The Queen
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It is sad. You can't help but think about departed relatives who genuinely loved her.
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As I understand it the last guillotine to be used in France is still in storage in pieces in a prison in Marseilles. Someone should text Macron and ask him to send it over as a gesture of international friendship.
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It's interesting to see lots of people saying things like "Oh, I don't really like Charles, they should go straight to William" as if you have a choice.
THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS FFS
Anyway, RIP Elizabeth. She did the job well, I just don't think the job should work like that.
THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS FFS
Anyway, RIP Elizabeth. She did the job well, I just don't think the job should work like that.
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Exactly.wilsontown wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:30 pmIt's interesting to see lots of people saying things like "Oh, I don't really like Charles, they should go straight to William" as if you have a choice.
THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS FFS
Anyway, RIP Elizabeth. She did the job well, I just don't think the job should work like that.
Andrew is the best embodiment for the values of the institution of monarchy.
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation
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The BBC seems to have put this story at the top of every section of its website and news app, resulting in things like this.
Something something hammer something something nail
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Not quite, the lead story in the Tech section is an advert for Apple. (Mind you, most of the stories in the BBC's Tech section are adverts for Apple.)sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:55 pmThe BBC seems to have put this story at the top of every section of its website and news app, resulting in things like this.
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She seems to have been a decent head of state, although the criminal lack of transparency around what she actually did makes it impossible to know.wilsontown wrote: ↑Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:30 pmAnyway, RIP Elizabeth. She did the job well, I just don't think the job should work like that.
But imagine lying on your deathbed, knowing that you spent your antepenultimate day on earth doing that. God give me a better death.
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She had a lovely smile in those photos appointing Truss.
Presumably because she'd just had the immense pleasure of dismissing Johnson.
Presumably because she'd just had the immense pleasure of dismissing Johnson.
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Oh God the terrible poems have started
Move-a… side, and let the mango through… let the mango through
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Whatever the inanity of Truss's speech, I am so, so, so, so glad that she hung on long enough for the great clump of f.ckwit to bugger off, so we didn't have to see his stupid face today
If truth is many-sided, mendacity is many-tongued
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What is it with the poems? Why? My local Facebook feed is filling up with them and, as most of them can't even punctuate a normal sentence they are dreadful.
Please make it stop.
Please make it stop.
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I've just seen a poem. It's ghastly.
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There once was a woman called Liz
Who Prince Philip filled up with his jizz
She gave birth to some ears
Which after some years
Became sentient and now they’re your king you f.cking peasant
Who Prince Philip filled up with his jizz
She gave birth to some ears
Which after some years
Became sentient and now they’re your king you f.cking peasant
where once I used to scintillate
now I sin till ten past three
now I sin till ten past three
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A guy down my local sklep was talking about that just the other day.
We have the right to a clean, healthy, sustainable environment.
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There once was a poster called Grumble
Whose poems were not suitably humble
He who jokes about Lizzie
Is not very nice, is he?
And from his high horse he must tumble
Or something.
I've never had a signature, and it never did me any harm
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We were all Elizabethans. Not really sure what we are now.
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ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
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Oh dear; my USian SIL has taken it at face value, and not really appreciated the ambiguity of Elizabeth's role passing to Charles
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One might very well think that ...
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From the timeline I've seen, it would appear not. Family arrived at Balmoral at 5 pm, but Liz Truss was briefed during PMQs at 4:30 pm.
"My interest is in the future, because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there"
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I now can't help hearing "episodic mobility problem" in Michael Palin's voice.
Followed by John Cleese saying "she's bleedin' dead".
And so on.
Followed by John Cleese saying "she's bleedin' dead".
And so on.
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There once was a long-reigning Queen.
With a son known for acts quite obscene.
As she died he didn't fret.
Got there no sweat.
But after that was not to be seen.
With a son known for acts quite obscene.
As she died he didn't fret.
Got there no sweat.
But after that was not to be seen.
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I’m looking forward to the conversation with two National Trust venues my theatre company is performing at this weekend.
Pretty sure they’ll want to cancel (a diktat from on high, no doubt) which will literally cost us £1000s.
Luckily I have the UK Theatre guidance to back me up, which states performances should go ahead but with “recognition” of her death, such as a minute’s silence.
No other businesses will close today, but for some reason theatre gets treated differently.
Pretty sure they’ll want to cancel (a diktat from on high, no doubt) which will literally cost us £1000s.
Luckily I have the UK Theatre guidance to back me up, which states performances should go ahead but with “recognition” of her death, such as a minute’s silence.
No other businesses will close today, but for some reason theatre gets treated differently.