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EvilHawk posted:Charles becomes king the moment the Queen is declared dead, despite not being crowned quote:The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.
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'Ello, I wish to register a complaint. I wish to complain about this queen what I purchased not 94 years ago from this very boutique.
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Sep 8, 2022 16:58
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Huw Edwards has left and the new guy isn't wearing a black tie, she's gonna drag this poo poo out
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Oh yeah I don't doubt that NI has a lot of people who are emotional about the queen.
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Sep 8, 2022 16:59
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God, I miss Pratchett.
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EvilHawk posted:Charles becomes king the moment the Queen is declared dead, despite not being crowned imagine I posted a gif of the scene in the dark crystal where the old emperor is moments from death and his successor leans in to nab the staff and the old emp. starts yelling 'no it's mine!' and then crumbles into dust
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Sep 8, 2022 17:01
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keep punching joe posted:Oh yeah I don't doubt that NI has a lot of people who are emotional about the queen. Outpouring emotions, inpouring Guinness.
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Sep 8, 2022 17:01
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https://twitter.com/mr_jwf_/status/1567865422829043712?t=3loeb5NQI8JxZnqFKf0vxQ&s=19
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Sep 8, 2022 17:02
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it is very on brand for the thread for someone to post something that can be somewhat related to a discworld quote and three of us bonking each other square on the head as we all run to press the "post about terry pratchett" button
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Sep 8, 2022 17:02
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holy poo poo https://twitter.com/Women4Wes/status/1567900374886907904 because it will absolutely be deleted: 
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Cimber posted:If the queen dies, who gives royal assent? Charles, even if he's not yet been officially crowned? As the saying goes, "The Queen is dead, long live the King"
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Sep 8, 2022 17:03
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Cimber posted:If the queen dies, who gives royal assent? Charles, even if he's not yet been officially crowned? Royal Assent hasn't been by the direct signature of the king or queen since at least the 19th century, it's the prerogative of the Lord President of the Council, who gets that power from the Crown regardless of whether there's a meat person to wear it. That's currently Penny Mordaunt, so she signs the bill into law. This is why I don't buy in the slightest all the arguments about how 'hard' it would be to transition to a republic. Everything's already there, just call the Crown something else and stop looking to members of a specific family to wear it.
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EvilHawk posted:Charles becomes king the moment the Queen is declared dead, despite not being crowned As has been previously discussed ITT. Monarchy moves faster than the speed of light. (Beaten by quite a lot of others!) Also "long live the King" is an example of use of the subjunctive in English grammar. Those of you with toddlers at play school can use it as a teaching example (seeing as toddlers now expected to know more English grammar than university lecturers in the subject these days!)
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Sep 8, 2022 17:04
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Can't believe they'd be allowed to pollute the source of the water for like 70% of Scotland's whisky distilleries.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Speaking of which.... The slick plan outlined in this article actually appears to be the BBC doing an endless broadcast of some gates in the rain and going "something might happen we think... dunno though"
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Sep 8, 2022 17:05
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Nenonen posted:Outpouring emotions, inpouring Guinness. NI will save the UK going into recession due to the amount of increased drink and party food bought over the next month.
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happyhippy posted:'Ello, I wish to register a complaint. 
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Sep 8, 2022 17:07
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Guavanaut posted:Penny Mordaunt. I think I have previously suggested that the object of the Crown is a device that slowly converts monarchs into legislation via putting them through the hole in the middle, which is why the queen got shorter over time. Thus if we construct a monarchy accelerator and launch the entire family through the Crown we should be able to legislate powerfully enough to change reality itself.
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poo poo is going down they've stopped BBC dude's teleprompter (she's already dead, I mean the announcement)
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forkboy84 posted:Can't believe they'd be allowed to pollute the source of the water for like 70% of Scotland's whisky distilleries. I'd drink whiskey brewed from Queen-water. Somewhere between drinking the tequila with a worm in it, and gamer girl bathwater.
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Sep 8, 2022 17:08
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What colour smoke signal do they send from Buckingham when she croaks?
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Sep 8, 2022 17:09
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Failed Imagineer posted:I'd drink whiskey brewed from Queen-water. Somewhere between drinking the tequila with a worm in it, and gamer girl bathwater. Nelson is surely the best comparison.
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Sep 8, 2022 17:09
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Nenonen posted:What colour smoke signal do they send from Buckingham when she croaks? I believe it's a sickly green skull shape
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Failed Imagineer posted:I'd drink whiskey brewed from Queen-water. Somewhere between drinking the tequila with a worm in it, and gamer girl bathwater. Take a shot of Liz Rot jus to double piss on her grave with her own remains.
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Sep 8, 2022 17:10
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SO who is going to make the "Queen Dead So What" gang tag?
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G-Spot Run posted:poo poo is going down they've stopped BBC dude's teleprompter I guess they're at least going to wait until Harry is at Balmoral too? Presumably before the news at ten though.
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Sep 8, 2022 17:12
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Numerous DUP members dying from acute "blue ball" syndrome.
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I love it how searching for 'King Charles' gives just information about cavaliers 
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Sep 8, 2022 17:15
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Love that they have no idea if Harry is there or not. 'He's on the plane' - well no he wasn't unless they waited til the cameras were out of the way to offload him. 'He's flying in from Germany' well apparently not there til later in the week. 'Well there are several entrances to Balmoral maybe he came in a different gate to stay low key'. And just making up poo poo about what's wrong with her cancer, something going on we don't know about, had a fall - you know you're old when you no longer 'fall over' but 'have a fall' - accompanied by wrinkly nosed knowing head nod by person reporting the had fall. FFS she's 96!
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Sep 8, 2022 17:15
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I thought he was supposedly taking a different regnal name precisely because charles is a slightly... inauspicious name for a monarch.
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Sep 8, 2022 17:16
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Nenonen posted:I love it how searching for 'King Charles' gives just information about cavaliers probably a little bit less inbred than the guy too and that's saying something
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EvilHawk posted:Huw Edwards has left and the new guy isn't wearing a black tie, she's gonna drag this poo poo out Very very very dark blue?
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OwlFancier posted:I thought he was supposedly taking a different regnal name precisely because charles is a slightly... inauspicious name for a monarch. Chuckie
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OwlFancier posted:I thought he was supposedly taking a different regnal name precisely because charles is a slightly... inauspicious name for a monarch. They're allowed to take whatever name they want for whatever reason. If you didn't want to be like...King Henry the 49th part deux you can swap out for a first or second of whatever. Kinda like Popes.
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Sep 8, 2022 17:17
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Bloody woke monarchy changing their names all the time.
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If Charles has any smarts in him then he'll assume a name that instills feelings of nostalgy and continuity in subjects. All hail HRH king Elizabeth III
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OwlFancier posted:Bloody woke monarchy changing their names all the time. They'll always be Saxe-Coburg Gotha to me. 
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