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The Royal Wedding

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Im glad we live in 2011 :D

Treason Punishment

Before 1998

The form of execution once suffered by traitors was often (though not invariably) torturous. The condemned could not walk or be carried to the place of execution; the sentence required that they were to be drawn: they might be dragged along the ground, but were normally tied onto a hurdle which was drawn to the place of execution by a horse. A man would then be hanged by a noose around the neck, but not so as to die: there would be no "drop" to break the neck. Whilst still alive, he would be cut down and allowed to drop to the ground, stripped of his clothes, his genitals cut off, his viscera pulled out and burnt before his own eyes, and other organs would be torn out of his body. The body would be decapitated, and cut into four quarters. The body parts would be at the disposal of the Sovereign, and generally they would be gibbeted or publicly displayed. This torturous sentence was amended in 1814 so that the offender would hang to death; the disembowelling, beheading and quartering to be carried out posthumously.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_treason_in_the_United_Kingdom
 
i keep a few of these by the tv in case they show wedding clips of these cousins getting married again.
 

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Us commoners got a day off and street parties, good vibe, etc which makes a nice change from recession, wars and bad news.

Normal service resumes tomorrow...
 
God, yesterday I so wished that someone would drop a bomb on the whole fucking House of Windsor. Gimme one of them sick bags, please...
 
hopefully the queen will get assasinated when she visits Ireland and we can get 2 days off

Seriously chill Mate, some of us in Ireland have moved on from that kind of talk. Bad things were done in the past both sides, agreed, but that is last thing anyone would like to see happen.
 
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