Has the Queen died?

[BassJunkie]

I'm surprised the press hasn't made more of the fact that we probably won't see Queenie in parliament again and it's likely to be Charles from now on. A momentuous occassion if you care about such things.

Thanks to the editor of Hello! magazine on R4 earlier, when asked for insights regarding the fact that Chuck had to do this because Brenda's dying "I think we're getting a glimpse of the future". Well, thanks for that, I hadn't considered that perspective before.

 

[A380]

And a dead trophy tiger. Ahh the memories.

TBF a live trophy tiger would be a health and safety nightmare.

 

[billy_bob]

you could fit a cumberland sausage into each of those glove fingers

Well, we know it's oedema making his fingers swollen. But what's making them curl up?

 

[Pickman's model]

Well, we know it's oedema making his fingers swollen. But what's making them curl up?

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the embarrassment caused by harry hewitt

 

[souljacker]

Thanks to the editor of Hello! magazine on R4 earlier, when asked for insights regarding the fact that Chuck had to do this because Brenda's dying "I think we're getting a glimpse of the future". Well, thanks for that, I hadn't considered that perspective before.

I think the opening of parliament by a King is a pretty clear glimpse of the past.

 

[magneze]

William notably not dressed up like a military dictator.

 

[billy_bob]

I think the opening of parliament by a King is a pretty clear glimpse of the past.

King or queen, nothing about someone who gets to be in charge because they inherited a sparkly hat and a load of men in tights and tassels trooping around in the houses of parliament exactly screams 'future' at me.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[not a trot]

Yarwoods done well for himself. Wondered what he was up to these days.

 

[Artaxerxes]

William notably not dressed up like a military dictator.

He's only there to act like a spare batterys spare battery

 

[Pickman's model]

William notably not dressed up like a military dictator.

general musharraf not dressed up like a military dictator

 

[muscovyduck]

All my irl mates reckon she's dead

 

[Pickman's model]

All my irl mates reckon she's dead

she is. all the 'recent' images of her predate the death of the duke of edinburgh as numerous royal watchers have observed

 

[bluescreen]

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A stroke, d'you reckon?

 

[Pickman's model]

A stroke, d'you reckon?

by no means, a slash across the throat

 

[billy_bob]

According to this website, she's still alive - but not for long:

 

[Pickman's model]

As always, this shows up the absurdity of the institution. Her sense of 'duty'/thinking her son is useless, leaves her doing a role which she physically can't do. It's beginning to feel like the John Paul II staying put even when he was in the latter stages of Parkinson's.

Needless to say, I'm not suggesting disabled people should be hoyed out of their jobs (if that was the case I'd be out of mine). It's the idiocy of a role that you get because of who you are and you do for life. Added to which, funded by us and those funds then being funneled off to pay her son's nonce fines.

JP2 stayed put because at that point any resigning pontiff would have been thrown onto the streets without a penny. It was only under Benedict that a pension plan was put in place

 

[Plumdaff]

They've spent money on the Platinum Jubilee celebrations now and probably don't want to cancel them and lose cash. I mean, here in Cardiff there's a concert with Aled Jones and Bonnie Tyler, we're talking top dollar entertainment.

Get that out of the way then the announcement will be on Monday 6th June.

 

[Pickman's model]

They've spent money on the Platinum Jubilee celebrations now and probably don't want to cancel them and lose cash. I mean, here in Cardiff there's a concert with Aled Jones and Bonnie Tyler, we're talking top dollar entertainment.

Get that out of the way then the announcement will be on Monday 6th June.

Aled Jones and Bonnie Tyler have prepared two sets depending on the queen's status at the time of the gig. E

 

[Raheem]

Aled Jones and Bonnie Tyler have prepared two sets depending on the queen's status at the time of the gig. E

Maybe we'll get a poignant rendition of Total Eclipse of the Heart, backed by flatlining monitors.

 

[A380]

Totally get you, but it's possible to need a wheelchair without being "wheelchair bound." Some people need a wheelchair but not all the time and there's still a lot of misunderstanding and stigma about that; people get abuse for using a chair or walking aids if they don't use them 100% of the time, as though it "proves" they aren't disabled enough. (I've experienced this.) There was a meme doing the rounds a few years ago that showed a woman standing next to her wheelchair reaching to grab a bottle of alcohol in a shop, the tagline was "It's a Christmas miracle!" Even George Takei shared it. It feeds into that "See, she's not really ill/disabled" and it's really toxic. Not at all saying that that's what you're doing, just wanted to point out that wheelchair users do get that kind of crap if we're seen to do anything without the chair. It's been especially hard with the whole Daily Mail/DWP BS about who "deserves" sickness benefits. A lot of people with blue badges walking from their car have had aggro. So the term"wheelchair bound" is in itself problematic.

I had one wheelchair using friend who could stand and walk up steps when there was no wheel chair access of someone else carried the chair up ( often me it turned out), and her fucking shopping).

MS 747 went through a stage of being an occasional wheelchair user. She never couldn’t walk completely.

But I guess some people are happier if us poor little disableds stay in our nice simple compartments…

 

[A380]

Aled Jones and Bonnie Tyler have prepared two sets depending on the queen's status at the time of the gig. E

Walking with my heir…

 

[MickiQ]

There needs to be a picture of her holding today's paper, Times obvs can't have Brenda holding a copy of some lesser rag.

 

[magneze]

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So, what you're saying is, both Charles and William are dressed up like military dictators.

 

[magneze]

Perhaps we can call the Platinum Jubilee "It's a Royal Weekend at Bernie's" instead?

 

[Dystopiary]

E

That'd be one way of enduring the mawkish shenanigans.

 

[Dystopiary]

I had one wheelchair using friend who could stand and walk up steps when there was no wheel chair access of someone else carried the chair up ( often me it turned out), and her fucking shopping).

MS 747 went through a stage of being an occasional wheelchair user. She never couldn’t walk completely.

But I guess some people are happier if us poor little disableds stay in our nice simple compartments…

Definitely! Just wanna make clear I'm sure that wasn't what T & P was implying; that phrase was in common use for a long time and is only slowly starting to die a death, so I can see why people wouldn't know it was offensive.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I have it on good authority that due to the late nature of Brenda’s bailing old Chuck was double booked and had to dash to the HoP straight from a fancy dress party, with no time to get changed.

 

[MickiQ]

I don't think she's dead, they are expecting a massive outpouring of public grief when Brenda shuffles off this mortal coil (there will be some obvs but it remains to be seen how much), If they announce Monday 5th June that she's been dead for a month and it's all a ruse then I think they probably really do expect rioting in the streets at the depth of this deception.
She needs to hang on for just one more month which I feel is really not too much to ask. The Q's are planning a big family barbecue on the 4th June, The 2 NHS Angels in the family, Pollyanna and Middle have arranged their shifts so they are available and Youngest is coming home from Uni special like.
If we have to cancel for any Royalty related reason then Mrs Q will be a one woman riot on her own and I am not going to try and talk her down.
Hang on Ma'am we will stick a picture of you on the side of the shed in your honour (unless we run out of charcoal then it's going on the barbie)

 

[PR1Berske]

Timing is everything. This week is very "policy heavy" so next week would be more appropriate. The Jubilee weekend would then become days of mourning.