Prince Philip like you've never seen him before!

there's only one thing I'm interested in and that is watching basic coppers

Basic copper, is that like pig iron?

Why the fuck are all the leftists in my timeline and on ILX obsessed with a basic cop show

Lol, yes perfectly put tbh

I had a whole Maoist critique lined up but fuck it, never change dude

Tbh I've wondered the same thing as imago before but never said anything b/c I have no idea about the show really except that it involves police and lots of people like it.

Anyway, I am avoiding monarchist-fucked TV by playing Disco Elysium, which is very cheery and not at all depressing and nothing to do with cops in any way. Ahem.

Is the show great, or his being like this great?

relieved to learn that charles is now duke of edinburgh; wouldn’t want them to be dukeless

― mookieproof, Saturday, April 10, 2021 8:39 AM (eight hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

He's not, it's Prince Edward

and his father not even dedinburied

Charles is Duke of Edinburgh now but it will pass to Edward when Charles becomes king, it says here:

In keeping with the Letters Patent issued when George VI gave Philip the title in 1947, the Prince of Wales as the duke’s eldest son, inherits the title the Duke of Edinburgh, but on Charles’s eventual accession to the throne, the title will merge with the crown and can be regranted anew to Edward.

Does seem a bit of a diss to the dead one that his title is eventually going to be a castoff to the fourth kid

If he was diss-able when alive, he's diss-able when dead.

"Tbh I've wondered the same thing as imago before but never said anything b/c I have no idea about the show really except that it involves police and lots of people like it."

Same. Obv leftists can like a cop show and not cops bcz it's just a show. Not that hard.

That tweet was funny -- and others I've seen on cancelling an evening's programming for a whole TV channel or radio -- as it seems like there is v little patience for it rn, what with coming out of a three month lockdown and having this shit thrust upon ppl. I like it as an indication of what we are just putting up with from the establishment, and how quickly it can all tip over. Obv it won't be this that does it.

When the Queen goes it will be 10x worse.

to add to the injury, her title will pass on to Charles

Queen Charles

His heart packed it in after receiving one of the queens infamous tornado blowjobs

— Taylor (@cooljinzo) April 9, 2021

When my gf asks if I’ve done the dishes pic.twitter.com/gxXHFbN6jj

— WALL-E Paulnuts (@katamaridumassy) April 10, 2021

lol

When the Queen goes it will be 10x worse.

MORRISSEY: KA-CHING!

Give him a chance to get over this dead racist first

The overnight ratings are absolutely fascinating.

Total viewing was down by about 15% compared to last Friday.

ITV dropped below a million viewers in the 9pm primetime slot, which is almost unheard of.

At that point Ch4 had more viewers than BBC1, BBC2, ITV & Ch5 combined.

— Lee Thompson (@leethommo) April 10, 2021

The verdict is in: wall-to-wall TV coverage of Prince Philip's death was a turn-off for Brits, with major channels losing primetime (7pm-11pm) viewers compared with Friday, April 2.

BBC1: -6%
ITV: -60%
BBC2: -65%
C4: -8.5%

— Jake Kanter (@Jake_Kanter) April 10, 2021

Does not surprise me at all, since when has anyone gives a fuck about Prince Philip?

When Prince Edward dies they may as well not bother announcing it.

Some people say: well who watches live tv these days in the age of streaming etc. Those that haven't got a broadband connection will just switch it off if it is only playing shite!

See if they could hold on for another three days they'll be doing the funeral on the Queen's 95th birthday, not that much of a gift I suppose. Or...is it?

it's not like people were going out to the pub on Friday night either

Despite the DoE's many achievements in a long life of service, some will remember him as a man who was often blunt, sometimes to the point of giving offence.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42003216

Although that list doesn't include my 'favourite', that time he said to a journalist "Get lost or I'll have you shot".

Calling it now- when t'queen dies all the big streaming services will be pulled in the UK

apologies for the self-indulgence but I made a twitter thread about that and I'll link to it rather than write it out again

In late April 2010 I was staying with my wife and her family in a town outside Beijing when there was an earthquake in Qinghai in which nearly 3000 people died.https://t.co/GCTP7vChkc

— Centuries of Sound (@Centuries_Sound) April 10, 2021

Calling it now- when t'queen dies all the big streaming services will be pulled in the UK

physical media 4ever

I drove past the UK Embassy in DC yesterday. Out front there was a table under a tent, with maybe three dozen bouquets left in remembrance.

By comparison, when Diana died I remember seeing a bank of flowers the size of a stretch limo.

Don't know why I'm surprised they've rolled Prince Andrew out for some quotes, maybe this is the start of a "public healing process" for him.

Funny you should say that but I noticed the news coverage on the day of the contained an unusually large amount of footage of Andrew.

my mum's reaction to philip dying has absolutely destroyed me pic.twitter.com/wIO3GbESNg

— Phyllida Jacobs 🍂🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 (@PhyllidaJacobs) April 9, 2021

Hello Arun, we have grey-scaled our website as a mark of respect for Prince Phillip who has sadly passed away today. Twitter have also done this too for the same reason.

— National Rail (@nationalrailenq) April 9, 2021

Had a bissful weekend not knowing about that.

hah! the bbc had to shut down the online complaints form after it possibly became overloaded with a so far undisclosed number of complaints. Well done for presuming the national mood and losing two thirds of your audience you fuckwits.

Did they have any choice though?

Think there are a particular set of draconian rules they have to follow post senior royal death - all presenters must wear black, programming changes etc

oh I know they are just following protocol, but now they have had a lesson that the protocol belongs to another age.

Dispatch from friend in UK pic.twitter.com/HF7ljynhxu

— Anton Jäger (@AntonJaegermm) April 11, 2021

I actually laughed out loud at the sight of this fucking thing (hope the pic posts)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/15/funeral-rehearsal-shows-first-sighting-of-land-rover-prince-philip-helped-design

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/251eeea8c04a763cc3bb20f8e2222519f1681f1a/0_136_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=445&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=f55c1d55029d24f54f27ecf940cb8a14

They're closing in on near-double their previous record for complaints, Jerry Springer the Opera

The BBC's own article has one of those limp dick "analysis" boxes where one of their guys is all like, ah, but how many more people would have complained if we HADN'T kissed the dead pigshit-thick nazi's arse for a whole day?? ¯\(°_o)/¯

lol pic.twitter.com/vtQ7Ook0vO

— Dr Meat Pitchell (@pdkmitchell) April 15, 2021

Is Prince Andrew creaming himself more like from the looks of that photo

Prince Philip spent the past 16 years converting this Land Rover into a hearse. It will carry his coffin at Saturday's funeral. pic.twitter.com/XI668bDy35

— Ian Fraser (@Ian_Fraser) April 15, 2021

is it grenade proof

now there's a man of the people who didn't want a fuss made