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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 did have to roll my eyes when I saw a memorial to her on a mall ad screen. Really? Who even cares about royals in this country?
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DarkCrawler posted:I did have to roll my eyes when I saw a memorial to her on a mall ad screen. Really? Who even cares about royals in this country? A smaller number of people than you would think, but they all have newspaper columns.
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When Philip died I was walking down a high street in the evening and all the electronic bus-stop ad boards were flashing black with his name and dates on. Bizarre backdrop to the piss heads and rozzers.
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Josef bugman posted:A smaller number of people than you would think, but they all have newspaper columns. The transphobe-royalist hypothesis.
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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 was thinking today about pharaohs and pyramids. And how probably part of the reason for empires having elaborate death rites for monarchy is that the actual event when they die like anyone else is fairly anticlimactic, and if youre allowed to stop and think about it it makes the entire royalty thing seem very stupid. So it has to be treated as a Big Deal for the institution to survive.
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DarkCrawler posted:I did have to roll my eyes when I saw a memorial to her on a mall ad screen. Really? Who even cares about royals in this country? Post/av combo
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Good news everyone, we have official mourning guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-demise-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii-national-mourning-guidance
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have your ears stopped rinning yet from all the gun salutes going off? (if they have started yet) One for every year of her reign? Thats going to be a lot of salutes. Is this going to bankrupt the UK from all the ammo expenditure costs?
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Cimber posted:have your ears stopped rinning yet from all the gun salutes going off? (if they have started yet) They’re all going to aim east and Truss will count it as support for Ukraine, finally ending the edging over WW3
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massive spider posted:I was thinking today about pharaohs and pyramids. And how probably part of the reason for empires having elaborate death rites for monarchy is that the actual event when they die like anyone else is fairly anticlimactic, and if youre allowed to stop and think about it it makes the entire royalty thing seem very stupid. So it has to be treated as a Big Deal for the institution to survive. Pharoahs spent decades organizing all of society around their big lumps. The tenth largest pyramid in the world is a Bass Pro shop.  Memorial Funko Pops may succeed where Cromwell, Lenin, and Mao failed. Answers Me posted:gently caress yeah
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Guavanaut posted:The tenth largest pyramid in the world is a Bass Pro shop. obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYE-1HfReQo
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Sep 9, 2022 16:43
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I found out yesterday that Prince Albert has a pyramid somewhere near Balmoral Castle.
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Sep 9, 2022 16:46
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I have Been Outside since The Event Happened. As far as I can tell nobody cared, nobody mentioned it, everyone seemed exactly as usual, people being cheery and normal at work. Almost like monarchs don't actually matter very much.
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The darkest day for the Royal Family but the absolute dankest day for memes. So many crackers. Twitter restored to number one social media platform.
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Josef bugman posted:
Always appreciate when JB shows up in USPOL/USCE/US* thread and it erupts into a teary-eyed chin-trembling um-axshully we-can't-do-anything-the-country's-too-big oh-yeah-who-went-to-the-moon-anyway dogpile-cum-circlejerk within like three posts, over the most obvious, innocuous and true stuff you're posting. What I'm saying is, I'm a fan, and I know you have a lot of troubles and I hope you feel better. 
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I wonder if the football is being cancelled because they’re worried people will sing “God Save The Queen”.
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I am hoping there are going to be fights over people who think it's too soon to change it and people who think the protocol must be adhered to 
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Go on, say something outrageous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrjSlTeTpNc
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Bobby Deluxe posted:oh no history has ended again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmB3gfOMNFo
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Only Kindness posted:What I'm saying is, I'm a fan, and I know you have a lot of troubles and I hope you feel better. Well it's appreciated. I don't think I post too well, but I am grateful for the help. I'm feeling a lot better of late, so I'm not posting as much.
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Jesus loving Christ this country is hosed. Apologies for the vent. Got a letter from the DWP last week dated 30th of June saying that a tribunal is to be held on the first available date after the 14th July. So naturally, it now being September, I poo poo myself and assumed the DWP had 'lost' my letter in the post so that I'd miss the tribunal and have wasted the last year or so. I dug through all the correspondance until I found the right letter, and called them. The woman on the other end sounded very tired and said she'd check how long the average wait is for a hearing. It's 190 weeks. Just over 3½ loving years. I checked she said 190. I checked she said weeks and not days. Now admittedly, this is for Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit, and maybe they're prioritising PiP / ESA / UC appeals, but 3 loving years? for the sake of £20 or so a week to help me get physio? I can only imagine that when I finally reach the tribunal I'll be asked if I imagine myself disabled when I masturbate. I can at least confidently say I have been living as a disabled person for the previous two years.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:vent. It would be nice if they would at least pay you while they're sorting out their loving mess. Christ I wish so many people didn't have to go through poo poo like this. Especially good people like those ITT.
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I can confirm that I went to the shop to get some fizzy pop this afternoon and no one seemed to be in a state of national mourning / crisis / giving a poo poo. My work coach has also replied to a message I left them yesterday, today, so I assume the job centre is managing to keep themselves together and carry on throughout the grief.
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OwlFancier posted:I have Been Outside since The Event Happened. The chap at the post office asked if I was wearing a black t-shirt to show my respects. I turned around to show him the dates for Nine Inch Nails "The Fragile" tour, we both laughed and went about our days
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Dead Goon posted:I can confirm that I went to the shop to get some fizzy pop this afternoon and no one seemed to be in a state of national mourning / crisis / giving a poo poo. CS has centralised orders for BAU on anything that is business critical unless it could be seen as controversial, insensitive etc etc If anything's going on social media, needs to go through perm secs and escalated to no.10 if need be sadly, work coaches being poo poo to claimants is business critical to the dwp.
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OwlFancier posted:I'm glad I don't read the US threads as everything about them sounds dire. Take all the hand-wringing from this thread about how Brenda couldn't do anything and was trying her best, find and replace with "Joe Biden" and you have the full experience.
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Tarnop posted:The chap at the post office asked if I was wearing a black t-shirt to show my respects. I turned around to show him the dates for Nine Inch Nails "The Fragile" tour, we both laughed and went about our days It does certainly feel rather stupid, the amount of disconnect between the chronic tv watchers and parliament weirdos and the nutters out in the mall and, like, everyone else. Some people really love their pantomime I guess.
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OwlFancier posted:It does certainly feel rather stupid, the amount of disconnect between the chronic tv watchers and parliament weirdos and the nutters out in the mall and, like, everyone else. The circus is London centric when it comes to royals, always will be.
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I'm on holiday in Cornwall in a place with no internet. It's been like Glastonbury before mobiles when this rumour always spread. One flagpole on half mast in someone's garden but nobody else seems to be giving a gently caress
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I did notice classical music being piped into a train station this morning and then again in tescos which was odd but not unwelcome.
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Spangly A posted: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. Sure. He was ~a playboy~ for decades, and in retrospect knowing what we do about famous people from the 70s it's not exactly a surprise. 'Definitely flew to nonce island to do noncing with my good friend the well known nonce', though, no, that was actually new.
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“I don’t want them loving our queen.” — thing I just heard a man in the pub say about Pakistanis
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Sanford posted:“I don’t want them loving our queen.” — thing I just heard a man in the pub say about Pakistanis Hope she sees this king *holds up a picture of charles*
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