerful Fuhrer) (France removes monarchy results in reign of terror and allows for an emperor Napoleon invading mainland Europe.) (United States creates more bureaucracies and executive powers resulting in more federal powers at the expense of the states and the people)

@thegreenbaron6439 Жыл бұрын

Napoleon

@oscarpike2897 4 жыл бұрын

Louis XIV is still the 'longest-reigning monarch in the world' clocking in at 72 years compared to Elizabeth II's 68

@ThePresident001 4 жыл бұрын

Longest reigning European monarch. I think there are others who reigned longer than king Louis.

@rodchavoya 4 жыл бұрын

good ole' Lizzy just has to make it to 2024

@CrashWeezerman 4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully the old girl last another 4 years

@oscarpike2897 4 жыл бұрын

@@ThePresident001 Only if you count dependant states en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-reigning_monarchs

@fall190 4 жыл бұрын

@@CrashWeezerman hopefully not can't believe the british actually like her when she sold the british empire to the US LOL

@duffman18 4 жыл бұрын

When there's _BOTH_ the desk light and the lava lamp there, you know some serious shit's about to go down

@samprastherabbit 4 жыл бұрын

I loved that 'don't think about Ireland' and Kenya references lol Great to have you back!

@karlhans8304 4 жыл бұрын

Lets just replace the royals with you Georg, your name already sounds like it is royalty of dubious french-german origins

@jacklong1844 3 жыл бұрын

And have a wakanda style succession system

@Zutarafan1993 4 жыл бұрын

Princess Alice was Queen Victoria's third child and second daughter, not the first. But yeah, it still makes the Queen and her husband third cousins.

@RuthEdelstein 2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, third cousins are barely related.

@TheToonMonkey 4 жыл бұрын

A minute for every week of lockdown. Ok I'll take that.

@JM-pm3ob 3 жыл бұрын

We were so young and full of hope back in August 2020

@agdgdgwngo 4 жыл бұрын

"Your majesty, do you happen to have any spare cigarette filters?"

@ghastor1393 4 жыл бұрын

The bizzare summary has always been a delight. Tied for favourite thing out of your channel with one minute to midnight.

@GideonErnesto 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent video essay. Glad your're back.

@NeedForMadnessSVK 3 жыл бұрын

I just wanted to mention that the part about royal family being relatively cheap doesnt cover a lot of other costs. Like security and renovations of historical buildings that are used by royal family. The same goes for presumed indirect profits from tourism, France gets far more tourists and make much more money from them then UK and they dont have monarchs. KZfaqr Shaun did a great 17 minute video that goes deeper into the topic.

@saschamayer4050 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting.

@ayameisastar 2 жыл бұрын

Dude, that's cause London isn't Paris. It ain't romantic the same way Paris is. Also the food is way better pretty much anywhere in France. Without the royals and Jane Austen what would make the UK a hot tourist spot? Fish and chips? Oxford/Cambridge? France also has better chateaus and castles. I don't mean to imply you don't have a point. I'm just saying I'll give the royals/crown jewels/royal castles a good amount of credit for tourism

@saschamayer4050 2 жыл бұрын

@@ayameisastar I was both in London and Paris more than once, and in my experience the food is way better in London. 😋 Also, no big city is romantic (apart from Rome maybe), they're all anonymous tourist hotspots. If you want to experience romance and friendliness, go to the countryside. 😉

@emeraldcelestial1058 2 жыл бұрын

@@ayameisastar Nice cope dude

@theunkemptvaper6866 4 жыл бұрын

I've recently discovered your channel and I just wanted to tell you how much I've been enjoying your content. I really like how you analyze some of my favorite movies from the 80s and 90s I find it highly enjoyable. Thanks for all the quality content.

@Kane_Clutch 4 жыл бұрын

George, please continue making videos. About anything, as long you make them I will watch them

@zennyclor626 4 жыл бұрын

Your videos are incredibly well-made and super-interesting!!

@ladydynamite7 3 жыл бұрын

'Don't think about Ireland, think about pith helmets' is one of my favourite summaries of the British attitude to their colonial past ever.

@zetetick395 4 жыл бұрын

"Diddle" Georg, *Diddle?* You've been away from Airstrip 1 *far* too long, dear boy.

