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The Question IRL posted:And it's not like she personally provided resources and legal assistance to normal bloke Andy Windsor when he had legal troubles. Or had to sell off one of her many properties to finance a legal settlement for a woman that Andy Windsor did nothing to. You're not wrong. That said, I do wonder how compos mentis she was once the Prince Andrew stuff hit, since apparently Charles had been visiting her all summer due to 'concerns about her health'. Edit: 1958. She'd been on the throne half a decade then and probably was a bit more compos mentis, also probably a fan of having an Empire still.
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sebzilla posted:Too many people clearly haven't learned their kings and queens from Horrible Histories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC6okzIKQvg If anyone wants to get up to speed.
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escapegoat posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC6okzIKQvg Pretty easy to modify really, William, William, Henry, Stephen Henry, Richard, John, oi! Henry, Ed, Ed, Ed, Rich two Then three more Henrys join our song Edward, Edward, Rich the third Henry, Henry, Ed again Mary one, good Queen Bess Jimmy, Charles and Charles and then Jim, Will, Mary, Anna Gloria George, George, George, George Will, Victoria Edward, George, Edward, George six and Liz and Charles then republics
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feedmegin posted:You're not wrong. That said, I do wonder how compos mentis she was once the Prince Andrew stuff hit, since apparently Charles had been visiting her all summer due to 'concerns about her health'. Andrew was a well known sleazy piece of poo poo before he was hanging around with Epstein, who was first convicted 14 years ago. There are absolutely no questions about how aware she was that she raised a wrongun, she just didn't care. The corgis are also known to be spoiled shits, so it might just be that the woman raised in an abusive and isolated system, in an incestuous child marriage to a nazi, who never interfered in politics apart from demanding her household be exempt from taxes and from racial discrimination regs, was just not a very good mother/grandmother/dog owner/person
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smellmycheese posted:Keith’s gone dark
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People aren’t exactly lining the streets to greet The King as he drives through London for the first time. I’m finding it quite interesting how, apart from brands being hysterical on social media, people hardly seem to give much of a poo poo.
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Answers Me posted:People aren’t exactly lining the streets to greet The King as he drives through London for the first time. I’m finding it quite interesting how, apart from brands being hysterical on social media, people hardly seem to give much of a poo poo. I’ve just walked through Romford town center. The place in the country you’d think was MOST affected by it. Absolutely nothing. Market in full swing, ask the pubs open, no flags out. People legit don’t seem to actually care that much
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feedmegin posted:Edit: 1958. She'd been on the throne half a decade then and probably was a bit more compos mentis, also probably a fan of having an Empire still. I'll be a little fair, her da was a massive supporter of the empire dissolving and becoming a commonwealth, and I think she was happy to continue that legacy. Not saying this absolves the monarchy of the blood it spilled to make that empire, or that we don't exploit the poo poo out of the commmonwealth (and still haven't paid reparations).
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Ziggy Tzardust posted:I’ve just walked through Romford town center. The place in the country you’d think was MOST affected by it. Absolutely nothing. Market in full swing, ask the pubs open, no flags out. People legit don’t seem to actually care that much The more modern concerns around "How am I going to keep my business open/prevent my family from freezing to death this winter?" is likely going to weigh more heavily than an increasingly irrelevant 1,000-year old concern.
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Lots of people paying their respects this winter by going hungry.
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But there's nothing more patriotically British than stealing from other people's cultures
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Just trying to separate the figurehead for the big, nasty, nonsensical institution from that big, nasty, nonsensical institution despite literally 70+ years of us being told they are one and the same, don't mind me.
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Most of the people I've talked to or seen in Canada are maybe a bit sad that the Queen's dead, but there's absolutely no love for the monarchy or the new king. Like, at all.
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Incidentally it’s the same day of the year that Mao died, and there are lots of ultranationalist / incel types (our version of the ERG/Brexit wing) here in China who are super super mad that lots of normal chinese people are posting and commenting on the death of the Queen, a FOREIGN ENEMY MONARCH, on this of all days.
