queen elizabeth II

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.

Maaan that be borrrn of a woman hath but a short time to live, and be full of misery, arrrrrrrrr. He cometh up, and be cut down, like a flowerrrrrrrrr; he fleeth as it were a shaaaaadow, and never continueth in one stay. Now let us pray, you lily livered bilge rrraaaaaats.

all the anti-monarchist socmed channels are also gummed up with commentary on the funeral lol

she got us lads

and she isn't even dead

she's the only one not watching

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)

― paolo, Monday, 19 September 2022 08:52 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

godspeed must be just about the least likely band to stop the music for such a thing.

Heathrow has closed WH Smith's out of respect but the caviar and oyster bar is still open

— Hazel Southwell (@HSouthwellFE) September 19, 2022

wonder if Pippa's arse will look as good in a mourning outfit

A guard waves off the 03.00 train from Penzance to London. The special service was put on so that mourners wishing to be in the capital for The Queen's funeral could get there in time, however, ultimately, the train departs Platform 2 in Penzance empty. @CornwallLive pic.twitter.com/MA5PkklUSA

— Greg Martin (@photogregmartin) September 19, 2022

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).

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 19 September 2022 bookmarkflaglink

Husband is like ok.

Parent of the year 🏆 pic.twitter.com/yMHI4mX0iY

— Catrin Newman (@catrinnewman) September 19, 2022

I'm watching a movie so left purity intact

Is this in the movie?

Andrew fully crying and shitting

— the sharia cop (@AliceAvizandum) September 19, 2022

They're just jealous.

the other country that takes monarchy far too seriously somehow fails to send a representative sample https://t.co/waeCftBLsZ

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) September 19, 2022

it’s hard to believe philip didn’t say something incredibly derogatory to highly placed thai royalty at some stage along the way and i’d like to think they still harbor a grudge

What a journey it's been..

The former leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party wrote this. pic.twitter.com/fGaXpdxcWx

— Evan Smith (@evansmithhist) September 19, 2022

Response pastors are out there..

A woman stands in protest against Mohammed Bin Salman, who was supposed to come to funeral but is now skipping it. Reverse of sign said “MBS Not My King.” A street pastor tore it from her hands until she explained who MBS was. “You should make your sign more clear then.” pic.twitter.com/y3aHG6vKn5

— Melissa Martin (@DoubleEmMartin) September 18, 2022

that orb has to be glued on

wtf is a Response Pastor?

“Mum, did you record my big moment?”
MUM: pic.twitter.com/1sKhI96zG6

— Craig Deeley 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 (@craiguito) September 19, 2022

Have you ever noticed that the inside of a cheese grater looks like the view from a coffin if the coffin was every hip hop video from 2002? pic.twitter.com/9OAIEjbv3U

— Jeremy Corbyn (@DrRobertZands) September 19, 2022

wtf is a Response Pastor?

This was how I felt when they took Grandstand off the airwaves https://t.co/FyUXWJW0OY

— Stefan Bielik (@prstskrzkrk) September 19, 2022

*TB was a constant all through people's lives at one time too.

(*Tuberculosis not Tony Blair)

Tfw you don't have one fucking clue.

‘It puts you in touch with your own losses’: the power of collective grief, from the Queen to George Floyd to Covid https://t.co/Q7E8zYmYxS

— The Guardian (@guardian) September 18, 2022

Tested positive for Covid at 11am. Thanks, QE2.

Horseshit everywhere, I see.

A response pastor is a street pastor who has received additional training to provide support to those affected by a disaster or crisis.

lool, gimmee a fucking break, what a pisstake!

Is the level above that creepy pastor?

I think people living in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen or Ukraine would perhaps piss themselves laughing at the idea of one 96 yr old granny carking it being considered a crisis or a disaster.

Spider crawls across Queen's coffin during funeral 🕷

[THREAD] 🧵⤵️https://t.co/T429afsdGB

— My London (@myldn) September 19, 2022

a money spider

Who let Boris in?

It'll be a difficult wank admittedly.... pic.twitter.com/EU9xeOu8Pd

— Rob C (@iarentspartacus) September 17, 2022

Much of the country would beg to differ apparently

Lol and more lol

"He's got Tourettes!" https://t.co/91xsGBIIU7

— GrieveWatch (@GrieveWatch) September 18, 2022

yeah a lot of the garbage you get at football grounds have zero disability awareness.

*rattle*
*rattle*
*rattlerattleRATTLE*

Have they planted her yet?

Today, I walked along the south coast, from the edge of the New Forest up into Christchurch. That whole chunk of coast has been monetised in one way or another, from £60-a-day beach sheds to tweely named and eyewateringly expensive seafood restaurants like the Lucky Lobster or the Oleaginous Oyster or whatever. _Everything_ was shut, each place with its own hand-printed elegy/notice as to why. I couldn't even get the ferry at Mudeford (only running two services, one at 10, the other at 5pm in honour of her maj).

Christchurch is, it turns out, the perfect town for totalitarian mourning. It's one of the most Tory places on earth and has a population all in fear of their lives, all ripe for some tea-towel out-the-window action. It felt like everyone was in competition. All the post boxes were decorated, people had blacked out their windows; each restaurant and cafe had huge signs up saying why they were shut. You could totally imagine anyone showing dissent having their windows caved in. It was a bizarre sight. Pretty much the only sign of life was in the doorway of the vast baroque Conservative Club, where an old lady with a frame and a trifle on her head was openly weeping into the street. The station was deserted and the ticket machine was wrapped in crime scene tape so I didn't buy a train ticket home. That one was on you, Liz.

Damn lol

When you've got a tricky shot but the table is near the wall pic.twitter.com/PGQBwoalx8

— Eugene (@eugeneh84) September 19, 2022

Interestingly the only two people I know on Facebook who seem interested in and engaged with this whole business are Australians.