@sethjones8759 4 жыл бұрын

I just found your channel in the last few weeks. I hope you keep making videos. Cheers

@erichobbs4042 4 жыл бұрын

Always the most excellent channel on KZfaq. Great to see you back.

@RuB0t 3 жыл бұрын

"The empire had pros and cons. Don't think about Ireland, think about pith helmets" Lost it at that.

@terrenceswiff 4 жыл бұрын

Whoa, a mention of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Rare! That's where half my family comes from.

@ill_will6492 4 жыл бұрын

Welcome back georg it’s been a long wait but always worth it for your videos.

@simondaniel4028 3 жыл бұрын

Love these vids. Nice presentation and set.

@Lawful_Rebel 4 жыл бұрын

We're all equal, however, some, these days, evidently believe they are more equal than others. 🐷 Oink Apparently, no respondent has read 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell.

@Lawful_Rebel 4 жыл бұрын

@@sep9365 If you'd read 'Animal Farm' you would've understood the meaning of the comment, and, therefore, the point I was making.

@Lawful_Rebel 4 жыл бұрын

@@ghoulinthegraveyard399 If you'd read 'Animal Farm', an allegory to the folly of socialism, you would've understood the simple meaning of the comment, and, therefore, the point I was making; I guess I was expecting a little too much. And, frankly that's the dumbest explanation of the concept of equality I've ever heard. May God have mercy in your soul. 😔

@Lawful_Rebel 4 жыл бұрын

@Forgotten You should read 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell, that book was the source of my comment.

@lukeparnell5572 4 жыл бұрын

bro youve read animal farm? the book literally everyone has read in school? poopoopeepee analogy of man you must be very smart

@Lawful_Rebel 4 жыл бұрын

@@lukeparnell5572 Compared to you, I imagine so.

@bigratkiller1 4 жыл бұрын

OMG it's been so long. I missed you so much. Very happy to see you back on youtube and looking well. You are, and always have been my favorite Lava Lamp. How's George?

@crispmom 4 жыл бұрын

I'm American and, thus, have no stake in the British monarchy, but I find Princess Anne a far more compelling figure than Charles. I got to meet her when I was a teenager in the mid-1980s. My mom worked for a US company that was, at the time, part-owned by the royal family. Princess Anne came to visit, during which the company organized a large cookout; all the employees and their families were invited. We were instructed not to approach Princess Anne, that she would approach us if she wanted to interact. There were several hundred people in attendance, and my small group of school friends and I thought she'd never want to speak to a bunch of kids. So, myself and about 6-7 of my friends were just standing around talking. Princess Anne walks up and starts talking to us, but I was so awe-struck that I couldn't form a response. One of my friends answered her question, and I just stood there looking like an idiot. I remember thinking that she was so poised and elegant, the kind of poise and elegance that I could never hope to achieve, but she seemed very kind and sincerely interested.

@danieleaimone8461 4 жыл бұрын

this guy style,taste and overall quality in video making is truly remarkable!!

@JackDevaney 4 жыл бұрын

Your videos are like bathing in beans. I don't care if it happens regularly or once in the bluest of moons. It's still a cheeky thrill.

@hatendiscontent 4 жыл бұрын

What does this even mean? I hate jerking off to your moonspeak

@JackDevaney 4 жыл бұрын

@@hatendiscontent with enough time, soul searching and meditation you'll come to realise that the beans were inside you all along

@ResistanceQuest 4 жыл бұрын

This is beans! This is food!!

@iloldthough6611 3 жыл бұрын

You are a hero to me. I've been told to leave the UK for such criticisms, thank you bro.

@FunnyGorillaHaha 4 жыл бұрын

Oh weird, I was just binge watching your videos earlier today. How serendipitous.

@Leshpurg 4 жыл бұрын

Just found your channel and have been binging your videos for hours now. Even some of the videos I don’t think I’d enjoy normally based on the topics I find myself watching and liking, whether that’s through how you portray them or just because I enjoy your voice and face a lot. Nonetheless, I’m excited to see more content from you in the future, and I hope you’re doing well.

@adamheywood113 4 жыл бұрын

Maxwell didn't die of coronavirus complications. Just getting ahead of the curve.

@anonb4632 4 жыл бұрын

Robert Maxwell? No, he was just found floating around.

