btw ppl saying in his defense that charles is an environmentalist i assume its just some neoliberalfeudal bs but i havent looked into it
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 September 2022 13:24 (one year ago) link
environmentalist in the organic-farming-and-maintainance-of-parks sense.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 12 September 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
well parks are nice
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 September 2022 13:30 (one year ago) link
his type environmentalism is like Attenborough's, all about eugenics and thinning out the population - "they breed like rats". He talks a lot about food waste while his servant ends up boiling 43 eggs if he decides on a whim to go on a 3 hour morning walk.
― calzino, Monday, 12 September 2022 13:31 (one year ago) link
lol perfect
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 September 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
Did unperson divorce his curvy Colombian wife or did she just pick up his shitty sense of humour along with her citizenship application
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Monday, 12 September 2022 13:57 (one year ago) link
How about a revolution instead
Sky News just challenged the public to overthrow the monarchy pic.twitter.com/QyAiceIDVk— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) September 12, 2022
xp
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 September 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
"You can still indulge in silly speculation while sober, xyzzz. Ain't against the rules."
Sounded like the kind of chat you'd be saying while drunk or brain dead.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 September 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
...if you lacked an imagination, maybe! :-P
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 September 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
Where is the assumption that William might be better coming from?
William seems to more capable of following his grandmother's example of never saying or doing anything interesting in public ever, and therefore remaining a popular 'apolitical' figure. Some of the royal reportage in Private Eye painted him as quite a ruthless and effective operator behind the scenes, as opposed to Charles who dithers and equivocates, e.g. they credited William with making sure that Andrew was fully cast out into the wilderness when the Queen was more inclined to be forgiving.
― soref, Monday, 12 September 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
the uk press have been sitting on stories about will's alleged infidelity for years now, so wills' ramrod compliance may be lubricated by a fear of being thrust onto tabloid front pages under straplines about his bedroom preferences
― manic pixie dream shatner (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 September 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
Yeah seems like a bit of a shoogly peg for the institution
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Monday, 12 September 2022 14:50 (one year ago) link
sad to see royalty forced into a prostate position like that
― manic pixie dream shatner (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 September 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
A far cry from the previously dominant position.
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Monday, 12 September 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
i think he's just really anal about details
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 September 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
just a square peg in a round hole I guess
― symsymsym, Monday, 12 September 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
I confess that this american is (with some guilt) delighted with the lol opportunities presented by KCIII. Sorry, UK, really I am, but also good god the tragicomedy. . .
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 12 September 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
I mean we gave you Trump (also sorry about that), surely it was your turn.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 12 September 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
tabloid features from the 80s make the best heads of state, trust us
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Monday, 12 September 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
lol i fucking told you
'Judging the right moment for a joke is always tricky...'My latest cartoon for tomorrow's @Telegraph Subscribe to my weekly newsletter to receive my unseen cartoons: https://t.co/JNDhrYJMFH pic.twitter.com/AhAJmld9TB— Matt Cartoons (@MattCartoonist) September 12, 2022
― mark s, Monday, 12 September 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
that's the power you wield when you are the UK's richest sketcher of cock-noses
― calzino, Monday, 12 September 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
nashwan otm, William will be more palatable to the average subject (because he is more palatable to the papers, as evidence: the last decade of papers)
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 12 September 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
move fast! break things!
King Charles’s staff given redundancy notice during church service for QueenExclusive by @PippaCrerar and @ccdavies https://t.co/nAcSngcBAI— Owen Gibson (@owen_g) September 13, 2022
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:42 (one year ago) link
psyched for some wild stories from disgruntled former employees
― manic pixie dream shatner (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 17:44 (one year ago) link
this man hates pens
How is this real? How is this public?! pic.twitter.com/dZlsNOVREI— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) September 13, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
He is going to machine gun the rest of the Royals
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
he has wanted this for 60+ years and already he hates it *so much*
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
*prepares the popcorn*
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
imagine taking the King to a fucking employment tribunal, you'd end up having to pay his legal fees and 10 years of your paltry wages back to him and then get birched for having the effrontery
― calzino, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
maybe charles will take the monarchy to a tribunal for constructive dismissal
― mark s, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
Lol, what a loser.
― Abel Ferrara hard-sci-fi elevator pitch (PBKR), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
Wonder if support for the Monarchy will collapse, he clearly can't keep his mouth shut.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
doesnt exactly have the common touch does he
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
His Majesty is not used to getting ink on his fingers, and it's ruined his entire bloody day.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:22 (one year ago) link
You can see exactly why his mother stayed in post till her literal death, can’t you
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
Amazing, simply amazing.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
Camilla doing a much better job at this stuff
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
So the Duchy of Lancaster passes to Charles, and that of Cornwall to Prince William. Did they observe proper protocol, which is to pass the duchy on the left-hand side?
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
He probably thinks hating pens makes him seem down to earth
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:29 (one year ago) link
xpost This generationRules the nation
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link
Ps the amount of people going WELL HE’S JUST LOST HIS MUM as though the guy didn’t literally give interviews saying he was “running out of time”.
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
All true heads of state use Sharpies.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:35 (one year ago) link
Fucking pens, how do they work?
― nickn, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
the most amazing video I've watched this year
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
I was working at a recruitment company in Piccadilly when the Queen Mother died, and even before her funeral, the staff were on the phone asking if we had vacancies for cooks, dressers, gardeners, you name it. They were all about to be made homeless. https://t.co/zLSH592cXW— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 13, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
The Duke of York will be a Counsellor of State for the new king. pic.twitter.com/qZPdhjwUjM— PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) September 14, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 10:10 (one year ago) link
You know what, this is a fair point. Does Charles not bleed? does he not weep at the moonlight? Does his heart not soar when listening to Coldplay? He is one of Us, a flawed, scared sack of bones trying to make the best of existence on this rainy fascist island https://t.co/XKs34NkeD7— Y (@tinshh) September 14, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
King Charles, died 2022 by literally not being able to breathe for being criticised
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 September 2022 15:05 (one year ago) link
I'm curious about how the 2 videos of Charles looking grumpy got released. Leaked by a disgruntled member of staff?
― cajunsunday, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
can't have 24-7 adoring rolling coverage if you keep binning the material
also i'm guessing there wasn't a need until now to have a full-time tantrum editor keeping a watchful eye, his mum was a seasoned professional who self-edited like a beast -- while her son is a self-important crank weirdo who thinks he knows everything and badly wants to be as beloved but is also angrily terrified he never will be (clue: he never will be)
― mark s, Wednesday, 14 September 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
A psychedelic sea of lurid reds and a clunking monarch butterfly cannot save this superficially observed and carelessly executed bland banality
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/15/jonathan-yeo-portrait-of-charles-iii-review-a-cringeworthy-bit-of-facile-flattery
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:14 (two weeks ago) link
Jonathan Jones is wrong again
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:26 (two weeks ago) link
the first thing it made me think of is the cover to Yoko Ono's 2001 album Blueprint for a Sunrise (which is a re-coloured version of a Hubert Vos portrait of the Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi)
https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27368d991d554862425c6882453
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 18:19 (two weeks ago) link
(with Ono's face superimposed on it, obv)
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 18:20 (two weeks ago) link
similarly carroty fingers too
― koogs, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 20:57 (two weeks ago) link
the painting isnt good as art but its better than a lot of portraiture of important people at depicting a human face
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 May 2024 02:05 (two weeks ago) link
i dont know much abt art but i meme what i meme
― mark s, Thursday, 16 May 2024 09:19 (two weeks ago) link
as a study of a semi-human form it would be fair to say Yeo is no Lucien Freud, but he get's the commission and he gets the cheque. It's getting hung in the Drapers' Hall (some centuries old bullshit City of London charity foundation) so at least it wont hanging next to anything I like.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 16 May 2024 09:58 (two weeks ago) link
Prince William has been named UK's third sexiest man of 2024. pic.twitter.com/uc0omq3bPG— Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) May 17, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 18 May 2024 13:23 (two weeks ago) link
UK's third baldest man of 2024.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 May 2024 13:25 (two weeks ago) link
UK standards are at rock bottom, maybe some ppl feel like it's the closest worldly experience to shagging Princess Diana by proxy or something.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 18 May 2024 14:39 (two weeks ago) link
Any clues as to #1 & #2?
― the mechanical rights of dracula (Matt #2), Saturday, 18 May 2024 14:48 (two weeks ago) link
https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/79/1200x712/secondary/Jeremy-clarkson-5378326.jpg
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 May 2024 14:55 (two weeks ago) link
https://i2-prod.examinerlive.co.uk/incoming/article16429556.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/0_Alan-Brazil-2.jpg
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 18 May 2024 14:59 (two weeks ago) link
Thought the Clarkson was a joke post but no, he was the actual winner. Was it a poll of Daily Mail readers or something?
― groovypanda, Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:01 (two weeks ago) link
wondering if these results should more properly described as a symptom or a cause of the UK's current state
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:09 (two weeks ago) link
I wouldn’t have pegged him as a third but I understand some feel differently
― subpost master (wins), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:14 (two weeks ago) link
wills has been well and truly shafted here
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:38 (two weeks ago) link
Mock the UK all you want but William has a lot of reach around here
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 May 2024 15:57 (two weeks ago) link
NV getting lucky again.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Saturday, 18 May 2024 16:50 (two weeks ago) link
> Was it a poll of Daily Mail readers or something?
it has 'express.co.uk' in the image url
― koogs, Saturday, 18 May 2024 18:27 (two weeks ago) link
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 18 May 2024 22:02 (two weeks ago) link
oh, way to miss the joke huh
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 18 May 2024 22:03 (two weeks ago) link
https://media2.giphy.com/media/cPCYjo3Jc1S8v2orAo/giphy.gif?cid=9b38fe919r0wa6eo8tu1ghca2mqnu1ibwsna4hz8ab1qt4wz&ep=v1_gifs_username&rid=giphy.gif
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 20 May 2024 20:56 (two weeks ago) link
I saw one on Instagram where it was turned into the Loveless cover
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 20 May 2024 20:57 (two weeks ago) link