Spongers

[Duncan Disorderly]

Will and Kate are to be given £4M to do up their "official" residence cos they'll be there for "many, many years to come".

 

Can I get some money to do up my "official" gaff. Could do with sorting out the damp, back garden needs paved and an extension would be handy so the kids can have bigger rooms and we can put a bathroom upstairs. We'll be here for many, many years to come.

 

Try arguing the rights of these immigrants with Daily Mail readers.

[Billy Dane]

Surely it's the least we can do? Kate needs a new kitchen and a few bathrooms in their 22 room apartment for the three of them.

[Case]

Well, they bring cash into the economy through lard-a*** yanks buying gold-rimmed china mugs with pics of Kate's admittedly fine cheekbones on them. What merchandise are you thinking of selling to attract Tawnya and Terri from Virginia, DD?

[Duncan Disorderly]

I have embossed gilt plates with pics of my family that I sold a job lot to to Wang Yang and Lee Wei in Beijing.

[New York Red]

Well, they bring cash into the economy through lard-a*** yanks buying gold-rimmed china mugs with pics of Kate's admittedly fine cheekbones on them. What merchandise are you thinking of selling to attract Tawnya and Terri from Virginia, DD?

 

Nah. Get more accurate with your stereotypes huh?

[Swan Red]

Immigrants?

[Duncan Disorderly]

Yeah, bloody fish, coming out of the water, etc. etc.

[Swan Red]

I don't know what you mean.

[Duncan Disorderly]

I don't know what you mean.

Stewart Lee sketch about immigration, bloody Huguenots, bloody Normans, bloody Anglo-Saxons, bloody Beakers etc.

 

He just brought it right back to the dawn of evolution.

[John am Rhein]

a McKinsey study showed that they could be replaced by an animated tv show with no loss of tourist revenue

[Molby]

a McKinsey study showed that they could be replaced by an animated tv show with no loss of tourist revenue

 

that's a brilliant idea

 

as an aside, what's to stop a cartoon show being made anyway, called 'The Royals?' do they have to approve it or something?

 

also, we could confiscate the castles and land and do useful things with them (restaurants, roller discos etc)

[Swan Red]

Stewart Lee sketch about immigration, bloody Huguenots, bloody Normans, bloody Anglo-Saxons, bloody Beakers etc.

 

He just brought it right back to the dawn of evolution.

 

Yeah I'm still none the wiser

[Duncan Disorderly]

Yeah I'm still none the wiser

About the sketch, or the point he's making?

[Gerry]

About the sketch, or the point he's making?

 

I've written down what I think SR's reply to this is going to be on a piece of paper. If I'm right I'll let you know.

[Swan Red]

The point you are making DD.

 

Does Cobs owe you £5 Gerry?

[Gerry]

The point you are making DD.

 

Does Cobs owe you £5 Gerry?

 

:yes:/>

[Duncan Disorderly]

The point you are making DD.

I said the royals were immigrants with tongue firmly in cheek.

 

My point is, with reference to Stewart Lee, WTF does it matter where anyone is from or settles in whatever country of choice or otherwise. Idiots blaming such-and-such for justification of their views on immigration is pointless. If they looked far enough back, they'd find they come from immigrant stock too and they should be thankful for the diversity it creates in society.

 

Stewart Lees's sketch just brings this down to the nth degree.

[Swan Red]

so this would have made more sense had immigration been the point of your post rather than royal spending

 

they aren't immigrants and so immigration isn't relevant to the discussion in any way.

 

I suspect you just wanted to shoe horn a dig at the mail and show favour to Stewart Lee's routine without actually thinking it through

[cymrococh]

I suspect you just wanted to shoe horn a dig at the mail and show favour to Stewart Lee's routine without actually thinking it through

A crazy theory but you might just be right.

[Duncan Disorderly]

so this would have made more sense had immigration been the point of your post rather than royal spending

 

they aren't immigrants and so immigration isn't relevant to the discussion in any way.

 

I suspect you just wanted to shoe horn a dig at the mail and show favour to Stewart Lee's routine without actually thinking it through

You think too much.

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

I suspect he wanted to have his cake and eat it, by saying the Royals are immigrants (Phil the Greek, Prince Albert being German) and also saying that it doesn't matter

Edited June 23, 2014 by Kvarme Ate My Food

[Nathan Explosion]

Sponge cake, yes?

[Swan Red]

I suspect he wanted to have his cake and eat it, by saying the Royals are immigrants (Phil the Greek, Prince Albert being German) and also saying that it doesn't matter

 

ah yeah this as well via the topical medium that is Stewart Lee.

[Duncan Disorderly]

Ignore explanations and the gist of a thread to score PC high-horse points all you want.

 

It's quite banal really.

[Swan Red]

That's ironic, really.