@adamheywood113 4 жыл бұрын

@@anonb4632 I meant his daughter, Ghislaine, although in my complete ignorance of Robert's death, I'm fully expecting a sordid tale of intrigue.

@anonb4632 4 жыл бұрын

@@adamheywood113 You should look up his death. A lot of stuff going on. He had stolen from his employees' pension fund. He was also working for several spy agencies including MI5 and Mossad at the same time. I think it all caught up with him.

@Retrostar619 4 жыл бұрын

@@adamheywood113"I'm fully expecting a sordid tale of intrigue." Oh boy are you in for a treat.

@thequeenofswords7230 3 жыл бұрын

12:05 It's worth noting that the UK Royal Family's primary value is mostly rooted in landholdings that they have questionable rights and depend on the nitty gritty of how one goes about legally deconstructing the Monarchy. This is not to advocate anything but, rather, pointing out that working out a 'cost/benefit' hinges upon who gets what in the divorce and 'the people who claimed to be Divinely Chosen might have held unreasonable negotiating power and maybe shouldn't just get to keep literally everything' isn't exactly a legally untenable position.

@30somethingmanchild 4 жыл бұрын

Glad to see you're back 👍

@DarthTicius 4 жыл бұрын

Duuude, i was just thinking what happend to your videos and a notification pop up! This brings joy, indeed!

@sevenproxies4255 3 жыл бұрын

@ Georg Rockall-Schmidt You've done quite a few "How the XXXX-films changed", many of them from the 1980's. Have you considered doing one on the Karate Kid films?

@leigh6417 3 жыл бұрын

Everything ok George!? I haven’t heard much from you in a while. Not that you’re expected to drop your golden content on a weekly basis or anything. The lack of uploads is slightly worrying, I just hope you’re well mate. It’s been a rough year. A complete stranger is sending some cyber love!! Waiting for more goodness from you when you’re well and ready!

@thunderhorse6666 4 жыл бұрын

There u are brotha!!!!! Glad to see you're still alive and kickin!!!!

@girlspooptoo8567 4 жыл бұрын

Good content Thanks Georgey

@patavinity1262 4 жыл бұрын

Not entirely true regarding the executive powers of the monarch never having been used independently since 1834. During the constitutional crisis of 1911, the King refused to accept the resignation of the Prime Minister, thus forcing him to continue in office without the support of Parliament. The 'transition into constitutional monarchy' emphatically did *not* begin in the 19th century, but in the 17th, with the Restoration. Some might argue it began with Magna Carta.

@anonb4632 4 жыл бұрын

The monarchy deposed Gough Whitlam in the seventies too.

@patavinity1262 4 жыл бұрын

@@anonb4632 Not quite. The Governor General John Kerr acted independently in dismissing Gough Whitlam. In fact it was the threat of having *Kerr* dismissed (as the Australian Prime Minister is entitled to demand of the Queen) that led him to act pre-emptively.

@anonb4632 4 жыл бұрын

@@patavinity1262 Nope, that's the monarchy. The Governor General is the representative of the queen in the Commonwealth Countries.

@patavinity1262 4 жыл бұрын

@@anonb4632 No, because the representative of X is not X. The Pope is held to be the representative of God on Earth, that does not mean that he is God. If the Governor General had acted on orders from the Queen, then it would be accurate to say the monarch had dismissed him. As he acted unilaterally, it isn't.

@mabamabam 4 жыл бұрын

@@patavinity1262 Kerr was in regular correspondence with the palace. Claiming he acted unilaterally is a very big call.

@jakubsedlak2173 4 жыл бұрын

I had to stop taking this seriously after I heard "the queen of England"...

@ItsAnGoose 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent vid as always Georg! You’re one of the only decent youtubers left in my eyes

@lancesims8627 4 жыл бұрын

Stoked your back dude love the content

@christiandaugherty6339 4 жыл бұрын

You're back! Hope the film is going well.

@izaakbashir9831 4 жыл бұрын

Could someone please tell me the name of that powerfully haunting, classical, piece of music Georg played at the start of the video? Forgive my lack of culture.

@Olorin486 4 жыл бұрын

Mozart's Requiem D Minor- Lacrimosa

@swissarmyknight4306 4 жыл бұрын

Never be ashamed to ask that question.

@nejjk 4 жыл бұрын

Answer will always be Sandstorm by Darude

@LiveHedgehog 4 жыл бұрын

@@swissarmyknight4306 He should be ashamed to ask - the answer is in the description.

@gum8191 4 жыл бұрын

@Upsidedown Toilet Nah

@domhuckle 4 жыл бұрын

Loving your work

@mikewilliams6025 4 жыл бұрын

I could listen to you all day!

@akkid89 4 жыл бұрын

Hey, can you just make a statement saying you don"t intend to commit suicide.

@lovecraftcat 4 жыл бұрын

And that's the Hiptang

@theharryopalmer 4 жыл бұрын

I have missed these SO MUCH.

@jspecs13 4 жыл бұрын

i very much enjoy these little chats

@squirrelandowl7482 4 жыл бұрын

Looking at the Monarchy from America I have to say I really like it and believe it to be useful. Here in America we attach almost religious reverence onto politicians. If we could divert feelings of patriotism and nation pride onto a person or a family that had no real power I think that would be a healthy thing.

@beth-bi9yv 2 жыл бұрын

That is actually a really interesting point.

@inframatic 2 жыл бұрын

We have kanye

@colinsilver1041 2 жыл бұрын

Are you sure you're American? We only idolize politicians during election year, after their term is up, we couldn't care less about them. There's no royalty here, we have celebrities, of course, but they produce something to be worthy of their fame.

@CHALETARCADE Жыл бұрын

Or...You could just stop attaching religious reverence to polititians. That also works.😁

@t700e Жыл бұрын

@@inframatic This aged interestingly

@domwells3507 4 жыл бұрын

I disagree with your statement about the queen not choosing to be the queen. She makes that choice every day.

@casbyness 4 жыл бұрын

Not from her point of view. She's a devout Christian who believes God assigned her the role of Queen and to shirk that responsibility would mean defying God. Her faith is often what gets her through the most difficult challenges in her life.

@yarsivad000.5 4 жыл бұрын

I don't envy the Queen, but there are a lot of perks.

@casbyness 4 жыл бұрын

@benzo No amount of money makes the death of family or friends any easier. Or having your home burn down. Or having your children accused of crimes or dragged through media scandals. Or watching your country - the thing that you are meant to represent the very best of - gradually decline during your lifetime into global irrelevance.

@Jupiter__001_ 4 жыл бұрын

@benzo Assets and power do not bring joy or peace. I am sure she has had many difficult times in her life, just different to those of common folk.

@nickrioz 4 жыл бұрын

She might to be too dumb and sheltered to know she is a charlatan. It's a classic question whether a lie HAS to be intentional to be dishonest.

@sabojezles 4 жыл бұрын

Good to see you back, man!!!

@simonward-horner7605 4 жыл бұрын

Good to see you've returned.

@blupunk01 4 жыл бұрын

The French and Russians both offed their royals and yet the Palace at Versailles and The Winter Palace/State Hermitage Museum each receive far more visitor per year than Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace combined. All I'm saying is, if it's tourist dollars you want, precedent shows that your best choice is to kick the royals out and let the tourists in (I don't think the regicide is even a necessary component).

@kapparomeo 4 жыл бұрын

Versailles is an unequal comparison - it's grand and ostentatious - and very, very expensive. Versailles budget is over €100M per year - that's almost 3 times the amount spent on the entire UK monarchy just to keep one building tidy. Buckingham Palace is, to be honest, nothing special as a building - it's grey, dull, and the interior is bland. It brings special unique appeal though because it has a living connection to an active monarchy - it's part of a real, ongoing story. It's not just yet another dusty forgotten chateau which Europe has about 10,000 of already.

@dubuyajay9964 4 жыл бұрын

"...and more..." Canada: What's this aboot? Am I a joke to you hoosers, eh? I just had a holiday dontchaknow!

@TheMetalAllfather 4 жыл бұрын

Whoa whoa whoa take 'er easy there, eh! Ya startin' ta sound a little miffed, donchaknow. Might wanna take a few and have a Molson or twelve.

@dubuyajay9964 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheMetalAllfather Well Soory there bud, but dis here limey obviously didn't have his tea time because he kinda forgot we existed. Still, you wanna go out for Poutaine later or some Rick Hortons, eh?

@Bluehawk2008 4 жыл бұрын

Lard tunderin Jaysus!

@dubuyajay9964 4 жыл бұрын

@@Bluehawk2008 Fookin eh!

