Oh my god how is Trump so good at this?!
Nigel Farage inexplicably just had Donald Trump phone in to his GB News show to pay tribute to the late Queen, saying they “had great chemistry” and “spent a lot more time together than people thought.” pic.twitter.com/Jignt4hJWF— Women for Wes (@Women4Wes) September 8, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 08:54 (one year ago) link
An inspiration to all generations, young and old. Queen Elizabeth 1926 – 2022 ❤️ pic.twitter.com/pWkfBjzHWD— Peppa Pig Official (@peppapig) September 8, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 08:58 (one year ago) link
Iron Maiden are saddened to learn of the passing of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II - a British institution and global inspiration for more than 70 years.God Bless you Ma’am. pic.twitter.com/caC91hhUO6— Iron Maiden (@IronMaiden) September 9, 2022
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 9 September 2022 09:09 (one year ago) link
Would like to know what the rest of the NWoBHM think about it
― born on the bayeux (Matt #2), Friday, 9 September 2022 09:12 (one year ago) link
Thunderstick is in heavy mourning
https://bravewords.com/medias-static/images/news/2019/5CEC1996-thunderstick-former-samson-iron-maiden-drummer-reveals-new-live-band-lineup-new-shows-confirmed-image.jpg
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 September 2022 09:39 (one year ago) link
guess my theory: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fb91GM2XwAYMo54?format=jpg
― mark s, Friday, 9 September 2022 09:43 (one year ago) link
I hadn't seen the last screen from Eccleston which he is partially wrong about.
i just know christopher eccleston is having the time of his life rn pic.twitter.com/V8TJcGGkvR— daisy (@mercurysdyke) September 8, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 09:54 (one year ago) link
wrt to their lack of 'real' powers. They definitely have some.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 09:55 (one year ago) link
There was a story this morning about a chip shop in Scotland being decimated after the owner had posted a 'celebratory' pic. Twitter was furiously angry against her, and basically got a crowd to go round and smash the shop windows etc.
Seems to have disappeared otherwise I'd have posted it here
― Mark G, Friday, 9 September 2022 10:00 (one year ago) link
Eccleston is screenshotting this article
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/harry-and-meghan-the-union-of-two-great-houses-the-windsors-and-the-celebrities-is-complete-1.4504502
― Number None, Friday, 9 September 2022 10:26 (one year ago) link
Ah cool.
Paying my respects to Celtic here.
All British Football Clubs turning their logos black and white to honour the passing of Queen Elizabeth.Celtic Football Club: pic.twitter.com/mwgKc1LfGa— JAKE BUCKLEY 🇦🇺 (@TheMasterBucks) September 9, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 10:31 (one year ago) link
hot damn eccles!
― nashwan, Friday, 9 September 2022 10:37 (one year ago) link
Two 4-0 gubbings in a row and the Queen dying, how much more punishment can the poor old Rangers fans take?
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 9 September 2022 10:52 (one year ago) link
Hold on why is the Last Night of the Proms cancelled? Could have been an orgy of flag fucking the likes of which have never been seen and never will be again.
― born on the bayeux (Matt #2), Friday, 9 September 2022 10:55 (one year ago) link
It's really weird but it has to do with people enjoying some music.
Like football, it must be binned. Work is good though. No days off.
Please be patriotic in a way that doesn't completely fuck the economy, thanks. pic.twitter.com/BtfYxEon0K— lol (@MediocreDave) September 9, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 10:57 (one year ago) link
Strikes off. Carnival off. What a disgrace.
Regretfully, we have made the decision to cancel Hackney Carnival on Sunday to observe this period of national mourning We’ll be looking at whether it's feasible to hold Carnival later this year, or if we can showcase the artists’ work in another way pic.twitter.com/XeoTgCYAqu— Hackney Council (@hackneycouncil) September 9, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 11:02 (one year ago) link
All for a woman who protected a pedophile.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 11:04 (one year ago) link
this is what real cancel culture looks like
― Left, Friday, 9 September 2022 11:07 (one year ago) link
the cancellations are absolutely insane and of course will affect those with the least, the most
so a fitting tribute to monarchy then
people should throw street parties all weekend
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 September 2022 11:07 (one year ago) link
Lol so true.
Kropotkin on living in England: "better a French prison than this grave". https://t.co/J9ggtGAHCc— Zoe Baker (@anarchopac) September 8, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 11:10 (one year ago) link
Are all these cancellations basically because of the police being redeployed? Surely none of these institutions believe that the public actually would prefer to sit and grieve?