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All 'The Firm' stuff is a deliberately cultivated parasocial relationship, but it's also deliberately arms length. The devout royalists losing their poo poo will be far and few between because they've seen a closeness that isn't in the brand kit. What they've ended up with instead is a broader chunk of people who don't really care but also have a connection just a step higher than recognition. So at this point you've got a big population of people who are sort of repeating the monkeys in the cage social experiment, except they're enforcing death rituals around propriety and decorum. It's cool to acknowledge she's a poo poo person in private but it's easier to play nice for a few days while people go through their collective experience of "am I grieving? should we be grieving? what is there to grieve?" so you don't end up getting tackled by a bunch of outraged peers.
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Going to mourn the death of the communist leader by gathering outside the Do Not Mourn My Death I Am Just A Man The Revolution Is Eternal Also Please Don't Do Anything Weird With My Corpse mausoleum and ice cream shop. Again.
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PT6A posted:Most of the people I've talked to or seen in Canada are maybe a bit sad that the Queen's dead, but there's absolutely no love for the monarchy or the new king. Like, at all. That gif's too big to be a gang tag and we only just did new ones anyway
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DarkCrawler posted:Wasn't the only William pretty successful? I was referencing our William II. You know, the one who killed millions and then abdicated? It's relevant if you look up House Windsor's old name and realize something about the British monarchy 
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Libluini posted:I was referencing our William II. You know, the one who killed millions and then abdicated? It's relevant if you look up House Windsor's old name and realize something about the British monarchy Oh yeah, got to love names being different in different languages if you're inbred enough. George is Yrjö in Finnish. No, I don't know how or why either.
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WhatEvil posted:https://twitter.com/_georgina666/status/1568204394201481217?s=20&t=7PhX_Aw922KwE3cZVadSgQ awoooga
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DarkCrawler posted:Oh yeah, got to love names being different in different languages if you're inbred enough. George is Yrjö in Finnish. No, I don't know how or why either. I grew up with old German history text books which had all English royal names in their German version. It took me a while to realize that English-speaking people probably didn't name their kings "Karl". Even today my brain tries very hard to make my type Viktoria instead of Victoria Though sometimes I'm still stumbling across poo poo like "Emperor William II Hohenzollern" and realize, at least on the other side this way of thinking still exists
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DarkCrawler posted:Oh yeah, got to love names being different in different languages if you're inbred enough. George is Yrjö in Finnish. No, I don't know how or why either. Same reason it's Yuri in Russian probably
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II Wilhelm II Wütend
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WhatEvil posted:https://twitter.com/_georgina666/status/1568204394201481217?s=20&t=7PhX_Aw922KwE3cZVadSgQ 
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Tarnop posted:Sometimes it's easy to forget this thread is in D&D but not today 
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I get the feeling that people are going to be sick of this within about 5 days. I'm not saying anything in particular about this, but it seems as if a lot of people are already a bit tired of all of the mourning. Most of the FB comments on things getting cancelled are along the lines of "why"? "Normal" peoples opinion seem to be firmly in "why would this happen, stop being daft". Josef bugman fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Sep 9, 2022 |
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Josef bugman posted:I get the feeling that people are going to be sick of this within about 5 days. I'm sick of it now
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oh no history has ended again https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1567951290965049348?t=Ikh9ogY1TF66MeWOt_1Ouw&s=19
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Josef bugman posted:I get the feeling that people are going to be sick of this within about 5 days. Another red text, bman? You been talking to the yanks again?
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Barry Foster posted:Another red text, bman? You been talking to the yanks again? I have no idea. I think it's from the unpopular opinion thread, but it just seems very weird tbh.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:oh no history has ended again FUKUYAMA OVERDRIIIIIIIIIIIIVE
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Bobby Deluxe posted:oh no history has ended again History has been starting and stopping like the MINI Cooper S I taught myself to drive stick-shift with twenty years ago.
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