Top Gun

His face looks like shoe leather.

Man I don't know how you guys remember all of those crazy shenanigans. I think my brain actively filtered them out to protect my psyche.

Love to hear what territory Nabs would be willing to cede to someone who invaded the US. Granted his backwoods shithole corner of Tennessee isn't exactly prime real estate so he has nothing to worry about.

Nabs why is it that the only thing you can do here is parrot shitty Kremlin propaganda?

They're so humble.

Ya hate to see it.

*insert I'm_Shocked.gif here*

I am firmly convinced that if Jesus did come back tomorrow, the very first thing he'd do would be to walk up to her and punch her right in the tits.

Sounds like less of a "friend" and more of a "drunk asshole who won't stop yelling on the subway."

Such a loving relationship he had with his father.

Imagine being this wrong about literally everything in your life.

Well it'll be a pretty trainwreck at least.

Nice.

Never forget:

I love that Argentina is still so butthurt that they got curb-stomped and 99% of the people on the Falklands want nothing to do with them.

I don't really know all that much about it. This article explains a bit of the prince consort thing in the UK. Apparently "king consort" was a designation that was used in some places a long time ago, but it's not used in the UK. The long and short of it is that the British monarchy is fully hereditary, so simply marrying into it doesn't give you any particular authority. Elizabeth was the sole reigning monarch, and Philip just happened to be married to her. "Prince Consort" isn't an actual official title, but Elizabeth granted him the title "Duke of Edinburgh," which was really just a formality. As for what the UK's monarch does, he or she is the official head of state of the United Kingdom. In a lot of countries, particularly those with parliamentary systems of government, the roles of chief of state and chief executive are separated. In a constitutional monarchy like the UK, the monarch is the chief of state, and the prime minister is the chief executive; in a parliamentary republic, an elected president is the chief of state. The United States and countries like us are presidential republics, where one elected president holds both roles together. There's probably all sorts of complications I'm glossing over, but that's the basic idea. At this point the British monarch's powers are largely as a ceremonial figurehead: they formally call parliament into session and dissolve it, and they accept the resignation of or confirms the current prime minister, as Elizabeth did a few days ago. They formally represent the nation in affairs of state, even though they generally don't have any decision-making power; I think the official phrasing is that they "advise and consent" the current government. They have the same role in the Commonwealth countries that are still constitutional monarchies, like Canada and Australia, though in those cases there's an appointed office called the Governor-General that pretty much represents the monarch's authority locally. As far as finances go, this BBC article seems to explain it pretty well. Basically, the monarch receives a yearly grant from the government, but that money generally comes from the Crown Estate, property that the monarchy "owns" but doesn't actually control. There are also separate private holdings by the royal family that they control directly. The British government is responsible for security costs, which I'd assume are substantial, but the monarchy also provides a huge source of tourism revenue, so who knows how it all sorts out.

Philip was known as "Prince Consort," I guess because there's still a difference in optics between "Queen Consort" and "King Consort." The spouse never gets any sovereign powers, just fancy titles.

Charles officially became the monarch the moment Elizabeth died. The actual coronation is just a formal ceremony.

Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in-between.

That's an oof from me, dawg.

I saw someone point out that this feels extremely pointless because the DoJ has already looked through all of the documents. If this was done beforehand, it might be more significant for him, but the cat's already out of the bag.

I've seen a number of UPS trucks that are labeled as running on natural gas, which is...slightly better I guess?

Just FYI for the normal thread crew, I'm gonna stop leaving redirects to the previous week's threads since they clutter things up, but they'll all be moved to the archive folder as usual.