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OwlFancier posted:My mum has had the telly on the queen all day afaik, no idea how your brains don't run out your ears after the first five minutes. It's interesting how being a telly watcher changes things - I remember when the queen mum died (obv Diana too but I was aboout 10) and it was just wall-to-wall Bowes-Lyon on every channel for weeks. BBC hagiographies, interviews with pretty much anyone C-list and above who had ever met her, History Channel showing swiftly cooked up documentaries with cheap talking heads and stock footage, and because it was 2002 and I was stuck at home so there really wasn't much else to do I must have watched hours and hours and hours and hours of the stuff. Same with the 60th anniversary of D-Day a couple of years later, probably the last one with a pretty significant number of veterans turning up. But I moved to uni halls in 2006, didn't have a TV, and it was just at the time that Stage6 and YouTube and torrents were making it fairly easy to live without one. Never really got back into broadcast TV, and just don't get the saturation of big media events in the same way that I used to (unless I'm the one who can't stop, like the first 48 hours or so of the Ukraine sitch). Don't know where I'm going with this. Wonder how much of the outpouring from places like the US is because of hit tv show 'The Crown', so for a lot of viewers it's like hearing on the news that Heisenberg or Danaerys Targaryen has died
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Diorama posted:Never really got back into broadcast TV, and just don't get the saturation of big media events in the same way that I used to (unless I'm the one who can't stop, like the first 48 hours or so of the Ukraine sitch). I know what you mean: when I was a kid, it was just habit to turn the TV on and leave it running for the whole night until everyone went to bed. Since moving out, going to university and not having a working TV aerial, that habit got kicked out of me, so now I literally never watch scheduled television. It’s great. Scientastic fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Sep 10, 2022 |
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I've been watching a fair bit of it with my daughter because regardless of the monarchy being a poo poo idea it's interesting to live through history, and it's notable to me that she's particularly interested in things being "live" because normally everything we ever see is after the event on catch up or whatever (except sometimes football.) It struck me that there's been a shift in the norm, when we were growing up all kinds of poo poo was live for no particular reason (still is but we don't watch it) and if you didn't see it when it went out you never would, and we're now back at a point where live TV is a novelty for kids again. Just thought it was sort of interesting how things change.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I can't believe this means what it says: That's atrociously worded. There can't be any way that they are applying a 17p/kWh discount to every existing fixed tariff surely. What a mess. The cap communications have been awful too. Of course many are going to see "costs capped at £2500" and take it at face value, because it appears clear enough.
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keep punching joe posted:Look at this cunts hand! at least he doesnt have to memorise his speeches or anything 
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sebzilla posted:It struck me that there's been a shift in the norm, when we were growing up all kinds of poo poo was live for no particular reason (still is but we don't watch it) and if you didn't see it when it went out you never would, and we're now back at a point where live TV is a novelty for kids again. Just thought it was sort of interesting how things change. There's too much content now to have any expectations of catching it all, so the idea of "must see TV" has kind of gone away. Everything is missable and it's fine because you can always catch it later.
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It's weird to me that most people are kind of at "eh, not going to celebrate but come on" this early. It really feels as if most of the real hagiographies are just the same old loons blithering.
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I think it depends on your crowd. I know 3 people who live in London and 2 of them have filled their Instagram stories with reels or whatever they’re called of queen related stuff. One of them even posted a video of her going down to Buckingham palace to lay flowers with the rest of the large crowd. E: by know I mean these are friends I keep in touch with/visit, not internet randos
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Go look at the Legal & General logo, top-left here https://www.legalandgeneral.com/ For those that don't know, it's normally a cheery multicoloured open umbrella Private Eye going to have a long-running MourningBalls section (I would hope)
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I think my favourite bit is that this clearly wasn't an overnight job, so somebody has been storing it somewhere in prep. 
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Spare a thought for the cast of Wicked who for the next few weeks have to deal with the reaction to a show whose first lines are "GOOD NEWS! SHE'S DEAD"
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editors note: its turns out that god did not, in fact, save the queen
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darkwasthenight posted:I think my favourite bit is that this clearly wasn't an overnight job, so somebody has been storing it somewhere in prep. That's a rapidly repurposed Platinum Jubilee post box topper.
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Convex posted:editors note: its turns out that god did not, in fact, save the queen Unlike Enrico Palazzo
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darkwasthenight posted:I think my favourite bit is that this clearly wasn't an overnight job, so somebody has been storing it somewhere in prep. I mean literally all of this 24/7 rolling news coverage was also pre-prepared, ready to deploy when the frail 96-year-old eventually died. Hence why the airwaves are completely full with material about Liz.
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Sep 10, 2022 09:43
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If you haven't already been persuaded to scrap live TV and save yourself the licence fee, you will now.
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The big "queen is dead" signs have already gone in Newcastle.
