thread for KING CHARLES III (regnal name george vii)

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.

well we would be if she'd died but

Surely someone has a "why isn't it King's College Belfast now" take

Doubt he'll get to his own coronation at this rate.

Who was Prime Minister when King Charles III ascended to the throne is going to be a really hard pub quiz question in about 20 years

— Joanna Taylor (@JoannaRTaylor) October 20, 2022

got him

Video posted on social media showed two activists from Britain's Just Stop Oil group covering a waxwork model of King Charles III with cake at Madame Tussauds London pic.twitter.com/SBXEOihrOR

— Reuters (@Reuters) October 24, 2022

The moment eggs were thrown at the royal party as King Charles arrived in #york today. Video from Henry TB pic.twitter.com/OuGMpDlJdC

— DavidDunninguk (@daviddunninguk) November 9, 2022

some very disappointing egg throwing skills here, ffs aim for the parasite's head. hilarious replies: "this is treason" ha ha!

good to see the mayor in the apu-takes-a-bullet role

has the royal egg boiler guy finally lost his patience with him?

I just saw a long ITV news item about King Charles on an official visit to Luton.

Visiting a Sikh kitchen he remarked of the dough: "It's wonderful how it rises". The presenter repeated that he had said: "It's wonderful how it rises".

I'd say it must be a slow news day if we still had those.

tbf bread rising is technically wonderful

King Charles dies in a tragic sourdough accident.

It was the best of times, it was the yeast of times

Think he got egged again yesterday

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/homemade-egg-bread/

that's not eggy bread

Read that as Eggy Beard - who as we all know was violinist with Scotland's greatest rock group, Chou Pahrot.

https://i.imgur.com/RylK6hs.jpg

ha! what an awesome photo. kelvinrove bandstand?

Yes.

lots of folded-arms guys in that crowd

First look at new King Charles banknotes https://t.co/Wvenu63JF2

— ITV News (@itvnews) December 20, 2022

added a few inches to his "see-through" hairline

The Bank of England have found a cure for male pattern baldness.

no more follicle declines, an end to recession!

Merry Wokemass guys 😡 pic.twitter.com/tbJhnKq6ge

— The Good Christian Benjamin Hair ✝️🙏 (@Viral_Ben) December 22, 2022

Wow, I forgot about this guy.

🚨 | BREAKING: General Llywelyn Fortwilliam has cast doubt over Prince Harry's claim to have killed 25 Taliban fighters.

"By my count it was 24. One insurgent was mangled and paralysed from the neck down but he could still have triggered an IED if he'd bitten down hard on it." pic.twitter.com/brHbdS3aVz

— BAZAKE (@BazakeMedia) January 6, 2023

I'm not sure if this is as funny as I found it this morning!

It's bonkers how the military and others are saying "Prince Harry mentioning killing people is making other soldiers from that war a target".

They were a target during the war. They could be a target now if the Taliban, terrorists, or whoever wants to target them, for having fought in Afghanistan - never mind anything that Prince Harry says. It's not as if it was a secret that UK soldiers killed Afghans during the Afghan war.

if anything you'd be quite fair to suspect that the soldiers that served with him could have been closer to a branch of Spar than any Taliban. More like an executive babysitting platoon than Taliban hunters.

Bizarre threads of media pros saying "by golly my grandfather murdered 80 Germans with his bare hands, but he never spoke a word of it, he bottled those feelings up and only expressed them by beating us with his belt, it's the British way and any suggestion of anything else is a grave insult to our brave troops and our nation"

Agree.

I suppose saying "military secrets should remain secret because this helps our military power" is one thing, and makes its own sense.

But saying "the Taliban will be outraged when they learn that British soldiers killed people in Afghanistan!" doesn't.

tbh the omerta was always largely abt british ppl being outraged that british soldiers were killing people in afghanistan

Pretty sure I remember the little cunt talking about killing ppl at the time and how it was jolly good fun like a video game

obv i don't care about being fair to guillotine-fodder but i've just seen this

The extent to which the British media have misrepresented what Prince Harry wrote about his Afghan war experiences in ‘Spare’ is disquieting. https://t.co/FGlZbC9jRr

— Ian Fraser (@Ian_Fraser) January 7, 2023

xp
the mofo was a certified killing machine in Afghanistan, but heh, not so kool & deadly against a feeble sucker punch attack from his pathetic loser brother.

I'm too hungover to even work out what that Telegraph front page is supposed to be depicting or what it means. At first I thought it was a parody and now it seems like the British establishment is fucking insane.

Agree!

my first thought was that it seemed like trolling, like the Maxwells were intentionally being offensive and crass as an act of bravado, but maybe they really are weird and disconnected enough that they think the general public will find this convincing evidence of Andrew's innocence? After all, Andrew was weird and disconnected enough to think the Matlis interview was a good idea. It was probably impossible to be one of Robert Maxwell's kids and not end up somewhat insane.

story and image being so evidently idiotic (= retweetable) somewhat masking that this use of the actual image of giuffre's face is p abusive imo

It's harassment of Giuffre. Why is this coming round again?

— last year's settlement (feb 2022) included the stipulation that giuffre not publicly tell her story for a year
— maxwell is prepping her own court arguments for her appeal

so i imagine this is early skirmishes in the next round :(

re king george

https://www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page/commemorative-beheaded-king-coin-preorder

Fat chance.

Surely someone can pay me to write about this problematic environmental appropriation??? https://t.co/lhcuyKprZa

— Rebecca Tamás (@RebTamas) April 5, 2023

lol genuine sleeping beauty /briar rose days

ideally at the moment when they say should anyone here present know of any reason that this couple should not be joined in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace the green man will burst into westminster abbey and turn all there present into like moss or brambles and thus bind the heart of the kingdom into freedom for 1 x 1000 yrs