Take this Queen's Jubilee and SHOVE IT RIGHT UP YOUR ARSE

Tomorrow's People sounds like a band that released one single on Deram in 1968: Trip to Narnia b/w Smoky Jack.

switched on the radio earlier to find the normally twee 'call you and yours' had become some sort of bloody nuremberg rally

LOL, I heard that too. Even worse, Bonnie Greer was on it.

Swivel-eyed Nazi caller: "You talked about the 'so-called' indigenous peoples of the United Kingdom..."

Bonnie (dripping condescension): "I did not use the phrase 'so-called' indigenous peoples."

... she did use the phrase 'so-called' indigenous peoples, like 15 seconds beforehand

I was at a DIY festival Saturday/Sunday, and watched that Surviving Progress documentary last night than NV linked to - definitely interesting stuff, and no Jubilee for me.

I was quite surprised at the number of twitter/facebook people watching the Jubilee concert - I mean, it's terrible music in celebration of a bunch of terrible cunts, why bother watching even in order to mock? If there was a chance of something good or interesting happening then I could see why, even if you're against the monarchy, but the lineup was fucking awful and security would've been way too tight for any protesty stuff to happen...

Co-worker made the cupcakes.

used to want to debate with racists about what the nature of "indigenous" peoples are but then i realised they were racists and they aren't really that interested

ime anybody who even pretends to be watching royal-y stuff ironically is not-very-secretly just watching it cos they like it

OTM

I suppose there's also the thing of 'wanting to be informed' - it's been shoved at us so strongly that you do get the feeling that *everyone* will be watching, which preys on your sense of wanting to be kept in the loop and able to communicate with your fellows. But it's just the same trick most advertising pulls, it's not real.

Categorically not wanting to be informed in this case, tbh

ive managed to avoid all of it, thankfully got away without even posting about it

feeling just fractionally more informed than i wannabe

Yeah, pretty much.

I wonder if Cockroach News of Cockroach England has had anything to say about the Jubilee?

tried to watch a chunk in compromise gesture to gf & her daughter, but parade of toadeaters, paedos, toffs forced me out of the room. it came through the wall while I was in exile - my brain had already given up by the Robbie-sings-Brecht moment.

NV otm, if you think you are watching it just so you can make remarks on twitter abt Jessie J/princess beatrice/will.i.am's clothes there is probably something wrong with your life + you should take a close look at your principles.

(posting to ilx totally diff, obvs)

going on ppl's descriptions the bit where Madness were doing 'Our House' and a hueg block of council houses got projected onto the palace sounded p lol

would've sat through maybe... 20 mins of whatever else to see that

Arab On Radar were playing London on the day of the 2002 jubilee, but after watching the jubilee concert on TV I was so disgusted at humanity I couldn't face hearing any more music of whatever sort, so I stayed at home instead. Then AOR split up, so I never got to see them. But I did see Brian May playing God Save The Queen on the roof of Buckingham Palace, so that was something.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/04/article-2154539-1372EE96000005DC-271_964x544.jpg

we should get so high before grandmas thing

in all seriousness I think Arab On Radar would've appreciated going head to head for yr affections w/ Brian May playing the national anthem on a palace roof

is this jubilee shit over now then?

What 'indigenous peoples'? The Piskies?

(During the Jubilee celebrations last time Something Very Bad happened to me, but y'know, marking the ten year anniversary of a sexual assault is a little bit too maudlin, even for me.)

((Things on ILX you wish you hadn't said but you kinda had to))

Let's make more piskie jokes.

PISKIE RIGHTS AND PEACE!!!!

did david starkey have some public mental implosion on itv? wasn't watching :(

not sure what wd count for a public meltdown for TV racist David Starkey tbh

Meanwhile ITV prompted controversy with its Jubilee coverage yesterday when it pitched the historian Dr David Starkey against Prof Simon Schama, who was commentating on the service of thanksgiving for BBC1. Starkey called Nicolas Sarkozy a “nasty jumped up little spiv” and his successor as French President, Francois Hollande, “a second rate provincial school master”.

business as usual by the looks of it

from what i can gather from twitter he started ranting about communists and burst into tears

aww man i'll look out for that on Youtube

prescott's on the case

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/05/call-inquiry-jobseekers-jubilee-stewards

geez haven't you guys murdered the royal family yet

we would but we don't know where they live

I've been looking forward to the Olympics for years, as I do with every Olympics, but these flag waving cunts are going to ruin it, aren't they?

yep

the olympics are for wastemen too so

the fitba team of gareth bale, a couple of token olds and a load of token malnourished spides from the provinces is going to be so bad

TEAM GB

Carl Diem devised the idea of the torch relay for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin that was organized by the Nazis under the guidance of Joseph Goebbels. Krupp armaments company produced the torches in wood and metal, inspired by an olive leaf. The Olympic Flame was lit by a concave mirror in Olympia, Greece and transported over 3,187 kilometres by 3,331 runners in twelve days and eleven nights from Greece to Berlin.

http://i.imgur.com/7MOtD.jpg

who knew the Nazis were into torches?

this jubilee rules guys, keep up the good work

kicks the shit out of the last jubilee IMO

i should probably watch derek jarman's jubilee at some point i guess

The film had many critics in British punk circles. Fashion designer Vivienne Westwood manufactured a T-shirt on which was printed an "open letter" to Jarman denouncing the film and his misrepresentations of punk.[1] Jarman described the project as "a film about punk" during pre-production, but later explained that it had a much broader thematic scope.[citation needed]

The Nazis were definitely into large scale public spectacle and were quite good at it.

you calling this german royal family nazis?

Think Hitler would have demanded something a bit more impressive than Gary Barlow and a few boats in the torrential rain.

at least marching down the Thames

yeah u could create a giant heat pump to get pulis and co to march the olympic flame up the thames estuary to the strains of elvis costello

Kinda bored with people lazily conflating the Olympics and the Jubilee into one orgy of bourgeois indulgence. At least the Olympics involve people with actual talent.

yeah Olympics actual events are great, and highly addictive tv watching...the pomp around it can git tae fuck almost always

Me? Call the royals nazis? Never! I let them speak for themselves.

http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/Q/k/prince_harry_nazi.jpg

the olympics is either a distractionary nonevent in the major sports like football, tennis, even boxing now tbh, else it's the grim spectacle of unpopular hobbyist sports suddenly becoming a populist cause célebre cuz the participants happen to be british

oh there's athletics which is great for abt 9.6 seconds before david sullivan annexes the venue