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Hydropower: Queen gets screwed. Bristol's next.

Mark Halper,

Your headline is unacceptable. How dare you be so offensive to a sovereign head of State?Actually your headlne would be offensive full stop,whoever the target.

Do you not realise you have many UK readers? Do you not understand that we don't like our institutions, or our 84 year old head of state, being insulted by anyone, but particularly not by our American cousins, our friends and comrades through many conflicts?

An apology is in order.

Queen gets screwed, and worse! Is the sort of remark her husband prince Philip would make & has been making for the past 70 or so years! I dont think it was made here with any malice or bad intent just American humour if such a thing exists.
So god save the queen and all who sail in her. ( Americans ask an Englishman to explain that joke)
May I suggest that just in case her majesty reads this blog that Mark Halper should have clean underwear should he visit Britain In case he be subjected to an extra body search on her majestys orders in case he is hiding something from customs.

If you look at his bio Mark Halper lives in Bristol, U.K. I also have the impression that he's a British citizen but I'm not sure about that.

Back on topic, I think projects like this are useful as long as they are reasonably cost effective. Every little bit helps.

Lighten up. I live in Canada and myself and fellow Canadians have had to put up with a foreigner's image on our money, stamps etc... for far too long. We don't need or want a monarch in our country. I have nothing personal against your queen but if I want to poke fun at her it is my right as a free Canadian. If you don't like it I propose that you lobby your British government to sever the last royal ties with my country. If or when you achieve this act I will, as a thank you, cease to make fun of or ridicule your present monarch in any way(I can't promise the same for future heirs to the throne).