mere light-hearted banter
― what doesn't kill me makes me Hongroe (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 May 2022 12:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/20/john-shuttleworth-gig-abandoned-in-derbyshire-after-man-falls-into-cavern
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 20 May 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
must be worth a new song
― what doesn't kill me makes me Hongroe (Noodle Vague), Friday, 20 May 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
think you were missing a trick not to post that the place was called Devil's Arse tbh
― even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Saturday, 21 May 2022 01:26 (one year ago) link
come, friendly bombs
WWII veteran John Pearce is releasing a single to honour the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.“She was a real inspiration during the war and has continued to lead by example."Thank You Your Majesty is a reworking of Go West by The Village People.📺 Freeview 237, Sky 526, Virgin 627 pic.twitter.com/ZHjqZn0qEX— TalkTV (@TalkTV) May 20, 2022
― what doesn't kill me makes me Hongroe (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 May 2022 11:58 (one year ago) link
"in british english, the primary meaning of to go west is to die; this phrase later came to also mean: – to be lost, to be destroyed; – to disappear, to vanish; – to end in failure, to come to grief"
nothing left but symptom: showing this to a stunned and for-once silent zizek
― mark s, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
remind me not to retune my Freeview box
― koogs, Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTX0Q5sXoAArEtK?format=jpg&name=900x900
― calzino, Monday, 23 May 2022 11:51 (one year ago) link
oh, is there a new tindersticks album?
― koogs, Monday, 23 May 2022 13:13 (one year ago) link
it's just a lesson in capturing form from Rembrandt that the courtroom sketch artist upthread could possibly learn from. And it just happens to look like Wazza.
― calzino, Monday, 23 May 2022 13:22 (one year ago) link
Stoked for the madness.
We're doing so well over here, we're holding it togetherhttps://t.co/2BPaF9mio8— Rebecca Wilks (@WilksBecca) May 26, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 May 2022 09:53 (one year ago) link
Michael Buerk, once a presenter on BBC six o clock news, now reduced to hawking novelty coins. A tragic fall pic.twitter.com/W3u5EQig89— Simon (@simonk_133) May 26, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 May 2022 10:43 (one year ago) link
Britain unveiled its biggest ever coin to mark Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee https://t.co/lMBs6qU13K pic.twitter.com/hABULdwG0z— Reuters (@Reuters) May 25, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 May 2022 10:44 (one year ago) link
they forgot to add Buerk also shares presenting duties on The Moral Maze with Aaronovitch, which would be the worst program on R4 if not for their comedy dept.
― calzino, Thursday, 26 May 2022 10:56 (one year ago) link
Don't forget Great Lives, that's up there. Though I think for poison injected into British political media culture, nothing can really beat The Moral Maze.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 26 May 2022 11:05 (one year ago) link
The Royal Family, worth an estimated £72bn, won't pay the minimum wage for staff https://t.co/zhZEdIgSZi— Tom Peters (@tbtpeters) May 26, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 May 2022 12:08 (one year ago) link
That kind of thing is one reason they have so much money to be fair. Another involves shape-shifting.
― ARP Odysséas (Matt #2), Thursday, 26 May 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
Was gonna say that even for this psychotic country the dissonance of all this jubilee bollocks going on while everything just gets worse and worse is gonna be wild, but then I remembered all the 2012 shite happening within a year of riots
― gop on ya gingrich (wins), Friday, 27 May 2022 07:29 (one year ago) link
Silver Jubilee, 1981 Royal wedding... it's almost like these things get more hysterical and north korean the more society seems to be crumbling. I remember 2002 as being relatively muted tbh, that was pre-Iraq, high Blairism end of politics times.
― Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, Western Mail (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 27 May 2022 08:18 (one year ago) link
the backdrop of the invention of monarchy as mass public spectacle back in the 1890s was a decade of social and political unrest in the UK and the wider empire -- so i'm not convinced this element has amped up really (i am convinced that the sense of collapse is far greater, as is the actual fact of brokenness)
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 08:26 (one year ago) link
I just read that book by Tom Nairn about all this.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Friday, 27 May 2022 10:49 (one year ago) link
i probably got my shtick from it lol
― mark s, Friday, 27 May 2022 11:15 (one year ago) link
still think he shd have mentioned the pistols tho
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTxkfZZWIAEsGwH?format=jpg&name=medium
― calzino, Saturday, 28 May 2022 07:52 (one year ago) link
haha nice
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 28 May 2022 08:11 (one year ago) link
Love it.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Saturday, 28 May 2022 11:13 (one year ago) link
I am at the Liverpool fan park in Paris, fans are chanting"Phillip is dead.The queen is senile,And Andrew is a paedophile"Just be thankful these scenes aren't during the Jubilee #RowntreeInParis #ChampionsLeagueFinal— Simon Rowntree (@SimonRowntreeUK) May 28, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
thats real
― gop on ya gingrich (wins), Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
Man they're gonna end up my second team at this rate
― Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, Western Mail (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
wins - pray it is.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FTyOzq4XEAAGPko?format=jpg&name=900x900
Real Harrogate
― calzino, Saturday, 28 May 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
Tom Hark is the only tune i can fit that to lol
― Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, Western Mail (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 28 May 2022 22:04 (one year ago) link
A very Real England life:
"As Piggott entered his ninth decade there were calls from some in the racing fraternity not only for the restoration of his OBE, but for him to be knighted. Though neither of those things happened, at the 2017 Royal Ascot meeting there was a warm greeting from the Queen which suggested that she had, personally at least, forgiven him.
In 2012, Piggott left the marital home to live with Barbara FitzGerald in Geneva, an arrangement to which his wife gave her public blessing."
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/may/29/lester-piggott-obituary
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 29 May 2022 20:28 (one year ago) link
when I read on the RIP thread that he was someone's personal hero I was remembering reading that he was one of the most miserly, mean-spirited and outright horrible people in the world of flat racing, and that is something!
― calzino, Sunday, 29 May 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
Yes!!
Our spellbinding homage to Her Majesty The #Queen! 👑We've projected eight portraits of Queen Elizabeth II onto Stonehenge in celebration of the #PlatinumJubilee. pic.twitter.com/vn5vkGHJGt— Stonehenge (@EH_Stonehenge) May 30, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 30 May 2022 09:11 (one year ago) link
hahahaha
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 30 May 2022 09:26 (one year ago) link
The stones have since come alive. That distant rumble is them coming for us...
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 30 May 2022 09:27 (one year ago) link
it looks like the eight queens are about to do a hunger games
― imago, Monday, 30 May 2022 09:33 (one year ago) link
Ross Kemp just said the Queen ‘is a very beautiful lady’ on GMB.— Healosh (@Healosh) May 30, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 30 May 2022 10:40 (one year ago) link
pennies, coins, dosh, quids…whatever you call ‘em, bet you ain’t got one like this. God Save The Queen Commemorative Coin* + bonus NFT, available from The Pistol Mint now – get yours. [1/3] pic.twitter.com/0ytCZh6wmT— Sex Pistols Official (@sexpistols) May 30, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 30 May 2022 11:41 (one year ago) link
our figurehead! is not what she seems!
― mark s, Monday, 30 May 2022 11:52 (one year ago) link
Our spellbinding homage to Her Majesty The #Queen! 👑We've carved Queen Elizabeth II onto the Cerne Abbas Giant celebration of the #PlatinumJubilee. pic.twitter.com/BOdbiar7Cx— UK Tourism (@UKToryism) May 30, 2022
― mark s, Monday, 30 May 2022 16:03 (one year ago) link
Its only Monday.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 30 May 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
"All crimes are paid . . . with the God Save The Queen commemorative coin!"
― nickn, Monday, 30 May 2022 17:23 (one year ago) link
Good for her 😏 pic.twitter.com/U8LALjaBje— Jordon innit 👨🚀 (@montague90) May 30, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 30 May 2022 21:13 (one year ago) link
In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the Platinum Jubilee, the Archbishop of Canterbury tells @tombradby that Prince Andrew is 'seeking to make amends' having settled his sexual abuse lawsuit and we must 'learn to be a more open and forgiving society'https://t.co/gcGsa1TQa9 pic.twitter.com/Dxhi3euW2z— ITV News (@itvnews) May 31, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:58 (one year ago) link
Lol pic.twitter.com/0oB4ZS7yVH— j (@jrc1921) May 31, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 07:27 (one year ago) link
it is right that we celebrate her maj. it is also right that we ask where the money is coming from.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 08:25 (one year ago) link
That's it, I'm voting Tory next election.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 08:26 (one year ago) link
even though the Torygraph piece is just a half-arsed copy and paste platitudes job I think he sincerely does relate to the queen because he too knows the pain of being accused of shielding a nonce.
― calzino, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 09:41 (one year ago) link