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

I keep thinking about that doc with John Davidson (the Tourette's campaigner) where you see him shaking hands with a startled looking Charles. Kieth Allen asks him what he said to the prince. He replies I kept shouting "parasite" and "Camilla's a shit ride".

suzy OTM, my apologies.

he's got a habit of making arrogant snidey comments and posts some rank supercilious garbage at times but I probably was a bit rude, but we are both probably best advised to calm down here, lol.

― calzino, Friday, September 9, 2022

Few ILXers are exempt from this! Apology accepted, I apologize too, calzino.

all good now Alf, thank you for showing some humility and I will try and do the same myself and not be as rude.

Gun salutes start in UK and abroad

One of the things I miss about my mom is despite all her right-winginess, she did think that the British monarchy would be best dealt with by multiple slicey bois and I can just hear her saying ‘take alllllll their money and send them to work at Target!’

― put a VONC on it (suzy), Friday, 9 September 2022 12:09 (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thank you for introducing slicey bois to my lexicon.

all good now Alf, thank you for showing some humility and I will try and do the same myself and not be as rude.

Good folks the pair o' ye.

can't believe the loss of our nation's soul has led to discord tbh

Good afternoon!

is it Negroni time yet

I tried a bottle of pre-mixed "spiced negroni" from B&M and it was pretty unpleasant, think I've answered my own question already here so I won't say it.

About that...

it’s what she would have wanted pic.twitter.com/X6OaTIC5vH

— Ed Cumming (@edcumming) September 9, 2022

Baileys better not have pulled the limited edition Tiramisu flavour

How dare they violate the sanctity of Negroni Week, I'm going to drink negronis every night in defiance.

Lmao https://t.co/tFh6c520Wm pic.twitter.com/7AIcPEKEWH

— Mat Flusk 🐺 (@MatFlusk) September 9, 2022

I've been seen!

why wait until the evening, I'm making a negroni now.

I thought maybe somebody had come running into the thread asking for a retitling when the previous one was found a little flawed. Gosh what a great innings. When's the Republic start?

the title is in no way flawed sheeple

Ngl, this video made me lol last night— good stuff, I hope these guys keep their jobs. Fuck the royals.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/airport-workers-spark-fury-after-27943899

ur queen is dead
N no one cares
If there is a Hell
I'll see her there

the reasonable centrist position

pic.twitter.com/mAO7XqfqZK

— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) September 8, 2022

lol, neanderthal!

Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
Posted: 9 September 2022 at 18:46:14
tbf it was one american asking a question best asked and answered in the editorial pages of the daily mail. i think you're still allowed to criticize the monarchy in the uk politics thread even if you're not british.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek)

Uh huh

lol.

PS - a lot of people who read and post itt are not British, including me. Feel free to read the thread even if you can’t manage to read the room.

gyac, I had no clue you weren't British, so I've learned something tonight.

Will Chuck actually deliver a "stripped down monarchy" or is it just empty words? I'd rather assume it's all talk, coz that way, if it isn't, I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Will Chuck actually deliver a "stripped down monarchy"

BloatyHands

stripping down the monarchy by dying of terror before his coronation

lol he's gnna take the whig party to war isnt he

I try and pretend to be not British on account of Irish parents, but that is some pretty weak Brendan O'Neill bs. But the other week my mum told me her late brother had been doing some genealogy research before he died a few years back and discovered their great-grandmother was an Indian woman. I was like wtf! that's brilliant why didn't you tell me this sooner! But then my excitement simmered down when I considered that also means my great great grandfather was probably working for the Indian civil service or the army or something like that under one of the evil murderous Viceroys like Lytton and I'm probably more British than I realise. I've given up on family tree bs forever now!

Whatever you are you’re not crying bc you were told your stupid posts were unwanted, by the crowd asking if you were drunk in the morning too.

how long does ilx estimate it will be before 'King Charles' (or just 'the king') stops being jarring? I can't hear it without it sounding like a detail they throw into a sci-fi story to let you know it's *the future*. I'm sure I'm going to feel like I've gone insane when I start seeing his stupid face on the £5 notes.

xp

he's not still going on about that is he, lol. I have to get up 5.30 am on weekdays to get Alex ready for college, wouldn't fancy trying that if I was drunk!

I wasn't being rude to Alf for the sake of it. But I don't think Americans realise how much this much this has taken over every tv station, every radio station, every nook and cranny of society, well almost - not where there are good people. And this thread was a refuge from this for many I'd guess. And posting some dubious Times Radio style non question like that, opening with "bullshit aside" was arrogant and ill considered to say the least.

xp uspol thread was a while back & i k r

not looking forward to my weekly phone home in which my dad will spend 30 minutes complaining about it being the only thing anyone is talking about.

don't really want to jump in, but I thought Alfred was asking a genuine question: was the Queen somewhat smart?

Like, we have a view of Marilyn Monroe in the broader world, but she read Marx and married a playwrite

No, the Queen was not somewhat smart, her entire family are thick as pigshit and all their interbred ancestors were likewise - apart from Prince Albert maybe.

okay, okay *slinks towards the exit*

As far as I can tell the Queen showed no real intellectual curiosity about anything, didn't read books, it was all horses and corgis, all the way down.

Like, we have a view of Marilyn Monroe in the broader world, but she read Marx and married a playwrite

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 September 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Asking this of Marilyn Monroe is quite different from The Queen in that it just doesn't matter for QE II. Her power is inherited and every step she took in her life was taken care for by others, as long as she fulfilled her contract to simply breathe and exist.

My point was public perception vs. the private inner world, but I get what you're saying

even with the horses she was a fail really, when have 250 000 acres of estate, loads of very posh stables, shedloads of money and help from one of the best trainers in the country. Her horses won 4 classics in 60 odd years!

This thread has never shown interest in the private inner worlds of public figures when their actions have consequences far beyond them. And that’s good.

alright alright *vanishes into a pile of dust*

Yes, even if she'd been the world's leading expert on the thought of Jacques Derrida, I'd still be in favour of shooting them all. Or at least condemning them all to internal exile in a public toilet in Poundbury.

When do we find out if she was a lizard person?

Asking this of Marilyn Monroe is quite different from The Queen in that it just doesn't matter for QE II. Her power is inherited and every step she took in her life was taken care for by others, as long as she fulfilled her contract to simply breathe and exist.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 10 September 2022 00:36 (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

does this mean that she really was 'purely ceremonial' then?

no

that phrase and everything it implies is mystification and I'm sick of hearing it