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Watching the Accession ceremony and throwing my own poo poo at the TV seeing the line of former PMs (plus Starmer) on the front row
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Mega Comrade posted:If you haven't already been persuaded to scrap live TV and save yourself the licence fee, you will now. I watch Welsh football on S4C and that's about it.
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Mega Comrade posted:If you haven't already been persuaded to scrap live TV and save yourself the licence fee, you will now. I watch live sport (looking forward to Friday's big game, Pollok vs Huntly), & whether or not it's over the air or streamed you still need a license the last I checked.
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forkboy84 posted:I watch live sport (looking forward to Friday's big game, Pollok vs Huntly), & whether or not it's over the air or streamed you still need a license the last I checked. On paper, any live broadcast counts even if it’s PPV content from another country like boxing/wrestling/MMA events. Presumably if they really wanted to put the screws to someone they could argue poo poo like Twitch counts because it’s also a ‘live broadcast’. I don’t watch anything live at all because the stuff I would watch live is all on in the middle of the night anyway, so I haven’t had a license for years. Feels good.
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Sep 10, 2022 10:45
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We get a bank holiday, so it's all been worth it.
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First GStK I've seen in the wild: Labour Party monarchy shagging.
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You're alright, sausage mitts.
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Out fudge-selling at the local market today, and frankly it seems to be business as usual. Perhaps a little quieter, but that could just as well be down to cost of living stuff.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:We get a bank holiday, so it's all been worth it. Turns out the monarchy was good all along, thanks Chuck. Someone pass me a Union Jack
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I thought you needed a TV licence even if you just use the internet in the UK?
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happyhippy posted:I thought you needed a TV licence even if you just use the internet in the UK? I think you need a TV licence to watch iPlayer but you don't need a licence to watch the news streaming on the BBC website
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I think you need a TV licence to watch iPlayer but you don't need a licence to watch the news streaming on the BBC website I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to have a license to watch the stream, but unlike with the iplayer, they just don’t check. Basically if it’s on TV right now anywhere in the world, you need a license to watch it. As long as you don’t do that, you don’t need one.
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smellmycheese posted:UK currently in full Game of Thrones mode with this medieval nonsense It struck me watching the accession council that this is how the country, in 2022, is 'supposed' to be run. Going by the (mostly unwritten) book, the UK's state functions happen by the monarch sat on a big gold chair in a room full of their chosen advisors while a clerk reads out the business and the monarch approves/disapproves before physically and personally signing it into effect. Everything else - the monarch's red boxes, the prime minister, the cabinet, the civil service, parliament, the House of Commons, constituencies - is just layers of outsourced and delegated admin and consultancy that has accrued over the centuries. But it still has to go back to absolute monarchy for an hour or so to set the ball rolling again each time the boss changes.
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can you bow instead of curtie if you're not a man like if you have a bad back or if you'd just rather
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crispix posted:what do people in wheelchairs do They don't let people like that near the monarchs as the Windsors believe it could catch
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It’s been interesting watching the accession; the first bit is very Game of Thrones with all the potential challengers in the country signing a bit of paper saying “yep we agree he’s King now”, including: *His son *Church *PM And then the army does its bit to show they’re not going to do a coup, then he formally signs away all the royal estates to the government to give back what they feel like from time to time. I’ve never had strong feelings about the monarchy one way or the other and this hasn’t changed that, but it does leave me with a vague sense that it’s nice to have an independent figurehead, preferably selected by lot or something. It really shouldn’t be someone who is elected because by definition they are the figurehead of whoever just won.
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forkboy84 posted:I watch live sport (looking forward to Friday's big game, Pollok vs Huntly), & whether or not it's over the air or streamed you still need a license the last I checked. even if I WAS watching terrestrial TV services, I still wouldn't pay that poo poo because the BBC is a cancer. They'd have to kick down my door and literally fight me for it. Good thing we have the internet because TV programming here is dire as gently caress and garbage. (Pretty much worldwide actually, TV is dead)
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Diorama posted:It's interesting how being a telly watcher changes things - I remember when the queen mum died (obv Diana too but I was aboout 10) and it was just wall-to-wall Bowes-Lyon on every channel for weeks. BBC hagiographies, interviews with pretty much anyone C-list and above who had ever met her, History Channel showing swiftly cooked up documentaries with cheap talking heads and stock footage, and because it was 2002 and I was stuck at home so there really wasn't much else to do I must have watched hours and hours and hours and hours of the stuff. Same with the 60th anniversary of D-Day a couple of years later, probably the last one with a pretty significant number of veterans turning up. I have bad news about both those characters...
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Saw a reddit thread and the answers ranged from a form of psoriatic arthritis to heart / kidney failure. Seriously, I'm hoping it's the first not the latter. While modern medicine has gotten far, heart or kidney failure can still involuntary move you six feet underground in less time you'd think. The Year-of-the-three-monarchs is still an option.
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