Scrutable

It is sad. You can't help but think about departed relatives who genuinely loved her.

Grumble wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 6:16 pm

nezumi wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 6:13 pm She's dead. She was 96 and lived in splendour her entire life, she was alright, for a Queen so I'm pretty much meh about the whole thing.

However, I just sicked a bit when I realised Charlie is king. Someone dig the guillotine out of storage, be a dear.

The original guillotine blade what did Marie Antoinette was the first item in the Madame Tussaud’s exhibition and is still there.

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.

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.

wilsontown wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:30 pm 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.

Exactly.

Andrew is the best embodiment for the values of the institution of monarchy.

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.

sTeamTraen wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:55 pm 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.

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.)

wilsontown wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:30 pm Anyway, RIP Elizabeth. She did the job well, I just don't think the job should work like that.

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.

But imagine lying on your deathbed, knowing that you spent your antepenultimate day on earth doing that. God give me a better death.

She had a lovely smile in those photos appointing Truss.

Presumably because she'd just had the immense pleasure of dismissing Johnson.

Oh God the terrible poems have started

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

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.

I've just seen a poem. It's ghastly.

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

Grumble wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:24 pm 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

Excellent!

warumich wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 6:47 pm

nezumi wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 6:19 pm

Grumble wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 6:16 pm

The original guillotine blade what did Marie Antoinette was the first item in the Madame Tussaud’s exhibition and is still there.

Brilliant, got any polish?

Of course.

Oryginalne ostrze gilotyny, które zrobiła Maria Antonina, było pierwszym przedmiotem na wystawie Madame Tussaud i nadal tam jest.

A guy down my local sklep was talking about that just the other day.

Grumble wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:24 pm 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

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.

We were all Elizabethans. Not really sure what we are now.

Gfamily wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:54 pm We were all Elizabethans. Not really sure what we are now.

Oh dear; my USian SIL has taken it at face value, and not really appreciated the ambiguity of Elizabeth's role passing to Charles

Gfamily wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:54 pm We were all Elizabethans. Not really sure what we are now.

Right Charlies?

bolo wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 11:19 pm

Gfamily wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:54 pm We were all Elizabethans. Not really sure what we are now.

Right Charlies?

One might very well think that ...

Gfamily wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:54 pm We were all Elizabethans. Not really sure what we are now.

Carolingians?

lpm wrote: Thu Sep 08, 2022 3:51 pm Latest from my highly unreliable source:

- narrative of "peacefully, surrounded by family" was her wish
- family now assembled
- announcement early evening

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.

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.

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.

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.