ffs they still had a minute's applause at the start of Scotland v Ukraine game, how long is this shite going to go on? For those unfamiliar with the concept, a minute's applause is the fallback when the authorities aren't confident a minute's silence is going to be observed, and indeed the applause just about drowned out the boos.
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 19:02 (one year ago) link
this proves that people that show up for international games are at least 60% more likely to be melts
― calzino, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
some scientists did an ant tally and estimated that there was 20 quadrillion of the bitey little radge fuckers on this planet. The international ant community only go into a state of mourning if more than a billion of them die in one day, probably.
― calzino, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
There's a scientific theory that ant nests are ruled not by their queens, but rather by sizeable fungal growths at their base that release behaviour-altering spores. That fungus? Rupert Murdoch. The spores? Take your pick.Still working on this one tbh.
― promised you a spiracle (Matt #2), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 19:25 (one year ago) link
So funny to me that when Diana died there were those amazing couple of days where it felt like the royal family itself was in danger of getting booted out, but this time around it's Phillip Schofield in danger of not presenting This Morning— Europe's Leading Soccer Futurologist (@TreborRhurbarb) September 21, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
Monarchy WTF notwithstanding, that Emma pony was damn cute.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 20:38 (one year ago) link
*crying at statisticians* give me the truth!!
Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral was watched by 27M people in the UK alone. In contrast, Princess Diana’s funeral was watched by 32.1M in 1997. pic.twitter.com/BspIPoa0ue— Pop Tingz (@ThePopTingz) September 21, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
a real funeral with a whodunnit twist will always be more popular with the viewers than a fake funeral with an empty coffin :p
― calzino, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
Should Queen Elizabeth II be made a saint?✍️ Charles Moorehttps://t.co/SiyJ8s1EET— The Spectator (@spectator) September 22, 2022
jesus effing christ!
― calzino, Friday, 23 September 2022 08:33 (one year ago) link
Isn't that a Catholic thing?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 23 September 2022 08:57 (one year ago) link
yeah pretty sure she wasn't a catholic
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 September 2022 09:37 (one year ago) link
A strange combination of will-this-do space filler and High Tory brainrot... yes folks, it's Charles Moore Time again!
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Friday, 23 September 2022 09:43 (one year ago) link
The Palace apparently sent TV stations all over the world a list of short sections of the funeral service that are banned from now on.
But since this is the internet and there's something called the Streisand Effect, here they are:
« Le Palais » a demandé aux rédactions de censurer certaines images des obsèques de la reine lors des rediffusions. Oui, car c’est TRÈS choquant 🚫#Quotidien pic.twitter.com/trFyWZe5pb— Quotidien (@Qofficiel) September 20, 2022
― StanM, Friday, 23 September 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
For a brief delirious moment I thought they'd turned it into a game show.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 24 September 2022 12:16 (one year ago) link
quora: "… there has never been a non-Catholic who has been canonized. But canonization does not 'make' a saint. It only recognizes a saint. God makes saints."
^^^
― mark s, Saturday, 24 September 2022 12:23 (one year ago) link
God, the unelected ruler of christianity
― feudal vague (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 September 2022 12:28 (one year ago) link
could charles canonise his mum? he has his own "catholic and reformed" church now. pretty sure there are at least a few anglican saints but idk what the process is
― nothing in the dialog and click 'OK' to revert to your original display n (Left), Saturday, 24 September 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
I could be wrong but seems the anglican saints are basically the old catholic ones and then there are a bunch of "heroes"? maybe she could be a heroine?
what a weird fucked up compromise of a church this is
― nothing in the dialog and click 'OK' to revert to your original display n (Left), Saturday, 24 September 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
Anglicanism is weird.
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 September 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
it's almost as if the main cause of it's inception wasn't theological
― feudal vague (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 24 September 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
Theresa May's dad was one of them Anglo-Catholic freaks which might explain a lot. I once worked on the Anglican Monastery were he trained. The monks there were absolutely loaded and much freakier than any priests I've ever met, and that is saying something.
― calzino, Saturday, 24 September 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
non angli sed angeli
― mark s, Saturday, 24 September 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
My friend is one of the lay staff of St Paul’s Cathedral and she goes to Mirfield every year for what she calls ‘an STFU retreat’ - she is very High Church.
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Saturday, 24 September 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
she goes to the Community of the Resurrection? it's a beautiful building and they spent a fortune on the refurb. The granite fonts they had installed must have cost a small fortune, looked pretty cool though.
― calzino, Saturday, 24 September 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
I’m sure that’s the place but I’ve never heard it called anything but ‘Mirfield’.
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Saturday, 24 September 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
sorry for being so late to this and for bringing something so stupid pic.twitter.com/CHWAoRKDcL— ☠️ HAPPY ☠️ (@happyroadkill) September 29, 2022
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 29 September 2022 20:20 (one year ago) link
QEII died of old age: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/29/queen-elizabeth-died-of-old-age-death-certificate-says
― StanM, Friday, 30 September 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
Nobody dies of 'old age', though. No commoner ever has that on their death certificate. My father who died at the age of 83 had about four different things. Even in death, QE2 ends up hiding stuff from those of us who were her subjects, even though the thing that is being hidden is probably completely innocuous, like heart failure or whatever.
And in a way it could really backfire, as now, out will come the conspiracy theorists - "She was murdered!" "She's still alive!" She really is a 9ft lizard!" Take your pick.
Meanwhile, the world's only reigning queen (there are, of course, quite a few consorts) Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, has announced she is stripping four of her grandkids of the title Prince or Princess. It's not all smelling of roses in Scandi-land right now, with several governments lurching to the right in this mainstay of social democracy, most notably Sweden. But clearly, it's not all rotten in the state of Denmark, as the monarchy there demonstrates (once again, for those paying attention) that it is possible to keep a monarchy and do it in a better way than the UK.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 September 2022 10:37 (one year ago) link
the pick i take is that she's still alive (bcz she is)
it isn't a conspiracy theory if it's true
― mark s, Friday, 30 September 2022 10:40 (one year ago) link
Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, has announced she is stripping four of her grandkids of the title Prince or Princess.
as the monarchy there demonstrates (once again, for those paying attention) that it is possible to keep a monarchy and do it in a better way than the UK.
I mean, by slowly abolishing itself, sure, I guess?
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 30 September 2022 10:47 (one year ago) link
also:
post-Shipman, coroners started telling doctors not to use 'old age' as cause of death and be a little more specific. https://t.co/oMLkIXNZF8— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) September 29, 2022
― mark s, Friday, 30 September 2022 10:48 (one year ago) link
so it's like when her hat was the EU flag, it's all signals to those who know
capriqueen one
― mark s, Friday, 30 September 2022 10:49 (one year ago) link
Wait, it's not that drastic. They are all kids of the youngest child. The son and heir, Crown Prince Frederik, and his four children, Christian (born 15 October 2005), Isabella (born 21 April 2007) and twins Vincent and Josephine (born 8 January 2011), are unaffected by the change.
It contrasts with here, when even when one prince is a philanderer and paedophile and another says he doesn't want to do the duties anymore, goes to his wife's country "in search of privacy" and yet we hear more about him and his missus than ever before, *they* don't get stripped of their titles. Possibly Chuck will revisit this, I mean, why shouldn't they be Mr Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Mr Harry Mountbatten-Windsor, respectively? What's he got to lose by doing that? But I have heard no rumours to that effect.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 30 September 2022 10:59 (one year ago) link
Nobody dies of 'old age', though.
Could be a Scottish thing. My mother's death certificate said frailty and old age, iirc.
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Friday, 30 September 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
... not that she was as old as QEII!
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Friday, 30 September 2022 11:20 (one year ago) link
Guardian link has this:
Old age is acceptable if the doctor certifying death has cared for the patient for a long time, was not aware of any disease or injury that contributed to death and had observed a gradual decline in the person’s general health and functioning.
― StanM, Friday, 30 September 2022 11:21 (one year ago) link
they can only put human illnesses on death certificates afaik
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 30 September 2022 11:24 (one year ago) link
"failed the ultimate test" as defined by Dr Richard Pryor. I suppose putting common illnesses on the death certificate wasn't considered appropriate for a monarch.
― calzino, Friday, 30 September 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
not dead and still ‘backing’ the monarchy:https://offloadmedia.feverup.com/secretmanchester.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/30134113/ezgif.com-gif-maker.jpg
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Friday, 30 September 2022 13:40 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/NVqlaYN.png
― mark s, Friday, 30 September 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
Wait, £5?
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 1 October 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
I'm glad I don't go in pubs anymore and don't play the old fruit machines!
― calzino, Saturday, 1 October 2022 00:27 (one year ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/WDwZyXy/Screenshot-2022-10-12-at-09-22-56.png
― anvil, Wednesday, 12 October 2022 07:28 (one year ago) link
The Sun says that Prince Andrew is funding some of the $12 million plot to overturn his settlement with Virginia Giuffre through his inheritance from his mother. https://t.co/gvlZnF0Wgq— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 23, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 23 January 2023 15:40 (one year ago) link
this is what happens when you let the bastards keep their heads
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 23 January 2023 15:53 (one year ago) link
liz phair doesn't give a fuck about colonialism but has anyone asked her what she thinks of her girlboss icon funding sex crimes in life and in death?
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Monday, 23 January 2023 16:02 (one year ago) link
Can’t we just have one lonely reporter on the Liz Phair beat?
― George Santos' If I Could Only Remember My Name - C or D? (President Keyes), Tuesday, 24 January 2023 00:43 (one year ago) link