Off with the feudal head of this country's constitutional structure.
― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 12:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 14:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 14:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 14:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― smee (smee), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 15:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 15:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 15:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 15:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 15:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 15:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 February 2003 16:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Stephano, Thursday, 13 February 2003 03:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― stephano, Friday, 14 February 2003 23:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave Fischer, Friday, 14 February 2003 23:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
Dave Fischer - what you have been told is indeed crackpot conspiracy blah BUT I have no explanation as to why the British didn't chop their heads off a couple of centuries back like the French did.
― Venga, Saturday, 15 February 2003 00:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dave Fischer, Saturday, 15 February 2003 00:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 15 February 2003 00:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Candidia, Saturday, 15 February 2003 18:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
Well, funnily enough?
BREAKING: the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have just basically quit the Royal Family. pic.twitter.com/n3oipRPBX1— Julian Abbott (@JulianBAbbott) January 8, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
How's the ginger twat intending on making his money?
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link
Nude snooker matches in Vegas, having demonstrated competence in the field before.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:03 (four years ago) link
xp America
― glindr jackson (gyac), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
Someone finally took that DNA test.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
Tbf they could absolutely coin it in in America and not have to deal with the Daily Mail obsessing rampantly over Meghan stepping out of a car the wrong way on the way to a memorial or whatever
― glindr jackson (gyac), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:10 (four years ago) link
WeWork probably has a spot on the Board open.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
Time for Andrew to make that comeback.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
would be great if this means meghan markle is back on tv
― j., Thursday, 9 January 2020 01:11 (four years ago) link
Looks like the peasantry are going to need a new scapegoat, luckily there's lots of black people around they can choose from
― it's after the end of the world (Matt #2), Thursday, 9 January 2020 01:35 (four years ago) link
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Thursday, 9 January 2020 07:47 (four years ago) link
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 January 2020 08:12 (four years ago) link
MailOnline is huge in America, don’t you worry. Also the only UK paper for sale in many parts of the US.
― santa clause four (suzy), Thursday, 9 January 2020 08:34 (four years ago) link
Yes but they’ll have access to friendlier media in the US and I imagine they can be a bit more honest about what they think.
― glindr jackson (gyac), Thursday, 9 January 2020 08:43 (four years ago) link
> not have to deal with the Daily Mail obsessing rampantly
17 pages of coverage after yesterday's news, apparently. and an almost entire radio 4 breakfast news show (although thankfully no gyles brandreth that i heard). i can see why someone would want to step away from this.
― koogs, Thursday, 9 January 2020 09:33 (four years ago) link
I imagine they can be a bit more honest about what they think.
which will be breathlessly reported in the uk media as 'harry and meghan SLAM royals, demand queen's head on a pike' and, like koogs says, be accompanied by multiple pages of meghan upskirts and royal baby pics
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 January 2020 10:07 (four years ago) link
Big “everyone in knives out describing themselves as “self made” energy— Kath Barbadoro (@kathbarbadoro) January 8, 2020
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 9 January 2020 10:56 (four years ago) link
this miriam margolyes story is incredible pic.twitter.com/xbTfglj6dH— the bird of britain (@theseagullah) January 9, 2020
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 January 2020 11:18 (four years ago) link
Such a 2003 question
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 9 January 2020 11:20 (four years ago) link
2020 question: how long have we got?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 9 January 2020 11:35 (four years ago) link
how rich are you?
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 January 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
Also a lot of friends posting a reworking of the 'Get Out' poster.
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 9 January 2020 11:39 (four years ago) link
Her majesty The Queen, earlier today. #Megxit pic.twitter.com/CMZEmE26QC— twitch.tv/Limmy (@DaftLimmy) January 9, 2020
― mark s, Thursday, 9 January 2020 12:16 (four years ago) link
limmy, as ever, otm
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 January 2020 12:18 (four years ago) link
in these difficult times, spare a thought for this poor bastard
Royal mega fan John Loughry has been at countless Harry and Meghan events over the last two years.Now he says he’s disappointed with the couple, saying they’ve let the Queen down. He feels he now has to choose a side - Sussexes vs Royals. pic.twitter.com/efaSik4bhH— Anna Stewart (@annastewartcnn) January 9, 2020
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 January 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/HT3CNM/stephen-and-matilda-rivals-for-the-crown-of-england-1932-artist-rosalind-HT3CNM.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 9 January 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
Harrowing stuff.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 9 January 2020 12:44 (four years ago) link
Maybe he should split the difference and kill himself
― The Masked Zinger (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 January 2020 12:50 (four years ago) link
GET A BRAIN MORANS
To those genuinely upset about Harry & Meghan still staying at Frogmore - "SPONGING OFF OUR TAXES" - don't worry. Their wedding was estimated to have brought in between £300m and £1b in revenue, so they've made us far more money than they'll ever rinse out of us via a new kitchen— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) January 9, 2020
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 9 January 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
EveningStandard: "Madame Tussauds swiftly removes Harry and Meghan waxworks from Royal Family set"
― mark s, Thursday, 9 January 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
Still maintain if the royals are actually a tourist attraction they'd be better value killed and stuffed
― The Masked Zinger (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 January 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
tbf tussaud was way ahead on this point: http://rodama1789.blogspot.com/2013/10/madame-tussauds-head-of-robespierre.html
(content warning if clicking thru and you dislike depictions of beheadings)
― mark s, Thursday, 9 January 2020 16:38 (four years ago) link
(that aside the little blog essay is interesting: tussaud was also something of a grifter!)
