Re: The Queen is Dead!

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:07 pm

Let's hope it's not like the Star Trek films.

shifty

by Butterfield Thu Sep 08, 2022 8:51 pm

Newest Wikipedia update:

Charles III

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_III

I think that's how it'll be staying.

by Nightjar Thu Sep 08, 2022 9:42 pm

Charlethree.

by Nightjar Thu Sep 08, 2022 9:43 pm

get it

by Nightjar Thu Sep 08, 2022 10:08 pm

I know I don't.

by Fangirl Three Fri Sep 09, 2022 5:46 am

Some of my Facebook friends have surprised me with effusive posts about the monarchy.

by cosmictanya Fri Sep 09, 2022 10:33 am

Christ almighty, I think we've overdosed on all the regional accents by now. I think some of them are just hamming it up - there was some Aberdeenshire R roller on just now who induced in me whatever the reverse of ASMR is. Then it was off to some squalid corner of Wales or somewhere.

by Nightjar Fri Sep 09, 2022 12:52 pm

All football and cricket postponed this weekend.

Out of respect.

by Nightjar Fri Sep 09, 2022 9:06 pm

by Butterfield Sat Sep 10, 2022 8:16 pm

I wondered today whether we should do a Queen/King death-match thingy, for all those monarchy-related songs in a face to face battle - the good, the bad, the ugly.

by Nightjar Sat Sep 10, 2022 8:33 pm

That's in very bad taste.

Do it.

by Nightjar Sun Sep 11, 2022 8:23 pm

The Queen's coffin transported from Balmoral to Edinburgh in a German car.

It's what she would have wanted.

by Nightjar Sun Sep 11, 2022 8:49 pm

by Fangirl Three Mon Sep 12, 2022 5:11 am

The man standing up looks like he's got his hand caught in the girders.

by Nightjar Mon Sep 12, 2022 5:23 am

The man standing up?

I suppose he was quite short.

by Butterfield Tue Sep 13, 2022 1:33 am

How nice it has been to watch BBC and Sky News without the usual adverts and annoying trailers these last few days.

by cosmictanya Tue Sep 13, 2022 7:08 pm

Nightjar wrote:The Queen's coffin transported from Balmoral to Edinburgh in a German car.

It's what she would have wanted.

In a way you aren't wrong. You don't want overwrought Brit tat breaking down on you. Although I suspect she's about to be loaded into an old Bentley style hearse in the next few minutes. In terms of her being German - well only as much as her paternal family is Czech, Dutch, French, Danish, Scottish, and several other things. And her mother's family were Scottish/British.

Insisting they're German after however many generations in Britain, just because two or three generations passed through Germany and various other places before coming full circle, is a slap in the face to everyone with a richer heritage than some kind of blood and soil British nationalism would accept as pure enough. It's completely offensive. It's actually very hurtful.

by cosmictanya Tue Sep 13, 2022 7:13 pm

Whatever type of hearse that is, it's monogrammed with an E topped with a crown. I wonder if that was glued onto a borrowed vehicle, or whether they've had that in the garage at Buckingham Palace all these years.

by cosmictanya Tue Sep 13, 2022 7:15 pm

Is it a Lexus?

How can it possibly take '45 minutes' (according to Hugh Edwards) to get from Northolt to Buckingham Palace, with the benefit of cleared roads, no stopping at traffic lights, and police outriders? You could cane that in half the time. I could anyway, under those circumstances.

by Nightjar Tue Sep 13, 2022 7:48 pm

cosmictanya wrote:
Nightjar wrote:The Queen's coffin transported from Balmoral to Edinburgh in a German car.

It's what she would have wanted.
And her mother's family were Scottish/British.

Are you suggesting that she should've been shunted about the nation in an Argyll GT? happy

The Queen is Dead! - Page 2 Argyll-GT-02

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