Scrapping the monarchy

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Begin this joke. What is asked/said to Maia, and by whom, to solicit this response?

Maia's reply:

"I don't think that would be necessary because i wouldn't be looking forward to it."
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'Damning with faint praise'. Poor man. The woman's a genius :lol:
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accelafine wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 7:21 pm 'Damning with faint praise'. Poor man. The woman's a genius :lol:
He should hear some of the jokes that blind people tell each other. He'd never be ashamed or embarrassed again at his own.
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Uh, start here: https://dubistblind.de/blind-jokes/

"In 2018, I was searching for jokes about blindness. More by accident than design, this resulted in what is perhaps the most comprehensive collection of its kind on the web. I collected the jokes from various websites, sorted them, translated some and revised many. You can find more blindness related jokes in German language here. I am blind myself." — @PerBusch (on Mastodon)

And, sure,why not: https://upjoke.com/royal-jokes

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Possible contexts. She's traveling in something... taxi, airplane... where something in it would be forward facing. Ah, i got it!

"Ma'am, would you like first class coach? Boeing just had new movie viewer screens put into the seats."
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iambiguous wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:52 pm Uh, start here: https://dubistblind.de/blind-jokes/

"In 2018, I was searching for jokes about blindness. More by accident than design, this resulted in what is perhaps the most comprehensive collection of its kind on the web. I collected the jokes from various websites, sorted them, translated some and revised many. You can find more blindness related jokes in German language here. I am blind myself." — @PerBusch (on Mastodon)

And, sure,why not: https://upjoke.com/royal-jokes

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Long time no see, Biggs. How's things?
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accelafine wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 7:21 pm 'Damning with faint praise'. Poor man. The woman's a genius :lol:
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Maia wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 7:37 am
iambiguous wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:52 pm Uh, start here: https://dubistblind.de/blind-jokes/

"In 2018, I was searching for jokes about blindness. More by accident than design, this resulted in what is perhaps the most comprehensive collection of its kind on the web. I collected the jokes from various websites, sorted them, translated some and revised many. You can find more blindness related jokes in German language here. I am blind myself." — @PerBusch (on Mastodon)

And, sure,why not: https://upjoke.com/royal-jokes

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Long time no see, Biggs. How's things?
Let me run that by godot and get back to you. 8)

Long time no see? I hear that. Still, every once in a while I see you in my dreams.

At least I think it's you. :wink:
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iambiguous wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 10:43 pm
Maia wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 7:37 am
iambiguous wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 9:52 pm Uh, start here: https://dubistblind.de/blind-jokes/

"In 2018, I was searching for jokes about blindness. More by accident than design, this resulted in what is perhaps the most comprehensive collection of its kind on the web. I collected the jokes from various websites, sorted them, translated some and revised many. You can find more blindness related jokes in German language here. I am blind myself." — @PerBusch (on Mastodon)

And, sure,why not: https://upjoke.com/royal-jokes

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Long time no see, Biggs. How's things?
Let me run that by godot and get back to you. 8)

Long time no see? I hear that. Still, every once in a while I see you in my dreams.

At least I think it's you. :wink:
Good to know that you've lost none of your joie de vivre.
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Maia wrote: Fri Jul 18, 2025 7:49 am
iambiguous wrote: Thu Jul 17, 2025 10:43 pm
Maia wrote: Wed Jul 16, 2025 7:37 am

Long time no see, Biggs. How's things?
Let me run that by godot and get back to you. 8)

Long time no see? I hear that. Still, every once in a while I see you in my dreams.

At least I think it's you. :wink:
Good to know that you've lost none of your joie de vivre.
Next up:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/energymag ... aganjokes/
https://upjoke.com/nihilist-jokes
https://upjoke.com/philosophy-jokes
https://upjoke.com/existential-jokes

On the other hand, in the end, the joke may well be on...all of us? 
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Re: Scrapping the monarchy

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Maia wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:37 pm
Martin Peter Clarke wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:26 pm
Maia wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:22 pm

Here's the one who got the MBE
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/20812 ... ott-police

As for "Sir Sadiq" he is well known for blocking any rape gang enquiry in London which is why there are no officially recorded instances of it there, which does, of course, beggar belief.
Well known how? I never read the gutter press. Why the double quotes?
You can listen to him here. As for putting "Sir Sadiq" in quotes, then if he's a knight, the whole system stinks and should be scrapped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noJCNh60lfk
Yep. What about it?
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Martin Peter Clarke wrote: Sun Aug 03, 2025 2:53 pm
Maia wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:37 pm
Martin Peter Clarke wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 6:26 pm
Well known how? I never read the gutter press. Why the double quotes?
You can listen to him here. As for putting "Sir Sadiq" in quotes, then if he's a knight, the whole system stinks and should be scrapped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noJCNh60lfk
Yep. What about it?
As an American what does the British monarchy have to do with you? Europe (NOT the US) has been flooded with the worst that islam has to offer, thanks to your own country's devastating effect on the planet with its ongoing love affair with the arms industry and planet-bullying.
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What?
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accelafine wrote: Sun Aug 03, 2025 9:24 pm As an American what does the British monarchy have to do with you? Europe (NOT the US) has been flooded with the worst that islam has to offer, thanks to your own country's devastating effect on the planet with its ongoing love affair with the arms industry and planet-bullying.
As somebody from the US, the British monarchy has nothing to do with me (Canadians might object if I used American).

But I somehow recall that Europe has had an "immigration" problem for quite a while. Some of my ancestors forced their way into Europe in the 9th Century and took over what's now Hungary. Other earlier waves took down Rome, which had a scare hundreds of years before that when Brennus brought Celts through. But of course the Romans themselves claimed to be refugees from Troy. Guess that proved too much for the Etruscans. Maybe the Basques and the Sami not immigrants, but pretty much all the rest of you are.

So apparently the US not the general cause. We humans have pretty much always been doing this.

For those of you who want to bring in religion, what ends up in English as "stranger in the land" means "refugee" (they had those back then too)
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MikeNovack wrote: Mon Aug 04, 2025 12:46 am
accelafine wrote: Sun Aug 03, 2025 9:24 pm As an American what does the British monarchy have to do with you? Europe (NOT the US) has been flooded with the worst that islam has to offer, thanks to your own country's devastating effect on the planet with its ongoing love affair with the arms industry and planet-bullying.
As somebody from the US, the British monarchy has nothing to do with me (Canadians might object if I used American).

But I somehow recall that Europe has had an "immigration" problem for quite a while. Some of my ancestors forced their way into Europe in the 9th Century and took over what's now Hungary. Other earlier waves took down Rome, which had a scare hundreds of years before that when Brennus brought Celts through. But of course the Romans themselves claimed to be refugees from Troy. Guess that proved too much for the Etruscans. Maybe the Basques and the Sami not immigrants, but pretty much all the rest of you are.

So apparently the US not the general cause. We humans have pretty much always been doing this.

For those of you who want to bring in religion, what ends up in English as "stranger in the land" means "refugee" (they had those back then too)
Perhaps we should have learnt something by now? Humans move around. That's what humans do. Humans have evolved to object and protect. That's what humans do too.
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