thread for KING CHARLES III (regnal name george vii)

we studied the symptoms of syphilis in gcse English literature, as part of a project on Maupassant's short stories. one of my best ever teachers.

Also all kinds of organ failure 🙏

King Charles will never die!!

he'll never even be king!

im a lizobite

god shave the king (before applying ointments and cremes)

gobsmacking photo going round on twitter today.

I was wondering if Charles had ever met Bob Dylan. It spawned this image which just gets stranger the more you examine it. pic.twitter.com/x3ogRWNvVg

— Fearghas Kelly (@FearghasKelly) September 21, 2022

the fellas

at first look, thought roger and pete were hugh grant and mark knopfler

the famous blues brothers

Prince Andrew top right?

the moral equivalent of nonce

Who are these two...

Top row, fourth from left.
Top row, third from right.

third from right is zak ringoson

zak starkey, yes

drummer with the who at that point iirc

My god what a photo.

Producer probably thought he was booking Prince Charles and the City Beat Band, must've been gutted when that jug-eared cunt turned up

The mystery figure is apparently Steve Balsamo, Welsh musical theatre performer, who opened that 1996 Hyde Park Prince’s Trust show. Missing is Alanis Morissette, also on the bill!

Genuinely unsure if that's Ade Edmondson or Level 42's Mark King between Fry and Daniels

I appreciate the neat symmetry of Townsend and Glitter bookending the whole gang.

All still alive apart from Entwistle, I think.

keep yr hands off my lovely mark king, why wd he appear w/o lindup or the gould bros

that is ade (never funny)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/John_Franklin_1845.JPG/1024px-John_Franklin_1845.JPGhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/FeKZoNkXkAEfKrA?format=jpg

thought it was Harry Secombe for a minute

Neddy Seagoon surely?

icy seadoom

Charles has just hired Pipe Major Paul Burns, who played the bagpipes at Queen Elizabeth's funeral, to be his personal piper, and play for him every morning. Ostensibly, Burns is the King's human alarm clock

I would rather clean razor sharp swarf off dirty dangerous machines with an oily rag for a penny a day than be a fucking "human alarm clock" for one of these freaks!

KING CHARLES GET PIPED DOWN EVERY MORNING

keeping it real

The temptation for Major Paul Burns to install a recording of himself piping and slack off each morning must be considerable, one might think.

does hes just come into his room and starting playing right in his ear or what sounds horrible, maybe if he started far away tho and got slowly closer

yeah hopefully it's the reverse of the piper they got for my grandmother's funeral who got further and further away when we were at the cemetary

reminds me of my favorite joke

q: why do bagpipe players walk while they play?

a: to get away from the sound

lol

I should like to be piped in

yo chuck, they must be on the pipes right?

Who says these fucks are out of touch

A well aimed punch from Chuck = snooze button.

I hope he wakes him with this every morning...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vNENUEK0W0

Truss: “Your Majesty… Lovely to see you again.”

King: “Back again. Dear oh dear. Anyway…”

This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen. 😂😂pic.twitter.com/ENP8pPl9kO

— Brendan May (@bmay) October 12, 2022

... is he going to die tomorrow?

An open secret of a type that is depressingly common in Britain, here pic.twitter.com/Co55C3Qy6Q

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) October 16, 2022

i got into a minor wikipedia edit war last year over whether another of chuck's mentors laurens van der post raped a girl (he did, which the article now acknowledges).

Doesn't the King's "back again" basically mean "oh, dear, we're meeting again for the first time since the difficult and awkward times after the death of my mother" ?

that's not how it's being interpreted

he means *turns impossibly ancient and woebegone face to viewers* thanks i hate it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWotptfPnBU

So are we saying 'speaking the King's English' now instead of the Queen's English or what?

Out on the king's highway we are.