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
"William, 40, has now become the Duke of Cornwall and is likely to become Prince of Wales. It was reported early in 2022 that William, who is a patron of homelessness charities Centrepoint and the Passage, is interested in using parts of the Duchy’s huge landed estates to house the homeless."
Sure, sure..
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
Apparently there's some kind lying in state thing planned for Edinburgh - or sumthin' - so there's a lot of police about and a friend of mine overheard someone in the Royal Mile commenting on it, "It's no' as if anyone's gonnae kill her - she's deid".
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 9 September 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
police deployed to stop her escaping
― mark s, Friday, 9 September 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
lol
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Friday, 9 September 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
I read someone posting about the history of corpse-jacking once, but this wasn't about the corpses of monarchs getting kidnapped - it was about attempts to steal the corpses of saints whilst they are in transit.
― calzino, Friday, 9 September 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
Eva Peron got corpse-napped
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Friday, 9 September 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
Apparently there's some kind lying in state thing planned for Edinburgh
Now I'm resident in Edinburgh I'm thinking of popping up to report back to youse all, maybe around 4am since it seems to be 24 (23?) hours and there might be less of a queue at that time. Probably not.
― born on the bayeux (Matt #2), Friday, 9 September 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
eva peron got corpsenapped by matt #2, stay alert ppl!
― mark s, Friday, 9 September 2022 15:33 (one year ago) link
pic.twitter.com/UZyV8LkEfN— Stevie Nicks (@StevieNicks) September 8, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 September 2022 15:38 (one year ago) link
Oh my god, that
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 9 September 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
It's not as good as Poundland's tribute, sorry.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
Edinburgh hotel prices this weekend have gone ballistic.
― stirmonster, Friday, 9 September 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
Uju's tweet is a work of art, twitter deleted it!
POV: you’re 19, going into 6-figure debt at Carnegie Mellon, getting lectured by this professor on “Blackness in multilingualism.”“Maybe we shouldn’t rejoice when a 96yo woman dies?” you say. Uju frowns, gives you an F. You register to vote & cast a ballot for @DrOz this Nov. pic.twitter.com/jNchvkyWIq— Blake Masters (@bgmasters) September 8, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
From all at johnlydon dot com
Rest in Peace Queen Elizabeth II.Send her victorious.From all at https://t.co/vK2Du0ZzDS pic.twitter.com/kq4M6WfeML— John Lydon Official (@lydonofficial) September 9, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
“Pray for both families” lol https://t.co/PWx7uyqXmH— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 9, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 September 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
where you at, kirstie alley?
― pplains, Friday, 9 September 2022 16:13 (one year ago) link
A solemn Tony Cascarino is broadcasting on Talksport. Who better to cover this historic event.Cascarino said: "I had a Chinese delivered just moments after the announcement. It felt wrong and very disrespectful to eat it, so as a mark of respect I threw it in the bin."— Sean (@shornKOOMINS) September 9, 2022
― calzino, Friday, 9 September 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
that fizzles feeling
― mark s, Friday, 9 September 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
it's what she wd have wanted
Crypto reacts to Queen Elizabeth's deathSeptember 8, 2022https://t.co/iHdKV3m4HV pic.twitter.com/JNjVONXVIr— web3 is going just great (@web3isgreat) September 9, 2022
― mark s, Friday, 9 September 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
‘1 minute rest in silence’ i am finished pic.twitter.com/eNPI5CHyml— michael ✨ (@mjrgrs) September 9, 2022
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Friday, 9 September 2022 16:31 (one year ago) link
The stoppages in Edinburgh do seem pretty aligned to getting her on the train - but "Further closures will be installed"
These are the main road closures in place today for events to mark the death of Her Majesty the Queen.Further closures will be installed over the coming days, we will provide updates in due course.#edintravel pic.twitter.com/kuhG5cMCIm— Edinburgh Travel News (@edintravel) September 9, 2022
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 9 September 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
It's a good thing she held out to the end of the Festival.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 9 September 2022 16:48 (one year ago) link
I just had a headline pop up on my phone asking what will happen to her four dogs.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 9 September 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
I don't agree with everything he did, but Mao is someone I've learned a lot from. My thoughts are with his family today. https://t.co/2mAsfuxNgc— Don Hughes (@getfiscal) September 9, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 September 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
getfiscal
― Mr Haaland's Opus (Neanderthal), Friday, 9 September 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
A lot going on here in Tucker Carlson’s paean for the “humane” British Empire, but one through line with the rest of his thinking is that self-rule is more or less unimportant. pic.twitter.com/TeSqSJ0Ccm— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) September 9, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 9 September 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
xp Disrespectful with Olivia Newton-John barely in the ground.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 9 September 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link