queen elizabeth II

Two 4-0 gubbings in a row and the Queen dying, how much more punishment can the poor old Rangers fans take?

Hold on why is the Last Night of the Proms cancelled? Could have been an orgy of flag fucking the likes of which have never been seen and never will be again.

It's really weird but it has to do with people enjoying some music.

Like football, it must be binned. Work is good though. No days off.

Please be patriotic in a way that doesn't completely fuck the economy, thanks. pic.twitter.com/BtfYxEon0K

— lol (@MediocreDave) September 9, 2022

Strikes off. Carnival off. What a disgrace.

Regretfully, we have made the decision to cancel Hackney Carnival on Sunday to observe this period of national mourning

We’ll be looking at whether it's feasible to hold Carnival later this year, or if we can showcase the artists’ work in another way pic.twitter.com/XeoTgCYAqu

— Hackney Council (@hackneycouncil) September 9, 2022

All for a woman who protected a pedophile.

this is what real cancel culture looks like

the cancellations are absolutely insane and of course will affect those with the least, the most

so a fitting tribute to monarchy then

people should throw street parties all weekend

Lol so true.

Kropotkin on living in England: "better a French prison than this grave". https://t.co/J9ggtGAHCc

— Zoe Baker (@anarchopac) September 8, 2022

Are all these cancellations basically because of the police being redeployed? Surely none of these institutions believe that the public actually would prefer to sit and grieve?

No worries though, the opera's still on.

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also i think many orgs are genuinely afraid of getting tabloid-monstered for not doing the "right thing" so they immediately move to what seems the safest performative option

i think there's a firehose of ppl not believing in much of this in private but second-guessingly adapting their public behaviour so as not to be caught out

also

i think many orgs are genuinely afraid of getting tabloid-monstered for not doing the "right thing" so they immediately move to what seems the safest performative option

Doesn't even need to be as serious as that, orgs/brands do this for every event regardless. They were doing it for Nick Pope last week

I'll just leave this here. pic.twitter.com/fEgH7h4qdD

— James Wyman (@jaswyman) September 9, 2022

DEEP GLOOM IN LONDON

Places of Amusement All Closed

I like the bit about the dog as well

Wrt unions they are already being monstered by the tabloids but there is a question of declining public support. Though I think it will be harder to maintain as the dispute with the RMT drags on into winter anyway.

Cancelling Hackney Carnival with 24h notice seems a bit shit.

Apparently the rugby and the opera are still going ahead, probably the lacrosse and the grouse hunting too.

Oh yeah no excuse for Hackney carnival. Saw that a few vendors are set to lose money.

if you look at the carnival in terms of optics - and i agree with mark that a lot of these cancellations will be for fear of being monstered - then what it says is that there is a group of people whose feelings must be tiptoed around and other groups of people whose feelings, livelihoods etc simply don't matter

This is for the side chicks out there, keep pushing you can become the queen one day too https://t.co/5Eehoyysnn

— Dan Marino (@Ludo4PF) September 8, 2022

Looks like the queen has taken down Trevor Sinclair how many more lives?

lol my friend whose job it is to compose her employer's official linked-in statements is currently cursing and raving abt this: required to write something genuinely only a step away from "RIP HRH, who for so many years brought such wisdom and grace to the dildo market"

it was such an innocuous and completely fair and uncontroversial comment to make, well if this was a normal country.

there is no way she would have approved of all the UK horseracing getting cancelled for days. But at least the Ballinrobe and Leopardstown tracks in RoI are doing business as usual :p People have had enough entertainment/sport deprivation during the lockdowns, it's just not the time to be cancelling stuff ffs.

xp
coals to newcastle

Camilla giving off strong I'm-collaborating-with-the-Visitors-they-only-want-to-save-their-planet vibes there.

I wonder if some of the cancellations are to do with the fact that Queenie's coffin is due to process by train down to London, thus buggering up people's chances of getting to whatever events they might've been trying to get to?

Liz Truss killed her you dick

People pouring their own liquified brains out of open windows. Whole streets and towns coated with a sheen of brain. pic.twitter.com/XmIlyyjttE

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 9, 2022

more evidence for my "they rasputined her" theory

"they somehow know when it's time": yes you chase them round the palace poisoning them and shooting them full of holes

You missed the part about dumping them in the Thames in a sack.

unlike rasputin they buried her alive, it's a king arthur thing

C.S. Lewis Square will be open from 3.30pm today for reflection and the laying of floral tributes on the passing of HM.

Flowers can be laid below the statue of Aslan in the square. pic.twitter.com/zCcxfjm3Gl

— Cllr Anthony Flynn (@AntoFlynnser) September 9, 2022

7 Decades, 15 Prime Ministers. 1 Queen.

Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II

Thank you 💕💕#queenelizabeth pic.twitter.com/EOhlMDbWbi

— Morleys UK (@MorleysChicken) September 9, 2022

well it is a book about the vanquishing of a despotic queen who ruled over a land of eternal winter xpost

Sounds about right.

Then again, no more weather.

We are saddened by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Our thoughts are with her family and all those affected by this news.

As a mark of respect during this time of national mourning we will only be posting daily forecasts and warnings.

— Met Office (@metoffice) September 9, 2022

grrr! the BBC better have suspended the shipping forecast as well

I wonder if some of the cancellations are to do with the fact that Queenie's coffin is due to process by train down to London, thus buggering up people's chances of getting to whatever events they might've been trying to get to?

― trishyb, Friday, September 9, 2022 2:05 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Seems they're flying her down now, possibly because they don't want royalist buffoons coating the tracks with dead flowers which will take days to clean up.

"William, 40, has now become the Duke of Cornwall and is likely to become Prince of Wales. It was reported early in 2022 that William, who is a patron of homelessness charities Centrepoint and the Passage, is interested in using parts of the Duchy’s huge landed estates to house the homeless."

Sure, sure..

Apparently there's some kind lying in state thing planned for Edinburgh - or sumthin' - so there's a lot of police about and a friend of mine overheard someone in the Royal Mile commenting on it, "It's no' as if anyone's gonnae kill her - she's deid".

police deployed to stop her escaping

lol

I read someone posting about the history of corpse-jacking once, but this wasn't about the corpses of monarchs getting kidnapped - it was about attempts to steal the corpses of saints whilst they are in transit.

Eva Peron got corpse-napped

Apparently there's some kind lying in state thing planned for Edinburgh

Now I'm resident in Edinburgh I'm thinking of popping up to report back to youse all, maybe around 4am since it seems to be 24 (23?) hours and there might be less of a queue at that time. Probably not.

eva peron got corpsenapped by matt #2, stay alert ppl!

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— Stevie Nicks (@StevieNicks) September 8, 2022

Oh my god, that

It's not as good as Poundland's tribute, sorry.

Apparently there's some kind lying in state thing planned for Edinburgh

Edinburgh hotel prices this weekend have gone ballistic.