Why on Earth do people love the royal family

I believe Australians would have some difficulty in calling the head of state 'President'.

 

I believe why some people love the royal family is a psychological term called: “Stockholm Syndrome”. Whereby, these individuals are kept in misery, and given such low self-esteem for such a long period of time, that they start to form an unnatural psychological loving relationship with their captors.

The term “Stockholm Syndrome” most often relates to people who have been kidnapped and held hostage for decades against their will, but one could argue there is definitely a connection and similarities between some people who have low self-esteem and their unnatural obsession to admitting they love strangers like the British royal family, who try to keep the people in submission.

Its just sad and pathetic that humanity in 2013 have these leaches called Royal families still in existence. They are an antiquated and by-gone idea that should have ended centuries ago. If the human species keep insisting on bring all this antiquated baggage, like royal families along for the ride, then the human species will never progress or change, while those antiquated ideas are still wrapped around our necks and dragging us backwards.

There is a time and a place for everything, and the time when Kings & Queens and their families think they are better than anyone else, just because they are born into a certain privileged family has well and truly ended.

 

Very few Australians know what happened in the lead up to the dissolution, even what it was about.

 

Only too true but many anti monarchists still claim that QE2 actually made a decision.

 

I am still interested in knowing what your nationality is, it has become obvious you are not Australian, yet you seem to want to appear as if you are.

 

I smell seppo.

 

Hey Culldave. What do you call those lollies that are spherical with a chocolate centre and an orange flavoured shell that is actually coloured red?

 

Considering this is all text on a screen, no aromas passing over the wires, there can be only one explanation for the sewer gas wafting up to your nose.

 

Are you hiding under my desk?

 

That we used to roll down the aisle in cinemas.

 

Where else would I be hiding?

 

Yeah -them ones

 

Ah, memories of a misspent youth, James Bond and Tarzan movies and cool people flying off to exotic places smoking Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes and Coke was 10d a bottle, 3d back on the bottle.

 

And God Save the Queen played in cinemas.

 

There used to be a picture of the Queen hanging in every bar in the commonwealth, and nearly every night you would hear a chorus of "To the Queen" and a clinking sound followed by "Another one barkeep". She must be the most toasted person of all times.

 

Bloody hell you ARE old you have to be over 60 with memories like that

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anyway. NO response from fake Striner Culdave. Why would a seppo want to pretend to be a digger?

 

Turned 60 on 23rd September. I stopped trying to figure that out, or in reading most of his replies.

 

I was wondering about that I am 51 and dont remember any of that stuff lol - And the sweets you are talking about. Are they really Australian? I thought they were imported from a tiny island in the Med

 

Not sure actually, I think they're as Aussie as Russell Crowe

 

I'm 57 and I remember.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffas_(candy)

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Made in both Australia and NZ?

 

But where was it invented, here or there? Maybe this will be in dispute for years, same for Pavlova.

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Yeah I could remember things when I was 57 tooo, getting harder these days though.

 

Ya’all talking about those little red balls James Stedman-Henderson’s sweets released into Australia and New Zealand in 1931?

 

Yes you just read it on the link lizarddust published above.