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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Knight" data-source="post: 128638" data-attributes="member: 1113">Apparently not.  I unfortunately made that statement based on the way the American culture represents itself in my country.  It was both wrong and irrelevant to the discussion at hand.  For that I apologise for making that broad sweeping stereotype.  I guess the same can be said that all Australian’s living in the outback, drinking beer right?  Or that they have a fetish for chasing after dangerous animals.Once again, you’re utterly correct.  I, myself, blame your media for the way it represents your country.  More fool me, for falling for the American propaganda that is constantly rammed down the Australian throats.You are correct on most of what you wrote in fact.  My knowledge of the Queen Mother is little at best, and I shouldn’t have made any comments about her personally before educating myself further on the subject.  I unfortunately jumped to the conclusion that she was like the rest of her family, of which I do have some knowledge of – all of which not very pleasant.  Maybe I speak too much as an Aussie who is blindly following the large movement here at the moment pushing for a Republic.  Oh yes, the British Monarchy is still currently as much theirs as it is ours.  I’m reminded of this every time I see Queen Elizabeth II’s face emblazing our coinage.  That’s not to say that the same movement thinks that the Queen or her family are bad people… it’s just that maybe they’re a little bit irrelevant now days.  And from what I’ve gathered, the British are also starting to feel the same way.So with all the errors I have made tonight, and the people who have been insulted by what I have said, I offer you my apology.  My intentions were far removed from what I have achieved.  My main purpose was to defend the rights of the British to say what they like about their Monarchy.  That is all.  Along the line I got wrapped up in clever wordplay, and letting my argument get shaded by my own personal biases.  That was a mistake.To get back onto topic, I now offer my own condolences for the Queen Mother.  She sounds like one heck of a woman, and it is indeed sad to see such strength vanish from our planet once and for all.</blockquote>

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