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TBrown said:
lol charles barkley.. Zion would jump over charles and his pile of gambling debt without breaking a sweat
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I doubt many of you guys remember Charles Barkley the basketball player instead of the TV character but he was built more or less the same way. 6-6 ish, widebody, could jump out of the gym. Physically Zion's more or less what young Barkley would have been if he'd had advanced sports training and nutrition at Auburn in 1982 instead of hot dogs and milkshakes. So he's got a little more bounce than Barkley did, but then of course so will the guys defending him.

I will grant that if he's "Barkley, but can shoot threes like Kyle Korver" then that will be something to behold. I have no idea if he's really supposed to be able to shoot like that or not.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I am not 100 percent clear what the hypothetical best version of Zion that everyone's so excited about would even theoretically look like. I mean, he's built like Charles Barkley, but if you dropped Barkley in his prime into the NBA right now he wouldn't be a top 5 player. What else is Zion supposed to bring to the table?
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Could be wrong, but it seems at this point that if Zion doesn't go on to have at least a near-HOF career, people will say he didn't live up to the hype. He needs to be a perennial All-Star to meet most expectations. To me, he seems to be the most hyped player since LeBron. He's nowhere near as hyped as LeBron was though.
 
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Florida Stanley said:
So lotto, z, and Benji (Big Wick too? I think Big Wick too)

I imagine the Prince Harry news has hit you gents hard in the gibblies.
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The only thought I’ve given is how come England still has monarchs when they have no power and who pays them.
 
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Florida Stanley said:
muh tradition.

The people pay them copious amounts of cheese to do nothing.

so glad we whooped their ass in the revolution
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Having spent a considerable amount of time over here the last few years, I can say they seem to be generating a ****ton of revenue for the UK through tourism. Certainly not claiming they are netting a profit, or even breaking even, but they’re not just the financial black hole that some people paint them as being. They also do a lot of work for charity.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
Having spent a considerable amount of time over here the last few years, I can say they seem to be generating a ****ton of revenue for the UK through tourism. Certainly not claiming they are netting a profit, or even breaking even, but they’re not just the financial black hole that some people paint them as being. They also do a lot of work for charity.
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It's more the principle or the idea behind a "Royal Family" I personally find obnoxious. There's this family that gets all this stuff and the status they have...just because. The entire reason this country exists is because we said "F that," and I've always thought the fascination the United States in particular has with the British Royal Family is the epitome of irony. Sometimes I think Americans like to follow it more than the British do. No other country, other than the UK, seems to have that fascination.

I agree that it's certainly not a financial black hole if you think of it simply in terms of revenue minus expenses. But think of it this way...who gets the revenue, and who pays the expenses? The British government in large part gets the revenue, plus establishments located in and around the touristy areas. The British taxpayer, not all of whom benefit from increased tourist revenue, pays the expenses. A lot of them are paying for something but don't really get anything for it.
 
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05_never_again said:
It's more the principle or the idea behind a "Royal Family" I personally find obnoxious. There's this family that gets all this stuff and the status they have...just because. The entire reason this country exists is because we said "F that," and I've always thought the fascination the United States in particular has with the British Royal Family is the epitome of irony. Sometimes I think Americans like to follow it more than the British do. No other country, other than the UK, seems to have that fascination.

I agree that it's certainly not a financial black hole if you think of it simply in terms of revenue minus expenses. But think of it this way...who gets the revenue, and who pays the expenses? The British government in large part gets the revenue, plus establishments located in and around the touristy areas. The British taxpayer, not all of whom benefit from increased tourist revenue, pays the expenses. A lot of them are paying for something but don't really get anything for it.
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I’ll definitely agree with you about this point. Harry and Meghan have obviously been all over the news the past couple weeks, but I have yet to actually talk to anyone who really cares about it whatsoever aside from some understandable handwringing over what kind of public funds they might receive even if they aren’t working members of the royal family.

I remember a couple years ago that there were Americans who actually came over to London for the Royal Wedding. I’ll never understand that.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
I’ll definitely agree with you about this point. Harry and Meghan have obviously been all over the news the past couple weeks, but I have yet to actually talk to anyone who really cares about it whatsoever aside from some understandable handwringing over what kind of public funds they might receive even if they aren’t working members of the royal family.

I remember a couple years ago that there were Americans who actually came over to London for the Royal Wedding. I’ll never understand that.
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If you made the wedding a part of the trip you took (i.e., you saw/did a bunch of other stuff besides that) I can see it. But if you flew over just for the wedding then came back, yes, totally stupid.
 
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05_never_again said:
If you made the wedding a part of the trip you took (i.e., you saw/did a bunch of other stuff besides that) I can see it. But if you flew over just for the wedding then came back, yes, totally stupid.
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Maybe. IMO, there’s literally a million better things to do in this city than spend a full day going out to Windsor and fighting those crowds just in hope of catching a glimpse of the Royal couple. But to each their own, I guess.
 
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