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

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

Andrew Sullivan's cited as a source on cable news. I'm done.

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*.

For me it feels like the opposite. This whole situation is reminder after reminder that as a country we're living in the past.

No worries if you can't get used to King Charles yet, you have two weeks of mourning, a funeral, his coronation, the Christmas speech, investiture of the Prince of Wales and a thousand other fucking things to drill this piece of information into your brain over the next forever

Either another queen died or people are still talking about the one from yesterday

— derek (@derek8185338254) September 9, 2022

God help me there was a bunch of Canadians getting pissy about some queen jokes in the timeline and one of them said something about "over 1000 years of tradition" and I was on the verge of schooling them a bit about why this is stupid ignorant horseshit and then I remembered you can just let people be stupid it's ok, think I picked a bad month to be very online

I don't even like accusing people of stupid, I guess ignorant is closer to the mark but that has all those know your place civility connotations when what I really mean is how can you be confident when you understand so little and are so incurious, your kneejerks are the warp and weft of monarchy, your lack of book-learning is the pile of skulls it sits atop, I know thinking is bad and overrated but that should entail a profound silence shit I shd listen to my own nonsense

there is a tremendous Beethoven sonata playing on R3 rn. I know when it finishes the presenter will try and ruin it by somehow linking it to [fuck this bullshit]

it was probably commissioned by like a cousin of elizabeth’s great great aunt or something

(soz)

there has been a fair bit of that, but it has been at least a tolerable program this morning. Well apart from this crap they are playing rn lol!

Sometimes I remember this series exists

I caught the end of that piano piece and it was great, thanks calz :)

it was Beethoven's last piano sonata and it is incredible.

The files suggest that the Queen’s advisers attempted to use the consent procedure to try to extract a commitment from the government that the new law would not apply to her private estates.

Harold Wilson was a royal bootlicker

Look at this bunch of absolute cunts

https://i.imgur.com/H7uObhN.png

There we go

King Charles III has approved an order that the day of the Queen's funeral will be a bank holiday

For more on this and other news visit https://t.co/NEDMP2uP6W

— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) September 10, 2022

God Save our King!

Kieth looks well jelly in that picture

or maybe Blair farted

We get another BH for the coronation of cunty lugs whenever that is

Critical support for whatever Elizabeth died of (do we know this btw, I haven’t read any actual news stories I’ve just been googling “do we get a day off” like most sane ppl)

Do we actually though, I thought coronation was the same day

a: she was rasputined
b: unlike rasputin it didn't take (*taps thread title*)

no it'll totally be later on, the queen's was months after her dad pegged out and Edward VIIIth Reich didn't even reach his

Ok no it’s not, wins is right.

Lmao

Sources have said that it will be shorter, smaller, less expensive and more representative of different faiths and community groups. King Charles is also said to have expressed a wish that it reflects the ethnic diversity of modern Britain.

gonna be really difficult to grovel and scream about wokism all at the same time

Half a teaspoon more curry powder in the chicken mayonnaise

cutting both ways when he "ceremonially" (actually) bans all cars from cities

doesn't every incoming ceo say shit like this