Thatcher is dead

[Barking_Mad]

The streets of Barnsley

 

[ViolentPanda]

On the day all the cuts kick in! how very fucking apt!

It's almost like the old cunt smiled and thought "my work here is done"!

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

with irish dancers

wtf.

That's what BBC ticker is saying

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_funerals_in_the_United_Kingdom

Slight difference between state and ceremonial but I can't see much. Hopefully someone else will come up with an answer

 

[Ted Striker]

 

[frogwoman]

was saying a few weeks ago to dotty that the only way she'd have got redemption under judaism would be to go around to every single miner, school child she took the milk from etc etc and apologise, and ask for their forgiveness. And it still wouldn't have worked because lots of the people she wronged would have since died as a result of her actions, so she'd be fucked anyway. So she'd have had to ask god and he's a jealous god that punishes people for all time etc.

 

[cantsin]

minutes silence at the Manc derby tonight ?

 

[J Ed]

 

[Random]

was saying a few weeks ago to dotty that the only way she'd have got redemption under judaism would be to go around to every single miner, school child she took the milk from etc etc and apologise, and ask for their forgiveness. And it still wouldn't have worked because lots of the people she wronged would have since died as a result of her actions, so she'd be fucked anyway. So she'd have had to ask god and he's a jealous god that punishes people for all time etc.

Can you do a Mormon thing and retroactively convert her?

 

[Pickman's model]

Can you do a Mormon thing and retroactively convert her?

or just burn her

 

[Pingu]

I beg to disagree tbh

 

[SpineyNorman]

until theres a stake in that thing were her heart should be, head severed and mouth stuffed with garlic bulbs i refuse to accept shes dead . Only undead as yet .

That's exactly what I said when I heard it - that and a stake through the heart. You can never be too careful with pure, concentrated, unadulterated evil.

 

[tufty79]

i am drinking fizzystuff with my next door neighbours in a minute


edit: we drank fizzy stuff. we toasted many, many things. we discovered we're braintwins.

a reluctant 'ta' to maggie for bringing us together

 

[frogwoman]

Can you do a Mormon thing and retroactively convert her?

No but she broke quite a few of the 7 laws so we don't need to worry about her heavenly fate.There's no hell in most versions of judaism so she'll be in purgatory to cleanse herself of her sins before she gets to heaven, she'll be there for quite a while though.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Rejoice!

I'm already giving thanks to Klaus Nomi for providing today's soundtrack.

 

[nastybobby]

Please, please, please don't let this be the week of the zombie apocalypse!

 

[stethoscope]

Will get a spin tonight

 

[Scaggs]

What a lovely fucking day!

 

[DexterTCN]

this been done?

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

wtf.

STATE VS CEREMONIAL

The Queen Mother would have been the first to insist her funeral should in all ways adhere to Royal protocol.
There would have been no question in her mind that her passing should be marked by a ceremonial funeral rather than a state one.
The distinction is a subtle one.
State funerals are reserved for monarchs and although the Queen Mother was queen, it was her husband George VI who held the throne.
There have been exceptions over the years.
In 1965, Winston Churchill was afforded a state funeral to honour his life as a great war leader.
His body travelled on a gun carriage from Waterloo Station to St Paul's Cathedral where it was borne up the steps by officers from the Grenadier Guards.
A precedent had been set in 1852, with the lavish state funeral of the Duke of Wellington.
Pomp and ceremony
These apart, the term "state funeral" has been reserved for reigning kings and queens.
Most of us watching, though, will notice little difference between the state and ceremonial event.
Buckingham Palace says the only visible departure is that Her Majesty's coffin will be carried by sailors rather than drawn by horses on the day of the actual funeral.

 

[ericjarvis]

minutes silence at the Manc derby tonight ?

Shame it isn't the Merseyside derby. I could see that being the loudest minute's silence in history.

 

[treelover]

that noted libertarian and championer of free speech Guido Fawkes turned the comments on this story off pretty sharpish on his website. didn't go as he hoped I think. shame.

Same in the Guardian...

 

[Fedayn]

BREAKING NEWS: Atos declare Margaret Thatcher fit for work.

 

[peterkro]

Aha aha aha aha,I out lived the bitch.

 

[Lord Camomile]

minutes silence at the Manc derby tonight ?

I did wonder if there'd be an attempt to mark it in some way, black armbands perhaps.

No doubt the fans will oblige, regardless of whether there's anything official.

 

[Fez909]

Mods, can this be merged with the Maggie's died thread please? I accidental posted on the other one and now I feel uncool. (this is the winning thread!)



editor
Mrs Magpie

 

[Pickman's model]

Mods, can this be merged with the Maggie's died thread please? I accidental posted on the other one and now I feel uncool. (this is the winning thread!)



editor
Mrs Magpie

this ^^ is the whining post on the winning thread

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

So are the Government going to declare 1 minute's silence to remember her?

The sound of glasses clinking will probably drown the silence

 

[ViolentPanda]

Yay, but oh christ, we're going to see eulogies from Milliband et al. aren't we. Telly is going to stay off for a few weeks.

Hopefully, the sort of fawning remembrance of Thatcher we're sure to see from a party that still maintains the pretence that they stand "in opposition" to the values Thatcher espoused, will open some peoples' eyes to the fact that they're exactly the same - pusillanimous hypocrites.

 

[frogwoman]

So are the Government going to declare 1 minute's silence to remember her?

The sound of glasses clinking will probably drown the silence

and the sound of sass crying lol

 

[Ranbay]

Is it too early to say she fucked me when i was a minor?