Posted on 08/19/2010 7:25:49 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Additionally, Prince C recommends to fellow Britts to go from brushing your teeth once a week to once a month.
“Let the eat Orbit Gum” the Prince said.
Why is it that the Watermelons, when push comes to shove, always seem compelled to suggest people wallow in their own filth and abandon proper personal hygiene?
What about all those fountains Charlie?
Whatever teeth they have left.
While yer at it, old chap, why don’t you cut back on those visits to the dentist, as well!
Guess he’s a full on muzzie now...
Post of the day.
“So the Brits can smell like the French?”
Charles wouldn’t care. Remember, this is the man who aspired to be his (now) wife’s tampon.
IN my experience, a lot of Brits already “snub the bathtub” more than they should...
I did some poking around, and found them at: http://www.startuk.org/think/20-ways-to-start-making-a-difference.aspx
Here they are, along with my (as always) insightful commentary.
1. Start filling up the cracks where the drafts come in, and then you'll be able to start turning down your thermostat
Common sense, although it's nobody's business but my own how warm or hot my house is.
2. Start holidaying closer to home
No. Going someplace far away is part of the point of a vacation. I've read many eco-nuts lament that people are allowed to fly on a plane more than once in their lifetime.
3. Start thinking about your driving (petrol usage, the car you drive)
I recently purchased a Mini Cooper S, and while fuel economy was a factor (I'm averaging 33 mpg combined city/highway) I'm not about to drive 1 mile less because some eco-nanny is waving his finger in my face.
4. Start switching electronics off at the wall
Again, common sense. I don't need royalty to figure this one out.
5. Start drying your clothes in the fresh air
No. Technology is what makes modern life so much better than that of our ancestors, and I refuse to revert to the 19th century.
6. Start recycling
Waste of time.
7. Start using energy saving light bulbs
Might save a few bucks in the long run, but not a big deal.
8. Start growing your own vegetables
No. I also won't grow the cotton for my clothes, or mine the iron for the steel in car.
9. Start loving your leftovers
"Loving" them? I'll certainly use them, but only because it makes economic sense to do so.
10. Start buying only what you need
It's not up to Chuck to determine what I need. He probably wouldn't be happy with my most recent purchase, a French MAB-15 semiautomatic pistol. For that matter, I don't "need" my library of 5,000 books.
11. Start eating what's in season (it's cheaper and it tastes better too)
Part of the pleasure of living in the 21st century is the ability to eat what I want, when I want.
12. Start supporting the people near you who produce food
See above.
13. Start thinking about packaging
I'd rather think about how good a deal I'm getting from a particular product. The only time I care about packaging is when I'm trying to get something out of one of those almost-impossible-to-open plastic boxes that even a scissors won't cut.
14. Start composting
Too much bother for too little reward.
15. Start cherishing, repairing and making your possessions last longer
Depends on how much effort it takes. Some things are worth repairing, others aren't. I cherish my gun collection, but that probably doesn't make Charlie happy.
16. Start boiling only what you need
Um...what? Something to do with cooking, perhaps?
17. Start saving paper and only print what you need
Right...because printing out a few dozen unnecessary pages a year is going to destroy planet. Who. Cares.
18. Start thinking of ways to reuse what can't be recycled, such as paint tins
Alternatively, just throw them away so they don't clutter up the garage.
19. Start using natural cleaning products
They're more expensive, right? No.
20. Start having shorter showers
I prefer to be clean, thanks.
From Wikipedia:
Following in the tradition of Princes of Wales before him, Charles spent time in the navy and air force. After Royal Air Force training that he requested and received during his second year at Cambridge, on 8 March 1971 the Prince flew himself to the Royal Air Force College Cranwell to train as a jet pilot. After the passing out parade in September of that year, he then embarked on a naval career, enrolling in a six week course at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth and then serving on the guided missile destroyer HMS Norfolk (1971–1972) and the frigates HMS Minerva (1972–1973) and HMS Jupiter (1974). Charles also qualified as a helicopter pilot at RNAS Yeovilton in 1974, just prior to joining 845 Naval Air Squadron, operating from HMS Hermes, and on 9 February 1976, the Prince took command of the coastal minehunter HMS Bronington for his last nine months in the navy. In total, Prince Charles has qualified to fly a Chipmunk basic pilot trainer, a Harrier T Mk.4 V/STOL fighter, a BAC Jet Provost jet pilot trainer, a Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft, a F-4 Phantom II fighter jet, an Avro Vulcan jet bomber, and a Spitfire classic WWII fighter.
When my English husband and I have gone to Britain to visit friends and family in England and Scotland, most of the rooms and homes we’ve stayed in outside of London don’t even have showers, just bathtubs.
I lived in England in the early 60s and remember British friends telling us that “Americans take too many baths”. They (at that time) took sink baths during the week and only took a real bath on Saturdays. And yes, they thought that you could cover up body order with lots of perfume/aftershave.....and you can just imagine how much the women stunk (who my father thought were the most gorgeous women in the world other then their bad teeth) since they all had hairy armpits.....is this TMI?
If the British monarchy is to survive, the current Queen has no choice but to appoint Prince William her heir, and bypass this lunatic. No choice.
Most British homes use gravity feed of water from a tank located in the highest possible place (think attic). This renders a shower about as useless as the hind tit on a boar - if you see what I mean.
Quite true, I don't believe he ever served in a military conflict.
thank you so much for finding the list. i’m sending out to friends
and will prolly insert my own comments, tho i liked yours very
much. remember barbra streisand issuing edict that
people should line dry clothes? as if any of the people
who suggests this stuff do it themselves. they should be flogged
for having the temerity to tell others many of these common
sense options most folks engage in. by the way, i guess he doesn’t
mention that if you break one of those energy saving light bulbs,
a hazmat team practically has to be called in to clean it up, thus
compounding cost and energy use.
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