[DuncanWaring]

Ping.

[stuartcr]

After seeing what happened to royalty in the french revolution, it makes sense that they would be on the side that has the most guns.

[Sherman Logan]

Across Europe aristocrats led a flaunting of sexual taboos and abstinence-based morals; things they dismissed as mere devices for controlling the masses.

To be fair, aristocrats never believed "the rules" applied to them. During the Middle Ages and early modern period, they pretty much didn't. The French were astounded when in 1760 the British actually hanged a peer for murder of a commoner. This would never have happened in France. (Unless the peer had a whole bunch of powerful enemies.)

The Victorian period was unique in that the traditional values of the middle classes moved down into the lower classes and up into the upper classes. However, many of the latter didn't internalize them, they just felt they had to pretend to.

Today, of course, those same values are derided as old-fashioned and are under assault from both the upper and lower classes. So far, this pincer attack is winning.

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

[DTA]

BTTT

[US Navy Vet]

Identify the Pure SCUMBAGS in this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor AND THIS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha