Would you be a good monarch?

[Ed Anger]

I like the cut of your jib.

[The Brain]

I like the cut of your jib.

[Razgovory]

Would you really opt for being a well paid prop over having real power?

I know I sure as hell would.

Me too.  If I could be a monarch I'd like to be like Ed 8.  A little bit of influence but mostly a useful tool for the country.  Also be fashionable and have women throw themselves at me.  And rich.

You do recall he was effectively exiled to the Bahamas as it was feared that if he remained in Britain, if there was an invasion, and if he fell in to German hands that he would be a willing puppet monarch for Hitler, don't you?

I made a mistake.  I meant Ed 7.

[Agelastus]

Me too.  If I could be a monarch I'd like to be like Ed 8.  A little bit of influence but mostly a useful tool for the country.  Also be fashionable and have women throw themselves at me.  And rich.

You do recall he was effectively exiled to the Bahamas as it was feared that if he remained in Britain, if there was an invasion, and if he fell in to German hands that he would be a willing puppet monarch for Hitler, don't you?

I made a mistake.  I meant Ed 7.

Edward VII had a lot more influence than I think you believe, for example during the Fisher/Beresford dispute and also during the "People's Budget" crisis before his death. I think you would have preferred to be Edward before he ascended the throne.

The Kaiser certainly did not see him as being a figurehead - he saw Edward's supposed malevolence towards him in many of Germany's diplomatic reverses of the period.

[Korea]

So having seen "Tudors" and "Edward II", I came to a conclusion that I would be a rather lousy monarch. Probably capricious, moody, bestowing honors and gifts on my boytoys and beheading people left and right if they pissed me off (which would be daily).

How about you?

P.S. This is technically a drunk thread since I'm inebriated.

This should be in my drunk thread. 

[Korea]

On the topic:

I would be terrible. Totally unfair, irrational, and womanly.

[garbon]

On the topic:

I would be terrible. Totally unfair, irrational, and womanly.

Liz I would smack you across the face.

[Razgovory]

Me too.  If I could be a monarch I'd like to be like Ed 8.  A little bit of influence but mostly a useful tool for the country.  Also be fashionable and have women throw themselves at me.  And rich.

You do recall he was effectively exiled to the Bahamas as it was feared that if he remained in Britain, if there was an invasion, and if he fell in to German hands that he would be a willing puppet monarch for Hitler, don't you?

I made a mistake.  I meant Ed 7.

Edward VII had a lot more influence than I think you believe, for example during the Fisher/Beresford dispute and also during the "People's Budget" crisis before his death. I think you would have preferred to be Edward before he ascended the throne.

The Kaiser certainly did not see him as being a figurehead - he saw Edward's supposed malevolence towards him in many of Germany's diplomatic reverses of the period.

The Kaiser was also an idiot.  I said a little influence.  I didn't say none.  His biggest thing was creating goodwill in other countries (France in particular).  In my opinion Ed is an example of a good modern King.  His son was pretty good as well.

[Admiral Yi]

The "well paid" part is the key...I love the easy life.

Well it seems like the difference between playing a nation building game and just watching the cut scenes of cheering crowds.

[Eddie Teach]

Oh, and also, free implants for all and Spellus's tongue would be cut out.

He types with his tongue?

[Eddie Teach]

On the topic:

I would be terrible. Totally unfair, irrational, and womanly.

Liz I would smack you across the face.

Why? She probably shared that view of most women.

[Queequeg]

Secondary question:
Of whom/when would you like to be king?    Mine should be obvious. 

[Razgovory]

Secondary question:
Of whom/when would you like to be king?    Mine should be obvious.

Nothing about you is obvious.

[Capetan Mihali]

I like the cut of your jib.

I would not be a good monarch.  Decision-making pains me.

[Alatriste]

I would be a great roi fainéant (i.e. do-nothing king), leaving government to counselors and only occasionally intervening If I considered something clearly wrong. But if I tried to actually rule, I would be generally well-meaning but lack the ruthlessness and energy required, and I would have to fight constantly against my innate tendency to procrastinate.

With luck I would find a Bismarck, Richelieu, Oxenstierna or Olivares to do all the work I didn't like for me, leaving me free to devote my time to the aspects of government that interested me and my strange hobbies, things like building steam machines and claim they would change the world some day. And, like Rudolph II, people would think I was engaged in alchemy, witch craft, astrology and heresy.

In the worst scenario, things could get quite nasty if I had power to have people killed instantly with one word... Nero supposedly tried hard to be a good emperor, but absolute power corrupts absolutely, the man that possess it must rule himself with an iron hand.