Royal trip

Don’t think it is supposed to be a holiday.
I thought that the royal brat was having a year (or two) out from gaining his art history degree before joining the army (and, oh yeah, he’ll get into Sandhurst with his poor degree in art history! What will he specialize in, painting the camouflage pattern on tanks? “Um, black, green, black, err, green…”).
My belief was that he would be getting close to the real working man by travelling as far away as he could from the UK tabloid red-tops and take up a low paid job in Oz (revenge? Tee hee). ‘Course they must have forgotten that the majority of papers, and a few TV stations, in ‘gods chosen land’ are all owned by… the owner of a certain bunch of UK red-topped tabloids! Now the farm (ranch?) that he was hoping to work at is surrounded by – much to the delight of the landlord of the local watering hole, no doubt – the cream of the Australian press corps (well, those who haven’t tried to make it big elsewhere – remarkable how many Aussie barmen will try to convince you that they used to work for The Star in Sydney or something!) and all those royal correspondents who have nothing else better to do back home.
To me his advisors must have thought that taking a job as a sheep shearer in the outback would make it difficult to spy on him, and for that I applaud them – after all I don’t want to open my paper everyday and see pix of him chasing sheep, holding sheep down, wearing a hat, wearing a different hat, appearing to endorse one beer over another coz he’s drinking it, having to drink another different tinny so as not to appear to favour one over the other, or wandering into the dunny with a quilted bog roll under his arm. After all, who cares?

Now, on the other hand, if he did his work experience with Steve Irwin…
“’Ave a look at this beauty! Cor, look at the way he’s goin’ for that snapper! Lenses goin’ everywhere mate!”

And as for David Blaine… Pretentious moron or what? “Look at me; I can grow a beard right before your very eyes – and in a Perspex box too!”
Well, yippee.
The American press are apparently annoyed that the Brits are not applauding his genius but pelting him with food instead. I personally would only go along to see what would happen if he spilt his bodily waste product receptacles; would he carry on or just use the smell as a stimulant!?! But honestly, what are we supposed to do? It is a man in a box, it’s not like he is chained up or anything (yet). We have seen everything in a box at one time or another – and maybe Blaine will pursue this far enough that he ends up in a box… But I would rather go along with all those who have advocated replacing his water supply with Formaldehyde and exhibiting his ‘art’ that way, after all isn’t street theatre supposed to be interesting? (I once saw a man marching up and down with his bagpipes in a park in London; when approached by some oriental tourists who dropped money in his bag he chased them away with yells that he was only practising! If only Blaine was as funny…)

Flood – doesn’t care. No, really.

I totally agree with the issue and feel that it is very similar to the David Blaine ‘situation’.

This crackpot wants to be suspended high above the ground in London while he starves himself. This display has got a little out of hand now and Mr. Blaine has become a target for eggthrowers and paintbombers. Now, fearing for the guy’s safety, police are there just about all of the time. this is going to be expensive.

David Blaine is getting £5,000,000 for doing this, will he contribute towards the costs of the event? I doubt it.

steve rowell
it’s costing six hundred thousand dollars

DAMN, just for a holiday to a sheep shack (shag?)! That’s just mad. What did they do with the sheep? Give them all a make-over with added sillicones, hair implants and lipposuction? 😀

Originally posted by kev35
The Royal Family is in grave danger of becoming nothing more than an expensive irrelevance.

Kev, surely you meant to say

‘The Royal Family has become…’

Ken

Steve.

Absolutely agree with you. It’s disgusting. The six hundred thousand you speak of is only half of it though. The British taxpayer is being charged over one million pounds for the officers of the Royal Protection Squad to stay with him in Australia for twelve weeks. And this to provide a holiday for a young man from one of the richest families around. Could this cause a precedent? Perhaps all students taking a ‘gap’ year to travel should put in a request to the British Government, and therefore the taxpayer, to fund the trip for them.

If prince Harry wants to travel for a few months fine. But surely his family should be made to cover the costs? This is not the first time the Royal family has taken advantage of the ‘generosity’ of the tax payer. After part of Windsor Castle was destroyed by fire who footed the bill for restoration? And if you want to visit it now you have to pay for the privelege.

Because of this is it any wonder that many people are beginning to see the Royal Family as an ultra expensive indulgence with absolutely no commonality of thought with the people of whom they are supposed to be the ti-tular head?

The Royal Family is in grave danger of becoming nothing more than an expensive irrelevance.

Regards,

kev35