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 đđź https://t.co/hn7w1exPYy— Ant Middleton (@antmiddleton) September 14, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 15 September 2022 08:23 (one year ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 15 September 2022 08:25 (one year ago) link
I wonder how many other people are finding this whole situation is stoking a furious unforgiving revolutionary rage inside them
― feudal vague (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 September 2022 08:39 (one year ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 15 September 2022 08:50 (one year ago) link
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.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 September 2022 09:07 (one year ago) link
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.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 15 September 2022 09:16 (one year ago) link
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
― mark s, Thursday, 15 September 2022 09:19 (one year ago) link
"Londoners". Aye, right.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 September 2022 09:48 (one year ago) link
Looks well worth the 30-hour wait
― born on the bayeux (Matt #2), Thursday, 15 September 2022 09:56 (one year ago) link
"your all londoners now"â the austro-hungarian empire
― mark s, Thursday, 15 September 2022 10:01 (one year ago) link
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!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 September 2022 12:06 (one year ago) link
i mean the habsburgs literally started the first world war so "always good at" arrives a bit freighted with caveats here
― mark s, Thursday, 15 September 2022 12:10 (one year ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 September 2022 12:17 (one year ago) link
More in common as in they are actually related to each other usually.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 September 2022 12:23 (one year ago) link
... in Europe certainly.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 September 2022 12:24 (one year ago) link
They're mostly above mere nationality... or German, one of the two.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 September 2022 12:26 (one year ago) link
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
― mark s, Thursday, 15 September 2022 12:29 (one year ago) link
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
― calzino, Thursday, 15 September 2022 12:37 (one year ago) link
Been there done that... Rothman's Yearbook that is
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 September 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
Do they still do Rothmanâs? I think a leaky shed roof finally finished off my late â70s editions :(
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 15 September 2022 12:43 (one year ago) link
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.
― calzino, Thursday, 15 September 2022 12:47 (one year ago) link
I would mourn *their* passing. Iâd probably queue for up to five minutes for a gander at the 1984-85 edition.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:01 (one year ago) link
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
― mark s, Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
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.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:11 (one year ago) link
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!)
― mark s, Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:24 (one year ago) link
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
i have a bunch of PG Tips card books that my nan collected the cards for when i was little. just to tie thinks up nicely they include Play Better Soccer, introduced by Don Revie
― feudal vague (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
lol no who are those dudesxpost
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
those two shd have done a "parent trap"-style escapade during ww1
― mark s, Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
nicky boy and george v, the other cuz wilhelm ii was even more of an embarrassing tool than nicky lol
― calzino, Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
He can take all those medals and throw them in the bin.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 15 September 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
Then there's this guy.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c5/1f/08/c51f08dd5e2483b6ca9d735a57f89808.jpg
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 September 2022 14:02 (one year ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Kaiser_Wilhelm_II_of_Germany_-_1902%28cropped%29.jpgWilhelm II had this stache and when I was studying this guy for leaving cert history, my friend drew him on successive pages of my history book with the moustache curving higher on every page flipbook style - so whenever I hear his name I mentally think (like itâs a sub header): Kaiser Wilhem: Onward and Upward
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Thursday, 15 September 2022 14:11 (one year ago) link
Even by inbred German princeling standards - which all of them are - Wilhelm was outstandingly boorish and thick.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 September 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
No less a source than Tatler reports that the Kaiser was considered embarrassing by his own family
On his annual trip to see his British relatives, Wilhelm was reportedly loud and aggressive, with his sense of humour leaving much to be desired. Meanwhile from the other side, it has been speculated that his British relatives mocked his attire, which was not right for the summer-casual aesthetic at Cowes, with its boat shoes and striped blazers.The kaiser and the future king tried constantly to one-up each other with bigger, faster, flashier boats, with the German nephew desperate to impress his English uncle, who of course was known for his great fleet of naval ships.In 1896, the kaiser had the biggest yacht yet built, the 121-ft long Meteor II, which he pitted against Edward's Britannia. After it won, the future king retired from racing at Cowes.In 2008, reports emerged via the descendant of a bystander that the future king had punched his nephew, after he laughed at him for losing in a race. As Henry Brasted, son of local yachting specialist William Brasted, told the Daily Gazette: 'Kaiser Bill jeered King Teddy about the result, where straight away King Teddy hit him in the mouth, knocked him down, then stormed into the club.
― Osama bin Chinese (gyac), Thursday, 15 September 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
yeah I remember reading about george v on a state visit to germany, and some german politicians were cringing at his behaviour and privately saying to the members of the british delegation "wish our inbred mofo was as smooth operator as yours is"
― calzino, Thursday, 15 September 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
and the Ls keep coming
https://twitter.com/i/events/1570067556697784320
― mark s, Thursday, 15 September 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
damn, that Psalm 139 rendition got me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqm3iJKHpH4
― StanM, Thursday, 15 September 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
oh, it's a modern composition too: On 14 September 2022, he conducted his choral setting of Psalm 139 (1-18, 23-end) for the reception of the Queen's coffin at Westminster Hall.[4] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Donnell_(organist)
― StanM, Thursday, 15 September 2022 15:00 (one year ago) link
England rn pic.twitter.com/siYYsmKbL1— Cameron Williams (@MrCamW) September 15, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 15 September 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
âCome and watch the Queenâs funeral at our sex clubâ pic.twitter.com/KrmP81UrMJ— GrieveWatch (@GrieveWatch) September 15, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 15 September 2022 21:19 (one year ago) link
Lol
Interesting how the monarchy is comparatively FAR more disruptive than unions on strike https://t.co/VZyt0cWC7H— Laurie âAbolish Golfâ Charles (@thestuffofmemes) September 14, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 September 2022 07:39 (one year ago) link
Looking forward to those vox pops with stranded travellers
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 16 September 2022 07:53 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FcuvrGEWYAAl66E?format=jpg&name=medium
lol, this is actually real.
― calzino, Friday, 16 September 2022 08:23 (one year ago) link
Our dead Queen had no charisma đ¤ Kieth
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 September 2022 08:28 (one year ago) link
we have always been at war with vibrancy
― mark s, Friday, 16 September 2022 09:01 (one year ago) link
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN'S LYING-IN-STATE QUEUE UPDATE, 09:50 AM, 16 SeptSouthwark Park has reached capacity. Entry will be paused for at least 6 hours. We are sorry for any inconvenience.Please do not attempt to join the queue until it re-opens.Check back for further updates pic.twitter.com/XMpyhOrme7— Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (@DCMS) September 16, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 September 2022 10:09 (one year ago) link
why do i feel like they're gaming this to some extent?
― feudal vague (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 September 2022 10:11 (one year ago) link
https://hl.nwaonline.com/news/2019/aug/25/dq-now-open-20190825/
― buzza, Friday, 16 September 2022 10:17 (one year ago) link
I think this is worth keeping in mind too. It just feels bad bcz we assume the majority of ppl queueing are Tory and through this government they get their wish.
More people voted Green in England & Wales in the 2019 General Election than are expected to queue and view the Queenâs coffin. Itâs a lot of people, but I donât think it tells us a huge amount about national feeling let alone ideology.— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) September 16, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 16 September 2022 10:17 (one year ago) link