William is much more agreeable for most actual Royalists who think Charles is too much a weird boat-rocking hippie (think Farage and the like) plus that William has always felt to them more Diana's son than Chuck's.
― nashwan, Monday, 12 September 2022 12:28 (one year ago) link
William's statements are usually about conservation, climate change & mental health, which is a bit more palatable than architecture and alternative medicine.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 12 September 2022 12:34 (one year ago) link
he is young and has an attractive young wife.
He's 40. Charles has got increasingly crankier and unpleasant as he's got older - not that he was ever not cranky and unpleasant - I fully expect William to go the same way.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Monday, 12 September 2022 12:40 (one year ago) link
My wife and I (both Americans, FTR) discussed this weekend the idea that maybe it would be a good thing if Chuck were to say "Fuck this shit, I'm the king, I'm gonna be the fucking king" and rescind your new prime minister's position, dissolve Parliament by royal edict, and turn your little island back into an absolute monarchy. I mean, how much worse could he shit the bed than your last three leaders have done? And before you say "constitutionally, he can't" I say that it would be highly amusing for the prime minister and Parliament to be forced to deploy the military against a rebel king, and I genuinely wonder which side the population would land on.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 12 September 2022 12:45 (one year ago) link
Don't 'your little island' us you cheese-murdering ingra---ahaha I mean why yes that would be splendid good sir.
― nashwan, Monday, 12 September 2022 12:53 (one year ago) link
Population would side w/ the military, as they would not want to get shot.
But of course Charles also has zero motivation to embark on this fantasy scenario - why would he want the headaches of ruling, he's got the royal veto to maintain the family fortune and that's all that really matters.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 12 September 2022 12:56 (one year ago) link
"My wife and I (both Americans, FTR) discussed this weekend the idea that maybe it would be a good thing if Chuck were to say "Fuck this shit, I'm the king, I'm gonna be the fucking king" and rescind your new prime minister's position, dissolve Parliament by royal edict, and turn your little island back into an absolute monarchy."
I hope you were both really drunk during this convo.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 September 2022 13:00 (one year ago) link
its not really that small of an island, ranks in the top ten biggest iirc
― lag∞n, Monday, 12 September 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
You can still indulge in silly speculation while sober, xyzzz. Ain't against the rules.
He's 40.
That's still 'young' in terms of the mean & possibly also median age of the UK populace, Tom D., and also in the eyes of the Tory-voting, Countryside Alliance supporting, on-shore wind vetoing, curtain-twitching types who are the only people the govt/MSM care about the opinion of these days.
― Grandpont Genie, Monday, 12 September 2022 13:22 (one year ago) link
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
"Queen Camilla was instead at the service, where she handed out Maundy money"
this maundy money bullshit goes back to Edward I, they all went to hell for various reasons but surely hijacking a holy day mass to put on some bs ceremony of monarchical generosity that has as much to do with christian Easter as cadbury's creme eggs is amply disrespectful enough for a ticket to hell.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 28 March 2024 16:58 (four weeks ago) link
They all spill out onto the high street after to be confronted by endless signs saying "Maundy Money not accepted here"
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 28 March 2024 17:01 (four weeks ago) link
I mean it's the Church of England for a reason
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 28 March 2024 17:02 (four weeks ago) link
Maunday money (bah-da bah-da-da-da)So good to me (bah-da bah-da-da-da)
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 March 2024 17:07 (four weeks ago) link
after Jesus cleansed the temple he told those lads to fuck off, he didn't say well I guess you can hand out fake money to make yourself look good if you want to!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 28 March 2024 17:46 (four weeks ago) link
wait it's not real money?
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:20 (four weeks ago) link
I don't like maundys
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:21 (four weeks ago) link
Just another manic maundy?
