like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

twitter post of the day by a country mile

Ok that's weird

I've transferred my winnings from the abandoned Monmore Green racing card to the Limerick one and it seems out of respect for the late Queen, Bet365 are not streaming any live greyhound racing from Ireland...lol

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/08/mercury-prize-postponed-owing-to-death-of-queen-elizabeth-ii

The introductory stages of the evening, held at the London Eventim Apollo, were already under way when news of the monarch’s death broke.

An announcement shown to guests in the room said: “In light of the sad news of the passing of Her Majesty the Queen, we are sorry to announce that we will not be proceeding with this evening’s event as planned. The Mercury prize will be communicating with guests and audience members over the coming days. We thank you for your understanding at this difficult and sad time.”

It said dinner would not be served, and asked guests to finish their drinks and leave the venue by 7.30pm.

The electronic screens outside the venue showed a black-and-white photograph of the Queen.

lol i called that hours ago, beautiful

they should award it to the queen

Now we all know I was innocent ! Amen! RIP Queen E !

— Reggie Jackson (@mroctober) September 8, 2022

remember when our King said he wished he was a tampon

— Emma Szewczak (@EmmaSzewczak) September 8, 2022

Big party in Buenos Aires tonite

Lol omg he said the words

Had the pleasure of meeting the Queen at a charity do once. She was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny.

— twitch.tv/Limmy (@DaftLimmy) September 8, 2022

Now we all know I was innocent ! Amen! RIP Queen E !

— Reggie Jackson (@mroctober) September 8, 2022

R.I.P. The Queen 🕯️

— Crazy Frog (@TrueCrazyFrog) September 8, 2022

they're actually doing this to distract us from the don't worry darling press cycle

— claire biddles (@msclairebiddles) September 8, 2022

To be fair pensioners dying under liz truss is gonna become a running theme soon

— hannah strong (@thethirdhan) September 8, 2022

Starmer has changed his twitter avi to a black circle, like a youtuber who got accused of being a sex pest

very respectful pic.twitter.com/bxcBd9TALN

— John Lubbock (@jwsal) September 8, 2022

@lag♾️n

Lol this is amazing.

My thoughts are with the Queen’s family as they come to terms with their personal loss, as well as those here and around the world who will mourn her death.

I enjoyed discussing our families, gardens and jam-making with her.

May she rest in peace.

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) September 8, 2022

big man gone sawft

i would call that “keeping it real”

what a melt

when you realise you might actually get shot

Breaking: Extinction Rebellion postpones this weekend’s planned protests in London after the Queen’s passing pic.twitter.com/lEU2fV35w9

— Josiah Mortimer (@josiahmortimer) September 8, 2022

I won an e-bay auction for a 2nd hand Dyson vac and I swear for a second I was concerned they were going to suspend all e-bay auctions out of respect.

I'm doing the most British thing I could think of in tribute and listening to a Status Quo album.

SHE DEAD. HOODIES LIVE pic.twitter.com/7miXDD15HT

— HAUNTED STARBUCKS (@Hauntedstarbuck) September 8, 2022

xpost Come to California, 2nd hand Dysons literally line the streets

I prefer e-bay auctions, you don't get shot when you win

fair enough

ffs they've cancelled all the UK racing meetings tomorrow just while I was about to do my 10p ew L15, thank god for Irish racing. All the big UK organisations have totally shit out from the fear of being SHAMED for doing anything while the royal cadaver has only just been put on freeze. The truth is she wouldn't have approved, most definitely not.

Argentinian TV cracking open the bubbly live on air has done me in pic.twitter.com/KzpCVTJbYr

— oli (@olicoulsxn) September 8, 2022

pic.twitter.com/AM1YKSfOHl

— michael richmond (@Sisyphusa) September 8, 2022

Bastardi is a fucking tool. it's astonishing that anyone takes him seriously.

Can't believe they are going to make a MAN queen. This woke nonsense has gone too far.