― mark s, Thursday, 9 January 2020 16:42 (four years ago) link
― The Masked Zinger (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 9, 2020 8:36 AM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
famously no-one ever goes as a tourist to france or the united states
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 9 January 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
that's bcz france killed their royals and the US stuffed theirs *highfives self*
― mark s, Thursday, 9 January 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link
I have a friend who worked at Madame Tussaud’s while at UCL and they ‘borrowed’ her to pose as a plague victim for one of the tableaux. I’m pretty sure Kay’s waxwork is still in situ.
― santa clause four (suzy), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
Plague's never gonna go out of fashion
― The Masked Zinger (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
too busy to give this more than a v sketchy glance: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/harry-and-meghan-royal-family-surveillance-capitalism/
my conclusion = in the right territory, with maybe a few over-glib shortcuts to shove home a modern point viz "This is an institution founded on the idea… that (southern) England is the core of the realm" -- yes but no not really, london's overswollen ultra-centrality is recent rather than foundational, as is the over-valuation conferred to its marches viz the "home counties" (a term that post-dates the civil war): the fact that york is one of the two archbishoprics and that the title of duke of york was always conferred on the monarch's second son etc. had serious weight a couple of centuries back (bcz aristocracy still had serious weight) -- norman culture e.g. was abt effective garrisons and uneasy family rivalry (hence the wars of the roses)
HOWEVER the main argt is abt shift within and adroit use of mass media and here i think it's roughly correct and good (i need to watch THE CROWN S3 to reorient myself on e.g. the 1969 royal-life-at-home documentary (which i don't recall being the catastrophe the writer says it was, but i was only 9 when i last saw it lol)
― mark s, Thursday, 16 January 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
so much disappointed grandparental rage concentrated into this cartoon! "they move to the city, they grow a hipster beard and fraternise with ethnics, they never visit, they have no money, they never call, we even murdered their mum that one time but did it change anything?!!!"
https://i.imgur.com/E74CuzE.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/E74CuzE.jpg?1
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:09 (four years ago) link
how dare harry presume to sponge off gran and dad, who earned their money the proper way by being born into the monarchy
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 January 2020 11:09 (four years ago) link
i mean the underlying if unstated argument is the thread's argument: "we pay for them, they must dance to our tune"
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:16 (four years ago) link
'we pay for them, they must dance to our tune at the end of a rope' is how i break my underlying argument down to an extent tbrrwu
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 January 2020 11:17 (four years ago) link
*revolutionary fistbump*
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:19 (four years ago) link
Oh noes, they're giving up their HRH titles!
― pomenitul, Saturday, 18 January 2020 19:01 (four years ago) link
They must realize that even after all this hoohaw the tabloids won't back off one inch.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 18 January 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
"giving up" may not be entirely voluntary. still, my heart bleeds.
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 January 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link
Does it look like they quit over paedo Andy?
― Never changed username before (cardamon), Saturday, 18 January 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
lol no
― international sword swallower, producer and creative director (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 18 January 2020 23:02 (four years ago) link
they wouldn't have even got to know him that well until they had some pre-pubescent children in their house tbf!
― calzino, Saturday, 18 January 2020 23:14 (four years ago) link
That's unfair, as far as we know he's only raped pubescent children.
― the Swedish taboo (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 18 January 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
yeah ..that's the story he told his mum!
― calzino, Saturday, 18 January 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
https://66.media.tumblr.com/416b9eabfad9445e77d8c2ae736a3d48/268758fb7070ea1b-c8/s540x810/2a329c73c6d422466ada6b88af788c457dd62719.jpg
― international sword swallower, producer and creative director (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 22:35 (four years ago) link
Not much difference tbh. To me it proves Harry actually is Charles' son, eyes two centimetres apart is a Saxe-Coburg family trair.
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
yeah, the "hewitt is his da" thing is a lot of pish, would be a lot less of an ugly bastart if cha wasn't his da
― bidenfan69420 (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 21 January 2020 22:49 (four years ago) link
my culture wars hot-take is: do the fucking lot of 'em in - in very messy romanovs painting the walls in a dark cellar stylee, including miss marple!
― calzino, Tuesday, 21 January 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
^
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 07:37 (four years ago) link
"It is a pity the royals aren't what they once were, I wonder if its worth doing away with the ones that aren't the Queen and letting the public vote on their replacements"
― anvil, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:11 (four years ago) link
that democratically-elected queen in full
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fhayochifabricfilms.files.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F09%2Fpadmefull3senatenocloak.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
― international sword swallower, producer and creative director (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:17 (four years ago) link
https://25yearslatersite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/midsommar-flowers-e1574684928940.jpg
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link
The Queen is alright but the rest of them are all just part of the establishemnt, Harry and Meghan proving that but what can you expect, The Queen is the only working class one in there, the others havent got a clue!
― anvil, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:40 (four years ago) link
My worry is if the royal family completely lose touch with their working class roots, as seems likely, whether the institution is strong enough to survive
― anvil, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:41 (four years ago) link
Prince Andrew seems really unlucky in his choice of mates
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 09:44 (three years ago) link
Maybe the Queen will cark it in January while the country is already at a standstill.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 10:40 (three years ago) link
Not sure Phil has another year in him tbh.
― Eggbreak Hotel (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link