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:22 (four weeks ago) link
They always get me down
― President Keyes, Thursday, 28 March 2024 18:25 (four weeks ago) link
Being an ignorant lout of an American, I looked up Maundy money in wikipedia and discovered:
the British monarch or a royal official ceremonially distributes small silver coins known as "Maundy money" (legally, "the King's Maundy money") as symbolic alms to elderly recipients. The coins are technically legal tender, but typically do not circulate due to their silver content and numismatic value.
SO, this is one of those weird holdovers like touching for "the King's evil" See: https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/blog/touching-kings-evil-short-history
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 28 March 2024 19:08 (four weeks ago) link
when William's king they're going to modernise it and hand out £15 Playstation Network cards
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, 28 March 2024 19:22 (four weeks ago) link
they're ceremonial coins, the US also does this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_commemorative_coins
i image most states do tbh
― mark s, Thursday, 28 March 2024 19:47 (four weeks ago) link
why not gelt, at least you can eat that
― StanM, Thursday, 28 March 2024 20:57 (four weeks ago) link
im sure you could sell the coin, but maybe you want to keep it, as a keepsake
― lag∞n, Thursday, 28 March 2024 20:58 (four weeks ago) link
or launch them at William's ugly slaphead next time he cries at an FA cup final cos all those nasty scousers are booing the national anthem.
These fucking ppl
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 28 March 2024 21:58 (four weeks ago) link
it's ok bud they're all dead now
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 March 2024 10:25 (three weeks ago) link
rip big family
― lag∞n, Friday, 29 March 2024 12:13 (three weeks ago) link
thoughts and prayers
Less than two months after Buckingham Palace confirmed King Charles III was diagnosed with cancer, sources exclusively reveal to In Touch that the king is battling pancreatic cancer and has been given two years to live.While the royal family has kept tight-lipped about the specifics of Charles’ illness, including the type of cancer he has, a source exclusively confirms to In Touch that the king’s diagnosis is known to be an open secret among royal staffers.“Many courtiers believe Charles’ cancer is worse than they’re making it out to be,” a second insider adds. “Even before the diagnosis, there were concerns about his health."
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 30 March 2024 16:21 (three weeks ago) link
come on i can't wait two years for an extra bank holiday
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 March 2024 16:33 (three weeks ago) link
Ouch, that's one of the worst cancers to get iirc
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 March 2024 16:33 (three weeks ago) link
What's In Touch?
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 30 March 2024 16:36 (three weeks ago) link
^ out of touch
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 30 March 2024 16:41 (three weeks ago) link
2 years might be optimistic - it is usually incurable and when the end comes it comes quickly
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 30 March 2024 16:44 (three weeks ago) link
He might even win some sympathy over this. Too bad he has such a grossly unsympathetic personality. The problem with being heir to a throne is it leads to an all-pervasive sense of entitlement.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 30 March 2024 17:31 (three weeks ago) link
er
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 30 March 2024 17:32 (three weeks ago) link
What's _In Touch_?
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 30 March 2024 17:50 (three weeks ago) link
sorry that was a typo, it was supposed to read According to Zing Touch…
― The Yellow Kid, Saturday, 30 March 2024 19:37 (three weeks ago) link
It's time for a return to old-style king-naming. I look forward to the reign of King William the Bald.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 31 March 2024 14:37 (three weeks ago) link
ivar the boneless and olaf the flashywere a very notorious couple of kings
― mark s, Sunday, 31 March 2024 15:05 (three weeks ago) link
Harald Bluetooth would often stay rooted to the same spot in his great hall
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 31 March 2024 15:30 (three weeks ago) link
Ivar the Boneless one of the few monarchs to have a KFC meal deal named in his honour
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 31 March 2024 15:51 (three weeks ago) link
don’t forget æthelred the zinger tower
― subpost master (wins), Sunday, 31 March 2024 16:01 (three weeks ago) link
Pancreatic cancer was the same thing that killed Steve jobs. Charles seems like the kind of person to try the same treatment (nuts and berries etc).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 31 March 2024 20:02 (three weeks ago) link
nuts and buried morelike
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 31 March 2024 23:16 (three weeks ago) link