He has already been their prince
He would talk it into submission
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no, no. that’s wales, not whales. totally different. much less krill.
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Both are units of measurement though.
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I would like to explore that conversation.
The old paradigm of left/progressive vs right/conservative doesn’t neatly fit into enviromentalism.
Our society has so entrenched the values of extraction and profit as basic foundations of existence that the act of conservation is on one hand, criminalised to the point where forest defenders are murdered by police, and on the other hand the wealthiest are lauded for the same basic thing. Conserving nature.
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There’s a slang term for M0IST?
Chuck had his job the moment he was born. It just took him a very long time to get that promotion he was convinced was well overdue.
Well, there are ‘working Royals’ and other, non-working’ Royals…
What is a working royal?
Despite Mike being a member of the royal family by marriage, and Zara by blood, neither are working royals like the Prince and Princess of Wales, or the Earl and Countess of Wessex are.
According to the royal family website, working members of the royal family “continue to support The King in his many State and national duties, as they did for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for many years. They also carry out important work in the areas of public and charitable service in their own right.”
It adds that working royal family members carry out over 2,000 official engagements in the UK and overseas each year, “from visits to community initiatives, to welcoming visiting Heads of State, meeting guests at official Garden Parties and presenting members of the public with their honours at Investiture ceremonies”.
Who are the current working royals?
There are just nine working royals at present, these are:
- King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort
- Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Prince and Princess of Wales
- Anne, the Princess Royal
- Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie, Countess of Wessex
- The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester
Before Prince Andrew was stripped of his HRH title and military honours after he faced a sexual assault case earlier in 2022 (an allegation which he has continuously denied), he was asked to step down from being a working royal.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex also stepped down from being working royals after they decided to leave the royal family and move to America in 2020.
Want an easy way to remember the difference? Each of the two pairs below only has one ‘h’.
Whales/Krill - Wales/Rhyl
So if you see no ‘h’ or more than one ‘h’, you’re doing it wrong. I hope that’s helpful to everyone. 
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The British Empire has always promoted conservation. That’s why they steal artifacts and put them in museums, and steal land and claim it as their own — it’s all about conservation! They want to take care of these very important things!
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One of my best friends is former EPA who now works for a conservation NGO. He’s run into this linguistic trip from both directions. People get mad at him during fundraising because they think he represents a conservative group. At the same time, apparently a lot of the leadership in his org are Republicans in the more Centrist/RINO sense, who are coming at environmental conservation from a Christian Land Stewardship perspective. Not in the colonialist sense, either — in the “God made this Earth for us and it is our duty to cherish and protect it” way. Which I’ll take!
IIRC this friend also had to register as a lobbyist at one point, being that his job literally involved lobbying for the planet. There was some proposed lobbying reform law — designed to target shitty corporate lobbyists, of course — that would have made it actively harder for them to certify land protections. Another surprising complication! For better or for worse, it never passed.
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And there are large organizations dedicated to preserving land for hunters and outdoor recreation. Chock full of conservatives and Republicans.
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Honestly, fox hunting is pretty brutal, there’s no doubt about it, but there was a fairly tight connection between the environmental movement and hunting. Hunters were the first big conservationists, both in the US and in the UK, and the movement to save wilderness probably saved more animals from encroaching civilization than hunting ever killed. (Not a hunter, just think it’s interesting.)
Hmmm, I liked that explanation, but assuming you’re not talking about the m-word, it turns out “jism” has a murky origin, related to “energy, strength, vitality,” and possibly from from British dialect chissom , a shoot or sprout. Also apparently “jazz” has the same origin, which I did not know.
jism | Etymology of jism by etymonline | jism - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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I think that’s pretty true… it could also be that (in politics in general) ideas like populism also skew the curve a bit about left-right politics. I’d say that preserving (which strikes me as possibly problematic language a bit?) or protecting or maybe living more in harmony with (?) the environment is a general goal, not a political position. WHY you want to do so might be driven by any number of factors. As @anon73430903 noted, Old King Chuck is more likely interested in the hunting privileges angle… One of the Forest Defender kids who are down here in ATL participating on the cop city protests are more interested in figuring out a harmonious way for humanity to live with nature…
Honestly, I will too. Far better than those right wing Christian dominionists who believe Jesus is about to come back and so we can fuck up the planet all we want, as Jesus will fix it…
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I have to disagree fundamentally with this, I’m afraid.
As someone who has had many jobs - print trade, window-cleaner (not for long), gardener (a few years), and many more, I don’t consider shaking a few hands, waving a bit limp-wristedly, and waggling a sword above a few heads work.
It’s not like they’re frickin’ bricklayers.
Erm, huh?
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Much like old Chuck E Cheese animatronics: relics from a past era of pageantry, prone to break down, and situated deep in the Uncanny Valley?
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Fair enough.
I did not word that perfectly.
I was simply trying to point out the weird upside-down wave the queen had been using since the fifties:
eta: spells
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This thing they do:
And how-to:
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It always looked to me like they were holding their hand out for a tip.
And another, and so on.
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So long as the replacement oil is equally icky as the original, I’m okay with it all. It was icky for a reason. I read somewhere that the Emperor of Japan also has to do ritual ickiness upon taking office. I think the point of the ickiness is to remind the monarch that they are ultimately expendable in the eyes of God and Nature. Especially the latter.
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I like this idea, but worry that they actually thought it smelled good back in the day.
(Maybe even now, seeing a few comments on top about some of these things being ingredients used in the perfume industry.)
“Wedding and event venue”
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