queen elizabeth II

she isn't in there at all

still ranging round the palace being rasputined

THE QUEEN ISNT EVEN OPEN CASKET??? literally what are people queuing for if you can’t critique the embalmer’s work

— natalie (@scaredofcustard) September 14, 2022

Celtic are playing again

Banner unfurled in the Celtic end 10 minutes before kick off: “F*** the crown.”

As the Champions League anthem plays, it’s followed by: “Sorry for your loss Michael Fagan.” pic.twitter.com/AxRNO3YWME

— Archie Rhind-Tutt (@archiert1) September 14, 2022

Rangers v. Napoli later could be interesting too.

badly written article delivers distressing news:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/queen-elizabeth-not-related-prophet-muhammad

they don't even follow up on the fact that the story was invented by sir iain moncrieff of that ilk (who i am always pleased yo hear about as he wrote a guide to heraldry that i greatly liked as a small boy (it had funny pictures)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w_TFO3G1OQI/UIxoydZyJFI/AAAAAAAAB2k/1l09M3kGjoQ/s640/IMG_0004.jpg

Is this what heaven looks like?

Class. @RangersFC 🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/yHSRIecfAb

— Don Hutchison (@donhutch4) September 14, 2022

Are the pubs shut on Monday?

The country is shut on Monday.

The ones that will be open will be blaring this shit

Pray for me, who has a long train journey to make on Monday and no real knowledge of whether it will be possible.

Praying for all of us

This is cold, not fair at all.

Bashar Al-Assad, Nicolas Maduro and the Taliban are snubbed from Queen's funeral guest list https://t.co/aP6t6Qg06G

— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) September 14, 2022

Venezuelan tyrant Nicolas Maduro will not be invited to the attend the historic passing of the Second Elizabethan Age

One must be the correct class of tyrant

Trump getting his black suit cleaned

What a bunch of cunts

BREAKING: Despite UEFA declining a request, the national anthem will be sung in honour of the Queen before Rangers' Champions League game against Napoli tonight. pic.twitter.com/se7l0EjqCT

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) September 14, 2022

Unhappy with the pace of the queue. I've counted 1,789 people for the last hour. So on that number only 235489 people will get to pay there respects. #TheQueue needs to deliver for the people. Gutted if u queued for 2 days and found out your number 235490. God Save The Queue! pic.twitter.com/op8WJa6yad

— Richard Wood (@woodyis) September 14, 2022

If you’re British, this is the queue you’ve been training for all your life. The final boss of queues. pic.twitter.com/5auXopBfOr

— Jof (@JofArnold) September 13, 2022

Celtic 4 Rangers 0
Ajax 4 Rangers 0
Queen dies
Rangers 0 Napoli 3

Sing away you clowns.

3am and people are filing past again. the last half hour or so was just a shot of the outside. did they stop?

reminds me of big brother when they used to show that overnight and you could just watch people sleeping.

they're no longer single filing the queue, the estimate from above isn't going to be correct anymore

Two football teams who played the weekend after the Queen died are being investigated and will be "dealt with in the strongest possible terms" https://t.co/i4lFrLOTIC

— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 14, 2022

https://images-cdn.bridgemanimages.com/api/1.0/image/600wm.LAL.0386540.7055475/453651.jpg

A firing squad would obviously be more practical though.

Every Brit in the UK (children included) should be obligated to watch the Queens funeral as it will forever be a huge part of British history and further education! As sad as Queen Elizabeth II passing is, it has really united the people which I thought was an impossible task 👏🏼 https://t.co/hn7w1exPYy

— Ant Middleton (@antmiddleton) September 14, 2022

I'm going in

I did not expect the Wikipedia entry for the royal corgis to become this horrifying pic.twitter.com/81ZwOdvS6g

— Hannah Rose Woods (@hannahrosewoods) September 14, 2022

I wonder how many other people are finding this whole situation is stoking a furious unforgiving revolutionary rage inside them

This was really interesting. If only we could have these conversations here.

Un-Whitewashing: Every once in a while, someone unexpectedly describes succinctly & cogently, in an unexpected place, the historical legacy of the relation between between the British monarchy, colonialism, white supremacy & racial slavery. And it just takes your breath away. https://t.co/YHX1MauiDy

— Blues and Abstract Truth (@barnor_hesse) September 14, 2022

I wonder how many other people are finding this whole situation is stoking a furious unforgiving revolutionary rage inside them

But of course. I'm consoling my self with the thought that these fuckers are riding for a fall and the whole thing's going to blow up on their faces - I think it's more likely than ever that the UK is going to cease to exist relatively soon.

I think a lot of countries will get out of the common wealth first. The anti-colonial critiques have been great to see.

It's made this hell carnival a lot more palatable. That and Charles, who clearly can't hack it.

counterpoint:

Moved, honestly, to tears, watching hundreds and hundreds of Londoners queuing for hours, filing by and paying respect to the Queen's coffin in Westminster Hall.
Quite a few crying.
Livestream herehttps://t.co/MSNYSaEvMk pic.twitter.com/XxS0NaJDJs

— Eduard Habsburg (@EduardHabsburg) September 15, 2022

"Londoners". Aye, right.

Looks well worth the 30-hour wait

"your all londoners now"
— the austro-hungarian empire

dynastic rulers always were good at putting aside petty differences like religion or decades-long wars if their own legitimacy were being called into question. solidarity!

i mean the habsburgs literally started the first world war so "always good at" arrives a bit freighted with caveats here

true! i meant to say that my impression is that kings and queens have more in common with each other than with their own subjects regardless of what conflicts those subjects are notionally fighting each other for and they'd get into bed with each other in an instant - sometimes literally - if it meant not having to relinquish even 1% of the privileges they'd amassed

More in common as in they are actually related to each other usually.

... in Europe certainly.

They're mostly above mere nationality... or German, one of the two.

the two main reasons why the pundits of like 1913 were saying there wouldn't be a war were "our royals are all related and our markets favour integration and stability!"

however this wasn't quite correct

personally, I'd find something more fulfilling and less morbid to do than queueing for over 30 hours for a hurried viewing of the queen's box. I mean anything else would be better for your mental health ... bus spotting, making giant ice statues of Hitler, reading every Rothman's football yearbook from '89-99 etc etc

Been there done that... Rothman's Yearbook that is

Do they still do Rothman’s? I think a leaky shed roof finally finished off my late ‘70s editions :(

xp yep, I'm not sure when they finished but my brother has a huge collection of them. And in the pre-internet days they were invaluable for looking up season's from the past and re-living them.

I would mourn *their* passing. I’d probably queue for up to five minutes for a gander at the 1984-85 edition.

now i'm wondering where my grandad's cigarette card albums are

they were informative! without them i wd not know abt ancient lights or the hand of glory

I learned so much about geography and how to recognize nationalities by their names from those Rothman's books. So, yes, I can recognize a Swiss German surname from a German surname from an Austrian surname.

they were such an abrupt mixture: like "superstitions of the world" (interesting!) then you turn the page and it was "the ships of the white star line in 1935" (less so!)