@bryedtan 4 жыл бұрын

Tell me about it if memory serves me right she is the official head of State for Canada again Head of State not Head of Government.

@enonfilms 4 жыл бұрын

Brillaint as always Georg, love from your friends in Sheffield

@hhharleen 3 жыл бұрын

Your videos are impeccably Interesting! Keep it up sir ✌🏻

@daithiocinnsealach1982 4 жыл бұрын

I'd genuinely be interested in what you have to say about Herod Agrippa. About anything really. And just to say, QE2 was a bit of a hottie back in the day.

@seiban8455 4 жыл бұрын

Violets are blue, the queen has a head, when you remove it, she winds up dead

@nickrioz 4 жыл бұрын

Hey at least she would go out as she lived. As a Royal.

@kevinphillips630 3 жыл бұрын

Good videos. Proper chilled. Please can you make more movie ones? Cheers 👍

@mezzanoon 4 жыл бұрын

Been waiting to see Georg in the inbox, glad to have it!

@VTKC 4 жыл бұрын

"People are equal"? ah but "some are more equal than others" Animal Farm.

@Imdor 4 жыл бұрын

20 seconds of lava lamp is enough to remove all stress.

@WDESJ3 4 жыл бұрын

I hope you start making the podcast again someday. I'd always listen to it while mowing my lawn.

@j2geek 4 жыл бұрын

Great to hear from you!

@jstarr7506 4 жыл бұрын

Well, she was just seventeen You know what I mean

@ResistanceQuest 4 жыл бұрын

And the way she looked, was way beyond comparrrrreee

@Zeflesera 4 жыл бұрын

...another sweaty dude in a chomo unit. *chef kiss* Perfection!

@nickrioz 4 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@tomdooley1099 3 жыл бұрын

Okay enough is enough. The Closing Music makes me gulliver shat endorphins all over my dopamine receptors. It takes me to a fabulous place where any and indeed EVERYTHING is not only possible but happening as well. Next to Lisa converting Homer's unintelligible noises to "Transcendental", I posit this music to "¡Mmmmatsgood!". Discuss. SHOW YOUR WORK! [8:25-8:55] Just.... !!!!!MMMMMMMMMATSGOOD¡¡¡¡¡

@jameslau5497 4 жыл бұрын

Very refreshingly original commentary

@hatendiscontent 4 жыл бұрын

We see at 2:08 the Emirates... I mean emissaries that rule Britons.

@TheMattastic 4 жыл бұрын

When I was younger I was very pro-monarchy. I enjoyed the pomp and and I think it gave the country a lot of prestige and historical weight. But the older I get the less I feel that way. I think the real breaking point has been seeing William and Harry become husbands and parents, and with all the media attention on them and their families and the well-publicised conflicts I've come to the conclusion that royalty is actually pretty bad *for them*. I mean, there are a lot of constitutional and ideological points to make for or against the monarchy, but on a human level I think they and we would all be a lot happier if we just let them quietly sit things out and leave statecraft and politics to people who choose to be there at the top. At least the people we elect to rule over us clearly deserve our scorn and hatred, because only a real psychopath would ever run for office.

@kapparomeo 4 жыл бұрын

If you're worried about how "real psychopaths run for office" though, monarchy is actually beneficial in that respect. It's a check on ambition - even the most cynical and self-serving climber of the greasy pole has someone he can't pay off. In the monarchy you have at least one position in the state that by definition cannot be bought, by any level of corporate funding, electoral fraud or press subversion. The monarchy gives politicians a measure of humility - lots of politicians will of course tell you that they are mere "servants of the people", which is very easy to say when you're standing on a stage having a crowd of adoring followers chanting your name and singing songs after you, but rarely shakes out in practice. Being forced to say "yes your majesty" now and again reminds them that they are here to serve, not just fight for their own prestige.

@TheMattastic 4 жыл бұрын

@@kapparomeo I used to think that too, and in principle I think it seems reasonable, except for the fact that it doesn't appear to work. Being forced to bow has hardly appeared to be a restraining factor for any government within my lifetime. Humility is not abundant among the UK's ruling class.

