Official: Prince Philip is Dead, 9th April 2021

[Pickman's model]

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together forever and never to part

 

[moochedit]

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[moochedit]

has your library put up a Union Flag yet? (If so they better lower it before anyone complains)

No, thank fuck, but City Hall has lowered theirs

You’ll have one soon.

When you get it, fly it upside down to really enrage the idiots. I dare you!

 

[CNT36]

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Those 24 years Diana has spent squatting have really paid off.

 

[skyscraper101]

Aye, and six of them were me.

Prince Philip: BBC 'receives record 100,000 complaints' over Duke of Edinburgh coverage

The broadcaster set up a dedicated page and received more than 100,000 complaints for its coverage of Prince Philip's death.

news.sky.com

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Seems to me it was a test run for the big one. They won’t get any more opportunities unless someone dies unexpectedly now.

I did think cutting into stuff like Radio 1 dance and suspending regular programming across the whole corporation for hours on end was a bit OTT but it was totally unsurprising all the same.

 

[Pickman's model]

we should all get our complaints ready to go for the big one.

 

[Pickman's model]

Those 24 years Diana has spent squatting have really paid off.

yeh but now god's called the bailiffs in

 

[klang]

we should all get our complaints ready to go the big one.

I for one won't be complaining when the Queen snuffs it.

 

[MrSki]

I for one won't be complaining when the Queen snuffs it.

I hope she doesn't die during Bargain Hunt.

 

[Orang Utan]

When you get it, fly it upside down to really enrage the idiots. I dare you!

We don’t even have a pole!

 

[Pickman's model]

I for one won't be complaining when the Queen snuffs it.

to the bbc you will be. and itv and likely every other media outlet (bar the streaming services)

 

[Pickman's model]

We don’t even have a pole!

a belarusian will do at a pinch

 

[moochedit]

We don’t even have a pole!

I am sure the ministry of flag complience will send you one shortly!

 

[seeformiles]

reflection suggests that the thing your disputants objected to was more that the more people opt out the greater the burden on those who continue to support the monarchy financially. if you had said, we can all win by impaling the royal family on sharpened flagpoles along the mall as we will all see a diminution in our taxes you'd likely have won them round

Not sure about that. The complaints were largely down to my ingratitude for their “selfless dedication to duty” and that even entertaining the idea of a republic should have me stripped of my citizenship and sent somewhere unspecified. At which point in this process I was supposed to receive my horse whipping remained equally vague.

 

[brogdale]

That 2% "too little"...holy fuck

 

[moochedit]

That 2% "too little"...holy fuck

They probably wanted continuous coverage on all channels for 8 days solid idiots!

 

[kenny g]

They probably wanted continuous coverage on all channels for 8 days solid idiots!

All sleep for the 9 days of mourning banned with hourly air raid sirens and gun salutes along with ringing of bells through the night.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

The 2% are professional mourners for hire who feel they missed out on a big payday. If only the BBC had laid on a televised procession.

 

[moochedit]

All sleep for the 9 days of mourning banned with hourly air raid sirens and gun salutes along with ringing of bells through the night.

^
And anyone objecting to the above to be shot for treason without trial!

 

[hitmouse]

I reckon they should have gone in heavy China/North Korea style, dropped a firewall stopping all UK ISPs from connecting to anything other than memorial coverage for the whole 8 days.

 

[Wilf]

What time is the national minutes silence on Saturday? Need to have the playlist ready.

 

[Pickman's model]

What time is the national minutes silence on Saturday? Need to have the playlist ready.

 

[hitmouse]

 

[vanya]

The public is not as concerned about the duke's demise as royalists might hope. It will be interesting to see the response when the Queen finally snuffs it.

The Waning of Official Ideology

We all like revelations, but my joining millions of others in the great television turn off on the evening of Prince Philip's death probabl...

averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com

 

[moochedit]

I reckon they should have gone in heavy China/North Korea style, dropped a firewall stopping all UK ISPs from connecting to anything other than memorial coverage for the whole 8 days.

Yes to stop "subversive" talk on sites like this one

I'm sure Jacob Rees Mogg is preparing the required legislation for "next time" as we speak!

 

[Storm Fox]

When you get it, fly it upside down to really enrage the idiots. I dare you!

I'm not sure they'd notice. At least two of the people who have flagpoles in their gardens have flown the Union Flag upside down.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm not sure they'd notice. At least two of the people who have flagpoles in their gardens have flown the Union Flag upside down.

Well if they're not distressed by the death of prince philip they're distressed because they don't know which way to hang the flag

 

[moochedit]

I'm not sure they'd notice. At least two of the people who have flagpoles in their gardens have flown the Union Flag upside down.

99% of people wouldn't notice. I do remember an angry email to the company i work for once from a loon because a flag image was upside down on our website. I had to google it to work out what was wrong

 

[Pickman's model]

What time is the national minutes silence on Saturday? Need to have the playlist ready.

 

[ska invita]

quite amused that elizabeth has caved on sticking out the full 8 days of mourning and gone back to work today
"he's been dead to me for years" she told reporters