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

oh no

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"Grief is the price we pay for love," Queen Elizabeth II said in support of those who lost loved ones in the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

As we remember the victims of that horrific day, we are also reminded of the late Queen’s ability to speak for us all in moments of tragedy.

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) September 11, 2022

hang on what kind of deranged thing is that to say people who lost loved ones and what a bleak worldview it hints at

HMMLO not even worth it

[some trite Queen quote written by her press officer about something being bad]
overlaid onto that 30's pic of young Lilibet and Queen Mum sieg heiling.

Am I doing this right?

Leaving sandwich for a dead person in a cost of living crisis. Have you seen how much they are selling bread for??? https://t.co/xGZgUBsIiO

— Jason Okundaye (@jasebyjason) September 11, 2022

Kieth is such a predictable hack. All political leaders do this tiresome bs, but he's so very bad at it as seen with him and Lammy's Berlin Holocaust Memorial debacle a couple of months back.

for one thing he can't stop himself, it's insane how many tweets he's done over the last 48 hours, like he's worried somebody's counting? or he's legit sat at the computer onto his 3rd bottle of Whyte & Mackay, churning them out in between crying jags and listening to "Song for Guy" on a loop

Not even Meath is safe

"Lizzie's in a Box!"
Mural in Meath, Ireland by Shamrock Rovers Ultras who were filmed chanting the slogan at a game shortly after the Queen's death. pic.twitter.com/dWkolli0Fn

— 𝕽𝖎𝖔𝖙 𝖂𝖎𝖙𝖍 𝕾𝖙𝖞𝖑𝖊 (@riotwithstyle) September 11, 2022

I think her hanging on till after the last Old Firm game was a wise move by the old girl.

"Lizzie's in a Box!"

is this a play on the 1987 single Living in a Box by the band Living in a Box?

it’s sung to the tune of “give it up” by kc and the sunshine band. not kidding

funny seeing Andrew Flood appear on here I was on a pirate radio station with his housemate in the mid 90s.

KC and the sunshine band's very moniker seems prescient eh what

BREAKING: Woman arrested after holding 'abolish monarchy' sign in Edinburgh. https://t.co/FEbq7f07CM

— Metro (@MetroUK) September 11, 2022

think monday's when big-forehead brendan's column generally drops, kudos* if the spiked contrarians go the way their shtick demands

*no kudos obv, fuck em whatever they write

I'm sure they'll be hard at work tonight trying to work out which opinions troll the maximum number of people.

xxxxp the same one who was DJing the ARC post-referendum party?

bbc2 evening schedule seems as previously advertised with the exception of removing the 2nd part of the stewart lee gig they showed last week. why?

sorry that was meant for BBC thread

Stewart Lee is an authorized court jester sito

I really can't be arsed with him anymore, this is what politics has done to me! Anyway fuck him I'm watching L'Avventura tonight and avoiding all UK public broadcasting for the foreseeable future.

Ha didn't see that the Stewart Lee was on til the next morning. Kicked myself for not seeing it listed and got it from another source.
So they only showed half of it? Does that add to the surrealism.
Watched it tonight anyway.

Or is 2nd part of the Stewart Lee thing being refered to actually a repeat of the same show? I think there is only one show called Snowflake and it's 59 minutes long. Very weird to only show half of it the day after breaking news. & would think news breaking wasn't that immediate they'd break into a show if it was that fresh anyway.

It’s a TV version of his recent touring show, which was in two halves: Snowflake / Tornado. They’ve shown Snowflake but Tornado has been postponed (to this coming Friday by the looks).

ok, what I saw listed in the Guardian for last Friday was Snowflake so i assumed i missed a repeat. Or was that a separate showing

tornado was sunday night, or should've been

Is Stewart Lee good?

May be an acquired taste.

People over there wouldn't like him. While the people over tehre think he's teh bees knees.

Do wonder how it would be to go into one of his performances totally fresh as in without prior experience of him. But don't have access to that perspective cos have been watching him for a couple of decades. So not being totally driven up the wall by his experiments with audience tolerance.

But in general question just reminds me of philosophical proposition.
Or a Moebius comic called is Man Good?

You might like much of what he says I but suspect you would be put off by his peevish, hectoring tone.

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Think he's fallen off since Comedy Vehicle made him universally lauded and as such he stopped being able to do the disgruntled outsider bit.

Queen already off all the bus station signs and so on, nature is healing.

I think Lee is fantastic but I recognise that this qualifies me as basic and middlebrow. I like that he is trying to incorporate the things he sees / likes from free improv (improv music rather than improv comedy) (haha if there’s a difference) into stand-up. Plus the whole alienation thing.

oh yeah actually his free jazz record from a couple of years ago is prob the thing he's done recently I've enjoyed most

Red Nation podcast an indigenous/native podcast talking about the negative aspects of a foreign monarchy thinking it runs their native land and the problems with the Commonwealth. So a different perspective to most that are being heard right now
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5VqWZZn5ymYNgYYR9NLYx1?si=5c9dcaec6a184e38
I do enjoy this podcast. They did a similar roundtable on the film Prey a few weeks ago which was very interesting.

One minute silence 8pm Sunday you guys

Followed by 2 minute hate hopefully

xxxp the These Feral Lands thing?
which appears to be more folk based improvisation but after hearing one song sounds pretty interesting.
Hadn't come across that before. But it is up on Spotify.
I think Pelt and a few other bands may be in the same area sonically.

No, I meant the Capri-Batterie collab, Bristol Fashion it's called. Didn't know about These Feral Lands.

mY wIfE aNd I

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcdbYN2WYAAQ7DK?format=jpg&name=360x360

"I like that he is trying to incorporate the things he sees / likes from free improv (improv music rather than improv comedy) (haha if there’s a difference)"

🤔🤔🤔

The least you could have done was “yes, and…” me there.

I think Lee is fantastic but I recognise that this qualifies me as basic and middlebrow.

who *are* the comedians more cutting-edge & radical than him, tho? As someone who rarely goes to comedy gigs - somehow I always feel more short-changed when they're crap than I ever would with a music gig - my knowledge of stand-up in this country is pretty much gleaned via YouTube & the BBC.

The official ILX stance is that all comedy, and specifically all British comedy, is bad and should feel bad.

I don't agree but I guess I'm not British enough yet to understand the stance.

That makes me not British enough either then, Daniel_Rf, despite having four English grandparents, AFIK only one Irish great-grandparent and no-one living outside these isles since the Flemish van Hesters rocked up in 1600 or so.

The idea that there should be an official ILX stance baffles me! That would imply that there was some arbiter of the rules. An unelected ILX monarch, maybe.

official ILX stance is that everything is bad though

ILx OTM esp in respect of ILx.

official ILX stance is that everything is bad though

would make all those C or D threads on ILM a tad boring.

An unelected ILx monarch conspicuous only by his massive gold top hat.

Spoke to the protestor who was arrested on the Royal Mile today for shouting abuse at Prince Andrew during the Queen’s procession - his name is Rory, here’s what he had to say: pic.twitter.com/8GTwnVGLF7

— Joseph Anderson (@janderson_news) September 12, 2022

official ILX stance is that everything is bad though

― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Monday, 12 September 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Ok what's good?

cant speak for anyone else, but personally have to say that I love music