queen elizabeth II

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!

pic.twitter.com/UZyV8LkEfN

— 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.

Uju's tweet is a work of art, twitter deleted it!

POV: you’re 19, going into 6-figure debt at Carnegie Mellon, getting lectured by this professor on “Blackness in multilingualism.”

“Maybe we shouldn’t rejoice when a 96yo woman dies?” you say. Uju frowns, gives you an F. You register to vote & cast a ballot for @DrOz this Nov. pic.twitter.com/jNchvkyWIq

— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) September 8, 2022

From all at johnlydon dot com

Rest in Peace Queen Elizabeth II.

Send her victorious.

From all at https://t.co/vK2Du0ZzDS pic.twitter.com/kq4M6WfeML

— John Lydon Official (@lydonofficial) September 9, 2022

“Pray for both families” lol https://t.co/PWx7uyqXmH

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 9, 2022

where you at, kirstie alley?

A solemn Tony Cascarino is broadcasting on Talksport. Who better to cover this historic event.

Cascarino said: "I had a Chinese delivered just moments after the announcement. It felt wrong and very disrespectful to eat it, so as a mark of respect I threw it in the bin."

— Sean (@shornKOOMINS) September 9, 2022

that fizzles feeling

it's what she wd have wanted

Crypto reacts to Queen Elizabeth's death

September 8, 2022https://t.co/iHdKV3m4HV pic.twitter.com/JNjVONXVIr

— web3 is going just great (@web3isgreat) September 9, 2022

‘1 minute rest in silence’ i am finished pic.twitter.com/eNPI5CHyml

— michael ✨ (@mjrgrs) September 9, 2022

The stoppages in Edinburgh do seem pretty aligned to getting her on the train - but "Further closures will be installed"

These are the main road closures in place today for events to mark the death of Her Majesty the Queen.

Further closures will be installed over the coming days, we will provide updates in due course.#edintravel pic.twitter.com/kuhG5cMCIm

— Edinburgh Travel News (@edintravel) September 9, 2022

It's a good thing she held out to the end of the Festival.