— Nat Guest (@unfortunatalie) September 8, 2022

Omg did I ever laugh hard at that one. Hoooly shit

"The Brazilian president, Jair Bolsanaro, said the country would be holding three days of official mourning in honour of the Queen.

He described the monarch as not just the Queen of England but a “Queen to all of us”, adding that she was an “extraordinary and unique woman, whose example of leadership, humility and love for (her) homeland will continue to inspire us and the whole world until the end of time”"

wtf is Bastani doing

So bullshit aside: was she as smart a her defenders say? I keep reading accounts that she Read Documents and was able to hold her own against less prepared PMs.

"bullshit aside" are you for fucking real ? lol, just listen to MacMillan and Schama on the BBC from earlier and you might find someone with an equally pompous and full of shite world view as yourself.

Wha

So bullshit aside: was she as smart a her defenders say? I keep reading accounts that she Read Documents and was able to hold her own against less prepared PMs.

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2022 01:10 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Afaict the only policy she helped in would include helping her investments and her family be exempt from things like paying taxes, getting the public to pay her electric bills and racial discrimination acts when hiring “coloured” palace staff.

Just this year the Caribbean visit of Will&Kate went so badly that there was serious talk of organising to leave the commonwealth. There isn’t a lick of a brain cell on the lot of them, they’ve been doing the same bullshit for decades. If she was a smart, or even capable head of state, you’d think she’d at very least being able to get her dearly beloved racist husband to not put his foot in it literally every time he spoke to the public. “Being able to read a document” is about as far as the praise has ever got.

Just this year the Caribbean visit of Will&Kate went so badly that there was serious talk of organising to leave the commonwealth

the jamaican pm prominently announced during the visit that they were planning to become a republic, but this had apparently been on the cards for a while with widespread support from both major parties, just no government had gotten around to making it a priority until then. the announcement doesn't seem to be in reaction to the visit going badly, just opportunistic. the belizean government also announced plans to investigate constitutional reform, including the possibility of becoming a republic, just after the visit, but it seems like this had also been mentioned as being on the agenda for a while & the government just took the opportunity to move forward there.

I've just woken up hearing a report that postal workers have paused a 48 hour strike, ffs that is a pisstake. The royal bootlicking is so deeply ingrained in much of this country, but I think a few years of King Charles might help finish that off.

Just struck me that if Charles had had a fatal polo accident some time in the mid-70s, we'd be looking at King Andrew right now

Afaict the only policy she helped in would include helping her investments and her family be exempt from things like paying taxes, getting the public to pay her electric bills and racial discrimination acts when hiring “coloured” palace staff.

She approved a coup on one of her sovereign nations' elected government when it established free health care, instituted equal pay for women, made equal rights for all races law, established land rights for indigenous people, abolished the death penalty, simplified divorce, funded public schools, made university free, established a national sewage program, reduced the voting age to 18, allowed non-state territories into the Senate, abolished the British Honours system, dropped God Save The Queen as anthem, funded dozens of arts enterprises and established multicultural and youth and community radio licences, granted foreign territories independence, and abolished conscription and withdrew from the war of agression in Vietnam tbf, but yeah she didn't actually help design it.

Did she do any of those things though? Or was she just a last signature?

https://i.imgur.com/C1Qxpf1.png

Her representative in Australia sacked the prime minister and appointed the leader of the opposition, even though he didn't have a parliamentary majority. When there's a constitutional crisis, the sovereign and his/her representatives still have an awful lot of power.

why has windows put a fucking black ribbon on my taskbar and how do i get it off

Just tell the vpn you’re in Ireland

just imagine it's mourning for the collective loss of dignity and minds

I keep reading accounts that she Read Documents and was able to hold her own against less prepared PMs.

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 9 September 2022 bookmarkflaglink

She could draft a minute. She could lead a team. She could hold a press conference. She would stay calm in an interview. Those skills look simple, but they’re not, and they were vital.