Sir Bill Gates, III

Queen of England has recently knighted this ruler of the world's computer empire. So he is also known as "Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire" from now on.

How do you Brits feel about being ruled by a geeky evil American?

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How do you Brits feel about being ruled by a geeky evil American?
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I remember seeing this in he news about a week ago.

Er, he's won an honorary award for his business and charity work, both of which he's done exceedingly well at (by anyone's standard). We're not "ruled" by him in anyway, and I think he deserves it. If anything, I'm hating the government right now for some of their other choices- it's down to them and not the Queen etc. who gets these...

I was just kidding, of course.

I think the Royal Family gets way too much crap from the media. They're really decent people, deserving much more respect.

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<DIV class=quotetext>How do you Brits feel about being ruled by a geeky evil American?
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i quite like george, tbh, but i don't think he should be in charge.

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<DIV class=quotetext>I think the Royal Family gets way too much crap from the media. They're really decent people, deserving much more respect.</DIV></DIV>
you're ripping the arse out of it with that one though. :razz:

Heh, that's closer to the truth than anything else :rolleyes:

Doesn't bother me if Mr Gates has been made a Knight of the Realm, I
feel it should be for Brits only but even then it doesn't really get my
back up because it doesn't bestow any great importance on people.

Good kudos for his charity work though, not so sure about his
"contribution" to the computing world :razz: Although, the advent of
Windows accelerated the whole market and technology ten fold, so it has
to count for something.

As for the Royals, I don't care much for them - but they don't actually
use a great deal of our tax, and bring in revenue from tourism so I
guess they're not so bad. Just a little inbred.

He can't call himself "Sir Bill Gates". He gets to call himself "Knight Commander of the Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire".

Ah big deal, I call myself that anyway, and shoot people who don't.

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<DIV class=quotetext>Ah big deal, I call myself that anyway, and shoot people who don't.</DIV></DIV>
You call yourself Sir Bill Gates?

and shoot people who don't.

I don't think it's right to shoot them. It's better to tickle them to death.

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I don't think it's right to shoot them. It's better to tickle them to death.
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then hide the feather. leave everyone wondering exactly how it was done. :razz: