Things you were shockingly old when you learned

The idea of Wolverhampton Wanderers suddenly decamping to Los Angeles in 1967 is faintly surreal. Decamping to Los Angeles to play the Washington Whips, e.g. Aberdeen. It must have been an incredible culture shock. Britain in 1967 was still almost entirely black and white and football back then consisted of kicking a massively heavy ball around a field made of mud.

Would rather watch this TV series than Ted Lasso, tbh

Plenty of scope for comedy Black Country accents there too.

There's a huge man-made cave complex in London (Chislehurst Caves). Why didn't I know this when I lived there?

Apparently Hendrix played a gig in there!

oh i missed the Wolves's mad American tournament chat. great videos

Queen of Canada is a separate title from Queen of England and theoretically Canada could have a different King or Queen than England

Well, to be accurate, there hasn't been a Queen (or King) of England since 1707.

Yeah, I guess I should have said Queen of the United Kingdom.

I guess I just assumed there was some "Queen of the Commonwealth" title or something that applied to all countries which have to put up with having this
old woman's profile on their coins.

a question, because I've just realised i don't know. Elizabethans, Edwardians, Jacobeans. but for Charles?

i like to consider myself part of Charles Nation

Carolingians?

Carlists?

Charlatans

Carolines perhaps? North and South Carolina both named after Charles I.

That it’s Alain Delon on the cover of the Smiths’ The Queen Is Dead

that there's another one called Prince Edward

My entire life I've heard about Charles & Anne, and more recently about Andrew.. but there's a sleeper prince who doesn't seem to attract much attention

I had no fucking clue

My brother thought the Queen Mother had been queen directly before QEII. He's in his 30s and has lived in England his whole life.

prince edward was big on spitting image back in the day.

I would imagine most people under 30 in the UK have no idea who Prince Edward is.

Chuckleheads

My brother thought the Queen Mother had been queen directly before QEII.

I mean he's right but it's queen as in king's wife, not as in monarch.

He asked how long her reign had been so he definitely meant 'monarch'! We weren't brought up to have any interest in the Royal Family at all.

I remember this lad called Leonard at junior school getting sent to the headmaster's office for the strap for saying The Queen was Satan! He was just repeating what his Rastafarian older brother had told him.

rastafarian older brother otm

absolutely. I still remember It's A Royal Knockout being on and thinking why are they ruining this great program. Well obv it wasn't a great program and the presenter was a child abuser. But it was popular in my house, apart from that one-off.

They basically stuck Prince Edward in an attic after that and only dragged him out occasionally to stand somewhere in the back row on public occasions.

Was he the one in the can?

No, that was Prince Albert. Never mind.

the funniest scene in The Crown (apart from Mountbatten getting some IRA justice) was where Charles dismisses Andrew + Edward as "fringe" and of no interest to the British public. And no-mark twerp Edward says "well that was impressively cunty". I wonder if netflix will be busting a gut to get the last season out ahead of schedule.

a british person I know said it was weird to think of having to use "god save the king" and it never even crossed my mind that this would be the case

saw someone noting that after 70 years all the 'queen's counsel' lawyers have suddenly become KCs; i'm sure there are many more weird things like this

Hopefully the thought “it just feels wrong to say ‘god save the king’ and ‘his majesty’” will lead naturally to the realisation that yes, it should always have felt wrong and take a fucking look at yourself you abject lickspittle cunt

Gonna be weird calling that state above New South Wales, "Kingsland."

saw someone noting that after 70 years all the 'queen's counsel' lawyers have suddenly become KCs; i'm sure there are many more weird things like this

The King's English, for one.

i think it's time to move to a gender-neutral anthem - won't need to keep changing it every few decades that way, and it'll piss off all the people i enjoy pissing off.

last night of proms cancelled as well. ha ha.

God Save the Qing

if we could abandon the dirge entirely, that would be ideal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolean_era <- charles ii was carolean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_era <- charles i was caroline

so one of those, or something else. truss used carolean in parliament today but i wouldn't trust her to tell me the time of day so...

Mail-in ballot for "Caroliner Rainbow era"

wow that's a deep reference.. I saw them a couple times

Chaotic and living out a retrospective dream that makes sense only to them?

Or at least that's what I gather from the couple of interviews I've read.
Pioneer/frontier fixation that belongs in the 19th century.

a lot of noise tied in with pseudo nostalgic pseudo philosophy but apparently the show is good

that there's another one called Prince Edward

His main funfact may be his self-referential acronym: his name is Edward Antony Richard Louis, and he is Earl of Wessex.

Nice. My Dad’s initials were DAD. <3

::D that's great

Rebel Without A Cause borrowed its title from a case study of a psychopath written by Robert M Lindner which is now thought to be a classic. Robert Hare has it cited as being the source of the film which i could half believe when I read it since there have been a number of films that have taken episodic sources and created a narrative out of them , book is based around a lot of interview transcripts. But no, it is apparently just the title.

I had heard that the film was supposed to be made several years earlier with Marlon Brando but it looks like he did his film test for the studio using one of the scripts based on the Lindner book and had nothing to do with the Dean film. Book had been bought with the intention of making a film out of it but that only got as far as several partial script versions being written.

I'm currently reading Robert hare's Without Conscience book 20 years after having met the author at one of the PsychSoc talks put on at the University i was attending. He is the psychologist who devised the Psychopathy Checklist which is the Psychopath test that Jon Ronson went onto write a book about

I knew that Lou Reed's 1991 album, "Magic and Loss", was written in response to the deaths of his friends, Doc Pomus and "Rotten Rita" - pretty sure Lou said as much ad nauseum. One slight problem though, Rotten Rita didn't die until 2010.

... 1992 album.

Reid Miles, mastermind of the classic Blue Note album cover aesthetic, took the picture on the cover of Bob Dylan’s the Basement Tapes

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, December 6, 2021 1:41 PM (nine months ago)

It was Robbie Robertson’s idea, apparently.

Joan Baez's mother was born in Edinburgh.