Take this Queen's Jubilee and SHOVE IT RIGHT UP YOUR ARSE

ugh at the headline http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154217/Queens-Diamond-Jubilee-2012-The-Britain-feared-wed-lost--sail-more.html

Melanie Philips can go and eat shit. Probably would as well if there was a Union Jack flag stuck in it.

distburbing images of melanie philips getting a hot lunch via a union flag

John Bull(shit), GB's answer to Hot Carl.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/04/article-2154539-1372EE96000005DC-271_964x544.jpg

CAPTION CONTEST
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/04/article-2154539-1372F00E000005DC-150_964x621.jpg

"Kick me in the bollocks!"
"I can't I'm wearing a bin liner!"

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/60696000/jpg/_60696491_014944039-1.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/04/article-2154539-1372EE96000005DC-271_964x544.jpg

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2012/Jun/Week1/16241388.jpg

must it really?

the express front page isnt there yet, probably still trying to figure out a way to get Diana in it somehow

posted under the #proudtobebritish hashtag on Twitter: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/04/jubilee-pageant-unemployed

A group of long-term unemployed jobseekers were bussed into London to work as unpaid stewards during the diamond jubilee celebrations and told to sleep under London Bridge before working on the river pageant.

"Tomorrow's People is one of eight youth charities that were supported in the Guardian and Observer's Christmas appeal last year."

top work graun

I love how this is barely even making news in Australia, that Ive noticed. Not right-in-our-faces frontpage news anyway.

your prime minister lit one of the beacons in Australia

Thats about the only thing anyone did, tho, afaik. Like people here wouldnt have parties or nowt.

Except maybe ironic hipsters having tea parties or some shite.

I'm sure some of the RSL's have shindigs planned, lol

i have the biggest crush on your princess it's sad

lol

Thats about the only thing anyone did, tho, afaik.

this caused us a massive amount of ballache at work last week,

if only I could go into this

Oh yeah I had that in mind when I said what I did (and felt bad) - I'm sure you guys have been pounded with BS about this :/ I'm not the best person to be saying "lol nothings happening here" when I never watch fucking tv.

9ine are showing Madness on the roof tonight!

what's the story with the royal spaz face, do they get cosmetic surgery to have those gigantic cuntface jaws?

http://www.sportsrubbish.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/big-book-of-british-smiles.jpg

<3 the title of this thread

i have managed to avoid the j*bilee completely this weekend. saturday got fucked up at a bbq. sunday spent in darkened living room watching the tennis eating polenta, deliberately not answering parental phone calls. monday went to see the patrick keiller exo at the tate and then prometheus.

in between though i checked twitter and why the fuck was everyone glued to the fucking thing? this country has no self-respect. seeing otherwise intelligent people queue up to pledge their fucking allegiance to the fucking queen is immensely depressing.

and that's before we even get to this story http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/04/jubilee-pageant-unemployed

KEEP CALM AND BUS IN SLAVE LABOUR

some pissed-up dick in a red, white and blue shirt was moaning at us in the pub last night because they had the rugby on and not the royal V festival, bad luck mate welcome to Hull lolololololol

My boss must have been looking at some pics of the hullaballoo and said aloud today "aw I wish I could be in London for all this, it looks like fun!". I laughed and informed her of the general attitude of everyone I know (ie everyone in this thread lol) and she was genuinely baffled! "why would they have such a problem with it?". Bless her parochial narrow minded brain.

not seen anyone talk about it on twitter but 3 people on fb have pictures of queens and all that and one had baked a cake with a flag on it

Most of my timeline are either ignoring it or being snarky republicans about it. But there's one woman - I mean, she's a very sweet human being, but she seems to be getting very angry about the snarky republicans and saying "why are you so intent on spoiling other people's fun?" and threatening to block people. I kinda want to say "why are you spoiling the only fun that snarky republicans can find in this whole debacle?" but that would be inappropriate, I guess.

I do seem to have successfully avoided most of the whole thing - mainly by staying inside glued to creative endeavours on my laptop - but I'm just kind perplexed by people's interest in it. On both sides, flag-waving royalists and snarky republicans. It's pretty easy to avoid if you want. Even in London.

right now, right at this very second, this is my favourite thread of all time

Went to see my parents yesterday, they had spent all of Sunday glued to the TV watching the pageant "because we wanted to see the boats" and were then annoyed by all the rah-rahing. So I had to try quite hard not to point out that I am having a cheerful jubilee-free time what with not watching TV, buying newspapers, or looking at any news websites, as I realise that for some people having no idea what's going on in the world is an unacceptable lifestyle choice, and they're probably right

though I did stop to go "ha, look at this bad taste" at 1. a sudden blossoming of flags all over the front of the local pub 2. a giant union flag traybake in Tesco yesterday. and then headed into the centre of town where I saw absolutely no sign of anything happening whatsoever

Would've thought Whitechapel was the least likely place in London to be making a big deal out of the jubilee, with the exception of I dunno Kilburn or somewhere else with loads of Irish people.

Revolting levels of bunting on the bus through Dulwich yesterday, although there appeared to be a few fun parties going on in Brixton it's difficult to say whether they were jubilee related per se or just taking advantage of the long weekend. No bunting in Brixton obviously.

Otherwise have managed to avoid most of it, largely due to barely turning the TV on all weekend.

Barely left Whitechapel since Thursday. The only Jubilee related events I've seen are;

One miserable flag hanging from Booth House (homeless shelter)
A local nuisance mad woman ranting in Budgens yesterday morning that she didn't have a day off.
Some very drunk people outside Indo chanting 'Jubilee' like 'Vindaloo', one of them in drag.

the problem with TV news and newspapers is that they're more or less the last place to find out about what's going on in the world

not a single flag on commercial road - even the tesco metro hasn't bothered:D

oh god i know that 'grandma slut' as my gf described him last night. avoided all this depressing nonsense by installing slsk on an old pc laptop, watched a fish called wanda and made some mixes for friends. gonna try s1ocki's honey garlic bbq chicken today, not a bad couple of days off tbh

watched this

http://survivingprogress.com/

on BBC4 last night. put the other bollocks nicely into perspective. might be on iPlayer for a bit.

I kinda want to say "why are you spoiling the only fun that snarky republicans can find in this whole debacle?" but that would be inappropriate, I guess.

you guess rong imo

Tomorrow's People sounds like a band that released one single on Deram in 1968: Trip to Narnia b/w Smoky Jack.

switched on the radio earlier to find the normally twee 'call you and yours' had become some sort of bloody nuremberg rally

LOL, I heard that too. Even worse, Bonnie Greer was on it.

Swivel-eyed Nazi caller: "You talked about the 'so-called' indigenous peoples of the United Kingdom..."

Bonnie (dripping condescension): "I did not use the phrase 'so-called' indigenous peoples."

... she did use the phrase 'so-called' indigenous peoples, like 15 seconds beforehand

I was at a DIY festival Saturday/Sunday, and watched that Surviving Progress documentary last night than NV linked to - definitely interesting stuff, and no Jubilee for me.

I was quite surprised at the number of twitter/facebook people watching the Jubilee concert - I mean, it's terrible music in celebration of a bunch of terrible cunts, why bother watching even in order to mock? If there was a chance of something good or interesting happening then I could see why, even if you're against the monarchy, but the lineup was fucking awful and security would've been way too tight for any protesty stuff to happen...

Co-worker made the cupcakes.

used to want to debate with racists about what the nature of "indigenous" peoples are but then i realised they were racists and they aren't really that interested

ime anybody who even pretends to be watching royal-y stuff ironically is not-very-secretly just watching it cos they like it

OTM

I suppose there's also the thing of 'wanting to be informed' - it's been shoved at us so strongly that you do get the feeling that *everyone* will be watching, which preys on your sense of wanting to be kept in the loop and able to communicate with your fellows. But it's just the same trick most advertising pulls, it's not real.

Categorically not wanting to be informed in this case, tbh