― crisp, Friday, 9 September 2022 12:07 (one year ago) link
No worries though, the opera's still on.
https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/305405514_10158290123241511_8825410895387024407_n.jpg?stp=cp1_dst-jpg&_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=8bfeb9&_nc_ohc=KtI4Pki2-3gAX-Dx-Ia&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&oh=00_AT8RBDas5ZgyZzdIoW3jrscO-t6wlAn0ww3OZ-xXwV0qzw&oe=6320D77C
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 9 September 2022 12:12 (one year ago) link
also i think many orgs are genuinely afraid of getting tabloid-monstered for not doing the "right thing" so they immediately move to what seems the safest performative option
i think there's a firehose of ppl not believing in much of this in private but second-guessingly adapting their public behaviour so as not to be caught out
― mark s, Friday, 9 September 2022 12:15 (one year ago) link
also
― mark s, Friday, 9 September 2022 12:16 (one year ago) link
i think many orgs are genuinely afraid of getting tabloid-monstered for not doing the "right thing" so they immediately move to what seems the safest performative option
Doesn't even need to be as serious as that, orgs/brands do this for every event regardless. They were doing it for Nick Pope last week
― anvil, Friday, 9 September 2022 12:28 (one year ago) link
I'll just leave this here. pic.twitter.com/fEgH7h4qdD— James Wyman (@jaswyman) September 9, 2022
DEEP GLOOM IN LONDON
Places of Amusement All Closed
― soref, Friday, 9 September 2022 12:30 (one year ago) link
I like the bit about the dog as well
Wrt unions they are already being monstered by the tabloids but there is a question of declining public support. Though I think it will be harder to maintain as the dispute with the RMT drags on into winter anyway.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 12:38 (one year ago) link
Cancelling Hackney Carnival with 24h notice seems a bit shit.
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Friday, 9 September 2022 12:44 (one year ago) link
Apparently the rugby and the opera are still going ahead, probably the lacrosse and the grouse hunting too.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 9 September 2022 12:50 (one year ago) link
Oh yeah no excuse for Hackney carnival. Saw that a few vendors are set to lose money.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 12:58 (one year ago) link
if you look at the carnival in terms of optics - and i agree with mark that a lot of these cancellations will be for fear of being monstered - then what it says is that there is a group of people whose feelings must be tiptoed around and other groups of people whose feelings, livelihoods etc simply don't matter
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 September 2022 13:04 (one year ago) link
This is for the side chicks out there, keep pushing you can become the queen one day too https://t.co/5Eehoyysnn— Dan Marino (@Ludo4PF) September 8, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 13:18 (one year ago) link
Looks like the queen has taken down Trevor Sinclair how many more lives?
― anvil, Friday, 9 September 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
lol my friend whose job it is to compose her employer's official linked-in statements is currently cursing and raving abt this: required to write something genuinely only a step away from "RIP HRH, who for so many years brought such wisdom and grace to the dildo market"
― mark s, Friday, 9 September 2022 13:34 (one year ago) link
it was such an innocuous and completely fair and uncontroversial comment to make, well if this was a normal country.
there is no way she would have approved of all the UK horseracing getting cancelled for days. But at least the Ballinrobe and Leopardstown tracks in RoI are doing business as usual :p People have had enough entertainment/sport deprivation during the lockdowns, it's just not the time to be cancelling stuff ffs.
― calzino, Friday, 9 September 2022 13:45 (one year ago) link
xpcoals to newcastle
― rob, Friday, 9 September 2022 13:57 (one year ago) link
Camilla giving off strong I'm-collaborating-with-the-Visitors-they-only-want-to-save-their-planet vibes there.
― trishyb, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:03 (one year ago) link
I wonder if some of the cancellations are to do with the fact that Queenie's coffin is due to process by train down to London, thus buggering up people's chances of getting to whatever events they might've been trying to get to?
― trishyb, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
Liz Truss killed her you dick
People pouring their own liquified brains out of open windows. Whole streets and towns coated with a sheen of brain. pic.twitter.com/XmIlyyjttE— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 9, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
more evidence for my "they rasputined her" theory
"they somehow know when it's time": yes you chase them round the palace poisoning them and shooting them full of holes
― mark s, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
You missed the part about dumping them in the Thames in a sack.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 9 September 2022 14:10 (one year ago) link
unlike rasputin they buried her alive, it's a king arthur thing
― mark s, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
C.S. Lewis Square will be open from 3.30pm today for reflection and the laying of floral tributes on the passing of HM.Flowers can be laid below the statue of Aslan in the square. pic.twitter.com/zCcxfjm3Gl— Cllr Anthony Flynn (@AntoFlynnser) September 9, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:18 (one year ago) link
7 Decades, 15 Prime Ministers. 1 Queen. Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II Thank you 💕💕#queenelizabeth pic.twitter.com/EOhlMDbWbi— Morleys UK (@MorleysChicken) September 9, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
well it is a book about the vanquishing of a despotic queen who ruled over a land of eternal winter xpost
― Number None, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
Sounds about right.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
Then again, no more weather.
We are saddened by the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Our thoughts are with her family and all those affected by this news.As a mark of respect during this time of national mourning we will only be posting daily forecasts and warnings.— Met Office (@metoffice) September 9, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
grrr! the BBC better have suspended the shipping forecast as well
― calzino, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
I wonder if some of the cancellations are to do with the fact that Queenie's coffin is due to process by train down to London, thus buggering up people's chances of getting to whatever events they might've been trying to get to?― trishyb, Friday, September 9, 2022 2:05 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― trishyb, Friday, September 9, 2022 2:05 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Seems they're flying her down now, possibly because they don't want royalist buffoons coating the tracks with dead flowers which will take days to clean up.
― born on the bayeux (Matt #2), Friday, 9 September 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link