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

galleon even

Too early for Mick Philpott

http://a.yfrog.com/img876/9452/3stee.jpg

And so we see the Royal Floatilla pass the marvellous Tate & Lyle works at Silvertown, catch a glimpse of the splendour of the Beckton sewage works, and finally come to rest at Thamesmead.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/30/prince-charles-offered-veto-legislation

It would have been a nice no-hard-feelings gesture to invite Michael Fagan onto her boat.

Worst nanu nanu ever. xxxpost

Had to nip up to Church Street to get a birthday card for a friend. Can confirm that Hackney's historical home of leftists, radicals and free thinkers is bedecked with more flags and bunting per square inch than Disneyland. It was like stepping onto the deck of HMS Cuntington.

And the fucking coffee shop was shut and all. If Daniel Defoe was here he'd be choking on his quinoa.

Re. Algerian Goalkeeper upthread - '77 Silver Jubilee was a pretty big deal in Uddingston (particularly at the Kylepark end). There was a huge procession down Main Street on the Saturday; I hid in the library and read Black Music by LeRoi Jones. Such were my teenage wonder years.

i was 4 and just about to start primary school and i remember it being a huge deal. The golden jubilee noone seemed to bother with despite the media trying its best. I think last years royal wedding has made them popular again with a new generation of cunts.

primary school in east kilbride that is (left EK in march p1 btw)

"Shame. Such a shame about the weather." lol. Looks like Lizzie has gone inside for a Gin & Dubonnet. Might join her soon.

I do remember Fergie's wedding. I was about 10 and fancied her, I recall. Odd boy.

That was the only street party I ever experienced. That all seems like a different time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18317092

Via Twitter The London Ambulance Service

tweets: At #diamondjubilee pageant with @stjohnambulance we have treated 369 patients and 64 of them have been taken to hospital

even the toffs are part of Broken Britain

Could have been a mass outbreak of the vapours, in fairness.

The Golden Jubilee was eclipsed a tad by the World Cup, I remember the Pinefox writing a great piece about that weekend for Freakytrigger.

Cheer up everyone, the flag waving idiots are being absolutely shat on out there. Proof that god hates the institution of monarchy.

King of kings? Hypocrite

he's certainly hating on outside broadcast units today

has the coverage just been hours of slow moving boats? bore us into subservience.

As a Belgian, I'm deeply honoured that you celebrate your 1-0 victory over our football team in such a great way.

my mum was at the coronation so y'know once in a lifetime part of history etc

but this is manufactured history. the jubilee date by itself, is nothing especially historic because there is no guarantee that anything of note would happen on that date, except by coincidence. so, all this hooplah is created to commemorate it.

one imagines a committee sitting around at a table saying, what sort of crap can we do that will look good on the telly and get people excited? say, let's build a fancy barge. it worked for Cleopatra!

"6 Music Playlist John Lydon" right below the Jubilee coverage on the BBC's homepage, is someone at the Beeb being a bit trolly, or is this just modern Britain where nothing is political any more?

text from my scottish mate: "how's the weather in glasgow? there's a force 9 cunt storm blowing down the thames"

should be rod stewart amirite xp

I am cunt-ing
I am cunt-ing
Down the Tha-ames
Down the Thames
I am cunt-ing
Like a bastard
To be cunted
Once again

a+ schedule trolling

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01c99nm

"without the queen, we'd be a republic by now" - man on channel 4 news (nb not jon snow)

less than delighted that a third of the street parties in scotland took place in glasgow, were ran by the orange bastards, and funded by glasgow city council.

the jubilee date by itself, is nothing especially historic

it's an anniversary - or do you denigrate birthdays too? not sticking up for bertha, just sayin'.

ok so it's an anniversary on an arbitrary date which seems to coincide with nothing in particular except her made-up birthday ¯\(º_o)/¯

A lot of the human sewer from Kent/whatever the fuck on the train this morning -- what would have been a nice and quietly pleasant 20 mins turned into a monday morning 45 min bollocks, but w/crying kids!

i have a lot of reservations about the english republic and the men behind it, but today I am in a space where I find their quasi-judicial execution of the monarch an uplifting lesson from history. We could do it.

do you denigrate birthdays too?

having accumulated a fairly large number of birthdays by now, I find I am amassing rather a surplus and no longer have enough space to store them all.

a+ schedule trolling

we got away with Wa11is Simpson's Secret L3tters, but weren't allowed Prince Char1es' Secret Mistr3ss

we get tomorrow off cos it's june, and nobody has to put up any bunting about it neither.

ms mac is wont to hover on this shit on bbc1 when channehopping, i have raised my voice several times today

what the hell is gonna happen when charles becomes king. that seems almost unimaginable tbh.

they can combine his coronation and state funeral

one direction in for some literal grave-dancing.

bring out yer rotten veg, King Charlie's in town

It is so nice of Matt DC to remember something I wrote and even say - rather generously - that it was great. Thanks, DC.

amongst all the flags around here someone has stuck up a 'vote BNP' poster (featuring heart-shaped union flag) outside the local irish pub.

was totally unprepared for the atmosphere last night, lots of really aggressive braying britishness on display. i really didn't think it would be a thing.

no flags in whitechapel

i watched some documentaries about Burnley in 1968 - oddly one was about the royal visit there

oh great, coverage of a toffs picnic then a concert to follow

ffs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18318304

and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18320373

Joe Butler, 25, who has travelled down from Sheffield, told the BBC News website he was looking forward to seeing artists from different generations.

"And you know what, it's really nice to be proud to be British for once - you see lots of Americans with flags but not usually us."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9310201/Banksy-draws-the-Queen-as-Ziggy-Stardust.html

Don't they have no Googles at The Telegraph HQ? That's Aladdin Sane. FFS.

Yes, it'a pretty depressing that I'm going to have to write about the Barlow/Commonwealth EP. Am assuming that there will be plenty of copies clogging up the charity shop by the time I get to it. Thought about getting a copy in just in case but even at a fiver I want to spend it on music I like.

I don't know whether there's a connection between it being the Diamond Jubilee and all the Skr*wdr*v*r CDs I saw in the charity shop earlier today.