Royalty

Despite the neg reps that I have received, I will not quickly relinquish my view that Royal families can be a force for good, and at the least, of stability. Its not perfect, far from it, but in many places, it works, and works very well. And in the main, the people love them...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_II;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Juan_Carlos_I_of_Spain;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassanal_Bolkiah,_Sultan_of_Brunei;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihito;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_II_of_Jordan;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhumibol_Adulyadej;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_II_of_Belgium;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margrethe_II_of_Denmark;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Adam_II_of_Liechtenstein;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_II,_Prince_of_Monaco;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_of_the_Netherlands;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_V_of_Norway;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_XVI_Gustaf_of_Sweden

That's a different discussion. I'm OK with having an unelected arbitrary head of state, but that's exactly what they are, arbitrary, irrelevant in everything except name.

Celebrating their years of service is silly tiresome shite. Any excuse for a party, fine, but revering these prats is absurd.