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Fwiw, that's definitely not a requirement. The King of Australia doesn't live in Australia, either.
Well he ain’t my king.
I didn't vote for him!
our government says differently
so does our leader
same as the mobsters in blue
he IS your king. you'd do well not to forget it.
edit: i feel like this came across mean, i just mean it in a radical 'let's fucking kill the powerful' typa tone. :3
Well I didn't vote for him.
Yeah but our government is pathetic, fuck ‘em all really.
Well may we say "God save the Queen", because nothing will save the Governor-General!
Unfortunately, yes he is.
Well, I didn't vote for him.
Unfortunately, it turns out that while strange women lying in ponds giving away swords may not be the basis for a system of government, conceited women fucking racist pricks is, in fact, a perfectly legal way to decide your head of state.
Also:
What about that Plantagenet dude?
According to Baldrick he lives in Australia and is no less legitimate a claim to be king of england than any of those bastards since Dick III. The fact that he hasn't raised an army and started any wars suggests he might be less of a dick than most of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%27s_Real_Monarch
Oh - looks like he died, but maybe his offsping.
Also, jungles' original meaning is just "uninhibited." So vast plains counted, too.
Jungle
Source: Etymonline
I can't tell if you meant to say "uninhibitated" or "uninhabited." I get the impression you meant the latter, which would be in line with the idea of "desert" or "wasteland."
Either way, the history of the word jungle reveals that its root might have applied to what we'd call today a savanna, which is where lions live. So, the title "King of the Jungle" could have made sense for lions at some point.
Actually the Indian Gir Lion does live in jungle/forest. As for the history of the word, the present meaning (forest) might've been used for longer by now (in India) than the old meaning.
And funnily enough, the Hindi word "sher" can mean either lion or tiger, although they do have a specific word for tiger, "bagh". And we do have the same title/phrase in Hindi which could mean either lion or tiger is the king of the jungle. I personally never thought it was the tiger because when I was a child, the Lion King had already been released.
That's so interesting! I guess the meme is moot if the question is asked in Hindi, haha.
I get the connection with the Lion King also. Speaking of animation from childhood, I'm now remembering an episode of Rugrats where the phrase "King of the Jungle" became an argument. Except on that show, the argument was over whether the title belonged to Tarzan or to King Kong.
Thanks for doing the research! Fun fact!
So Northern Canada is the Jungles?
Antarctica is a desert
So is a decent portion of the Canadian arctic
Many parts of Appalachia are rain forests too
Just learned some about that a few months back! What a trip. I saw videos of places that were more fecund than NW Florida!
The east coast of the USA is actually really interesting as a temperate rainforest in many parts.
The Paw Paw is a crazy tropical tasting / seeming fruit that is endemic to the eastern half of the USA and much of Central America.
It’s making a comeback
Below the tree line maybe.
Okay, this made me look up if Australia is still a commonwealth. It is, but who the fuck knew India still was? I'm not the only one who didn't know, right?
fwiw the word "commonwealth" is...essentially meaningless. If you hear someone say commonwealth on its own, they're probably talking about the Commonwealth of Nations as @[email protected] described. The Commonwealth of Nations is basically a loose grouping of countries that do various things together. Probably the most noteworthy thing they do together is the Commonwealth Games, a sort of mini-Olympics.
But several other things also use the word. There's the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a grouping of former Soviet states. There's Australia, a country whose full name (in the way the full name of America is the United States of America) is the Commonwealth of Australia (and in Australia, "the Commonwealth" is sometimes used synonymously with "the federal Government"). There are several states in America which are properly termed commonwealths, such as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
India is not a commonwealth, but is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Charles III is the head of the Commonwealth but not the monarch, he is separately the monarch of some (but not all) Commonwealth countries. Most Commonwealth countries are republics.
Australia is both a commonwealth (in name) and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, but those are two separate kinds of commonwealth.
To summarise: All commonwealths are commonwealths but not all commwealths are the Commonwealth of Nations and not all members of the Commonwealth of Nations are commonwealths (although some are).
Also fun fact, some members of the Commonwealth are monarchies, but with a different monarch than House Windsor. Like Malaysia.
Lmao, well that explains it! So this is how you remain a monarch in a democracy, hide yourself.
That's why 'von und zu' exists in German. 'von' means 'of House...', and 'zu' basically means 'resides in ...'. So King von und zu Luxemburg would be King of house Luxemburg who also lives in Luxemburg
Interesting. So can someone be "von" multiple places? Charles von Australia und United Kingdom und Canada und New Zealand zu United Kingdom?
Yeah, generally European noble titles stacked.
Was always pokemon race. Gotta catch 'em all!
Incidentally, in German the lion also isn't called king of the jungle, but king of the animals. But I don't know if that means von animals or zu animals 🤔.
You call that a knife?