queen elizabeth II

OK, I'll respond, since you make an issue of it. Your post, which you helpfully linked a short time ago, was responding to mine. But his contention was that your post was so damning that it caused me to flee the thread. Your post appeared on September 12, 2022 1:58 AM, my local time. I had already responded to Zelda's polite correction to my mistaken views, with which I agreed, and I had stopped posting six hours earlier. This hardly matches his version of my being trounced by your links and slinking off in shame.

Now, I am going to go about the rest of my day. Which is not quite the same as running away in horror at my predicament. We all have lives apart from ilx.

My god he is going to stop posting

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51Jq9-HM53L._SX338_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

Gotta check the cell tower pings

Expecting mark s to be called to the stand any minute.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/21/flag-queen-coffin-muhammad-khan-court-westminster

pic.twitter.com/Pf0gphWUyR https://t.co/62Z1qfKdMM

— Kam Sandhu (@_kayayem) September 20, 2022

Read that: 1) this was viewed less than the Euro '20 final in the UK, and now how this funeral is the most watched event in TV history.

Guess both things can be true.

needs better stats for aliens watching the royal signal as it gradually percolates thru space

https://i.imgur.com/EktigxE.png

Oh no a Superspreader event among the aristocracy and world leaders https://t.co/bzjWYSUZy4

— MARCUS. 🇧🇧🏳️‍🌈 (@marcusjdl) September 21, 2022

Honestly did not realize that thr funeral was even broadcast in the U.S. until my mom mentioned on Monday that she'd watched some of it.

the 6bn number originally came from the right wing press, i think. it was reported by the bbc but didn't originate there.

Sitting here idly wondering how many people drew their last breath during the funeral festivities. Must be a few?

120 ppl die every minute if that helps

it definitely helps a little

Nice try. pic.twitter.com/72UTWPLSuZ

— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) September 20, 2022

looks legit

120 ppl die every minute if that helps

= entire UK population dead in a year. Make the most of it!

ffs they still had a minute's applause at the start of Scotland v Ukraine game, how long is this shite going to go on? For those unfamiliar with the concept, a minute's applause is the fallback when the authorities aren't confident a minute's silence is going to be observed, and indeed the applause just about drowned out the boos.

this proves that people that show up for international games are at least 60% more likely to be melts

some scientists did an ant tally and estimated that there was 20 quadrillion of the bitey little radge fuckers on this planet. The international ant community only go into a state of mourning if more than a billion of them die in one day, probably.

There's a scientific theory that ant nests are ruled not by their queens, but rather by sizeable fungal growths at their base that release behaviour-altering spores. That fungus? Rupert Murdoch. The spores? Take your pick.
Still working on this one tbh.

So funny to me that when Diana died there were those amazing couple of days where it felt like the royal family itself was in danger of getting booted out, but this time around it's Phillip Schofield in danger of not presenting This Morning

— Europe's Leading Soccer Futurologist (@TreborRhurbarb) September 21, 2022

Monarchy WTF notwithstanding, that Emma pony was damn cute.

*crying at statisticians* give me the truth!!

Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral was watched by 27M people in the UK alone.

In contrast, Princess Diana’s funeral was watched by 32.1M in 1997. pic.twitter.com/BspIPoa0ue

— Pop Tingz (@ThePopTingz) September 21, 2022

a real funeral with a whodunnit twist will always be more popular with the viewers than a fake funeral with an empty coffin :p

Should Queen Elizabeth II be made a saint?

✍️ Charles Moorehttps://t.co/SiyJ8s1EET

— The Spectator (@spectator) September 22, 2022

jesus effing christ!

Isn't that a Catholic thing?

yeah pretty sure she wasn't a catholic

A strange combination of will-this-do space filler and High Tory brainrot... yes folks, it's Charles Moore Time again!

The Palace apparently sent TV stations all over the world a list of short sections of the funeral service that are banned from now on.

But since this is the internet and there's something called the Streisand Effect, here they are:

« Le Palais » a demandé aux rédactions de censurer certaines images des obsèques de la reine lors des rediffusions. Oui, car c’est TRÈS choquant 🚫#Quotidien pic.twitter.com/trFyWZe5pb

— Quotidien (@Qofficiel) September 20, 2022

For a brief delirious moment I thought they'd turned it into a game show.

quora: "… there has never been a non-Catholic who has been canonized. But canonization does not 'make' a saint. It only recognizes a saint. God makes saints."

^^^

God, the unelected ruler of christianity

could charles canonise his mum? he has his own "catholic and reformed" church now. pretty sure there are at least a few anglican saints but idk what the process is

I could be wrong but seems the anglican saints are basically the old catholic ones and then there are a bunch of "heroes"? maybe she could be a heroine?

what a weird fucked up compromise of a church this is

Anglicanism is weird.

it's almost as if the main cause of it's inception wasn't theological

Theresa May's dad was one of them Anglo-Catholic freaks which might explain a lot. I once worked on the Anglican Monastery were he trained. The monks there were absolutely loaded and much freakier than any priests I've ever met, and that is saying something.

non angli sed angeli

My friend is one of the lay staff of St Paul’s Cathedral and she goes to Mirfield every year for what she calls ‘an STFU retreat’ - she is very High Church.

she goes to the Community of the Resurrection? it's a beautiful building and they spent a fortune on the refurb. The granite fonts they had installed must have cost a small fortune, looked pretty cool though.

I’m sure that’s the place but I’ve never heard it called anything but ‘Mirfield’.

I’m sure that’s the place but I’ve never heard it called anything but ‘Mirfield’.

sorry for being so late to this and for bringing something so stupid pic.twitter.com/CHWAoRKDcL

— ☠️ HAPPY ☠️ (@happyroadkill) September 29, 2022

QEII died of old age: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/29/queen-elizabeth-died-of-old-age-death-certificate-says

Nobody dies of 'old age', though. No commoner ever has that on their death certificate. My father who died at the age of 83 had about four different things. Even in death, QE2 ends up hiding stuff from those of us who were her subjects, even though the thing that is being hidden is probably completely innocuous, like heart failure or whatever.

And in a way it could really backfire, as now, out will come the conspiracy theorists - "She was murdered!" "She's still alive!" She really is a 9ft lizard!" Take your pick.

Meanwhile, the world's only reigning queen (there are, of course, quite a few consorts) Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, has announced she is stripping four of her grandkids of the title Prince or Princess. It's not all smelling of roses in Scandi-land right now, with several governments lurching to the right in this mainstay of social democracy, most notably Sweden. But clearly, it's not all rotten in the state of Denmark, as the monarchy there demonstrates (once again, for those paying attention) that it is possible to keep a monarchy and do it in a better way than the UK.

the pick i take is that she's still alive (bcz she is)

it isn't a conspiracy theory if it's true

Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, has announced she is stripping four of her grandkids of the title Prince or Princess.

as the monarchy there demonstrates (once again, for those paying attention) that it is possible to keep a monarchy and do it in a better way than the UK.

I mean, by slowly abolishing itself, sure, I guess?