@kapparomeo 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheMattastic To which I'd say, if you think it's bad now, look over the Atlantic and the madness their never-ending-election cycle puts them through every four years and imagine how much worse it could be. The Queen does have a levelling effect on politicians - one of her biggest fans was Harold Wilson, even though he was an Old Labour socialist he and the Queen got along really well, he always said that the Queen was the one person he could talk to in absolute confidence and honesty because the monarch was the only person who wasn't gunning for his job.

@TheMattastic 4 жыл бұрын

@@kapparomeo Nnnng, I'm unconvinced. The US is hardly representative of most republics. Their electoral politics is way too aggressive and reliant on big money and entertainment "news", and the president has way too much power. America's problems are mostly unique. And I'm glad Wilson got a lot of mileage from talking to the Queen, but that was a long time ago. I mean last year Johnson lied to the Queen's face without remorse, so really it sounds like the levelling effect she has on PMs is really just distilling how much respect they have for their responsibilities of office into a relationship with one person.

@kapparomeo 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheMattastic "lied to the Queen's face" would be a matter of interpretation, really. A lot of those sorts of criticisms are also dishonest and made in bad faith - not saying it's the case with you, but many of the people who were acting outraged over the prorogation last year were left-wingers who normally would be only too happy to mock the Queen except when it served their interest. If you want to settle these sort of constitutional arguments you won't get them sorted out in a republic, either - a written constitution just means we'll have even more litigation over every comma of the document than we do at the moment. I don't think the America comparison is inappropriate either - if it's unfair to compare all republics to their worst examples then it's also unfair to blindly assume a change of system will always be its best and most optimistic version too.

@tommylanigan4721 4 жыл бұрын

Great video!!!

@jbonadia 4 жыл бұрын

Great to see you again my friend

@adamofgrayskull7735 4 жыл бұрын

Forever the Priests were behind the throne now since 1933 it's the banks

@Jeansieguy 4 жыл бұрын

2:38 QE2 ... Queen of Australia among other things was party to the dismissal of the Australian government in a constitutional crisis in 1975 The 'Palace letters', correspondence between the Australian Governor General, Sir John Kerr and QE2, held at the Australian Archives have this year been deemed by the Australian High Court to be public, not private What did she agree to?, Was it a fait accompli prior to her being contacted by the GG? ... All will be revealed ...

@stevenobrien557 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, no. Kerr made recommendations, she rubberstamped. The situation in parliament had caused deadlock and the ALP were unable to govern, the dismissal just triggered an election to break the deadlock. The electorate then did no reelect them.

@anonb4632 4 жыл бұрын

It's worth pointing out a little discussed aspect of the Whitlam case. Shortly beforehand, his government had kicked some CIA spies out of Australia. The Aussies still kick out Chinese spies, but American ones are untouchable and like the UK, Australia is essentially a US satellite state. This had to be a factor.

@stevenobrien557 4 жыл бұрын

@@anonb4632 lol source to spies being kicked out? Or is this someone else's rant that you half heard?

@anonb4632 4 жыл бұрын

@@stevenobrien557 John Pilger's book "A Secret Country". You were saying? I'm sorry I can't remember chapter and verse, it's about twenty years since I last read it. It includes photos of one of the alleged agent and also a photo of a newspaper at the time, so it was in the press there. Pilger's brother worked for Whitlam's government so he had an inside line. By the way, if you think the CIA *doesn't* have operatives in the UK, Ireland, Australia etc, you're buttoned up the back. They don't just collect info on the enemy.

@Jeansieguy 3 жыл бұрын

@@anonb4632 Falcon and the snowman

@C0PPELL 4 жыл бұрын

Good to see you back Georg!

@Chicago_Podcast_Authority 3 жыл бұрын

dude you need to post way more often. these videos are great

@trinidad17 4 жыл бұрын

13:00 "if people are equal the monarchy doesn't make a lot of sense" but then you'll have to abolish all kind of government because people should have equal rights but for sure politicians can get away with many things the common folk cannot, and I guess that's not the point (as royalty and their court and are not legally treated the same as the plebes are) but it also makes sense to clarify that although people may have the same rights that doesn't mean all have the same roles.

@nickrioz 4 жыл бұрын

This subject is way over your head apparently. Even though it isn't that complicated. Just stop commenting if you aren't even going to try.

@trinidad17 4 жыл бұрын

@@nickrioz And yet you manage to post a comment about nothing, except unfounded self-aggrandizement. Congratulations.