Royal lickspittlery: the platinum jubilee edition

[SpookyFrank]

I mean for fuck's sake. Even if you are the sort of weirdo who thinks projecting the queen onto stuff is a tasteful and appropriate thing to do, it must still be possible to figure out that you need to use a vaguely flat surface or you're just going to get a mangled mess.

I can tolerate sharing this island with millions of complete idiots, really I'm OK with it, but how do they have resources do piss away on this when people who do have half a brain and who do actual useful things with their lives can't feed their kids?

 

[Pickman's model]

Thought that was what all this platinum shite was about

the jubilee is from the accession, not the coronation. so from the death of george vi in 1952 and not from the crowning of elizabeth ii in 1953

 

[Elpenor]

In a combination of two perennial favourites, I expect to see a few stories in local papers today of kids with Union Jack dyed hair being turned away from their place of learning in violation of school hair and dress policies

(Unless it’s half term )

 

[Cid]

the jubilee is from the accession, not the coronation. so from the death of george vi in 1952 and not from the crowning of elizabeth ii in 1953

Yeah you need them formally monarched immediately, because god knows we can't go without that. But allows a decent period of mourning before the celebratory event that is coronation.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I thought this was Blustercunt...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[krtek a houby]

the jubilee is from the accession, not the coronation. so from the death of george vi in 1952 and not from the crowning of elizabeth ii in 1953

Ach. These lizard folk with their lizard ways.

 

[MickiQ]

I thought this was Blustercunt...

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I presume they are some kind of light show rather than stuck on, personally I think it's kind of fitting really they have both been round for absolute ages

 

[elbows]

Welby came out with such nauseating crap that he had to get covid and pneumonia to compensate.

Welby said: “I am deeply saddened to be missing the historic celebration of Her Majesty the Queen’s platinum jubilee. However, I will be praying for the Queen and giving thanks for her extraordinary 70 years of service to us all.

“I will also be praying for our nation at this time of celebration and thanksgiving. May the Queen’s example bring us together in unity and care for one another.

“For those attending Friday’s service at St Paul’s Cathedral, and the millions watching on television, I hope this joyful occasion will inspire us with the Queen’s profound commitment to fostering unity and peace among all people – and to promoting care for the natural world that God has given us.

“Led by the love of Jesus Christ, the Queen has lived her life for the benefit of others: l pray we find inspiration from Her Majesty over the jubilee weekend and long into the future.

“As we prepare to celebrate the first platinum jubilee in our nation’s history, may God save the Queen, and bless her with the knowledge of our profound love and gratitude for her service to us all.”

Archbishop of Canterbury tests positive for Covid and will miss jubilee service

Justin Welby, who was diagnosed with pneumonia on Thursday, was due to preach at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday

www.theguardian.com

 

[Calamity1971]

Welby came out with such nauseating crap that he had to get covid and pneumonia to compensate.

Archbishop of Canterbury tests positive for Covid and will miss jubilee service

Justin Welby, who was diagnosed with pneumonia on Thursday, was due to preach at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday

www.theguardian.com

'The queen has lived her life for the benefit of others'? I must have missed that bit. Fucking hell!

 

[Pickman's model]

'The queen has lived her life for the benefit of others'? I must have missed that bit. Fucking hell!

where's my benefit?

 

[klang]

I thought this was Blustercunt...

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...and to the right of him I keep seeing a plucked Big Bird

 

[tim]

Yuk.

She's going all 1950's Sci-Fi. We'll need to get Dr Quatermass in to stab her with. pylon.

 

[Dystopiary]

Welby came out with such nauseating crap that he had to get covid and pneumonia to compensate.

Archbishop of Canterbury tests positive for Covid and will miss jubilee service

Justin Welby, who was diagnosed with pneumonia on Thursday, was due to preach at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday

www.theguardian.com

"l pray we find inspiration from Her Majesty over the jubilee weekend and long into the future."

See, what does this mean, "inspiration"? Inspired to do what, become a monarch? It's trite bollocks.

 

[TopCat]

Lots of street parties around my way, all samosa and pakora do's. It's building up to be weirder than I thought.

 

[elbows]

"l pray we find inspiration from Her Majesty over the jubilee weekend and long into the future."

See, what does this mean, "inspiration"? Inspired to do what, become a monarch? It's trite bollocks.

I file it in the same cringeworthy category as 'a sense of duty'. An invitation not to think, to put up with shit, to know your place in a crap order, to make a virtue out of the horror, a suffocation of the spirit.

I may be inspired to rewatch The Prisoner.

 

[Dystopiary]

Dear God.

Platinum Jubilee: The Queen has sought to be nation's comforter-in-chief

Sure, she's brought people great comfort to know that while they try to dodge being evicted from their moudly bedsit by some scummy landlord, forced to use foodbanks to eat, she's dining in luxury at Balmoral. Or Windsor Castle. Or Norfolk House. That a tiny fraction of her millions'd be more than they could ever dream of owning. Barf.

 

[8ball]

My very gentle and good-natured ribbing of flag-shaggers on Facebook has gone down like a bucket of warm shit.

 

[stavros]

Walking round town today the only establishment I noticed that didn't have red, white and blue bunting, or purple flags up was Pizza Express.

 

[Calamity1971]

Gammontastic in Leicester!

 

[8ball]

Had a little wander today. Aside from a display of biscuits in the Co op, I haven't seen anything.

 

[Pickman's model]

Gammontastic in Leicester!
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God that's asking for a half brick

 

[Pickman's model]

I file it in the same cringeworthy category as 'a sense of duty'. An invitation not to think, to put up with shit, to know your place in a crap order, to make a virtue out of the horror, a suffocation of the spirit.

I may be inspired to rewatch The Prisoner.

The prisoner freely available on archive.org

 

[Calamity1971]

The council in Durham have put plaques on every fucking lampost in Newton hall (Where the haves live). How much does that cost! Fucks me right off that the surrounding ex mining villages are deprived. Twats.

 

[Calamity1971]

God that's asking for a half brick

Just a half? Spray painted, so god knows if they'll ever paint over it.

 

[Pickman's model]

Just a half? Spray painted, so god knows if they'll ever paint over it.

Maybe a couple of halves

 

[MickiQ]

Walking round town today the only establishment I noticed that didn't have red, white and blue bunting, or purple flags up was Pizza Express.

But do you live in Woking?

 

[Funky_monks]

Weird, I live in a very small hamlet in rural Herefordshire (I think there's about 40 houses in total).

You'd suppose it's prime flag shagging territory but on my estate (to be clear, the only housing estate) there's nothing. Some of the big houses have union jacks, but they already had fecking flagpoles for them to go on, so I suspect that they always had them up.

 

[Mattym]

Lots of street parties around my way, all samosa and pakora do's. It's building up to be weirder than I thought.

The same here- in fact, one on our road on Friday and I'm completely neutral to it. Really have no feelings towards it, whatsoever.

 

[Elpenor]

Gammontastic in Leicester!
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Obviously not a relation of Earl Spencer