queen elizabeth II

I thought Londoners were all in The Queue?

queuing 11.5 hours to see the queen body pic.twitter.com/IbvzyaxjIE

— Depop Drama (@depopdrama) September 17, 2022

Lol omg

Big day for Channel 5 pic.twitter.com/b41gNvi7H3

— Dave Brain 🧠 (@Ornsack) September 16, 2022

depop drama guy: "yes i will be posting tomorrow"
chairman alph: "i will never log off"

🤔🤔🤔

have some curtsy

https://c.tenor.com/AStLCoePvHUAAAAC/liz-truss-bozo.gif

Read that as "have some cutesy" tbh.

🎵 Lizzie is in a box 🎵

depop drama guy: "yes i will be posting tomorrow"
chairman alph: "i will never log off"

🤔🤔🤔

― mark s, Saturday, 17 September 2022 bookmarkflaglink

That's right

i keep hearing "have some curtesy and respect" to the tune of "Sympathy for the Devil"

pic.twitter.com/QkVoTHq0CE

— dean (@DeanRed123) September 17, 2022

lol

Lol @ Dundee Utd's statement.

Club Statement

— Dundee United FC (@dundeeunitedfc) September 17, 2022

Bad news folks! i waited in line for 16 hours to see the queen. But by the time i got there she was fuckin DEAD!!!!!!

— wint (@dril) September 17, 2022

still got it

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s reign will be remembered as a steadying, guiding influence during a period of huge change.

Our national character - of openness, pride and spirit - convinces me that Britain’s best days can still lie ahead of us.https://t.co/ywiQM366ut

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) September 17, 2022

he's still fucking queen-posting

furiously queen-posting on his laptop as he sinks to the bottom of the sea, bubbles trailing from his mouth

Is that a raven on the PM's head?

And why does everyone look constipated?

we all grieve differently

Fucking pride. I'm reaching calzino heights of hatred for this arsehole.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, this ruined me pic.twitter.com/u9SBGEQiLl

— Al (@asteroidsalad) September 17, 2022

"We met in the queue and we've become really good friends" pic.twitter.com/Rh5gO3iwSZ

— Kiyun Anon (@antifatwa) September 17, 2022

Celtic fans at St Mirren today@CelticFC pic.twitter.com/Hsr4SDXaR1

— Fitba Culture 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@fitbaculture) September 18, 2022

so childish, also amazing

Excellent but they're 1-0 down at half time ffs.

I'd be interested in how the St Mirren fans acted, not only because it's my hometown team but because virtually everybody in Paisley supports either Rangers or Celtic, so you're left with a peculiarly non-partisan non-sectarian fanbase for a West of Scotland team (a bit like Partick Thistle).

2-0 wtf??!?!

I'm blasting out the Merzbox at full volume tomorrow when it's the time.

lol 81% possession for Celtic, something has to give here

The stats for that game are weird

This is the weekend to take an interest in Scottish football

I’ll never forget his face when he first clocks the picture of the queen in the changies on his first day. https://t.co/iWSNdx10XV pic.twitter.com/5CgHJfihPR

— TerryHartley (@TPHartley90) November 12, 2021

how many cheating bfs have said they were in the queue this weekend

— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) September 18, 2022

A re-elected Labor government will redevelop and expand Maroondah Hospital from the ground up.

It will be renamed in honour of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.

— Dan Andrews (@DanielAndrewsMP) September 18, 2022

Carry on!

Hell is Luton airport.

Always a terrible place to have to pass through and completely unfit for purpose, I had the misfortune to be stuck there during the minute of silence for the Queen. An hour before the silence they started making announcements every ten minutes that this was upcoming, and strongly expressed how seriously Luton airport took this and that it “must be complied with”. Five minutes before the silence a woman announcer spoke over the P.A. and gave a totally over the top hagiography ending in a long rambling prayer for “our dearly departed Queen”,. A massed “Amen” from my fellow passengers bellowed through the terminal. It surely went way beyond what was required but she was just warming up…

Then we had the silence. I’d say 90% of people who had been sitting down got to their feet. I was sitting with headphones on and was scowled at by several people. Had I dared say anything I had a strong feeling I’d have faced severe repercussions. A few visiting tourists looked very bewildered and unsettled.

Then the announcer came back on with more prayers and a round of God Save The King. There was a near hysterical, zealous tone to her voice by this point. I found the whole experience deeply unsettling and could not wait to get the eff out of there. My flight was then delayed by 3 hours. The reason given was air traffic issue related to the Queen’s passing. I have zero idea what those issues might have been all but seems like an easy excuse for EasyJet’s failings. A horrible day.

Biden giving a sign of the cross...guess it's all one path to God.

U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are paying their respects to Queen Elizabeth II. He made the sign of the cross and put his hand to his heart as he stood near the casket.

More here: https://t.co/ai01fcFdEQ pic.twitter.com/TFIvPTANPh

— The Associated Press (@AP) September 18, 2022

"Truly international funeral diplomacy is relatively recent. It relies on air travel to fly in leaders from around the world within a few days, and refrigeration to preserve the deceased until they arrive"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/18/prime-minister-trusss-first-big-diplomatic-meeting-cancelled-joe-biden

So is that coffin actually a fridge, or is she starting to rot in there?

Luton Airport experience sounds both hilarious and appalling, truly at a North Korean level of stupidity.

furiously tapping the sign that says "it's not like North Korea it's LIKE THE UK"

Hell is Luton airport.

Always a terrible place to have to pass through and completely unfit for purpose, I had the misfortune to be stuck there during the minute of silence for the Queen. An hour before the silence they started making announcements every ten minutes that this was upcoming, and strongly expressed how seriously Luton airport took this and that it “must be complied with”. Five minutes before the silence a woman announcer spoke over the P.A. and gave a totally over the top hagiography ending in a long rambling prayer for “our dearly departed Queen”,. A massed “Amen” from my fellow passengers bellowed through the terminal. It surely went way beyond what was required but she was just warming up…

Then we had the silence. I’d say 90% of people who had been sitting down got to their feet. I was sitting with headphones on and was scowled at by several people. Had I dared say anything I had a strong feeling I’d have faced severe repercussions. A few visiting tourists looked very bewildered and unsettled.

Then the announcer came back on with more prayers and a round of God Save The King. There was a near hysterical, zealous tone to her voice by this point. I found the whole experience deeply unsettling and could not wait to get the eff out of there. My flight was then delayed by 3 hours. The reason given was air traffic issue related to the Queen’s passing. I have zero idea what those issues might have been all but seems like an easy excuse for EasyJet’s failings. A horrible day.

― stirmonster, Monday, 19 September 2022 01:50 (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

sounded rubbish - i hope air traffic control didn't observe the one minute silence (or maybe that explained your delay!)

I was at a Godspeed You! Black Emperor gig while the minute's silence was taking place. My pal was concerned they might stop the music for it (they didn't)

Ugh and yet LOL @ stirmonster's Luton Airport story

Times like that I wish I could fart on cue

I was at a departure gate in Heathrow once for a national silence, mostly it consisted of tourists milling about in confusion and the odd Brit shushing them. Not very silent at all!

I have been in a similar situation when I used go to football matches and Alex would be doing some loud vocal stimming all the way through a minute's silence, lol some of his best work. Usually I'd see a few other fellow refuseniks sat down and not entertaining this nonsense.

Sound up. "Why are you strangling me? Please someone. This is unnecessary. I didn't know." All can be heard on this video by a young boy on taken down by #police in #London because he roller bladed down a street unaware the king's motorcade was in the distance. pic.twitter.com/7K4RS6bguc

— Boca Media (@boca_meda) September 18, 2022

The Holocaust Memorial Garden in Hyde Park has now become a makeshift Queen Memorial Garden pic.twitter.com/1UNG54mXLv

— Grace Dean (@graceldean) September 18, 2022

Can I just
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CKJUUj6W8AAmU0L?format=jpg

Lots of interviews with people who've won the queue, including a couple where the wife described it as the best thing she's ever done, better than having (names her two kids on the air).

Hold on it's Talk Like a Pirate Day, will they...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day

International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon,[1] who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.[2] An observer of this holiday would greet friends not with "Hello, everyone!" but with "Ahoy, maties!" or "Ahoy, me hearties!" The holiday, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy.