who knew the Nazis were into torches?
― typhus in Corfu (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
this jubilee rules guys, keep up the good work
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
kicks the shit out of the last jubilee IMO
i should probably watch derek jarman's jubilee at some point i guess
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
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]
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
The Nazis were definitely into large scale public spectacle and were quite good at it.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
you calling this german royal family nazis?
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
Think Hitler would have demanded something a bit more impressive than Gary Barlow and a few boats in the torrential rain.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
at least marching down the Thames
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
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
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
yeah Olympics actual events are great, and highly addictive tv watching...the pomp around it can git tae fuck almost always
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Aimless, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
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
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
it was good when Australia won all the swimming events remember that ;_;
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
i can happily conflate the jubilee and olympics as things i fucking hate :D
― DG, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
jubilympics
xps '* Asked to give Duke of Edinburgh his uniform back'
― Dog shave the Queen / 'Cos tourists owe money!!! (snoball), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
All we need is for David Jason to come on as Del Boy and say "lovely Jubilympics"
― Dog shave the Queen / 'Cos tourists owe money!!! (snoball), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
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― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
wait are people actually saying Jubilympics? fuck those people!
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
can't believe dem bourgies would conflate two totally different rituals of participatory meaningfulness, holistic volkism and celebratory obeisance in that way
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
Del Boy could say it WHILE FALLING THROUGH A FUCKING BAR.COMEDY GOLD!!!
― Dog shave the Queen / 'Cos tourists owe money!!! (snoball), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
I would expect that from you DG though. You were the boy in primary school who told all the children santa didnt exist.
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
i did much worse than that!
― DG, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
AHAHHA WHERE IS YOUR SANTA NOW
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
Nazi Harry told to see Holocaust film Shoah would've been more to the point.
― A++++++ would deal to again (Matt #2), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
pretty sure harry has never gone more than a shoah runtime without blapping a debutante or vomitting on something plush
― too cool graham rix listening to neu (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/articles/diamond-jubilee-marred-by-drunken-queen-elizabeth,28422/
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
lol that got me
― goole, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
I was worried that my village (as it's also a RAF base) would be terrible, as far as flags and bunting etc. - but not a single instance. Perhaps the Scottish factor won the day. There was, however a fete thing on a football pitch today, but I played the dour republican and just got drunk reading books in my local (which was the 'toilets' for the fair - never trust local council or the MOD to arrange anything).
And it's not like this crap is over - the Olympic torch is coming through in a week or so. :(
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
get out the piano wire yeah :D
― DG, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
Thinking of putting up a banner across the street - can't think of a slogan though. The best (sigh) I've come up with is 'Jobs and Justice, not Jewels and Javelins'. Maybe 'Jubilees and javelins'. But that's rubbish. and long. 'Fuck the Tories' is more concise, but maybe more likely to attract the police's ire.
― windborne grey frogs (dowd), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/9s3d5k.png
― DG, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
just tomorrows newspapers to avoid and it should be over
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 5 June 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
we all are the queen of england, merry jubilee to us all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUyJ5CdqgAE
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
that woman from Pomplamoose has kinda let herself go
― typhus in Corfu (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 07:14 (twelve years ago) link
zzzzzzzzzzz
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/05/diamond-jubilee-institution
― DG, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 09:11 (twelve years ago) link
It's good to be reminded every few years that I live in a nation of servile, craven toadies who will happily traipse halfway across the country to stand in the rain waving plastic flags (made in China) at some sourfaced old bag whose greatest achivement is she hasn't died yet, but wouldn't lift a finger to help one of their fellow Britons because it's "none of their business" and "nothing to do with me". Hooray for us!
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 10:58 (twelve years ago) link
Well...
We've gone from a silver jub which 'entertained' dissent in the form of a song called "God save the queen" which was about a youth going to waste and nothing about any jubilee (entertained just as long as you accepted being beaten up by lovers of free speech with caveats and lovers of free expression of thumping people)
.. to , um, etc.
Was there an 'entertainment' of the kind of the last nights 'pop music' jambree? I don't recall one.
So, they've gone from 'out-and-out worship, or nothing' of churchinness and stuff, into a knees up and a bunch of jokes at her expense, no offence marm, lots of 'one' references and 'no stuffiness now'..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 11:06 (twelve years ago) link
(The question was referencing the silver jub, obv).
I think the abiding memory of the golden jubilee show was the 'Brian May' moment, all shudder...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 6 June 2012 11:07 (twelve years ago) link
THANK FUCK ITS OVER
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper),
― Hennesy Williams (EDB), Wednesday, 6 June 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
it's not over yethttp://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/18353275
― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Thursday, 7 June 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
it's still going [via question time]
― DG, Thursday, 7 June 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago) link